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Pretty low-key day today. I’ve spent sometime posting to blogs and adding articles to some webpages.

The blogs are ones I created to compliment the Niches-in-a-Box websites. I moved them to totally separate domains a short time ago, but used the same niches. Amidst the blog posts I’m featuring eBay auctions, using the BayRSS plugin. I have to say they look pretty cool. They’re all indexed. Now I have to promote. It would be a good idea to set aside a day this week to work on that.

I finally figured out how to put an optin box on a website and have the form fit in a sidebar! I know, I know, most people figured this out a long time ago. But I’m fairly new to Aweber and auto responders, and feel pretty good about my accomplishment. Now I can do it anywhere. Maybe I’ll add an optin to my NIAB blogs.

My latest read is “Strategic Social Marketing” by Laura Childs. I’ve sort of followed her work for a couple years now, maybe not closely enough though. She has been doing research on Web 2.0 and traffic for many months now. A definite trend she and others have documented is a decrease in traffic through search engines. Apparently SEs are not the portal of choice of a growing number of Internet users (like millions!). Web 2.0 properties are their choice instead. But there are SO many of them, I feel overwhelmed in an instant!

I’m only half way through her report so far, so still have no clue where to start generating traffic through some of the social bookmarking or social networking sites using Laura’s methods. She promises to teach how to set up a game plan. I’ve been bookmarking for a long time now and seeing minimal results. Laura also promises that this can improve, given some research and knowing how to approach each niche.

I’m interested in reading more. You can find Laura at The Stampede Secret if you’re interested. She’s sharp. She’s been on line for a long time, and knows how to weather the evolution. I’m glad I found her.

That’s all for now. Thanks for visiting and have a good one!

P.S. Remember, if you’re an eBay affiliate, there’s a free copy of the BayRSS plugin available to you. Check out the link I created for the sidebar, just under the Blog Rush box.

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I created a new blog about 2 1/2 weeks ago in the natural health niche. I have posted to it almost daily, and I am shocked to find that it is not yet indexed by google. Very interesting.

I have submitted the site to many social networking and bookmarking sites. I have claimed it on Technorati. I made some comments on several PR4-6 blogs. I ping with each post, but it’s still not indexed! What’s going on here?

The most recent websites I created were indexed in about 3 days. The 2 differences I can identify are that those sites have adsense on them, and I used Article Underground’s blog system to announce the pages.

I haven’t done either of those with this site. Actually, I chose to let go of Article Underground because I wasn’t taking advantage of it often enough to make the program worth the subscription cost. Instead I wanted to try out a couple other link building plans instead. (Whether I stick with those or not remains to be seen.) But I’m definitely revisiting my decision to drop AU and just may sign up again.

I also didn’t want adsense on the blog, but I’m going to put a block on there now to see what happens. I can always take it off in a couple weeks.

That’s all for now. Have a good one!

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Continued with the article submission process today. Had a couple bugs to work out, but over all it went very smoothly.

In order to understand and track the traffic that comes to my sites better, I signed up for Google Analytics awhile ago. I feel a little uneasy about being so close to Google, but the service is valuable and it was recommended in the Keyword Avalanche forum. (I obviously pay a lot of attention to what some of the KA members recommend.)

Looking at the data today, I see that my traffic is picking up for a number of my adsense sites and it’s coming primarily from Google, MSN, Ezine Articles, some social bookmarking sites, and the Article Underground blogs. So a variety.

What’s the deal with Yahoo, though? I seem to have the hardest time getting indexed by them. Any ideas?

I’m feeling really good about my focused efforts lately and the direction I’m headed. Very cool.

Have a good one!

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Not much excitement going on. I’ve spent hours the past few days registering for article directories so I can submit the articles for my adsense sites. I think I used the word tedious a few posts ago. I’ve got a couple hundred done, and at least that many to go. The good news is, once it’s done, it’s done!

Picked up a cool idea from a forum recently regarding articles and social bookmarking sites. Besides bookmarking the pages on your website, you can bookmark the articles that you have posted in ezinearticles.com. It’s just one more way to get some exposure to your keywords and websites. It’s also pretty easy. Again, I use Bookmarking Demon for that purpose.

I’m implementing the focus of the “5 Bucks a Day” group this week, and choosing a project. This week I am focusing on finishing up all the initial promotion for my first block of adsense sites. That means getting all the promotional articles edited and submitted to the major and the secondary article directories. I’ve already done the social bookmarking piece. I will also familiarize myself with a technique for using free blogs to promote as well, and spend some time adding comments to blogs with high PR that are keyword specific. That should draw some attention anyway.

Once that’s done, it’s time to start a new cycle of article promotion, and get some new sites built. But for this week, I’ll let just about everything else slide and just focus on promoting these sites. Next week I’ll pick a new project for the week. Cool plan, huh?

And another cool thing I almost forgot. I got ahold of a free copy of GoTryThis from one of the websites set up for internet marketers to donate products so they can build their lists (I can’t think of what they’re called…). GTT is software for camoflaging and tracking affiliate links. I was able to install it on the url www.boymillion.us today. Now when I market Boy Million, I can use this url with tracking included, instead of using www.yellowdog.ws, which is where I have my paid copy of GTT installed. Feels like genius to me! Guess I’ll find out.

We got about a foot of snow over the weekend. It’s beautiful. Have a good one.

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My focus this weekend has been on adding a number of articles on taxes to my finance site. I got these articles through a Warrior Forum WSO a short time ago, and am finding them really well written and informative.

I’ll finish editing and publish the new articles tomorrow and then start to promote like crazy to get some traffic. I’ll do that by submitting the site to directories, posting comments on blogs, submitting to social bookmarking sites, and announcing the pages on Article Underground blogs. That’s a start. Then I plan to do some article submissions too. I’m guessing I’m even a little late getting these pages up, but it’s good info and we’ll see what happens. So far I only have adsense on the site, but I’ll also add some affiliate links. I’m really enjoying doing this.

I learned of a really cool tool today, courtesy of Dr. Andy Williams. It’s called a Keyword bookmarklet, and clicking on it brings up a report of all the keywords and related keywords for the website you currently are looking at. Very cool tool. I only played with it briefly, but it looks like it brings up all kinds of keywords that aren’t even on your site, sort of like I would suspect of an LSI tool. I’ll play with it somemore and let you know what I find. You can find the tool at: www.seoprotoolz.com. Have fun!

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