After reading Honest Riches about one and a half years ago, I was inspired to have a website of my own. At that time, my mind was all about making money online. So came Wealthy Freelancer, my first website. It was a get-wealthy-ideas website. I wrote quite a number of articles for it and most of them I put in my current one.
But the thing of get-wealthy-ideas, they run out. Soon, I have no ideas to write about. Well actually I have a number of ideas but only one for every topic. For a website to be successful there must be a lot of content in one topic. Well, that coupled with my pretty sensitive condition (pregnancy) made me quit the site. Temporarily at first then decided would be for good.
About one year after giving birth, I needed to do something again to make sense of who I am. And being homebound, I have to resort to the internet again as there is no channel for me to do that.
As I read through Holly Mann’s new version of Honest Riches, it occurred to me how she repeatedly pointed out to writing articles as a way to increase exposure to your website. More URLs from other websites mean more outside links. Writing articles can be profitable too in writing product reviews or just a way to promote your affiliate products. One thing that you should watch out though is the strict rules set by magazine or ezine sites. One must follow rules like no affiliate links, no promotions, and no URLs allowed.
Then the light bulb turned on in my head. Having my own ezine can help me express myself and promote whatever product I want with no restrictions. I am the ezine; I set the rules. Then I told myself, I would also do the same to anyone who wants to submit articles on my site. It would be a free exchange of ideas, a total marketplace.
But starting an ezine is not that easy, as chronicled by the posts I wrote here in Hollymannia. It is a special program and not everyone can do it. I contacted web design sites, one of which I previously used, and got a reply that they don’t do such websites. So from the start, it was a rough road to take.
An ezine thrives in content as it is an ezine, supposedly a pot of articles, ideas, and what-name-you. Content is king and it is hard to build up content. It will really take time. Maybe it will take a year or so before it can finally take off. That means I have to wait, be patient. No, money would not come easily.
It is hard for an ezine to be indexed by search engines because it is not concentrated in one topic. It is not a niche. Too many keywords, too much supply out there. An ezine can go to different directions and would have a slim chance of making it to the top because of the multiplicity of content. I also checked the competition and there were just too many out there. One of the possible ones already left a comment to this blog when I introduced the site. Had it not been to my firm decision that this is the right website for me, then I would have already given it up.
I have more commitment to sticking to this website than in my previous one. I definitely would make it work no matter what. I’m so determined that even I can’t believe it. All I can say is “Wow!”
Please visit my website at WowEzine.com.
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