It's been a rollercoaster weekend, that's for sure -- crashed the computer (again!) yesterday. But this time I didn't have to bring in any of my tech savvy family members. I managed to resolve the issue myself. I guess I had better learn how to do this stuff anyway, since I tend to get those nasty data recovery/fake antivirus things nearly every other month. Which means I am 100% finished with traffic exchanges. If I want more hits on my blog, I guess I'm going to have to do it the old fashioned way with excellent content.
It's also a little hectic in the home, getting things ready for a realtor to do their work. I thought living out of a few boxes was a slight strain on my life... now I know that living out of even fewer boxes to hide some of my clutter will be a triumph if I can get through it without a mini breakdown.
Now we are finally ready for the good news! I'm participating in a blog tour this week over at Book Review Bin. I'm reviewing and getting the word out about Zombie Candy (Annie Ogden Mystery 2) by Frederick Lee Brooke. I would love it if you stopped by and checked out my review and the Rafflecopter giveaway (find it in the sidebar). And don't forget to Google+, Like on Facebook and retweet if you can!
Showing posts with label traffic exchanges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traffic exchanges. Show all posts
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Monday, February 06, 2012
Motivated on Monday
I didn't wake up with the alarm clock... but it was close today. As soon I as I put on the tea kettle to boil for my morning coffee (I'm from a 1940's noir--I drink instant) I got right to work. 150-word article out of the way before the kettle started screaming. I lined up a couple more similar articles for later in the day. While this won't make a huge dent in anything, I do feel like I'm finally back to work full swing.
I'm still looking for a job outside the home because things are getting a little desperate in the money category. My bank had the nerve to charge me a $5 service charge because I didn't have enough transactions. When you don't have a lot of money, there probably won't be enough transactions!
I also wrote two poems last week that I wanted to debut today, but since I sent them to the Yahoo Contributor Network, I guess I have to wait until both are approved. And of course I also have a complaint about YCN... I guess I didn't log in for 90 days, which is strange because Yahoo keeps me logged in automatically. But, I'll take their word for it that I didn't visit the page for that long. Anyway, they have cut of my performance views to count for the overall performance payments. From what I understand, these should have resume as soon as I started visiting the site again, but I don't think they have. I have zeros across the board and it upsets me because I would have never promoted the articles last week if I knew I wasn't going to get paid for them. But I have my queries into the forum, so we will see what I can find out about that.
What free time I do have left in the day I spend on promotion. Most of what I do is drops on Entrecard (which is also on my list--they tell me my book review blog doesn't have a widget--and it's right there for all to see) and I'm back to the traffic exchange game. I never realized before how truly sad traffic exchanges are. 99% of the pages I view are people advertising other traffic exchanges, MLM schemes or other get-rich-quick junk. I like to think I class up the joint a bit by promoting my blogs. I would love to promote my articles directly, but that's against every terms of service at every article website, so I have to hope that people will engage my blog after they see it. It's usually a statistic of one in a million, but it's still relatively free advertising, so I'll stick to it for now.
I'm still looking for a job outside the home because things are getting a little desperate in the money category. My bank had the nerve to charge me a $5 service charge because I didn't have enough transactions. When you don't have a lot of money, there probably won't be enough transactions!
I also wrote two poems last week that I wanted to debut today, but since I sent them to the Yahoo Contributor Network, I guess I have to wait until both are approved. And of course I also have a complaint about YCN... I guess I didn't log in for 90 days, which is strange because Yahoo keeps me logged in automatically. But, I'll take their word for it that I didn't visit the page for that long. Anyway, they have cut of my performance views to count for the overall performance payments. From what I understand, these should have resume as soon as I started visiting the site again, but I don't think they have. I have zeros across the board and it upsets me because I would have never promoted the articles last week if I knew I wasn't going to get paid for them. But I have my queries into the forum, so we will see what I can find out about that.
What free time I do have left in the day I spend on promotion. Most of what I do is drops on Entrecard (which is also on my list--they tell me my book review blog doesn't have a widget--and it's right there for all to see) and I'm back to the traffic exchange game. I never realized before how truly sad traffic exchanges are. 99% of the pages I view are people advertising other traffic exchanges, MLM schemes or other get-rich-quick junk. I like to think I class up the joint a bit by promoting my blogs. I would love to promote my articles directly, but that's against every terms of service at every article website, so I have to hope that people will engage my blog after they see it. It's usually a statistic of one in a million, but it's still relatively free advertising, so I'll stick to it for now.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Can't stop
I'm bored, so I wrote a new article on eHow: How to Promote Article Online for Free. If you write articles online (like me) or just have a website or blog to promote, there are some useful hints. I use all of the same steps myself for promotion, and they do work if you're willing to put in a little time. I'm actually going to head over to my favorite traffic exchange and put in my time... maybe I'll see you there.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Very Quick
Back to work and 68 behind, so this is just a quick update to point you to some of my articles. One is a book review on The Complete Prose of Woody Allen and the other is an article that provides information on the Top 3 Traffic Exchanges. Useful stuff for those that work on the internet. Now it's back to work... all day... and all night. That's right. You're singing The Kinks now, aren't you?
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