Rich Sage Community Progress August 2008

During August of 2008, I made a major shift in my effort to build my readers.  After publishing the latest update to the Rich Sage dot com site, I am now making minor changes and additions to make it a large community  –both public, via several forums, such as the FREE AD FORUMS, and publishing areas and my private membership, the Rich Sage Underground.

In the case of the Rich Sage Underground, I am experimenting with the sales page.  I’ve made around 3 update and upgrades to the text and look of the page.  As with all things, the “Membership Invitation” as I call it is a work in progress.  At this point I have done all I can.  My next step is to work with a professional writer to develop the page and refine the copy.

After that I can have a graphic guru work on the page layout and make it a professional setup.  All of that will get done in September, before I embark on a several thousand dollar per month ad campaign.

More about my traffic building and monetizing plans…

TOP 100 Cost Per Thousand Key Phrases

Generally speaking you can write about the below niches and expect to earn high cpa (cost per action) and ppc (pay per click) ad revenues for your efforts.

You can also learn to use these in a very special way using my business plan at the Rich Sage Underground.  Learn all about these details from my Rich Sage Underground Membership page.  This page is part of the TOP 100 Series of LISTS that you can count on to build online success.

IF you know of key word phrases that I’ve missed, please send me a comment and I’ll be glad to check on it to make sure that add it to this list.

My List Continues…

11 Part Series: Stumble Upon Traffic by the Rich Sage

In my traffic building experience online I’ve focused on the few elements that deliver a lot of traffic — search engines, forums, RSS feeds and building a brand. While my focus was on these, one dark horse has steadily kept rising delivering traffic, and just this month it jumped to #2 all of a sudden.  That “dark horse” is StumbleUpon, a often used website services with 5 million plus members that spend their time rating and reviewing web site.  I happen to have a few ratings and that process is delivering more and more traffic!

I’ll now return the favor to Stumble Upon by reviewing what they do and show you how you too can build vast amounts of web site traffic by working with Stumble Upon.  They also have a paid componenet that delivers traffic, which I plan to use to deliver traffic to my affiliate program.

11 Part Stumble Upon Series Directory to My Articles, Continued…

User Generated Content

Another buzz phrase that’s used often online, user generated content, consists of everything from blog comments to articles to forums postings.  I am using “user generated content” to aide in my Google Goals  — Earning $123 per Day Using Adsense.

You’ve already seen my forums  –from FREE Ad Forums to the Utopia Community.  What I have done now is to add an area for anyone with a NEW website idea –I call it THiNK BiiG.  Another area I created is for contests that enables anyone running a contest to post details about it at The Contests Directory.

For both operations I am using a free program from ArticleMS which manages an article directory.  I’ve used the program for about a year at my article directory –ArticleMINT.

With some minor html modifications I’ve turned the article directory program into a setup to handle listings for online start-ups and contests.

More ideas about benefiting from and generating “User Generated Content”…

Paying for Communications Using Prizes, Contests and Awards

While participating in forums I found out that by offering just a few dollars in the form of a payment, I can get the attention of many hundreds of readers to a post that would have been “dead” without such an offer.

Offering a small financial incentive works tremendously well.

I started working on that idea, which let to my 2008 Rich Sage Contests, but what I didn’t count on was the affiliate software delay by 9 months.  It’s bad enough that I am against gambling, but my idea to award prizes turned into a nightmare when my affiliate software didn’t do what I needed.

Now my affiliate software is running, and I am ready to update the contest area, and add several monthly prizes as well.  My goal is to offer REAL CASH plus incentives, and prizes to “motivate” everyone who visits here to make a contribution by commenting, joining a forum or even becoming a member.

My plan is to generate as much “buzz” with the contests and get the visitors to participate in the various areas of the “community” increasing page views and time spent with the Rich Sage.

Obviously, the more time is spent the more likely that readers will stumble upon my sales pages and actually click an ad exiting from the site.

More about my Contests as my Discussion Continues…

Rich Sage Success MindSet:  Overcoming the WALL!

Over the past few weeks I’ve launched every aspect of Rich Sage dot Com Community that I have planned.  Sure there are parts, like the marketplace, that are a work in progress, but overall everything is going forward and a lot of progress is made daily.  Well, that was true until about a week ago…

Now I feel that in the middle of the swing (using a tennis expression) I have stopped.  And in tennis, the follow through is just as vital as how you make contact with the ball.  I suppose it’s true with many sports.  It’s the same with a golf swing  –The follow through is just as important as the setup to hit the ball!

