Wii Fit Box Art

About 8 months ago I purchased the domain www.wiiifit.com (3 i’s). I didn’t have any real goals for it. I bought it just because I knew someone was going to do it so why not me. If you aren’t sure what Wii Fit is, it’s supposed to be the next big Nintendo Wii video game involving fitness and exercise games. More info can be found on my Wii Fit News site or on the official Wii Fit site.

Anyways, I decided to actually do something with the domain last week. I thought it would be a good test site to play with SEO and see if I can get some decent traffic (read: Adsense Earnings) to the domain. So once a week I will discuss any changes to the site and show the earnings and traffic reports.

Here’s the basic setup.

I put the site on Wordpress because

  • it gives me very useful plugins to help with SEO and images
  • I get a nice design for zero work
  • I have a few elements that are updated and WP just makes it easier with no FTPing
  • I’m working on my Wordpress as a CMS skills. Along with general WP skills.

The basic setup took about 5 hours from start to finish.

I used Nick La’s iTheme for the basic setup and modified it heavily. I used the Featured Content Plugin from WPelements for the large rotating images on the homepage. I also used WPelement’s Fancy Zoom Plugin for the Wii Fit Pictures gallery. That’s about it for design.

Then I littered the design with Adsense. I need to spend more time learning Adsense administration because I want to be able to see which sections are generating the most click-thrus. I also used Amazon Associates on the Wii Fit Purchase page. I hear Amazon doesn’t convert well, but it doesn’t hurt to try.

That’s about it for the initial setup.

I set up a Google Alert for the term “Wii Fit” so whenever I get news about Wii Fit I will post it on the site. That’s about the only updating that will happen. Maybe a few more pictures.

I have 20 keywords that I will see how I rank for in Google. This is super easy thanks to SEO Book’s Rank Checker Tool.

I also just learned about the SEO Quake Firefox plugin and will run it on the site to track keyword density and page rank.

That is all for now. See you next at A Wiii Fit Story: Chapter 1.