1 post tagged “freelance writing”
My mind is wandering today as I write on my various blogs. I am searching for topics to share my thoughts but am reaching a difficult point in that process. I've been at the university working for about five hours now, and have over four and one half hours to go. The mid way point seems most difficult. If I can brainstorm, perhaps the transition will be smooth.
This freelance writing quest has been a splendid challenge with exciting opportunities. Though it is indeed hard work that requires dedication and discipline, I am finding much joy in it. I find it is a way to explore my own mind.
The biggest challenge is to unlock all those ideas floating within this brain. I guess you could say my brain needs a disk clean up, just like my computer needs every now and then. Brainstorming and random writing are probably the way to go right now, at least. So bear with me, as I ramble.
For those that are used to reading my posts, you know that when I am inspired about a topic there is no stopping me from writing until that well of inspiration completely runs dry. The reads are usually very good when I am in this mode of the creative process.
Most of my afternoon has been spent qualifying blogs for listing on technorati, which is a blogosphere type search engine. It helps increase traffic to one's site to list on these search engines, then to post a text link or a button. With millions, literally tens of millions of blogs out there, a blogger needs an extra amount of assistance in getting noticed. For those of you who have gone through this process, you know that listing on search engines and getting that link out there is an extremely tedious process. More is required than just typing in some urls and trusting the ranking to some random strangers clicking the keys to your site, and Voila! , your site is ranked high on google. Dream on!
It really takes ernest effort to type in the urls, to create a site map and index the code correctly. Then listing involves multiple search engines. Even this is not enough. After long hours of all this site mapping and listing, your work will still not be done. The added task of reciprocal linking helps increase traffic to your site. So write to all your friends and tell them about your new blog or website. Paste the link in the signature of all your emails. List your urls to your website and blogs and hubs on all the social sites. That still will not guarentee a high ranking.
What else could you possibly do to get traffic to your website, and hence, business for your enterprise? Tell everyone about your site. Put it on business cards and hand them out. Make some flyers and post them around town. Put your website url on a bumper sticker and place it on all your vehicles and the vehicles of your family. This will help.
When all this is said and done, what is the most important thing you can do to guarentee that your website gets visitors, referrals and return visitors?
Be creative with the website design. Make the functionality easy and make the navigation simple to use. Add creative interesting content to your website. Flair and fancy is nothing if there is no depth to a site.
Just some ramblings and food for thought. More brainstorming to come...maybe about fluffy bunny rabbits or riding a canoe down the Green River....or making chocolate peanut butter fudge like my mother used to make.
Till then, have a wonderful day.
