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The virtual world is splitting in the middle - on one side you have cheer leaders for automated blog creation systems and on the other side you have people who advocate putting in a lot of work to create authority blogs.

In the last four years of my online experience I have done most of the things. I have had blogs with PLR content, I have put up automated blogs and I have maintained just one or two blogs with my own content.

I fell for the sales letter calculations of $1 per day per blog means $1500 per month for 50 blogs. I readily paid one tenth of that amount as membership to the people who promised it. All I was asked to do was to do a bit of research, choose the niche, book the domain name, find RSS feeds and put up my blog and everything else will be taken care of. To this day I earn $1 per day from all the 50 sites put together.

I got PLR content, had no time for modifications or did not care enough, created many blogs. Put up AdSense and affiliate programs on the blog and waited for money to pour in. I am still waiting.

Now it is important that I have to make a choice. Do I want 100s of blogs that make me very little money? Do I want to work hard on one blog, that I will be proud of?

I am not saying this choice is very easy. At the beginning of online venture many may like to choose the easy way, the glittering path that blinds the reasoning mind. I am so calculative and I would never fall for any ordinary tricks of sales letters. Yet I fell for the ones which cleverly convinced me by promising very little - just one dollar a day per site - shouldn’t be too difficult, right?

And what was the other option? Work on your blog day-after-day and give it an authority status. Spend hours on market research, choose a niche you want to pursue for life, plan your site to the minutest detail, follow a systematic plan for promotion and post great content on the site, according to a plan.

The choices we make in life reveal the level of our own maturity. If you ask your child to choose between a thousand dollar note a piggy bank full of small coins, what they pick will depend on how old they are and how much they understand what that money can get for them.

Choices made by individuals depend on their maturity, previous experience and future aspirations of what they want from life. But the choice that requires no persuasion or conviction from others for me is to build one good content blog to balance the trash of 100s of others I have built.

It is not that I have worked less on those 100s of blogs. I had to spend time in research, I had to maintain them, add codes to them, promote them, check them periodically and so on. My energy was spread among 100 blogs. Had I focussed that energy on just one thing I could have lit fire through my WorldView. I could have ordered the solar rays to make fire for me but I was busy moving my magnifying glass over 100 destinations.

All is Well That Ends Well…

At last, my previous experiences and my future plans have taken a decision of their own to pursue the focussed path of building a lasting business through one Authority Site.

How to get traffic to blogs and sites is the predominant question in every site owner’s mind. Every month tons of free reports are released about getting traffic to sites. I have read so much that if I just place the pen on paper my hands will start writing a traffic generation report.

Of late I have stopped downloading these reports. Most of them have the same content repeated over and over again.

Many also suggest creating a buzz by misleading others. I do not approve of such tactics.

I had a completely different experience today.

It all started with a simple quiz from Dean Hunt. Simple did I say.. it is unique and smart.

Just five questions in a PDF report.

I couldn’t believe it. I got 1 out of 5. :((

That too because I had already heard the fifth question some place. Had he used a different question in the place of question no. 5 I would have liked it better. But then I would have got ZERO!!!!

I am sure you can do better.

Have a look here…

www.webtrafficorgasm.com/How%20Smart%20Are%20You.pdf

From there I went and signed up for a free report.

And I got this gem of a ‘Web Traffic Case Study’. The report shows step-by-step how Dean Hunt created a buzz and got thousands of visitors to his site.

The beauty of it is the whole thing is absolutely simple when he explains it to us. He has taken a very ordinary list of 10 points and shifted the focus of the sentences very slightly, made a tiny change in the title and Wow!! did it create a buzz!!!

And his blog was on the front page of Digg and a beeline of visitors thronged to his site all eager to swallow his simple, super ideas.

You can get the free Web Traffic Case Study and check it out for yourself.

I am very particular about the language I use on my site and I don’t like the name of his site. I wish he had thought of a creative name for it.

But the report is superb! I wrote an email to Dean Hunt:

……………….

I appreciate the honesty in your creativity. This beats the usual perception honest, straight forward people are always a bore.

And the logical way in which you have analyzed your own creative work shows that you have the ability to teach it well to others.

