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Article Publishing Summary 12th June 2011

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This is a summary of my publishing activity during the last week, as well as the status of my lenses on Squidoo and my reviews on Best Reviewer.

I have spent time in the last few weeks working on my new site Squidblogs, a place that Squidoo lensmasters can use to promote their lenses, and I have been working on some new Squidoo lenses in connection with this.

I have also been working on Redgage and Twitter, with a formula to use both of these together to increase earnings, as well as to get more back links to articles.

I hope you will take a look at them and also hope that you enjoy them.

Yahoo Contributor Network

These are the articles that I published in the last week on YCN:

 

You can Click Here to see all of my articles on Yahoo Contributor Network, rather than wait for the next summary posting.

Squidoo

These are my Top 5 ranked lenses on Squidoo:

I also recently created the following lenses on Squidoo:

Squidblogs is a new site that I have been developing, where lensmasters can write about their lenses to promote them.  With Squidoo having eliminated the Squidcast function in the past few weeks, Squidblogs ought to come more into it’s own, as the demand for places where lensmasters can promote their lenses increases.

Best Reviewer

Best-Reviewer allows you to create review lists and to get paid using Google Adsense Revenue Sharing.

These are the most recent Best Reviews that I have created:

If you yould like to create reviews of your own and earn through Google Adsense, it’s very easy, and many reviews only take 5 minutes to create. Click HERE for more information.

Article Publishing Summary 5th June 2011

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This is a summary of my publishing activity during the last week, as well as the status of my lenses on Squidoo and my reviews on Best Reviewer.

I hope you will take a look at them and also hope that you enjoy them.

Yahoo Contributor Network

I didn’t actually publish anything here in the last week, because I was working on other projects, which took priority.

You can Click Here to see all of my articles on Yahoo Contributor Network, rather than wait for the next summary posting.

Squidoo

These are my Top 5 ranked lenses on Squidoo:

I also recently created the following lenses on Squidoo:

Squidblogs is a new site that I have been developing, where lensmasters can write about their lenses to promote them.  With Squidoo having eliminated the Squidcast function in the past few weeks, Squidblogs ought to come more into it’s own, as the demand for places where lensmasters can promote their lenses increases.

Best Reviewer

Best-Reviewer allows you to create review lists and to get paid using Google Adsense Revenue Sharing.

These are the most recent Best Reviews that I have created:

If you yould like to create reviews of your own and earn through Google Adsense, it’s very easy, and many reviews only take 5 minutes to create. Click HERE for more information.

Once I Was Lost Now I Am Found

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I took a look at the topic for the week on GBE2 (Great Blogging Experience 2) which is Lost And Found, and after many minutes, ok less than two actually, I thought that it was time to write about a period of my life, and how I came to meet my soul mate.

In late 2006 I was living in South Florida, having moved there from Indiana almost a year previous.

My marriage had turned sour.  It had been shaky for a while, but after moving had really gone further downhill.  My life was no longer my own, I was living with my in-laws with two women who ruled the roost, and I was really unhappy, lost, and not knowing what the future held for me, except that it wasn’t my story, I was help captive.

The previous year I had begun some research into my family history, something I had become very interested in.  During my move to Florida I had not had time to work on this, but having in despair now split from my wife and become independent, I had time to work on this, and continued my research with a vengeance.

I found a genealogy site that had a wonderful community of members, and also on their forums an “Off Topic” section, where a group of members posted threads that were often hilarious.

There was one person that I had come across on a number of threads, and by pure chance, we happened to view a new “Off Topic” thread at the same time, one where someone posted the first line of a story, and other members in turn added a new line.

Well the story started as funny, went on to be bizarre and incredibly funny, and I realized that this one person was responding to the lines that I had written in a way that indicated she understood what was behind what I had written.  She definitely understood me, and realized that I understood what she had written too.

For several weeks the thread continued, with the pair of us writing lines in the story that he hoped the other would follow through with, and they did, and it was unreal and amazing.  For the first time in ages I was happy inside.

