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Stop OVER analysis PARALYSIS & Information Overload
How to Stop OVER analysis PARALYSIS & Information Overload
Stop wasting time! Stop wasting time on the little things and focus your energy on things that make money! This is the key to success!!! Really!
Over analysis paralysis - it happens to the best of us.
It is usually a result of information overload. I know all about it – it happens to me all the time!
The best way to get out of this rut is to take a step back and simplify what you do.
Spend your time on the tasks that bring you the greatest return.
9 times out of 10 a lot of what we spend time ANALYZING does not affect our bottom line. It’s nothing more than “busy work” that wastes time.
So how you get out of the over analysis paralysis mode???
The solution is to focus as much energy as is possible on doing the things that really makes us money.
It sounds so simple – but we all get distracted. Email – web pages – audio – video – all that stuff is vying for our attention.
I’m not suggesting you abandon all of the things you do – BUT _ what I am saying is that you can be more successful and you can do this by simply focusing on things that have been proven to work!
In the case of the Article Underground approach to web publishing the following are things that work!
1) Build Web Sites with lots of pages with great words on them – more is better! Keep sites fresh! Add new pages regularly! Every page you add is another income opportunity! If 10 is good 20 is better! Don’t just put up a few pages and then forget the site. Keep it fresh!
2) Get text links – lots of text links to both the home pages of your sites and the inside article pages that have all those great words on them! Links bring top rankings and traffic! You need fresh links! Today and in the future! Every page has the potential to rank on top and bring you traffic! But unless you get good links coming in and pointing at them they will never rise above the competition! Get some links!
3) Analyze stats to see where traffic comes from – this one is huge! Study your stats! It is my secret weapon and makes all your other work pay off HUGE!
Our goal is to improve the rankings for keywords that already bring us traffic!
This one is HUGE! You have the power to turn 10 visitors into 100 – often simply by getting a few more text focused links pointing at a page that already is ranking high enough to bring traffic. Make it rank higher! It’s easier than you may think!
The key to success is to avoid wasting time… stop analyzing things that have no impact on success.
Forget about all the other little time wasters and tiny trivial things and focus on what works!
For example - checking your rankings for a list of keywords just because you want to know their rankinsg is a waste of time - I say ONLY check rankings of keywords that bring you traffic - other keywords are worthless - stop wasting time on trivial things!
You find out which keywords bring you traffic by analyzing your stats and looking at the referral URLs!
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Can you feel the “online surge”??? It’s starting!
Hi, it’s Mike Liebner from Article Underground and I have a few items to share with you.
1) Discussion of the big surge in online activity for the holidays and beyond
2) Podcast transcript now available to print and run!
3) New set AU articles coming on the 16th with a special bonus gift for current AU members.
It’s getting close to Christmas and New Years and that means that sales, clicks, transactions and online activity in general will start going through the roof very soon.
It also means that many people and businesses will be in a state of chaos and will be distracted with many folks disappearing to go gift shopping, decorating, fooling around, or go away on vacation for the holidays.
That means that the next few days and possibly into next week will be the quiet time before the “online storm”.
From past experience I usually see a huge spike occur right around the 26th of December (day after Christmas) and it continues through all of January. It’s a wonderful thing for those of us that make our living online!
January has always been my best month for making money online (for over 12 years now) and the one I earn the most in. December and April are usually the next most profitable. So don’t worry if December is passing you by, because January is a monster and after a brief slowdown in February it will stay busy until April when it will once again peak and explode! After that - May starts the slowdown until Summer hits when many online businesses have the least activity (not all - some seasonal businesses have other peak months).
Now is the time to work hard and plan for the surge in activity that is coming at us!
Are you ready for the storm?
Do you have web pages up and indexed by Google that have the words that people will be searching for???
For those of us selling infoproducts, eBooks and affiliate products online, there will be a huge amount of newbies with computers who will be looking for information and more importantly to buy things!
Why not be the one to hook the newbies up with what they will be searching for??? They have a lot of money in their pockets from Christmas!
Create keyword rich web pages that have information about the products and services that you know the new computer owners (and cell phone owners and high tech gadget owners) will be seeking out.
Make sure your keyword loaded article web pages have relevant links to affiliate products so that you get a commission when they buy!
And they will buy!
It may as well be YOU that gets the commission, or click money!
