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 glad to be moving in this direction.

Actually, as I think about doing adsense sites, it sounds pretty archaic. However, I’ll trust that adsense isn’t dead and I am learning some skills that will be very valuable in internet marketing. Keyword research and outsourcing are good examples of this. Another focus of the adsense coaching I am involved in is creating a CPA network. This is something that is really taking hold in the internet marketing world and I know little about it. My plan with the adsense sites is to earn some decent money by learning from someone who has done it a whole bunch of times, learn to put it on autopilot, and then branch out with my new skills and experience.

I have also begun to delve into understanding Web2.0, which seems to be the umbrella name for social bookmarking and social networking. That is a HUGE arena and I’m getting my feet wet. This is my bedtime reading for right now, and adsense is my day job.

That’s enough for now. Thanks for visiting.

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 long run. I added my fitness website to a bunch of social bookmarking sites. I need to go through my list and get them all tagged. I think there are some programs that automate this a bit. Maybe I’ll do some research.

MyMSN won’t let me add this blog to my page. Claims it doesn’t recognize the feed URL. Yahoo and Google have no trouble, why does MSN? And why does MSN not index my webpages when Google and Yahoo do? I’ve gotten the impression that MSN is the easiest to get indexed with. Not true for me.

That’s it for now. Busy week ahead.

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 favorites on any number of sites created for this purpose.

Social networking is about joining communities and building blogs or sites and sharing these with a network of friends that we build. I know, I know, very simplistic and they’re a bunch more complicated than that, but it’s a start.

If you haven’t gone to visit the Boy Million page, take a minute now. It’s pretty cool.

That’s it for now.

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 this blog to their “Recently Tagged Pages” twice! Now what? Does anybody know? At least I’m laughing now instead of being frustrated!

I also uploaded some word press plugins to this blog: Ultimate-tag-warrior, Sociable, and Smart-Update-Pinger. The last one is so I won’t keep pinging away when I go back to my posts to make multiple edits. And I do make multiple edits. Funny.

I know I’ll get it sometime, but it sure doesn’t feel very intuitive from the get go. I guess I’ll have to go to each bookmarking site and enter all my sites individually. We’ll see.