{"id":1596,"date":"2009-08-02T17:40:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T23:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2011-11-02T19:10:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T01:10:18","slug":"launching-a-new-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/money-making-ideas\/affiliate-programs\/launching-a-new-website.html","title":{"rendered":"Launching a New Website &#8211; Days 1 &#038; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1:<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I did was  to get a robot.txt file and get it uploaded to the main domain. This file tells Google and other bots to stay away from pages that you don&#8217;t want to show the world. It&#8217;s just a text file and you can learn how to make one.<\/p>\n<p>Then I created a sitemap for the site. Now a sitemap is needed to tell the bots just where all the pages on your site are and for some reason they love this file, so I feed it to them.  I go to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xml-sitemaps.com\/\">free site<\/a> that will create it for me.<\/p>\n<p>I just put the URL in a form and wait five minutes. Then I saved it as an html file and a .xml file because my site visitors really like to see what I have on my site and Google bots really like to gobble up .xml files. So I uploaded both of these files to my site.<\/p>\n<p>I then started the launching procedure which just means you let Google know about your new site and you invite people to it. It&#8217;s very simple to do, but a mandatory step as far as I&#8217;m concerned. You need to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/\">Google<\/a> and set up an account. You basically have to claim your site and tell Google where your sitemap information is. It&#8217;s<br \/>\nvery easy to do. Just follow the directions there. So that being done, I have to wait until Google actually indexes the site to get any organic traffic (search traffic) from it.<\/p>\n<p>Because it was late at night, I just barely had time to announce the site to my Facebook and Twitter Friends.<\/p>\n<p>Cpanel stats for visits: Aug. 1 = 29 (probably mine)<\/p>\n<p>Day 2:<\/p>\n<p>Today I downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roboform.com\/\">Roboform<\/a> and realized what a fool I&#8217;ve been for so many years to have not used this tool before. I think I spend at least 30 minutes out of my day filling in usernames and passwords and this free<br \/>\nsoftware takes all of that away. The reason I did this was so that I could more efficiently use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialmarker.com\">Social Marker<\/a>. I spent about an hour submitting a Website B page to various sites using Social Marker.<\/p>\n<p>This post will be updated tomorrow with new statistics and new advertising activities. I may have forgotten to mention that one of the stipulations of this project is to spend no advertising dollars on PPC.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading this and stay tuned for a progress update on launching a new web site  in 30 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1: The first thing I did was to get a robot.txt file and get it uploaded to the main domain. This file tells Google and other bots to stay away from pages that you don&#8217;t want to show the world. It&#8217;s just a text file and you can learn how to make one. Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120,160],"tags":[356,662],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}