Finishing Level 2 Certification course
Has taken me about two weeks with dedication of two to three hours a day and or night not including weekends (Really am trying to spend that time with my family).
Some bumps along the road included the beginning with registering a domain name and switching dns over to WA as well as choosing a correct domain name. You obviously really need to decide on your niche first and do a keyword research before actually choosing a domain name and registering it. Not sure that is clear in the training and i found myself backtracking after already creating a couple of domain names first.
However namecheap.com is an excellent service and jaxxy is cool to use however I used up my twenty free searches quite fast and now just use the keyword tool located in WA which I suppose is really the same concept.
My website is www.happywithyourlife.com and the lessons i followed in both level 1 and level 2 are very clear with not only a video tutorial but also written explanation of how to keep moving forward. I suggest you take notes ofcourse because I had to go back over them from one day to the next sometimes.
I did have some problems with selecting certain themes offered for website and making them work with my webpage because i didn't have enough information about how to use wordpress with themes for the home page. I never quite saw a lesson with respect to that and therefore ended up having to change themes a couple of times in order to get a simpler layout form. Perhaps another knowledgeable user may upload a training session related to that.
I feel that Ive accomplished the first goal of setting up the website and now am anxious to see how to get traffic and therefore rankings in order to fulfil the goal of eventually being able to not only share my expertise in my niche but also reap some economic benefits as well. Really hoping that comes next in level 3 course and beyond.
One major plus from WA is the community. Thank you all for responses and encouragement and just knowing there are many members that have succeeded and as well trying to succeed makes me realize the possibility and potential of this process is the real deal.
Short term goals are to beef up website now with social media, affiliate offers, google ad sense, opt ins etc and finally see my ranking and traffic improve leading to ofcourse revenue.
Mid term goals are to become better known within the WA community while increasing my knowledge of how this whole system and process works and being able to give back to others who are coming along this same path.
Long term goals are to continue making my niche website something that not only allows me a wonderful forum to express myself but in reality will bring in revenue to supplement and maybe even be my main source of income.
Before i finish this blog I would like to note that I have made an interesting first sale not necessarily related to my specific website niche but rather to the fact that now Ive been hired to make a simple website for another person.
Well looking forward to staying in touch, helping, creating, learning and enjoying a new path.
Cheers,
David
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Hi David, Just finished Level 1 in a week. Understand your comments about reseraching your keywords in conjunction with your niche research to come up with the best domain as I encountered the same problem in coming up with a better domain name after selecting the original one (hope that makes sense) Really impressed by the training however. Best of Luck Paul
yes understand completely. seems they have these lessons a bit out of order in my opinion but in the end they are all very clear and if followed work. very impressed with WA after like others having researched and seen the scams and faulty other offers. Send me your website url so I can check it out. Cheers David
Good luck Manchini follow in order and do what they say. Sometimes i feel its better to watch video and have wordpress open at same time and do the steps and they mention them in the video by stopping after each step and then moving forward. Best of luck Chers
David I appreciate this post very well perhaps because it takes me on my journey. Bumps and hills and valley seem to be all wrap up in the learning process of anything. Keep striving and just watch how this this invade your memory.
hmmm invade my memory... hope your are referring to the new knowledge that will become second hand... thanks for the reply send me your website url so i can check it out... cheers
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David, what you are going through is very normal when you first start driving down the Internet highway. What is important is that you got started and couldn't be in a better place to learn.
You've started up the ramp and just got going down the highway. Everything WILL fall into place and three months from now you will be amazed, Jeff Bezos will be calling you to upgrade Amazon's web site. ;) Don