Superior

Picked this up from reading Alyssa's blog Life from my Laptop. Just something fun to start out my Tuesday. Not too bad, the test said so, if I lived in the 1930's. Someone needs to do one for the 2000's.

60 As a 1930s wife, I am Superior Take the test!

Schedules - Family

So here we are we have started another week and I am ready to start a new. Everyday I deal with the tough balance between family and WAH. I tend to put too much pressure on myself to start making money and so I spend too much time working and not enough time with the kids.
I have been making a concerted effort to spend more time with the boys and "schedule" my work time.
Work Schedule - I have been trying to keep to my schedule, but I am still very behind on my emails, surveys and paid to read stuff.
Family Schedule - It has always bugged me that the boys usually never got dressed before lunch/nap time, unless we had somewhere to go. Today we started something new, after breakfast we go brush our teeth and get dressed. Hopefully that will get our day started earlier and make me feel like a better mom.
We are signed up to do a music class all together this summer. That should be some great quality time for us.
Lately I have been very hard on myself, I put all these hours into my blog, website and all that goes with it. Yet I haven't made any money. Why? What am I doing wrong? How do I fix it?
I have added article submission to my list of things to do, this should help me. I guess at the end of the day what I decided is
I am not a bad mother
I am not a loser
I am not lazy
I am not stupid
I am not stuck here

I will make it online
I will find my place
I will be a better person for this
I will make money
I am dedicated
I am a great mother
I am a great wife
Just doing a little affirmation today. I have been having some hard weeks and getting FRUSTRATED.

Father's Day

To any and all the wonderful dad's out there, Happy Father's Day.
Father's day is a little hard for me, my dad lives in TX and we are here in IL. My Father-in-Law passed a few years back. Although having little ones of my own, I can now focus on their father (my husband) and let him enjoy his day.

Blog Directories

I just put my blog in the blogmama directory. It is always a great thing to get the help, support and resources from all the other Mom, WAHM, SAHM bloggers out there. Hope to see you there.
That leads me to thinking what other blog directories are there? These are not just for Mom's.

	Blogarama - http://www.blogarama.com/ Lists weblogs by category. Users are invited to post reviews.
	Blog Catalog - http://blogcatalog.com/ Sites are listed by category and can also be searched. Five are selected as top weblogs, along with a spotlight weblog.
	Blogs Collection - http://www.blogs-collection.com/ Grouped by category and country.
	Bloggeries - http://www.bloggeries.com/ Categorized listing of weblogs from around the world.
	Bloogz - http://www.bloogz.com/ Search for weblogs by typing in a keyword. Choose from five languages.

	Guardian Unlimited - Weblog Guide - http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/special/0,10627,744914,00.html A "best of" selection of weblogs grouped by category.
	BlogHop - http://www.bloghop.com/ Portal matching weblogs with readers. Searchable and grouped by categories.
	Blog Dirs - http://www.blogdirs.com/ Human edited weblog directory. Sites from all languages welcome.
	BlogScholar - http://www.blogscholar.com/ Academicportal featuring a directory of academic weblogs as well as the latest news and trends.
	Industry Blogs - http://www.industry-blogs.com/ Cataloging the business blogosphere.

	BlogSweet.com - http://www.blogsweet.com/ Human-edited directory.
	High Class Blogs - http://www.highclassblogs.com/ Nonprofit directory. Awards are given out at the end of each quarter for the best weblog in each category.
	Blogoriffic - http://www.blogoriffic.com Free weblog directory and blogger community.
	The Ageless Project - http://jenett.org/ageless/ Web logs by birthdate. Includes screenshots of the front page of each weblog listed.
	5 Star Blogs - http://www.5starblogs.com/ Human edited directory and search engine. English-language sites only, and no adult or illegal sites.

	Blurt it! - http://www.blurtit.com/ Free self moderated directory.
	Quick Blog Directory - http://www.quickblogdirectory.com/ Organized by category.
	Blogroll.net - http://www.blogroll.net/ Listed by popularity.
	XHTML Friends Network - http://www.xhtmlfriends.net/ Weblogs and personal sites organized by the personal links between them. XFN sites.
	Kmax Blog Links - http://www.kmax.ws/bloglinks.htm Alphabetical list. Links to weblog related resources. Top 20 ranking of the most popular and frequently updated weblogs.

	Blog Announce - http://blogannounce.info/ Free-for-all links listing for sites, organized by category.
	TheVital.Net - http://www.thevital.net/ Free categorized and searchable directory for weblog and news sites. All entries are manually reviewed.
	Blogadr - http://www.blogadr.com/ Free listings, with no link back required. Human-edited directory of personal and corporate blogs.
	BlogDir - http://www.blogdir.co.uk/ Free weblog directory, with no link back required. Human edited personal and company weblog directory.
	Royal Artist Club - http://www.royalartistclub.com Provides a place for bands to communicate directly with fans, without middlemen.