Today to address the “follow though” I made a 100 Day Plan.  I’ve set several goals  –in new Rich Sage dot Com Underground Memberships, revenue and traffic to even an update to my office.  Goals which I am going to work continuously for 100 days to accomplish.

My 100 Day Action Plan Continues…

Rich Sage Journey

Today being 08/08/08 I too have to make some plans.  Since the most extravagant plans involve healthy finances, I’ll first say that everything I’ve setup here will continue, with some minor parts getting added.

In the coming days and weeks  -really, I suppose, years!, my exclusive focus is on building the Rich Sage Underground and the Rich Sage Community.  Those are the only items that take up most of my focus.

The “journey” that I wanted to mention today is one involving real travel  -something I’ve wanted to do for around 20 years.  Well, since high school, and finally, I see that I can do it in my own way.

There are three primary reasons I want to plan this trip:

• I want to see several places before my work and family life gets really busy
• I want to use the opportunity to promote the Rich Sage Community as much as possible
• Part of my “community building” involves an organization that will help local causes  -I want to meet as many of my local Affiliates, and understand their communities as well as I can.

I don’t think I can accomplish any of this by sitting behind a PC.

More thoughts about my travel and promotional plans continue…

11 Writing Tips by the Rich Sage

This is a list of simple steps, rituals, just plain ‘ol best practices that I maintain while writing.  I hope it helps you.

I didn’t call my post the TOP BLOG TIPS because I don’t consider this a blog.  This is my “corner of the world” that I update as often as I can, and it runs on WordPress CMS  –Content Management System.

Apart from that, I keep to simple language and good ideas to build any online business.

My blogging tips continue…

Rich Sage Make Money Online Income Disclaimer

On this site there are a lot of income claims.  I do my best to present income claims with actual proof and back ground information about how I achieved a given income.

At the same time I also try to present what I feel is sustainable endeavors that perhaps, you can duplicate or even exceed while building your own income. The problem is that not everyone will pursue their online ventures with seriousness and dedication as I do.

Thus, you may find out that your own success is very much based on your abilities and resourcefulness.

Although I do believe those who are determined enough can meet or even exceed my online income, I cannot guarantee that you will earn any amount of money by joining any of my memberships.

MAKE MONEY ONLINE DISCLAIMER

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When you work with me, don’t expect it to be a “walk in the park” — it’s more consistent work, and then you get to catch your breath, just long enough to do it again.  That’s the way things work.

My Modus Operandi (MO) is to:

• Keep costs low as possible.
• Add value to what you do so that it benefits someone
• Make products that create value
• Lastly, be truthful and be there for the long-run.

I think sticking to these values will yield fantastic results with your online success.  So, do the best you can. Then the puzzle starts to fill in. It starts to make a picture.  And Enjoy your success.

I cannot guarantee any of this for you. YOU, and only you can make it happen.  Success online takes hard work and a lot of time, perseverance and keep reminding yourself that the more you “DO” the luckier you’ll get.

Success & Carpe Diem,
Rich Sage

11 Most Important SEO Tips by the Rich Sage

Internet competition is stiff!  There are around 250 million online properties from blogs to websites to personal pages.  With 1 Billion people using the Internet, it’s still a huge market that Entrepreneurs want to reach to build a business.  The barriers to setting up shop online keep dropping, and the competition for the key phrases that yield more and more traffic keeps increasing.

The key to online success is to drive *targeted* traffic from search engines to your website.  In my case, around 80% of the new visitors to Rich Sage dot com find their way here via searches on Google, MSN and Yahoo after searching key phrases from “make money” to “how to make a quick buck”.  Now i am seeing more and more traffic from Google country specific search engines  -Google.in (Google India) to Google.com.au (Google Australia) are delivering more and more traffic.  I wouldn’t be surprised if Google has around a 100 such search engines that are country specific.  Again, in your search engine optimization work, it’s best to take a wholesome long-term approach to your traffic building success.

Therefore, it is vital that search engines be able to match your sites content while ‘crawling’ your pages.

My 11 Most Important SEO Tips Continue…