Hi, this is me so far, and now looking for guidance..
Hi all thanks for the quick replies in the other post. Here is where i am so far anyway.
34, married, 2 children. life went wrong financially around 2-3 years ago, lost house and all that, same as lots of people, and was looking at ways to make money. Found 30 day challenge from ed dale and followed his course, that got me hooked. I didnt actually make a sale and was a bit disheartened, until i found that i wasnt looking in the right places to check if i had a sale or not - i was expecting emails or something, doh! Anyway this was around 6 months later and i had racked up maybe 10-20 sales -we are talking a matter of pounds in profit rather than hundreds, but made me happy none the less. During the challenge i realised that i was clueless with all things web-related and went back to school to learn it all. Now soon to be a second year of a foundation degree in new media and design - unfortunately it hasnt really touched on web design. It has kept me busy though and i have been reassuring myself that the skills i am learning will be of benefit. In the last few weeks i have tried to learn dreamweaver - my portfolio is half completed but it shows what skills i may or may not have. Im not too worried, in my eyes i have 1 more year to get that up to scratch if i want to work as a web designer . ASC Digital Media Services is my portfolio, think ive loaded some pages wrong at the server end, and some of it is poor - but it is a learning site! And if anyone looks at the animation page, i apologise for both the accent (hate hearing myself recorded!!) and the work. Once the site is sorted out, i can improve the topics individually.
As said i was learning SEO from Ed dale and found all that massively interesting, but not even touched on our course, with most of the tutors looking strangely when i ask about this...
At the time - around 2 years ago, i bought a few domains and tried to rank well with the keywords - now in hindsight im worried my keyword research was a load of rubbish and ive ranked ok for rubbish words!
My sites - managinganxiety.co.uk (i am/was a nurse so chose something i knew about) - i tried to rank for keyword 'managing anxiety' - and did that with some link building and content heavy words - the site now has been sitting there doing not much, i dont have much stuff on there for sale - this is one of the reasons im asking here really - is there any point. apart from experience is there any reason to build on this, or would it like be flogging a dead horse as the keyword choice is poor? PLEASE dont judge this site on looks - i made some buttons you will see on the front page, i know they look wrong but it was practice for me in making a button in photoshop and adding the images etc. It gets around 5-20 visitors per day, and makes around 1-2 sales per month, of books via amazon, so not much really.
Scroll Saw Blades - as per above, practice, not done anything in a year - aimed for keyword 'scrollsaw blades' think it is 1 in google, but doesnt get searched much. 15-20 visitors per day, 1-5 sales per month.
Link building - other than joining forums and adding a signature, i havent a clue how to do this.
I am now at a junction where i want to channel my energies into something decent. I strongly believe in IM and that it can be made successful, even though in the total time i might have made around 40 pounds, but spent on hosting and domain etc, so not even broke even. I am putting my energies towards learning to make sites, with a view to offer to build for people at the end of my academic course. But i really want to use my skills for IM. My goal is not to be an internet marketer, or to be a web designer but simply fuelled by being able to try and provide for my family, who are growing up fast! That is my motivation and anything i can learn or work towards, that would definately be my motivation.
Well here i am and really could do with someone saying, hey dont waste your time on those sites as the keywords are just wrong, or build on them, look for other ways of..... just some guidance really.
Thanks for taking (all!!) the time reading this and look forward to hearing any responses!
Alan
34, married, 2 children. life went wrong financially around 2-3 years ago, lost house and all that, same as lots of people, and was looking at ways to make money. Found 30 day challenge from ed dale and followed his course, that got me hooked. I didnt actually make a sale and was a bit disheartened, until i found that i wasnt looking in the right places to check if i had a sale or not - i was expecting emails or something, doh! Anyway this was around 6 months later and i had racked up maybe 10-20 sales -we are talking a matter of pounds in profit rather than hundreds, but made me happy none the less. During the challenge i realised that i was clueless with all things web-related and went back to school to learn it all. Now soon to be a second year of a foundation degree in new media and design - unfortunately it hasnt really touched on web design. It has kept me busy though and i have been reassuring myself that the skills i am learning will be of benefit. In the last few weeks i have tried to learn dreamweaver - my portfolio is half completed but it shows what skills i may or may not have. Im not too worried, in my eyes i have 1 more year to get that up to scratch if i want to work as a web designer . ASC Digital Media Services is my portfolio, think ive loaded some pages wrong at the server end, and some of it is poor - but it is a learning site! And if anyone looks at the animation page, i apologise for both the accent (hate hearing myself recorded!!) and the work. Once the site is sorted out, i can improve the topics individually.
As said i was learning SEO from Ed dale and found all that massively interesting, but not even touched on our course, with most of the tutors looking strangely when i ask about this...
At the time - around 2 years ago, i bought a few domains and tried to rank well with the keywords - now in hindsight im worried my keyword research was a load of rubbish and ive ranked ok for rubbish words!
My sites - managinganxiety.co.uk (i am/was a nurse so chose something i knew about) - i tried to rank for keyword 'managing anxiety' - and did that with some link building and content heavy words - the site now has been sitting there doing not much, i dont have much stuff on there for sale - this is one of the reasons im asking here really - is there any point. apart from experience is there any reason to build on this, or would it like be flogging a dead horse as the keyword choice is poor? PLEASE dont judge this site on looks - i made some buttons you will see on the front page, i know they look wrong but it was practice for me in making a button in photoshop and adding the images etc. It gets around 5-20 visitors per day, and makes around 1-2 sales per month, of books via amazon, so not much really.
Scroll Saw Blades - as per above, practice, not done anything in a year - aimed for keyword 'scrollsaw blades' think it is 1 in google, but doesnt get searched much. 15-20 visitors per day, 1-5 sales per month.
Link building - other than joining forums and adding a signature, i havent a clue how to do this.
I am now at a junction where i want to channel my energies into something decent. I strongly believe in IM and that it can be made successful, even though in the total time i might have made around 40 pounds, but spent on hosting and domain etc, so not even broke even. I am putting my energies towards learning to make sites, with a view to offer to build for people at the end of my academic course. But i really want to use my skills for IM. My goal is not to be an internet marketer, or to be a web designer but simply fuelled by being able to try and provide for my family, who are growing up fast! That is my motivation and anything i can learn or work towards, that would definately be my motivation.
Well here i am and really could do with someone saying, hey dont waste your time on those sites as the keywords are just wrong, or build on them, look for other ways of..... just some guidance really.
Thanks for taking (all!!) the time reading this and look forward to hearing any responses!
Alan
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