Thanks Lemm. I tried /httpdocs but no matter what I do I can't login into the the FTP. I can't login via FileZilla or through migration tool of my new server.

If you are not able to login, then it is more than likely that you have incorrect setup in Filezilla. Are you using the FTP username and password provided by WA?

You need to first click on "Build My Website" on left hand-side WA menu. Then click on "Details" of the website you want to FTP. It must be a regular purchased domain, not a siterubix domain. FTP is not allowed for siterubix domains.

After you click on "Details", you'll see your FTP username and password.

You also need to make sure that you use Port 21 for FTP connection. The FTP protocol used is FTP (called active FTP), not SFTP for passive FTP.

The hostname should be mydomain.com with your domain name substituted for mydomain.

The /httpdocs actually has nothing to do with a successful login. However, once you login successfully, it is considered your remote "Root" directory. It corresponds to your top level domain name.

Thanks so much for your help, Lemm. I got it all sorted out but it was 2 days of work! Far more complicated process than I thought it would be!

Glad to here it. I shall appreciate if you could tell me what new snags you hit, so that I can document it.

Well the snags were numerous. First of all, it took me a dozen times of trying to connect to the FTP through FileZilla. I was consistently getting connection error messages. Finally when it connected, I transferred the files from the FTP to my computer however what I discovered (after several tries when uploading to my new server) is that FileZilla did not successfully transfer all of the folders and files to my computer and did not give me any indication that these folders were not transferred. It turns out that approximately one quarter to one third of the files and folders on my site did not get transferred over which I didn't find out until I was trying to get the site working on my new server. When I tried to download the files again, the same thing happened. It would arbitrarily not download files and folders. I had to go through each folder and subfolder manually to make sure that everything was there and manually download them, file by file and folder by folder.

Finally when I got everything uploaded to the new server, I realized that my site was not restored. Since the site is built completely in Wordpress, I had to have the WA tech support make a copy of the MySQL database, which then I had to download via FileZilla again, upload it to my new server, create a new database on my new server and import the site's database into the new database. Then I had to edit the wp-config.php file to point to the new database and new server.

Then after all this, it still wasn't working and that is because all of the files were still in the /httpdocs folder and the links on the site did not recognize this folder so I moved all of my site's files to the root directory of the new server.

The process was not for the faint of heart! Luckily I have a little knowledge of the back-end development (but very little) and I had tech support both at WA and my new server who walked me through it all. Everything is finally working fine!

Hi Regina, Thanks so much for your detailed response. I really appreciate it. In the back of my head, I kind of figured that there would be database issues. Everything you said makes perfect sense as far as the process goes.

If you don't mind me asking....what was the exact fix that allowed you to connect to your server through FTP without connection errors? I will be bookmarking this for further reference.

I'd like some feedback too because I would be tempted to go with keyword #2. It may take a little longer to "win" the keyword but wow the ROI would be great because the huge number of monthly searches.

Me too. Maybe some guidelines about when we should start being concerned (taking into account we are following all the steps) if our keywords aren't reaching the first page of Google ... after one month, two months etc.

Yes that would be useful Devan. The thing I can't get a grasp of is exactly how to use all the keywords we collect. There seems to be a lot of training on how to get good keywords but not how to use them.

If you get one with under 10 searches a month you are not going to get many, if any, hits from it unless you have hundreds of similar keywords. Do we just collect a whole bunch of these long tail keywords and stuff them into an article or post?

Oh no. Don't stuff them all into one article. It won't help. It may hurt your rankings because as I understand it Google can pick that up and then penalize your site.

I only optimize for one keyword phrase per article/post no matter the numbers. I try to rank on the first page of the search engines for that one keyword phrase. When I am more proficient I may try one keyword phrase with a couple of variations of the same phrase.

Anyway, we will rank naturally for other keywords phrases as well in our posts or pages but I don't intentional try to optimize for more than the one phrase at this stage.

