Starting a NEW SITE and DOCUMENTING MY SUCCESS!

Hey,

I have decided to startup a new site and have decided to document the project all the way.

WHY?

• -Keeping a public record would motivate me not only to sustain my efforts towards this but also give me the strength to put in that extra effort
  
• -Get input from knowledgeable pros along the way which can be of great help.
  
• -Serve as data which Beginners (I dislike the word “Noobs”) or even amateurs can refer to see what steps I took towards my success/failure and learn from them.
  
• -Will help me develop a more in-depth understanding of my own profession

BACKGROUND

• -I am a Dental Student by profession which is quite uncommon for a webmaster.
  
• -The blogging bug hit me around a year back and I had kick-started a site on Forex and that was just coz it was rated high for clicks on adsense.
  
• I became totally disinterested as I did not possess much knowledge about forex.
  
• So, after working hard at it initially, i just left it off and sold it recently for around 200 bucks. But, I really learned a lot from that initiative and knew i could make it big if i could just find the right interesting niche.
  
• Then it clicked! WHY NOT COMBINE MY PROFESSION AND HOBBY?
  
• I had this idea for a long time which I could never put the effort to materialize coz of my schedule.
  
• But now, I have my holidays and decided to uptake it.

SO WHAT NOW

• - I have registered the site www.dentalhealthsite.com
• - I have made a target of completing around 30-40 articles and launch a static site out of which 10 have been completed and I am satisfied with them
• - I have huge number of ideas and strategies running through my mind which I will implement.

WHY I THINK IT WILL BE A SUCCESS?

• -It’s a niche that I possess a decent understanding about.
  
• -I have done article writing/rewriting for many satisfied customers and know I can write very interesting articles on.
  
• - Although, I cant claim to possess expertise but I do have some knowledge of marketing online which I learnt from marketing my previous site.
  
• I really have lots of hopes on this one which is why this project is dearest and closest to my heart. The revenue from this (although it is preferred) does not matter to me as much as the site’s success.

So, FRIENDS JOIN ME IN THIS ADVENTUROUS RIDE AND YOUR HELPFUL CRITIQUE/SUGGESTIONS/ADVICE/INPUT WOULD REALLY MEAN A LOT TO ME!

 

So you're just copying what this chap did?
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=980479
hmm...I appreciate people sharing their experience, but this kind of thing does tend to turn into an exercise in trying to re-invent the wheel.
There is only really one way to get a lot of interest in a blog - BE INTERESTING.
That's it.
The slow way is to build up a following through time as you get established as someone who knows what they're talking about.
The quick way is link bait - throw out something controversial, and argumentative that'll get the blogosphere's blood boiling.

 

Yeah, I am inspired by that thread.....

But that does not imply Im copying him. I admire the way he documented his success and am doing the same. There is however no relation with that thread in how I am going to go about my task.

 

Good luck with this hope to see it succeed. KNOWING the subject is the first step and gives you an advantage over the others. Submit your articles on reddit and digg, try to write an article with a weird spin to get up on reddit. Like some freak of dentistry.

 

UPDATE 1

Well,I have not been updating this thread since i started it. Its not that i have decided to discontinue my dream.. but rather im working at it. I have completed around 20 articles on the niche. Still 20 to go and then ill be having regular updates on this thread..

 

I like threads like this. Lets just hope it keeps going unlike most of the other ones lol

 

hey

Well, i Havent been updating my thread but that doesnt mean i had stopped working on my site..

I spent my ass off on selecting a theme and modifying it till it fitted what i wanted..

I just kind of launched the site with a couple of posts.. right now im tired.. so ill add up the details when i wake up

check the site out though and leave your comments http://www.dentalhealthsite.com

 

Hi Man.

The website looks great. Good on you for giving it a go.

There have been quite a few of these threads in the past, but I have yet to see one of them succeed, I think I may have even been one of the failures myself.

I really hope you break the mold - good onya.

 

Interesting, Good luck on your goal.

I saw this fact on your site:
"There was a sudden massive surge of patients with tooth decay the year coke was launched."

Coke as in the soda? What about other sodas? Why Coke?

