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Originally Posted by halfpint
See I think this is a good way for a new webmasters to do things, start with nothing and work your way up. It gives you so much more experience and you learn so much along the way. :
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After years of surfing so many sites on the net that present porn and direct you to a site to join. I decided that I could do that too. I pulled out an old wysiwyg html program I had and put together a site with all the adult sex gifs I had saved over the years and dropped it into a domain
http://wyldsexgifs.com and put it on the air with shared hosting where it is still at. It has been running a year now and averages about 300 unq a day with no advertising just letting goog do its thing.
After A year I have a better handle on designing sites and picking domain names that are not way out in left field lol. I know more than I did when I started but I am still as a new babe in the wilderness as far as experience goes.
I agree with what halfpint says about starting with nothing and working your way through the trials and errors and learning this business from the ground up. Sure you can buy your way in but you cannot buy the experience you need to adjust and tune things when all is not going well.
And the one thing you cannot buy is time. And I have taught myself early on that while I am stumbling around and learning and changing this site to that or that site to this. and more SEO. and on and on. That the time I spend learning is also time running developing a history for each of my sites. And as I change each one with a new piece of knowledge I have learned. if my traffic shows improvement with the changes that also means my past visitors are still coming and probably sharing my site with a friend. So in this business time can be your friend.
My own personal measure of success in this business will be when I look in a couple of years and I have sites that are at the top of goog in a popular search term. with steady good numbers of traffic. I may have it wrong but as I see it my job is to develop a spot or spots on the net that many people keep stopping by. Once I do that ,I will drop a mail to the ones I have already been listening to that will gladly turn that traffic into shared gold.
Back on topic I see shared hosting as ideal during the building process. I see switching to dedicated and beyond when there is something worth switching...