Starting From Zero

So I haven’t posted in quite some time. Do not fret, I am back, as I know you missed me. Anyway, I have been gathering information on article submission this past week. The information has come from various sources which I will touch on briefly.

Over at the Digital Point Forums many discussions go on about which article directories are the best to submit to. Literally the lists are like 500 long, and very intimidating to say the least. I used to use an automatic article submitter program from Submit Suite, but since I have stopped due to the advice from a friend over at Vancouver SEO Specialist.

He had brought up some very good ideas after I had messaged him on the forums. Things about the fact that Google does not like it if all of the sudden there are an abundance of links to your site in a short period of time, which is exactly what happens when you do such things as automatic article submission. Also most of the article directories are just there for advertising and don’t even bother to review your articles, so they have no chance of being published.

Another friend of mine, Mike Bradbury in one of the threads at Digital Point, posted that he uses a Firefox plug-in called Fireform. This is just a plug-in to make the submission easier, but things like category selection and entering the codes at the bottom are left up to the user, which is good. Google is really cracking down on automatic article submission things, and that’s why I really wanted to get away from doing that.

So now I am going to do the next step in Mike Bradbury’s advice email to me, which I will post later, finding blogs relevant to my website.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tags: by Travis Date 19 May, 2007
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So I am signing up for a few affiliate type advertising programs. I was viewing this blog <a href=”http://addsenses.blogspot.com/”>here</a> by a guy by the name of frank. It is a great blog and that is what got me to sign up for the following affiliate type programs.

1) Payperpost

I am very to this, like a few hours lol. But it seems like a decent way for advertisers to reach many many people. I will of course let you guys know about my progression in this program.

2)  Adpaid
I’m really not sure how this is going to work, but I will keep you guys posted!

The basic goal of advertisers on the internet is to get their advertisement in front of as many targeted eyes as possible. Makes complete sense to me, and I think that is why alot of these programs are springing up recently. I think they have alot of promise, but we’ll see

I am going to sign up for the very popular Agloco very soon so wish me luck understanding that.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tags: by Travis Date 2 May, 2007
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Ok getting ready for bed over here but I have an idea I really want to get on “paper.”

Everyone who wants to make money online these days is trying to do so with Google’s Adsense. Which is fine and everything. But I think maybe they have left a market somewhat unopened or not tapped into yet, however you’d like to say it.

The internet money makers make their money from driving traffic to their sites and using the aforementioned Adsense or affiliate links that in sense get them money. But, what if you could translate that traffic directly or ranking for that matter into a real life sale. Like a website, websites can sell for a lot of money, and you can prove this to yourself by checking one of the many online domain sale websites.

But what if you could just sell it as a company, and not as a domain. I mean it really would be a company if it was ranked in the top 10 in Google. Well maybe not a legitimate company, because it would have no income or expenses, but it would have a huge amount of instant potential. Meaning all one would have to do is add a phone number to the site, and it would literally instantly be able to generate business.

There are certain fields this would work for better than others. And well that is what I will be doing in the very near future. I mean there is almost nothing to loose but the small amount of time spent on site building and SEO.

OK, it is bed time now… before I come up with more CRAZY ideas

Filed under: Uncategorized Tags: by Travis Date 22 April, 2007
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So the last few days I have been learning alot from many different blogs/sites that I will link to in a later post.

I got my own home computer repair blog finally and I’m not using blogger anymore, or rather I’m not updating blogger as my main home computer repair blog anymore. I need to actually write a post about a computer job I did today.

I registered my traveling domain last night and that is going to be, or I guess it already is mytravelingadventures.com.

There isn’t any website up yet, but there will be shortly. I need to learn how to use Vbulletin so I can get a good forum going there. The site will be based around the forum and getting quality people who have traveled, to post their experiences, positive or negative. So hopefully I can popularize that website.

So next up is registering for a few forums and posting in those forums so that I can get my signature there with a few links to some sites. So talk to you guys soon.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tags: by Travis Date 21 April, 2007
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HELLO!!!

I slept way too long today.  Anyway, today I plan on making more blogs that will be my “money sites” as people say it.  Money sites are just the sites where you sell your affiliate products and have your adsense and stuff like that.

So yea I’m going to make maybe 5 more of them today, probably about certain products.  That means I’ll have to write 5 unique articles, one for each blog.  I hate writing but I guess it’s not so bad if I know it directly effects or atleast has the potential to.

I’m going to use 5 unique domains, so that means i’ll have to register 5 more, which is ok because I get to host a total of 10 for free on my current hosting from Lunar Pages.

I’m going to use this thread here, once I make the articles and get the blogs up and running. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=279396

I was going to just use google’s blogspot for the blogs but after reading how much more I can do with my own domains and using wordpress software, so I’m going to go that route.  This blog here is using wordpress.

Later yalllllllll!

Filed under: Uncategorized Tags: by Travis Date 16 April, 2007
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Ok so I’m sitting here with my good friend Stacey from Rutgers, and I’m about to explain to her my travel idea, and explain it to you all also. Everyone in the internet marketing world should probably have something going on with travel and things related to it, just beause well it’s a good money maker.

