tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45794306124882323652024-03-12T18:29:48.824-07:00Moms Work at Home Blog<b>Work at Home Mom</b> Sharing her journey of learning and earning on the World Wide Web with YouUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4579430612488232365.post-28530563479301308432013-08-03T06:58:00.002-07:002013-08-03T06:58:45.625-07:00Dealing with "Neg-Heads" Creating a Positive Workplace<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Promoting Positivity, Why I would rather be surrounded by Positivity...<br />
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I remember one workplace I was specifically made manager of for 1 reason only.... I went into to clear out the "dead" wood staff...I had a hit list of who head office wanted rid of, and I went in with the most sickening positive attitude, drove the ones out who did not buy into it further away, (they gave me the basics, I gave them back just that) ....and I slowly but surely built a "new" group of positive people around me, I did not allow much working with the "negative people", so I split them apart.<br />
By creating groups for training I knew the "Neg heads" would hate but they were always politely asked to attend and it was left up to them to participate and join in, (guess what they didn't but I heard PLENTY of feedback about the groups from the staffroom, which surprised me how much they had to say since they did not participate) <br />
anyway It just got the point I really did NOT care, they were welcome to join in at any time and I always left a door open <br />
(sure sometimes I wanted to tell them where to go, but obviously they were not the smartest in the bunch, although they maintained THEY were, ...lol ;) <br />
It was a SLOG but eventually I outweighed them with new staff so they were completely out of their comfort zone.....I made sure the good (positive) workers got all the great shifts/rewards ...WHY would I not listen to the negative griping ones......those people were single handily bringing down my business I ultimately was responsible for....<br />
I worked overtime, 14-16 hour days.... making either the negative lot even MORE distanced, more annoyed, some left, some I never even noticed leaving, But I had MY goals and MY vision for MY buisness ....But I was SLOWLY shifting the balance (It became like a game for me. <br />
I was also the youngest area manager in the company, and earned my respect through this particular shop...I mean you know the ones that always complained....sent me reports of others misgivings, whilst they brought nothing new to the table either. <br />
Get real if I was interested in what YOU had to say I would ASK you. <br />
Just moan moan moan, never once giving one single bit of constructive feedback. I could work with and listen IF and only IF they were bringing new stuff to the table. <br />
Reports of he said this she said that, I ended up not even reading those reports, I even set up a filter for those types of report! <br />
I wanted to read reports that were from staff who were going to take my bottom line back up! <br />
My new staff went through a bit of a hard time too, some couldn't take the negativity showed towards them for being eager it and left too they were called out for "brown nosing" sucking up to the boss....getting special treatment .....no, they were being rewarded for working, making my business, better, taking that extra mile to ensure they carried out their duties to make my customers have a great experience. (and yes it was all under VERY tough circumstances at the time. <br />
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This is not about "brown nosing" this is about surrounding yourself with people who have the same agenda as you and your business. <br />
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My Assistant manager would listen to all I had to say, go and do, THEN come back and tell me if <br />
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B. What we HAD to improve on<br />
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Never once, was I questioned over MY instructions. Questioned over why I was doing this, <br />
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If you find yourself in a negative cycle then consider these 2 points<br />
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1. If you don't like it then maybe your IN the wrong Business<br />
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2.If it was YOUR business would you like to be working with YOU.<br />
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I met one of my worst ever "Neg-head" offenders I ever had the pleasure of meeting, in my whole entire working life. <br />
They were very nice to me surprising since I did sack them, but they asked what I had been doing these last 10 years or so, and I was pleased to tell them a range of things and life was good. <br />
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Funnily enough I was not in the least bit surprised when I reciprocated the question. <br />
And they just hung their head with stooped shoulders and replied "same old s**t"? WOW. It struck me as this person was just stuck, appearing unhappy at their lot in life. <br />
Then they went onto complain how unfair their manager was, changing everything and how was he to do all this just to keep him happy? <br />
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Life is not always rosy, it has ups and downs, believe me I have been through enough in my life, to make your hair go white prematurely. <br />
But carrying a negative attitude around with you and "sharing" it with others is not pleasant, or indeed wanted. Unless you stumble on a group of "neg-heads" together then go for it.<br />
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But don't push YOUR negativity onto others who ARE trying to get on. That is not Fair. <br />
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Great book to READ for Having a Positive Attitude is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935096567/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1935096567&linkCode=as2&tag=mamointhuk-20">Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive: 101 Inspirational Stories about Counting Your Blessings and Having a Positive Attitude</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=mamointhuk-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1935096567" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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until next time <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4579430612488232365.post-67718106998540850622013-05-15T07:37:00.002-07:002013-05-15T09:55:30.726-07:00Can we still write and Earn money working online. As Panda and Penguin really take their toll on the Affiliate Marketer. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As Google updates and releases penguin 2.0 lets take a look at how we are changing how we are working online. Can we still make an income writing online and being an affiliate? <br />
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Yes you can still make money working online. <br />
<strong>But the rules have changed, ignore them and the changes and on your head be it.</strong> <br />
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Now after Panda, they let out the Penguins and to be honest I don't normally take much head of them, I just write the pages I want to write, and publish. I think if I need to be thinking about changes I must be doing something that is wrong? (does that make sense) <br />
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IF I keep to the search engines guidelines of building good, quality content, then I need not take interest in what these changes are, these changes are to benefit the searcher, and give people what they want. <br />
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The changes at the Platform Squidoo has changed with big consequences for many, leaving a tornado of near destruction to many who have built their business model around Squidoo. <br />
HUGE mistake, never build an income around 1 place. There is no point moaning shouting , screaming, the changes have been made they locked your work. You had success, you built more, and more and more and more pages (so many that we then had a site that looked nothing better than a million cookie cutter lenses. <br />
I mean how many pages can you have with a list of the same amazon products.....after some time they all start to look like one before it. <br />
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And many ask "why has this happened" why was this allowed to happen? my goodness take some responsibility. <br />
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The original goals of Squidoo is <strong>not </strong>The path Squidoo eventually took by letting and may I add with Quests <em>encouraging </em>us to create pages "SOLELY to send people to amazon, may have been a money maker in the beginning, and lots of people adopted the same or similar strategies after seeing others huge success.<br />
I always had a reservation that if hundreds of these pages which were similar and started to appear, then something had to give. People got greedy and made even more, then more came along and enjoyed the fringe benefits, and so the web was spun. growing even more and more. <br />
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After several week of research, and NOT finding much information to "cite" I have come to a very brave conclusion, Squidoo as you knew it is over. So please suck it up and lets move on. <br />
I want to make another thing clear Squidoo and its future is however not OVER. With the changes they have made the hard stance against the gamers, cheaters and spammers. <br />
Just check out the forum and the cry of Help my lenses got locked. And many innocents are caught up in this too. <br />
They followed what they saw or thought was popular. I am amazed at the amount of "niche" accounts many have popped up with WOW, I did not know they and so many of them existed! <br />
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Seth Godin himself said if you are not willing to let it be known its you and put your name to it, then that tells you something. <br />
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I have been gobsmacked at the scale of the secret niche accounts, from many. I was going to set up niche accounts but gave up as I saw no point in them. <br />
No wonder HQ are mad, and no wonder they have taken the steps they have. <br />
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I say well done and thank you. <br />
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With Penguin 2.0 with even more rollouts guaranteed to shake up the searches, certain types of pages are not welcome on line and at Squidoo and ARE coming under the umbrella of "doorway pages" - (doorway pages are solely created to entice/create as link bait visitors and searcher to their pages, to get YOUR visitor to click on the site where they can buy - <br />
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Even Squidoo is clearly saying <br />
"If you have came to solely to promote an affiliate product" (that includes adding lots of amazon products via the Squidoo modules with no real rhyme or reason but to <em>SELL SELL SELL</em>) then we no longer want your content, or words to that effect. <br />
They give us the tools, does not mean we need to use them all and stuff everything in and the kitchen sink use the platform wisely, abuse it and your locked out. <br />
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There were a few "systems" put around where you could buy the how to of Squidoos. I never followed, something always held me back I just didn't agree in the system, that encouraged people to quickly put up pages to solely manipulate the system in place, multiplied by 10,000+s, was always going to end badly for everyone. <br />
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I would also be looking at the extra "niche" accounts of many, and how they used those niche accounts to jump on the apparent successful bandwagon and manipulate the system. Churning out lower quality pages than they would have had on their <strong>"main account"?</strong><br />
