In a Blogger’s Daily Routine, I mentioned the fact how I like to structure my day’s with the proper use of a schedule. Keeping organized not only helps me accomplish all of my daily assignments, it helps me achieve my goals quicker as well. This level of organization boost my productivity, and in a funny way helped me boost my creativity as well.
About 2 days ago I was going through my bloggers daily routine work list and had just finished 5 of my completed tasks, I actually finished 7 but was motivated to keep working past 5 – so I did. My play list had “MMORPG” which stands for Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. I was searching for a new game to play for 30 minutes or so. I chose the new game “Civony” which is made by UMGE. As I began and continued to play this game I eventually made an alliance (group of people in same area). You form an alliance to wage war against other alliances, trade with each other, etc.
Other than the in-game alliance chat we had no real way to communicate with each other. So it dawned on me, why not start a website. What kind of website might you ask? A blog of course. Zero Gaming Alliance at http://zerogamingalliance.com was born, on 4/15/09. It just so happened that I named the alliance Zero, which was like a few of my other gaming group names. I picked up a domain name from GoDaddy and started tinkering.
- Opportunity, as defined by Dictionary.com:
An appropriate or favorable time or occasion: Their meeting afforded an opportunity to exchange views.
A situation or condition favorable for attainment of a goal.
A good position, chance, or prospect, as for advancement or success.
Here were my thoughts: I have been playing MMORPGS and making websites for the better part of 13 years, 1996. Why not combine them, right? The domain cost me $20/year. Big Whoop. Blogging = time and luckily I have plenty of it, for now. So what do I expect as a return from this site which may only be updated weekly, if that. NOTHING! I put up some Google Adsense ads to see if I could cover the domain name cost for the year. I also added some links to my sites (Backlinks, YES!!). Finally, I get a place to relax, share, and update others about my progress, as well as our group’s progress.
Feel Free to Check Us Out – Zero Gaming Alliance at http://zerogamingalliance.com !
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Can Taking Surveys Really Make YOU Money?
In short, YES! If you don’t have a lot of capital to start up other online ventures but want to earn money somewhere paid survey companies may be the way to go. Being a consumer in today’s society sets you up with certain knowledge about products. This first hand knowledge can be used to complete surveys, which will in turn put money in your pocket!
I used to be skeptical of these types of sites, but recently a friend of mine had just broke the $300 mark within 2 weeks by just taking surveys in his spare time. He spread himself across a few websites and did reviews as well but making $150 a week isn’t a bad start.
Don’t take my word for it, see for yourself how you can make money for FREE, just by taking surveys. Make money in your spare time by taking surveys.
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Article Writing Tips – Keep your content original!
- Our last post here at Nurture Your Wealth was about Article Marketing, and how you can get easy, simple traffic from articles. That’s all fine and dandy if you have articles to post, but what happens when you reach writer’s block?
First of all, I suggest you think about placing articles into two categories:
1- Article is trying to sell something directly or indirectly.
2- Article is a how to, trying to teach, informational.
Once you can figure out which you are trying to right you need to think about ways to beat writer’s block. Not having any idea’s for content can be a huge issue and although we are talking about article marketing the same thing applies for blog posts and press releases. The first tip and the one that has influenced me the most is keep a pen and paper handy at all times. Anytime you think of a category, title, keyword, topic, and/or idea jot it down. I have about 82 ideas so far in one notebook on topics/keywords I would eventually like to touch upon, which at minimum is 82 days worth of blog posts for me.
Now you may be thinking well that’s great, but I don’t have any ideas. Let’s go back to basics:
1- Selling/Promoting something
2- Teaching/How-to
- 1- Selling/Promoting Something
The first thing you need to look at is what are you selling/promoting. That alone equals 1-2 paragraphs (100-250 words).
Second, Who is selling it, what they stand for(vision & mission), and facts about the company. Another 1-2 paragraphs (100-250 words).
