Niche Site Journal Week 8 – We made some money in our Last Week of the Journal & I talk a little about “the best spinner”

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.

Still in the Middle of my BackLinking Strategy

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/

Some Notes on article directories:

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

Sites that no longer work or cost money

• Article Dashboard now charges money.
• Article Blast said my account hasn’t been approved yet.  It has been a few weeks and I still haven’t heard anything.  I did have to submit examples of work, which is cool, but you think they would have contacted me by now.
• Aricle Alley said the email provider (gmail) is blocked.  This is weird to block google email accounts, but I am not opening or using one of my website accounts for a backlinking strategy.
• Buzzle said external links are no longer allowed in Articles.  I signed up and was about to post when I read this.
• The Free Library does not accept new articles at this time.
• iSnare says you can post an article and have your website on the article, but if you want it to link back (be clickable) then it costs money.  I put one article on there just for the heck of it since I went through the trouble of opening an account, but I will not be posting any more.

Sites I did use

Hike for Hope: an example of 5 steps to create a logo with meaning

My friend loyal just finished his adventures Hike for Hope.  The point of posting this is not to promote his efforts (but feel free to help by visiting http://www.crowdrise.com/hfh2012), the point is to demonstrate good use of imagery for an amazing logo.  For me I use a 5 steps process to ensure that I am covering my basis with a proper logo design.

This is a case study for my early post on how to create a log with meaning.

The 5 steps are:

1)      Get into the mind of your customer:

I met loyal once before working on this logo for him and picked up several things about his personality just from chatting during coffee.  First, he was dressed in a “casual outdoors-man” .  He had on pants that were comfortable and could take wear.  The color was a light brown.  He wore a black t-shirt, but I can’t remember what was written on it.  He had a bit of stubble.

Taking in all this information I created a list of does and don’ts about his logo.

Do’s:

Goals of this Blog

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.

Blogging to Make money

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.

The Digital Arts Alchemist

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

DC Comics Now Available on Kindle, iTunes, Nook and What it means for Independent Publishers

I am excited to see DC comic in Kindle, iTunes, and Nook market.  So much so that I have decided to do a post and a video.  I cover the same material in the video and the post, however,I get a little long winded and the editing gets a little weird, but if you would rather watch that I figure you can choose.

Are you ready to stop going to the comic book shop every Wednesday for your fix of  Justice League, Bat Girl, Green Lantern. Besides the fact no one reads Bat Girl, you will soon be able to pick them up without leaving the house… Sweet, that means I never have take off my pajamas or put on real shoes.

DC Entertainment (the mother ship of DC Comics, Vertigo, and MAD) announced today it will be launching their entire line of comic books for download from the Kindle Store, iBookstore and NOOK.

DC Entertainment is the top comic book publisher in the United States and now the only comic book publisher to bring their full line up of comic book properties to the major e-book store platforms.

Why is DC Comics Now Available on Kindle, iTunes, Nook?

Niche Site Week 7 (seven) – Still working on Back linking Strategy

We are still puttering along with the niche site and the back linking strategy.  To be honest, I will be glad when it is all over.  I guess this is why everyone says choose something you love.  While I don’t mind doing articles on pregnancy and pregnant woman’s health, it is hard for me to get excited about it.

The only thing keeping me working on this niche site is:

• I want to see if the strategies for niche sites work.
• I enjoy learning about putting up niche sites.
• I feel that my Jason Loves Life readers (you) hold me accountable to see this through to the end.

Week # 7 (seven) Results

Still working on Back linking

Niche Site Journal Week 6 – Getting Indexed, Writing Content, and Waiting for Google

It has been a busy week here at the Love Family Household.  Leah is Coming into her last month of pregnancy and we should have little Everett to take care of some time this month.  We are hoping that if we can crack the Online Marketing Business Code we can spend all our time at home or traveling with our child and possibly make some more children if everything goes well.

Even if we can get our niche site to make us a good part time income we would be happy.  Leah can continue to work at UPS part time (which provides us with Insurance) and I can continue doing magic shows part time.

So, lets see where we are in this Niche Site Journal.

Week # 6 Results

Getting Indexed

We have finally confirmed that we are indexed with Google.  We launched the blog 3 weeks ago, but we waited till 2 weeks ago to use the WordPress SEO PlugIn to register with Google and other search engines.  With article spinning I have found that we already rank on the first page of bing.com, but I am not sure yet on Google or Yahoo.  I am still trying to figure out how to use Market Samurai‘s Rank Tranker tool, but I should have our rankings by next weeks post.

We did try a web tool at http://www.tools4google.com/search-google-position/keyword_tracking.php.  It showed 0 results, but is limits search to the top 1000 positions of a particular keyword on Google.

Writing Content

Kickstarter Success

I want to thank everyone for their support in backing this project, sharing it on social media, and getting the word out.  We made our extended goal of $1080 which means we have reached Kickstarter Success!

EXTENDED PROJECT:

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After we finish the comic book we will create a 15 page mini comic.  This mini comic book will be available through the Madman of Magic Website (www.madmanofmagic.com) for all to read.  You will receive an email through Kickstarter when this is available.  We are hoping to have it done before the end of the year.

EXTENDED REWARDS (MORE COOL STUFF!)