Ethereal, Eclectic, Eccentric and Electric......well, maybe not!
Thu
Oct
8
Finding True Happiness
We all want to be happy, in fact if you don’t want to be happy you may have issues that I don’t really have the ability to help you.
I want you to be happy, hopefully you do too. In the perfect world we would chase happeness at all costs, personally I can’t think of what else there is, but years of mental conditioning can make us lose sight of what really matters and what can indeed make us ultimately happy.
Chasing The Dream - Finding True Happiness
You don’t want misery, you don’t chase unhappiness, yet very few people seek to chase the opposite. Some idealists manage to escape the 9-5 theory and identify exactly what it is that makes them smile and they’ve committed their lives to accomplishing a happier life.
It makes perfect sense to me.
Finding Your Center
It’s important to assess your life from time to time, just to be honest with yourself and to make some realizations of your own. by knowing the things that bring us joy and the things that don’t we can veer our lives towards the path that will most likely make us happy and fulfilled.
By finding that center, that equilibrium of satisfaction, we can truly lead a happier life, by which I mean one that is filled with the things we love and devoid of pointless displeasures.
I hope you find your center - how to find true happiness
Wed
Oct
7
Memory Improvement can help you in just about every interaction you will ever partake in. Having a better memory will help you in so many ways that it’s impossible to list them all.
Everyone can improve their ability to recollect names, numbers and list , all it takes is the right tools and the willingness to learn.
If your wondering if memory improvement is possible for you, then the exercises and tips we have may be the answer to help you retain more information than you have ever thought you could.
There are three key areas to understand about your memory, these three keys are the triggers that decide whether you retain information or your brain deems it unimportant and relegates it to a hidden file.
Memory improving techniques
The Three Keys To Understand Are:
1. Vivid Environment
2. Repetitive Environment
3. Recent Environment
These three keys are the base from which you must first understand and then practice and improve to create a better memory.
Vivid Environment
Things that happen around you that are vivid in nature create an indentation in your mind and become easy to remember, in fact the bad things can be hard to forget.
By knowing this you can move to artificially enhance the vividness of important things to indent our mind with names, numbers, lists and landmarks.
Using Vivid memory exercises you can train yourself to apply vivid thoughts and feelings to situations and in the process burn images to your memory.
So remember, we retain bright, amazing, unusual, impressive and startling things.
Learn The Vivid Environment Memory Exercises Here
Repetitive Environment
Things that we repeat often or those things around us that repeat frequently are more easily embedded into our memory.
Many people can relate to this from repetitive studying or even just the ability to recall T.V commercials word for word.
Repetitive images or any information will eventually seep into our memory bank, so knowing this we can incorporate repetition into our quest for memory improvement.
You can train yourself to repeat certain things you learn until it becomes a subconscious effort and no longer requires intense application.
So remember, we retain things that are repeated to us many times.
Learn The Repetitive Environment Memory Exercises Here
Recent Environment
Things that have happened recently are easier to remember than the things that happened longer ago.
Our memories place recent events as more important, but as time goes by these recent events become past activities and the brain has more trouble accessing them. Knowing this we can focus on bringing out past information and making it recent, ensuring we re-file it under important.
If you have memories that are important to you, then keep a diary of these important pieces of information and visit them now and then to ensure they don’t become locked up and inaccessible for good.
So remember, we retain recent information for a while and then if we don’t use it we can lose it.
Learn The Recent Environment Memory Exercises Here
Memory improvement program
These three focal points should be trained to create a synergistic, improving memory. Use the memory exercises and the memory tips in IQ Solutions to train up your skills, but make sure you understand these three keys first.
Tue
Oct
6
Writing Quickly
It’s tempting to say write like you’ve got a gun to your head, but this being the world wide web, it could be an all to real possibility depending where you live exactly!
One of the biggest writing mistakes is not writing enough content fast enough, it leads to low productivity.
So I think I’ll let you in on three things I do to write faster:
1. Write 10 articles on the same topic
This way the information’s fresh in your head and you just have to change it a little each time.
