Ramble Writing of R.D. Hayes

Oh the great controversy over keyword placement strategy. This debate has been going on for years. I have actually found a lot of websites that contradict one another on where to place keywords and keyword density. If you read the blogging world of SEO, you will find that this is one of the most blogged about topics. Everyone wants to know if they are using too many keywords or not enough keywords. This is the question of the last few years. So, I am going to break it down for you the best that I can. I will show you a keyword placement strategy that has worked for many, including myself. Keyword in the Title of Your Post This is simple; only one keyword phrase used in the title of the post. Place the keyword at the beginning of the title, always at the beginning. Keyword Density Keyword density is defined as the percentage of keywords used in your post; yes, it is as simple. After researching for years on the different keyword placement strategy, I  found that ...

 There is nothing new about niche sites but, there are still a lot of people who don’t know how to create one, why keyword long tail phrases are important, how to search for keywords, and choosing the right keywords. I walk you through as much as I can in a short…umm, maybe long, post. I will go more into this in the near future but for now, enjoy this post on niche sites and keywords. .   What is a Niche Site   A niche site is a website or blog that focuses on one particular thing. Let’s say, for instance, you wanted to do a website on crafting. A niche site for crafting would mean that you would need to take it and narrow it down as much as possible. Instead of being on a wide range, which crafting can be, you might want to focus on a certain type of craft. A niche site for crafting might be woven headbands, building tables made from oak, or using a particular tool to create crafts.   The Right keywords   When you create a niche site, you must use the Right ke...

Make money online by writing for The Strength to Carry On . This is a website owned by me but for the people as well. You can make money online by writing articles and submitting them to the site. It is a wordpress platform but awesome to use. How much can I get paid? You earn $1.50 per 1,000 pageviews but there are other ways to earn as well. You can add links into your content that link back to sites like clickbank or amazon and earn money from those sites as well. This is a fairly new website and once the ball gets rolling, there will be prizes and promotions for people to earn. How often are we paid? Once a month around the fifteenth. Paypal is the only form of payment at the moment. Only US citizens are also allowed to sign up on the website. How often can I write? As much as you would like to. Please read the TOS and FAQ on the website before you submit any articles or sign up to make money online through blogging. There are a few fine print notes that you are going...

If you like being able to post to your Twitter, Facebook, or Google+ account and get paid for it, then you are going to want to read this review on this awesome paid to post site. I came upon Social Spark a while back, signed up, and then forgot about it. It wasn't because I didn't or couldn't make money from it; I just simply forgot about it. A couple of weeks ago, when I restarted my make money online adventure, I came upon this website again. I read the reviews and thought, why not. So here I am telling you about this website and why it is awesome. What do you do once you sign up You get to write post on sites like Facebook and Twitter after you have put in a bid and they accept it. How do you place a bid Bidding is easy, you go on there and click on the information, review that information, make sure that it fits into something that you do, then you place your bid with a little memo of why you would be best for the job. How often do you get paid The...

A domain name says it all. If you are new to blogging and need to know how to get started blogging so you can start making money online, a domain name is the first step.    Sure, there are free blogging platforms such as blogger or wordpress , but a domain name lets people know that you mean business, and it makes it easier for people to find your blog. A short, to the point, domain name is all you need.    Need another reason to have a domain name   Most free blogging platforms, such as blogger and wordpress , don't allow the blogger to customize it like it would if you had a domain name and hosting. I use Godaddy for this website; they are fairly cheap, and often they allow you to get a domain name either free or for very little when you order hosting. There are other good sites that sell domain names such as Hostgater .    Should you buy domain names from wordpress or blogger   I wouldn't think that this would be very wise. Both of these are ...

I have been suing Fiverr for about a week now. I have actually had an account with them for about a month but I only used it to help out with a website that I was building. Then it got me to thinking; why not use Fiverr to make money online? Fiverr is a community of people who offer jobs or gigs for $5, and these gig range from funny things like making up a silly song to sing to you, to getting more pageviews, likes, followers, to writing content for people. Well, I am a writer and therefore I like to get paid to write. I set up a few gigs and waited patiently. I started getting hits off of these gigs and people started buying my fiverr gigs. I was making money online within a week. Now, I have used them in the past and so I know that they do payout. They use Paypal to pay the individuals and people from around the world use them. You can either have the funds added to your paypal account or you can use the money you earned to purchase gigs yourself. On the gigs that you...

