And so yet again, I emerge from obscurity with a new turbo website! Check it out

[MarkEmark]

[if you don't want to read my longwindedness nor scroll all the way down, here's the website:

http://www.examiner.com/x-2621...miner]

Hey guys,

Hope everyone's been doing well in KA-T land. It's been a while. In fact that last time I posted on here was over a year ago, when I was sharing my other new website, which documented my KA-T build (http://ka24det.synthasite.com).

Anyway, I recently moved to Chapel Hill, NC to live with my bro, who's in grad school at UNC. (By the way, are there any members living in the Raleigh/Durham/CH area?)The only job I've been able to get so far was pretty much created for me by my well-to-do friend, so I'm very fortunate for that. I'm just doing part-time independent research on various business venture ideas in Chapel Hill, and so I've had a lot of time on my hands.

Being that I graduated with an English degree and would love to get my writing published in any way I can (I've written a few short stories if anyone's REALLY bored haha!), I applied for a "job" at http://www.examiner.com, to be the Raleigh Tuner Car Examiner. So after a pretty lengthy, writing-intensive application process, I got the job of reporting on the Raleigh tuner car scene (essentially, the import scene). Now the reason I put "job" in quotation marks is because how much I'm payed by the Examiner is based on how many people view my page...and I get less than 1 cent per visitor. Needless to say, I had my first article published on Monday, and I've only earned $0.91 so far haha. I wasn't expecting much, because they don't tell you how much you'll get paid first starting out, which means it can't be good, but I figured I'd earn at least a couple bucks a week for my efforts!

Anyway, I have no idea how to increase the traffic to my website, and unfortunately, to have any exposure, I need page views--the more views, the more often it'll come up in searches, which will again lead to more page views. The page's popularity should continue to grow itself once it gets to a level of good exposure, but it's nowhere near there yet!

And that's where you guys come in! My first article describes what turbocharging is in broad, general terms, and why it's so popular (I also take a stab at Ford hehe). I assumed an audience decidedly less knowledgeable than the kind you'd find on this forum, not wanting to scare people away who are casually interested in the topic but then get frustrated with mechanical jargon. Of course sometimes it's just impossible to get around all of these engine terms.

My second article starts getting more specific, and it's about the essential components of ANY turbo kit (assuming a 4 cylinder engine). The prices reflect new parts, many of them from Nico's advertisers. My forthcoming articles will describe the parts on the list in far more detail. For my next one, I'm going to write about choosing the right turbo.

Anyway, both articles are good information for KA-T n00bs. Pretty much everything I've written so far has been from my memory, and my memory has been shaped within the hallowed halls of this KA-T forum. But my memory isn't exactly sparkling clear, so I may have left stuff off the list or made a mistake here or there, so if you find one, PLEASE let me know so I can correct it!

Also, feel free to comment on more than just the technical details of the articles, such as my writing style, grammar, etc.

Anyways, here it is, and thanks for checking it out!

http://www.examiner.com/x-2621...miner

[DMan II-40]

Cool articles. I bid you good luck since writing is a difficult profession to make a living on. Not really sure how else to get more trafic to your site besides post it on forums like you did here. Also pop a ling of it into your signate.

[Arrow]

I'm in the RDU area! And I will be joining the ranks of the KA-T crew by the end of the winter. Nice articles btw.

[WDRacing]

Hey Mark, always good to see the OGs come back. I'll click on your link a few times. Does it have to be "new" hits or can the same IP be used for numerous views?

Have you published anywhere else? There are a few sites that PPC and allow for basically any type/style of writing. Associated Content is the main one I'm familiar with.

Best of luck homie.

[MarkEmark]

Thanks guys.

I believe it needs to be a different IP address each time, otherwise I would have generated all of the traffic so far myself

Haven't published anywhere else yet, but that's why I'm doing this examiner thing....so when I do apply for other writing jobs, I can give them a link to "published" material, no mater how isoteric it is...most of the other writing I've done has been creative writing (fictional short stories), and I highly doubt anyone would want to publish those unless I had enough to compile an anthology of sorts. But if any of you are extremely bored and interested in reading some of the short stories though, let me know and I'll post some attachments! They're short reads, and I think some of them are pretty decent (I'd hope so, otherwise my English degree seems to have been for nought).

Thanks again!

[WDRacing]

Dude, Asociated Content publishes everything. Go here, now. http://www.associatedcontent.com/

BTW, are you still gay or...

[Doya]

Dude, Asociated Content publishes everything. Go here, now. http://www.associatedcontent.com/

BTW, are you still gay or...

Why were you asking

[WDRacing]

Cause I love him

[Doya]

Ahhhh... thats what I thought