Blogging About Things I Love Doing And Making Money Online Working From Home

jamesI can’t tell you how freed up I feel working from home. I’m retired so I don’t spend a lot of time working unless it’s doing things I enjoy like home gardening, fishing and playing acoustic guitar with my guitar buddies.

I figured that if I am going to enjoy myself I might as well blog about it. Well my interests are shared by hundreds of thousands of other like-minded people so I started getting a fair bit of traffic. I added a few ads on my blogs and started making money.

Start A Hobby Blog And Share

Home Gardening Tips

I created a home gardening blog where I could share my love of all things gardening. Later I got more focused and started a couple more garden related blogs and later started one specifically focused on vegetable gardening.

All I did was share the garden related things I do day by day and people started following what I was doing, even asking questions. Lots of the questions were outside my knowledge level at the moment but a little time searching Google and I would have answers. So I helped my readers and learned new things at the same time.

Knowing that people would prefer to ask how that look it up themselves is a great way to get readers which can turn into money once you start to monetize your blogs.

The Joy of Fishing

I love fishing, both spinner fishing as well as fly fishing so of course I had to start a couple of fishing related blogs and again just started sharing what I was doing in the fishing world. Today I have three fishing blogs, one for fly fishing, one for fly tying and another for spinner and bait fishing.

Use The Best Spinner To Write More Content

the best spinner softwareSome of my blogs are very similar but have a different audience but instead of writing all my content from scratch I prefer to rewrite content using The Best Spinner article rewriting software. It saves me so much time that’s it’s worth the investment in your business.

Note that I started using TBS with their 7 day free trial. I love being able to try software instead of buying it and then finding I don’t like it and then having to go through a refund request. Not with The Best Spinner as I was convinced I wanted it after the first day.

Using The Best Spinner Wisely

One thing I would like to point out is that using an article writer like The Best Spinner is so easy but easy can be dangerous. Keep that in mind when you start replacing words in your articles with synonyms.

It’s easy to just use the auto feature to add and replace words with synonyms but then articles don’t read like an educated person wrote them and more like an automated article rewriter did and that’s not good for business.

Instead you can write your article right in The Best Spinner adding multiple word choices at the same time or you can write the article first and then bring it into TBS where you can pick and choose each synonym for much more powerful articles that all read great.

What Magic Article Rewriter Can Do For You

Do you really know how to write an article that Google will love as much as you? Then you know how important it for those articles to be unique. Well it’s also important to have backlinks pointing to your important pages.

If you are going to publish your unique article to top article directories you need that article unique on each directory. If you’re publishing guest articles you need to be sure they are unique. I accept guest posts and it’s scary how many people try to pass off duplicate content as unique.

I write a lot of articles in the course of a year and if I had to rewrite each one by hand it would have taken me way too long to make it effective. I also don’t like hiring people to write my articles because they don’t usually have any more than basic information.

So I use article rewriter software to get the job of article rewriting done in record time. For this I like to use Magic Article Rewriter.

Of course publishing your articles doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to get points for the backlink as Google won’t count every link pointing to your pages. For this reason I like to publish articles on sites that are relevant and have pagerank.

Make Articles Readable To Humans

The biggest issue I have with article rewriters are the humans that use them. Yeah I said humans because they are the ones who screw up the article so back they can’t be read properly by humans so they tend to leave after having tried to read it a couple of times.

Actually I was reading an article this morning that was bragging up Magic Article Rewriter but the author didn’t read each article after it was rewritten to see if the synonyms were relevant to the context of the article.

Example: I have four work from home blogs and I like to include the same articles on each site as they draw different audiences. So when I write one article, such as the one you are currently reading I write the article and then bring it into my spinner and start rewriting each sentence. When I’m done I have far more articles than I need and each one reads like an actually person wrote it, because they did.

Taking the time to rewrite articles so they read like a somewhat educated human would write them is worth the investment of your time as people are more likely to read them and follow your links so you can make more money working from home.

Rewrite Sentences Over Replacing Words

Don’t just go through your article and add synonyms or replace words manually. Personally I find that my articles are done faster and read better when I rewrite individual sentences. When you spin the article you will get articles that are unique and readable.

