Whether I am using keywords to help me build content for my site, it seems that many times I need to search for information and when I am in the process of looking for certain info, my mouse just seems to take on a mind of its own and starts to click on certain links that looks interesting. Then it seems that I have “wasted” maybe up to an hour of my time looking at stuff not even related to what I started out looking for.

Call it anything you like, I call it “Getting off Task”. Here is a few things I try to do when I find myself doing that.

1. Take a break from the computer. I mean actually getting up and going into another room. Even if it is just for 5 minutes.

2. Close out of all the open windows that you have on the bottom of your task bar and only keep on the one that you were originally working on. I, at times, have 10 -15 different pages open in my task bar.

3. If I am really stuck on my content words that I want to write. Move to another topic.

4. Keep a to-do list near my computer on paper. If I see it on paper then I can do #3 and still keep working on the items that need to be taken care of.

5. At times nothing seems to work and my mind just seems to jump from one place to another and can’t keep a thought in my head. For this problem I shut the whole system down and take a nap!

So if you find yourself “Getting off task”, don’t feel bad as you are not the only one.

We, as a society, have our days filled with work, family, problems, laundry, bill paying and so much more that even taking that 20 minute power nap can rejuvenate and help get yourself back into what we wanted to do.

Even if you need to shut the computer off for the day, don’t worry the Internet will be there tomorrow. It may do good for you to take a break, smell the flowers and feel the sun on your face.

As Scarlett O’Hara said ” After all…tomorrow is another day.”

HEY!! That is not such a bad thing. “And many a failure turns about, when he might have won had he stuck it out” That is from a poem that I like and it is very true. People, no matter what they are doing, will many times fail in their first attempt, and maybe even a few more times after that as well. That is ok. But Don’t Give Up.

If you are building a website, take your time with it. Research for the keywords, work on the design, see it from your visitors perspective. Don’t build the website for you, make it for your audience. Talk to them and not at them. Get out of the Me, Me, Me syndrome. I personally don’t care that you made 1 million dollars using the techniques on your site, can I do that also? Can you guarantee that I can? Your visitors are into the their own Me, Me, Me.

Think of your website as a store. No matter what type of a site you have. The first thing when you walk into a store (well, except Wal-Mart, grocery stores and the like), you may be greeted by a salesperson asking “Can I help YOU?” The contents of your pages will be the help they are looking for (hopefully). The navigational menus will be the “other departments” that they may go look for specific information (or product or service) that THEY want. Give you visitors what they want.

When people are creating a new website, they fail because they THINK they know what a person is looking for. Many people may be looking for how to lose weight, how to get rid of acne, how to……the ideas are endless. By building a website on a “How to” you can help to give the people what they want. Answer a question, Solve a Problem, that is the way to make a website work for you and be able to make money online.

My newest website is not only a how to but also helps to answer questions and solve some problems that many people have in creating a website. This website creation tutorial is just that. A guide, a help.

I built my tutorial of creating a website because I saw a need for beginners to have help with how to even start the process. Sure anyone can register a domain, download bluevoda (or any web design software) and build one, but what else was there needed?

If you create a website to help people solve a problem or answer a question….sooner or later the money will follow but it will not happen overnight, heck maybe not even in 6 to 8 months or even a year or two.

But stick with it and try different ways, sooner or later you will succeed. But you can’t quit.