Update 1.5:
OK, so I've done some more setup and am almost ready to get into traffic leaking.
Here's what I've completed so far:
Scheduled Social Media Posts for 1 wk
Purchased 1500 FB Likes, 255 G+ Circles, 2200 Twitter Followers from Fiverr
Wrote a 1000 word blog post about the free "newbie...
Oh yea? Ok cool. I wanted to try to get as close to 20 requests, 2 seconds and 200kb as I could. But if yall say this is good enough then fuck it I'm on to the next one. But...
Carter - I agree with you - so re-added the homepage featured blog post images, and here's where the site's at now...
Update 1.25
Ok, so I did a few page speed tweaks. It's amazing the things that can bring down page load time Here's a summary of what I was seeing if anyone cares (Using Pingdom):
Deactivated Unnecessary Plugins
- Perf Grade: 83, 124 Requests, 4.25s, 3.2mb
Removed Google Fonts, turned off...
Yea you might be right Calamari, I am kinda attached to my theme, like the way it looks, but I might have to bite the bullet. I'ma see how fast I can get it doing tweaks and then as a last resort switch themes too.
Update 1: Revisiting The Big-Brand Checklist
Ok, so the first thing I did this week was re-read the original Traffic Leaks thread just to get my mind right, and catch up on the rest of the CC9 threads and see where everyone's at. I already see I'm fallin behind so I gotta get my ass in gear...
Dope ass ideas Carter, thanks for the initial input. Its crazy that you know the niche well - that's perfect. Would love to hear the story you got.
The newbie resources are definitely a must and I've got some stuff to kick that off - for both sets of audiences (ebook, video) and I'm gonna make...
Wussup Wussup,
Just finished reading the intro threads so far - good luck everybody.
a) Quick intro about themselves
I've been into IM since about 2009. Stumbled onto it actually with the first version of this very site I'm using for the experiment. Learned about SEO (because I wanted traffic...
Wow this is gonna be epic.
I'd love to be one of the 9 got a brand new site in the arts/entertainment niche that's been sitting marinating for a few months. This is my pride and joy and want to develop it into a big brand. My plan has always been to primarily do traffic leaks on this site with...
Now.. I'm jus guessing but I assume my thoughts on college/uni differ from some of y'all.
I went to university and college, and I can definitely say... It's meant to create worker bees to keep the matrix running.
BUT - there is STILL a lot of useful, life-changing knowledge and experience...
The most effective way of managing multiple sites/projects/etc for me has been chrome and excel and DropBox.
I keep EVERYTHING in different master excel sheets. Logins, hosting, metrics, rankings, links, etc etc. I also use Trello.com to organize my different projects. I'll use different...
My biggest challenge right now is probably automation and creating systems/processes so I can be more hands-off with a lot of the mundane tasks I hate. But right now I'm finding it difficult. VAs can only go so far, and I don't want to entrust my empires inner workings to someone halfway across...