2. Write about a known subject
If you know a lot about what it is you intend to write about then you will find it easier to write an article than if you site there humming and haring.
3. Intent
if during your writing you keep the intent to write fast then you will, but if you allow your mind to wander then you will slow down. I find I type twice as fast when I intend to get my article written quickly
I hope at some stage you employ these three tactics as they work wonders for me.
Mon
Oct
5
My Honest Squidoo Review
Don’t bother - That’s the overwhelming advice that people in the “know” seem to be handing out in large quantity, when it comes to using Squidoo.
So, I thought I’d have a good look, run a few experiments and see whether Squidoo really is pointless, or indeed has a use.
First I wrote 4 similar articles and then submitted them to:
1.Ezinearticles
2.Hubpages
3.Goarticles
4.Squidoo
The Results?
Only 2 articles were indexed within 2 weeks and I didn’t bookmark them or link boost them in any form. They were indexed “naturally”.
My Ezine article was the first to be indexed and had a SE result of 8th on the first page for my key word of choice.
My Hub was indexed around the same time for a second page 5th result.
Now my Goarticle is not in the top 100 results and the Squid lens isn’t indexed at all.
My first impressions - Not good.
What’s the point of writing an article for squidoo to cash in on, if it’s not getting indexed?
Why Squidoo Seems Less Valuable?
It seems to me, that if you’re not about creating “Giant Squid” lenses then Squidoo won’t even acknowledge you, let alone bring up your lens in results. I’m not creating a 4000 word article for a PR 1 backlink!
Squidoo wont have a ton of outbound links on your page to devalue your link, but it will have a myriad of internal links to competitors pages …on your lens and that’s going to cost you traffic and is the single biggest reason that many people have given up on Squidoo.
As for me, well, I can’t see myself rushing to add unique content to a resource that won’t get indexed, let alone send me traffic and that’s an honest to goodness lose/lose situation.
When they change I’ll reconsider, but with hubpages and Ezinearticles as good authorities, I wont be rushing to create a big ole’ lens any time soon.
You can check out my lens on Article Directory Information which seems to make only squidoo’s pr better, meanwhile it took a lot of time to create, time which might be better off spent on my own site.
Fresh IS Best
They say it about food, but the same goes when it comes to the content of your blog. Also the articles you may submit to directories to get back links and traffic.
If your churning out fresh content then the chances are that you are going to be around for the long haul and not just a short time.
Mass submission has it’s place and that place is slowly being destroyed as the search engines are slowly but surely managing to filter through all that duplicate content and completely devalue the links held within.
By adding fresh content to the internet with your links attatched you now can do two things - You can let the search engines know that your links are valuable because they have fresh, unique content attached to them and you also let the world know that you give a damn!
Unique content is one way to show that you have and endless stream of ideas and energy and that you can write at will because you have the skill. (No Pun intended)
If you can create meaningful content that people enjoy and do it on a regular basis then you will go along way to bringing good fortune to yourself via big numbers and the law of averages.
Make sure you don’t litter the world wide web with a million spun pieces of crap - Get those finger working to the bone an build those links the right way. You’ll get rewarded in the end.
Critical Thinking Evolution
This really is the evolution of thinking
Everyone wants to be cognitive and have problem solving abilities - though it is true some are more gifted in this area than others. By employing the use of critical thinking, we can make assessments of information based on the most natural and logical of principles - Unencumbered thought.
The nature of critical thinking defined, lies in it’s ability to process data in an environment absent of emotional bias and the subjectivist pressure that such emotions may place upon the process of intellective thought.
Critical evaluations are then made in the absence of such barriers so that the most logical outcome is obvious rather than mystified.
One might say that critical thinking is the evolutionary leap of cognitive function - To remove human error in the evaluation method. Proponents of such a system of thinking stretch beyond just the intelligentsia and into more mainstream society. Even the area of nursing teach the use of critical processing.
Don’t Buy A Website
They say a sucker is born every minute and in the world of online business, it’s even more true. Sadly nowhere and no time in history has seen so many fools and their money soon parting ways.
