So this was my first real test. I took a keyword that had 217 searches a day and an average of 93 clicks per day. If I could get to #1, I'm sure I could have started to make some sales for affiliate amazon programs, or at least get some adwords clicks.

Here's what I did:

1. Fully SEO optimize the wordpress blog for the keyword "web design work"
2. post 5 articles, fully optimized for "web design work" to the blog
3. post the same 5 articles...

Here is the structure I'd like to have for the marketing strategy. I think this is going to change though.

Originally, I had envisioned my job board website to exist on its own page with 100 or so pages with #1 keyword rankings referring traffic to it. Here are all the keywords, and the traffic volume per day from smallest to largest
searches/day #1 clicks

217 91
217 91
217 91 ...

At this point I'v probably spent about 6 weeks straight learning as much as possible about marketing strategies from the big names. I already had read of lot of marketing related material because of starting my own training and soccer business, but here is where a lot of my marketing knowledge comes from:

Jay abraham
Brian tracy
Eben pagan aka David Deangelo (his Get Altitude program)
Mike sernoff (hardtofindseminars.com)
30 Day Challenge '08

I...

My vision is to create a job board website similar to Monster.com, dice.com, or careerbuilder.com that is specifically geared towards professionals in web design, software development, and database administration. I learned a lot of great things in recruiting that I want to apply towards this, because the hiring system in most companies is very flawed, and what is currently available in job boards can be improved on IMMENSELY within this niche. I came up with a name, and I'v got the first version...

This is my first post on my blog. Let me tell a little of my story. I'm 26 years old, and I'll be 27 this summer. I graduated college in '05 with a degree in exercise science, and I used to be very passionate about soccer. I played my whole life, and then I ended up going into coaching as a career.

A year or two after college was over, I also went into personal training. I started to do very well relative to those around me, but I was being slave-driven working at gold's gym and making...