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Let me explain. I started out in high school, in the eleventh grade, studying philosophy and religion because it became interesting to me. Before that I spent most of my time working until 1:00 am at Elias Brother’s Big Boy and sleeping it off during the day in class. Something happened to me in the eleventh grade. I think I started growing up. I started studying in my basement bedroom next to the ugliest, largest, ugliest oil furnace I had ever seen. I guess I started studying because I wanted out.
And I did get out. After I graduated, I went to College and studied, you got it, philosophy and religion. As part of the curriculum, I got to travel to Spain and Great Britain for five weeks each. The college I was attending went bankrupt, so guess what, I wanted out again.
I joined the Air Force and became an Accounting and Finance Technician. This is a world full of customers, money (1 mil per year handled by hand), uniforms, and again, travel. I got to go back to Great Britain and spent a couple of years in Germany. I traveled almost the entire European continent in search of the perfect beer. After Gulf War I and 10 years, I wanted out again.
I went back to college and got a degree in computer science. Working in information science was not that much different that the job I had in the Air Force. It was more technical and even more stressful. I guess it was the profit motive. It certainly paid more, but unlike the Air Force it involved taking on a couple of partners, federal and state taxes...to the tune of over $1000.00 per month. I was working for our governments for a fifth of what I was making gross. I wanted out again.
Having worked with computers since about 1981, and dabbling in the internet starting in 1992, in 2006 I decided it was high time that I looked into starting an internet based home business. I looked at three programs before deciding on Stone Evan’s Plug In Profit Site.
I liked the Plug In Profit Site because in included internet marketing education as well as the promise of internet income, learn while you earn. It emphasized article marketing. It had a great support system in the form of the Warrior Forum. I always wanted to be a writer. Now I can write to my heart’s delight. I don’t worry about critics or publishers, or what time I have to be up in the morning.
I wrote an article titled “Turnkey Internet Business”. I had no idea what I was doing. I optimized the article according to Brad Callen’s SEO principles in “SEO Made Easy. I quickly became a fan and use his products to this day. The article ended up #1 in Google for the keywords chosen in the title. This was my first internet marketing accident. The little light went on and I understood something about how search engines worked.
By not following the principles I had learned for over a year, my web pages languished. I couldn’t get traffic to my blog to save my life! I started an article directory, same problem. I looked at it and discovered that the title/description meta tags were all duplicate. I always wondered why Google unceremoniously dumped every new page into it’s supplemental index.
I have been looking for an answer since January 2007. One day I ran a site:{url} command in Google. The little light went on again. It was not Google’s fault. I was feeding the search engines duplicate titles and descriptions. Smart people can do stupid things too.
This all has been fixed. Traffic is finally coming in from all of the search engines, where before I had none, even from my blog which is now very easy to get traffic to. The Alexa ranking for my website is running at about 60,000 average per week currently
Time will tell, but I feel like I am plodding through a swamp. If I ever find my way through this, it will be by accident I suspect. The one change? I don’t want out anymore.
Category: Traffic GenerationInternet Marketing By Accident - The Article was written by:Author:Leonard BartholomewAdded: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:02:02 -0400 This Article Has Been Read 1798 times View all Leonard Bartholomew's articlesAbout the Author: Iphone 3G Downloads at Net Phone Downloads.Leonard Bartholomew, B.S. Computer Science is a cardiac computer system administrator turned publisher and internet marketer, mostly because working for other people sucks. Leonard suggests you buy an Iphone and read up on all of the articles about Iphone 3G Downloads contained in the Moxie Drive Expressions article directory. Disclaimer - The author does not practice illegal activities, including the download of illegal files, of any kind. Information contained in Leonard's articles are as a result of instructive reading and pure research. |
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