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It is OVER, get over it. Google and quite rightly Squidoo are putting their foot down. Many are saying "oh well I will just take my content else's where? WHAT....are you not listening to why these very strong measures are being put in place? <br />
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I have spent most of the last few weeks, studying changes, studying what Google is saying. </div>
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If we create these doorway (affiliate pages) we will be penalized - the affiliate marketer as we knew it is dead!</div>
Remember how we Chose a hot topic, keyword and create a page around it solely to get attention from a search engine to send you traffic to then send them to the product (via YOUR affiliate link, or the companies affiliate link) - l Google got way smart and wont send to the middle man They want their searcher to go straight to the solution to their problem in the FIRST click, not bounce around a few pages, that just p***es me off as a searcher, so I wonder what it does to my intended audience. <br />
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My feeling is penguin has only just started. <br />
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Now if I go back a few years of Squidoo where a sale was a "by-product" of people visiting your page, that's fine. me saying I have a sore back, I use this and this to help me! perfect. </div>
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or if you want to be able to do this, then you need this.<br />
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I feel as though all in this group can go forward and move along with h this, the ones who solely are setting up pages (AND I have seen MANY still being published.) with collecting their favourite items on Squidoo adding a little bit of fluff, ARE in real trouble, not jus ton Squidoo but anywhere....</div>
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TO move forward, I am NOT and will not be creating any more "niche" style sales lenses. NO matter how I dress it up, It is still a "doorway" page, It does not matter WHERE you publish it - It is a Doorway page. <br />
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Unless you are offering real solutions where people are spending time on YOUR page (bounce rate is going to factor way high in this new way forward. ( remember we used to try to get them to our pages and off to amazon?) Well guess what we are doing ourselves zero favours.....(In fact Squidoo newest brain power IS to have the amazon module below the intro! - What is Google against and going after "doorway pages.....all they are giving a visitor is the option to quickly LEAVE their site, signalling to Google they never actually found what they were looking for BUT could get there even quicker to cut out the middle man which is you/Squidoo......<br />
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Working on the internet I have seen 3 major shifts in how we work, yet the fundamentals are all the same. Unique Useful information. </div>
IF I create a page my reader finds the answer to their search query on my page then I lead them onto the product to buy. That's fine. In fact its more than fine its wonderful. <br />
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In fact take a look a this page <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/how-do-i-get-files-and-pictures-off-my-old-laptop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How Do I get Files and Pictures off my old PC?</a> (this link will open in a new window) <br />
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Can you guess what I sell? Why does Google STILL send me lots of lovely traffic? <br />
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I have taken a common problem, and given a step by step solution, and the solution entails buying a simple gadget. THESE types of pages are what you should be making. IF you want to survive working online. <br />
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If I list the best wall art or to use an example like the infamous Shower curtain lens, (which I cannot link to as it has now been locked (all available from amazon or another online store ) guess what the search engine is Going to skip ME and send them straight to them, and in the process I will receive a black mark against me as they WILL see me as a creator of doorway pages. </div>
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As we move into Penguin 2.0 I also believe Google is looking at writers using <a href="http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/authorship/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Authorship</a> as a key to how YOU will be ranked. <br />
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It will not matter where I write, eventually it will be who I am, am I a trusted source of information, am I a known writer in my niche. <br />
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Key Notes for SEO moving forward online creating a sustainable income working online. <br />
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<li> Google Authorship - Get yourself set up and link all your work together. </li>
<li>If you have lost work think seriously about moving it to another platform? Whether it is your own hosted blog or someone else's platform. </li>
<li>Create pages that are informative think quality content, your first thought should not be what you want to sell. This should be a by product of your page. </li>
<li>Be mindful of keyword density (this is a biggy for me) </li>
<li>Write useful pages that ARE going to be shared, bookmarked, and talked about. </li>
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example: even if you are writing about an author and his "books" be careful how many times you use the word "book". <br />
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How are you going to move forward<br />
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That's it simple. Write good quality pages. If your aim is to solely direct your visitors to a sale then your time is over. <br />
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If you are still a little fuzzy about creating pages, and what types consider reading this page, by a relatively new Squid <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/nikon-40mm-f28g-af-s-dx-micro-nikkor-lens-review-for-novices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nikon Mocro lens For Novices</a><br />
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But it gives personal content, photos, and why I should buy or why I need the product on the page.<br />
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This is the way forward. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4579430612488232365.post-57097367561230859692012-06-22T05:52:00.002-07:002013-05-15T10:04:52.976-07:00The Joy of Working Online at Home & Surving the Penguin Update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I just love working at home online, I have no boss, no-one to answer to
and no-one to check up on me, or ask me, what are you doing? why is this
not done, why haven't you showed up for the last few days?<br />
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I show up when I want I write when I want, and I do exactly what I want when I want. <br />
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A bit like Google, they seem to go along for so long, not doing much, everybody settles down then Bang! Big G shows up every once and a while and say hey look at what we have been doing, and we all try to work out what they have been doing.And I do think this is a frustrating part to most, just when we are sailing along thinking we have "made" it or "worked" it out, it all changes, some take those changes and just charge on, others moan, and some just give up.<br />
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But change is good, it keeps us all fresh. <br />
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This is why working online at home is not for everyone?<b></b><br />
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Some people need someone to hold their hands, to tell them that what they are doing is great, and the working at home online is not suited for those types of people, I love being answerable to no-one. But google......yes you heard me google, as they are the people who decide whether you have a page worthy of visits for them to send you traffic, they are the only ones I answer to. <br />
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I have helped many people online, and some have indeed went onto have good success, and others have not, or not what they had expected. Working online is a roller coaster, there is nothing certain in Internet marketing. <br />
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Take the latest <b>Penguin Update from Google</b>, This to me has been the most significant roll out by Google yet, and to be honest its not the last.<br />
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BUT nothing has changed, with this roll out, all Google is doing is making sure everyone plays by the rules. You duplicate content - you lose<br />
you try to build 100s of crappy backlinks you lose, you abuse the alt tags you lose, you keyword stuff you lose<br />
you just think you can write a page and it will rank high, without updating and making relevant all the time - You lose.<br />
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You have too many adverts above the fold you lose (Squidoo anyone?....hmmm theres room for thought there, just look at the above fold of the pages, of a Squidoo Page one of mine here, my content is pushed down by the advertising.<br />
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(The fold (red arrow region) of the page is where you can only see to that point without scrolling down further. Squidoo maximise their AdSense advertising on the prime locations of a page. )<br />
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Call me cynical but, I have noticed huge traffic drops recently, is this why? ( huge traffic drops to myself is not a worrying factor, I could lose 5,000 visitors a week and not feel it, as they have reached their ceiling payouts for tiers, even with that dramatic loss, and I know my pages are still maintaining sales etc) But to newbies I would be worried at this.<br />
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When I started working online 4 years ago these were all big no-nos anyway? So people who are shouting about being affected have only tried to win by manipulating the system! Although they will shout and scream it is everyone else fault and how dare Google do this, but I see nothing different? <br />
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So how to survive Googles Updates.....<br />
If you are building quality pages, using a basic knowledge of SEO, and work that page, and I mean work it, I want to see sweat being poured into these pages, some just want to put a page together and leave.....I personally have had no success at this, my pages that do well are updated constantly, tweaked, evaluated, I keep good record of traffic being brought in and where traffic is leaving my pages too.<br />
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This lets me build even more content, content that Google loves and people are looking for....<br />
So how to survive this latest update.....<br />
Spread you work around find good publishing platforms or start your own websites. That way you are not tied and reliant on 1 specific online publisher. (Yes this is hard, I recently have spread my wings, But the effort I am putting in on my other ventures is adding and complimenting to my Squidoo earnings = Still earning more money every month)<br />
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Do not rely on anyone, if you hear information, go and study it yourself, there is a lot of misinformation out there.<br />
Be sure that you are the one accountable for your online progress.<br />
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People are saying backlinks are worthless now, rubbish, the whole point of the Internet is linking, Good links, good quality articles linking back to your pages, nofollow, do follow, social bookmarking, people talking about your page is a good thing!...<br />
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and just keep producing high quality content, whether its your pages, or your linking articles, make sure you never scrape on your content.....hey who said it was easy! <br />
