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Need Advice, What's Next?

by onlineworkscreation
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Hi there got a few thoughts running through my head and wanted to ask the opinion of everyone on here.

For about the last year I have been self educating on internet marketing and SEO including websites and well you get the idea, I sat down about two weeks ago and resolved to create a website and grow a network of consumers.

I'm afraid to say that issues with my hosting provider still continue to plague me, alas I decided until I got my hosting sorted I would do a practise run.

Armed with a free wordpress account I set about building a brand, here are the results:

(2 weeks)

Traffic/Posts

*15 visitors, 30 page views average last 5 days
*13 Posts (400+ word, Headered h1-h4, Imaged & video content)

Followers/Social Networks

*Twitter - 13 tweets, 206 followers
*Tumblr - 28 posts, 53 followers
*Facebook - 13 posts, 1 follower
*Pinterest - 12 Pins, 57 followers
*Wordpress - 4 followers

The posts themselves are very Google friendly and the niche it is aimed at also researched well can rank highly in Google as this was designed for organic search results.

Now I have finally switched to what I think may be a decent host provider however I don't think I will have time to manage this through its development, should I sell it on/can i sell it on?, or keep it going? I figured you guys and girls here would be able to let me know some experiences

Thoughts please
#advice
  • Profile picture of the author JCorp
    That really depends on what you're looking to accomplish? Are you wanting to eventually grow it? Or are you detached from it now and want to sell what you've built?

    If it looks promising and you can devote some hours to it each day, then focus on growing it, but for me at least, I wouldn't depend on SEO.

    That's just me though since I'm mainly a paid traffic guy.

    If I was to do some free traffic on this, I'd focus a lot of my time on FB, growing my fan page, and paying a bit of money to promote the posts that seem to get more engagement.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Holmes
    So I'm guessing that your business model is going to be creating an Authority Blog, use it to build a list, then monetize the list with affiliate offers?

    You've only begun.

    If this isn't to your liking, then by all means, sell it and move on. But to be honest, it's not worth very much. Particularly as it's on a free Web 2.0 property, if I understood you correctly.

    But if you want to build your own business - you need to get hosting and own your website.

    Without even seeing the site, and presuming that you've not earned a dime - the site really isn't worth anything in my opinion.

    You should decide what you want to do, and stick with it.

    (Of course, my advice is worth exactly what you paid for it...)
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  • Profile picture of the author Phantom X
    Unless your website has great content and a custom theme or something that shows potential, I don't think you are going to get much from selling it. If you enjoy the niche, I would say to keep the website and continue developing it. Since you are pressed with time, maybe you could focus on one social networking site and then continue to create posts on your free time. You don't really need to write new content every single day. If you truly aren't feeling the website and aren't enjoying it, I would say scrap it because there's nothing worse then starting a website/blog you aren't passionate about.
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  • Profile picture of the author mw13
    Sent you a PM as I'd be interested in hearing more about your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author jrigdon73
    Think about who your target audience is and how to reach them. If your after women, try Pinterest. Looking for sports fans? Go on Twitter during big games, etc.
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