phoenixrising journal

Today:

1. Bought uBot and made some bots:
a. one that registers a user/email with social bookmarking sites (only did 5 sites, takes a while to program them all)
b. one that logs into clickbank/etc to check balances
c. one that just logs into random shit ( first one i made )

Basically ubot is the nuts for me since my programming knowledge is so limited

Thats pretty much all I've done today, tomorrow I need to work on my new site and write some bots to automate some stuff that I've found myself repeating over and over and over.

Ranks
Google: 9th
Yahoo: 4th (wtf)
 


Been getting the GTD system set up today, feels good to have a system of organization and execution that isn't me writing random shit on postits/etc

Google: 8th
Yahoo: 4th

Tomorrow I plan to fully research and implement a new niche site, focusing on something that makes more $/sale, or a clickbank-only focused site. The payouts I make on an amazon referral from my current site top out at like $1.50 which is fine from a learning perspective but unless I pushed insane volume it'd never be worth the time investment unless I automated the entire creation of the site/research/content.
 
Hahahaha...


I would actually say it took me 2 years to FULLY come to grips with my GTD implementation.

But the benefits are HUGE even in the beginning, you just have to stick with it.

To illustrate:
I moved from being the center of a chaotic whirlwind of forgotten errands, missed appointments, broken promises, forgotten dates to being a succesful project manager.

Yes, it IS that powerful.

After a few months, my wife looked at me fondly and told me she does not recognize me anymore.

That is why I tell everyone of this system.

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fuck yea dude, my brain has literally been a whirlwind of bunches of plans, ideas, etc. I've never been the type to write stuff out, plan stuff. My goals were always nebulous and grand which seems to be another way to say "not going to happen."

obvi only 1 day in but the initial Collect phase was fucking badass, my mind felt way better, was able to be in flow a lot more. Helps me act more in the moment so far. Right now I feel my brain going WTF, what do I do now that I don't have to keep track of all this stuff on my own?

using GTD-free program fwiw.

encouraging post emp tyty
 
two of the biggest things I took away from reading GTD (mind you, I haven't adopted the system yet, but I will one day once I'm settled into my new place) are these: never trust yourself to remember anything, always right it down immediately and put it away...and face your fears/anxieties and tear them down and start fresh.

A lot of habits persist out of fear, so if you can force yourself to face them, you'll succeed.
 
Today:

1. Followed barman's Ubot tutorial on how to write a blog comment seed list, scraped off about 100 urls to comment on. Trying to figure out how to write the auto-comment part of the bot, might take a bit longer ;).

2. Doing some niche research to launch another site, but I need to make these improvements on the product I push:

Need to make more per sale, I'm thinking at least $5ish
Maybe look at clickbank stuff, the commission is obv way nicer
Need to really make sure my research is spot on and do a comprehensive top 3/10 analysis

GTD is going well but I need to read through the last 3rd of the book or so to pick up the last bits of info from it. I gotta drill down and really make a larger scope plan with action steps and all that for my IM stuff since my planning brain is so n00b
 
Gotta find a way to automate the blog comments, used the barman ubot to scrape off 100 urls to comment on and texter program to fill in the forms pretty quick but it still took 20-25 minutes. Once I can automate that I can streamline the process even more holllllla
 
Today:

1. Researched, bought, and set up new niche WP site. This one has more potential that my first one both in terms of $/sale (about 7.5-10x higher) and search volume while still having adequate competition. Will be harder, but gotta PROGRESS

2. Used ubot article directory registry bot I wrote to register to a bunch of directories and submitted an article about new niche to EZA for approval.

3. Made a Squidoo lens, ran my blog comment seed list bot and sent 100 blog comments to the url of the squidoo lens

4. Working on a bot to scrape some other shit i need for the site

*got traffic to my 1st site from aoLOL. who uses AOL still?!*
 
Ok so what would be the reason for my site completely dropping off of google? I can't think of why it would happen, the only things i've done with it have been documented here.

wait no i tried bluehatseo's tip of putting weird characters in your url so mine was changed to ¤ My Keyword ¤ and it dropped off of the first page. guess its a bad idea?
 
This is fairly normal for a new site. Keep posting and doing what your doing building links, and pay less attention to where you rank in the short term. It will possibly come back near the same spot.

Seems that G likes to give a short term ranking boost for new sites and content, but typically re-evaluates their positioning in the first several weeks. From my own experience, that #7 or below slot is an in-and-out position. It has taken more work and some quality links to make it above #5 in these cases.

Keep working on launching your second site also if it keeps you from stressing too much about site 1 ranking for now.

The single most common sense piece of advice I have seen here regarding link building for a new site came from dchuk: he said you should not build more links to your site than you are getting visitors daily.
I intuit that this shows G a natural pattern, and your link profile can increase gradually and geometrically as your traffic does.

tl;dr
It's normal, don't worry about it, keep working.
 
That's a good tip re: not building more links than you have daily visitors, for my first site it seems like i'm on target for that.

What I'm kind of having trouble with is thinking that there must be a better way to link build than to do what I'm currently doing.

Right now I research/set up niche site, then create articles in directories and pages like squidoo/hubpages/etc, and then send blog comments to those. Is there something else that I could be spending time on as well that would benefit these first two sites + many others after that? Like some kind of beast network that would pump up all my pages.

I've seen a few sites that are essentially just a lander for some clickbank product that are somehow PR3 and ranking #1-3 in what seems to be a competitive niche, not really sure how they're able to do that.
 
phoenixrising said:
That's a good tip re: not building more links than you have daily visitors, for my first site it seems like i'm on target for that.

What I'm kind of having trouble with is thinking that there must be a better way to link build than to do what I'm currently doing.

Right now I research/set up niche site, then create articles in directories and pages like squidoo/hubpages/etc, and then send blog comments to those. Is there something else that I could be spending time on as well that would benefit these first two sites + many others after that? Like some kind of beast network that would pump up all my pages.

I've seen a few sites that are essentially just a lander for some clickbank product that are somehow PR3 and ranking #1-3 in what seems to be a competitive niche, not really sure how they're able to do that.
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There are tons of other ways to build links. I'll admit thought your way is not the best.

While quality links are a big plus, relevancy in your niche is also big. Why don't you look at that LP's backlinks and see what they're doing? LinkDiagnosis.com is an awesome tool, or just goto Yahoo and type link:url.com: Search with Many
 
GTD? Speak more of this?

I have been trying to get organized both at work and off work. I have been using mind maps which are helpful, but I am always open to something that works better.

(And yes I did google it and came with a book, but software was mentioned)
 
Yea mind maps are pretty awesome (for me at least), i use the GTD-free program in conjunction with the book. you still have to read the book to use the program, its just a computerized version of GTD. The book allows you to create whatever system you find helps you the best, since I'm working on the comp the program works amazingly

Today

Rewrote some copy, rewrote about page with more compelling copy, created accts/submitted articles to some web 2.0 sites, and scrapeboxed the fuck out of my other web 2.0's by pointing a ton of blog comments at them
 
@wiredniko

GTD is short for "Getting things done", a book by a guy named David Allen.
I preach this stuff to everyone, cause it literally turned my life around.

Get the book, read it and apply.
Rinse.
Repeat.

@phoenixrising
Damn, how can you use that program? I tried it and that thing is a bucket of fail.

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well at present i'm a bucket of fail from a results perspective so i have no real way to analyze the programs usefulness besides that it lets me do what i previously did semi automated almost fully automated, so I like it for now :)
 
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