 

I think Coke is the worst of the soft drinks, am I correct? We all know the penny trick, in the old days people used to use coke to clean pennys. Now if it can do that to a penny - imagine what it could do to you teeth (not to mention the rest of your body)

 

well. exactly!!

 

Good luck with the site my friend. Keeping a blog, a personal site, and a company site were all things to motivate me working back in the day. Now I take pride in all and have a fair amount of readers!

 

UPDATE 2

First check the site out http://www.dentalhealthsite.com

Here is the detailed outline what i have been doing since update one

Well, as u know my initial plan was to creat 40 articles and then post them at once.. i changed that plan...

reason is

• it was getting monotonous and boring churning article by article.
  
• nothing to look forward to
  
• it would actually help search engine rankings if i make it slowly.

So, then i worked my ass off in finding a theme for my site.. Im really finicky about these stuff and cued in on exactly what i wanted.

Then ofcourse, i changed the theme around (changed the icons,background etc), did my logo n banner and completed the design till i was satisfied with it.

Then i made i couple of post and added custom made pics by me as well in the posts. and you can see how the site looks www.dentalhealthsite.com

Well, i bookmarked it on reditt,digg,SU and technorati which has so far proved useless except redditt which got me quite a few hits..

well.. if you guys got power profiles at these sites, i request you give it a digg or something( ofcourse if you like them)

I received over 150 unique hits in 24 hours for the articles which is quite good..

ofcourse , i dont have any monetization on the site currently but will place when the site gets organised and stuff

check the site out http://www.dentalhealthsite.com

 

After two days of my site's existence here are my stats..

First day :166 unique hits
2nd day 719 unique hits
3rd day 139 and running.


What did i do?

First day

Posted two articles and submitted to digg,reddit,SU and delicious.

no trafffic from anywhere except reddit..

remaining traffic from DP

2nd Day

Posted two more articles and submitted to Digg and reddit

posted a few answers in Yahoo Answers

Reddit really liked this article http://dentalhealthsite.com/7-top-causes-of-bad-breath/ Almost 500 unique hits from reddit for that

But i think its still kind of useless traffic coz the bounce rate is too high

3rd.. No post yet
Im gonna make a post or two soon..

 

That is some great traffic so early! I hope it all works out for you! This thread and the one that inspired you have inspired me to document my progress as well!

Good luck!

 

There is no onsite SEO, how are you going to get traffic?

 

Now, as you can see,yesterday wasnt a huge traffic day mainly cz i made no posts and promotion.

however today i posted a single post and promoted it thru social bookmarking and got nearly 800 unique hits..

well dats good. reddit is the main source of traffic really and i realised if i can write a decent post and promote it thru reddit, i should not have any prob getting 400-500 unique hits....

however i dont value this traffic at all coz the bounce rate is very high..
ill probably reap no benefit and cause bandwidth wastage except hopefully a few valued subscribers..

now to the monetizing aspect.. i just added bidvertiser. lets see how it goes..

right now, i aint posting anything. i have a ittle plan to promote one of my articles.. lets see how it goes and ill post my results tomorrow.

 

Wow, those are some nice stats for the first couple days. I look forward to seeing how this project of yours progresses .

 

Nowthen,

as u guyz can see the stats for the first few days is quite encouraging and im sure if i continue this way. i can make this site established in few months

but there is a big prob!! yeah

TIME!
i dont have time..

i have one good month at my disposal and thats filled wid buzy schedules too..
then im off to another city(when my college starts) and will be left wid no pc..and hardly any time

so to fix that up...... herez all i can think of..

ill select the best articles and get an article rewriter to rewrite about 15 if them..

and i have 10articles in my vault... and ill write another 10(hopefully)

so thats a total of 45 articles.. which ill be needing to complete.. which im giving myself a deadline of 10 days to complete!!!

i have no other choice.. posting a single article and getting some traffic from social bookmarking has never been my aim..
.
i need to establish the site.,..... so the first step in establishment is the completion of the site..

ofcourse ill be editing the rewritten articles myself..
.

as soon as this phase gets over...

step2 ... researching affiliates and adding them up

step 3 promotion (including press releases.. buying some links etc etc.)


gosh.. i really hope i can pull enough cash to buy a pc soon

 

an intersting thing happend today
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=9180131#post9180131