Too Much Reading Makes Me Confused

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If you're involved in the making money from residual income niche you have likely felt the same as me at some point.  You're trying to learn all you can about earning from passive income and there's so much out there to take in that it just gets all muddled in your brain.

That's what is going on with me right now.  I've been reading the forums over at InfoBarrel (and don't get me wrong - there is loads of good stuff there) and checking out other sites for building backlinks and building up other forms of passive income.  And I just feel like I have to stop because I keep coming across new sites or new places that I could use but I can't take  it all in.  There's just too much!

I honestly don't know what to do first.

I have kept up with my article writing and I've actually told one of my private writing clients that I need to take a break from writing.  I want to be able to focus on getting the articles out there and backlinking them - at least to my main 26 sites.

The  thing that is driving me crazy is that I know there is more.  26 backlinks on social bookmarking sites is just not going to be enough to do the trick.  I have to do more.  So I'm wondering if I should just put the "more" aside for a little bit and focus on getting some content up there.  Once I have 100 or so articles on each site (Bukisa and InfoBarrel) I can stop or slow down the article writing for a bit and focus on building links in like building linkwheels and stuff.

Linkwheels are something that really fascinates me because you know, I could build one linkwheel that would serve as backlinks to more than just one article.  It could have links to several articles in it.  I've paid to have two linkwheels done for me (for my niche blogs) and I think that I could handle it on my own now.  The only thing it that it does take time.  And if i am going to build my own linkwheels I'm going to want to create somewhat different articles for each part of the wheel   (the ones I bought for $5 used the same article).  But if I had a good article spinning program that would make it much easier.  I'm not sure if I want to invest in that or not.

Anyway, just some thoughts.  If you'r building up your passive income or have already had success, how do you deal with  all the wealth of information that is out there?

Keeping Up!

I'm pretty darned proud of myself because so far this month I am actually keeping up with my residual  earnings article writing.

I've written 6 articles for InfoBarrel (3 are still waiting for approval) and 3 for Bukisa. I'm going to at least one more for Bukisa today and maybe one more for InfoBarrel. InfoBarrel is having it's monthly contest on Top Lists - I love doing those.  I did my first list on The Top 20 Reasons for Freelance Writers to Use Social Media.

I've got another idea for a top list building already so I'm not going to write much here today. I just wanted to update about it. :)

May Goals

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I’m not a big goals person but I realize that I need to be so I’m going to set some goals this month but they are not financially related.

1. Write 50 new residual earnings articles and backlink them all.

2. Write a new blog post each week for all 3 of my niche sites (3×4=12).

3. Write a minimum of 2 new blog posts a week for The Social Freelance Writer.

4. Finish off my two new Amazon blogs and have linkwheels made for them.

5. Build 4 more Amazon blogs and complete and have linkwheels made for them.

and the big one…

6. Work on developing a schedule and sticking to it!

and a non-work goal…

7. Join Curves and go 3-4 times a week and walk 4 times a week.

I had posted this on a writing forum that I go to often and got some feedback immediately.

I love that you are making goals. I love that your goals are specific. This way you know for sure whether you have reached them or not. ( I would re-write number 6, so it is like the others…more specific). I would suggest that now that you have written out your goals, that you write action steps for each one. What do you have to do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in order to reach each one before the month is over. In doing this, you may find that your goals are not attainable and need to be revised, or that they are not challenging enough and that you can do more. Finally, my biggest hope for you is that you build in ways to reward yourself along the way. Don’t forget to celebrate your successes! Best Wishes.

…and I totally agree on her point about #6 – I do need to be more specific about that.  I’m just not sure how to do that so I’ll come back to that later.

As for the action steps:

1. Write 50 new residual earnings articles and backlink them all.

a) Using the index cards for the keywords that I have already chosen to focus on, come up with 50 titles.

b) Write 2 articles each day, Monday – Friday; schedule time for this.

c) Backlink the next morning for the articles that were written the previous day.

and for the next one:

2. Write a new blog post each week for all 3 of my niche sites (3×4=12).

a) Brainstorm for titles.

b) Schedule time once per week to write all three blog posts for the week.

c) Post them on blogs.

Same steps for 3.

And for the last two…

4. Finish off my two new Amazon blogs and have linkwheels made for them.

5. Build 4 more Amazon blogs and complete and have linkwheels made for them.

a) Do research for product/domain

b) Register domain and set  up blog with plugins

c) Add content – 4 product posts and 2-3 info posts

d) Let sit until Google is indexing it

e) Outsource linkwheels on Fivver

REWARDS!  Yes, I deserve rewards.  But I’m not sure what I want so I’ll have to think about that, too.