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Article Underground Member Contributed Blogs
Do you want to effortlessly add new pages with fresh content to your web sites???If you are a member of Article Underground, then consider contributing a blog for current AU members to post in! It’s easy!
I thought that it’d be a good idea to let you know about the many advantages that you will receive when contributing a blog(s) for fellow Article Underground Members to announce their article pages in.
If you have any web sites that are already indexed by Google, they would be perfect to contribute to our pool of 80+ member contributed blogs and growing so that AU members have more places to get free links. You’ll gain some benefits which I will point out and explain.
AU also offers 33 premium “announcements blogs” that are reputable and high quality. The number keeps growing!
Don’t know how to set up your new blog???
It’s really easy to do! Simply create and install a Wordpress blog in a directory of an existing web site OR add a blog to the root of your site and devote that site to the blog. (continued - read more of this article…)
Top 20 Linking Secrets Video
I have some information that will help you get tons of free traffic to your web pages. It’s free.
It’s a brand new video I just recorded in Camtasia! It’s loaded with secret tactics and I am happy to share it with you.
BUT if you watch the videos - you must promise me that you will give your comments right here after this post! Tell me what you think of the videos!
The video is called Top 20 Linking Secrets and is presented in two parts totalling 59 minutes.
http://www.articleunderground.com/multimedia/20/
Spend one hour with me and I’ll reveal and discuss 20 real world tactics (actually more) that you can employ immediately to kick your linking efforts into high gear and harvest all kinds of fresh new traffic to your web pages. (continued - read more of this article…)
PageRank Update in Full Effect
It appears there is a Google PageRank Update in Full Effect
Today 4-30-07 as I was working on my PC I noticed one of my web sites had dropped in PageRank. It appears to be a GLOBAL down-trend affecting a lot of people I have talked to.
At first, I didn’t think much of it as sometimes the PageRank on a web page will fluctuate. But as I showed one of my sites to someone I noticed it too had dropped in PageRank! Holy bat cave! A PageRank Update is in full effect.
For those of you who may not know about it, Google periodically updates the PageRank that the public will see in the Google Toolbar and other places (PageRank Checkers). Back just a year or so ago it was around every month or two but has changed to every 2 or 3 or 4 months for a complete update.
Regardless of the timeframe of the public update, it’s important to know that Google PageRank is constantly updating in real time, however we don’t always get to see that ourselves until they do the ‘public update”.
So what does all of this mean? Well, for one it means that we can see PageRank on our newer sites and also see what progress we’ve made on our older established sites.
Unfortunately today - it appears that there is an “internet wide” global drop in PageRank. In other words, MANY web sites (not all) have gotten their updated toolbar display of PageRank and have seen a drop of 1 PageRank point (on a scale of 1 to 10 - 10 being best). While I am happy to say MOST of my sites stayed the same - several of them have dropped and a few of them that should have zoomed up high stayed the same. All new sites WENT UP SIGNIFICANTLY.
http://www.articleunderground.com has been a strong PR 6 with boat loads of traffic and a high Alexa rank of 16,000 and hey - it dropped from 6 to 5… that aint right! It’s never been stronger from a popularity and incoming link standpoint.
As I looked at a few more of my sites to see the new PageRank I saw a few drop that should have gone UP…
Hmmm…. was it just me? The more I checked on other sites than my own, the more that I saw drop 1 or 2 PR.
In fact very few sites I looked at from the general public had the same PageRank. Almost all the sites I looked at had dropped.
goarticles.com was now a PageRank 4…. hmmm… wasn’t that a 6??? WOW!
PR 6 to PR 4 is a HUGE DROP! And that has long been thought of as an AUTHORITY site (it’s not my site).
Other sites from other people I looked at had dropped as well… in fact almost every site that was documented in my Directory Submission lists were down on average 1 or 2 points!
linkstraffic.net down to PageRank 4 from 5…
siteinclusion.com down to 4 from 5….
(those are NOT my sites)
OK, I’m starting to feel better as it is APPARENT that globally the web has had a drop in PageRank. NOT EVERYBODY but almost every site I have looked at. (continued - read more of this article…)
Web 2.0 Obsession - Fast Track Ebook
If you are OBSESSED with learning as much as you can about “Web 2.0″ like I am, you may want to consider buying this ebook I found called “Web 2.0 Traffic System”
http://www.articleunderground.com/web20trafficsystem
I just bought it myself and while it’s $47. to buy (at least it’s not $497. like some other web 2.0 products out there!), you will definitely get on the fast track with this report. It also has a nice bonus.
