A slightly above newbie post, with easy and clear questions

by dgutz
12 replies
A brief presentation:
Hello everyone I'm dgutz a 17 years old teenager from Spain. I have always loved computers and technology, and this year I got involved in all this "online marketing" thing.

I got interested in all this thing because I knew that I could make money online, I already tried to with 2 youtube channels, but I never was constant enough to see results. (Although nowadays I manage my mother's channel that give us like 4-7€ monthly )

I started reading about how websites make money, things related to SEO (which some terms sounded pretty odd to me), and niches and micro-niches. I also read about blogging, social media etc... (Pretty much everything that was related to online marketing and could help me making my projects).

From reading to creating the Micro-Niche
After reading and feeling kinda ready I started my own microniche. I picked a yoga niche and I started creating the web. I bought the domain and the host and in the first week I made a decent wordpress page.

(An important fact, my budget after making the website is 90€)

For the next 2 months I combined studies with the niche and I wrote 9 good articles, plus I created a twitter and a facebook page and made some social graphics and I scheduled all the social publications until april.

-My Facebook page has 108 likes (all from addmefast, I used it to change the url, but seems like I have to verify it through phone, something that I would like to skip (If you could tell me some method to bypass the facebook phone verification it would be great).

-My Twitter account has 25 followers but I got them by the old followback technique, so there is a lot of room for improvement here.

My plan on monetizing the niche
As far as I read there are a bunch of ways to monetize my web. I have a pair of ideas to do so. I will mainly monetize it by some affiliation with yoga products (it could be amazon or another yoga shop that brings me better commissions) yoga courses (clickbank) and some ebooks that I will make. In the future I can even associate with some local Yogi and record a full course with him (this is a pretty good idea, but I need to make some gains before in order to pay and do this).

It sounds pretty good, ¿where is the problem then dgutz?
Well, the problem comes in the traffic, I don't know what to do in order to "launch" my website.

This is an image of my last month traffic: View image: analytics
Bellow you have a little legend to the image (Spanish to english translation)
Sesiones=Sessions/Visits.
Tasa de rebote=Bounce rate.

I read that I could ask for some links to other yoga webs, but most of people say that this isn't a big thing. I also read that I can make some guest blogging, but as with the links technique people say that this isn't as good.

I'm pretty sure that I have a good on-page SEO, so I don't think that the problem comes from here.

I don't have stuff related to traffic and positioning as clear as I had with the rest of the things. So, that's my question, what are my next steps in order to give my website the rank that it deserves? (or the one that I want )

One more thing, I would LOVE to have a mentor, someone to chat with or someone to have a talk that is ahead or in the position that I would like to be. I read about the value of having that "mentor" figure and is something that I don't want to miss out.

Maybe there are some mistakes in my post, but English is not my native language and I do my best to not sound like an Indian .

-Your friend dgutz
#clear #easy #newbie #post #questions #slightly
  • Profile picture of the author superowid
    First, congratulations as you took action, and already made "small" profit. And you're also focus on what you're doing until today. That's great.

    Traffic is always our "thing" to pay attention on this journey. I can give a little advice if you want. Just PM me. It's free BTW.

    Perhaps we can help each other to gain the traffic.
    Thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author dgutz
      Originally Posted by superowid View Post

      First, congratulations as you took action, and already made "small" profit. And you're also focus on what you're doing until today. That's great.

      Traffic is always our "thing" to pay attention on this journey. I can give a little advice if you want. Just PM me. It's free BTW.

      Perhaps we can help each other to gain the traffic.
      Thanks.
      I'm so thanful superowid, i already PM you, thanks for your reply!
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  • Profile picture of the author ydsimple
    You need to check what keywords are you targeting and what is search volume for them. If search volume for your keywords is ok stick to them and rank for those keywords, easy way is that you can pay for SEO service, you can find very good ones here or you can do it yourself.
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    • Profile picture of the author dgutz
      Originally Posted by ydsimple View Post

      You need to check what keywords are you targeting and what is search volume for them. If search volume for your keywords is ok stick to them and rank for those keywords, easy way is that you can pay for SEO service, you can find very good ones here or you can do it yourself.
      I think i'm using good keywords, or at least not that bad ones. The main one has 12.000 monthly searchers, a 0.70€ CPC, and a low competition (maybe the "little problem" is here). And I use other keywords for articles with 500-5000 av. monthly searches and decent CPC and competition.
      At the moment I'm not interested in paid SEO, but if I was, i would probably search it here.

      Thanks for your reply ydsimple!
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  • Hi, yes congratulations on taking the bold step to change your life for the better. It's not easy, but nothing worth it is easy anyway.

    I tried to view your stats you showed, but it is not working. I am not in the yoga niche, but hope you find a good coach to help you. I just know how to get traffic through solo-ads etc which are all paid options, so unable to assist in this regard.

    I wish you the best of luck with your business. (although I can see you have the right idea already)
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    • Profile picture of the author dgutz
      Originally Posted by Gerhard van Staden View Post

      Hi, yes congratulations on taking the bold step to change your life for the better. It's not easy, but nothing worth it is easy anyway.

      I tried to view your stats you showed, but it is not working. I am not in the yoga niche, but hope you find a good coach to help you. I just know how to get traffic through solo-ads etc which are all paid options, so unable to assist in this regard.

