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Exercise 2: Remember the article you wrote in part 2? Well here is your next exercise-tear that article up. That’s right, into a hundred pieces. Why? Because a professional writer does not become attached to their work. You can’t. It will cost you money. Once you tear it up, keep the pieces. Put them in a plastic bag and put them away for safe keeping.
Your next step is to begin to get a feel for the type of writing you would like to do. What is going to be your niche? Will you write articles, web page content, brochures, manuals, magazine articles or e-books? It is up to you but you must decide. Are you an expert on any particular subject? If not is there a subject you would like to become an expert on? Choose your medium and then choose your subject and you’re ready to get started on your way to financial feebledom er…. freedom.
Honestly, you will have to become adept at several writing styles and the different mediums in order to make a living. Assignments and income will need to come from many different sources. Don’t fret. If you’re able to write in many different styles you have more opportunities and a better chance at success.
Exercise 3: Choose any subject under the sun and do a Google search for it. Begin reading the articles you find on the websites. keep reading until you can find a misspelled word or a gramatical error. Once you do, bookmark that page.
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I have been making some extra money with a company called Constant Content.com. Constant Content allows writers to submit their articles, tutorials, blog posts, and reviews to their site where they are reviewed by great editors. If accepted, your article is then listed for sale on the site. You set the price. If sold, Constant gets a percentage. Be aware though, this is for top notch writers. Not just anyone can make it past the editors. However, if you do you can be rewarded handsomely.
This site is getting a lot of attention. Site owners know that in order to be ranked high on search engines like Google that they have to have original content. They can get it here. Visit the site and check it out.
Some weeks back I heard about the Google local Business Representatives program and so I decided to apply. If you haven’t heard, Google is contracting with people to go into local businesses, collect information (hours of operation, payment types, etc.) and then get a good picture of the front of the business. Once that’s done, the information is uploaded to Google who in turn accepts or rejects the information (rejections come from duplicate entries, not the right type of business, or bad pictures). Once an entry is accepted I will get $2.00. Now for the hard part. Every business I visit will recieve a postcard from Google with the information I collected. The person I dealt with will then have to verify the information is correct and then send the postcard back to Google (postage is paid by Google) and once this happens I am paid another $8.00. So for that effort I get $10.00. Not too shabby. I’ve read that the turn-in rate for the postcards is pretty low. I’ll need to come up with some sort of follow-up program to ensure success.
I have been reading a lot lately about Google Adsense sharing. The premise is simple. Sites built on the backs of contributors and reap the rewards of the traffic generated (adsense clicks) have started sharing the adsense revenue with the contributors. Now this is nothing new. Some sites have done this for quite a while now. However, there are now a myriad of different sites and blogs jumping into the fray. There are article sites that want any and every type contributor out there. They want volume. But I think that the way to actually do this is to concentrate on quality. IF you were to get say 10 great contributors to post regularly to a blog, keep the blog focused on a niche, and have all 10 promote the blog, I think you would see PR rankings, sites linking to your site, and readership increase much more dramatically than if you were the only writer.
I have a few ideas for a blog or two and I may just try this. I do know that doing it this way will take time to build readership and this is not a get rich quick scheme. However, over time it could be a very viable business model.
A PR5 ranking by Google is pretty good. I did it with very little effort and here’s how.
- I started blogging. I went to WordPress and got myself a blog.
- I had something to blog about. I started the blog to tell the story about my (now defunct) adventure with Shopster. I found that there were a lot of people who wanted information on what works and what doesn’t.
- I built incoming links. Well I didn’t build them, they came to me. Others in Shopster had blogs and so we added each other to our blogrolls. The more I blogged them more incoming links I receive.
- Squidoo. I built a Squidoo lens with a link to my blog.
- I posted two or three times a day.
- Tags and categories. Tags are what make a blog successful. By using the right tags you get found. I made sure to use Google in tags as much as possible. They really like reading about themselves.
- I answered the comments to my posts. Even if it was only a thank you for commenting.
- I helped others. If you’ll notice my blogroll you’ll see Shopster sites listed even though they are not blogs. By giving them a link from a PR5 site they were helped and in return they helped me by reading the blog and giving me a link.
- I kept focused. I focused on ecommerce, Shopster, and ways to make an ecommerce site successful.Well
Well that’s about it. You know, once I closed my Shopster site I really didn’t think much about this blog. Then, months after my last post, I got a comment from someone who found the site. I came back, checked the stats, and to my amazement found that site was still receiving hits. So, I am once again blogging and trying to give information that people are looking for. I like doing it so it’s a win-win.
How I lost it…I quit posting!
I have noticed that there are a lot of bloggers (20 or so over the past few months) and website owners who use my posts on their site. I really don’t mind, it sort of strokes the ego. What I need to try and understand is just how this helps me. I know that I have received hits to this site from their sites and so that’s a plus. About a month after I started this blog I built it into a PR5 ranked site. Then, I quit blogging after I quit Shopster and it dropped to a current PR3. However, I have a PR3 ranked site without any updates. Could this be from the links? Probably. Anyway, anyone who wants to use my posts may do it. My next post will detail how I got a PR5 ranking.
Building links is an important part of ecommerce. In order to get your site listed organically in Google and others you must have high quality links. First you must use your keywords to find sites like yours (non-competing of course). Let’s say you sell fly fishing gear. You do a search for fly fishing and there are thousands of links. A little trick to use is to search the with the terms “fly fishing” + “add a site” (or add a link, link here, etc.). Once you do this you limit the sites listed to just the ones that may accept link trades or maybe even a directory. This trick makes quick work of link building.
I’ve been working hard to get my site organically listed in Google and Yahoo. Well my efforts are paying off. Through Google Analytics I can see where certain keywords are yielding hits to my site. This ecommerce thing sure does take a lot of work. But it will be worth it in the end.
I just checked with DMOZ.org to see if they have my site listed. They didn’t. It takes a while for them to get to you. But, one cool tool they have is a search tool to search the “major” search engines from one page. Well what do you know, my site Lampbargains.com is listed on all the major search engines. Google alone has 1280 pages indexed with the term “lampbargains” listed. What do you think are the highest ranked sites? You guessed it “Squidoo” and this blog. If you haven’t gotten on board, you better!
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