Day 6 – Site Progress

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Today’s work carried on from yesterday’s in many ways; I spent more time than I probably should have learning how WordPress shortcodes work so that I could have a stab at understanding how WPZonBuilder works.

Now I’m going to regard this as valuable time well spent as it will give me a chance to start modifying the templates that came with the product. The eagle-eyed among you will have spotted Louis’ very generous comment on yesterday’s post and I may take him up on the offer, but I wanted to get a bit further on my own before going for support. All I can say is that his comment really echoes other forums where I’ve read about his engagement with his customers. Well done Louis.

Despite all the time spent on that, I have had more time to actually play with the WPZonBuilder plugin itself and found several options that I hadn’t really understood in the training videos (maybe I’m just slow). So, in general I’m a lot happier than I was yesterday and I have set up my site with a bunch of posts ready to go over the next few weeks. I’m hoping to crack the template stuff before they all get posted so I can add my own content to the reviews but overall I’m growing to like WPZonBuilder a lot more.

The site itself is already at number 40 in Google with no promotion and the hub/authority site is at 100 for it’s primary keyword. I’ve also completed the other two feeder sites as far as setup is concerned, maybe tomorrow will be content day for these two.I’ve put up a couple of high PR profile links for my first feeder but I’ve held off with full link-building until I have a few posts to point my UAW and Link Juicer submissions towards.

I think I may have to checkout some WP site management software, this plugin installation lark is easy but tedious!

Day 5 Earnings:

Adsense: $1.05
Amazon: $0
Clickbank: $0

Day 5 – Struggling with Amazon Auto Posters

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Spent the day today getting one of my satellite sites looking nice for the users! Lots of messing around with plugins and a good sized first post as an introduction to the site and to get the SEO going.

Now I know that I said I would be making these much more like authority sites than just raw niche sniper sites, but I have to say that I am in awe of those folk who can churn out one a day (or maybe even 2 in some cases!)  My simple editing games have left me with a site that is “getting there”…… It doesn’t have any products on it yet, a job for completion tomorrow I think, but at this point I’ve tripped over my new Amazon auto-poster plugin.

Don’t get me wrong, I fully intend for these reviews to be fully-fledged as per the Amazonian Profit Plan but I thought it would be cool to have access to all of the Amazon metadata for my products in advance. That way, I can theoretically build my own templates for the product pages and use the data I have to populate some of those fields while writing the rest.

Anyway, best laid plans of mice and men, the templates that come with the product – WPZonBuilder – are more obscure than I was expecting and unfortunately the demo sites don’t really go into any details about how they were achieved. This has left me trying all possible combinations of settings trying to get something that looks the same and wondering at the same time if I shouldn’t really be going with pages instead of posts as a site building mechanism. It’s funny, I went down this route thinking that it would be so much easier than editing the HTML templates provided in the IPK setup. I must have “stupid” written on my forehead.

If anyone has enormous WPZonBuilder experience, I’d be really happy to hear from you about your own thoughts on my dilemma.

Earnings for Day 4:

Adsense: $0

Amazon: $0

Clickbank: $7 (I seem to have an affiliate who has worked out the right audience!)