As you guys know from my last post How to Get Listed in Google News, one of my sites was accepted into Google News and the very next day that our articles was actually indexed, our traffic spiked instantly. Honestly, I don’t think it’s going to go back down as long as we continue posting.

Before I continue, if there are any authors who are interested in joining our team then feel free to drop me a note. We do have Adsense revenue sharing which appears on your individual posts. Though, to be fair to our current team members, you would have to post 10 posts before you are able to add your Adsense information.

Our site was running for a little over a month before we were accepted into Google News. We were building links and our traffic was steady but not extremely impressive. I think we eventually starting averaging around 100 visitors daily with a mix coming from search engines and other websites. The day after our site got indexed in Google News and our posts started showing up our traffic spiked to around 3,200.

Was this a fluke? I wouldn’t say it’s a fluke because if we post consistently like we should be doing then I would say the traffic should continue to climb.

The interesting part of all of this is every post that I manage to write gets instant traffic. And when I say “instant”, I mean we would probably get at least 100 visits to that one post within a couple of minutes, if not more.

Of course, it depends on the topic and if its actually appealing to readers and if its being searched for.

I know a few thousand unique visitors isn’t much to brag about but that number was based on the first day which I think is a very good stepping stone. It’s definitely far from the 50k daily but small steps will eventually get you where you want to be.

Anyways, that was just a simple update in case you guys were interested.

How To Get Listed In Google News – If you guys have been following this blog for at least the last month or so, then you would have read my post How I Plan On Getting Accepted Into Google News. Well, it is official, one of my sites got accepted! (Not DatMoney)

It was a little bit of a relief but this morning I received an e-mail from “The Google Team” that started off like:

Hi Jason,

Thank you for your note.

Great news! This message is to confirm that we’ve reviewed and added your site to Google News. The inclusion of your articles should be processed within the next few days. Please retain this message and refer to it should you have any issues with your site in Google News.

Of course, the rest of the e-mail went into technical stuff that I need to do to make sure my articles are getting picked up.

So, what did I do to get accepted into Google News? Well, if you didn’t read my previous post that I linked to above, here’s a quick overview on what I did.

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So, I finally finished my first eBook and it should be ready to distribute shortly to my e-mail subscribers for free. I wanted to keep you guys updated but it actually took me a little longer than I expected but at least you guys aren’t waiting for a whole year anymore!

I originally started this guide as a simple step-by-step for my team who were already somewhat familiar with Wordpress but I decided I would turn it into a full guide so anyone can do this with their Wordpress blogs.  The title of the eBook is “How to Write Posts to Get TONS of Search Engine Traffic in Wordpress” and although I’m a little iffy about the title and how long it is, I felt it was better than “How to Write Posts for Search Engines”.

And I wanted to thank Edie for looking it over and proofreading it for me.

This eBook guide is 17 pages and it includes information such as setting up your Wordpress to be SEO friendly with various customizations as well as the specific posting process I have been using for the last couple of years to get hundreds of thousands of unique visitors every month on a couple of my other blogs.

As you know, search engine traffic is best especially if you’re looking to get people to click on your ads or trying to potentially get them to purchase or sign up for something. Most of my traffic from my sites come from search engines.

Some of you guys may have been expecting another type of eBook like “how to make money doing X, Y and Z” but that will come with time. I figured I would dip my feet into the eBook waters first before I jump and do a cannonball. If this eBook gets positive reviews then this will be a stepping stone to a bunch of future eBooks to come.

And if it doesn’t get good reviews, well, that means I just have to work a little harder on the future ones.

Anyways, I’m sending out the link to the eBook later today as well as the passwords to my protected posts to all of my e-mail subscribers who are active. If you are not subscribed via e-mail or have not confirmed or activated your e-mail subscriptions then you will not receive this e-mail to the PDF.

Since I’m not signed up with Aweber or any other e-mail services just yet, I’m doing this all manually so please bear with me. And if you haven’t signed up to receive my RSS Feeds via e-mail, I would suggest doing that soon!

And to end this, I was too lazy to create an eBook cover because I wanted to get this information out to you guys sooner than later. I’ll eventually create one but until then, I hope you enjoy the info!

How To Convert Word Document To PDF – I just finished my first eBook/guide so I figured I would share how you convert Word docs to PDF format manually for free. Honestly, it’s quite easy and there’s no additional downloading required.

For the most part, I try to type out everything in Microsoft Word so I can see if there are mistakes that really stand out and easy to catch. Since I just finished my eBook (which will be distributed later this week), I figured I’d share with you guys on how to convert these Word documents to PDF format without going through any other website or downloading some program to do it for you.

Of course, I’m sure there’s easier ways of doing this but this is how I have been doing it.

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I know what most of you guys are thinking, “man, you said your eBooks was going to come out last year!” And although I don’t want to say I was lying, I simply was caught up doing so much and simply neglected it for quite sometime. But I put my foot down because enough is enough.

I recently read Jason’s (a.k.a. The University Kid) WSO ( Warrior Special Offer) report and it definitely gave me motivation to get cracking on these eBooks and guides. Not because of the “how to make your first $1,000 from WSO” but just because I was supposed to get some of my eBooks out last summer.

For the record, I stole that WSO… but shhh… don’t tell him! And that’s the reason why I didn’t link to it for you guys to download. Top secret stuff!

I actually had a quick posting guide that I wrote to help people write posts in Wordpress directed for SEO purposes. I just wrote it up because I work with others and I figured it would be helpful especially for those aiming to write posts for search engine traffic as well as for brand new bloggers that aren’t fully familiar with Wordpress completely.

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