New Site Case Study - Day 1 and 2

In another blog post over here https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/autumn56/blog/its-... I asked what people wouldn't mind seeing regular updates about for a new site for me to work on. As of right now I have decided to go with the random niche on a brand new domain that I purchased last week. If anyone would like to see the other sites with regular updates please let me know and ill try to work out some sort of schedule.

I will be posting everything I have done to the site along with how many posts, how often, any social media activity, analytics, and search engine rankings when applicable. Because this is a brand new site and I am not Jay doing this on a webinar lol I will not be sharing the domain name at this time but will provide screen shots of any pertinent info.

So I created the site on Wealthy Affiliate on 5/8/2016 (the domain was purchased last week).

On 5/9/2016 I did basic customization with my theme to make the layout not so hideous. Added two widgets - one saying that the site is under construction and one with the amazon affiliate text just so that I don't have to worry about it in the future.

I also created the privacy policy page and at this point got an email from WA stating that google had indexed my site - I didn't even have to submit it myself and there is practically nothing on it and Google has already found it YAY.

My plan for the next few days:

• Set up all in one SEO
• Set up google analytics and webmaster tools (both bing and google)
• Create a header because it is within a creative niche
• Create the about me page
• Send a sitemap over to the webmaster tools
• Create a facebook page and pinterest account
• And get at least four posts up (will go into detail about this part on the next update

I do want to say that I work full time and this happens to be my days off. My plan is to see just how productive I can be if I focus and plan out a schedule on improving and growing my site.

I will be trying to do an update every Monday for anyone interested. This is my new test to see if blogging to the community will help me stay on the ball =)

Thanks for reading,

Jean