advice needed (super newbie)
First of all, let me introduce myself as it's my first post on this community. You can just skip some paragraphs if you think it's too long 
I'm 24 years old, and about to graduate as a Chemical Engineer in a couple of months. I have always been an "internet person", I have had a PC since 1989 and I have had Internet access since 1993 or 1994. So, I am very well versed in "the ways of the Internet", but I haven't participated in any IM stuff until now. Actually, I was utterly ignorant about everything IM - I didn't know even the basic concepts (I didn't know what 'affiliate marketing' was, for example) until yesterday.
I decided to explore this aspect of the net and WarriorForum was one of the first sites I ran into. MY, YOU GUYS ARE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Within hours, my mind was overloaded with priceless experience and information which would take how many years for me to gather if I didn't read all this stuff, I don't know. Thank you everyone. This collection of people in this forum has created a mind-blowing pool of information.
So, I'm still a student as of now, and I don't plan to be employed for some time. Yeah, I'm still a "kiddo" without much money to risk - couple hundred dollars at most, but I find myself to be very "resourceful" and quick to learn. I have always aimed high, but at my current conditions, even some few couple hundred bucks per month would make a HUGE difference in my lifestyle.
My plan on which I need advice: Not a really creative plan, but I need to know if I am on the right track.
I can provide up to ten 300-word articles per day for some time.
I will sell one of the hundreds of guitar lesson packages offered on ClickBank.
While looking for keywords I have come across a five-letter phrase that has 11 800 competitors, and a monthly search rate as listed by Google Adwords tool as 2000 and by SEOBook as 6000. In my scavenging of your newbie guides I have concluded that those two numbers are very important in determining if a concept is worthy to invest on or not.
I also have performed a domain search, and found one very close to this phrase available.
So, my questions:
Thanks for any replies and if there is none, then still thank you for filling me with enough information to digest for a month! If I read this post I wrote yesterday, I wouldn't understand even a single sentence of it.
I'm 24 years old, and about to graduate as a Chemical Engineer in a couple of months. I have always been an "internet person", I have had a PC since 1989 and I have had Internet access since 1993 or 1994. So, I am very well versed in "the ways of the Internet", but I haven't participated in any IM stuff until now. Actually, I was utterly ignorant about everything IM - I didn't know even the basic concepts (I didn't know what 'affiliate marketing' was, for example) until yesterday.
I decided to explore this aspect of the net and WarriorForum was one of the first sites I ran into. MY, YOU GUYS ARE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Within hours, my mind was overloaded with priceless experience and information which would take how many years for me to gather if I didn't read all this stuff, I don't know. Thank you everyone. This collection of people in this forum has created a mind-blowing pool of information.
So, I'm still a student as of now, and I don't plan to be employed for some time. Yeah, I'm still a "kiddo" without much money to risk - couple hundred dollars at most, but I find myself to be very "resourceful" and quick to learn. I have always aimed high, but at my current conditions, even some few couple hundred bucks per month would make a HUGE difference in my lifestyle.
My plan on which I need advice: Not a really creative plan, but I need to know if I am on the right track.
- I plan to host a blog-landing site something as an affiliate for ClickBank.
- I plan to write my own articles and market them through EZ and other directories.
- I plan to have sound content on these articles. I don't think I have the monetary resources to run ten different sites at one time anyway, so it can't hurt to focus on the one I have.
I can provide up to ten 300-word articles per day for some time.
I will sell one of the hundreds of guitar lesson packages offered on ClickBank.
While looking for keywords I have come across a five-letter phrase that has 11 800 competitors, and a monthly search rate as listed by Google Adwords tool as 2000 and by SEOBook as 6000. In my scavenging of your newbie guides I have concluded that those two numbers are very important in determining if a concept is worthy to invest on or not.
I also have performed a domain search, and found one very close to this phrase available.
So, my questions:
- Does this particular concept sound profitable to you?
- I want the site to have an easy to manage blog format, preferably like on Blogger. Is there a way to redirect my domain to Blogger, which means my entire content will be hosted by Blogger (and YouTube). Not that I can't afford the $10/month hosting by GoDaddy or a similar place, but it would definitely be better if I didn't have to, plus Blogger is probably easier to manage.
- How can I provide good backlinks to my blog/site, and what about social bookmarking? I think this should be the most important thing of all. I really want to be in the top 5 Google search results for this phrase.
- Aside from hosting costs, where else do I need to spend money? Is PPC an option for a low budget as I have ($200-300)?
Thanks for any replies and if there is none, then still thank you for filling me with enough information to digest for a month! If I read this post I wrote yesterday, I wouldn't understand even a single sentence of it.
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