This is my background.... I am a young single mother of four children. One father is in the picture, and the other is not. I am also in the Army Reserves and I do my best as a soldier, but life is sometimes difficult. I   lost a child in 2007, and I haven't been the same. I think about him often. I have been to the bottom of the barrel and back up again. I seperated from my husband in 2012, and have no intentions of ever getting married again. I am known to the Internet world as R.D. Hayes and own a website called The Strength to Carry On , which allows anyone to sign up to and start earning money through writing and affiliate sites. It is a work in progress but it is coming along. I have been a freelance writer since 2006 and I use to write for Yahoo! and Associated Content. In 2007, I won the People's Media Award for Best of AC Content which paid a $1,000 bonus. I had to stop writing, and my online money making adventure, after I started being put on orders with...

 Tomorrow morning my kids will be waking up with no Christmas presents. I am recently separated from my husband and I was doing good income wise, but then I ended up getting laid off. I have never had to go through this before in my life and I feel like a shit bag mom. I thought that for surely, I would be able to get my act together in time for Christmas, but it didn’t happen. I kept lying to myself and saying that I would get everything taken care of, and for me not to stress over it. Stressing over Christmas is kind of what parents do. I know that my kids won’t be too upset about the present situation, or at least they won’t act like it if they are, but it is the simple fact that I know when they go back to school on, the teachers and kids are going to be asking what they got for Christmas and my children aren’t going to be able to tell them. Now, here’s the kicker, their dad has another family and he wouldn’t know if his kids were doing alright or not because he never sees them...

  It isn’t just keywords that you must focus on, you need to create great site content that you visitors are going read, to use, and share. These three things will make up great site content. Great Site Content That is Readable: Readable content is easy to read and it content that people are going to want to read. There are a few ways that you can create great site content; Using video or images: Videos and images can help you create great site content because it helps explain the message a little better. It shows people what you are talking about or how to do a certain thing. The videos and images need to be relevant to the post. Quotes: Quotes, those that related to the topic, give the post more things for the reader to relate to. Quotes will often help to visually highlight the content, making it easier for readers to understand. Short and Right to the Point: There is nothing worse than reading content that has a lot of fluff. There is no need for fluff, get rid of it....

 One thing that I have learned over the years is that happiness is a choice and one that we must learn to embrace. I know what you are saying at this point; I can’t make myself happy, well actually you can. A person can learn how to be happy once again. I have been through the worse of it, as most of my friends and family know. I have been through the death of a child, two failed marriages, a mixed family, a tornado eating my house, and lots of failed careers. Yup, that is me, one big crap storm after another, but I have learned to embrace the shit storms, and how to be happy once again. Most of you who have landed on this page landed here because you want to learn how to be happy once again, you long for that freedom that comes with a smile on your face. I can tell you from experience that you can be happy again if you chose to be happy.  It is what it is I don’t know why I love to say this. Maybe it is because it is true, and you can not change everything so you ha...

 She’s been up for days with no end in sight. She can’t sleep, she can’t eat, wondering if she might be right. She got so depressed looking back on her life. Here she is older, much older, and here she is yielding a knife. Life should have been better, it shouldn’t  be  over. Wondering why she was so unlucky, where is her four leaf clover. Enduring the betrayal of people that she had felt great love. Wondering if she would fly high in the sky and become a pretty white dove. She listened to the criticism all her life, wondering if it would ever mend. The criticism continued even following her to the end. She reached out to  people around her, but they were so busy that they paid no attention. Her sadness had become too much and no one cared, it wasn’t even worth the mention. The depression had gotten worse, the thought of her children didn’t matter no more; she began to wonder if they would be better off, because she had wanted something more. She had tried all her li...

 It had been a long time since I wrote a short story. I use to write all the time, especially for my kids. I thought it was going to be something that I could easily pick up, kind of like riding a bike right? Yeah, that’s right. It is more complicated than this. Sure, the thoughts were there, my will power had diminished, so why was it so difficult for me to write? Where was my clarity of my own thoughts? My thoughts were all over the place. It was as though my thoughts were coming at me faster than my hands could type. It wasn’t like it was back in the good ole days when people used pen and paper and you kind of had no choice but to slow down. Nope, this was putting fingers to keyboard and the words weren’t being put down like I had wanted them to be. This is where the clarity of your thoughts come in. I took a second to look back at my work and I was disgusted. I had actually written that? I must be tired, hungry, or something. Nothing made sense. Does this sound anything like th...

