Dr Oz’s TV Show in America featured the Original Himalayan Crystal Salt Pipe Inhaler recently causing a burst of traffic to my squidoo.com/Salt-Pipes lens, this seems to have died down now but was great while it lasted . An important part of Internet Marketing is piggy-backing news and events in the world by creating corresponding posts. Every little bit helps when it comes to generating traffic, I’m gradually developing my own strategy. I’ve read so much advice from experts but never felt I’ve quite grasped the essential of SEO but now the first time I feel I am developing my own strategy so instead of turning round in circles I now have a direction and a policy; it feels great.
In life we always have to do this I mean learn as much as we can from teachers, tutors,experts books etc but then at a certain moment strike out on our own and have confidence in our own abilities.
It’s been rumored that the time spent metric is one of the most important indicators used by Google in determining the rank of your site.
It’s supposed to be a complex calculation in which many parameters, weights and indices are taken into consideration. However, we don’t know the exact math for this indicator, in fact, the formula will never be revealed because search engines don’t want people to manipulate the system and cheat.
So we’re going to attempt to simplify the explanation for this indicator as follows:
* The calculation is made over the lifetime of the visitor session to the web page.
* The visitor interactions are tracked by specific engaged events.
* Those events could be: clicking a link, clicking on a picture, downloading a file, watching a YouTube video, commenting in a guest book, emailing content to a friend, printing a page or exiting the site.
* The timestamp for the last interaction determines the time the user spent on your page.
Now of course Google can’t actually measure if you went off and made a cup of tea before leaving the page, but in the course of hundreds of visits they can build up a statistical picture of how long people stay on average. If people stay a long time on your page this is an excellent indicator that they found the information they were looking for: so Google bumps up the Brownie Points for that page.
Bloggers trying to make a living online have to “Pay it Forward” that means they have to blog away creating postings never knowing whether what they are doing will ever earn them any money. Having no boss they have to find even more motivation than normal salaried workers, it is too easy for them to fritter their time away trawling the net “researching”.
I have been using Action Enforcer to help me with my lackluster days, I only really need it get going as I know once I get a few jobs completed my energy levels will increase. Action Enforcer encourages you to choose one task and then stick to it. It works because it’s very easy to use and becomes a kind of psychological supervisor setting you a self-defined deadline.
More and more working people whether home-workers or not have to be self-motivating have tasks that need completing but have no direct supervision just an expectation that work will be done. Students studying for distant examinations or writers with a delivery date may be months away are in the same boat. They become more and more anxious as time is frittered away. In all these cases Action Enforcer is a boon learn more by clicking here
One of my Success M ilestones was that I should make a sale or earn an affiliate fee every day. Well in October 2009 I finally managed this and had an exciting flurry of sales during the third week. What was nice was that I earned income from 12 separate income streams including one that I’d completely forgotten about. It does not yet add up to a “quit my job” income but is promising. The next success stage must be to have organic growth in sales month by month.
You may wonder why I’m disappointed well it’s taken me three years and I’ve tried so many things that success now tastes bitter-sweet like a marathon runner who flops across the line. Also I know I must not relax my efforts, must not let go of the momentum in fact I must work even harder.
I must thank Squidoo a lot for giving me confidence and teaching me so much about marketing ideas. Here’s my most popular lens Top Toys for Xmas which did zilch last Christmas but is roaring away this year! What’s great about Squidoo is that once you get the hang of creating successful lens it’s scalable and repeatable. Click here to join Squidoo for free here
I noticed from my stats that my two Xmas sites were getting traffic build-up quite early in the season, so ever since then I’ve been feeding them with updates and the traffics kept building. Now in previous years I’ve built a seasonal site but the time I’ve got it perfected I’ve missed the boat. This year my sites were already in place and all I had to do was apply the TLC (Tender Loving Care). So I’ll have to learn the lesson and start building my other seasonal sites now, seems quite shocking but now’s the time to create your Valentine and Easter sites!
Now today I think I’ve done a clever post on whether the “Xmas Toy Shortage” is an annual hoax which I’ve posted here at squidoo.com/TopToysforXmas
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Well first thing nobody will sell you a good niche because if they knew one they would keep real quiet about it!
- You are having difficulty buying an item: so you think “So must other people”
- You listen to people on the bus or in the coffee shop complaining they can’t get a product or service any more!
- Spares for old technologies, eg cassette tapes that are no longer manufactured
- You are on vacation and notice a good product that’s not yet arrived in your country
- You Google and research keywords to see what people are searching
- You find and use a product you really love, one that you can promote with enthusiasm!
- Once you get the hang of spotting Niches you’ll see them everywhere!
Seek and ye shall find!!
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Xmas is the peak time of the Internet ecommerce year so it’s vital to get your websites, PPC and SEO in place, you really can’t be too early, all the bricks and mortar stores will have already ordered for December. Of course nobody knows yet which toy or gift will go ballistic and be in short supply.
Anyway back to the strategy you probably haven’t touched these sites since last Xmas, so you need to freshen then up, check links, add blog entries, Google likes to see sites being updated, evolving over a long period.
Here are my two Xmas sites
Top Toys for Xmas 2009
and
What Toys are Hot for Xmas 2009
In fact I only remembered because I noticed traffic building for these two sites, which shows I had already missed the beginning of the wave. But thank heavens it’s not too late and determined effort will still provide results.
Merry Xmas!
(Uk version may not be exactly the same model)
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The UK version may not be exactly the same model
Bloggers trying to make a living online have to “Pay it Forward” that means they have to blog away creating postings never knowing whether what they are doing will ever earn them any money. Having no boss they have to find even more motivation than normal salaried workers, it is too easy for them to fritter their time away trawling the net “researching”.
I have been using Action Enforcer to help me with my lackluster days, I only really need it get going as I know once I get a few jobs completed my energy levels will increase. Action Enforcer encourages you to choose one task and then stick to it. It works because it’s very easy to use and becomes a kind of psychological supervisor setting you a self-defined deadline.
More and more working people whether home-workers or not have to be self-motivating have tasks that need completing but have no direct supervision just an expecatation that work will be done. Students studying for distant examinations or writers with a delivery date may be months away are in the same boat. They become more and more anxious as time is frittered away. In all these cases Action Enforcer is a boon learn more by clicking here
