Trying Article Writing

The previous owner suggested FreeTrafficSystem to get free one way back links to get ahead on the google page ranking. I just wrote my first article on tattoo ideas and tattoo designs tips. You get a couple of backlinks with a 450 word article. Currently the article is going through the screening process which is read by real person to ensure it's authentic and not duplicated, etc. We'll see how that works. I'm currently just using the free membership, but you can sign up for a life time (about $400) or month-to-month (about $37). Check it out! I'll try anything to start moving up on the rankings!

One downside to this tool is that you don't have control over where your article is published and usually it's to a blog. Once it is published, you can do a simple search on a phrase from your article and see where it landed.

Settling Down

This week, I'm trying to promote my site through directory submissions, exchange links, and social networks. Not sure if there's any impact to the traffic, but got to start somewhere. I've submitted a few exchange links request to a few high ranking tattoo sites, but no luck so far. In the meantime, I'm tweaking the code behind the website to allow for exchange links. I finally got that working after a few hours. Check it out: Tattoos Designs. If you are interested in exchanging links, please email me at info@tattoosdesigns.net! I also appreciate any advice on improving the site to be more user friendly.

If this manual process (directory submissions, exchange links) doesn't work, then I may have to resort to the paid automatic services out there. I read somewhere that the automatic process is not as good as the manual. Ok, back to trying more ways to promote my site. Oh, forgot to mention that someone wanted to buy my site for $12k! I'll keep it for now and see where things go. Originally, I figure that the return on a website is better than putting money in bank CD's for a measly 2%!

Not So Easy

The past few days has been nerve racking and the lack of sleep doesn't help either. I keep thinking that I'm getting duped by the seller and he's not helping by making the transfer painful. I got the domain (Tattoos Designs and Ideas) transfer initially and that was suppose to followed by the website (contents and all). In short, it took 24 hours! During that time my site was down and my brother-in-law said that the ranks could be affected, etc. Anyways, everything is in order now, I just got to learn the business of promoting the site. I'm getting some pointers from the original owner and my brother-in-law. I know that it'll take time and energy, but I think it'll pay in the long run (in internet terms that's probably a year!) because in my opinion the internet will be the ultimate real estate market! Best of luck if you decide to pursue this course. I do suggest buying something small first (unlike me) and understand the process from beginning to end.

Painful transfer.

The seller gave me some instructions to set up my account at godaddy and really screw it up! He told me to set up a linux account when in reality I need a windows account. Anyways, I should have known from the listing that it was windows since he posted a note about aspx pages. I don't know how this guy gets by with all these mistakes! I should be really really mad and just not go through w/ the transaction, but I'm the kind of guy that don't get mad really easily. As of now, the seller is also trying to fix the site since he changed the name server before all the transfer steps were completed and the site has part pages per my brother-in-law. I feel helpless that I don't know some of these technical stuff, but live and learn! I'm loosing hope, but still have a feel that we continue this deal...