Week of April 13th Stuff

We have a lot of stuff going on this week – a lot of new writers have joined us for the PLR articles – I have a cool wedding set going up tomorrow for sale and more PLR article sets are in editing.

Also, I get at least one email a week from someone asking if it’s possible to really, REALLY make a living writing online. The answer, in a word : Absolutely.

Blogging alone will pay a great salary from most companies – one of my freelancers has 5 different clients that order 2 blog postings a week. It doesn’t sound like much but she writes a couple of blog posts every day and shuffles around the clients so no client gets posted twice on the same day or even two days in a row and she makes anywhere from $30 to $50 per blog post and she works in the mornings when her baby is taking a morning nap. Her afternoons are free to be a mommy to her firstborn and enjoy her new baby.
She just writing for pay when she was 6 months pregnant and got laid off from her job and needed to find an income fast. I met her through a Work at Home Mom’s forum and we struck up a friendship and she’s an awesome writer.

Sure that’s not Rockefeller money for writing – but it’s a great start to supplement an income and not have to pay for childcare, gas, blah blah blah – if you’re interested in making a living off your writing – it’s not tough to pull an easy 6 figures a year if you apply yourself.

I can show you how – just download my guide and see Write All the Way to the Bank.

Keywords Are Not Important in SEO

Did that make you spit your coffee all over your computer screen?
I nearly did it when someone said that to me.

I actually had a friend of mine (who has recently gotten into SEO, attended several seminars and therefore is truly enlightened), tell me he learned in a seminar recently that keywords aren’t important in SEO.

Yes, I was floored too.

Keywords are a driving force behind how indexing and relevance happens on the Internet. Too many or too few and you’re not relevant or you’re in the territory of being spammy…but they are super-uber important.

I love it when I use Google’s Keyword Tool for research – although I still like Wordtracker’s lateral feature for helping pull out those long tail keywords. Anyone use SpyFu or Keyword Spy? Those are kinda cool for affiliate marketing purposes.

After I finished recovering from nearly passing my coffee through my nose, I started quizzing my friend and it turns out he meant Meta Tags NOT keywords…sheesh I love my buddies…..

Latest Incoming Search Terms:

Lots of Good Changes

We have been moving the site to a larger server to accommodate the rise in traffic from our PLR section, if you run across a page that has a hiccup – and I’m pretty sure we’ve caught them all but hey we’re human – please let SKinney or I know by sending us a note so we can fix it. We want visiting our website to be a productive one not a frustrating one. Hit your back button and just comment at the bottom of a page if you’re feeling incredibly lazy – we appreciate your help!

SKinney and I do the affiliate marketing thing – he’s much slicker at it than I am – but I learned an important lesson this week from Google Adwords that I’m sharing over in the PLR section, check it out.