The Adventures of an Internet Marketing N00b

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1/13/2013 3:00AM

Day one, build a website. Read through all of the training material and I feel like such an ass. So I go ahead to godaddy.com to buy a domain name because it's much better to own a piece of internet real estate for a keyword you have than to have the keyword in a subdomain. Simply put, from what I've read, it just makes a lot more sense to OWN your own website than to use it amongst others. However, I had a 'I feel stoopid" moment. So I get my domain (so excited). I did my keyword research and its the perfect, targeted keyword that solves a problem in a niche that a lot of people suffer from, with low competition 2100 competing exact-match Google pages to be exact, and it just makes sense.

So then I come back to WA and I'm like "Hey, lets do this "Own My Own Domain" thing button, and it turns out I actually cannot add it to the web hosting services provided by WA. I don't feel bad at all, because I got a chance to buy a domain name that I know is going to rock. But I do feel like an ass since now I have to go pay for hosting, which is what I was completely trying to avoid. LOL stick to the program Cisco..... Stick to the program.

Well, lucky for me I consider myself pretty smart. I hopped over to RetailMeNot.com to see if there were any coupons worthwhile for both godaddy and for hostgator. (oh yea, I totally forgot to mention that I decided to go with hostgator because of Mr. Travis Sago's recommendation because he uses it and he's mad successful.... and in order to be successful, you should copy successful people, no?). And lo-'n-behold! Eureka, I found an epic coupon for godaddy that basically gave me a domain for 2 years with FREE private registration for only $12.34 (instead of $41.32). Then I found a really really nice coupon for hostgator for 25% off hosting packages.

And because I'm on a budget i decided to not go with purchasing a full-blown 2 year hosting (baby option) plan for $260 something dollars. Don't have it now and don't feel like it. So I went with the monthly plan and with the 25% off, I got it for $7.34 :). Anyway, I just set up my own website and did my own hosting myself instead of using the .siterubix availability of WA. I will use those 2 free websites wisely (unless I go Premium on WA, cuz then I'm going to immediately cancel hostgator and jump on the webhosting here ;p) So there was a bit of technical know how that I had to sift through in order to get my website up and running doing it my way.

THANK GOD for Travis' Blog Blueprint For Beginners. It totally set me on the right track and it even had step by step instructions for registering with godaddy and with hostgator and making sure that I properly installed WordPress on the site. PHEW!! If anyone wants it, shoot me an email at Cisco120 at gmail dot com I'll send it to you. It's epic. Plus it helps that he's allowed me to send it to anyone I want that might need the help.

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Thanks for the smile :)

I only reveal what I want people to read what I have created after having been ripped off in the past when I revealed my website and some evil so and so copied and pasted my site word for word.
I will help anyone but revealing everything I work on, I just won't do anymore.
Sharing information is one thing but displaying everything I own not a chance.
Sorry about that but you live an learn!

Dude, I feel you. but are you responding in reference to my blog post or what Joe, @Rich and myself have been discussing in the comments? Because I do realize that this is a community of learning and I am very aware that there are some of those that are lookin for epic shortcuts that only lead to heartache as @Rich so beautifully explained.

Why the hell aren't you sleeping?? It's 5.51am... you're crowding my night time space!!!

:) there's a lot to read and it turns out i'm a voracious reader.

Thanks for the insight and a misconception on my side. I apologize if I p*ssed off anybody or did any injustice and yeah, never having been formally employed and always having beaten my own drum I am definitely a blue grass baboon from the point of understanding how formal employment works; in fact I have heard that people were fired after their FB entries were discovered, so I can imagine how right you are! The terrifying thought is that you say there are people who have tried to rip off others' sites... how does that work @rich? Maybe add some educational content so we can reach it and maybe I should just list my www.google.com account...?

I think by ripping off @RICH. meant that there are some unscrupulous people that are the epitomy of laziness and will in fact STEAL content from another website and install it onto there own by DIRECT copy and pasting. It's awful because I literally just finished reading a fellow WA member's blog that discussed the very same thing. An affiliate had completely copy'd and pasted the WA members' niche site, pictures and all, and the WA member was sandboxed by Google! Thankfully he got the issue resolved but this is a very real issue.

You didn't p*** me off, Joe. I was just offering a different *take* on the privacy issue from my perspective. There's always a few idiots that think they can reverse engineer *success*, right down to misappropriating content. If they spent as much time on working through the Levels rather than dreaming up ever more grandiose strategies to "beat the system" they'd probably have already started to earn instead of dreaming-and-scheming to no avail. It also leads to a lot of negative discussion both publicly and privately which decimates their reputation. Those experienced Members who contributed so much to my success here and could have steered them towards earning a full-time living online simply avoid them and their nonsense. Rich.

