New to website building and warriors fourm

Thanks webpeon the electrical training part is a test that was created by the department of energy so the course is certified. The exams were questions that I created from the training course. So yes that one section electrical training is copiedand the rest is original content. I will look forward to meeting you and also learning from you, thanks for the positive feedback it was a good to here from someone with experience that I am going in the right direction!

You're doing pretty damn awesome from what I can see. One piece of advice on overall strategy: keep blogging, providing advice videos etc and the audience will come. Don't try to force the audience into a discussion before they're comfortable just being passive viewers.

That's a great offer, I'd be sure to take him up on that.

Good luck to both of you.

Cheers,
Alastair.

Tyrone, you appear to have a lot of good content already on the site. If that is original content, then that will be a major plus for SEO purposes. If you're after search engine traffic, then start building quality backlinks to all of that content, and you should be ranking for all kinds of keywords before too long.

There are many ways to get good backlinks (and ultimately traffic) to your site. As webpeon suggested, I would definitely make video marketing one of my priorities (ie YouTube, etc). Especially considering all of the content you already have on the site. All of that could easily be re-purposed into videos.

And IF the articles on your site are original, I would start submitting them to the better article directories like EzineArticles, Go Articles, Buzzle, etc. Article directories aren't very good for direct backlinks anymore, BUT.... the better your articles are, the more they will be syndicated (ie blogs and other websites in your niche will pick them up and repost them, and you can get a lot of backlinks and traffic from that).

If that sounds like a lot of work, it IS. But you can always pay others to do it, if you think it's a good investment to do so. Check out the 'Warriors for hire' section of the forum. Fiverr.com can also be a good resource. Just be careful if you decide to pay for any backlinks... if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is! (not to mention that there is a lot of recent evidence that low-quality backlinks can actually hurt your search engine rankings now, so... proceed with caution when buying backlinks!)

Other ways of getting traffic to your site is to pay for it (PPC, media buys, etc). Lots of options there, but if you go that route, just start small and test extensively to make sure something's working well before you start throwing any significant coin at it.

Regarding monetizing the site... you will find that unless you start getting a ton of traffic to the site, you're not going to make much money with Adsense (or even Amazon, for that matter). In my opinion, it's far better to sell your own products (ie you could create nice ebook or video info-products about subjects in your niche), or promote 3rd party products from affiliate networks that offer high commissions (Clickbank, etc).

That said... If I were you, once you start getting traffic to your site, I would focus on building a mailing list via email opt-in forms on your site. That way you have a valuable, ever-growing asset that you can continually market to (and of course, provide value to in the process).

Also, when I think "Electricians Hangout", the first thing that comes to mind is a forum for electricians. I've personally never run a forum on any of my sites, but I know that there is most definitely good money to be made for owners of popular forums. So... that's something to consider.

There is a wealth of info here at the WF, so if you ever want to learn more about a particular subject, just use the 'search' feature. The advice here can range from really good to really bad (depending on who is giving it, lol), so take whatever you read here with a grain of salt! That said, if you read enough posts about a particular topic, you will get a good idea about what works and what doesn't.

Hope that helps, and good luck with the site!