Wordpress is very fiddly - just look at the huge number of posts on their support forums to see that people struggle greatly.

So that no one else suffers for days when setting up their WP blog: you need to turn the cache ability off otherwise everytime you try to view changes they do not show up (well, some do, it’s sort fo weird).

I’m not sure blogging is something I want to do though, what with the tech problems and the time needed to update the content regularly (I’m talking about articles etc. rather than just posts such as this site) I am not sure it is worthwhile.

I got myself a 1000+ qualified hits in the first month and no comments and no sign ups. lol.

This is an area that I may need to tackle first… having a blog is a great way to start and and easy website to build!

Best Wishes,
Shannon

Thanks for responding. Yes, it’s a Wordpress blog, I believe my theme template already includes the SEO Pack, but maybe it’s me who doesn’t know how to use it properly :p

About the blog thing, I thing you would help a lot of us if you make some tutorials or something.

Regards,
Carlos

I love your site… very professional, looks very nice!

Is this a Wordpress blog? If it is you need to install a plugin known as “All in one SEO pack” and for every post you make place your keywords for that post in the “title” section.

That simple step should help alot!

Best Wishes,
Shannon

P.S. As I am writing this I am thinking that maybe people reading this blog won’t know about plugins or which to use and why or maybe don’t even know how to properly set up blogs… maybe I should find out if these are some things people would like to learn about…

So, not just Carlos, but everyone, how comfortable are you with blogs and everyone that goes along with them? Is this an area you’d like to learn about?

Congratulatios!! It’s hard for many of us to start earning real cash on the internet. After years of buying and reading and trying all the emarketing ebooks and prgrams, I came back to a theme blog since finding an interview about a guy who is making $50,000 dlls with a gadget blog just with adsense after 3 years. I think the trick is to investigate on what niche we can compete with that it’s not too saturated nless w can do it better than the ones in first lace on google. I made mine on photography, since I’m a potographer and it has appeared on the first page in some of the keywords but I think I need more help. Any tips for blogs? Here’s the page. http://www.photographypark.com

Thank You,

Carlos Marquez

Keep in mind that I have not done anything that isn’t possible for everyone reading this blog to do… you are all capable of making this successful for you as well!!!

Best Wishes,
Shannon

Thank you and yes, you get my email address when you sign up for the blog notification list… you can either post questions here or if you prefer to be more private (as many readers have) simply send me an email. I love to read the comments and to answer everyone’s questions!

Best Wishes,
Shannon

It’s great what you’re sharing here.

Do you have a contact link? I would like

ask you some advice.

Thanks.

I fully understand where you are right now… I have been online for more than 5 years and while I am one of the lucky ones that could say I did actually earn some money (my average was always between $400 - $700/month), I still kept dreaming about those numbers that could change our family.

I guess I want you to know that I have struggled myself, kicked myself wondering why I just couldn’t make it, wondering what I was doing wrong. But I kept going, I’ve never given up. I have worked very hard for a long time and have finally found a way to do this, to change our lives, and for a change it is coming a lot easier.

So, keep going… keep working to free yourself and your family… it will come! You will get there… I hope I am somehow able to help you!

Best Wishes,
Shannon

Reading your blog has given me hope. I left my career to be a struggling stay at home mom. I cannot thoroughly enjoy it because we need the income that I left behind. The stress is overwhelming at times, but the love for my family and the belief that I really can make money online keeps me going.

Thanks for sharing your story and please keep updating your blog.

Jodi

I can’t believe I forgot to do that! I’ve been a web designer for years, you think I’d remember to do my SEO before uploading it. ugh!

I was just so darn glad that I got the whole thing put together right that I spaced on the basics. It was the first time I put all those elements together.

I don’t know his niche well though so I’m needing his help with that, we’re meeting this afternoon.

My other site I’m working on is at http://www.starr-gate.com/stores/gamezone and it’s simular to the health one but in a niche I know more about.

Trouble is staying up all night till 8am isn’t helping me remember the simple stuff I know. I’ll have to go back over the sites after all the pieces are fitted together.

I’m also thinking about doing a blog to link the site too, to drive traffic from there to the site. The Wordpress Direct site looks promising. I’ve got too many blogs to keep updating already…lol This could be a big help with that!

Thanks so much for checking it out Shannon. I really hope I can get some income coming in too. I’m a stay at home mom too and dealing with overdue bills isn’t fun. You are an inspiration cause you did it! Then you did even better than before!

I’d take a few hundred a month more - ’cause I don’t even clear 1K a month right now! Stress is high and I feel bad cause so many are going through financial crashes.

I’ll be dropping by a lot, ’cause I have to figure out how to copy what you did!

If the site you are talking about is the one you entered into the “website” form when you completed your comment… then after just a quick look a couple of suggestions I have for you is to first complete some keyword research and on page optimization. Make sure you place your chosen keyword phrases in the “title” portion of the “head” section within the page and also within the page itself. This alone will help get more traffic to the site once the search engines spider the page.

Once things slow down a little bit (with the Cash Cannon promotion stuff), I will be asking people to post comments on this blog stating what kinds of things they’d like me to write about… I expect on page optimization and traffic generation to be a top priority for many people so I’ll be posting about that stuff I’m sure.

Make sure you sign up for my blog notification list so that when I start asking people what it is they would like to learn about that you are notified so you can chime in.

Good Luck!

Best Wishes,
Shannon