in my earlier post i said “re-write the article in your own personal words”. that is incorrect…what i meant was, take the info that you get from the reference websites, and pick out some small but relevant information from several topic searches that you find, put it all together, pick out the good stuff you think would benefit the consumer and construct your own personal article from that info, using your own writing style and personality.

Ok, good, i didn’t want anybody to misunderstand me and start copy/pasting articles, that would be a bad idea. You still have to write your own stuff, but my method is just the starting point for your research. Hope that clarifies things, good luck to everyone 🙂

i found a great way to use the limited (firefox) gistweb method by combining it with a few resource directories like wikipedia and especially http://www.about.com. All you have to do is scroll through these, find a few webpages that are relevant to the topic, gist it and then copy and paste the info to a blank word document. Pick out the info that you like and will help the consumers, ie. general overview, benefits, helpful tips, etc. and you have plenty of meat for your articles. And you can also “gist” the vendors page to get more in-depth info about their product’s benefits. Last step is to simply re-write the article in your own personal words to make it your own so it’s unique.

What do you think Jen, sounds like a good plan or not ? your feedback on this would probably help a lot of the new affiliates here.

Thanks for everything 🙂

to Margaret

kudos to you for your tip on using gistweb with firefox, even though it only “gists” the current page, that is good enough. thanks for sharing that invaluable piece of info, many folks on this thread will benefit from that.

Thank you for your unbelievably fast response to my question in the WA forum, you are very supportive indeed.

Unfortunately, i still can’t get gistweb to work…it still gives the same message about using IE, reset the security, blah,blah,blah. I read all the responses on this thread and the vast majority of folks here have the same exact problem. I followed the instructions to the letter and still no luck. Too bad, it would have been a great tool to use. Ok, so any alternative free tools or websites we can use for research ? I don’t want some miracle tool to write the articles for me, just a trustworthy place like gistweb where i could get enough info to study,understand and write in my own words to write a unique, quality article. If i have to spend all day just to gather enough info for 1 lens, then it seems article marketing may provide an income but steals all your time. And time is more precious to me than $. I hope you understand what i am trying to say. Thanks for all you do for us, Jen, you are awesome.

P.S. This issue has really ruined my day, wasted so much time trying to fix it, instead of writing lenses…ughhh 🙁

Peace,

Thanks for the heads up Jen. I’m still a a bit puzzled though. How do I turn 1 article from Gistweb into at least 5 lenses and 5 articles pointing to each lens i.e how do you guys generate enough content to for any new niche you know nothing about?

I really like what this site says it does, but I cannot get it to work and I did follow the steps that Wally suggested above… too bad, it looks as if it would be really useful IF IT WORKED!

Thanks,
Cindy

Cindys last blog post..Catch That Cheater!

Y’all are the best! Thank you so much for helping each other out this way!!!!

It’s really, really cool to watch =)

1) make the adjustments to your settings in IE and…

2) remember to apply those changes by clicking on the “reset” button. It’s not enough that you make changes to the dropdown menu, you must also click the reset button in order for them to take effect.

I hope this helps. 🙂

Thanks.

IAlso tried the site found it “out of order” as the rest of the posts above. I’m new here just recently started with the OWM e-book and am finding it very valuable. There is tons of useful info out there even at WA but the difference you make is in how you simplify the steps to take. Thanks for a great product, look forward to learning a lot from you.

Nes

Love your stuff PotPieGirl. Working on my first week.

Is there someone on here that can give me some insight or know of anyone that coud give me insight on how I can get my local website on the front
page of a Yahoo or Google search to increase my business without it costing me 5 or 10k $$$? If so please share with me.

I thank you and my hungry over-eating children thank you.

thanks,

Thanks! 🙂

First, Jennifer…..you are the coolest! Tomorrow is the start of week 2 for me, and I wanted to write about something that I was not familiar with because I knew it was going to come up.

Actually, I was just talking about it with my Fiance` when your PERFECTLY timed auto-responder message came in……..that is some good thinking!

Anyway, I found out how to make this thing work, so for all of you IE haters, you’ll be fine, just don’t use IE8 as it’s in Beta right now and it’s really bad, so get IE7 or IE6 if you can.

Now, to make this site work:

Do what the message tells you.

IE: Tools–>Internet Options–>Security–>Highlight “Trusted Sites” and click “Sites” then click “Add” …the address will already be in there for you, and if not just copy/paste it in and click “Add”

Seems like you are done right…….not yet!

After you click “Add” you will see your “Security settings for this zone” and you will see a button that says “Custom Level”….go ahead and click on that button.

Now, at the bottom it will say “Reset to” and it will have a drop-down box that will say anything form “Medium” to “High” depending on your settings.

You click the dropdown, and select “low” which is what the site wants you to do, but if you simply click “ok” after that it still doesn’t work…..why?

Here’s why:

After you set your settings to “low” you MUST click the button to the right that says “Reset”!!!!!

Then IE will ask you if you are sure you want to keep the changes, click “OK” or “Yes”..I forgot what it said.

Then click “Apply” then “Ok” if necessary, and it works like a charm.

Sorry for the long post, but this little site is too cool and I couldn’t stand all of the people that read this great site not being able to use it, so have fun…

Wally