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Ok well I've decided to become a bit more pro-active in this challenge and in doing so I've spent a full day building a fresh site for this, one that I'm sure the WickedFire community is going to enjoy so I'll freely share the URL with you all.

I'll try to keep up with stats, traffic, earnings, money spent (I'll keep it as low as I can) and all that good stuff, I'm doing this to show everyone one of two things, how to turn a profit if it does or how to learn from a failed site if it doesn't.

Thats right not every site everyone sets up is a winner so we will see with this one, time will tell. I'll put the URL at the very bottom of the site but I warn you right now you can get lost in the site so don't spend all your time googling over it.

Trust me I'm surprized I got it done in one day considering I got distracted real easily with the content thats on it, anyway the URL is Cute Sexy Women

Comments and questions are welcome and good luck to everyone on the friendly challenge.
 


Aequitas said:
Ok well I've decided to become a bit more pro-active in this challenge and in doing so I've spent a full day building a fresh site for this, one that I'm sure the WickedFire community is going to enjoy so I'll freely share the URL with you all.

I'll try to keep up with stats, traffic, earnings, money spent (I'll keep it as low as I can) and all that good stuff, I'm doing this to show everyone one of two things, how to turn a profit if it does or how to learn from a failed site if it doesn't.

Thats right not every site everyone sets up is a winner so we will see with this one, time will tell. I'll put the URL at the very bottom of the site but I warn you right now you can get lost in the site so don't spend all your time googling over it.

Trust me I'm surprized I got it done in one day considering I got distracted real easily with the content thats on it, anyway the URL is Cute Sexy Women

Comments and questions are welcome and good luck to everyone on the friendly challenge.
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Damn you! :) How am I supposed to concentrate on making money when this is the sample content? haha.

Anyway I guess my questions basically stem from content. It's amazing you did this in one day, maybe you use more automated methods than I could. Where did you get the content/videos? Did you just throw the banner together yourself? What are you using for traffic generation?
 
egonitron said:
Damn you! :) How am I supposed to concentrate on making money when this is the sample content? haha.

Anyway I guess my questions basically stem from content. It's amazing you did this in one day, maybe you use more automated methods than I could. Where did you get the content/videos? Did you just throw the banner together yourself? What are you using for traffic generation?
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haha I told you that content is alluring.

Yeah one day isn't bad but I used barely any automated methods for it, actually none haha I have just been doing it forever and ever and I can do a site up super quickly, this one was simple because I use wordpress for it and all the time spent was basically creating the content and the theme for it.

The header I created myself, just thought to myself what works for this niche, something clean, simple, and attractive, so I played with some colors, hooked up CS2 and spent about 1.5 hours on it to push it out.

The content I get from a variety of websites, most of which don't supply the embed codes but with 30 seconds of looking at source and taking the embed codes you've got your video, I can easily push out 10 videos a day on this site because it only takes 30 seconds per video.

See I choose this niche because every single video site (Other then YouTube) basically has sexy women dancing and stripping so I figured ok lets capitalize on all that content and bring it together.

See I realized that 1) The content is everywhere and I realized 2) The content is everywhere, you can view one video on site A but never find video B until you get to site C, so I combined all sexy videos on one site.

Bing Bang Done.

Right now it doesn't get any traffic considering I just got it done last night, so I'll be pushing some backlinks on other video sites, blogs, directories, for now and I might spend 50 to 100 on PPC but we will see how the link building goes first, I'll try not to do PPC on it because I'm sure a lot of newbies are not going to be doing PPC for there new sites. I'll do my best to play fair with this.

I think that covers your questions, if not ask some more lol.

Oh shit did I mention I'm cheating because all the text content on that site is 100% unique but I didn't write it, nor did I spend money for it.
 
Aequitas said:
I might spend 50 to 100 on PPC but we will see how the link building goes first, I'll try not to do PPC on it because I'm sure a lot of newbies are not going to be doing PPC for there new sites. I'll do my best to play fair with this.

I think that covers your questions, if not ask some more lol.
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If you don't mind sharing where would you suggest to promote a site such as this on PPC? Adbrite or similiar? From what I saw, Yahoo or Google wouldn't approve due to adult content.


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How much time do you plan on spending on link building?

Other than the affiliate links and ads on the sidebar, are there any other monetization plans?

Is this a custom WP theme or free?

I'm sure you aren't willing to share, but how are you getting free free unique content? (It's worth a try :) )

How much organic traffic do you expect to get from this?

Sorry for all the questions, I really want to get started with this :)
 
ubaidabcd said:
If you don't mind sharing where would you suggest to promote a site such as this on PPC? Adbrite or similiar? From what I saw, Yahoo or Google wouldn't approve due to adult content.