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<a href="http://stay-at-home-work-online.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/can-we-stil-write-and-earn-money.html" target="_blank">NEW PAGE as Penguin 2.0 is released - The Way forward for Affiliate Marketers like you and Me</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4579430612488232365.post-51480107477929119742012-04-12T12:56:00.004-07:002013-05-15T10:06:08.221-07:00Who is really in charge of Your online business<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Not often I go against the grain, however I am this time....<br />
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It seems we live in a world where, we (the majority) are sheep, yes you heard me, sheep.<br />
Flocks and flocks of sheep. Darting about looking for who or what to follow next.....<br />
We follow, we are happy to follow in fact it is easier to follow, who we think we should follow, and who others also follow.<br />
We see their success and we want it too, so....we follow them. <br />
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Then someone else comes along and oh-oh,no you cant do that and this is why, and their case presented is very convincing.<br />
We all run around in a bit of a state, and then someone else who has that emulated position within the group of sheep, steps out with their voice of reason within the madness and confusion, and proceeds to tell us what we have been doing is wrong! Then proceeds to tell us what to do now. Which we find out later down the line was a load of rubbish too. <br />
(top Tip about working online - learn now that a shortcut now is a LOT of work later on!) <br />
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anyway they state <i>their </i> point plain and clear and yes we all start following them, until ....<br />
<b><i>all change</i></b>...and it happens all over again....?<br />
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I write this recently as I have ran around like a headless chicken recently, changing things that HQ had changed so I had to combat those changes with my changes, with what the people I followed told me I had to change to help my business<br />
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Are you confused yet? my head is hurting too....<br />
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2 things happened recently for me to realise and ask myself who is really in charge?<br />
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I was devastated recently to find out some of the people I look up to follow, listen to what they have to say shared they could not break earning the $500/$600 dollars a month mark.....What? I thought they were earning $1,000's.<br />
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I re-read this statement, and thought ? I am listening to you, I had by-passed that milestone long ago.<br />
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I have worshipped you and listened to what you had to say, you have written explicitly on how to make money online? you share tutorials with others, and if you said it It must be good or in recent cases certain things were bad for my business then I would move mountains to get it implemented....<br />
I removed myself from them, stopped following their email alerts, and I have just went on my merry way. <br />
guess what earnings are up. my niche websites are coming into their own, Google loves them, I have spread my little wings, and<br />
guess what, I still see the same posts, the same bickering....anyway you get what I mean.<br />
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My Sales are fantastic and projects out with my normal are on the move. In fact the only person I have been reading is actually not a sole person but <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/" target="_blank">google webmaster tool</a>s, they keep me updated and let me know of any changes, I should be considering google is my friend and sends me lovely organic traffic, I am going to listen to him/her.<br />
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2. without going too into detail, an announcement that this is disastrous for us and we should do this now to help us and now all the ones who did do it are/could/will most likely need to un do the work.<br />
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these people seem to thrive on controversy, people see then as authoritative figures? sorry I don't, I see them as a pain in my growing business ass.<br />
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No more listening or taking advice from others, as actually you should be following your own dreams, not someone elses.<br />
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How do I know who really is earning money online? How do I know that those people who claim they are making money really are? And then how do I know I should be listening to them?<br />
I say don't, be your own person, be creative, don't copy (for goodness sake do not copy, you will be found out)<br />
one of the places I write at online is <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/LisaAuch" target="_blank">Squidoo</a>, and they drummed it into me, Unique Useful, updated content, It is what will always win and get you to the top. <br />
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And if you work in partnership with any online writing platform, for goodness sake accept what they say is it.... they own it, they are in charge and if you do not like it. tough, their rules. You signed up to them.<br />
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If you do not like it any more leave, no ones asking you to stay.<br />
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And in the mean time keep your thoughts and negativity to yourself as it is getting annoying. <br />
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Go and whine somewhere else, as actually you are stopping me and others from achieving my success<br />
I like it, I like the changes that make it fresh.<br />
I continue to earn and keep earning good money with the changes, and it gets more every month, why should I be complaining?<br />
And if working in partnership with them is making me money then I should be listening to them, and only them!<br />
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I have decided from this experience I will become a stand alone, thinker, not a sheep and a follower.<br />
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I think the Serenity Prayer Wall Quote sums it up!and I shall purchase for my office wall. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Y6NKTY/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=mamointhuk-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004Y6NKTY" rel="nofollow">God grant me the serenity to accept things I can not change, the courage to change things i can, and the wisdom to know the difference wall art wall sayings</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=mamointhuk-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004Y6NKTY" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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I feel I need a little Disclaimer : everyone is allowed their own views and opinions, I am all for freedom of speech. however what I am saying is, I will listen to those opinions I may even act on these opinions, BUT before I do anything I shall carry out my own research and make my own decision, not just follow the pack.<br />
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<a href="http://stay-at-home-work-online.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/can-we-stil-write-and-earn-money.html" target="_blank">NOTE: Google Penguin 2.0 What does this mean for Affiliate Marketers now</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4579430612488232365.post-79037710147212928062012-03-28T04:33:00.010-07:002013-05-15T10:11:16.896-07:00Passive Income? Is it possible to earn a passive income online<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Yes you Can Earn a Passive Income Working Online - and I will prove it. </b><br />
What is passive income and why do we strive to achieve it?<br />
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<i><span class="st"><i>Passive income</i> is an income received on a regular basis, with little effort required to maintain it.</span></i><br />
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I wanted to write something about a recent event in my life that made me realise, all the work I have been doing online has indeed lead to me earning a passive income online.<br />
Meaning I could actually take some time off and still earn online without worrying. <br />
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When I first started out working online it seemed the amount of effort I was having to put in > to how much I was earning was way below national minimum wage? You know what I mean, that first payday, when you eventually reach the payout threshold, and see not even dollars but....cents.... and you are just about ready to give up working online and go back to the regular job of 70 hours weeks.<br />
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Looking at this graph of my earnings I could have easily given up in March, but I did not I just kept going, I knew it would work, I believed in myself. Can you see the graph just keeps rising? (date shows Oct11, but actually it is until January payout.)<br />
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This Christmas I had a great Christmas I had worked hard to make sure all my web pages were updated, good products, great content, I had also at this point started to replace affiliate links with my own affiliate links (this is a huge job, but worth it ...as you will find out) then a disaster happened in my family.<br />
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I basically spent nearly 3 months in an intensive Care unit, willing my big brother on. Nothing was further from my mind than my online work. Sadly my brother passed away, and I was left devastated. I took a lot of time off.<br />
now before this happened I would spend nearly every waking moment checking, updating, republishing, checking again and again..... I thought that was what was making me money, during this off period of time, I did not update, I did not check nothing, my little account just ticked over itself. <br />
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But one day an envelope arrived in the post, it was from Amazon.com it included a cheque.....holy moley Christmas had been great! I rushed online to check the stats and could not believe my eyes, earnings from Squidoo had basically still risen! Even although I had changed 50 % of links on page to my own affiliate account to amazon,<br />
**Someone just emailed me to ask a Question: I'm just starting on Squidoo should I just use my own affiliate links<br />
In all honesty NO, to start with I would not recommend you use ALL your own affiliate links? why not?<br />
Squidoo rewards you on lensrank and within their system there is an extra boost for sales via them, yes you share the revenue with Squidoo however whilst you are building your online profile, your knowledge about working online,<br />
Amazon has different % to reach and it is difficult to maximise that % unless you have built good traffic to your pages.<br />
The law of averages kicks in the more traffic clicks through to amazon the higher your sales....<br />
So in the beginning use the modules like Amazon Spotlight,(my favourite and googles too!) working with Squidoo, when you are able to see what is selling, and you have a solid lens with good organic "google" traffic, what links are being clicked on then start to replace these with your own affiliate links.<br />
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This will mean you will probably find your lens will <b>drop in lensrank</b> BUT your earnings will <b>RISE in Amazon commissions. </b><br />
This is where you are heading, where you are not dependant on lensrank or any sites internal payment structure<b>, </b>will these sites be around forever? <b> </b>If they disappeared tomorrow how would you still earn money? have you created blog posts or websites to compliment your pages<br />