So I decided to make a website about traveling Europe. I did a google search for topics related to this and well I didn’t find anything of quality to say the least. There was alot of sites coming up that had “guides” and things like that, but the guides were written by like 58 year old men that were BORING…

Things like visiting museums and such which can be fun but who wants a guide based around what museums to visit, uh not me. I want a guide about what places are fun and what bars are the best and what restaurants are really exceptional.

So I have decided to start a website based around things like that, targeted more for a younger crowd. Probably start it out as a blog type thing and later on add a forum.

I have not visited Europe yet, so most of it will be based around research that I will do. But the website will be geared towards my future travels in Europe. I plan on generating enough traffic and income from the site to well… pay for my trip to Europe. I am going to post pics and updates throughout my travels and I think a real site like this could generate some quality traffic.

The Forum is where I’ll be attracting people to though, to start threads about their experiences. Hopefully new registered users will join each week and contribute to my community, as that is where the content will start.

So my first job is how to get registered users to my site… I will be thinking about this for a few days before I even decide on a domain.

Tune in next time for more brainy ideas of mine!!!

Filed under: Uncategorized Tags: by Travis Date 15 April, 2007
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OK so I have decided to start to publish my ideas, instead of keep them to myself. Yea they might be money makers one day and someone could “steal” my idea, but 1) I have a headstart obviously, 2)I like competition and well… bring it on.

Having said that my first idea is a music game site. You would get to the site and you could pick say different genres of music say pop, or punk, or rap per say. And once you do that you get to the game part where a part of a song will play, something like a 15 second clip of the song.

You then have to guess the Title and Artist of the song, and maybe additional info like year and what not.

I got this idea from a game we used to play in college while in the car. A song would come on the radio, and someone would shout out “Title and Artist!!!???.” We would all take a shot at it, it was alot of fun let me tell you. So shot outs to Sam and Steph from Rutgers.

So yea, people could get on the site and play for free by themselves or with family, whatever they wanted. I’m sure adsense or even private advertisers would pay to advertise on the site. Not sure the legality of using such music for short 15 second clips, that is something I will have to research.

I’ve realized I’ve typed probably more than I wanted so I’ll leave the next post for my second idea, but it has to do with travel, and how I plan on traveling Europe for free… So just wait. Sorry guys!

Filed under: Uncategorized Tags: by Travis Date 14 April, 2007
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Ok so today I have a computer job in Atlantic City, which is uhh far. Oh well, I gotta do it, because I need the money. I own a computer services company called Cherry Hill Computer Solutions and it is just me that works here. I do some advertising and well probably get about 5 calls per week from people needing computer work done.

Well anyway, todays goals are going to be really one thing. To decided if I want to go white hat or black hat in terms of getting traffic to my sites. Maybe I’ll do both, I dunno. I’d like to really give white hat a try, as I think that is what the future will be.

But today I’m going to setup 5 blogs in the computer repair field. I’m going to do it on free blog hosting sites, as I really want them to be totally separate and have different IP addresses as they are not technically related to my main blog which is here:

Http://www.homecomputerrepairbasics.com I am going to be driving traffic to that blog from the other ones. So that one will be my first “money making blog” per say.

I’m also going to work on getting backlinks posted on relavent sites and other peoples blogs.

Well I gotta shower now, to get ready for the trip to AC. Wish me luck!

Filed under: Uncategorized Tags: by Travis Date 13 April, 2007
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Well hello everyone. My name is Travis.

This blog is all about me, and my screw ups…. well maybe not about the screw ups but you sure are going to hear about them along the ride. Right now I am somewhere in the neighborhood of humm lets say $60,000 in debt. Yea you read that correctly. It ranges from credit card debt, student loans, and even hospital bills.

You can see why the blog title, Starting From Zero was chosen.

The goal is simple, get out of debt, and do it without spending much money at all… because well… I DON’T HAVE ANY! I will be using 2 things, both are huge assets to me, namely my computer and my brain. (in that order?) Well you get the point.

That being said, It would probably be best to tell you a little about me and how I dug myself in the huge hole that I am in right this second as I am typing. The debt started freshman year of college and just continued to build, yes, not very smart, but I am not here to talk about my fuck ups negatively, I’m just telling you so you know the full story.

My senior year of college I was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called Synovial Sarcoma. It was a tumor on my back that had been there for a while and I just pretty much ignored it until the pain got too much to bare. I ended up missing that year of school due to 3 months of chemo therapy, followed by radiation treatments.

Man am I glad that is over with, if you wanna know what hell is like, try chemo for a few months. No wait, don’t. That was 3 years ago now, and I am cancer free and in remission. So don’t be sitting there feeling bad for me. Well maybe you all will be reading this and I will be filthy rich, and well of course you won’t be feeling bad for me then

Yea so I’m in debt, and I’m going to change that. I’m Starting From Zero, and stopping well, when I can buyout Bill Gates. Yea I said it.

Anyway, This blog is going to be about well me and my adventures in the computer world, aka $$$$ world. Yea well thats the truth of it. Computers = Money, and lots of it. I started learning about Adsense and blogging about 2 weeks ago today, and well let me start off by saying, CONFUSING!!!!

Well thats enough for now, because I need to go back to reading the forums at The Blog Solutions (one of the spamming blog forums) because I need to learn how that works, even if I don’t use that type of black hat method of posting links.

Tune in for my next post here at Starting From Zero, I’m going to try to post as much as I can.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tags: by Travis Date 13 April, 2007
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