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I'm pretty new to this whole deal. I have a background in programming and networking. It is so nice knowing that the knowledge that Ive learned over the years in learning (particularly php and other scripting languages has come in very useful in my journey in SEO: making money, and ranking high in my particular niches.

Ive been finding that I am having a very difficult tiem keeping my brain organized with all of the multitasking that could be going on. (having my domain cpanel open, wordpress control panel open, filezilla, insert backlink vomiter here, seo tools, notepad for editing code and html. currently using windows 7 and ubuntu, whatever mood i am in.

you guys catching my drift? questions below, feel free to answer in full or in part, or contributing any way you see fit.

1. what OS non are you guys using?

2. do you have a folder tree with all of your user names and passwords for non-top-secret websites like digg, facebook, etc?

3. how do you keep track of backing up your domain hierarchy on your local machines. im really starting to fall in love with my little .coms and dont want to lose them.

4. at what point is it a good idea to switch from shared hosting to a VM? ive seen this ? answered before but would like a fresh answer :xmas-smiley-016: alot of you guys using COLOS? any of you guys hosting from your own box? (say a T1 from work with no network admin heh he heh)

5. do you guys have a favorite app for throwing together a landing page other than say wordpress. i guess im just wondering if there is an unbloated WYSIWYG html editor with some good default templates.

6. how do you keep track of money coming in, excel spreadsheet?


7. is google normally hip to having multiple domains under one shared hosting account? ie do most of you guys have each one of your domains hostied under a different account? would it be better to buy additional IP addresses. (where TF is IPV6)

8. What exactly does "pinging" your blog mean. I am completely educated on what pinging an IP address means traditionally, but what does it mean to PING your blog and how/why is it helpful.

9. What is the recommended length of time to wait to age your site before submitting it to google ad words or your average affiliate for the purpose of placing ads to make money.

10. do you guys backlink from domains that you own that are from unrelated niches?

ive got a while bunch more but would love to get some feedback and start building a dialog in here. would really like to get these formality questions out of the way, id like to become a contributor here where maybe i can start throwing little scripts to automate submissions, etc.

THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE. knowledge is power.
 


Just got overwhelmed and only scanned your first paragraph.
I'll return for round two soon.
 
1. windows 7? if thats what your asking.. not sure what you mean by "non"
2. I use keepass for the casual stuff but for major banking and paypal shit I have that on paper but with clues only i'd understand.
3. dont understand
4. once your shared hosting doesn't do the job adequately anymore
5. photoshop outline then dreamweaver
6. I buy bags of dog food and make little piles then put a note on top of who owes me and I count out the kibbles to see how much.
7. Not really for small unrelated niche sites. If you ever attempted building one of those AMAZING link network pyramid things then yea sep ip's is best
8. I dont even know tbh... something about getting ranked quicker or having your backlinks appear sooner.
9. Almost right after its established design wise.
10. nah
 
8. pinging send a message to the bots that something new is there. so pinging your profile will encourage it to be indexed.
9. adwords doesn't care about age - only about relevance. your content needs to be relevant to your keywords, if you want to get anywhere. if you want adwords - go read anything by Perry Marshall. he has a lot of free stuff on his site.
 
  1. Windows 7
  2. Keepass - I have a folder tree inside there to break up forums, SEO sites, Affiliate Networks, etc.
  3. I have a shell script that runs every day via a cron job on each server. It backs up the databases, E-mails it to a Gmail account, and also saves a copy in a root directory on the server for 2 weeks before deleting it.
  4. Every website you build must pay for itself. Most shared hosting costs $5/month, so switch once you get enough websites to make it worth paying for a VPS each month to lower that $5/month cost on every site. 5+ is usually that point.
  5. Photoshop, then Dreamweaver. I highly suggest you code the layout by hand. You'll be surprised at the SEO possibilities you miss using a WYSIWYG to write code for you.
  6. QuickBooks is a good way. It's called Accounts Receivable in accounting terms. Make yourself a T-Chart if you don't want to use QuickBooks.
  7. I typically keep groups of sites under one IP. It doesn't really matter about needing a new IP if you are interlinking uless you get carried away with it.
  8. Pinging alerts a service to come and check out a URL. For instance, Pingomatic is a pinging service that alerts multiple blog sites and search engines to come and check out your site. Wordpress does this automatically whenever a post or page is updated or created.
  9. I don't spend money on PPC. However, if you're doing 1-page landers for products, then make sure your on-site SEO is supurb and you'll be fine. Just get it indexed first.
  10. Eventually you come to a point where there are no more related links left, so yes - unrelated links work just as well as related in most cases.

