Time To Make a New Plan!

Image by MoonSoleil via Flickr - This is what I am working for!  Beautiful scenes like this to enjoy every day!

So, I'm a tad off target with my residual earnings plan aren't I?  LOL

That's ok.  Sometimes you just gotta stop what you were doing, refocus, and get inspired again.  And there's nothing better to get you inspired than...

...a challenge!


A couple of writing chicks that I know have gotten together to inspire each other with a $50 a month HubPages challenge.  And I love this type of thing so I jumped in even though I was not on HubPages before.

I've put up my first two hubs and have decided I like it so I'm going to give it a go.  I'm still going to do InfoBarrel as well but I'm going to lay off of Bukisa for a bit.  I have a lot of content there and while I get more traffic there, the click throughs are not fabulous.  HubPages has a multi-earning thing going on (you can earn from Adsense, the HubPages Ad program, and Amazon) so I think it might be worth exploring.  And the community seems pretty nice, too.  That's one of the things I love about InfoBarrel so I figure that will be a perk at HubPages, as well.

So, what is this plan you might ask?

Well, once again, I am being aggressive.  I don't do anything half way.  I figure that I can dedicate an hour a day to MYSELF so I'm going to do 1 article at HubPages and 1 at InfoBarrel from Monday - Thursday.  Friday is going to be backlinking day.

One thing I am going to do a little differently is I am going to have a theme for each week.  Like this week, the theme is teens.  So, by the end of the week there will be 4 teen themed articles at HubPages and 4 teen themed articles at InfoBarrel.  The HubPages hubs will be interlinked to each other and to the IB articles and vice versa.

I'm also going to use other sites to build links, like Best-Reviewer.com - they are pretty cool because you can build a list and each point can have a dofollow link in it.  I'm going to use Blogger by creating a blog on that theme with a 100-200 word summary of each article and a link to it (and of course, the blog will be Adsense and Amazon optimized as well).  And then I will use my other bookmarking sites to create links, too.

I'm going to try to check in here weekly to share what I have done.

Keyword Luv

If you are looking for some new ways to get some backlinks to your blogs and your articles you should consider doing some blog commenting.  People have been doing this for ages to get traffic to their blogs but now there are some blogs where you can not only get a good "dofollow" link but you can also get quality anchor text, too!

Keyword Luv is a WordPress plugin (I don't think you can use it on Blogger but I'm going to check on that and update later) that allows you to leave a comment with a "dofollow" link back to a blog or article and by typing "@your anchor text" behind your name, search engines will recognize "your anchor text" as being the keywords that identify your blog.

I have used this for my blog before (my main blog) and I plan to try it for a few of my articles as well.

Here are some of  the blogs that have Keyword Luv enabled (just make sure that you leave valuable comments - none of this, "Great post" BS!):

• Just Ask Kim – Internet Marketing Made Easy!
• WassupBlog For Blogging Tips,Tricks, Blogging For Money, SEO
• Jacqueline Gates — Goddess ~ simply a Label to step Up to, and IN to.
• "Dream, Believe, Become..." - Free MLM Help ROCKS! - Tracey-Keefer
• Linda Grace online
• Toronto Search Engine Optimization | Toronto Internet Marketing
• Dehydrated Dog Food, Freeze Dried Dog Food, Diet, Treats for Dog
• Blogging tips, Wordpress SEO, Internet Marketing tips
• TheBitBot SEM Blog - Home Of The Spindication Directory
• Social Networking And Online Marketing Resources
• FREE Blog Setup Services and Resources | BeFree Blog Setup
• Home Business Ideas | Online Business Ideas
• Online Cash Blogger
• Netchunks | Webmaster Tips | Money Making Ideas | Blogging Ideas
• Work At Home - Best Home Based Business - Working From Home Jobs
• Massive Money Group Videos, Ways To Make Money At Home
• larrydkeen - Internet Business Ideas - Marketing - Home Business
• Find All Answers | Blogging tips, Relationships, Self Improvement
• Organic SEO Marketing | Organic SEO | Organic Marketing | Marketing Coach | Internet Marketing SEO Made Easy |
• Internet Marketing Uncovered
• Earn Money Online
• Keywords Shack >> Keyword Research - We Give More
• | Go Green and Save Money
• Personal Development Business - Home Based Business Success
• Screw You Google - Teaching You To Earn Money Online
• WordPress Tutorials | How To WordPress Videos
• SEO Outsource
• Search Engine Optimization Practical SEO Blog
• TradeWindSalesMedia.com
• Directory Blogger

Oh!  and don't forget me!  My main blog is The Social Freelance Writer and I love comments - even if you aren't a writer!  I have Keyword Luv and Comment Luv enable and you can leave your Twitter url, too!

My Backlinking Strategy

I know that one of the most annoying things about making money from residual income is that you need to get backlinks in order to get ranked and building those backlinks takes time and energy.  I've built up a nice way of giving my articles some instant backlinks though.

With this method I have 26 backlinks right away.  I can do them all in one day or I can spread them out over a period of time.  Now, 26 backlinks isn't a huge amount so I don't believe that is too many.  If you do a large amount, sometimes you'll get a little slap from Google but I believe that 26 is ok.

Anyway, I made this video to explain it.  Check it out and let me know what you think: