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Ahhhh things are finally starting to get interesting as yesterday I spent the whole day setting up my new website/blog. Thats right, I’m now branching out to other markets to test the waters. I decided to go into the food/cooking niche because I felt that it may be an easy niche to get a good flow of traffic, and good flow of traffic means a good flow of money as well. I am still working on finding a good template but you can view it in the works at http://www.cookingwithease.com

The idea with this website is to offer great cooking advice and recipes that are easy, quick, efficient, and most of all enjoyable and delicious. I am going to write as though my website is the authority website for easy cooking and I hope to build a base of followers and repeat traffickers. I plan on monetizing by selling ad space, using adsense, and maybe a downloadable recipe book. Obviously I will be switching things up and doing more and more research as we move ahead but I am excited and can’t wait to show you all the results.

First of all, before we get into the current stats for this website, let me take you step by step as to how I started up the new website.

Step one is to register your domain name. I did that at NameCheap.com and it cost me $9.29 for one year.

The next step is to find a host to host your website. I use Host4Profit, it costs $24.95 a month but since I have this site hosted on the same server, it’s only an extra $5 a month.

After that I went to Wordpress.org and downloaded the new Wordpress blog to be used as my main site platform. Once the download was complete I extracted all the files and then uploaded them to my server. That’s it! My website was up and running in just a few hours. Of course the research took much longer than that.

I’ll be promoting that website much the same as this website and it will be real interesting to see how soon I start seeing some real traffic. I’ll keep you posted.

As far as what I am doing here… I had 2465 visitors the week before and last week I had 2459. Didn’t go up but still pretty consistent, averaging well over 300 a day.

My opt-in list last week had a total of 77 subscribers, I now have 92. I remember not too long ago where it took me a few months to get 15 people to opt-in to my list. This compounding viral internet effect is so apparent and so fun to watch too!

I think what I am going to do now with the Follow My Footsteps series is keep giving the weekly updates as far as what I am doing along with my traffic stats. That won’t change, but I will run down total costs and profits from the previous month at the beginning of each month. So stay tuned, things are starting to heat up.

Matt Helprey

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