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By the way, I am no good with maths, I just seem to work get paid and don't work things out, My outrageous habit of saying ooohhh....look at my earnings on paypal, and not really looking at to where it has come from!<br />
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But my husband loves figures, and he worked out that even in the 3 month period of doing very little I still had an average <b>increase of 20% a month </b> (and this is the man who used to question what I was doing? wasting my time online.... who has now given up his full time job to allow me to work online full time and more! He is now a proud house husband, and does the Maths part for me...lol...) <b><br />
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Wait - I did not nothing for 3 months yet still had increase, yes it was Christmas time, which he tried to include for and put into context. (By giving the average increase. )<br />
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So yes you can earn a residual/passive income from working online. But I do indeed <i>work hard</i> but it did indeed pay off when I most needed it. <br />
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<i>I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.....Margaret Thatcher (Britain's first Woman Prime Minister)</i><br />
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<i>I lost not only my brother, but indeed my biggest supporter of my dreams, no matter how crazy my little ideas for webpages, he was there telling me how fantastic they were, thanks Gav x</i><br />
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<a href="http://stay-at-home-work-online.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/can-we-stil-write-and-earn-money.html" target="_blank">Page of NOTE: update for Penguin 2.0 is this the end for Affiliate Marketing</a></div>
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So now you want to know how to help your failing web Page. <br />
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I cannot take credit for this, I learned how to work out how to SEO optimise my pages, from a great on line friend @<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/thrivingmom">Thrivingmom</a> on squidoo and I love to share her fantastic tips of how to check HOW does Google See your Page?<br />
and then we can start to work out why our lens is failing and how we can fix it. <br />
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Keyword Research<br />
Good Quality original content<br />
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but if your lens is failing then we need to know how to fix it<br />
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I am going to send you over to Thriving moms post, <br />
<b>STEP 1: <a href="http://thrivingmom-squidoo.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-is-my-lens-failing.html">why is my lens failing</a></b> because it is so easy you will want to go straight away and check all your pages! <br />
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and have a great look around as you will also find Thrivingmom shares her tips freely and great advice especially the post about <b>STEP 2: <a href="http://thrivingmom-squidoo.blogspot.com/2010/11/using-your-keywords.html">Using your Keywords</a> </b>throughout your post, and how to do it easily!<br />
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Use the <b>Step 1, Step 2 process on a failing lens/ web/ blog / post </b> <br />
your keywords more focused= your page being more focused. <br />
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Good SEO does not need to be complicated. <br />
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You can see more of <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/thrivingmom">thrivingmoms work on squidoo<br />
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<b>My Top Tips to get more Visitors to your Webpages - There are no secrets here. </b><br />
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Sorry I have not posted in a while however I have not been very well, glad to say on the mend, just taking it slowly. <br />
I wanted to share with you some exciting news, <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/LisaAuch">My Squidoo Account</a> broke 10,000 in November 2011 Visitors<br />
Someone said something about it being thanks to Halloween lenses,<br />
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(March 2012 23,000 smashed one of my New Year Goals so will need to set another one!)<br />
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Just a side note: I have NOT made any Halloween niche specific lenses this year, these are all last years Halloween lenses. That have matured with age. and a little bit of tweaking. <br />
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Even though I have been away for some time from the computer, that does not mean that the<b> hard work</b> that you do when you start working online in the beginning, does not pay out in the end.<br />
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YES hard Work! good old fashioned work.<br />
People are always wanting to know the inside secrets. How are you doing it? they must know something I don't?<br />
Well I can tell you there really are none. <b>Focus on 1 project at a time </b> <b>Work</b>, are you honestly <b>"working"</b> are you doing every step you have been told to do?<br />
Religiously, everyday are you <b>"working" </b>or are you kidding yourself on, and moaning when payday doesn't happen.<br />
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<b>Are you focused</b>, or do you go off on a tangent, and spread yourself to thin that your pages all crumble, as you have not spent the time or effort required for every page to survive online. <br />
My biggest hurdle to overcome, was getting "niche" on my subjects, and creating a niche that I owned. basically focusing on a certain subject and building good pages.<br />
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I help a lot of people online, they ask me for help, later I will pass them and ask how its going, "its not working" so I feel bad, I go and check out their pages, and instantly, see that they have not done <b>ALL</b> the steps I told them they need to do.<br />
My biggest thing is to keep adding value to your pages, nurture and tend to those pages, like this blog post, I first wrote it when I had 10,000 visitors to my pages, then 15,000, then 20,000 see what I mean fresh updated content google loves it,<br />
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How committed are you to making it work, do you think you should write a page and then move on to the next one? What is holding up your structure, spread thinly it Will collapse, building building and securing your pages future is what works.<br />
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So If it is not working, work out what You are not doing to make it work. <br />
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That's what really does annoy me. People saying this does not work, yes it does, but what are you doing to make it work.<br />
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Do you complain you are not making anything when you have been told give it time, nurture those lenses/pages<br />
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giving it time? how long is "Give it Time?" Well guys for me it took around just under a year to break that 10,000 visitors mark.<br />
Yep you heard me, but all that hard work paid off as I told you I was very unwell and my pages were "working for me" giving me the best payout yet, ever.<br />
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A recent life event meant I had to take <i>2 months off </i>and I still made increase in earnings proving Squidoo and other online platforms can provide a <a href="http://stay-at-home-work-online.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/passive-income-is-it-possible-to-earn.html" target="_blank">passive income</a>.<br />
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General Advice to getting more visitors to your pages -<br />
Write about what you know Write and publish even more. Create even more pages than you have already. Nurture and cherish and care for those pages, let Google see you care about them and so should they! Google is smart real smart, they are like big brother they are watching you! Add in your own perspective.<br />
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<b>Top tip 1:</b> Learn SEO, inside outside upside down, type into google SEO and just work your way through it to be honest <a href="https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=sitemaps&passive=1209600&continue=https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/&followup=https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/" rel="nofollow">Google webmaster Central</a> taught me everything I wanted and ever need to know! Get a google account! they are the masters learn from them. <br />
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<b>Top Tip 2: </b>Be careful who you follow/take advice from/listen to online.<br />
Are they cleaner than a whistle, do they give good information, or do they suggest you do things that are unethical? Take Shortcuts.....are you a sheep and follow the crowd, or are you your own person.....see this post about <a href="http://stay-at-home-work-online.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/who-is-really-in-charge-of-your-online.html" target="_blank">Who really is in charge of Your Online Business. </a><br />
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Yes using these techniques may give you an initial boost, but fly very close or does in fact break sites Terms of Service? And getting kicked off, all your hard work down the drain. <br />
but in the same turn if someone tells you hey you should be doing this, and you DO NOT do it, then you complain saying it did not work.<br />
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<b>Top Tip 3:</b> recognise who is working hard, follow THEM! Who is walking the talk...there is a lot of smoke and mirrors online, look for the hardworking producing results, follow them, be supportive of them and always encourage others, I have built up a fantastic network of online working friends!<br />
If someone is to say, hey try this Shortcut, its a bit dodgy might get your account locked but it brings in good visitors, hey you might even be infringing every law under the sun, but you can get some visitors!<br />
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Would you really?<br />
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I love my <a href="http://digg.com/lisaauch" target="blank">Digg</a> pals, I read, follow and Digg their stuff and they Digg my stuff! I facebook like just about every lens I come across that I like, I google+1<br />
...Ask yourself do you shamelessly self promote or do you promote and encourage others?<br />
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Google is counting "interest" in your page in their calculations! If others are talking about your page, then Google will be impressed and send lots more people to it too.<br />
Social networking is going to be the way forward in ranking - watch this space. <br />
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We may be in competition with each other, but the information I have learned from joining Places where lensmasters hang out has been priceless. But more importantly the connections I have made are invaluable<br />
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<b>Top Tip 4:</b> Stay away from anything that smells too good to be true! It always is. <br />
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<b>Top Tip 5: </b>Make a daily plan! Make yourself accountable, stick to it and execute it, until I do this (and sometimes I forget to too!) I wander aimlessly around.<br />
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I now switch the computer off at dinner time, and after eating together, will sit down with my husband, talking about his work day....boring but I have to give him time too..lol, and then I get to talk about my day, what have I done, making myself accountable.<br />
My husband has a very renewed interest in my online work, since we worked out over the last year, I average 20% increase in "wages" a month. And notifications daily on my squidoo points stream. <br />