I don't always check up on my rankings but today I checked up on my latest post and low and behold it was in tenth place on the first page of Google. What did I do? I used my keyword phrase in the SEO title, (not the actual title), then twice in the first paragraph (one time bolded), twice more throughout the post and once bolded in the final paragraph.

I am still experimenting to see what works and doesn't work so I will have to try the same procedure with another post. Also my post was about 900 words. Not all my posts do so well and there may be other factors involved.

I think having it in the title or SEO title and the first 20 % of your content and the last 20% of your content is a must. It helps to bold it at-least once somewhere.

I think K&C (and K&C please correct me if I am wrong here) want us to target the LTK's especially QSR

Thanks Devan, that is more useful than you realise. Understanding keywords and the methods we need to use to make them rank well is something I always seem to struggle to get my head around the most. My "grey area" if you like.

As much as I believe that the WA system will be successful for me in the long run, it is important to understand if and where we are going wrong if we are ever to make any decent progress.

Giving it some thought, I still don't get how just focusing one keyword is going to get you very far. One that I researched has a QSR of 167 and 971 monthly searches. Sounds decent, but estimated monthly traffic is quoted as 166 if you are in top spot on Google. Even at say 2% sign-up rate, that will only net you three sales.

That is in the relatively unlikely chance you hit top spot remember so how are you going to vastly improve on that to make a real living? This is the thing I can't get my head around.

Thanks Gary. I agree we need to know where we are going wrong if we want to make decent progress. With K&C's method we have to write a lot of original content. There's no way around it. At some point I think we just need to trust whatever method we are using until we start seeing some results. Then we can look at the results and make changes.

3 sales per post per month isn't so bad though. Let's say 3 times 100 posts. That's 300 sales per month @ about $20 a sale equals $6000 per month. Now not all of our posts will get 3 sales. I am guessing here but maybe we need about 500 posts to have 100 in the top 3 spots in Google ( because we are optimizing and targeting winning keywords). This would take me at-least a year maybe others could do it faster. By the way I read somewhere that we should not bother selling products less them $25 per item because we want to make money with our business. Of course, $20 or $22 as with WA is fine.

And once you have that much quality content on your site and we start using other methods such as social media, book marking eventually getting into PPC etc. things could really balloon. Of course for me this all theory at the moment. Maybe some of the other more "successful" folks will chime in here to give us a little insight.

Lastly K&C say we should not pay too much attention to estimated traffic. It is supposedly not all that accurate. The QRS and monthly searches is what we should base our decisions on. That seems like a good one. At number one on Google you would most likely get 407 visitors to your site in a month (42%) if the search results hold true. If I recall correctly that is the figure to expect.

Also something that they do not teach us here because we are beginners is that once we have an authority site we can start targeting more competitive keywords and we will have a better chance of wining them.

Some systems teach this from the beginning. They have what is called Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 keyword phrases. The keywords we are targeting here at WA as beginners are T3 keywords (long tail). Important for getting initial traffic to our sites. These are used for all of our posts per see.

Tier 2 keywords are more competitive - more searches, higher QSR (these should really be used for our theme pages on the WA site's we are building. It will take longer to rank for these KWs but they will bring in more traffic. All of the T3 Kw's (posts)should be related to their T2 page(theme). The T1 KW is used in our domain name (which I agree with K&C is kind of hard to do these days). I have chosen to use a brand for my domain instead of a keyword - again an experiment for me.

Anyway the point is I am going to go with K&C's method and later as I start to do well I may target more competitive keywords with greater traffic. However, for now it is not really logical because it is easier to get visitors to my site by focusing on the LTK's.

Keyword research and application isn't an exact science that's why most of us get easily frustrated. There is a little bit of instinct and common sense involved.

As I mentioned earlier at some stage we just have to trust the folks that have been there before us and hope for the best. My problem is who do we trust because most people I have come into contact with (including me) do not have proven success and the ones that do don't usually go into enough depth or explain the why? It is usually just do it this way. The problem is in this industry people find success but it doesn't make them good teachers and that's a problem from my point of view.