A friend of mine was considering buying a website and asked me my opinion. My first reaction was to tell them that they would be better off putting their money in an envelope and mailing it to the moon in the hope that a moonman penpal might send you a big moon diamond. OK, a bit much!
But every time I go onto the digital point sales forum, all I see is dodgy, shady and seedy sellers trying to flick off their websites onto unaware, naive buyers. Worse still it continues to happen.
These professional website sellers, know exactly what tricks to pull. Don’t declare their expenses, so a site making $500 per week seems very attractive, but it wouldn’t seem so atractive if you knew they spent $499 per week on advertising.
The out and out lie about trivial things and they play every trick in the book to make their traffic look good, but it’s usually potentially buyers that make up a huge proportion of the traffic stats.
Do not purchase a website until you read this article : Purchasing A Website
For all these reasons and more I would never reccommend buying a website, in fact don’t buy a website, make your own and build it up into something special.
My biggest question to sellers is this, if it makes $1000 a month for only one hour per week why would you sell it?
The truthful answer is you wouldn’t!
What suits my needs?
If you want the best article directories to submit article to and grow your link building campaign then you need to assess your site or blog and the subject you cover.
Sometimes a niche article directory is the best one for you to submit to because of the relevance of the topic. That isn’t to say that a big player directory like Ezine.com wouldn’t be suitable, because with such a high page rank, pretty much any submission is going to get you great link juice.
Some subjects of course are inappropriate there is appropriate for such directories, you know that ones I mean so don’t make me explain it in great detail. But if you have a genuinely relevant article then great.
If you are building links via article directory submission, then you will obviously consider mass submission to loads of directories. this method doesn’t penalize you as of yet, but there are some who think it diminshes your personal authority as a top author.
At the end of the day submit to the top ten listed in googles se results. This will get you good pr backlinks and mix up the incoming ip links.
Don’t forget that quality content will get you traffic - Unless you only care about the link value and not your reputation.
Three cheers for article marketing
Hi there, I’m a self confessed article marketing junkie and I think it’s the best way to get traffic that there is.
If you’re anything like me then I know that you have most likely learned heaps about the how the effectiveness of article marketing, when it gets used for gathering links for acquiring that all important increased placement in all of the SERP’s results is very high indeed. This is just one of the massive benefits to be gained.
I personally know of many folk and that includes a lot of very good writers who will will tell you that in the absence of article marketing, increased juicy backlinks and eventually more tasty hits would be hard to impossible to achieve, so don’t dismiss it.
The resultant effect that such writing brings, include that all important increased profit and a larger mailing list and always a satisfied you.
This should be a good situation don’t you think?
The Secrets of article marketing - No Secret
Actually it may sound a little old school when you hear all this but as dull as it seems, there really doesn’t exist a better way to advance your website than the truly benevolent way that is article submission
. I know, because I’ve tried without it.
…and yes if what you’re hearing sounds a lot like something you have been told before then, you’re “voila” absolutely right because I know that although you might have heard this “old” advice about articles, let me very personally insist that I seek to impress upon you the true asset that we all call article marketing.
It works, it’s great and it gets easier with time, so write some - OK?
What Is An Article Directory?
An article directory is an information repository where authors from anywhere can come and submit their own work, which is then evaluated and entered into the system. Readers can then come along and access the information and use it at their discretion.
The best thing about an article directory from a writer’s point of view is that with the exposure they get from their articles they can build lists, gain traffic, backlinks and make an increased income.
Most websites would never have the PR Page Rank and status of an article directory, so when it comes to bringing views to a piece of written work it can often be deemed beneficial by a writer to place it in a directory instead of own their own website. They could not realistically gain the search engine results that an article in a directory could.
Article Directories can be either specialist or general and whilst the general ones are great for covering many topics, the specialist ones are fantastic for bring a targeted audience towards a keyword oriented page.
Most article directories are in fact free to join and submit but on the other hand they also do not pay for submission either, so the question of what to do with an article is a complicated one as it may in fact make money on a self owned blog if it is in fact placed there. These are some of the considerations authors must making when assessing their content.
