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Working at Home Blog Carnival-Thirty-ninth Edition

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Welcome to the June 29, 2007 edition of working at home blog carnival. This weeks Carnival has, as always, some really good articles. So, Sit Back and Enjoy.

And Here We Go…

advice

Thien Kai Wei presents Internet Marketing for the past 6 months…What a wild and chaotic ride. >:( posted at Internet Marketing 4 Noobs, saying, “What I learned from the past 6 months in Internet Marketing, and some tips to help deal with information overload.”

GP presents Courage is not the Absence of Fear posted at Fish Creek House - INNside Innkeeping, saying, “Making real and lasting changes to life is hard work. For the most part we tend to measure a good life by its level of ease. As life gets more difficult, the desirability decreases. But some of the most difficult situations in life are also the most rewarding”

Efren A. presents Web Site Traffic: The Top 7 Sources posted at Money Making Ideas in Blog, saying, “Simple tips to increase web site traffic.”

business

Raj Dash presents Bootstrapper » Reasons to Build a Business Online posted at Bootstrapper, saying, “There are numerous benefits to working from home. The Internet makes that easier. Here are some reasons to consider building your business online.”

Leo Dimilo presents What exactly is a value proposition and Why You Should Be Make a Value Proposition For Your Site posted at Idiot Affilate.

Brian Free presents Blogs as a Tool for Affiliate Marketers » Ramblings of an Affiliate Marketer posted at Ramblings of an Affiliate Marketer.

Warren Wong presents Do You Get Money? posted at Personal Development for INTJs, saying, “Do you “get” money? Did you know that if you leave your money in the bank gathering interest, you actually lose a little bit of it every year? Read this article to find out more!”

Terry Dean presents Cutting Through the Hype and Lies About Internet Marketing posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean.

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Webmaster_1 presents New Online Marketplace To Showcase Your Company posted at Work at Home|Business Opportunity Resources.

edithyeung presents Edith Yeung.com Dream Think Act » Blog Archive » How to Drive Traffic to Your Website or Blog - Part 1 posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act..

Sean LeMay presents Use Military Tactics to Reach Your Dreams posted at Sean LeMay.

Haris presents How to Flowchart with Microsoft Excel posted at Haris.tv.

work

MT presents Work at Home, Home Transcription posted at MT Herald Dot Com, saying, “Pros and cons of working at home with home transcription.”

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June 29th, 2007 at 06:05am | Posted by Joe | Carnivals, Work at Home | 1 reader remark | Print This Post

What Statistics Do You Look At First for Your Site?

The Basics?

Ok, After the Summary… We all want to know how many people visit, how may pages they view and how many return visitors we have. Even after the Visitor Paths, there you have to keep scrolling to see who went where and how many times they have returned and it’s really difficult to see Keywords with any real feel for what people are looking for.

Speaking of Keywords…

You should notice that a full 16% of the keywords used to find the Blog are Work from (at) Home and another 15% with variations of Work, Home, Business, Internet, Computer. All of which are in my MetaData Keyword list. I must have done something right. One suprise was how many times that variations of WordPress show up in searches, but it is nice. And this is only one page of 4, all of which give further information on how people are finding the Blog.

This leads us to Landing Pages…

I think the take away from the results of the Landing Pages stats show the importance of Keywords, not only in the URL of the Site, but in Titles of individual posts as well as the content within the posts themselves. The term Work at Home leads to the Main Page as well as numerous individual posts containing the term in the Title, sub-titles and text. It further indicates that Search Engines will pick up a Keyword if it is well placed within Title and text if it is currently important to readers searches (WordPress 2.2).

Just for the Halibut…

I show this because I want you to realize that you aren’t playing to a single country. I am from the U.S but only 50% of my readers are from the country in which I reside. The other 50% are from Everywhere Else. This is the main reason I put the Google Translate right above the Sidebar, I want to make it as easy as possible for people to read what I write.

Granted, this is only a snapshot of one day, but checking what Keywords are working and where people are landing is a good indicator of the audience I am reaching. And isn’t that the point, to reach the right readers? To give them what they are looking for?

What statictics give you the best indication of the health of your Blog?

June 27th, 2007 at 04:54pm | Posted by Joe | Basics, Google, Keywords, Management, Stastics, Work at Home | reader remarks | Print This Post

WAH Tip #1 Print Your Own Business Cards

Here it is… The Final Version of my Business Card.

Whadda think?

If you remember the Old Version of the Card, it looked overcrowded and really 1970-ish. The Logo took up way too much room and distracted from the Name of the Business. That stupid line in the middle was just a further distraction and you had to look for my name and contact info which was crammed at the bottom of the card.

The original card was created using Microsoft Paint, if you have Windows, you have it and know it is useful to a point but limited in design. The New and Improved business card was redesigned entirely using the Trial Version (60 day) of Digital Image Starter Edition 2006 by Microsoft. The program is something that a Photographer would really find useful. But, I found it quite adaptable for Home Business, especially for designing Business Cards, Letterhead and Envelopes.

The  print function includes enough variation in formatting of the paper layout that your design will come out the way you want it with little effort.

I bought perforated printing paper online using PayPal (which was a prerequisite, I don’t do Credit Cards online) from data-labels.com for a very fair price +S&H.

So, for a total of $41, I will have 2500 Business Cards, using my own equipment and ink when I get around to printing them. I only printed 50 so far (5 pages x 10 cards ea). The rest can be printed at my leisure when I need more, no reorders for this guy… yet.

Do you have any Do-it-Yourself tips to save money for a Start-up Business?

June 26th, 2007 at 10:57am | Posted by Joe | Management, Resources, Tips, Work at Home | 13 reader remarks | Print This Post