The section on Squidoo is very thorough and will help get you up and running fast!
If you like to research before you leap - this PDF is worth investing in!
http://www.articleunderground.com/web20trafficsystem
I’m Going Web 2.0 with Squidoo
I’ve been quietly studying “web 2.0″ in the shadows, but am now coming to the surface and ready to add social bookmarking and web 2.o tactics to the training I provide here on my blog and at Article Underground and other projects in development.
The interesting thing for me about “web 2.0″ tactics is that it brings me back to the earliest days of the web (in 1995 for me) when the goal was to publish a web site with real valuable content. That was before we figured out that ranking on top of the search engines for a word could bring us boat loads of money.
Back then it was just TOO EASY to get top rankings than to have to be concerned about creating “valuable content”. As a result time shifted from writing to creating pages with the intention of ranking.
Ironically here we are 11 years later and the trend now is to go back to the basics and provide REAL VALUABLE content and “become an expert”. I’m happy that’s the case!
And you should be too as I’m certain that you are an expert on something!
In the days ahead I’ll be covering the new trends in traffic generation as well as unveiling some interesting projects. I can’t wait to tell you about them.
One of the most exciting Web 2.0 sites I have found is SQUIDOO (how do you say squidoo?).
I’ll be setting up more lenses in the future but for now added one on the Article Underground Content and Traffic System. (continued - read more of this article…)
Avoid Patterns! Use Variety in Your Link Text!
Using Variety in your Link Text Keywords is Beneficial!
SEO Search Engine Optimization Keyword Density Text Linking Tips that will get you more traffic and higher rankings!
OK, I just looked at one of the newest Article Announcement blogs and noticed a member had posted some announcements and when I inspected the links and his site closer I noticed a couple of things about the sites pages and their chosen link text.
Let me say this first - I’ll capitalize it and then later after you read the whole article this will hopefully make sense:
PATTERNS can kill you! PATTERNS are GENERALLY NOT NATURAL. PATTERNS cause red flags and alerts! AVOID PATTERNS!
OK, so what did I notice on the announcement blog that prompted me to discuss the importance of avoiding patterns?
Well… I spotted a member who was announcing in a manner that prompted me to take a closer look at their web site.
So what did they do?
They linked using the Keyword Phrase the article was OPTIMIZED for AND that phrase was the ONLY WORDS in his page title and as far as I can tell the only phrase used in their link text on and off their site.
In the real world when poeple link to your web pages - they rarely use LINK TEXT containing your keywords, much less ALWAYS use the SAME EXACT PHRASE! This is a PATTERN my friends.
TIP: if you use the SAME EXACT link text ALL THE TIME it is very likely it will trigger an alarm for a human visit, or get reduced relevance credit or in the worst case the search engines (smart ones) will ignore the LINK TEXT.
It’s easy for the smarter search engines like Google to see patterns like this. Think about it - it’s not natural in the real world for a web page to have a high amount of links pointing at it with the same exact link text.
So why not help yourself by varying the link text at least a little???
Here is an example using the optimized keyword phrase “Link Popularity”: (continued - read more of this article…)
Free Hosted Blogs - Get one for yourself!
I just wrote an article at my new blog network site on how you can snag your own free hosted blog and use it to advertise your web sites for free!
The blog I suggest you sign up for has a front page with a PageRank 6. Not bad!
My article How To Get Free Links has all the dirty details!
The free site I just snagged for myself will be used to promote my podcasts!
The Podcaster (continued - read more of this article…)
How To Get More Traffic
Wow! Look at the list of videos in Michael’s Traffic Videos! (see below)
I’d like to let you know about an incredible value on a brand new set of videos on how to get more traffic to your web sites from Article Underground member Michael Cheney.
http://www.articleunderground.com/traffic
I’ve only watched a few so far and it is top notch!
The videos on Pay Per Click Traffic (PPC) will save me a ton of money and MAKE me a ton of money! Thanks Michael! The videos are top notch! I can’t wait to watch more of them!
“Michael’s Traffic Videos” is an absolute steal at $97. bucks! Yes, you read right - $97. gets you instant access to a video library that will help you with time tested techniques that will get you more traffic!
Here are some of the titles from the videos. (continued - read more of this article…)