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webpages, to promoting them. I will then write a post around YOUR Questions. I will answer as I can, based on MY personal knowledge, based on MY working practice. Based on what I have been doing and has been working for me. <br />
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Now someone asked me a question on here before, however forgot to say who they were, they knew me, and my work but I just answered on the comment, so PLEASE if you are a lensmaster (squidoo) add in your lensmaster name, so I can properly accredit you!<br />
Add in your Question, or wondering how to.....I will try my very hardest to answer as best I can to my ability however if not I will try to direct you in the best direction.<br />
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Remember Question, NAME, contact (or where I can find you online)<br />
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So If you are wanting to see these kind of notification daily on your pages, what have you got to do.....<br />
<b>Do the Work!</b><br />
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<strong><a href="http://stay-at-home-work-online.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/can-we-stil-write-and-earn-money.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NOTE: Google Penguin 2.0 and what it means for Affiliate Marketers </a></strong><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4579430612488232365.post-47898018459784539452011-08-12T08:34:00.000-07:002013-05-15T09:39:57.244-07:00How do you make money online?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b> How Do you make money online?</b><br />
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Recently so many people have asked me this Question, and after thinking about it. I wonder sometimes if they believe me, <br />
A. that I work online <br />
B. I make money from doing it. <br />
C. Is it really as easy as I find it. <br />
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Someone also asked recently about how much traffic/visitors to my pages I get in a week. <br />
If I told you as of time of writing to 125 pages nearly topping 5,000 people (update October 2011 10,2500 and rising daily!!!!) - what would you say to that? <br />
And that is only my work on Squidoo @<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/LisaAuch">LisaAuch</a>, this does not count any individual Blogs, or any other online publishing platforms I use <br />
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.....i also want to try to encourage you to take the leap, to start exploring working online, because I truly believe if I can do it any body can. <br />
So the easiest way I can explain what I do is this....<br />
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I create individual web pages, I provide information, tutorials or just write about things that interest me....I know if I am searching online about something then so must other people.<br />
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....then I was asked:<b> But how does that make you money?</b><br />
Well I use an online publishing platform, like <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/referral/LisaAuch">Squidoo which is FREE</a> to join, and who give me a percentage of their AdSense earnings, (they display adverts on my pages i write on) <br />
... depending on various aspects, that Squidoo take into account, and the more popular my pages the better it is for me making money. <br />
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Internally on Squidoo we call it lensrank. <br />
A higher "lensrank" will yield a higher payout. <br />
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<b>So is that the only way you can make money?</b><br />
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No, I also can recommend products to people. Who may or may not decide to buy them. <br />
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<a href="http://stay-at-home-work-online.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-cash-in-on-hot-topics-creating.html">How do you know what people want to buy online</a>? (creating a Sales Page that Sells) </b><br />
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This is a hard one, because you dont really know what people want to buy....it can be like a guessing game. But there are tools online that can help me find items to suggest that may be popular and people are buying. They may then go onto buy it and I get a percentage of the sale, as a thank you for sending that customer to them - In online work we call that "affiliate marketing"<br />
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<b>That sounds too technical for me?<br />
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This frustrates me when I hear people say this, if you can use GOOGLE search then you can find what people are looking for, billions of people all day type things into google, Google has got that good at it it even suggests (tries to guess) What you are actually looking for in fact it will give you other suggestions to try too - In our writing online we call these "KeyWords" <br />
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keywords are what we want to focus on when writing our pages, as they will draw in our visitors. <br />
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<b>But how do I get visitors to my pages?<br />
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....If you write about what people want - choose keywords<br />
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<b>So I can just choose these keywords and write about them?...</b><br />
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I personally dont recommend this however I know of people who do, this, they may pick a product the feel they want to sell and write their page around that. <br />
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I prefer to pick my keywords another way.<br />
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I love Fashion, fashion is a huge industry and I would be writing up against the likes of Vogue, Burberry cosmopolitan...I would have NO CHANCE, none whats so ever. I could try, but it just would be too much work, for me.<br />
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So "Fashion" as a keyword I would not go for. However I love my <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/the-maxi-dress">Maxi Dress</a>, my Fair Isle Sweater, My leather Aviator Jacket, my <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/polka-dots-seasons-fashion-trend">Polka Dot Dress</a>, which I had personally all bought online, so I did indeed write pages about these items. This is called Niche Marketing. Being more specific about what you are talking about. <br />
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<b>....Ahhh.....So I can just write about what I know make it specific and I will make money online?....</b><br />
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Well, I wish it was <i>that easy</i>, I know lots of people who are fantastic writer, have excellent material, who are talented artists, and who cannot get more than a few visits a day. (<a href="http://stay-at-home-work-online.blogspot.com/2011/06/5-mistakes-people-make-trying-to-earn.html">visit 5 mistake most people working online should avoid making</a>)<br />
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To work online you need to understand the nature of the beast we are working with, The Internet. Mostly we talk about Google and ranking on google, as the big G dominates the market place. <br />
You need to understand and implement <b><a href="http://stay-at-home-work-online.blogspot.com/2011_07_01_archive.html">SEO - Search Engine Optimisation</a></b> this is the bit that frustrate and confuses people, and in fact most will give up because they think it far too complicated. I recently helped someone, who has fabulous work, all around the web, but going nowhere, getting no traffic at all, Now their work is of high standard and deserves to be recognised, I soon spotted the fault, and with helping them to understand HOW to optimize their pages, for the SEARCH engines, and understanding what and how people <i>search the internet</i> The people typing into the search bar kind of have an idea what they are looking for, so you need to think like people searching. That when they type in that search related to your page, what is going to make Your page be the one picked by them to visit?<br />
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<b>...and is it...complicated.</b><br />
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If everyone knew the <i>"secret"</i> formula we would all be millionaires, but there are steps we can take to helping our page, look good for the search engines. <br />
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Many claim to know these secrets, many charge you for these secrets...however there really is no secret! <br />
Just a bit of work required, in learning it. In fact I have a great guide as published by Google itself here on another post FREE about understanding and implementing good <a href="http://stay-at-home-work-online.blogspot.com/2011/07/understanding-seo-free.html">SEO HERE</a><br />
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so now I have an answer to the question of how do you make money online?<br />
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<i>I <a href="http://stay-at-home-work-online.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-cash-in-on-hot-topics-creating.html">create niche specific pages</a>, publishing Search Engine Optimised Pages on the web, that earn me affiliate commissions by recommending products to my readers.</i><br />
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If you already make pages like I do and are wanting places to promote.<br />
Join in over at <a href="http://wizzley.com/?pr=160">Wizzley.com </a> - where you can write articles and earn from adsenses and your affiliate programmes, great for creating backlinks to your articles <br />
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<a href="http://stay-at-home-work-online.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/can-we-stil-write-and-earn-money.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">***please note the internet has changed Penguin 2.0 rolled out Read here how it affects affiliate marketers</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4579430612488232365.post-90987292037032309472011-08-04T07:16:00.000-07:002011-08-04T07:39:05.808-07:00FREE- Squidoo Help eBook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">If you are looking for a FREE how to Squidoo Guide, then this little gem is just what you need. <br />
I have always had this Guide on my computer <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo-step-by-step" rel="nofollow">Learn Squidoo - Step by Step</a> and I am so happy to tell you a group of lensmasters have been working hard to re-vamp it! <br />
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I would like to point you to the new updated Step-by-step Guide to Squidoo, that will give you resources, such as the best keyword research tools, and of course what to do with your pages once you have published them.<br />
Includes a fantastic current list of directories as used by most of us and proven to help, your articles. <br />
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It is written by a very well established group of lensmasters, known around the community for creating quality pages. And most of all achieving success on Squidoo.<br />
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<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo-step-by-step" rel="nofollow">Learn Squidoo - Step by Step </a><br />
Written by : <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/lakeerieartists" rel="nofollow">Lakeerieartist</a>, <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/BevsPaper" rel="nofollow">BevsPaper</a> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/aj2008" rel="nofollow">Aj2008</a><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4579430612488232365.post-13312985853693589792011-07-03T14:52:00.000-07:002011-07-03T14:53:22.051-07:00Understanding SEO - Free<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: right;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Google_Appliance.jpg" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Google Appliance as shown at RSA Expo 2008 in ..." height="478" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Google_Appliance.jpg/300px-Google_Appliance.jpg" style="border: medium none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="300" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Google_Appliance.jpg">Wikipedia</a></span></span>I got a lovely Freebie for you! How about Googles very own <a href="http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en//webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf" rel="nofollow">Search engine Optimization Starter Guide PDF</a> <br />