	Bigger Blogger - http://www.biggerblogger.com Free listings, sorted by category.
	Blogwidow.com - http://www.blogwidow.com A resource and reference site for web logging and weblogs.
	Blog Flux Directory - http://dir.blogflux.com/ Based on tagging with related weblogs.
	Blog Search Engine - http://www.blogsearchengine.com Search engine and directory listings of weblogs and tools.
	GetBlogs.com - http://www.getblogs.com/ Human edited directory.

	FindingBlog.com - http://www.findingblog.com/ Searchable directory. Ranks the top 10 hottest sites in each category.
	Bloggernity - http://www.bloggernity.com/ Searchable directory with a forum.
	Blogs Rating - http://www.blogsrating.com/ Categorized by subject with ability for users to rate and post their comments about listed sites.
	Blog Hot or Not - http://blog.hotornot.com/ View random weblogs and rate them from 1 to 10.
	Blogdust - http://www.blogdust.com/blog-directory/ Categorized listings sorted by topic.

	Blog Point - http://www.blogpoint.com/ Categorized by topics.
	BlogBunch - http://www.blogbunch.com/ Topical listings.
	I2blog - http://i2blog.com/ Categorizing bloggers by their country, interest, and zodiac signs.
	BlogCharts - http://www.blogcharts.net/ Find weblogs by popularity or rating.
	The Octopus Files - http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/benway68/index.html Alphabetized listing includes excerpts from posts to give the reader an idea of what they're like.

	Wutzle - http://wutzle.com Allows users to rate listings in the directory.
	Blog Ratings - http://www.blogratingz.com/ Allows users to post and read ratings and reviews of sites organized by topic. Part of the Ratingz network.
	Blog Universe - http://www.bloguniverse.com/ general submission costs $4.99 Directory of weblogs as submitted and categorized by the site owners. Weblog, podcast, and video log directory.
	Britblog.com - http://www.britblog.com/ A weblog directory solely for British bloggers from all over the world.
	Business Blog Directory - http://www.iblogbusiness.com/ A collection of business and corporate weblogs.

	Sports Blogs - http://sportsblogs.org/ Listing weblogs on sports.
	Top 100 Bloggers - http://www.top100bloggers.com/ General top weblog rankings.
	Today.com - http://www.today.com/ Categorizes by topic.
	Blogtagstic - http://www.blogtagstic.com/ Every weblog submitted is manually reviewed before inclusion. Searchable by tags.
	Big Blog Media - http://www.bigblogmedia.com/ Containing articles and reviews.

	Start4all: Weblogs - http://www.start4all.com/?A=page&subject=weblog Startpage with links of webloggers. This page contains bloggers all over the world with interesting stories. Also links of famous webloggers and weblog tools, media, portals and meetings.
	Delightful Blogs - http://www.delightfulblogs.com/ Collection of blogs written by and for women on a wide variety of topics.
	Alliance Of The Anonymous - http://macstansbury.blogspot.com/ Lists members who have posted the organization logo on their weblog.
	BlogStreet - http://www.blogstreet.com/ Profiles, RSS ecosystem, and search.
	Top Blogs - http://blogs.tomstopsites.com/ A toplist-style ranking tool, where readers vote for their favorite weblogs.

	Blog Toplist - http://www.blogtoplist.com/ Categorized and sorted by popularity. Blogoozle - http://www.blogoozle.com/ costs $3 to submit listing This should keep us busy.

Article Marketing Secrets- Conclusion

Monday we discussed Article Marketing - Articles
Tuesday we discussed Article Marketing - Submitting
What's left? The Misc stuff

Let others use your articles, along with your byline which will tell visitors who wrote it and how they can contact you, on their website. This will help to promote your own website and bring you in traffic through the search engine optimization and promotional efforts of others. For you this means absolutely free marketing just for writing a quick article about a subject that you are already familiar with. The more people who use your article as content on their website, the more potential traffic you will receive.

One way of promoting your website and product can be achieved for free. As an additional bonus, this “free” method can boost your sites and sales, doubling and even tripling your income. Articles. One of the easiest ways to promote your website in order to generate traffic and increase your earnings.

How can article writing boost traffic and income?

The article on the free content site contains a link to your own website. Readers, after reading your articles, may choose to click on the link and pay you an unexpected visit. Having them on the free content sites is also making these articles available to other webmasters who may wish to publish that article on their site.

If they do, your article will include a link back to your site. And anyone who reads the article on that site can still click on the link to visit your site.

As the list of your published articles grow larger, and more and more of them are appearing on different websites, the total number of links to your site increases also. Major search engines are placing a lot of significance on incoming links to websites so they can determine the importance of a certain site.

The more incoming links the website has, the more importance search engines attach to it. This will then increase your website’s placement in the search results.

If you site is into promoting a product or service, the links that your articles have achieved will mean more potential customers for you. Even if visitors only browse through, you never know if they might be in need of what you are offering in the future.

