3 Simple Things that Can Help You Do Better Every Day!
Are there days when you just feel like pounding your head onto a brick wall, because nothing you are doing seems to yield the results you anticipated? Yeah… me too! The worse part of hitting a roadblock, is that you immediately consume yourself with trying to figure out WHY something happened! In reality, you should just move on and try something a bit different to avoid the problem again!
Albert Einstein said it best…
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I have a small list of things I like to do when I get consumed by things that do nothing to truly help me reach my goals. They aren’t much, but by switching up the daily routine, it’s amazon how much new energy you can find within yourself!
Start by Shut Down Your Email!
I am a gmail user and have more than 20 or so email addresses that all route into my gmail account. After the first email browse of the morning, SHUT IT OFF and don’t open it again until lunch break!
I know it does not sound like much of a challenge… In my case, I LOVE helping people, so shutting it off is like losing an arm. But a single email reply can lead into more questions and more emails! It’s an endless cycle that can easily consume a good part of your day and distract you from the important matters.
Hold Your Own Contest – And Reward Yourself!
This one is very simple to do and I LOVE doing it myself! Pick 2-3 of your niche sites that are fairly close in traffic volume. Write down the average daily visitor numbers as a baseline, then challenge yourself to increase your average daily traffic for just 1 day! Make it easy… just use cPanel stats!
For each site you have chosen, set a different reward… and set the BEST reward for the site you struggle with the most!
Take the Most Popular Page on a Site – And Learn from it!
If there is one thing that stands out on EVERY site I manage, each has one article or page that just ROCKS with the most traffic! I mean, it’s usually a 10 to 1 ratio, where the single article gets 10x the traffic of ANY other page on the site (except the home page of course)
Once you know WHY a page ranks so well – it’s easier to replicate the process on other pages you write! For instance, if you know that an exact 2-word phrase (The one that generates the search traffic to the page) is found:
- 8 total times within the 400 words of content
- Appears in (1) H1 tag, and (3) H2 tags
- Has one image, with the 2-word phrase in the alt-text
- Same image is named: “2-word-phrase.jpg”
- Page links out to 6 external resources that are also popular for the a vertical phrase!
(Like a RC Car review might link to the manufacturer, rc race tracks and forum posts about that specific rc car)
See – once you know WHY a page ranks well – its easier to replicate! On new articles, you can use that info as a baseline, and build your content AROUND it!
What Do YOU Do to Challenge Yourself DAILY?
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I have been doing my part to "Build the Internet" since 1994, when I built my first website! Since then, I have built hundreds of niche websites for myself and many others, focused on design, applications, ecommerce, search optimization and internet marketing. 
Email has to be one of the biggest killers for me and I have had to start shutting it off once I’ve checked the intial emails and support tickets so that I can get at least 3 hours straight work done.
My challenge at the moment is to STOP building brand new sites for the next month and concentrate on the domains I have bought to develop plus improve and market the many new large sites I built at the end of 2009/beginning of 2010.
Having a constant focus on what you want and how you are going to get there is really important in niche site building just because it’s so easy to loose your way, build hundreds of sites and never actually get anywhere with them. This is one on my focuses of 2010 is to build larger sites and update them whenever I can on a regular basis.
Ben
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