Website Offline For A Week


It’s been a week since I’ve posted to Traffic Beast. It’s been offline for a week and it’s been a painful week because I was getting visitors to my website during this time. That means loss of subscribers and loss of sales.

However I took the risk and went ahead with the upgrade. Yes, I’ve upgraded my blog by joining Jack Humphrey’s Authority Site Center. It’s a membership site where there’s tons and tons of training on how to publish your blog and get targeted traffic.

I’ve been getting quite a lot of traffic to my blog on my own but the feedback on Authority Site Center was very very good. It was hard to resist. It deals a lot with Social Marketing which I haven’t done much yet.

Internet marketing is a life long study. Never assume that you know enough. This is how I do my business and also how I live my life. There’s always plenty of things you don’t know about which helps your business so it’s up to you to learn and apply it.

I’m going to carry out the 60 day marketing plan laid out in the Authority Site Center’s membership. Of course, I’ll also be continuing to market with my own methods as well and comparing the results. The testimonials of members that have received thousands of hits per month by following the training laid out is very inspirational.

So why was my website down for a week?

One of the benefits you get from the Authority Site Center membership is a blog built by them. The blog contains a personalized graphic header, a customized blog, and lots of plugins uploaded to help you get those visitors and make your blog more advanced.

So far, I’m pretty pleased with the training and the blog. The training is a very detailed step by step guide which includes videos as well. The training will take me months to devour. I’m pretty impressed with the blog as well because there were lots of plugins that I haven’t heard of and I can see that they are very useful.

However, there are 2 complaints I have with the Authority Site Center. Perhaps it’s just me, but I’m not too pleased about the following:

1. There no clear instructions on what to do if you had an existing blog and you want it transferred to the Authority Site Center. There were some answers in the forum and in the FAQ but it was not enough. I had to email the support via the help desk and get a conclusion.

Your website will take 3 business days to complete after you have changed your nameservers pointing to the Authority Site Center. In my case it took 7 days including the weekends. But the problem is there was no mention that your exisiting website will be down.

I would have been happier if they offered a service that will build the blog for you first and then when it’s complete, you can copy your existing posts to the new blog and then change your domain’s nameserver. This will mean a downtime of the most 24 hours.

I mentioned this to the support but they said they can do that but for a fee. I didn’t know how much the fee was but I decided to go ahead since I can work on other things during this time.

2. I was not pleased with the graphic header for my blog. As you can see I still use the Traffic Beast header for my blog that was created by my friend Anthony Fesalbon of www.HyperCover.com

Here is a link to the header which Authority Site Center created for me. I preferred Anthony’s header so I didn’t make a fuss.
www.trafficbeast.com/images/logo.png

However, reading the Authority Site Center’s forum, it seems nearly everyone loves their personalized graphic header that was created for them. Hmmm…so I guess it’s probably just me then. I have been known to be very fussy

Summary

I’ve joined a lot of membership programs during the past 4 years. The Authority Site Center certainly kicks butt. It is very well organized and I’m amazed at the amount of training they provide.

For beginners who are serious on starting their own blogs I would recommend joining the membership. You’ll learn a lot from the training and also get to meet some very nice members in the forum.

However, if you don’t have time to work on your blog then I suggest you DO NOT join this program. It isn’t advertised as a quick solution to get targeted traffic and being an authority in your niche. It requires a serious amount of hard work. I would hope that you have 3 hours to spare per day to work on just this program.

Nevertheless, the proof is in the pudding as they say. I’m going through the 60 day marketing plan and will update this blog on the progress of whether it can increase web traffic to my site.

You can read the salesletter of the Authority Site Center here

www.trafficbeast.com/go/asc.php

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