I can continue to give you all the tips in the world however if you do not understand how Google likes us to present out web pages, yes the Dos and donts! then there is no point in me going on. <br />
apologies for not giving this earlier, I just happened to find this after an online associate sent me to a site for something else, and after clicking a few links I came accross the actual document that Google gives to its staff. To explain how they want to see SEO on a webpage, or rather their bots do when they crawl it! <br />
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I wish I had this earlier in my online career, so easy to understand, and we all get so blinded by following other sites, we forget that google itself provides us with great tools to help us in our quest to get onto Google pages, and recieve traffic.<br />
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So do not hesitate, download your <a href="http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en//webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf">free Google SEO TIPS-</a><br />
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Read it and read it again, and make sure the red bits are noted in the back of your mind, and try it out the next time youwrite your web page! <br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I am going to show you today how I rank page 1 Google for images the easy way. How to use the <b>alt=</b> to add a SEO boost to your pictures on your webpages.<i>The alt attribution tag allows you to provide text for the object or picture you are inserting</i>. Think along the lines of search engines cannot see (look at) your picture and know what it is, so tell them. Or if a visually imparied reader was using a programme that reads the text, how would they know what your picture was of?<br />
So we are gong to make sure every single image<i>has</i> an alternative text explanation.(alt=)<br />
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Do you panic at the site of HTML? Don't worry this is so easy, it will become second nature to find it every time you insert a picture using HTML code. I just want you to spot 1 piece of code.<br />
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Did you know that most people searching online search via the images search? And we all know that a picture tells a thousand words. So use Pictures wisely , and legally! Remember just because it is on google does not mean it is not copyrighted, so always check the terms of use. <br />
I was helping someone with their online store, and saw immediately that they were not optimising their images for search engines.<br />
Their images were all named. Project 1.jpg and project 2.jpg Google did not know that they were <b>purple, wedding invitations, that could be customized.</b> So we had to make sure google and the other search engines knew this.So we gave each card the relevant color, that they were customizable and it was a wedding invitation. this also can bring in targeted visitors ready to spend, as they will find exactly what they are looking for. <br />
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I have had great success from the technique and have found my pictures ranking Page 1 Google for image search, and indeed this is where most of my traffic comes from.<br />
Using pictures and images for your writing is an important factor in creating your pages.<br />
I like to use <a href="http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?AID=651977733&PSTID=1&LTID=19&LID=112&ParentAID=651977733&lang=1%22%20target=%22_top">Allposters.com</a> and <a href="http://affiliates.art.com/get.art?T=15065807&A=361834&L=10&S=6">Art.com</a> and for keeping within copyright law, would suggest anyone using images on their pages sign up to them.<br />
They provide good affiliate programmes, and recording stats, so you can earn if someone buys a picture via your website.<br />
They are both very easy to use, and provide all the links for you to place the pictures on your sites. I use both.<br />
I am going to use this pretty picture to show you how to optimise your images for SEO. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="APCTitleAnchor" href="http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?item=3722856&AID=651977733&PSTID=1&LTID=1&lang=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank" title="Field of Purple Flowers"><img alt="Field of Purple Flowers" border="0" height="86" src="http://imagecache6.allposters.com/SML/27/2740/22PND00Z.jpg" width="115" /></a></div><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: xx-small;"> <a class="APCTitleAnchor" href="http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?item=3722856&AID=651977733&PSTID=1&LTID=1&lang=1" target="_blank" title="Field of Purple Flowers">Buy This Allposters.com</a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;"><br />
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To make an image visible on your page you will paste firt the Html code provided for the picture, which will include the <span style="background-color: cyan;">destination URL</span> and the <span style="background-color: magenta;">IMAGE url</span>, and <span style="background-color: red;">description of image to search engines ( alt=)</span> and the <span style="background-color: #ffd966;">text to be shown</span> I will use art.com as an example. <br />
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<a class="APCTitleAnchor" href="<span style="background-color: cyan;">http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?item=3722856&AID=651977733&PSTID=1&LTID=1&lang=1" target="_blank" title="Field of Purple Flowers</span>"><<span style="background-color: magenta;">img src="http://imagecache6.allposters.com/SML/27/2740/22PND00Z.jpg</span>" <span style="background-color: red;">alt="Field of Purple Flowers"</span> border="0" <span style="background-color: #93c47d;">height="86" width="115"</span>></a><br />
<div style="background-color: #ffe599;"><BR></div><div style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:10;" ></div><div style="background-color: #ffe599;"><a class="APCTitleAnchor" href="http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?item=3722856&AID=651977733&PSTID=1&LTID=1&lang=1" target="_blank" title="Field of Purple Flowers">Buy This Allposters.com</a><BR></div><div style="background-color: #ffe599;"></span></div><br />
You will copy and pate the whole html code into your page, and will stay as is the highlighted <span style="background-color: red;">RED section</span> is what we are interested in for today<br />
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You want your picture to explain to search engines what your page is about, using your keywords. Now say I was using this picture for my page titles "Lavender Health Benefits" actually the name "field of purple flowers" is okay as it does explain what this picture is about, but what kind of flowers? Lavender....our page is about Lavanders health benefits<br />
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so we are going to change the <b>alt=</b> to tell search engines what this picture is about.<br />
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so the replacement text will look like this <br />
<span style="color: red;">alt="field of purple flowers- lavander-health benefits"</span><br />
when you are saving a picture to your harddrive to use, Save it using your <b>keywords</b> here too.<br />
Instead of save as "003.jpg" change the name to what the picture is "child holding a rabbit.jpg"If you are using more than one word divide by a hypen,(-) do not keyword stuff, search engines are too smart now.<br />
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I have a download pdf available for easy reference and shows how I hold Page 1 rank 1,3,4 for images for my products!<br />
<b>Download here - <a href="http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/2733784/how-to-get-your-website-or-article-onto-page-1-of-google-free-pdf-pdf-april-8-2011-8-01-pm?da=y%22%20rel=%22nofollow">How to Get on Page 1 Google with images </a></b><br />
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Just for your information I highlighted the <span style="background-color: #6aa84f; color: black;">Height and width</span>, part of the codes, you can manipulate this to suit your preferred size, always keep in ration, if you take 100 off the height, take 100 off the width etc. <b><br />
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Did you know to do this, will you be trying it now? anything else you are unsure of? and I can help with, let me know what your thoughts are....<br />
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You will come across many programmes that claim to make money fast online. They are going to show you how to do it, my advice is run in the opposite direction.<br />
I was so excited to achieve my goal of making money online, and being able to have the choice to continue working at home, or going back to a JOB, I wanted to go and shout it from the rooftops, and tell people how I did it. To show them how they could do it.<br />
Was it easy, no it was a very rollercoaster journey. And if you ask anyone who works online, is it easy, what do you think their answer will be? Do you know most people who work online will make no money, as they can easily fall into several traps. <br />
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Part of the reason I made <a href="http://stay-at-home-work-online.blogspot.com/2011/05/introduction-to-work-at-home-mom.html"><b>Moms work at home Blog</b></a>, is to indeed share with you my tips that I have found helped me go from zero earnings to a steady income online. Including what I <i>have</i> learned to do (= make money )and <i>what not to do</i>, (= make absoloutely no money) working online. <br />
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<b>How I make money online</b>: I use affiliate marketing, reviewing products, blogging, building unique Free webpages like on my favourite place <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/referral/LisaAuch%20">Squidoo</a>.I now have earnings on a spreadsheet to help me keep track of what is working what is not. (this could be a tip in itself, as if maybe I had kept track of what works and did not work in the beginning, I could have fixed the errors of my ways!)<br />
But there were many mistakes I made in the beginning, probably making my journey a little harder, but hey you learn.<br />
Working online does not come with a job desription, you dont turn up one day and have someone to hold your hand walking you through the steps. No-body to be acountable when the figures or money does not come in but yourself. <br />
I am going to give my 5 top Tips that I learned that did NOT make me any money, before you fall into the <br />
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<b>1.</b><b> Do not buy! I made $1,0000 in 10 minutes or Signing up for the programmes that claim to make you money online. For a FREE</b><br />
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Why? It is never FREE, or that easy, they make money from your buying their products, then the guy who buys the product realises he has been conned, so takes on the same strategy used when he was conned into buying it and sells you it, and so the cycle continues.<br />
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<b>Solution:</b> You can get all the information you need for free on the net, it takes a bit of looking, but its all there. Join forums, there are hundreds of great forums that will have the answers tucked away in their threads, pure golden nuggets of information. So use the searh facility for your query, Type in the keywords you are looking for such as "backlinks" I bet you get exactly what you are lookng for, and for FREE. <br />
