Self Built Empire

To start off I am no expert in SEO, I have limited knowledge of making any money online, only what I've read on different articles and posts. And this will be my journey into building an online empire.

Currently I am just the average college student in California: broke, no money in sight just the 20 dollars a week my parents support me with. Which is just enough for food, spaghetti, top ramin, potatoes, and a lot of chicken (hey at around a dollar a pound it can't be beaten). and just a tad left over for a couple of beers.

So a couple of weeks ago, my buddy and I started a website. Me knowing all of the technical stuff (for my senior project in high school I designed a website) I created and designed the site. I looked what was happening on the web and found Wordpress which a lot of people recommended. Got a free template modified it a bit and put it up. I also found free hosting with around 500 megs for hosting the site and 15GB bandwidth, not bad for free and no ads. I founded the free host through a forum, which I don't remember anymore I'll look it up later and include it here. All of this just cost me around $8 dollars which I split with my friend.

To my surprise, the site actually started doing pretty good for being live for such a short time. So that is what got me interested in the SEO aspect of a website, it's like a game figuring out how to get on the good side with Google. I loved it, so this is where I stand today.

The site my buddy and I created actually has made me some money already(around $5 through adsense and adbrite and $50 through a private advertiser after a month of being live), so I must be heading in the right direction right? Oh forgot to mention through the site I also found a little part time job, helping another webmaster with his work.

Anyway this blog will be my journey through all of this, and we'll see where I will be in 5, 10, or 15 years.