Lessons For A Newbie

I am sure that many of you have noticed the new little feature on the side of the blog.  In case you hadn’t, take a look at the far sidebar.  This is something new that works in effect like a tip jar.  I thought that it was pretty cool, so have decided to add it here and see what happens. 

What it is, is a place for anyone who appreciates your blog or what you have written to leave you a “tip”.  In return, they get a link to their site from your blog.  This is actually a very good idea, as it can get the reader some of their own traffic - and you can make a bit more than a couple cents a click on an ad!  You can set it up to be whatever you want for a tip - in this case it is $4.00 and you get a link.  As each new link is added, yours moves down.

I thought it was something that was worth trying out - so if you want to be the first to give it a go, just click on the link.  You will be rewarded with a nice visible link to your own site!  And, if you want to put one of these on your own site, there is a link there for that as well.

I also wanted to talk today about some great results I had with a couple articles I wrote and submitted to Ezine articles this past week.  I did some research, and decided to see what would happen with a niche that I found.  I didn’t want to invest a whole lot of time into it if it wasn’t going to pay off, so I quickly put up a blogger blog with one page of content.  Then, I wrote just 2 articles targeting a couple of keyword phrases I found.

The articles were accepted to EZA on Saturday, and by Monday I had the 1st position on Google for one of the keyword phrases, and 2nd position for the other!  I have to tell you that I was completely blown away by that.  I had always heard that there was power in articles - and especially in ones submitted to EZA.

So, if you were having doubts…….personally, I don’t know if I will worry too much about submitting to other directories right now.  I will focus on giving my absolute best articles to EZA, and hope they keep giving me the great results!

Marie

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