Get your own copy of the Magic Article Rewriter and start increasing backlinks as well as making extra money.

My Garden Blog Needs Some Proper Search Engine Optimization

Not happy with my blog's pagerankIn 2007 I created my home gardening tips website and set it up as a WordPress blog. Since then I have been making gardening related posts, at least a couple a week. It didn’t take long before my traffic was enough for me to put some advertising on my blog and I started making money working from home.

I was making money, had lots of people writing guest posts and even had people paying for ad space on my blog. Life was pretty cool and then over night my pagerank dropped through the floor, all the way to zero. Five years of doing fine and then all of a sudden Google didn’t think I was good enough for my ranking and kicked me to the curb.

If you haven’t experienced this you likely don’t know just how depressed. Every day more and more people stopped visiting my site and the income dropped until I was making so little it wasn’t worth the effort I put into it.

I am not an SEO expert so I had absolutely no idea what was happening and Google wouldn’t tell me anything. Just read the rules, well that didn’t help  me at all, so it was time to turn to an expert and see if I could get my ranking, visitor and income back. That’s worth paying for.

I did some hunting online for some help and found a search engine optimization Austin company where I could get a fee quote. I liked the fact I can get a quote without giving my phone number so I can check it out before talking to them in person.

They are in the process of putting a quote together for me which will assist in getting my site properly optimized for search engines like Google.

Time For A New Home Office Computer

TigerDirect (CA)I’ve known something was up with my home office computer for the past couple of months. It was slowing down, taking longer to startup. Even though I purchased AVG PC TuneUp it still had problems. I was still trying to figure out what was happening when it died and had been looking for a new desktop computer for my home office.

Of course it had to be the weekend of our first muskie meeting when it died. I hadn’t even printed out a list of the computers I had been looking at so I had to computer shopping without the list.

I work from home in Moncton and my computer is how I make my income online so I should have been more on top of things. Now I couldn’t even buy my new computer online and had to start shopping around Moncton. I still knew what I wanted, just didn’t have all the details.

Then to make things worse I got a phone call from a client who needed his website prices updated ASAP. I told him my computer died and he offered me double my normal amount if I could get it done before Monday. I said I could and then ran out the door to shop for a new computer.

I Have A New Computer In My Office

I don’t need a big gaming computer for my work from home business but I do need one so I wasn’t gone long before I was back home with a new desktop computer for my office.

The first thing I did was set it up and install the software I needed to get my client’s site updated for him. The money he paid helped me get a better computer than my last one.

TigerDirect (CA)

Sadly setting up my computer for work on Monday was a priority so I didn’t get to the muskie meeting and will now have to pay full price for my muskie lures.

Repurposing Niche Articles Into An Profitable Ebook

thebestspinnerI like to reuse, recycle and repurpose things so they don’t get sent to the landfill site. Well it doesn’t have to stop at things around the house you can also repurpose your articles into ebooks and make more money with them.

The first thing I learned is to make each article unique which doesn’t take much time when I use The Best Spinner to help me find the right words for synonym replacement.

Plan To Give Your Ebook Away

I heard that. No I’m not off my rocker. You can actually make some really good money if you learn how to brand your ebooks and allow others to brand it for themselves.

The trick is to know your subject and to be helpful.

An example is home gardening. In 2009 I started gardening and in that time I have learned a lot of things that make gardening easier and more productive. Who wouldn’t want some help learning things that can save time and money these days, especially when the info is being given away in one great ebook.

Give Away Ebooks Make Affiliate Income

The teaching aspect gains the trust of your reader so that when they see a link that could point them to something that will help the save time they are likely to click it and even make a purchase. Well if that link is an affiliate link I make money when anyone clicks and buys something.

Key #1 is to create quality content. If you fail to do this your potential buyers will just close the ebook and forget about it. Invest time writing articles that are helpful with links that lead to more help on each topic.

Key #2 is to include affiliate links so when your readers do follow a link you can make money from that site if they buy anything.

