May Goals

I told you guys and gals I was going to be blogging here more and I know I talked about some of May Goals in the April income report. I want expand on that. What I have done and what will be done this month. Everything is just trying to come together from months of planning. I had these ideas I wanted to do but needed a niche to do so. I have found the niche and putting things together.

What I have done this month
Last month I wanted to finally get my ideas into action. I started playing limit holdem to stop from losing at poker. It almost helps me think about my business while im playing. So this idea popped in my head, why not run a limit holdem poker school/rakeback site. It will be easy for me to get players and they all will become big rakers so it’s a perfect fit. So this month I got the logo and design done for my limit holdem site. I am still working on the content but running low of funds so any articles I write over 400 words I will be selling to rebuild my paypal account. The rest of the articles will go towards article marketing for the site.

I 301 redirected the whole test site to the new site since it has backlinks and traffic going to it. I didn’t want it go to waste as I know I wasn’t going to work on it anymore. It took me about an hour to completely redirect a 50+ page site. (Only reason it took so long, I was eating breakfast at the same time) I changed any backlinks that I could from pointing to the test site to the new site. So I should see the new site in the search engines within a week or so for many keywords.

In other news, I still have 3 mini sites for sale. Selling all 3 for $800 even though I could just add 10 to 20 more articles to the biggest one and sell that one alone for $1k. But I really don’t have time for that. I am not sure what to do with them if they don’t sell. I mean I could 301 redirect them to the new site as well but that would be a waste of 3 mini sites. I know if I built backlinks for them they could rank well and make money or sell ads on and make money that way once the google PR update came again. However, the backlinks I build for them I could be building for my big project. I guess I am kind of stuck playing the waiting game to see if they sell.

May Goals
This month is all about writing. jdwanchalk from PAL forum started a challenge to write 300,000 words of new content in 3 months. The bet was $2k. We all know I don’t have that to lose so I didn’t enter the challenge. However, it kind of got me out of the content buying mode I been in over the months and into the writing tons of content mode. Which is why I am writing this post right now. I just feel like writing again. I don’t know if I could pump out 300k words but I have already pumped out over 2k or 3k words of new content over the pass few days. Where am I going with this? Well my goal is to write at least 10,000 words of new content this month. Which is 20 articles of 500 words each. Doesn’t matter which site I place it on as long as I am pumping out new content. I will NOT be counting the content I already did this month. I will start counting the content I do after this post is published!

My next goal kind of ties into the goal above. I am going to completely revamp my poker community. This is going to sound pretty dumb but I am going to take off the poker forum and complete the rest of the website before I focus on building an active forum. This means completing all the poker, casino, sportsbook, bingo, and rummy reviews. Adding all the logo images and icons for each site listed. Customize the sidebar on each page of the site. Once all of that is completed. I will see if I have the budget to finally hire a writer to keep the poker news section updated daily Monday through Friday.

My next goal is to have the new site rank on the first page of google for a few keywords. I will not say the keywords but if I out rank any of you for your keywords well then you know. I always seem to hop on the first page of google for keywords I want very easily. So I will make a goal to hop on the first page of google for 5 money making keywords and see how much money it brings in.

Also for the new site, I will be writing a ton of follow up emails for the newsletter. In each email, I will make sure to have at least one or 2 links pointing back to the site. Always having the subscriber coming back to the site to convert them weather its to sign up to a poker room, buy a poker tool, or buy a book. I will keep my brand in their head. Hopefully they will tell their friends. We all know the best marketing is word of mouth.

Let’s do a recap of May goals before I do my final statement.

• Write 10k words of new content.
• Completely revamp the poker community
• Get the new site to rank on the first page of google for 5 keywords
• Complete follow up emails for the newsletter

To some of you this may seem like a ton of work and others it may seem like very little. I personally don’t view it either way. I just view it as things that must be done. Hopefully I can complete all of this work even though completely revamping the poker community is a shit load of work. lol I suck at writing reviews so all of that will be outsourced. I just have to get my budget up again. I will keep you all updated on how things are coming along.

Let your desire drive your motivation and everything will workout.
- Quote by Deneil Merritt 2009