Help Me Out! Progress Report

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Hello warrriors!

Very new to online marketing, about 2 weeks in. I found it through looking at The Power of Now on YouTube and finding Jonathan Budd's video on it, and through that found his Online MLM Mastermind course.

With that it has given me some good idea's, but I have learned a great deal more from this site alone.

I spent about a week researching keywords and building a test site and finally bought my domain/host. I'm sure I've made a TON of mistakes, but you aren't going to learn what to do right, if you don't first find out what not to do!

Here's what I've done so far in the week my site's been up:

- Wrote about 8 articles and sent them to about 15 directories each. (same articles as content on my website) Each article on a high search low competition long-tail keyword.
- Signed up on traffic-swarm and did that whole thing, which seems almost pointless.
- just today signed up with freetrafficsystem.com to build some backlinks. Submitted 2 articles for testing
- Submitted my sites to google, yahoo, and live with sitemaps. Analytics is amazing btw. I feel it's pretty early to expect any search engine traffic. Almost no indexing yet from anywhere.
- Promoting clickbank products as "advanced learning" in my niche.
- Posted on forums related to my niche.

How long should I expect before I start getting some search engine traffic? That is pretty much what my site is based around. I also plan to put PLR Ebooks at the top of my articles in the content of my site each related to the topic, as well as have the clickbank products, and AdSense.

Any critique's would be greatly appreciated. This is my first site and attempt at anything online, and was considering testing a WordPress niche site and article marketing that, and perhaps when income comes in trying PPC and generating leads/CPA. Then if that works out, perhaps moving on to small businesses marketing.

With all the information on the site im a little overwhelmed but I've tried to apply what I think would be beneficial to my site and in my realm of being possible.

Thanks all!

John
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    • Profile picture of the author oliverwinston
      I will say that you are doing the one thing that many new "internet marketers" forget about.

      Actually doing something....

      Good job on being motivated and creating articles and building a site!
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  • Profile picture of the author Solidsnake
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    - Wrote about 8 articles and sent them to about 15 directories each. (same articles as content on my website)
    It is not advisable to post same article to directories.. You should have a different article for directories (not that on your site)

    - Signed up on traffic-swarm and did that whole thing, which seems almost pointless.
    A total waste of time...
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    • Profile picture of the author Traffic_Is_King
      Wrote about 8 articles and sent them to about 15 directories each. (same articles as content on my website) Each article on a high search low competition long-tail keyword.
      You want to try to keep content on your site all original content. Google will see your site as less of an authority site, which means they will not index you properly for keywords you want to rank for. You may fall way below in the search engine result pages.

      I would stick with article marketing. Just make sure your content is optimized and good and those articles will get ranked if you use high authority sites like ezinearticles, goarticles, etc.

      Like in the other post trafficswarm and other traffic systems might be a waste of time spent. Focus on one thing and get the results from that then move on to the next strategy. Hope this helps
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  • Profile picture of the author DeanJames
    Hey John,

    Believe me for your first 2 weeks at this you are doing great!

    You've made a fundamental mistake if you've submitted articles to directories that are also on your site. Make sure the articles you submit to directories are unique. If you are monetizing with Adsense get rid of the green url's.

    Keep doing the article marketing ( observing the rule above ) and related forums in your niche also cool.

    Dean
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    • Profile picture of the author John Brown
      Originally Posted by DeanJames View Post

      Hey John,

      Believe me for your first 2 weeks at this you are doing great!

      You've made a fundamental mistake if you've submitted articles to directories that are also on your site. Make sure the articles you submit to directories are unique. If you are monetizing with Adsense get rid of the green url's.

      Keep doing the article marketing ( observing the rule above ) and related forums in your niche also cool.

      Dean
      Thanks very much for your reply and the previous ones from others. It seems I'll have to change my content around. Do you believe this could be the reason why I'm not getting my pages indexed? The site is pretty much built around SEO and have yet to get any pageranks. Or perhaps it'll just take more time!

      Thanks!

      John
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  • Profile picture of the author DeanJames
    John,

    Because your site articles weren't yet indexed the article directories have accepted them ( those with editorial approval would reject them if they were indexed ). Because your site is new ( and not indexed ) the established directories will automatically carry more authority than your site and rank that content. You are now in effect competing with yourself as your content has been syndicated to directories and other webmasters that reprint your articles. I would recommend you significantly change the content on your site now. Also check you have a robots.txt file in place that allows the bots to crawl your site.

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    • Profile picture of the author John Brown
      Originally Posted by DeanJames View Post

      John,

      Because your site articles weren't yet indexed the article directories have accepted them ( those with editorial approval would reject them if they were indexed ). Because your site is new ( and not indexed ) the established directories will automatically carry more authority than your site and rank that content. You are now in effect competing with yourself as your content has been syndicated to directories and other webmasters that reprint your articles. I would recommend you significantly change the content on your site now. Also check you have a robots.txt file in place that allows the bots to crawl your site.

      Dean
      Ahh alright, I see the logic here. Thanks a lot, I just uploaded my robots file and am now going to tackle rewording all my content.

      Wish me luck

      John
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  • Profile picture of the author DeanJames
    Good luck John. May the words be with you. Somebody on here may give you advice on the percentages you need to aim for in terms of substantially different content vs the articles you have submitted. If you are going to keep the existing articles ( in terms of the structure of what you are conveying ) I would substantially re-write all of them including the titles.

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