I didn’t get a chance to do hardly anything on the computer that I wanted to. I was busy with yard work, kids and other family responsibilities. Very busy. I’ve got a meeting Tuesday after work about a new jobs site that I have a 3% stake in. And no, I’m not ready for it either. It’s called Eng -short for Engineering. I’ll talk more about it later.

How was your weekend? Did you get to those projects that you wanted to. I signed up for someone else’s newsletter even though I most-likely knew that I was going to start getting emails that didn’t apply to my situation at all.

I get so tired of these so called Inet marketing experts and all their tips and tricks. It’s very alluring though. You know how they start:

Hey <name>, I’ve got something great that you need to see. Start by making $100 a day.

That sounds great. I mean who couldn’t use an extra $3k a month? I know I could. But if you’re knew to making money online then this is a knew thing and you have everyone telling you what to do and its your job to filter through all the crap. Good luck.

I’m still working on it and I have never hit the $100 a day mark. The most money I have made online per month has been around $125. That’s it and its mostly from link sales on one site that gets a lot of traffic. But in recent days it has been slacking. So that income stream as small as it is may be drying up. Sucks. So I’m back to square one.

I’ve also tried making some money with an article site. You know the process I’m sure. You start with 7-10 articles about your topic put them up on a domain. Then drive traffic to it via article marketing. Have 10 articles written or write them yourself and submit them to the top five or six article directories. The five I am speaking of are:

Ezinearticles
Article Dashboard
Buzzle.com (sucks, cause they take several days to approve one article. If you submit any articles while you have an article that is pending for approval they will delete it.)
Amazines.com
GoArticles.com

So after you submit all these wonderful articles you get 5 sites * 10 articles = 50 backlinks using your specified keyword. Then you need to mass submit the 10 articles to like 1,300 article directories. The software I use for this is called Article Post Robot. Here is a picture of the box: It’s pretty cool software. And after using it to submit 10 articles * 430 article directories (the current count of article directories in APR) you get 4,300 backlinks using your specified keyword. That’s pretty good. No hopefully you will rank in the search engines for the keyword you selected.

I’ve done all that except mass submit my 10 articles. So far I haven’t made crap. But I’m still working on it.

Relaxation
In the my down time which is yeah pretty much never. Ok, I force to give myself downtime, but I usually end up watching a movie on the computer of playing Halo on Xbox Live. Something to blow off steam and the frustration I get with Inet marketing.

Other Ideas and Projects
So in addition to that I have something another site that I am working on. There are easily 50,000 members that could join this site. It’s a very niche market and the site my partner and I are developing is specific to them. So hopefully we will be able to sell the sites services to these 50,000 members -most of which are affiliated with a company which will have multiple members.

Project Numero Uno
Also I have something else that I have been trying, but I stopped working on it. I just don’t have the time. Besides my dad once told me that if you have too many irons in the fire you will get no where fast, get frustrated with your lack of progress and burn yourself out. So I put the other stuff on hold to work on the project I mentioned above. But when it’s done I plan to work on project number 2.

Project 2
Project number two has 300,000 searches on it a month. If I can build this site and get it operational, then I can start selling to the 300,000. I would probably charge them $9.99 a month. It’s basically a software product that I wrote that is being converted to a service. I got tired of dealing with Microsoft and their stupid Windows Foundation Layer in Vista. Absolute crap and a nightmare to code against.

Anyway, if only 1% of the available market of searches became members that would be 3,000 members and around $28,350 after PayPal fees. Not bad. But the question again is not can I build it but can I get it ranked. People say article marketing is the way to do it, but the jury is still out on that for me.

I read somewhere that when you think of a good idea then you can safely assume that 10 other people are working on it. If its a great idea then 15 other people are working on it. These figures apply to companies as well. The point is there is a ton of competition out there. We should use these figures to stay motivated on our tasks and to accomplish what we set out to accomplish. Good luck.

Keyword density and placement are important parts of optimizing your articles for search engines. Search engine spiders scan a page in a way that makes it important to place your keywords where they will be detected and recognized as a keyword, so that your article will come up when someone searches for that keyword.

What is a Keyword?

A keyword is a word that is going to be placed in your article several times, not just once as that would make every word a keyword. When a spider sees that you have a word placed several times in an article, it will determine that your page may be useful to users that search for such a keyword.

Over Optimizing Your Articles

It is important to note that there is also such a thing as over optimizing your articles for particular words, this is known as keyword stuffing. When you stuff keywords in an article a spider will detect that you are trying to trick it into placing your article high in the search engine results for that word, and will instead penalize your site and your page for doing such. This may even affect the rankings of your other pages or get your site blacklisted from a particular search engine if you are found keyword stuffing too many times.

What is Keyword Density?

Keyword density is how many times your keyword is placed in your article. Most use a percentage to determine how many times they will put a keyword in an article. For instance, if you have a 500 word article and want to achieve a keyword density of 5%, then you will need to have the keyword in your article exactly 25 times. You can find hundreds of resources and guides recommending one keyword density over another and the reasons behind the logic, however, in the end you will have to determine which density is more profitable for your articles. Each webmaster as their own density that they like to achieve based on past results. As long as you dont over optimize and you are making sufficient profit from your rankings, then you can choose whatever keyword density you like.

The Right Density

No matter what exact density you choose, it is important to place keywords so that there are more at the beginning and end to produce an hour glass effect. Having the right keyword density in your article makes it more likely that you will make money off of that article because it will rise in the search engine results and be seen by more people.