How Being a ChaCha Guide Can Earn You Money and Success at Associated Content

I've found that my two online freelance gigs complement each other very well.

I've been a ChaCha guide for a few months now, and while I have made some extra dough helping people find exactly what they need on the Internet, I have also been able to promote my Associated Content articles.

Sneaky? Perhaps. But the keywords I selected for ChaCha are also topics I have written at Associated Content which means that relevant search results could indeed include my articles.

Here are a few ways that I am able to use ChaCha to promote my content:

ChaCha Can Increase Your Page Views

Whether you are doing a live search for a 'real' user or just doing a training session, more than likely whatever search results you send to the user, they will open them. This means a page view for whichever link was sent. If it was a link to my massage therapy article on AC, than that's a page view for me. So, as long as an Associated Content article meets the needs of the ChaCha user it is a bona fide result to send them. One of my keywords is "massage therapy" and another is "wilkes-barre restaurants," which are two topics I have AC articles for.

So, as a ChaCha guide I have selected keywords that pertain to some of my AC articles so that I am able to point users directly to my content.

ChaCa Can Get Articles Higher Up In Search Engines

After each live ChaCha search, as well as after each training session the results are saved. This allows ChaCha to build a comprehensive database of the best results possible because actual humans scoured the web for them.

What this also means is that if I send my articles to the results window in a ChaCha search, they move up within the ChaCha search engine for that particular keyword. That's one of the great things about ChaCha-they move the best results found by guides to the top. (As opposed to random sites with lots of keywords.)

One example is that "Allied Medical & Technical Institute" is one of my keyword phrases. It's a school I've also written about on AC. In my training sessions for that particular keyword I always sent to the results window the link to the AC article. Now, when someone searches for the school on ChaCha, my suggested link pops up at the top. Voila!

Associated Content seems to do a great job of getting content splattered among search engines already, but this is one more way to make sure it is found.

ChaCha Can Get You Referrals

Since I have been a ChaCha guide, I've gotten over a dozen referrals. I cannot pinpoint if they actually came from ChaCha, but I do have a link to my AC page on my ChaCha profile. Since I listed it, my referrals went from nonexistent to being on the top referrals page for a few days.

I could also get referrals just from talking on the ChaCha boards (which I have not done yet) and also from doing live chats with other guides during training sessions by letting them know that I write for AC from home in addition to "doing the chacha." I have not done this yet either, but I think it's a great way to build up some referrals.

ChaCha Searches Can Give You Ideas

When I am doing searches on ChaCha, I am not always looking for things under the keywords I have 'mastered' on ChaCha, but just random searches too. Sometimes someone will be looking for something for a class project and it will spark my interest. Seeing what people are looking for can lead to some brainstorming.

While I have learned to use ChaCha to help me promote AC content ChaCha also gives a little more back by generating future content ideas.

So, make the most of your many online ventures by learning how to incorporate them along with the other(s). ChaCha and AC seem to mesh well. It makes me wonder what other potentials are out there!