If you come accross someone who makes claims that cause you to raise your eyebrow, put their user name through Google, see what does come up. Do they have good articles, where else can you see their work online? What do others say about them on profile pages etc. Look at the comments section, <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/LisaAuch">what are others saying about them</a>. (this is my main online Bio)<br />
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<b> 2.</b> <b>Do not join all affiliate programmes just because you think it will make you money, it won't. Joining every affiliate programme you can sign up for, promoting it, seeing no return and moving on to the next hot product to hit the market...waste of your time. </b><br />
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<b> </b>Come on admit it, the first thing you do on a page is look for the affiliate sign up. I lost count how many affiliate programmes I was a member of. I now have built and established a good working relationship with a core of trusted reliable affiliate programmes that I will use and fully endorse. And that am satisfied will only give exactly what is being promoted and value for money<br />
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<b>Solution: </b>Research your niche market, sometimes hidden in the depths of the ebook seas, there are absoloutes gems, out ranked by the Gurus who have pushed their products with SEO, hype and rubbish to the top of the pile. Choose 1 produt, research it, buy it love it and stick with it, if you dont then your readers won't either. It is so much easier to give your honest testomony of why this is a great product. It is easier to write your artile when you know what you are talking about. <br />
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<b>3.</b> <b>Annoying your Visitors to your web page. </b><br />
Being sent to a page after reading your review and then realising it is not what you were really looking for and then you try to leave, and some smart alec thought hey lets add pop up ads that annoy your visitors when you try to leave the page, and then another pop up saying "are you really sure"Of course I am sure! This will make you lose any visitors and creditbility you already have, and I just want to leave this page, I am not interested in what discount you have to offer me, and I would not return to the page that sent me there. So thoroughly chek out your affiliate programmes, capture pages etc. <br />
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<b>4. Flashing Banner adverts</b>.<br />
Do you ever click them? I know I don't. i hate them, and the majority of people online do too, we know it is going to lead to our email addresses being used in all sorts of scam and emails.<br />
So think about it will your visitors. they take up space they look nasty to the eye, slapped in the middle of your text. <br />
<b>Solution:</b> It has been proven that text links convert, in fact I make more money and get more clickthroughs using text links than I do with product pictures.<br />
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<b>5. Copying someone elses work</b><br />
I spend a lot of time online, and I can spot a copycat straight away. And anybody else who works online starts to work out the authentic from the re-gurgetated sraped material. In fact I could direct you to around 10-20 pages off the top of my head that "scrapes" ideas and even layouts, and then I would direct you to the original page. Don't do it, its cheap and its nasty, and once people start to work it out. You are finished. <br />
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<b>Solution:</b> Be Unique, provide Useful Content, and be honest. If you are that impressed by someones work, say that, link to themm let them know you are a fan. Heck you can still make your page, but let them know and credit their idea within your work. Send a quick mail to the original author saying thanks you inspired me. Its amazing the power of that.<br />
But do not steal their content.<br />
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If you have not started a blog, then I really suggest you do, many free places, to start with ( I have always taken the Free options) <br />
See why having a blog is a great way to compliment your online work. I made a page about <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-make-a-profitable-blog-that-sells">how to make money Blogging</a> which I share ideas, stats and traffic insights, how I used hot Topics, and hard to find items, and why you should consider selling more expensive items too. Check out the huge sale I made. these are still live, and although I do not spend as much time as I should they all serve a purpose, in my online adventures. <br />
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Did these mistakes ring true for you? Or do you have your own list of what does not work, when working online. Would you like to know about something specific, Drop me a comment. <br />
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Are you making the most of all the places you can get the word out about your pages, and websites?<br />
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Many of us who create web pages, find the hardest part is finding traffic, and getting visitors to our pages, now take <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/LisaAuch" target="_blank">Squidoo</a> as an example, where you can create web pages for FREE and publish them, but what use are they to people if they cannot find them.<br />
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I do not belive in spending money when I am trying to earn it. Internal traffic that the structure of Squidoo (where I do the majority of my writing online) provides is great, however no matter where you page is published on the web it is useless unless you get the word out.<br />
The best way for me was by joining several Social media sites. Now depending on your interests or "niche" I find it best to join the networking sites that will suit you best, many though have all the catagories you would need. If you intend to just drop your links in, and leave, then you will soon find your followers dropping off, you want to build followers, give them useful, information, create quality posts, In the beginning make the extra effort, go and see what your followes are doing, check them out, if you like it share it, to share their work. The author knows when it has been shared, and will make a mental note, to check out your work, and perhaps share yours. <br />
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the most obvious and my favourite, it is so easy to use, and I like to see that visitors do indeed click on those tweets. <b> My tweet for this blog showed up within 50 minutes of publishing. Page 1 Google</b></div>
I love that you can just tweet short and sweet. and most webpages have built in facilities to tweet things of interest. It is also being debated just now about how tweeting your newly published page is indeed getting your page indexed super fast! (see picture below) <br />
<b>But how do you get followers</b>? This is a question many ask, and it applys for all social bookmarking and and media sites.<br />
Make sure you have a link to where people can find you online on all your pages, have a search for like minded people within your interests, follow them and you will start to see you following building up.<br />
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You will be amazed at how this start to build up as you go along, but a word of caution, post your links too many times, you will be seen as a spammer, posting not enough people will lose interest in what you have to say.<br />
Posting Unique, Useful content will bring in traffic, and posting rubbish will see you page end up in the dump.<br />
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Give a little too, if someone gives you a vote, make sure to check out their work too, if you are just seen as taking then people won't give either, so remember if there is a community have a look around, join in, make new associates, even if its for 10 minutes, it all is in the benefit of your online work. Yes there are peole who just spam, or giving useless information or just want to sell you something, you soon work out who they are, and just move on.<br />
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Other Social Places you can find me at and connet, come on over and join, you will be pleased to see some familiar faces from Squidoo, and If you are not a member of Squidoo, they are a fantastic community of people all sharing the same goals, Working online making extra money from home.<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/LisaAuch-Blondes-Guide-to-Writing-Online-on-Squidoo/171363046229623" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a>- do you have a facebook page for your business? set one up today for free, FB will give you all the tools you need to help you promote your page. </li>
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<li><a href="http://digg.com/lisaauch" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DIGG</a>- Submit links to your favourite pages </li>
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<li><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.squidoo.com/sell-photographs-online" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stumble Upon</a> - fun site (once you are set up find me there LisaAuch)</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.reddit.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reddit</a> - They do have a maximum submission amount within the day (once your set up find me - LisaAuch)</li>
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How about Social sites that you can earn some money from?<br />
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A brand new site, ran by a very successful Squidoo lensmaster and his online partners, earn money here with sharing adsense and sales modules. <br />
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<li><a href="http://wizzley.com/?pr=160" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Join Wizzley Now </a>write articles on Wizzley, has strict policies in place, brand new website, and rising fast up the page ranks - Moderated and great for backlinks</li>
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<li><a href="http://shetoldme.com/referral/73689664" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">She Told Me</a> - a fun site with adsense sharing</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.best-reviewer.com/referral/77777d12" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Best Reviewer </a>- another 100% adsense sharing site, make a top 10 best of list! So much fun</li>
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And last but not least, if you have a blog, who knows about it, even if you use that blog to just write about your articles to get backlinks, follow others who have similar blogs, If you are asked to leave a comment, leave a comment, people like to see what others are saying and you will be surprised how many people may click on your profile picture or name, I<br />
<b><i>If they are interested in what you are saying.</i></b> It may not be my blog your interested in, but I bet some of my readers would be interested in YOUR work.<br />
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there is a whole world wide web out there for you to explore, so go and explore it, and if you bump into me, remember and say Hi, I love meeting fellow marketers out and about. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4579430612488232365.post-29863348215514569342011-05-31T02:57:00.000-07:002011-05-31T03:41:48.457-07:00How to cash in on Hot Topics - Creating a great "sales" page<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I did indeed tell you I am going to share secrets with you, but I dont think I can share secrets with you, unless I explain how these "secrets" work. It does wind me up those wonderful tutorials that say do this this and this, and you will be sucessful, But maybe they only give you how to find keywords, okay so once you have your keywords what then do you do.<br />