To cut a long story very short, we began to email each other, then call each other, and with each new day over a period of months we realized just how much we had in common.  Not only this, but she lived only 30 miles from where I grew up in England.

Today I have ended up back in England, and we have been married for just over a year.  I have never been happier, despite the traumas that we have both had to go through, but I can now at last not only see the light at the end of the tunnel, I feel that I am out of the tunnel.

If either of us had been on that web site researching even a week either side, we would never have met, and who knows how our lives would be right now.

Truly in many ways, once I was lost, but now I am found.

This article was a project for the week for GBE2 (Global Blogging Experience) and was based on the words “Lost And Found”.

Article Publishing Summary 30th May 2011

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This is a summary of my publishing activity during the last week, as well as the status of my lenses on Squidoo and my reviews on Best Reviewer.

I hope you will take a look at them and also hope that you enjoy them.

Yahoo Contributor Network

This is what I have published in the last week, enjoy:

  • UK Government Enforces Nationwide Curfew in Emergency Measure to Stem Violent Protests

    The government in the UK has today announced that there will be a nationwide curfew every evening from 7pm to 6am until further notice, with anyone breaking the curfew risking being placed under arrest.
  • Surviving the Millenium Apocalypse the Diary of Robert Scott

    A key record from the apocalypse era of the new millennium is the diary of Robert Scott, who tells of the effect that the series of natural disasters had on Western Europe and how survival skills helped him combat the darkest period since antiquity.
  • Top 10 Grossing Vampire Movies at the Box Office

    Horror movies and vampire movies in particular are more popular than ever before, thanks in part to advanced special effects as well as the hype that has surrounded The Twilight Saga series. But which vampire movies are the biggest hits at the box office
  • The End of the World as We Know It

    A few years ago most of us felt secure knowing that unless the Russians and USA started a nuclear war, our future was assured. Global warming, terrorist activity and natural disasters however now have me seriously concerned for the life that know.
 My traffic on Yahoo Contributor Network has really taken a dive lately, which is one reason why I quit publishing my News From A Weird World series last week.  I hope to restart this if my article popularity picks up, but writing has to be worth the effort in any case, unless it’s just for my benefit to document things of course.

You can also Click Here to see my latest articles up to date, rather than wait for the next summary posting.

Squidoo

These are my Top 5 ranked lenses on Squidoo:

I also recently created the following lenses on Squidoo:

 

Best Reviewer

Best-Reviewer allows you to create review lists and to get paid using Google Adsense Revenue Sharing.

These are the most recent Best Reviews that I have created:

 

If you yould like to create reviews of your own and earn through Google Adsense, it’s very easy, and many reviews only take 5 minutes to create.  Click HERE for more information.

My Expectations Past And Present

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Even when I was quite young I got to thinking that if there were millions and millions of people in the world, I couldn’t just be like one little ant in a huge nest, I had to have been put here on Earth for some reason.

 It’s quite a logical assumption if you think about it. We are born, we live our lives, we die, and most people leave no lasting legacy behind them.  To believe that you are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things is rather depressing, even to a child, and so I always imagined that I was here for a purpose, although I had no idea what.

 It used to be that I thought I would have some religious purpose, but these days logic tells me not to believe everything that I am told literally, and my studies of ancient history and the writings of Zecharia Sitchin amongst others have left me seeing the religions of the world as little more than a way of controlling the masses and keeping them in order.

 There wasn’t a schoolboy in England when I was growing up who hadn’t heard of the famous signal flown on HMS Victory by Admiral Horatio Nelson before the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, “England Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty”.

I somewhat expected that one day when I was grown up I would either do something or invent something that would make me famous, or at least noteworthy, but alas although my career in the computer industry went up pretty fast, it then flattened out and slowly but surely went downhill, IT becoming a much tougher field to work in as technology advanced and the competitors for jobs got younger.