Thanks
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Not sure about YSM as I haven't tried it, but if you promote it properly, you can slide adult stuff through Google. Just Google "porn". Hmmm...there's four paid advertisements. Just an example, but I do know it can be done and run for a long time without a problem. It's all in your wording. Just be careful about how you present it.
 
ubaidabcd said:
If you don't mind sharing where would you suggest to promote a site such as this on PPC? Adbrite or similiar? From what I saw, Yahoo or Google wouldn't approve due to adult content.


Thanks
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Yeah as Mike said you can sqeeze some porn stuff through Google, I'm almost positive I can get away with it on Adwords considering the site doesn't have any porn, just sexuality.

egonitron said:
How much time do you plan on spending on link building?

Other than the affiliate links and ads on the sidebar, are there any other monetization plans?

Is this a custom WP theme or free?

I'm sure you aren't willing to share, but how are you getting free free unique content? (It's worth a try :) )

How much organic traffic do you expect to get from this?

Sorry for all the questions, I really want to get started with this :)
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No other mentioning plans as of yet, the wordpress theme is completely custom I built it myself like almost all my themes, it increases my design knowledge and thats a weaker point for me but I'm a lot better now then I was before.

An estimate on organic traffic once indexed is in the range of about 10K a month hopefully as long as I can get it ranked for the term I want lol.

I knew someone would jump all over the aspect of me putting 100% unique content on the site without paying for it, in a way I'm just scaming it from another site, I found a porn site which gives you descriptions, I double checked and as far as I can tell no descriptions are indexed in Google, plus I just spend a couple seconds toning it down so its even more unique, cause well the descriptions on porn sites can get a bit carried away for the use on my site.

As for me letting you know the URL of the site I'm getting the content from well I'll let you know once I use up all the free content.
 
Hi, I hope I am not too late to this thread.:xomunch:

I am a totally n00b to internet marketing, but not new to programming. I would call myself hardcore programmer(emm, actually I was project manager for years),I am here to learn a new skill!
 
SEO_Mike said:
Welcome purpureleaf! You're tech skills will help you catch up quickly. To get up to speed on internet marketing, check out the list of useful threads that Emp posted here:

http://www.wickedfire.com/newbie-questions/9651-wf-treasure-trove-articles-threads-read.html

If you have any questions, don't be afraid to ask, that's what this thread is for. Also, if you're uncomfortable asking something, then PM me. I'll do what I can to help. :D
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Thanks! I have already bought a VPS after I saw your thread! At least I have tried!

I think I have already PM you? Well ingore that message :xomunch:
 
SEO_Mike said:
  1. Now, Run the script. This will populate your blog with all the posts from those feeds and ping the aggregators.
  2. Rinse, repeat with another niche.
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I have uploaded the package I am having problems setting the cron to
run the script. Advice please.

Paul
 
Ok this may not be the place to ask this.

I have an rss reed that I am pulling that has a date in the field. I am using
wp-omatic to parse the feeds and create post. I want to change the post
date to the date in in the content of the field.

Also the feed only provided the last 50 records. How can I coax the feed
to give more than that? The search that I am swiping the feed from has
a search engine but the feed it produces is only the last 50 entries even if
the search was from three years ago.

Trying not to to be confusing but maybe one of you pros can chime in.

Paul
 
parushing said:
I have uploaded the package I am having problems setting the cron to
run the script. Advice please.
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If you are using the Autoblogger script that Eli provided in his SEO Empire post, you don't need to set up a cron for it. Everytime someone visits your site it automatically updates. So, no cron jobs to worry about :D YAY! (I hate crons, can't figure the damn things out)

Anyhow, as for your second post, not sure about WP-Omatic. Never used it. Concerning the RSS feed, depends on where you got it from, if it's a G**gle feed, then you can pull as many as 100 results per feed. Otherwise, it may be impossible to edit. Just find more feeds that are related if you need to.

Here's my latest site, and it's not a blog: Ticket Depot

The template is from OSWD.org, the results are courtesy of eBay's API and the affiliate program is CJ.com. Now, I know a lot of people are kind of anti-CJ, but I've never really used them so I can't comment on whether they are good or not. Unfortunately, they are the only one that has eBay and works with their API's and RSS feeds.

Yes, you can get RSS feeds from eBay with your affiliate information coded into them. So for all the blogs out there looking for feeds, there's another option.

Anyhow, back to TicketDepot.org, I built this so that I could use it for PPC primarily. I'll do a little SEO for it, but it's going to be mostly a "PPC site". So, one of the nifty things with this site is you can enter:

Code: 
http://www.ticketdepot.org/?id=whatever you want here
and it will pull whatever is after the equal sign and populate various places on the page with that. So, put in anything you want after the '=' and look at the title, the query, then look at the source code and you'll see it also puts the query string in the meta's.

The article is static at the moment, but I'm going to update it (eventually) to be pulled dynamically from a MySQL database, based on the URL's query string.