Good attitude, but I do wonder how many would not exactly agree with you,but that's OK... you go, tiger!!

To which are you referring to ? Abundance? Because I believe there truly is abundance out there. We just have to reach out and grasp it.

Abundance in all kinds of guises. I do however find it interesting that there's a quite a few people even here at WA whom it seems are running good businesses but all hush, hush about it, which makes no sense. The world is too big for anyone to really be in competition with anyone else, other than marketing to locals in a small town... and even then the competition would make both better.

Hey Joe.

It's not usually a question of "competition" that people are "hush, hush", although I've seen several instances of people trying to rip off other's entire sites, a dumb move as that always results in a complete #fail.

I myself "guard" my privacy, and those of the membership with whom I have built strong relationships know exactly why.

It can also be a question of "hedging bets". Many here are in full or part time employment and employers often forbid employees from earning a second income. They may also check online before hiring to learn someone's "history" and may wonder how committed a prospective hire is going to be if they're obviously trying to build a business for themselves. It's extremely sensible to protect yourself against that scenario.

It also cuts down on having to deal with the few people whose sole aim in coming here is to befriend Members and then try and promote some dodgy scam to them behind the scenes.

Rich.

@RICH. So true. so sad, and so true.

You are plain bloody awesome, dude...!! Loved reading all of this and really believe you're the type of person we all want in our team.... uuuhh... but we're on the same team anyway, aren't we? All the best and will be watching out for you. Please add the URL to your site here at WA, unless you're scared of competition... ;-)

Thanks Joe. Not afraid of a little competition. This world is full of abundance and there is no reason for running after the scraps. But once i'm done with the site, if you feel like there might be something I can improve on or if you feel that you can one-up me, go for it! I can't wait to see it. Thanks for the follow.

Wow...i think we are travelling the same path. lol I'd love a copy of Travis' Blueprint. I can't private msg (not prem. yet) my email is on my profile page. thanks for sharing! :)

Oh, for the love of ... so, you buy a single domain on your first day and you feel like an "ass"? Pah! You're such a rank tyro. I bought 20+. I even blogged about who was to blame: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/rich/blog/i-name-the-names-shame-on-you Take a bow, Kyle. :P

A few short months later? I was getting "fanmail" from the cognoscenti: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/theronatwork/blog/i-m-gonna-get-rich

If you're a premium member here, you can host unlimited sites with your own domains. It's less than a $1-a-day if you pay annually in advance. There's no "upsell" after that, there's nothing else to buy, well unless you decide that you don't want a life and subscribe to that spawn-of-satan service, Jaaxy.

You made the right decision. Just at the wrong time.
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/free-websites-vs-your-own-websites

I've never learned much from my "successes". I definitely get an awful lot more out of my "failures". I wouldn't be able to learn to sculpt without destroying an awful lot of marble before creating a Venus de Milo. You can't learn to drive or swim or... by reading about it.

You're cracked the most important part by taking "action". It often takes a while for newcomers to realise that's the most fundamental part of the training here. You should definitely celebrate any "failures" along the way. I certainly celebrate mine!

Rich.

Rich, you're awesome. Thank you. I felt like an ass because I wanted to do the free route and decided to nut up and buy a domain instead and then only to realize that I can't use it on WA just yet because I'm not premium. But that's ok. Lesson learned. and thanks a million for the comment, it's insightful man! thank you! But now instead i'm going to kick ass :)

LOL. You're welcome! You added a para after I'd commented, so a couple of observations on that.

Firstly, if you type what you want to learn about, ie. "GoDaddy" in the search bar here at WAU you'll get to see all the available training. Most of it is available to newcomers, although some of it is for premium members only.

Secondly, in the main ignore so called "successful" people. I find they usually want to sell me something. Hey, if they're so successful how come they have the time or the inclination? If I had a "magic button" that earned cash, I'd be too busy pressing to take the time out to brag about it! Who sells a "Golden Goose" unless...?

I also often see people trying to reverse engineer other people's success. It doesn't work. I see them forever planning grandiose schemes and strategies for world wide web domination and year-after-year-after-year they've still failed in their simple goal, to earn enough to work at this as a full time career. It's like trying to build a department store without any experience of working in a shop. Hey, it even took Kyle & Carson 7 years to create WAU as it is today. They didn't launch WAU as it is now, it evolved. It's still evolving.

Rich.

Dude you are so right. Thanks again for the insight and the epic blog post! @Rich

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