 When I hear the word “Expectations” it also reminds me of the Charles Dickens novel “Great Expectations”, which although I have never read it, there is an old black and white movie that gave me the creeps, where the hero “Pip” meets an escaped convict in a graveyard, and also Miss Haversham in her wedding dress, and the dining room full of cobwebs, ready for a banquet that would never come.  Those visions gave me bad dreams for years.

But now that time has passed on, my expectations of doing something outstanding in my life have become virtually a dream that never came true.

Here I am going on closer to sixty than I am to fifty, married for the third time, and financially worse off than I have ever been in my life.  Child support for my two daughters who I love dearly, takes almost half of my earnings, and by the same token makes it almost impossible for me to even visit them even once a year because I don’t have the money.

 With the need to continue to pay out a significant amount every month until they both reach 18, I am faced with having to work until I am sixty eight, unless by some miracle we win the lottery or my attempts to earn a living online begin to pay off in a big way.

 What were once great expectations have now become pipe dreams, the hope that I can find a winning formula for earning money from my web sites and other enterprises, or that the book I am trying to work on will become a best seller one day, although at this point I am still trying to research the content.

 I do believe that dreams and expectations change over time for most of us, but even though dreams can often fade, there is always the fleeting chance that some of them will come true.

 Five years ago this did happen to me, and I did find my soul mate, someone who understands me and who makes me happier than I have ever been before.  Now all I have to do is to find the answer to my financial dreams and know that our future is more secure as we both reach retirement.

 This article was a project for the week for GBE2 (Global Blogging Experience) and was based on the word “Expectations”.

Article Publishing Summary 23rd May 2011

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This is a summary of my publishing activity during the last week, as well as the status of my lenses on Squidoo and my reviews on Best Reviewer.

I hope you will take a look at them and also hope that you enjoy them.

Yahoo Contributor Network

This is what I have published in the last week, enjoy:

  • The Day We Almost Won the Lottery

    Buying a lottery ticket can be an exciting experience, one that is filled with the anticipation of how your life could change if you won the jackpot. This is a story about how we almost won the lottery.
  • Could These Chinese Villagers Be Descendants of Roman Legionnaires?

    There are stories of a Roman Legion led my Marcus Crassus that was defeated in what is now Iran in 53BC. Is it possible that survivors made their way to China and settled there. People in one village have Caucasian DNA as well as Caucasian features.
  • What Happens when a Cop Steps Out of Bounds

    Police Officers are expected to respect the law like everyone else, and to help prevent crime, but sometimes they misuse their powers when something happens in their personal life. This is one of those stories.
  • Should Having Children Be Something You Earn and Not a Right?

    Society today has created groups of people who have children because they are careless as well as those who have children purely to get additional child benefits. Is our future one where being a parent might be a status that you have to earn.
  • White Tiger on the Loose a Local Offbeat News Story

    Reports that a white tiger has been spotted on the outskirts of the city you live in are not what you want to hear on the news. This is what happened in our city this weekend, but as usual things are not always what they seem in this offbeat news story.

 My traffic on Yahoo Contributor Network has really taken a dive lately, which is one reason why I quit publishing my News From A Weird World series last week.  I hope to restart this if my article popularity picks up, but writing has to be worth the effort in any case, unless it’s just for my benefit to document things of course.

You can also Click Here to see my latest articles up to date, rather than wait for the next summary posting.

Squidoo

These are my Top 5 ranked lenses on Squidoo:

I also recently created the following lenses on Squidoo:

 

Best Reviewer

Best-Reviewer allows you to create review lists and to get paid using Google Adsense Revenue Sharing.

These are the most recent Best Reviews that I have created:

 

If you yould like to create reviews of your own and earn through Google Adsense, it’s very easy, and many reviews only take 5 minutes to create.  Click HERE for more information.

Article Publishing Summary 16th May 2011

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This is a summary of my publishing activity during the last week, as well as the status of my lenses on Squidoo and my reviews on Best Reviewer.

I have felt pretty drained both mentally and physically in the last week, and so the number of articles I have written is less than normal.  I also had a stressful time trying to book flights and accomodation in Florida for our summer trip, but now that these are done, I can hopefully relax a bit.

