If you are a bloger or an online editor or content contributer I’m sure you had this dream.  You write a killer peice of content, or create a killer online video.  You submit your site’s link for the killer article or peice of video to Digg (or any other social news or sharing website) and poof, you hit the front page, your content is featured, your getting so much freaken traffic that your site goes down from all the traffic ;)  Oh and you get lots of new readers to your site of course, generate more income either from ads or whatever you are selling on your site, and live happily every after

Now back to reality, it probably hasn’t happened yet.  You have probably wrote many articles that you thought were killer peices of content, or made awesome kick-butt videos.  Yeh they never got the traffic you thought they deserved.  How come?

Well maybe your content is great but I’m guessing your Headline stinked.  Yes this is a problem I noticed even with my content.  Which is why as I’m learning about headlines from copyblogger I wanted to share my notes and findings with you.

Writing that Killer Headline, start taking mental notes, or even better bookmark this list and come back to review:

• Usually 8 out of 10 people will read your content’s headline first and if their attention isn’t hooked they are off to the next site.  This is especially true for Stumble upon users, and others on social news websites.
• Start with the headline first.  Your headline should attract the reader by communicating what they’ll get out of reading or viewing it.  Writing your headline first will also help you stay focused when you write your post or make your video.
• Target keywords in your headline and content.  Don’t target the most popular keywords, target the variations instead.  These don’t have as much competition and will get you ranking high on the search engine in different smaller niches.
• How To type of articles are the best for hitting digg’s and del.icio.us front pages.  People want useful information.  Start your headline with “How To”.
• Your headline should be all about the benefits.  Everyone is busy.  As they are browsing the net they want to know the short and sweet end result before investing any more time in your content.  If the benefits are attractive, the browser’s attention is hooked and he becomes a loyal reader.  After the “How To” you gotta focus on one or two benefits. If you can link the two benefits it’s even better. A famous headline is “How to win friends and influence people”.  A few more are….
  • How to Save Time and Get Things Done
  • How to Get a Better Job and Make More Money
  • How to Save Money and Retire Rich
• Quick way to come up with such a headline is to use this formula.  How to [some boring task] That [Rewarding attention hooking benefit]
• Another formula that works is leaving out the to portion.  How [I got or to get] [an awesome benefit the reader probably wants].  Like “How I ranked in Google’s top 10 results from Day 1″.  This actually is true, my latest niche blog ranked #9 out of 3.5 million related sites in Google search results the first day it was indexed by Google bot.  Leave me a comment if you’d like to find out how.  If there is enough interest I will share my secrets
• List posts get attention.  The bigger the list the better.  10 reasons… 20 tips to… 10 steps to …
  • check out copyblogger for examples
• Copy blogger also has some more good headline formulas

Feeling a bit drowsy lately?  Maybe you have been feeling sluggish and tired throughout the day.  Maybe you have been feeling sleepy during the afternoons at work.  Maybe you just want to feel more energetic through the day.  Well here are some Instant Energy Tips.

1. Take a Power Nap. Take a 5-10 minute power nap.  Sit back in your seat, close your eyes, and just let yourself fall asleep for 5-10 minutes.  You can do this on trains, buses, and even in cars as long as you aren’t driving.  You can also do it during your lunch break at work.The key is that you fall asleep sitting up on a chair.  If you fall asleep on a bed, you will be tempted to stay in bed, and it will feel like a huge hassle getting out.  However since chairs aren’t very comfortable you usually wont fall asleep for long, and will naturally wake up in a few minutes feeling refreshed and energized.  You can also try biphasic sleep if you would like to be more energetic throughout the day.
2. Eat Smaller More Frequent Meals.Eat a small meal every 2-3 hours.  This helps keep your energy levels more even throughout the day.  I’m sure you have the experience where you eat a huge lunch, and afterwords notice a huge decrease in your productivity.  You probably felt sleepy and just wanted to go back to bed.  Maybe you even were at work, and started dozing off staring at your computer screen, and kept making sure your coworkers didn’t notice
3. Modify Boring Activities.Often I noticed that certain activities tend to leave me feeling lazy, a bit tired, and even sleepy.  Usually those activities are the boring ones, things that “I Have” to do rather than want to do.  The solution I came up with was making those activities more exciting.If I was bored at work, then I’d take a break from working and read an interesting article, check out a cool online video, take a walk around the office and talk to co-workers, send a crazy text message or two to some friends etc.  Whatever boring activity you have to do you can usually modify to be more exciting.  The more exciting an activity is the more energetic your body will feel when you do it.
4. Use the Power of Full Focus.Often your body isn’t giving you the level of energy you need because you aren’t demanding it.  To demand more energy and more productivity out of your body use the power of full focus.  Whatever activity you are working on, give it 100% of your focus, skills, and cognitive ability.Often people fall asleep when reading because they aren’t reading fast enough.  Did you know that the faster your read the more engaged your mind is?  Your mind will increase your comprehension speed to adapt to your increased reading speed.Be fully present and focused on whatever you are doing.  Often we are either thinking about past situation or future events in our lives all the time.  This is very inefficient since we can’t control the past or the future.  This also drains our cognitive abilities, focus and our energy.
5. Eliminate, Eliminate, and Eliminate Some More.Often we are out of energy because we are trying to do too much with our time.  Instead of focusing on the few more rewarding activities in our day, we are very passive and let ineffective useless tasks waste our time.  Use the power elimination and increase your productivity.  This will help you make more time, and have more energy for the really important tasks in your day.