There are also those who already have specific things they need on their mind but cannot decide yet between the many choices online. Chances are, they may stumble upon one of your articles, gets interested by the contents you wrote, go to your site and became enticed by your promotions. See how easy that is?

Search engines do not just index the websites, they also index published articles. They also index any article that is written about your own website’s topic. So once someone searches for that same topic, the list of results will have your site or may even show the articles that you have written.

And to think, no effort on your part was used to bring them to your site. Just your published articles and the search engines.

It is no wonder why many webmasters are suddenly reviving their old writing styles and taking time to write more articles about their site than doing other means of promotion.

Getting their site known is easier if they have articles increasing their links and traffic and making it accessible for visitors searching the internet. Since many people are now taking their buying needs online, having your site on the search engines through your articles is one way of letting them know about you and your business.

The good thing with articles is that you can write about things that people would want to know about. This can be achieved in the lightest mood but professional manner, with a little not-so-obvious sales pitch added.

If you think about it, only a few minutes of your time is spent on writing one article and submitting to free content site. In the shortest span of time also, those are distributed to more sites than you can think of. Even before you know what is happening, you are getting more visitors than you previously had.

If you think you are wasting your time writing these articles, fast forward to the time when you will see them printed and wide-spread on the internet. Not to mention the sudden attention and interest that people are giving your website and your products or services.

Try writing some articles and you will be assured of the sudden surge in site traffic, link popularity and interest. Before you know it, you will be doubling and even tripling your earnings.

Nothing like getting benefits for something you got for free.

Update, Secrets, Internet Marketing Secrets

Tomorrow we will be back to the Article Marketing information
Updates for this week:
Family - 3 of the 4 people (including myself) have some sort of cold or allergy thing going on. My husband has a dosey of cold and had to go into work today, as it's his partners day off. I have a runny nose that I am hoping stays just that. My little guy is the one that I worry about everytime he gets a runny nose or something it always turns into a cough and wheezing, see as how I have asthma I am concerned for him. I still have some cough/cold medicine left from the last time I took him to the doctor, if that doesn't help I will have to take him to our regular doctor and see what we can do for him. So the only one not sick is my older son, but he gets a little drip here and there.

Business - I have been getting some great click through rates for 1 particular product on my website and yet no purchases. This is really starting to frustrate me and I have tried many a different things. So I am still working on that.
I have been trying to work on my website and adding new information and have added an Internet Marketing Secret/Tools page which will showcase some sort of internet marketing tool every month. I have been going through alot of information and checking out helpful programs. I try to use mom networks stuff whenever possible. If you have any helpful places to get mommy resources and tools let me know.

So for my Wednesday share your secret day -
Check out The 7 Figure secrets I have been reading it and there are many helpful tips and secrets to making the money you deserve.

Go a secret tip for family or business you would like to share. Let me know.

Article Marketing Secrets - submitting

Today we move on to the next step in Article Marketing - Article submission secrets

Article directories are websites that house free articles. These articles are usually put there by whoever owns the copyright to them as a promotion method. Each article has the owners byline placed under it so that those who eventually read the article will know who wrote it (or at least who owns it) and will be able to get in contact with or visit their website for further information.

Articles directories are a great place to put your articles so that they will make you money. By using this method, people who are interested in your product or service will see your article, view you as an expert in the subject, and will visit your website.

Let’s take a real life example. Imagine that you are an accountant working from home. You write an article on an accounting topic and place it on various article directories. Those who are looking for the subject you wrote about will read your article, see that you have the knowledge and skill that is needed to do a job for them, and visit your website or contact you via e-mail. Your article just gained you a new client who may not use your services regularly, but will definitely give you a nice profit at least once.

Furthermore, since you have posted it on a free article directory, others who have affiliate websites about accounting will inevitably use your article for their website. Since they must attach your byline to it, this will bring you even more exposure for every website that re-posts your article. This because you will be benefiting off of the traffic that they get on their website.

There are numerous article directories out there for you to utilize. Your bet best is to put a copy of each of your articles on a selection of your choosing for maximum exposure. It will eventually help to bring more traffic and customers to your website, which will lead to new orders and more profit.

The secrets to article submission and the options:

1. You can search article directories and go to each site and fill out the forms and register and manually send articles to each site. You will need to maintain a password for all of your directories and don't forget to bookmark them all.

2. You will find companies that will do article submissions for you for a price.

3. You will find companies that will give you a comprehensive list of article submission sites and/or article distribution lists.

3. You can purchase programs that will do this for you.
Article Submitter is the best of both worlds - you can start out with the free version (which submits to 85 sites), or you can upgrade to 688 sites for $97.

Some additional tips

1. If the goal of your article is to drive traffic to your site then have 2 or 3 active links in your resource box.
2. If the goal of your article is to build your opt-in list then have 1 active link in your resource box.