I write on a number of topics, usually it depends on what comes into my head on any given day, so it could be a travel story, memoirs from my life, something from the daily news, or even a poem inspired by something.

I hope you will take a look at them and also enjoy them.

Yahoo Contributor Network

This is what I have published in the last week, enjoy:

 My traffic on Yahoo Contributor Network has really taken a dive lately, which is one reason why I quit publishing my News From A Weird World series last week.  I hope to restart this if my article popularity picks up, but writing has to be worth the effort in any case, unless it’s just for my benefit to document things of course.

You can also Click Here to see my latest articles up to date, rather than wait for the next summary posting.

Squidoo

These are my Top 5 ranked lenses on Squidoo:

I also recently created the following lenses on Squidoo:

 

Best Reviewer

Best-Reviewer allows you to create review lists and to get paid using Google Adsense Revenue Sharing.

These are the most recent Best Reviews that I have created:

 

If you yould like to create reviews of your own and earn through Google Adsense, it’s very easy, and many reviews only take 5 minutes to create.  Click HERE for more information.

Google Really Doesn’t Like Yahoo And It’s Hurting My Earnings

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It’s common knowledge that there is little love lost between the two search engine giants Google and Yahoo, but in recent months when Google modified their search engine placement algorithm, it seems that among the sites that have taken a huge hit is Yahoo.

Google’s claim is that it is trying to lower the relevance of “Content Farms” in it’s search engine, but if like me you are a writer on the Yahoo Contributor Network (or YCN for short), you will have seen traffic to your articles drop as much as 70% in the last few months.

It’s easy to see that Yahoo articles are either not listed, or listed low in the list of pages, if you search on Google for the exact phrase “News From A Weird World”.  This is a series that I have published on YCN every Wednesday for the last 15 months.  If you look at the domains that are showing up in Google, it’s places where links to my articles have either been added manually by myself, or have been added through RSS Feeds.

The first site that I see is Redgage, where I manually added a link to the article.

Then there are 2 links to Delovesto.com, my main blog, where I also add links to these manually.

Thirdly, we have my blog on Blogspot, where I sometimes add links manually.

Next, She Told Me, which is an Adsense Revenue Sharing site where I share many of my articles.

Then we come to The Laughline, my humor site, where you guessed it, I manually added a link to my articles.

Are we seeing a picture here?

Next comes Zimbio, where links to all my articles are submitted via RSS Feed.

After this is a Squidcast (news item) that I sent out about my Squidoo lens that is an index page for News From A Weird World.  Google does by the way love Squidoo.

Finally, a single entry for YCN at the end of the first page of Google, and it’s for an older article published in February.

The second page on Google lists 2 entries from Digg,  2 more from Zimbio, one from Stumpedia (manual submission), and then one from Qondio, another writing site where I had written an article about Offbeat News items and linked to my News From A Weird World lens on Squidoo.

Another entry for Delovesto.com and one for Redgage.com completes the second page on Google.

But where are the remaining 60+ News From A Weird World articles that I published on YCN?

The third page on Google begins with my Squidoo lens Offbeat News, the predecessor of News From A Weird World, then Zimbio, Redgage, and several sites that copy the introduction to articles but do at least link to the main article instead of plagiarizing them.

Finally on this page, a ca.news.yahoo.com search page that no longer exists.  Bizarre!  All of these come before all but one of my original articles on YCN.

The good news is that there are 2 more listings for News From A Weird World from YCN on the fourth page of Google, but who is going to look that far down?  Also on that page are what looks like more plagiarized versions.

In total, only 3 or 4 out of 60 of the original articles seem to be included on Google, which is really poor.

Many other writers are experiencing the same thing, so maybe it’s time to look at writing elsewhere, somewhere that my articles do get well listed on Google, and I think that this list shows very well which some of these sites might be.

There are more ways than one to earn money from writing.   You can get an up front payment (nice to have), payment based on traffic (which is what I have mostly been getting from YCN), and you can earn from Affiliate links and advertising like Google Adsense (which I do on my blogs, as well as on other sites where my articles are to be found.