Learn About Branding Products Like Your Ebooks

brandingI like free ebooks that allow me to brand the ebook before I give it away so that I can make some money as well. It’s amazing how it happens and even being able to add a link to your own site is a bonus.

I’m not the best at explaining some technical terms so it’s best that I link you to an ebook that will teach you all you need to know in order to brand things like ebooks and have it go viral. I have done a bit of branding, of other people’s ebooks, and made money that way. So I know that most ebooks today are in PDF format and pretty easy to brand. Check out learn about branding the right way and start making money working from home.

Okay Pinterest Has My Interest

big-p-buttonA couple of weeks ago I was invited to check out Pinterest. As a work at home marketer I had seen the name ‘Pinterest’ a few times but hadn’t paid much attention to what it was. Because I didn’t want to disappoint my friend I took a few minutes to take a look, just in case he asked what I thought.

The name Pinterest is really ‘Pin Interest’ which is easy to understand as I have a pin board in my home office. At home I pin things to my board that I wish to remember as well as many things I just think are cool and then some things that I want to own, like a new fishing boat or another fly rod, a rototiller for our garden and then there’s that new car we want. Pin boards are great.

Rather than stumble around a site and get frustrated I like to use Youtube to learn more about the site without hunting through a site for answers. I wanted a video that would help me learn quickly, without it being LONG and BORING. I also wanted one I could share with my readers and after a bit of viewing and searching I found this short and to the point What Pinterest is video.

Dragged The Pin It Button To My Toolbar

Pretty much the first thing I learned was about the Pin It button under the About menu. Once I was on the about page I saw that I could just drag the Pin It button to my bookmark toolbar. This was so that when I am on a page with an image I’d like I can just click the Pin It button and all the images on that page appear in rows.

When I choose an image to pin I am able to add it to a board I’ve already created or I can create a board at that time. I can also add a comment and a link to the pin.

I’ve only just started with Pinterest but I’ve already created 11 boards based on interests and have pinned more than 60 pictures to my boards. It’s really easy and it’s fun plus I can do this while I am working my online business. I can also share my images so others can enjoy them as well.

One of the boards I create is about fishing in New Brunswick. Fishing is one of my top hobbies, right up there with home gardening and playing guitar. Below is the fishing board I created and the first and top picture is of a 25” chain pickerel I caught. Needed that picture as it’s the biggest of the day and I want to quickly get it back in the water.

fishing on pinterest

Jenny and I are always looking for new plants we can add to our gardens. I’ve taken a lot of pictures of plants and blossoms I see on my walks. I am creating a new board just for blossoms I like as it will help us decide what to add to our gardens. I have many of them in my Flickr account but still have a lot of them that are on my hard drive. 

Not a problem as I can just go to my Flickr account, open the set that has all the blossom pictures I’ve upload and start pinning them to my new board. There is also an option that allows me to upload images directly to my boards.

Are You Using An Article Marketing Strategy Or Just Writing For The Sake of Writing

jamesinmirrorMany people writing articles today, thinking they are article marketing, don’t realize they’re really just writing articles and are missing out on the income they could be gaining by learning a good article marketing strategy.

Check Wikipedia.org on Article marketing because they say that article marketing is a form of Advertising. True article marketing efforts will involve marketing strategies.

Learn Article Marketing Strategies That Work

The first thing a knowledgeable article marketer does is research his/her marketing/niche/sub-niche so they use relevant keywords when writing articles. Teresa Griffith’s article points out the importance of having an article marketing strategy.

A good article marketer knows how valuable proper research is. They realize they need to know each niche they plan to market to which takes researching. One of my strategies is to stick with markets and niches I have on my interest or hobby list.

The reason I stay within niches I know and love is because I know the niches. I also know a lot of the terminology in my niches. The fact I love the niches I work helps me to stay focused and to go much longer writing articles than those who don’t love their niche.

Know Your Niche And Know Your Competition

Now knowing your niche is great but you if your goal is to make money from others in the niche you need to know what your competition is doing. To know this you need to check out, very closely, the top ten and maybe even the top twenty to see what they are doing that you can do as well.

