Of course, to the logical, sequential-processing, fact-based mind, this makes no sense at all. It sounds like airy-fairy nonsense, mere wishful thinking.
How does it happen? Is it divine intervention, the presence of angels, or the subconscious mind suddenly paying attention?
I really don't know. I can tell you the process and you can apply your favorite explanation.
Here are the five steps:
One, ask for a solution to a current problem.
Two, envision a happy outcome.
Three, trust that an answer will show up
Four, let it go.
Five, the answer will appear.
I'll give you an example. I was wondering how anything could be understood because the nature of all things is infinitely complex. Was it ever possible to have a theory of everything?
That same day, in the evening, I stumbled upon how Albert Einstein had spent his life pursing the same question.
After his General and Special Theory, his dream was to find a theory of everything, a unified field theory. He believed in an elegant theory, where gravitation and electro-magnetism could be united.
Unfortunately, what rudely disrupted his plans was the eruption of Quantum Mechanics, where elegance was not the norm and subatomic elements could either be observed or measured, but not both.
Quantum Mechanics posited two more forces, the strong force and the weak force. The strong force is what holds an atomic nucleus together and a weak force is what is responsible for radioactive decay.
Well, now, not one, but two theories of everything coexisted. One for the world of the very large, planetary bodies. And one for the world of the very small, subatomic particles. Albert Einstein died a puzzled man. He could not figure out how to unite gravity, the force created on a planet because of a curvature in space-time as it traveled around its sun, with electro-magnetism, the forces of light, electricity, and magnetism, with the strong force, the "glue" that bound protons and neutrons together in a nucleus, and the weak force, the force that was responsible for radioactive decay.
How could a theory of everything work on the scale of the very large yet fail on the scale of the very small? How could the elegant laws that governed the planetary bodies and systems of the universe fail to have any application in the world of electrons spinning around a nucleus? (Initially, when scientists had perceived the atom as a "miniature" solar system, this problem was not observed; but after learning how to split atoms, this model was considered nonsensical, because only probability patterns of energy existed at the subatomic level.)
How could the theory of everything have two completely different theories? It would be like a one way street where the signs pointed in both directions or a traffic light which had all three colors on at the same time.
"God does not play dice," he declared. But according to experiment after experiment in Quantum Mechanics, that is all that He did all day long.
Half a century after he died, however, along came String Theory, which posited that there was even something smaller than a quark and that it was a string, a vibrating string of energy that functioned in multiple dimensions to create the subatomic particles that could be observed. The entire universe, then, was an orchestra, a vibration at the level of the infinitesimally small, that played out different frequencies to create different constituents of things.
This debate, of course, is still continuing, with many physicists believing that since String Theory could never be experimentally verified (because the size of vibrating strings were infinitesimally small) that it was not valid, and more philosophy than science.
The point of this discussion, however, is that answers started showing up after I had asked the question..
I asked what I consider to be an impossible question. Can one understand everything? Is such a thing even possible? . Then to my surprise, through a series of coincidences, I found that not only was my question not original but that this entire phenomena of the universe could be broken down into a quest for a handful of unifying principles.
I actually developed the steps afterwards, through recapitulation of these events.
The only way to prove it, of course, is to try it. Then you will see the evidence for yourself. Follow the five steps. Something will happen. I found a whole stream of answers to my impossible question; imagine how much easier it would be to get the answer to a practical problem.
>My name is Andre. I run a site that promotes support and encouragement for those with genetic anomalies. As I am not a stranger with cold calls, I can easily go to a site and ask them to submit my link on theirs and they on mine. The only problem is that I don't get many answers.
Could you help me with this area? Thanks, --------------
Always happy to help
I asked how the sites were contacted -he send me the following copy of the email he used to make the first contact:
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>>I run a site called GendersInX.org I have been referred to your site through members who frequent your site and I wondered if you could put my link into yours.
GendersInX was conceived by a curiosity of different conditions such as Turner's syndrome, Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome and Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, more so the similarities we share amongst us. In any genetic anomaly it is easy to forget that we are human as well.