Have any other instant energy tips?  Share them with everyone in the comments or even better write a guest post for this blog .  To get future instant energy tips subscribe to this blog.

If you are a blogger chances are you are very familiar with Blog Carnivals. Blog carnivals are a great way to get Links to your posts and your blog, increasing your search engine ranking and your traffic. If you don’t know how blog carnivals work then check out this video.

The best thing about blog carnival traffic is that it’s targeted traffic.  Blog carnivals usually revolve around one or two topics, and therefore by submitting your posts to relevant blog carnivals you can easily reach your target audience.

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This is a follow up to my Morning Ritual - Start Your Day Productive.  This post will conclude my morning ritual trial.  In this post I will summarize my findings about implementing a morning ritual, the good, the bad and the ugly

I have already discussed many of the benefits of implementing a morning ritual in my day 2 post.  So it certainly is a good habit that I’d recommend anyone try implementing.  The bad news is that it takes a lot of trial and error, and discipline to implement.

Just like implementing any other healthy habits, there will be days where you totally blow it and wont feel like doing your morning ritual.  I skipped my morning ritual on day 3.  What stinks is that on day 4 it was even harder for me to get back on track.

All in all this was a great experiment.  If you have anything to share about morning rituals please leave a comment

Here is this week’s selection of personal development, and self improvement articles from all over the web, check them out and leave some comments

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Sara Ost presents 10 Ways To Feel Great About Yourself Today posted at Sara Ost.

Wally Bock presents Life is some journeys posted at Momentor.

Thorsten Bonn presents How You Can Make Today The Best Day of Your Life posted at Self Improved Life . com.

Hustler Moneyblog presents 10 Quick Hustles to Save Money posted at Hustler $$$ Blog.

Wanda Grindstaff presents Going from Surviving to Thriving - A Clear Choice posted at Creating Abundant Lifestyles.

Health - Fitness

Sagar Satapathy presents 100 Healthy Habits You Should Start in College | NOEDb posted at NOEDb: Nursing Online Education Database.

mediamonkey presents How to improve your Health: Healthy tips and tricks posted at How to: tips, tricks & recipes, saying, “Small changes to your lifestyle will benefit your overall health in the long term. Once you begin to feel the benefits of your lifestyle changes, you will want to include even more healthy habits. Here are 5 easy steps you can take towards leading a healthier lifestyle.”

Health Blogger presents My Plan To Get Rid Of My Excess Stomach and Lose The Pot Belly Fat posted at Health and Fitness Blog.

Liz Rosenbaum presents Self Acceptance Is Like A Muscle posted at Liz Rosenbaum Fitness, saying, “Exercise and resistance training is important for our physical bodies, but finding love and self acceptance for ourselves is just as important.”

Alvaro Fernandez presents Neurogenesis and Brain Plasticity in Adult Brains posted at SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution, saying, “Adults may have a tendency to get set in their ways – I’ve been doing it this way for a long time and it works, so why change? – Turns out, though, that change can be a way to keep aging brains healthy.”

Heather Johnson presents Debunking The Diet Myths posted at 60 IN 3.

Money - Income

Tammy Powell presents Enlightened Wealth Institute - Don’t Dream About Making Money, Make It posted at Majestic Tech by an Enlightened Wealth Institute student.

Erica Douglass presents Entrepreneurs: Is Extreme Frugality A Waste of Time? posted at erica.biz - Erica Douglass challenges you to change your life! What is holding you back from your dreams?, saying, “Are frugal activities like making your own laundry detergent worth it for entrepreneurs? Includes a formula to help you figure out which frugal activities make the most sense!”

Random

Sally Huss presents NO HOLDS BARRED, NO LIMITS! by Sally Huss posted at Sally Huss - Addicted to Happiness!.

Kacper Wrzesniewski presents Getting Things Done with Chandler posted at KacperWrzesniewski.com, saying, “Chandler The Note-to-Self Organizer is a free GTD app running on Linux, Windows and Mac. Read the full review…”

Security - Comfort Zone - Challenge

Sam presents How to find happiness. Twelve Tips from the Happiness Coach posted at Surfer Sam and Friends, saying, “Happiness is a State of Mind. Remember that happiness is mostly dependent on our state of mind, not on our status in society or the size of our bank account. As long as we are not in poverty, as long as we have the means for adequate food and shelter, our level of well-being is determined by what we choose to focus on.”

Anand presents 3 Easy Ways to Change Your Emotional State Instantly posted at Anand Dhillon . com, saying, “The quality of our lives is the quality of our emotions. This article details 3 unique ways to instantly put yourself in a positive emotional state when you are feeling down.”

Success - Failure

Rena Williams presents A Positive Attitude Is Key For Success posted at Balanced Success.

Shamelle presents Career: 62 Tips To Make Your Job Terrific (Lessons Learned) posted at Enhance Life.

Avani presents How to get clarity in thoughts posted at Avani-Mehta.

Ted Reimers presents The Secret of Time Management posted at CampusGrotto.

James Feudo presents Personal Power: Should you Focus on your Strengths or Strengthen your Weaknesses | Overnight Sensation posted at Overnight Sensation, saying, “This personal development article weighs focusing on strengths versus improving one’s weakness.”

Donald Latumahina presents Being Happy: Secrets of Happy People posted at Life Optimizer.

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