Use The Right Tools For The Job

You can buy software like Keyword Elite 2 like I did or you can use Google’s Free Keyword Tool both give you great keywords. The reason I bought KE2 was because it also shows me the top ten sites for each keyword I want. On the other hand with the Google Free Keyword Tool you will find the keywords but you will have to manually checkout each of the top sites. I always recommend you research, at the least, the top ten sites for each and every keyword you look at because it is your best chance at beating them at their own game.

Once you learn what they do you do the same but just take it one step further and you’ll start gaining on them and eventually passing them. The goal for successful article marketers is to find keywords they can gain #1 positioning for in the top search engines.

Using The Best Spinner To Create More Articles

thebestspinner-logoI don’t write just write a single article for each keyword, I also use The Best Spinner to rewrite those articles so I can publish them on other blogs I own as well as to the top article directories.

Now the key to winning articles using The Best Spinner is to NEVER use the auto rewrite feature. It does take a little longer to get the job done when you pick each word replacement manually but because I have access to the TBS synonyms database I just need to point and click the word and phrase replacements that work and stay relevant.

The resulting articles are ready for the search engines to feed on but most importantly your article feeds your visitors as well and they are the ones you want staying on your page, all the way to the click that makes you money.

Articles that are spun using auto features usually read like a robot wrote them which may be fine for article directories and might get you some traffic but they are not right for your site content as you will have visitors leaving seconds after they start reading.

Article Marketing Tips For Creating Successful Campaigns

tenminutearticlesIt really doesn’t make much of a difference if you are selling ebooks or home gardening tools if you don’t know what you’re doing you’re not likely to be earning the money you could if you knew what you should be doing. New Internet marketers need to learn about marketing in order to attract the right visitors to whatever it is you’re promoting.

Today I’d like to share some worthwhile tips about article marketing. This should give you a better idea about marketing correctly.

You can start by checking out a good article marketing ebook from Clickbank.

Let Others Use Your Articles

I love it when others use my articles and I put no restrictions on it other than my links need to remain intact. The fact is it’s stealing your content if they don’t, because on their site there will be nothing pointing back to me. I love having lots of links that point to my webpages and get many from those reposting my content.

I like using EzineArticles.com along with a few other article directories as the top directories get me some extra traffic. Plus when people use my articles from these sites it’s a requirement that they include my links.

Article Size Does Matter

When you are writing and publishing articles you should have at the least 300 words and in my opinion 500 words is better. You want to write articles that feed your reader and less than 300 words us just putting them on a diet.

Ask Your Readers What They Want

A great way to give your regular readers what they want is just ask them. Create a form or a comment section where people can leave suggestions. This way you can give them what they want, they will return more often and may just link to you. They will also share your site with others which will increase your site traffic.

Success Usually Takes Time

So many people give up after just a few months without getting the success they expect. Don’t give up, keep your article marketing efforts active, even when it’s not fun any more. Getting bored with a topic happens to everyone and is a main reason I like to market to niches that are my hobbies and interest.

Format Your Articles For Skimmers

I’m a busy marketer and I don’t like reading articles that have no breaks or headings to break up the articles. Even pictures can help but really your article should be supplied with relevant headings so people in a hurry, like myself, can find what we want and move on.

I may have gone overboard with headings in this article but I’m sure you get my point about being able to scan an article quickly.

Watch Who You’re Writing For?

By that I mean are you writing for your readers or are you writing for search engines. If you are writing for search engines and not really thinking about your readers then I’d say you’re doing things in the wrong order. You might want to learn how to SEO or search engine optimize your articles while remaining true to your readers.

Write for humans as they are the way you will earn money. Writing specifically for search engines may get you traffic but most often those visitors leave frustrated with the non human writing.

This doesn’t mean you should forget about the search engines. Not at all. Instead focus on what your readers want but also keep in mind your keywords and phrases the search engines use. Find a happy medium but in the end always put your readers first.

Even the biggest websites started small and built their empire. You can do the same as long as you keep your readers in the forefront of your mind while creating content.

Using The Best Spinner To Write Articles For Similar Niches

thebestspinner-box-2As a work at home Internet marketer, for the past decade, I don’t just have a single website and I don’t work a single niche. At the time of this writing I am working in 6 or 7 niches and have multiple sites in each niche I am working.