At the end of the day the key is TRAFFIC!  Without traffic you aren’t going to see earnings, and traffic is very much dependent on search engine placement.

If the site that you are writing on is getting penalized by Google, then no matter how good the SEO is on your articles, traffic will suffer.

I would definitely be interested to hear feedback from anyone else who is a writer and who is experiencing similar problems.  It’s always good to know places to write where search engine listing is good, and where earnings are generally better.

Article Publishing Summary 9th May 2011

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This is a summary of my publishing activity during the last week, as well as the status of my lenses on Squidoo and my reviews on Best Reviewer.

I write on a number of topics, usually it depends on what comes into my head on any given day, so it could be a travel story, memoirs from my life, something from the daily news, or even a poem inspired by something.

During the month of April I wrote fewer articles than usual on the Yahoo Contributor Network, because of the A-Z April Blogging Challenge, and I have instead been busy writing articles on our blog here.  The challenge is now over (I completed it successfully) and it’s time to see what project takes my fancy in May.

I hope you will take a look at them and also enjoy them.

Yahoo Contributor Network

This is what I have published in the last week, enjoy:

  • News from a Weird World : Offbeat News 4 May 2011

    In News From A Weird World this week, you can find the following stories: Australian learners go for world record, Nude cyclist arrested, Deaf men stabbed in bar, How not to deal with noisy neighbors, When paying your respects isn’t safe and more.
  • An Evil Monster Could Live on My Street How Would I Know
    Where do criminals hide? It’s not always where you would expect, therefore can the Pakistani government be criticised for not knowing that Osama Bin Laden was living where he was, right under their noses.

 

You can also Click Here to see my latest articles up to date, rather than wait for the next summary posting.

Squidoo

These are my Top 5 ranked lenses on Squidoo:

I also recently created the following lenses on Squidoo:

 

Best Reviewer

Best-Reviewer allows you to create review lists and to get paid using Google Adsense Revenue Sharing.

These are the most recent Best Reviews that I have created:

 

If you yould like to create reviews of your own and earn through Google Adsense, it’s very easy, and many reviews only take 5 minutes to create.  Click HERE for more information.

Promote Your Content And Earn With Redgage

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Get Paid For Uploading Pictures Videos Articles and Links with RedgageHave you heard of Redgage yet?

Whether you are a writer/blogger, photographer, own an online store where you sell products, you will be aware of the need to promote your content in order to get backlinks, which are vital if your content is to get a good position in the search engines.

Practically everyone has heard of sites like Twitter, Digg, Delicious etc, which are widely used for promoting content, but a site called Redgage is far less well known.

Redgage is a content directory that allows you to add Articles, Pictures, Videos and also Links to content that is held elsewhere, and not only does Redgage give you backlinks, they also pay you in various ways, so you can earn as well.

The primary method of earning is by accruing money through page views on the content that you have uploaded to Redgage.  In other words, you get paid every time a visitor accesses anything that you have uploaded.

You can also get paid a Bonus if an article that you wrote on Redgage is featured on the front page.  These bonuses can add up, and also being featured on the front page, the earnings from page views also add up.

Redgage also have a daily drawing for a $25 gift card.  To enter the drawing, you need to acquire raffle tickets, which you can do by uploading Knowledge Based Content to Redgage, by referring people to Redgage, or by referencing Redgage in an external article (see HERE for more information).

By now I am sure you are wondering how you get paid with Redgage.

Once your earnings reach $25, you can apply for a Redgage Visa Debit Card, which they will sent to your home, anywhere in the world.

You can then keep topping up the debit card with your earnings, and of course you can use it to buy just about anything, as Visa is universally accepted worldwide.

Hopefully I have sparked your interest, and if you would like to know more about Redgage, just visit their HOME PAGE.

Oh yes – Redgage is of course FREE to join, and it’s perfect for promoting articles or blog posts, photographs, videos, Squidoo lenses, items in your Zazzle store etc.