The site is upbeat, encouraging and informative, that is what is needed at all times because when the computer is off, we are met with the world that we live with day to day. It would be preferable to look at that in a positive way and GendersInX aims towards that.
I ask you to look at the site and see if it fits in your site under the links, I will certainly put yours into mine once it has been accepted.
Sincerely yours Andre Lorek
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So, from the email, we can see he is looking to exchange links.
Lets look at the sites we should contact to exchange links first. I use this check list:
1. They have Page Rank - PR is Googles way of saying that the site is trust worthy. Page Rank ranges from 0-10 with 10 being the highest.
The reason I would only exchange links with sites that have some Page Rank is because it means they have done "something" to promote there site and it has been online a while- more likely to be around in the future.
2. Do they have a page or area with out going links on it?
3. They have a clear exchange links policy- This can be as simple as a note to please contact us here, to a detailed list of terms and conditions as to what sites they will and will not exchange links with.
So how do you find these sites? -Well as someone smart said "Get in front of the traffic" .....so how a do we find sites that are specific to exchanging links. Here are a few:
I have been doing some work in the linkalizer.com area and have found it very easy to use- I have the Paid version- which I recommend as it does most of the work for you.
I have around 100 requests for exchanges pending (those wanting to exchange links with me) and am doing me best to get through them -doing an hour per day.
I have completed 32 exchanges in a few days- the system verifies the link back to you, and shows you the link on the other site.
Before you rush over their I do recommend that you have a directory type system for exchanging links as it better for more content for your site (it creates more pages) and it makes your site look like a directory of resources.
Break the links down into pages of approx 20 (Google recommends 50, but I am on the cautious side)
The best way to run this is software based, installed on your web hosting, I use autolinks pro which has a great interface for adding sites, plus can manage anybody applying at your site.
You can see it running here:
http://www.DigitalAwol.com/links
Autolinks is a paid program, and really well priced- more details and full demo here: Autolinkspro.com
With this type of program, make sure you have it installed so it forms a normal looking part of the site, not something of a "Add on".
So now are you ready to ask for links?....not quite. Have you every been to a online discussion forum to find only a few discussions going on? If it were a room it would echo....
You need to avoid those you are looking to exchange links to arrive at the site and see it empty...so place a few links in each area- at least 5 to make sure it looks active- they don't have to be exchanged links, just helpful sites.
Ok now you are ready....to ask for links. Once you have found a site that you want to exchange links.
In Andres approach above, what he did was tell the owner all about his own website and it doing this, he missed a vital point- the WIIFM -The webmaster reads an email (or a website) and is thinking- what's in it for me? (W I I F M)
Why should I take an action?
So the first action you need to take is put a link to the owners site FIRST and then contact him something like this:
----------- Hi, I just visited you site and I can see you have done a lot of work and have great content- I especially like the information on ( a subject) -very helpful. Well done!
My website is on a similar subject, but not competing. I can see my visitors would benefit from your content and I have linked to you here:
http://www.yoursite.com/page.htm
Please let me know if you are happy to exchange links. My details are below
Best Regards (your name) http://www.yoursite.com/
(name of site) ---------------
This is the short version, but you get the idea. You could include the html you want him to link to you and a link to a page on your site with the details.
If you don't here from them in a week- you can send a follow up, saying that you know that sometimes email goes missing and asking if they got the message and insert a copy of the previous message.
If you still don't here from them - delete the link and carry on. With any marketing, it is a numbers game - The real key to exchanging link is simply focused effort.
Google has said that reciprocal links do count however to not be "excessive" .
To what exactly excessive is - I use this concept: don't exchange links with everybody and every subject.
I prefer to avoid subject like gambling, dating - anything that may not be enjoyed by my visitors.
I guess the most important thing to ask is does it work?
On one site which I been very active in only exchanging links it has increased 4 places in the last 24 hours- No other promotion has been done so I can presume its starting to have some effect.
Inch by Inch with search engine ranking -It works if you do ;)
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