Alright since you seem like an alright dude, am not gonna verbally rape you. Holy shit I'll actually help you. Fuck something is wrong with me.
#1 - Stop doing this:
"Listening to Patt Flynn and Andrew Warner religiously"
#2 - Stop doing this:
"Listening to Patt Flynn and Andrew Warner religiously"
#3 Use this tool to check out difficulty of your keywords:
The Ultimate SEO Keyword Research & Competition Analysis Tool - serpIQ.com
^ since your new to seo target a keyword under 40
#4 For your WordPress theme get this:
Headway Drag and Drop WordPress Theme
It's the only theme you'll ever need
#5 Basic strategy
- Build site with above, add 5 pages of content right away
- Go to BST, buy 1k bookmarks and vary anchor text with over 5 or so keywords like so;
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Link building
- Get on to ALN -
Sign In
Post at least 45 articles a day and vary anchor text
- Get Build my rank ( link network) and do the same as above
- Find some blog network sellers in the buy sell trade here and buy their packages
- Get a few nice high pr blogrolls links from bst or from people in your niche
- Add content weekly at least, preferably twice a week
- Build links to your inner content and link the inner content to your homepage/other articles on your site
- Build some web 2.0's and hit them with bookmarks/comments and link to your homepage.
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If you follow the above you should be able to hit 2k within 3 months. Although am 99% you won't even get to $100 a month. You could be the 1%, who knows.
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One more tip fuck niche sites, focus on small sites, (30-50 pages) making $500-2k a month.