Why would you want to do this? Well, if you are running PPC, especially on Adwords, you want the page to be as targetted as possible for their Quality Score. The more targetted, the higher the QS, the lower your bids could be.

So, how long did this take? I think about 5 hours total. 3 or 4 last night and about an hour today. I'm not as quick about the database stuff (queries and shit) so that will probably take another 3 or 4 hours. Ergh...

Regardless, if I put a more generic article up and insert the URL query string into that, then I can avoid the DB setup for a little while. Yay!
 
I'm thinking of trying out these cycle sites, but I just have a couple questions:

In the SEO empire article Eli mentions:


"So be sure to put up a fake hosting provider in your name servers."

How do you do that? I know where the name servers are in my control panel, but can you put in any information and they won't verify it? Or do I have to find a web hosting company that I'm not using and find out what their nameservers are and use those?



Thanks
 
If you have a VPS, you can define the main nameservers in WHM. Then you have to go to your register, and create the actual nameservers there. So buy a domain like, abchost.com, create nameservers pointing to your servers IP, and point all your sites to those nameservers. Then on abchost.com make a site similar to this one (its an example host, which I think belongs to Eli)
 
ubaidabcd said:
I'm thinking of trying out these cycle sites, but I just have a couple questions:

In the SEO empire article Eli mentions:


"So be sure to put up a fake hosting provider in your name servers."

How do you do that? I know where the name servers are in my control panel, but can you put in any information and they won't verify it? Or do I have to find a web hosting company that I'm not using and find out what their nameservers are and use those?



Thanks
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Some reseller hosting accounts also give you custom nameservers, keyed to the domain you use for your reseller account. For instance, if your reseller domain is mistergotrox.com, your custom nameservers might be:

ns1.mrgotrox.com
ns2.mrgotrox.com

Then, as above, you just have to set them up with wherever you've registered your domains, if that particular registrar allows that. Sometimes, it's in your account control panel, sometimes you have to ask them to do it for you.
 
Forgot to mention in my previous post: I've never run a ticket website before so I'm not sure how it will perform. Just wanted to get that out there before a bunch of people go running to start ticket sites ;)

The idea behind it should work for almost any niche that has a lot of different "items". For example: baseball cards, records, movies, songs, and so on ad infinitum.

I picked tickets because I had an old domain in my account that I meant to develop. Not TicketDepot.org, that's only 1 day old. The other one is a .info, and I'm not a fan of .info's for PPC sites or "real" sites, so I bought this one. I think I'll use the other "ticket" domain for airline / travel type tickets. Planes, trains and cruises, that sort of thing.

Also meant to add, here's the link for eBay's API stuff: eBay Developers Program

Lot's of good shit in there. And unlike some API programs, theirs is completely free, unless you want to become a 'Certified Solutions Provider', then you'll pay $3000 per year. So, unless you want to develop apps to sell, don't worry about that.
 
SEO_Mike said:
Also meant to add, here's the link for eBay's API stuff: eBay Developers Program

Lot's of good shit in there. And unlike some API programs, theirs is completely free, unless you want to become a 'Certified Solutions Provider', then you'll pay $3000 per year. So, unless you want to develop apps to sell, don't worry about that.
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So you used the API to create your search box and not the ebay search boxes available from CJ?
 
Correct. This way the results appear on my site, and doesn't redirect the user to eBay. I'm trying to get data feeds from other ticket sellers, so I can do a comparison. It is my opinion (and you know what opinions are like :D ) that if a visitor can compare the prices of 3 or 4 different sellers on one site, they are more likely to purchase at that time, than if you one have one. With only one site's prices, they are more likely to keep looking for the best price, and after they have comparison shopped long enough, then they'll buy. So, I want to eliminate the user having to go elsewhere to compare prices.

Oh yeah, back to the API, the code for it was taken from eBay's sample code. Saved me a ton of time. I just edited it slightly, tested it in the sandbox, tested it live, found out I needed to enable domxlst in my server, did that, and it's good. Oh yeah, and the call to LiquidWeb's tech support to learn how to enable that part of PHP took a whopping 7 mins 19 secs :D I love LiquidWeb!
 
bubbles said:
If you have a VPS, you can define the main nameservers in WHM. Then you have to go to your register, and create the actual nameservers there. So buy a domain like, abchost.com, create nameservers pointing to your servers IP, and point all your sites to those nameservers. Then on abchost.com make a site similar to this one (its an example host, which I think belongs to Eli)
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Sorry, I don't understand what you or Springer said. I'm unfamiliar with this termonology. If it helps any I have a Godaddy shared account. Although I don't want these sites on my current account. How about I just get a reloadable prepaid card and just use fake account information and sign up somewhere that offers webhosting?

Thanks
 
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