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I love writing and especially creative writing, however as yourselves and I know, these do not make big sales, So I try to have a balance, my more serious pages, and then there are my product review pages "sales pages" and I dont mind having them mixed in with my work, as I believe it helps build a good solid reputable foundation, and readers like that. i only ever do product reviews about things that I can or have used, and have indeed found useful, or suggest products that help me. I have found these more successful when I put in a personal recommendation . <br />
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So you make product review pages, and still cant sell a thing. Sometimes we can even over complicate things....and make it more difficult than we should. <br />
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So I am going to take you through the full process, from starting with an idea. To publishing, and to maximising publicity. <br />
Many of people online want to know how to make sales, what is the secret? We all strive to make that sale. We get so worked up about keyword research and where to post our pages for marketing so the search engines find us that sometimes we just look past eactly what people are looking for and end up makeing it "too technical" that our page focus disappears. We end up with no sales, and wonder why our customer who is looking for that item get bored and clicks to another page.<br />
What about the "I will not bother doing that as there are already pages out there" ....how many timesw have you thought, "wish I had done that" and moved onto find your next topic? Well the page I am going to share with you today, is indeed one that I was actually reluctant to make, due to the amount of other related pages out there, however a chance day out made me change my mind as I spotted something, stopped to take a picture, and then I spoke to the owner, who had come out to ask why I was taking a picture? and they told me how hard a job they had "finding" the Decorations. <br />
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So I am going to reveal a page, that made sales in 2weeks, and actually still makes the odd sale today, even though the event is over.<br />
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So what hot topic did I jump on? The Royal Wedding of Course.<br />
Now this was a local pub of ours, and when we passed it I could not resist stopping and taking a photo. It was so over the Top for a little country pub, we thought it hysterical. I knew the owner who came out to chat with me, and told me how hard it had been to eventually find the decorations online. <br />
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I created a page, now these were indeed ofr the UK market, however I also knew Amazon.com US had these items, so <b>I also put a "text" link onto this page, for my US customers</b>. (this is very important to note, as you will find out why later!) <br />
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I knew this was going to be a hot topic, and all the available URLS were already snapped up, and I decided NOT to look at my competition, as this can put pressure on your sometimes, (this is okay to do this for a hot Topic, but not recommended for a longer term page that you will work on and tweak) <br />
So I grabbed the best URL, which was Garden Party Decorations....<br />
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This was more for fun. I wrote my introduction, with no keyword investigation, no traffic analysis, nothing....I was just writing a page about my mum having a<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/garden-party-decorations"> Garden Party for the Royal wedding </a>and I was in charge of finding the Garden decoration. This was indeed true.<br />
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I included silly Face Masks of the Royal couple, Cake toppers, flags, banners....totally over the top.<br />
i published this, posted in the SquidU forum to give the community a laugh, and left it.<br />
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So lets re-cap, No keyword research, No promotion, No backlinks apart from SquidU. Google traffic started within 12 hours, and never stopped, over 2 weeks you can see nearly 1,000 visitors. <br />
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This is a screen shot of my monthly traffic for April/May, this is what i would accept as fantastic results for a "hot topic" considering it was a page that just is made to cover a significant event. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> So how did I get traffic, what "marketing did i do to get traffic to my lens. To see this</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now I did not post the lens on FB, or twitter, what I did was posted the <b>picture</b> of my local pub, as my friends all socialise there, and just said "have you seen what they have done to the local pub?" and put a link to my lens on the end, and just said, check out the cardboard cutouts of Wills and Kate, this caught like wild fire, and even ended up being printed out by my brothers friend in australia for their office picture board!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">but what was even more exciting to see was what happened over at amazon, I had used a "TEXT" link only for US customers. And this is what I saw from April 1 to May</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So what have we learned, sometimes capatilizing on a "Hot Topic" is very worth while. I hear so many times, "oh I didn't do that as someone else has", well do it differently, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sometimes taking an alternative route to promotion, finding a funny photo and sharing it, works better than "promoting" yourlink, I must admit I hate promoting my links or my work via FB or twitter to my friends and family, but this was different and fun. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>I do recommend keywords research, and never normally make a page without it, but sometimes just writing about it can work too. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Don't be held back, if you have an idea write about it, I was going to write about the Royal Wedding but put it off as I saw so many wonderful pages dedicated to it already, wonder how much I would have made if I had just made the page when I first thought about it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hot Topics is a great way to cash in on the here and now, and I do like these pages, usually easy to put together, and okay won't last long but work alongside your other pages as you build them up. And you are Making money online. This is the disheartning part of working online, you are making Quality pages, but people who are going to "buy" want to find what they are specifically looking for there and then, and have their credit card in their hands, waiting to "find" their product. We just need to Show them where it is and how they can buy it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Do you know how to find hot topics?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The best way for keeping your finger on the pulse is <a href="http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends">Google Hot Trends </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Some I would not touch with a barge pole, however you can watch and see how things start to appear, especially films, realitly TV shows, (you will get a few weekes out of them!) and up and coming pop stars/actors....who will have a continuing career. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you read this and found it interesting I would appreciate your feedback, Did this post help you through some frustrations of not making sales, or is there anything else I can explain to you about making sales with "Hot Topics"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I do belive there is always someone to thank for my knowledge, and have played a part in my success, now...a lot of to and fro about PotpieGirl but I did indeed buy her <a href="http://lisaauch.potpiegirl.hop.clickbank.net%20/">One Week Marketing</a>, and this is where I got a "foundation" to niche marketing, I am a learner, I need to learn all the ins and out, yes there was information that I found useless, and there was information I found priceless. I belive in learning the knowledge, and in fact I still to this day recieve her emails, so people find it irritating, I don't I read every one of them, this lady is a successful online marketer doing eactly what you and I want to do too, so Of course I read them , I may not click on her links, but if it interests me then I will. There may just be something that clicks for me, like jumping on the "Hot Topic Trends" Yes these guys make money from selling their secrets, but sometimes, they give you that little nugget of information that makes it click. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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I have now been "working online" for over 2 years, and looking back there are many things I wish I had known when I started writing online.<br />
Keywords<br />
SEO<br />
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Images and how to use them properly.<br />
How to Pick a niche<br />
<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-make-a-profitable-blog-that-sells">How to make Sales</a><br />
Writing Article to Drive Traffic to your site.<br />
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Nobody tells you that information...in fact many want to charge for secrets for their ebook that tells you how to indeed make millions overnight, my view is run as fast as you can from these. I have included links to some of my best and most popular articles about these subjects, for your information, just remember to come back. <br />
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I have indeed learned my craft from many successful online marketers, and followed their findings closely. the <span id="gtbmisp_6" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; color: green; cursor: pointer; font: bold 100% serif; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;">Internet</span> is not confusing, it is all the confusing information out there that's the trouble.<br />
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Over the years, I have been luck and built up a successful reputation for article writing, product reviews, and creative writing. Taking part in online communities, and writing Guest Blog posts. <br />
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The purpose of this blog moms Work at home blog, is to give share that success and give you the same opportunity I have had, to take your interests, passions and ideas, and be able to write about them, any one can do that, <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-make-a-profitable-blog-that-sells">so how do you make money from your writing</a>? <br />
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There are many ways, from Article writing to having your own website, or freelance writing.<br />
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I hope not to only inspire you to try working from home, but also to help motivate, as it can indeed be a lonely journey at times, until you start to build up your online network.<br />
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Please note, all <b>comments on this Blog </b>will allow 1 <b>"<span id="gtbmisp_7" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; color: red; cursor: pointer; display: none; font: bold 100% serif; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;">Nofollow</span>dofollow"</b> from the Authors link. So I encourage you to leave a message, and a link back to your site. Tell me who you are, how you got here, what is it you are planing to do working online...etc All comments are moderated<br />
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Don't worry about understanding <b><span id="gtbmisp_8" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none; color: red; cursor: pointer; font: bold 100% serif; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none;">dofollow</span> links</b> just now, but bear in mind creating links to your site is very worthwhile, just post an introduction to yourself and include your blog or website URL. I will also like to feature other networkers examples of how they have found success online too. So if I come accross something I find useful you have written about I shall let you know and write a review for you. <br />
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