OK. The demon is sitting on my right shoulder today, angel on my left. The angel’s not saying anything, but that ol’ debbil demon is yapping his head off. And he has an idea … for you.

Might make you a lot of money. Might not. Want to hear it?

That’s what I figured.

I ran into this site some months ago. It’s put out by Amazon, but I think it’s only available in the U.S. You can post work here and have it done for REALLY cheap. Here it is:

Amazon Mechanical Turk

Now … as you know, you will never create a presence online unless you can write at least some content. But it doesn’t need to be YOU who does the actual writing. That’s where the Mechanical Turk comes in.

You can post jobs there (just as you can on a lot of other sites) and have someone else do them. Difference here is, it’s generally a lot cheaper. You can Google

Amazon Mechanical Turk review

which I recommend you do. You’ll find a lot of negative comments. But guess what? The ones I saw are all negative about the way it’s being used … not about the results.

For instance … I bet you could go to an article directory online and copy three 500-word articles you like and then post a work order on Mechanical Turk offering $2.50 to someone who would re-write all three of those articles for you, making them completely different, and coming out to at least 400 words each. And I bet someone would take that offer and do it for you.

So the question is, what kind of quality would you get back? The good thing here is, it’ll be U.S. residents responding, mostly people whose native language is English. If you hate to write, this one is certainly worth a test.

And if you test it, let me know what you think …

Richard Dennis

Remember in the movie The Graduate, where Benjamin’s parents are having a party and celebrating Benjamin’s college graduation? Mr. McGuire, a family friend & local businessman, takes Ben aside and says, “I just want to say one word to you — just one word — ‘plastics.’ ”

Well … I want to take YOU aside and say one word to you. Just one word.

OK, OK. It’s actually three words:

Latent Semantic Indexing

Try saying it to yourself. Kind of flows off the tongue, doesn’t it? I’ll bet you really feel smart when you say it?

OK. I’ll try not to get too carried away here.

Anyway, last week, I was minding my own business, doing Google searches to choose which titles I’d use for some articles. I’d done about 6 searches in a row, for different but similar keyword phrases. Each time, each different search, the same article got the #1 rank in Google.

By the 6th time this happened, I figured I probably ought to actually look at the article. Maybe I’d learn something.

Boy, did I. It was a major revelation to me. I absolutely know a perfect example of latent semantic indexing when I see it. But I had no idea how effective it could be. I had no idea that LSI gets Google so excited, it practically slobbers all over itself.

Anyway, I’m going to be doing a 1-hour training call this Saturday night, February 14th, at 9 pm Eastern Standard Time, telling you exactly what my big discovery was and how you can use it to routinely get high listings in Google searches.

If you’d like the call-in information for this conference call, just email me: richard @ NetTrafficMachine dot com (of course, remove the spaces & replace “dot” with a period). Just put “Google slobbers” in the subject line, and I’ll send you back the call-in info.

If you can’t make it at that time, let me know, and I’ll send you a link for the audio file of the call. Plus, I’ve created a nice little tool you may find very useful, and I’ll give you that, too.

Take care,

Richard Dennis

I’ve had great results over the years using article directories, especially EzineArticles.com. Dozens & dozens of my articles have been listed on the first page results of Google searches for the keywords I focused on. And some of those keywords would bring back millions of results, yet my article would be in the first few on the first page.

Some of these pages have brought my websites a steady stream of traffic over the years. And this is really targeted traffic - people searching the exact phrase I targeted in the article.

But … even though I’ve had several blogs over the years, I’ve never had my blog url show up high in Google search results. More likely, page 150 of Google or something like that, where nobody would ever see it.

A couple weeks ago, I started this Net Traffic Machine blog, focused on Charles Heflin’s Perpetual Internet Traffic Machine and my views on it and experience with it. So playing off the PITM, I named this blog Net Traffic Machine.

Yesterday, as sort of an afterthought, I Googled

traffic machine

Out of 660,000 results, my blog was listed #4 on the first page of Google. I was amazed, because I haven’t been able to create that before. Usually, Google highly values links from other sites. But in this case, there are very few links to this site so far. This made the listing a bigger surprise.

Now … reality … “traffic machine” isn’t a term that’s going to be searched a lot. But I think that because I now have such a better picture of what the search engines want - which I’ll be writing about here in detail, so you can get the same understanding - I can use what I’ve learned about keywords over the years and create many pages for my blog that will show up high on page 1 of Google for certain search terms.

When I also get the inbound links, using the social media as Charles outlines in his course, it’ll be even better.

Don’t you love it when a traffic machine comes together!

Richard Dennis