In the future, please type this up in Word and use a spell and grammar checker before posting. ;) It'll help everyone understand you better.

Also, all of these questions could be found by reading The Mother Fucking SEO Question and Answer Thread in the Traffic and Content forum or in the Free Software sticky of the Newbie Section. You might give them a read for more good information.
 
Overwhelming

Just the fact that you have asked the questions shows that you are no newbie to this world and the questions themselves would scare most newbies away. However your right about knowledge is dangerous. Each question you have asked, a complete huge ebook could be written on those topics. This forum should be filled up with answers and more and more related questions. I will have to come back later and see if I can answer one phase of your questions in a KISS type of paragraph. Wish me luck.
 
1. Win XP, no need for other fancy stuff
2. a file named passwords.txt and a good old fashioned agenda
3. download raw backups every 2-3 days of all my shared hosting accounts and vps
4. shared until you need something that you can't do on a shared host. With a shared hosting plan you don't have to worry, they do everything to keep it running smoothly. Go with a good host and you won't have problems.
Hosting from your own server at home would cost you way more and your uptime would be lower.
5. any html editor, wordpress
6. I don't keep track of it
7. ipv6 is the next generation of IPs, that won't be in the format 123.123.123.555 because we're running out of them. It's not something that you should be worried about. Interlinking domains on the same IP can penalize your seo efforts but I don't really know much about this so...I just have 3 shared hosting account with different companies.
8. Pinging means notifying that it has been updated, you can use tools like pingler.com. Someone expand on this as there are a ton of tools to automate this, but I am not using any of them
9. not doing PPC since 2009. I think that one page landers can kill your QS, but again, things might have changed.
10. yes
 
wow great answers thank you so much! yes it is great to know that i am on the right track, i consider myself an "advanced newb" but still a huge newb on this forum.
 
1. Windows 7 and XP (playing with Ubuntu)

2. I use Lastpass. No need for much organization here since it offers to autofill the correct info into the site with the url it has stored. Also works on Android, so nothing better that I know of.

3. automated mySQL database backups which are emailed to a dedicated address, and I do periodic full site backups reminded by my calendar.

4. when you are making enough money to afford a VPS or whenever you overload your shared accounts.

5. so far I am only using wordpress and notepad++

6. this is a weak part of my organization, but so far I am trying to make it work in excel

7. yes. I have multiple hosting accounts. I'm far from being an expert, but what I understand is separate IPs are only necessary if you are linking sites together.

8. it's essentially an update alert. As for how or why it's helpful, it's debatable, but it's supposed to bring the spiders to crawl your site.

9. not sure exactly. As for adding adsense or other affiliate programs, I have done this to brand new domains without issue thus far.

10. I do not link my own sites together unless they are generally relevant.
 
1. OS X

2. Don't be saving your passwords in plain text files. Use KeePass or something similar

3. I personally keep track of my domains using an excel worksheet and my FTP list. Not very efficient, but works for me.

4. I would not even start out with shared hosting. Get a VPS - for inexpensive but highly reliable VPS go with zensix.com (owned by subigo, an established member here)

5. If you value you're time, hire an LP designer

6. Free Accounting Software | GnuCash

7. Get a VPS with several IPs to randomly use

8. Pinging alerts sites that your blog has been updated to encourage them to send their bots to index the changes. See pingoat.com

9. If you're talking about Adwords to promote your own site via PPC - I wouldn't be the one to talk to about that. If you mean AdSense or other services to place ads on your website to produce income then I would start signing up as soon as the website is up.

10. no - and if you start doing this make sure your interlinking sites are on different c classes
 
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