Freelancing at Home

Ever since I started working for Examiner.com they have been doing update after update after update on their publishing tool in attempts to make it more user friendly. The updates have successfully made some things easier to use - like posting at all - but has also made some things an absolute nightmare to do - posting multiple pictures or strategically positioned pictures.
Well, Examiner.com has up and decided to change the entire publishing tool and is going to Examiner.com2.0. The official release date for this is unknown, but Examiner does keep sending e-mails that writers need to back up their work if they have any articles that are in unpublished mode.

Furthermore, the e-mails have stated that any articles that were done using the current publishing tool(s) - there are two - will not be able to be updated ever again. The articles will migrate with you to 2.0 but they will remain as they are forever. This sucks a bunch considering how many articles can be repeatedly updated with the publication of a few more articles.

The solution if you want to continue to be able to write with that article? Back up the article, unpublish it and then publish it when 2.0 is finally released; obviously wait to unpublish the article until the actual date for update is set.

So what's that mean? It means you'll lose your search engine ranking, any backlinks you may have formed, any aging the article has done - as most online writers will tell you, good articles age like wine, not milk.

So you'll have to start from scratch. So... does that article need to be continuously updated or can you abandon that article to leave it as it is and just make something new with the same information once 2.0 is released?

I have a few articles that list a variety of body piercing types, such as this article about curved barbell body piercing jewelry that I used to update everytime I added a new article about a specific body piercing type listed. Rather than losing all the aging it has done, as it was published almost a year ago, I'm just going to let it fall to the wayside. It will continue to bring in whatever it brings in and I'll make a new article to update if I feel I need it.

Have you not been getting enough visits to your websites? Tired of doing all that tedious social bookmarking by hand? Not even sure how many bookmarking sites are out there? You may be using five or six, but there are hundreds of them. Not to mention, did you know that sometimes submitting to a search engine can get you found faster? Oh, the time you'll spend doing all these things. Want a way to do it in the most efficient way?

Try Traffic Bug.

Traffic Bug will submit all websites, eHow articles, InfoBarrel articles, etc. to more than 100 search engines, 100's of bookmarking sites, RSS feed sites and even more! Traffic Bug submits your links in a slow, methodical fashion depending on the settings you give it - high aggression, medium or low - so that it appears to be natural bookmarking and submission.

Best of all, you can try Traffic Bug for 30 days without paying a dime! If you do nothing else, get this 30 day trial period of Traffic Bug and make time. Sit down and submit anything and everything you have ever written online or anything you are trying to sell online. After 30 days you won't get all the benefits of Traffic Bug, as it won't be done submitting in just 30 days, but you will get a lot of benefits. And if you like it or you have a lot more to submit, consider buying it and giving this product a real run for your money.

Google has made some changes to their system - and really, when are they not constantly tweaking and poking at themselves? If you've noticed a drop off in some of your site's traffic, or if you've even noticed a spike - and if you have then good for you! - then the new Google SEO and backlink changes may be what's affecting you.

Take a look at this video to learn what the changes are all about and what you can do to get started raising your PR rating and search engine ranking.

This video is by Michael Roberts, one of the creaters of Traffic Bug. I've been using Traffic Bug for about 4 months now and I have to say I love it. It's a program that does all your backlinking for you and it does it in a slow, methodical way so that it doesn't appear to be being done by anything but a human.



Need backlinks - especially after watching this video? Try out Traffic Bug.