The Next Step: Outsourcing

I've journeyed into the world of outsourcing this week. I'm looking for people to write keyword focused articles for my new adsense sites. I'm curious to see how it turns out and look forward to getting a couple contracts behind me and feel confident and clear about outsourcing. I found one writer through the Keyword Avalanche forum, another through guru.com. I expect that more will respond to my project on guru.com. There will be plenty of work to spread around and I'll find some writers to work with over the long haul. I'm… Continue reading

RSS and Ping

Today I added a new RSS setup to my marketing website. The software is MSI Fetch, which is free and fairly easy to install and configure. I had worked with CaRP before and found this to be pretty cumbersome. MSI Fetch allows you to configure and update the feed via a webpage, while CaRP requires you to update a file via FTP and program all the html yourself. I definitely prefer the webpage access. I also did some more work with tag and ping. This is sort of time consuming, but hopefully worth it in the… Continue reading

Social Bookmarking Continued

Just finished watching "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" on TNT. What a great movie! Trying out something new again behind the scenes with this blog post tonight. I'm curious to see how it turns out. It has to do with social bookmarking. I am catching on after all. This might sound really dumb, but I had a revelation last night about the difference between social bookmarking and social networking. I was actually lumping them together as the same thing. No way! Social bookmarking is about tagging websites that we like and sharing these… Continue reading

Social Bookmarking: Will I Ever Catch On?

Wow! I spent hours this afternoon watching a video on tagging and pinging and Social Bookmarking. I learned a ton. I took lots of notes. Then I went to implement what I had learned with my own websites and blogs and nothing worked! What's the deal? Nothing! Onlywire is supposed to allow you to tag a website to a bunch of social bookmarking sites at one time (or something like that).  I'm pretty sure I don't have the concept down yet. I did something on that site though because I ended up adding… Continue reading