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Too much work?

Would it be terrible of me to say I have too much work?

I started out with my first website in 1995 and believe it or not that website is still in existence. In fact it’s my most popular website.

Lately though I’ve gotten into writing blogs and as a result of having so many different blogs I’ve also managed to find ways to monetize them and earn a decent income off of them. I’m actually earning enough now that I can live off of it.

The trouble is most of my income comes in because I actually manually do the work. That is I write posts or write on blogs for compensation. Is it terrible to complain that I have too many offers?

Every day I have at least one email from someone asking me to try out their product or write about their site. It’s getting crazy! I’ve also had two offers to be a guest speaker at blogging or webmaster related seminars!

I think I might have to step back a bit and take a good look at what I’m doing and where I want it to take me so that I can plan my work schedule better and perhaps find a happy medium while I still continue to earn enough to live off of.

The importance of search engine optimization

by Tricia

I’m sure you hear the word SEO quite often as you surf the internet. Perhaps you already know that SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, but are you aware of how to optimize your site for search engines and what it really means?

You can optimize you site at any time for search engine ranks and marketing purposes but the best time to do it is of course when you create the site. Everything from the domain name you choose to the title of your sites, the title of your articles or blog posts all count towards optimizing your site for better standings on search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN and others.

Many people, and companies choose to turn to companies that offer seo services. Companies such as SubmitAWebsite.com, a search engine optimization company, offer services such as analyzing your site against your competitors, keyword analysis, keyword ranking reports, optimize the code and content of some of your sites pages for better search engine optimization, register your website with the top free web directories, offer link building consultation and services and much more.

If the purpose of your website is sales or service then it’s important for your sites keywords to come up high on the search engine pages. You want your site to consistently be on the first page when someone searches for one of the keywords that could bring them to your site. I mean, this is how you get traffic to your site and make sales right?

I think everyone who runs a website should know a little bit about SEO and work towards optimizing their sites for SEO, but if you own a business and you want to outrank the competition it might be wise to look into the search engine optimization services offered by a seo company such as SubmitAWebsite.com.

FeedBlitz – RSS subscriptions by email

by Tricia

When I first signed up to Feedburner in order to provide another form of RSS feed to my readers FeedBlitz was strongly associated with Feedburner. I believe that while the two are still associated, FeedBlitz is more of a stand alone offering now.

So what is Feedblitz anyway? Well, to keep it simple, Feedblitz is just another way of providing your site visitors and hopefully subscribers with a way to be notified that you have written new posts on your site.

Anyone subscribing to your sites feed through Feedblitz can get a summary or the full text, depending upon how you set things up, of your most recent posts by email.

Think about it. RSS feeds have been around for quite a while now, but at first it wasn’t as easy to deliver RSS content to your site visitors as it is now. Also, even though RSS feeds have been around for years there are many people out there that still have no idea what they are, or how to use a feed reader. The whole concept can be confusing to a newbie. Luckily almost everyone understands what email is so it makes sense to provide your site content in email form to your site visitors who’d like to subscribe to your site and be notified when you’ve updated your site doesn’t it?

It’s easy to set up your site feeds on FeedBlitz. Once you add your site feed, FeedBlitz will provide you with a code that you can place on your site that will make it easy for your site visitors to subscribe to your feed. Once they subscribe you’ll be able to keep track of how many email subscribers your site has through the account interface on Feedblitz.

You can customize how your site content is delivered to your subscribers via email, and you can schedule delivery times as well.

Take a look at FeedBlitz if you are looking for yet another way to promote your sites content.

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