      I wish you the best of luck with your business. (although I can see you have the right idea already)
      Hi Gerhard van Staden, thanks for your kind and motivational words!

      Here you have the analytics image, this time it should work.


      And thanks again Gerhard, I wish you luck too. Greetings!
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  • Profile picture of the author ANDREIS
    First let me congratulate you on you being a young person yet so serious and motivated.

    As far as your website is concerned, there is a problem - you have very few people coming to your site.

    The key problem people face when trying to earn money online is getting visitors! Whoever gets targeted visitors will earn money!

    There are 3 ways you can attract visitors:

    - SEO - this means having your page with Amazon links on the 1st page of Google for targeted keywords. 1st page of Bing or Yahoo search is not bad too for certain keywords

    - PPC or solo ads - Pay Per Click, or your own ads on particular sites.

    - Viral content that gets redistributed fast

    That's it! These are 3 ways of getting people to your pages. Of course, all of this is easier said than done! People usually don't know how to do this properly and that's why so many earn nothing!

    Not everyone likes every way I mentioned above. Most people I teach don't have any money (just like I didn't have) to invest so they like SEO. There is so much talk around about SEO and people think it's so hard but let me tell you: if you know how the search engine works and you have a plan then
    you'll have enough pages on the net and you will earn lots of money!

    Other people who want to invest money in PPC can earn money too and it's a fast and an efficient way when done properly.

    Viral content? Can be done for free, but investing couple of hundreds of dollars can do wonders.

    Now, people usually know all of this I just described above but they fail to do it successfully and see no results. That's because they don't know how Google works, they don't know what really is representing competition and what only seems like a competition but in fact is easy to beat.

    Those involved with viral content or PPC also believe in things that are repeated all over internet, follow those myths and end up with no results and no money. When you test things like I do and watch with your own eyes, then you see what really works! Anyway, you are young and you have so much energy and time in front of you to put everything you learn to use! Don't worry, very long time ago I used to ask the same questions like you and now I'm teaching people. It can be done!
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    • Profile picture of the author dgutz
      Originally Posted by ANDREIS View Post

      First let me congratulate you on you being a young person yet so serious and motivated.

      As far as your website is concerned, there is a problem - you have very few people coming to your site.

      The key problem people face when trying to earn money online is getting visitors! Whoever gets targeted visitors will earn money!

      There are 3 ways you can attract visitors:

      - SEO - this means having your page with Amazon links on the 1st page of Google for targeted keywords. 1st page of Bing or Yahoo search is not bad too for certain keywords

      - PPC or solo ads - Pay Per Click, or your own ads on particular sites.

      - Viral content that gets redistributed fast

      That's it! These are 3 ways of getting people to your pages. Of course, all of this is easier said than done! People usually don't know how to do this properly and that's why so many earn nothing!

      Not everyone likes every way I mentioned above. Most people I teach don't have any money (just like I didn't have) to invest so they like SEO. There is so much talk around about SEO and people think it's so hard but let me tell you: if you know how the search engine works and you have a plan then
      you'll have enough pages on the net and you will earn lots of money!

      Other people who want to invest money in PPC can earn money too and it's a fast and an efficient way when done properly.

      Viral content? Can be done for free, but investing couple of hundreds of dollars can do wonders.

      Now, people usually know all of this I just described above but they fail to do it successfully and see no results. That's because they don't know how Google works, they don't know what really is representing competition and what only seems like a competition but in fact is easy to beat.

      Those involved with viral content or PPC also believe in things that are repeated all over internet, follow those myths and end up with no results and no money. When you test things like I do and watch with your own eyes, then you see what really works! Anyway, you are young and you have so much energy and time in front of you to put everything you learn to use! Don't worry, very long time ago I used to ask the same questions like you and now I'm teaching people. It can be done!
      Hello Andreis and thanks for your reply, you have put a lot on effort on it, I really appreciate it.

      It's pretty useful remind all the ways that you can use to get people on your website, sometimes I forgot about them and tend to think that everything is much harder that it really is.

      I would like to test PPC or Viral content, but as you said right now money is one of my problems, in a close future, with the profit of the page I will can test all the monetized ways of traffic.

      I didnt read so much about PPC and viral content, so I will be careful about the myths that you say. It's motivating hearing that you were where I am and now you are teaching people.

      It can be done! Thanks Andreis I would love to keep reading from you.
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      • Profile picture of the author Eagle07
        Great start and congratulations! I suggest you got to love and practice yoga so you can testify personally the great advantages of doing yoga. Once you do that, things becomes easier. Start activating your kundalini
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        • Profile picture of the author dgutz
          Originally Posted by Eagle07 View Post

          Great start and congratulations! I suggest you got to love and practice yoga so you can testify personally the great advantages of doing yoga. Once you do that, things becomes easier. Start activating your kundalini
          You never know where you'll end up right Eagle?
          Maybe from a micro-niche it turns in a new passion, thanks for your advice and greetings!
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  • Profile picture of the author mattyseo
    Nice start and it was a motivational post for me. Really good info in this post.
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    • Profile picture of the author dgutz
      Originally Posted by mattyseo View Post

      Nice start and it was a motivational post for me. Really good info in this post.
      Thanks matty! It feels strange to hear that this could be motivating. The community is giving me an awesome feedback so the info and advice are amazing.
      Thanks for your reply matty
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