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Information Overloads Too many links for needed information
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All the information in these pages is free for your use but it does get a little stressful. A cup of coffee now and then would be helpful. If you found the information useful feel free to buy me a cup.
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Information Overload One of the biggest problems we face in searching for information on the subject of making money online is information overload. That is right, information overload. There is really no shortage of information available to us, there is actually too much available. After all, it is called the information highway. Some of the information is good and needed while some is nothing but a way of getting your attention by someone wanting to take money rather than help you understand the concept of making it online. Every site you visit will contain some of the information you are trying to find or you would not have stopped to take a look. That is where the overload problem comes in. Each site gives you a little information then the writer has to tell you about a friend of his who knows where to find this or how to do that and maybe even both. He has to include a link to that other person. A link that takes you away from the information you were here for. That link takes you to another site that may have a little more information that will help you, but you will need to go through several pages before you find it. Before you find all the answers in the new site there will be another link to a third site or maybe even a fourth or fifth site. By the time you find what these new sites have to contribute you have probably lost sight of what it was you were originally looking for. Now comes the chore of backtracking and finding where you were in the first place. Now you need to refresh your own mind as to what you were searching for. All those "take me away" links come in the middle of a line of information which breaks your attention and causes you to loose time and in some cases, interest. Don't get me wrong, those links in the middle of a line of information are not a bad thing. They are just distracting. They are called contextual links and they are important to the writer. A contextual link is designed to give a sense of credibility to both the writers site and to the site connected to the link. That credibility is there to help in creating page rankings which is what gets the site seen by more people. When you begin building and creating worthwhile sites you too, will use contextual links. You to will be creating a better page rank for your own site. Each of those links send you to some place that has something of value to you. It may be a free downloadable report or some usable free software or just more information but it will take away from you one of your most valuable items, TIME. It will cost you time because you will think there has to be something there that you absolutely must have or you wouldn't have been sent there. That is not necessarily true. It may just be an affiliate site and the hope is that you will purchase something and site one will get paid. I was often lead down the same path and found a bunch of free books that I thought would be of great assistance to me in my quest for riches. I downloaded many free ebooks and still have not read them all. Each of them contain some good points I have used but I have not been through to the end. The have found a home in a separate file on my hard drive and will probably remain there for a while. The point is, each site owner has a bunch of friends with sites and they work together as affiliates or they work toward page rank. The link may not be necessary to your needs so you need to determine if it is to your advantage to leave the site you are on on a chance. What I do is just ignore the links and finish what I was searching for until I am satisfied I have all I need then I will go back on my own time and visit the other sites. If it is interesting to me I will follow that site to the end and then I may go to another link. If you don't control yourself you will be on overload before you even realize what has happened. Just make note and go back later. |
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