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Welcome to another master mind podcast of the Niche Site Journal.
We have a very exciting show for you.
In this episode we talk about Dennis’ “no follow links” backlinking strategy, discuss legal issues with using other people’s images, and word press plug-ins we love.
When I first launched the Madman of Magic comic book I received several congratulations for finally launching (I had been hyping it for a month) and people wanted to let me know they loved the webcomic. In one of those emails I received the dreaded, “the comic book looks great, but the site doesn’t work on my phone”.
I had forgot to make sure the site was mobile friendly before launch. I quickly did some adjustments to the WordPress theme and did a little bit of adjustment on the coding, but I have it to a level where people can now read it on their phones. It isn’t the best mobile friendly user experience but I plan on fixing this sometime in the near future.
It’s not often you get the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a new trend, but it’s important to realize now that having your WebComic mobile friendly is still new enough to make it a bit of a novelty.
Of all the things I have covered in this blog about web comics, the one thing that seems to be asked the most is “how to start a webcomic“.
Since I have a blog about learning to be an independent comic book creator and starting a web comic is an important part of the independent comic world, I’ll go ahead give you a simple checklist to get started.
Before I jump into the list I want to give you a little heads up on most people reaction to this post.
A crazy week as usual. It was hard to find the time to put in my 16 hours this week. My wife is due any day, the comic book (Madman of Magic) my wife and me are working on, my laptop died, family is planning to come to see the baby, I signed a new contract for putting on animation workshops for the local schools, and …. Well that is all I remember I can remember, but I did find 16 hours to work on the Niche Site.
I have figured out that attempting a backlinking strategy for the first time is very time consuming.
This tool makes it a little easier (it is free):
http://www.my4hrworkweek.com/ultimate-backlink-tracker/
These are links for my back linking strategy. If you don’t know what that is, please read my post from Week 5: Back links and Article Marketing
I am very excited for this to be my 100th BLOG post. I figure to celebrate I would share information on my blog’s analytics, how many views I receive, and the source of my traffic.
Lately I have been posting a lot about my personal struggles with finding figuring out who I am. The last article being a week ago on what I want to do with my life. I have been continuing to mull this idea over and I feel like I don’t have an answer, but I am closer. This being said, I feel this means I need to rethink the purpose and goals of this blog.
I would like to make money from this blog. It isn’t that I want to rip anyone off or get rich off of my readers. I would just like to make enough money that I could cover my modest expenses and focus my full attention on my art projects (including this blog). There is no problem or moral objection to this frame of mind, but I feel it has been forcing me to write a specific type of article.
Having followed Internet Business Blogs/podcasts for a few years now I see the potential for making money online, but my obsessive compulsive tendencies have forced me to seek out everything I can find and devour too much content.
From this, I subconsciously want to have an internet marketing blog like the ones that I personally
This week we have put in our full 14 hours. Our time went into confirming a choice for our niche site topic, finding a domain name, choosing a theme for the wordpress site, and creating a logo.
These are all important things that needed to be done, but it feels like we should have a finished the site by now. A few choices we have made during this process has caused us to take longer than need be. Those are:
