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Firepow And How To Get Indexed Fast

If you are a frequent reader of my blog you know that I am a big fan of Firepow. Today I will show you how I use firepow to set up a site and get it indexed in Google within some hours.

Earlier today when browsing the Clickbank Marketplace I came across a niche that is completely new to me but could be profitable: Boat Plans. I did some keyword research and decided that I wanted to start with "houseboats plans".

Google Competition:
houseboats plans: with quoation marks 3700, without quotation marks: 852.000

So I went ahead and registered the domain houseboatsplans.com at Godaddy. Godaddy is my favorite domain registrar, because you can't beat the price of domain names. I never pay more than $7.49 for a .com, .net, .org. How do I do this? There are various Godaddy Coupon sites out there where you can find discount coupons and there is always a $7.49 coupon. My favorite Godaddy coupon site is Fatwallet (make sure to go to the last page of the forum to get the newest codes!)

OK.... so I registered houseboatsplans.com earlier today:

At 16.15 (4.15 p.m) I installed the blog using Firepow. The whole installation and creation of content took about 15 minutes. Because Firepow does not offer timestamps, I logged into my blog using FTP so you can see a timestamp of blog creation:

Firepow automatically installs the most important Wordpress Plugins automatically (like Seo for Wordpress, Google Sitemap Generator, Max Banner Ads, h1h2, and a lot of others)

However, I usually add some more plugins:

Tweetme:
TweetMe is a simple Wordpress Plugin that posts a tweet to Twitter when you publish a blog post.

Wp-sticky:
Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress's blog.

Facebook Like Button
Add Facebook Like Button to your wordpress blog with a lot of customization options, And you can preview the settings at real-time in the settings section

Sexybookmarks
Extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites.

Web Traffic Genius Pro
Automatically creates Rss feeds of every post and submits it to 20 feed directories on autopilot

Simple Tags
Easily manage tagging, related posts, autotagging, and mass editing of tags

Onlywire Multi Autosubmitter
Autosubmit your posts to all sites listed in your onlywire account

Featured Content Gallery
I love this one. I came across it just recently. You can create amazing slide shows etc. Did you notice the neat slideshow on houseboatsplans.com? It has been created with Featured Content Gallery within 15 minutes.

There are some more Wordpress plugins I am using, but the ones above are my favorite ones and I install them on all domains and I also installed them on houseboatsplans.com

I should also mention, that I disable some plugins that are preinstalled by Firepow:

FP - Related Posts: Because Simplet Tags does the same job better
FP - ShareThis - Sexybookmarks does the job much better
FP - WP tags to Technorati - Technorati is driving me crazy. In the past months addition of new blogs has not worked for me. They never recognize the code on my site. There is no use having Technorati tags on your blog if your site is not listed in Technorati. You will only lose visitors...

So once all plugins were installed, I modified some of the settings. E.g. activating Akismet (otherwise spammers will spam your blog with spam comments almost immediately).

And added my ping list under "Settings", "Writing":

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

After that I added my affiliate ads to houseboatsplans.com. I added code to the sidebar and also used the Max Banner Ads Plugin to get ads automatically added to every post.  In addition Firepow adds affiliate banners etc. at the bottom of every post.

All the above took me about one hour.

After that I took a break

I arrived back at my computer at about 20.00 (8 p.m.) and started submitting my domain to my "private list". My private list consists of about 150 sites, primarily analytics sites that I only need to visit.

An example: http://www.peekstats.com/www.houseboatsplans.com

There are mostly analytic sites, but it also contains some pligg sites, and other stuff like twitterpr.com and some social bookmarking sites. This list is pretty valuable to me. But I guess I will give it away for $10 to anyone interested. I won't have time over the weekend, because I have to go through it and clean it up. But you can expect that I will offer it for download beginning of next week.

Why is it so valuable to me? Because I get all domains, no matter how big the competition is, indexed (not ranked!) within some hours. Same this time. As mentioned before, I started at 20.00 (8.pm.)  and at 23.00 (11 p.m.) houseboatsplans.com was indexed in Google:

So as you can see, it only took me some hours to set up a new domain using Firepow that gets content on autopilot. It only took me some more hours to get the site indexed. I guess tomorrow visitors will start coming in. Of course there is a big difference in "getting indexed" and "getting ranked". It will take some time and efforts to get a stable Google ranking. So let's see what will happen. Over the next weeks I will start promoting houseboatsplans.com.

I should mention that I know from experience that the worst thing you can do is start promoting a new domain heavily right away. This will result in getting your domain sandboxed. Some of my domains I promoted aggressively in the beginning seem to sit in the sandbox forever (over one year). That's why I am building backlinks slowly and try to be patient.