 Social media marketing is an essential part of running an online business. Since I am an expert in social media marketing, or at least I like to think I am, my job is to keep up with social networking sites and all the new gadgets. During my research, I came across a website called  Buffer . Buffer has been around for a long time; If you are not using Buffer for your social Media Marketing, my question is why? Why is Buffer Important for Social Media Marketing? Buffer allows you to schedule post or tweets, allowing you to stay more focused on other important task. I have used Buffer for social media marketing for a while now, and I’m still impressed; when you can schedule your post, it keeps things for being cluttered. I know that I sometimes have the tendency to write a bunch of post in a row, and this social media tool helps you keep from doing this. Buffer also has a suggestions tab that allows you to schedule suggested post. The suggested posts are similar news, pictures,...

 Increasing your pageviews is important to your blog or website; you cannot earn any money if people are not reading your content. This post is sharing some ideas that work, and have worked, for years. Some of these ideas are old, some are new. How to Increase Your Pageviews by Sharing  your posts via social media platforms Share and share often. I have an account with every social media networking site that I can find. Not all people are going to use every site ever day; some prefer one site over the other. If you sign up for as many  social media networks  as you can and submit your post/articles to them, you raise your chances of getting more pageviews. It works! How to Increase Your Pageviews by Targeting Social Media Audiences I love how a lot of social media networking sites are now allowing its users to use such things as the hashtag; making it easier to find a post on a specific topic. Take advantage of the hashtag or whatever your social ...

  The Strength to Carry On will pay for personal stories. According to their TOS, they love personal stories and will pay $1.50 per 1,000 page views. If you’re dying to get something off of your chest and have a personal story to tell, tell it here and get paid for your writing. The personal stories is what originally caught my attention, since I have a lot of stories built up and no one to tell them to. I started writing for The Strength to Carry On and I  love some of the personal stories on here. I’m still having trouble believing that I am getting paid to tell my personal stories among other things. Why share personal stories: Personal stories are often left bottled up and can eventually cause us to become overwhelmed with them. When we tell people our personal stories, it helps because we get to know that others out there that have been through the same things as us, that we are not alone. The most difficult part of telling a personal story I had trouble telling my p...

 I recently got asked if I would allow an individual to  write an article  for my blog. I assume that what they meant was, could they write a blog post. I also assume that this individual did not know the difference between a blog post and an article. Conversational Language of a Blog Post Conversational language on a blog post is more like you are talking to a close friend. It is like you are having a conversation with an individual that you have known for years. Blog post do not have to be formal at all. Blog post are supposed to invite the readers in and create conversation. Blog post also tend to have the writer’s opinion more than an article does. This does not mean that a blog post is not based on facts. Blog post are editorial pieces at best. Conversational Language of an Article Articles are meant to be informative, leaving false information completely out, and the opinion of the writer at a minimal. Articles are normally formal and more objective. Most articles d...

 When I first got into blogging back in 2010, blogging had pretty much taken over the internet. With this, there were thousands upon thousands of people trying to teach each other how to blog or make money online.  Blogging for profit  became so insanely popular that there was even a book written on Blogging for Profit. Blogging for profit became such a huge thing that even new bloggers were trying to sell their story, although pretend, on how to make money online through blogging. Bloggers were signing up for every little thing that they could to try to gain another penny. What these bloggers didn’t realize at the time, and what a lot of beginner bloggers don’t know, is that half of the make money online blogs are full of crap! Yes, I said it; they don’t earn real money and half of what they are selling is either a scheme or a complete and total waste of time. These so-called blogging experts, were filling up their blogs with nothing but fluff on how to make money online...

 As a person who often realms in finding information on what makes a person  act the way they act , I read a lot of books. Some might say that if I spent more time writing, instead of reading, I would probably be doing pretty well for myself. I can’t help it, I am a bookworm and as a bookworm, I read everything under the sun. My budget gets pretty tight by the end of the month, or use to anyways. I started trying to find a cheaper or inexpensive way to indulge in books without breaking my bank or cutting into the milk money. Amazon! I love Amazon because it has almost anything under the sun. One thing that I love about Amazon is their  Amazon Kindle Unlimited . This allows you to be able to read a variety of books for one low price of $9.99 and you can download these books onto your electronic device or you can read them on the internet using the Kindle Cloud Reader. What’s more is that they are now offering this in a package deal to give as a gift. You can purchase it fo...