Great report and great analysis. Looking forward to more from you.

…………………

His blog has a question that he was asked in an interview:

“Question: You are driving along in your car on a wild, stormy night, it’s raining heavily, when suddenly you pass by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for a bus:

1) An old lady who looks as if she is about to die,

2) An old friend who once saved your life,

3) The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.

Which one would you choose to offer a ride to if there could only be one passenger in your car?”

To find the answer you have to go to his blog and read this post: Think Outside the Box

Wow the second day session of ‘16 Steps to Success’ free webinar training was intense and comprehensive.

I have never been introduced to market research in such detail. And to think that I am getting all this for free.

I have a lot of homework to do. Just because it is free we are not just given a pat in the back and sent away so that we go to their paid course.

We are asked to do real serious work and each session is turning out to be about two hours each - intense and at times overwhelming.

I will get a pdf of all the slides used in the session and the homework sheets. I am going to have an extremely busy time until the next session on Tuesday.

I do not think I will be able to complete the work by then, I am neck deep into other things as well, but I will surely give it my best.

Those who have not signed up for these sessions or those who are not attending after signing up are missing a lot.

I just hope I do not miss benefitting from the session by not being able to complete my part of the commitment.

I have joined a free webinar course by Sam Clark and Jack Humphrey of ‘Authority Site Center’.

I have downloaded their great PDF reports and have been a strong supporter of creating authority sites rather than spam sites to make money.

Of course I want to make money otherwise I wouldn’t be here. But I want to do it in a way that is win-win for the buyers and for me. I barter self satisfaction for money and at times I prefer to earn less by doing something that satisfies me.

Right from the first time I heard about ‘Authority Site Center’ I loved the idea, I wanted to have one of my own but never got down to join them. I do not have a membership to ASC.

Why did I not join? It is strange. The very thought of deciding on one thing to do was so overwhelming, I was not sure I would be able to follow through their program if I joined them. I hate to spend money on anything I don’t use. It nags me so much that I have to use it or stop wasting money.

When I got this opportunity to attend a free webinar I seized it with both hands. I will go through it and find out for myself how far I can get to.

Today was the first session. I am impressed!

The amount of information I got in the nearly two hour webinar session was simply great.

I could ask this question - whether they have experience with people who don’t know what they want to do - and get a satisfactory response.

It is just the first day - but the whole plan is laid out and I am eager to move fast.

This seems to be the best program I have been part of.

Web2.0 is the in-thing today and everybody is talking about it. Still more people want to get into it at least to know what this animal is all about and whether it will affect their business.

Offline businesses are getting online. Those who get online get pushed into web2.0.

Here is a membership course that will teach you how to set up your blog and market it through web2.0.

You can rely on the course because of the people who are associated with it.

Jack Humphrey, Bryan Winters, Miguel Alvarez and Jerome Chapman - all well-known internet marketers who are known for their quality work.

The course is 24 lessons sent on a weekly basis for 6 months.

You pay a small fee of $27 per month. You have a 30-day money-back guarantee so if you do not like what you get, you will lose nothing.

Check out the course here:

paydotcom.com/r/44844/tukki/3518998

I have given you my affiliate link without cloaking. If you are buying through this I am responsible and I will be ready to help you if you ask for it.

What I like about the sales letter of Web2.0 Marketing Membership is this statement from the team:

“Sure… during the course of your membership we’ll throw in a few cool and high-value bonuses that will certainly leave you smiling. But I really don’t want to mention them here because I don’t want bonuses to be the reason why you joined us.

The reason you should join today (and your only goal) is this: To learn how to use web 2.0 & social media to quickly drive massive traffic to my site“.

So join the course if you are prepared to read what they send:

“To make sure the web 2.0 traffic ramp-up blueprint works for you, we’ve divided it into 24 short, easy-to-digest lessons. Every week, you’ll receive a PDF file via e-mail that contains a short and to the point lesson (3-5 pages long) that explains that week’s tactic and the specific steps telling you what to do and how to do it.

Plus we’ll include a couple of assignments that you’ll need to follow along and complete during the week”.

paydotcom.com/r/44844/tukki/3518998

Join if you are ready to take action. Otherwise do not waste your money.

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