Over the weekend, I was able to do a little work to continue forward, but not as much as I intended due to nice weather , and an assortment of social engagements, and outdoor projects.

So I ended up up with a table of keywords for all of the product I will be promoting.

Since I have a decent amount of keywords, I will be starting with just promoting a few of them, and roll out a few more each week. This will keep the site from being spread too thin as far as promotion goes.

I alse received my first article back from my writer. THis will be the first page on the site to be active, and will give google an idea about the site, and will give the search engines a little at a time, instead of everything at once.

Over the weekend I found a couple affiliate programs I can promote as well as Amazon. They dont pay as well, but the other programs offer tracking cookies, which amazon doesnt offer.

I also listed the commissions of the products on my spreadsheet. I will need to sell 3-6 items per day to reach my $50 per day goal.

I did some searching around for a domain name, and was able to find a pretty decent domain for the site. I wont list the domain name here yet, but probably will a little later on. I use namecheap for my domain registration because they have competitive pricing, and are simple to use and manipulate my domains. And the don't put you through upsell hell like some other registrars do.

I installed wordpress on a hostgator account that I already have, and used fantastico to do the install, so that took about 20 seconds.

I will probably be using the arclite theme on wordpress. This theme is pretty lightweight, offers a limited theme customization area, and I can modify the code without having to worry about to many complications.

There are nice pay themes out there, but I find that while the more advanced ones have so many options to them, that doing some manual work under the hood turns into an ugly mess.

I installed the theme, some plugins, and created a couple pages like the about me page, and the contact me page. I did thes cause they were easy, and I think google will like the fact that I have them when they initiall crawl the site.

For tonight I will do some minor customization to the theme. I wont get too far into this yet, because people arent waiting to come to the site yet. Phase 1 will be for google, then for the people. I want google to know about the site very soon, so I can start doing some link building.

I will be ordering some more articles today or tomorrow for the product pages, and also start working on product images, and sketching out my site layout.