Anyhow Gary this my take on the keyword thing. Cheers.

That's a decent insight, thank you. You have covered a lot of points there so I am not going to waste too much time going back over them. I have actually been discussing a similar issue with another member recently.

I am building a large authority type site for my main niche, but for WA I am struggling to see how we would get enough hits each day to get a sale a day - for example if you were targeting the Vegas trip - I just don't understand how you can do that without writing hundreds of posts to get the required traffic. All the major sites (first couple of pages) on Google seem to have tons of content so that seems to be the only way to get top ranking.

That is why I am building a large site for my main niche, seems too me though that I will have to do something similar to promote WA. If that is to be the way it is then fine - just over three months at one new post or page a day and you have a 100 page website but I don't think that most people realise this and think you can just knock up a small blog-type site and easily get top ranked, but that doesn't seem to be the reality.

I agree. I don't see any other way.

I agree in principle but following that criteria so far isn't getting my site in the top 20 pages of Google search results.

How did you get your site taken down by an angry member? was this someone on Google or WA?

Please elaborate

It was on Google + A member complained I was sending out spam e mails, so Google suspended my page.

WOW, that's crazy! I did not know that was even possible!

Now I need to think about who I add to my google circles

There are several places you can post articles other than Street Articles. The are other article directories like HubPages (which is where I am now exclusively posting articles) and Ezine. There are others but those are the biggies.

I am not doing the 30/30 challenge so I don't exactly know the "rules" but I assuming it is just about writing 30 articles in 30 days and where you publish them is not as important. I would focus on adding your articles to your website much more than posting to the article directories if you are just building up your website. When you have links from your articles in the directories to your website, you want to make sure you have enough content on your site in order to capture the visitors attention. Otherwise the backlink isn't really serving it's purpose.

I've been focused on the 30/30 as well and have hardly any content on my site. As divazona pointed out it doesn't serve much purpose now but I think you can always go back and adjust your links and site content. Good question as to what should be priority when first starting out.

I'm not suggesting that Google+ is where my traffic is coming from. What I have found is that posting my articles on Google+ gets them automatically ranked in Google and they get ranked very quickly. So if someone does a google search for my keyword, they might not find my article directly ranked in the top three, but they will find my Google+ share of that article which, if the click on that may them lead them to my article.

Ah right, I see what you are getting at now.

Thanks so much for these ideas. The problem is, these are informational sites only. The owners will not be writing articles or contributing to forums for the most part so backlinks in that way are not an option.

Girl! I am all for a hangout! You name the time and place!

Thank you for your answer. I think that is sound advice and I will review all of my sites. You are great!

We have a forum already started I think (with Rebecca and ?). See my profile page. Also a PM on a day would be a start. I have hangouts with other WA members on Thursday(ChrisC) and Fridays(Labman).
Thinking of a blog to announce a forming a WA hangout asking for agenda items and name suggestions? Think we should focus on a 'power hour' at the most. How about 'hour diva friends'? Divas are known as women with outstanding talent (most often in the arts). In Italian, the basic sense of the term is goddess (or in Latin, divus). Yet, wouldn't want the divos feeling left out. LOL. ^_~ 0646/8/4

Hi Chris. I actually don't like working in Wordpress that much. The learning curve is steep and my knowledge of php is limited at this point. I have complete control of how my sites look and work in Dreamweaver as opposed to trying to customize someone else's theme in Wordpress and while I understand that every theme is customizable, in order to really make it work exactly the way I want, I have to know more about php. So unless a client specifically asks for a CMS, I still build my sites in Dreamweaver.

Thanks, Rebecca! I checked it out and there is some helpful information.

Thanks for your suggestion. The sites I am talking about I have created in Dreamweaver and there are no SEO tools like they have in Wordpress. I have to manually enter all of the meta data - keywords, description, etc. - into the <HEAD> section. But what I am asking, is what can I do to ensure that the site will be listed on the first page of Google when I am not adding content to these informational sites on a regular basis like on my blogs?