Finally, Call to Action / Reasons to buy now, from you / Why they can’t live without it. 1 paragraph (short and to the point!).
- 2- Teaching / Informational / How-To
Teaching/Informational is even easier.
1- State topic, and briefly describe 3-5 main points (1 paragraph).
2- Main Point 1 + describe
3- Main Point 2 + describe
4- Main Point 3 + describe
5- Cite some helpful sources (3-5 links)
6- Describe sources if needed
7- Restate your original stuff / conclusion
Your article is now 4-7 paragraphs long – and is ready to be published. It’s important to remember to use original content.
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Having trouble finding easy free traffic to your site?
- Article Marketing is simple and free traffic to your website. By publishing articles about your niche you are expanding your exposure and impression on the internet as a leading authority of knowledge. Publishing articles allows the company to present quality original content to it’s subscribers. When those subscribers read and share your article you get traffic from back links, ping backs, and track backs created by your article. Articles also helps your search engine page rank, by having a live link to your site in the authors biography/resource box. Article Marketing is easy traffic for the following reasons:
Creating Live Inbound Links
Self-Branding, Authority Image
Reach Subscribed Targeted Audiences
Increased Exposure=Increased Traffic
Chance to create/be featured in an eBook with your articles
- Creating Live Inbound Links
Through your author resource box you are adding in 1-3 links to sites which relate to the author or the article. This helps build in-links/back links to your sites and will affect your search engine page rank in a promising way. Also Live Inbound Links can be obtained by having a user/author profile with the specific company/site which will and can include live links back to your site as well.
- Self-Branding
Self-Branding is just important now as it was 3-5 years ago. By creating a follower and reader base through quality content rich articles written by yourself you will be labeled as an authority in your niche. This takes time to build, but the results are fantastic. Everyone hopes to build a name for themselves in life, either as president/ceo of a company or as an actor/actress, etc. The internet is no different, if you seem like you know what your talking about and people enjoy reading what you have to say they will follow you. Just look at John Chow and ShoeMoney, they have great websites setup with thousands of followers due to self-branding.
- Reach Subscribed Targeted Audiences
Many times when you submit your article to article submission directories they are placed in certain categories. By categorizing articles into certain topics, people know exactly what to expect when they go to the section “Article Marketing”, or “Marketing with Ezine Articles”. This allows you to reach a targeted audience of subscribed readers to your specific topic. It’s important to establish a strong reader base for your articles as they will also be picked up by search engines and can propel your page rank within weeks of being published.
- Increased Exposure = Increased Traffic
If you have a higher search engine page rank your article traffic will increase, which will increase your blog/site traffic, which will then increase your page rank even higher. Okay, that’s in a perfect world. Realistically speaking, you can hope to see about 100-500+ unique visitors a month from a free article submission depending on the topic. If you do a paid submission then you will see a much much larger number.
- Chance to create/be featured in an eBook with your articles
If you publish alot of articles it’s wise to advertise that your articles can be reprinted/included in an eBook with/without your permission dependent on they link back to your site/article. This creates a viral marketing effect, because free eBooks have a very good tendency to spread like wildfire throughout the internet, especially if they are filled with quality content. Another important thing to consider is once you get 5-10 articles/posts on a certain topic you should begin to think about making your own free eBook which can be sent out via email newsletter/or can be sold through your site.
- Some Article Marketing Submission sites:
* http://ezinearticles.com/
* http://www.newezinearticles.com/
* http://ezinearticles.biz/
* http://www.easyezinearticles.com/
* http://www.isnare.com/
* http://www.ezinesarticle.com/
* http://www.ezinearticledirectory.net/
* http://www.goarticles.com/
*Note: NYW isn’t affiliated with the above links in any way.
Part 1. Article Marketing is Easy Traffic
Part 2. Article Content that will Blow your Socks Off
Part 3. Article Marketing in Numbers
Part 4. Article Marketing Your Blog Posts
Part 5. Article ReWriting Magic – Articles and Blog Posts
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