A New Goal Achieved!
I've read many of yours and have learned a lot. Today, I want to share my excitement with another goal achieved.
First, I successfully got my website up and running. I still have a lot to do to make it fantastic, but it's alive and breathing and today is averaging 70-100 hits a day, which is a huge accomplishment in my book.
Then, I completed the 30 in 30 Challenge on SA. Having completed that, I didn't want to lose my momentum.
I created my own challenge: 30 Articles / Blog Posts about "How to Start a Vegetable Garden".
TODAY I PUBLISHED ARTICLE 30!
There is plenty more to share about gardening (it seems the topic is never ending!), but I'm excited to have another accomplishment under my belt.
In addition, I've challenged myself with a blog post a day on my website.
I do currently have my RSS feed going, which turned out to be much easier to set up than I thought once I got on the right path (two days wasted on this one :( ). But it's working and I'm happy :)
Next thing I need to work on is developing a subscriber list.
I would love advice on taking this website to the next level. It's not converting yet and would love suggestions on how to "sell" without being overly promotional in this niche.
Thanks for reading and I look forward to your comments!
AJ
http://econcepts4u.com/blog/
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Awesome, AJ! good hits by the way, and congratts on finishing the garden challenge, I have truly enjoyed it and the wife is going to do it in the spring. :) Send me a link to your site, I have a couple questions for you on your RSS :) Also, you and I are at the point on the subscriber list, so sharing back and forth might be helpful? (Hint hint) I was going to tackle the RSS and list first thing next week, it is on my scedule. Keep up the good work!
Shawn, RSS was much easier than I though, although there's very little information out there about it. Let me know where you are and what you might be struggling with and I'll see what I can do to help. Then, yes, let's keep communicating on this list building thing, I could use a list buddy :)
Hi AJ! Great to hear that you wanted to keep the momentum going after the 30 in 30 challenge. The goal of that challenge is to give you a mindset that you can greatly benefit from in your Internet marketing career! 70-100 hits is day is a great accomplishment because that traffic is FREE. A blog post a day will turn into a very successful business for you.
I've had a look at your website and it looks like you've got some great content on there already.
I noticed that you had a blog post on "organic pest control", you also had a page on "saving money on groceries". I just want to stress that you want to keep your content relevant to the audience who you are wanting to connect with. If you start getting too broad with the topics in your content you will lose readers. I haven't read the full content on those pages but this is one thing that I noticed.
You are really on the right track here and you certainly have the mindset to taking things to the next level. Keep on posting on your website and publishing articles. You want to build your website at the same time as building your army of articles!
Great work!
Carson
Thank you for the feedback, Carson. I need to move my "saving money tips" information to a different site or a subdomain. My concern (any why I haven't done it yet) is since I have articles, etc already linking to their current locations, how to best identify all my links so I don't lose traffic. I've tried a few sites to identify "backlinks" but so far, none have found all the links that I have. Any suggestions on moving items and redirecting your links?
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Great accomplishments!! What an awesome start!! I would try to focus in on one niche say the gardening niche with home canning. I would then stick with that topic and connect with that audience. This will also help when you start building a list. Best of luck to you!!
Thanks for the feedback veronica.l. I want to take my money saving tips info and move it to a subdomain or another site and use econcepts just for gardening / canning. I just haven't had time to move everything around. Guess I better get on it :)