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November 26, 2008 By Bruce Hopkins 2 Comments

I’ve been neglecting this blog for a while but I had a good reason. This is always been a hobby to me and not something I really used to earn money but that’s about to change one thing that I’m going to do to make my life a little easier is to use Dragon Naturally Speaking in conjunction with live writer for my blogging activities I’ve tried Dragon Naturally Speaking prior to version 10. But I was never able to train it to my voice. Version 10 of Dragon Naturally Speaking is a little different. I just got it last night installed on my computer. My hopes were not high for Dragon Naturally Speaking as with version 8 I was never able to have it understand me with any level of accuracy. Well version 10 is a lot different.

 

At the moment I am using Dragon Naturally Speaking version 10 to type this blog post. While it does make some mistakes he does understand what I’m saying for the most part. The cool part about this is that typing with Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a lot faster than typing normally. This is one of the reasons I have not really kept up with a site like I should have. I just don’t have the time to keep up with this site because it does not a lot of money and as a result I spend my time on other tasks which do earn me money. But with the increased time I say by using this software then perhaps I can keep up with this site as well as my many others. I’ve never been a fast typist and I’ve always wanted to improve my speed but typing fast is just not in my abilities talking fast is another story. While it may take get some getting used to as I realize I do not tie the same as I speak and it does make some mistakes which I must correct. The four were some instances and as I get used to it I should do a better job and things should flow better.

Of course Dragon Naturally Speaking is not going to help with SEO. So, I will still be forced to utilize my keyboard to perform SEO type tasks. Right now I’m looking at probably 80% accuracy rate as I speak this blog post. Which is not really really bad. The one thing is a kind of messes me up with my flow of writing in this post does not seem like a normal blog post from me. But regardless perhaps I will give it a shot anyway as this is really helping my speed with typing a blog post. Right now I spent less than five minutes on this blog post and from looking at it I have a couple hundred words maybe 250. At this rate I can probably speak blog post a lot faster than I can actually write them. Of course it means my process for writing blog posts will need to change I will need to put it in my heated prior to actually starting to speak the blog post. Well this is all for now I just want to see how this would work out and it looks okay I’m have to do a little editing to this post and I may change a couple worked around here and there but for the most part I’m very please with Dragon Naturally Speaking version 10. So what blogging tools do you use have you considered? Dragon Naturally Speaking it may be worth the money no matter what your accent I have a South Georgia accent and it understands me just fine now. Of course this was not always true with version 8 it was a total disaster. But version 10 is definitely an upgrade.

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Using FARK to gain visitors

June 9, 2008 By Bruce Hopkins 4 Comments

FARK is a website like Digg where users submit stories of interest throughout the web. The main difference between FARK and Digg is FARK is more democratic in nature. This is because while a DIGG story can become buried by just one power user.FARK is different while its the same. I’m not sure of exactly how the stories make it to the front page, but what I do know on certain topics if one does make it to the top, then you are getting a shitload of traffic in a short amount of time. The site is growing and while not as big as Digg, the traffic you gain is a lot better about converting into revenue generating actions. I should keep this to myself, but I figured I might as well share in a No Nonsense manner. The FARK users are not as picky about stories as the Digg kids are and they are nto as picky or get their feelings hurt. Give it a try with the right topic and I won’t divulge that as I would be divulging a niche that is doing very well for me lately and I’m not planning on sharing this niche as it will be short lived, but is generating some green.

What I will divulge is that I’ve been playing with a new traffic generation technique that was just staring me in the face for months and I did not realize what I was looking at. I’m not going to let it out of the bag at the moment, but will after I spend a little more time developing the techniques, but what I will tell is it is so easy to generate thousands of real visitors to a brand new website which will convert to revenue for no investment on your part. Some of the Gurus are using this, but for the most part these techniques are getting overlooked. I will show a screen shot and will be divulging exactly how I obtained these numbers on a brand new site later on so you may want to subscribe if you are not already subscribed.

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This is a domain that I registered about a year ago, but never did anything with. In January I put up a wordpress blog and made a couple of posts, but did not actively promote it as I was working on other sites. You should be able to tell by the graphic that I found my little technique in the last part of May. At first it was not monetized at all so the May traffic did not produce desired results, but I quickly fixed that and the June traffic is going to net me a little money. I’m still working on the best methods to get the most conversion out of the traffic and I have some ideas which will increase the conversion rate. Its not bad, but its also not where I would like it to be. I’m looking at some other methods and using the same techniques to push traffic to my other sites which is really starting to pay off.

 

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Improving your earnings with PLR content

March 15, 2008 By Bruce Hopkins 1 Comment

Lots of people shy away from PLR content for their websites. While I do agree that PLR articles can cause you some issues, its also a great way to utilize your time most effectively. I very rarely use private label articles on this blog, but I do use it a lot on other sites with success. Where a lot of people fail with PLR content is they are lazy. PLR articles by their very nature can be rewritten. This is the step that most people fail to do. PLR is meant to be a helper for creating content, not to be an all out method of not writing.

At the minimum you need to rewrite at least 25% of the article and I would say this number should be closer to 50% in order for you to receive the best result. There are some methods you can use to rewrite an article in a minimum of time.

  1. Rewrite the title — This is crucial and probably the most important part of rewriting. Choose a title that contains your keywords, but don’t accept the title as it is in the PLR article.
  2. If the article does not have  a summary paragraph then write one from scratch. This does not need to be very long. Just summarize the article in three to four sentences. Read the article and make your summary consistent with the article. One thing to keep in mind is once you go through the rest of the article you may need to revisit this summary and modify it based on what is changed through the rest of the process. You can do this part later, but I find that writing my summary first helps me with the rest of the process.
  3. Once you understand the article, then start rewriting paragraphs one at a time. Rewriting may include removing redundant content or just rewording sentences. The way I do this is to look at the paragraph and totally rewrite it above or below the current paragraph. One I’m through I just delete the original paragraph and move on to each paragraph.
  4. Once the paragraphs are modified I will write a conclusion which is pretty much a repeat of the summary with minor changes.

If you have done these things then PLR content can be a great method for increasing the content you have available for earning revenue on your site in the shortest and most economical method. Most PLR packages can be bought for only a few dollars and if you hang out in Internet Marketing forums such as DigitalPoint or the Warriors then you can find a lot of package for free. Keep in mind that the free packages you may find may need a little more rewriting before you realize the true potential. Good luck with your PLR rewriting efforts.

 

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