All my sites require unique content on a regular basis however for me to create individual articles for each niche and site, well I just couldn’t do that in the time given to us each day. For this reason I use a very useful tool called The Best Spinner, which helps me write multiple unique articles at the same time.

I know from personal experience that the Big G does not like duplicate content. The slap I received put me into a tailspin that took me months to come out of and I learned a tough lesson. I don’t have to be told twice.

Not Just Unique In The Eyes of Search Engines

Today all the content I write is unique in the eyes of the search engines. I don’t stop there though as each piece of content I write is also written for human readers, which is vital in my opinion. Without TBS I would either have less sites or I would have to hire writers to keep up with all the content my sites require regularly.

For me the cost of purchasing The Best Spinner was a no brainer, although I did start with the 7 day for $7, just to be sure the software was as good as the claims and hype, which it is.

Using The Best Spinner As I Write Articles

In the beginning I would write my article or find an article already written and then use The Best Spinner to write the article into multiple articles. Today I just write my articles right in TBS and do my rewriting and adding synonyms as I could and save quite a bit of time.

So when I am writing an article that would fit my 4 gardening related blogs I don’t write four separate articles. Instead I write one article and rewrite as I’m going. This way I end up with multiple articles and each blog gets its own unique article that works for the search engines and is written by a human and reads like a human wrote it.

The same thing works when I want to publish articles elsewhere and I always get unique content that is completely acceptable to search engines as well as humans and there is no duplicate content.

I Protect My Important Keyword Phrases

Keywords are what make me money so it’s important I keep those keywords from being rewritten into non-keywords. To do this I just highlight the phrase I want to protect, click the right mouse button and choose protect phrase. Just that simple.

In this article it was important for me to protect the name of the product I am bragging about and promoting at the same time which is The Best Spinner.

If you have been struggling to keep up with all the content you need and you’re not ready to hire others to do your writing then it’s time you looked at The Best Spinner and check out the special offer of 7 Days For $7, you will not regret your decision.

Make Money Sites Using Google Sniper 2.0 by George Brown

Like a lot of other happy work at home marketers Google’s Panda update and Google’s Penguin update wasn’t kind to their websites. I watched my income go from flowing to a trickle.

After I pulled out of my depression I began looking for a way to get my sites ranking and earning again. This is when I ran into a desktop application called PageOne Curator and have started rebuilding my sites. It’s going to take a long while so…

… in the mean time I started looking for another program to help me find new money making keywords, buying keywords actually and after weeks of looking I watched a video about Google Sniper 2.0 and saw so much potential I had to dig deeper.

Google Sniper 2.0 Works If You Do

I found it kind of hard to come to grips with the fact earning easy money isn’t quite as easy as it used to be. The thing is there is still lots of money to be made if you have the right strategy and you’re willing to work for your income. I’m here to tell you that Google Sniper 2.0 is that strategy.

Claims I Can Believe, For A Change

I’ve seen so many hyped up claims over the last few months that I found it hard to believe what George Brown saying. However the fact he was talking about making a few hundred a month to start, instead of huge claims, made me pay close attention.

I was so sick of seeing claims of earning through Paypal and Clickbank using screen shots that can be easily photoshoped that I just started ignoring them. George wasn’t showing claims like this, instead it was about making a few hundred a month to start.

I didn’t just buy into it. Instead I waited another 24 hours to allow what I was reading and viewing to sink in. I checked out a few more testimonials and a day later I purchased my copy of Google Sniper 2.0.

Google Sniper’s Focus Is On Money Keywords

I have been following the videos as well as the manual/guide George Brown has created and love the fact he uses free tools like Google’s Keyword Tool to help in the researching. His videos took me by the eyeballs and guided me through the step by step process called Google Snipping which helped me find good niches and rank-able money keywords.

Don’t expect to go from zero to hero, as they say, right away. Take your time and learn the process. You will do a whole lot better and have less failures if you go through the entire course once or twice before anything else. Learn to walk before you run. Now it’s time to check out Google Sniper 2.0 for yourself.