The book ‘Is That My Child?’ by Dr Robin Pauc is helping me stick to a healthy diet, but I am abysmally slow at reading it. I’m only up to Chapter 3 after heaven knows how long – over a year I think.
He says in Chapter 3 that the labels given to conditions are really only the symptoms, and that instead of calling it ADHD, ADD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, tourettes or OCD, he calls them all Developmental Delay Syndrome. DDS encompasses several or all the symptoms that children (and adults) have, but of course I still have to use the traditional terms, because that’s what people will be searching for in search engines.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Sunday, September 16, 2007
91. 30 Day Challenge Day 47
Today I went back to watch some of the early 30DC videos, as I forgot where to get all the Firefox addons since I had to reinstall Windows.
I also downloaded some stand alone organizer software so that I can cram as much work as possible into every day. Why I didn’t have this before, I don’t know.
It alerts me with a pop up and a sound of my choice, so I can’t forget to do stuff. It’s called Total Organizer and has a forum if I need it.
I’ve got the free version for now, but the pro version is only $20 so no doubt I’ll upgrade eventually, but it will do for now. If you don’t have anything like this already, give it a try because if I can use it, then it’s safe to say anyone can.
And I have found out that my Digg account has been reactivated, so I spent some time digging news stories and videos of interest, that were not to products of any kind. I’ll tread very carefully with Digg from now on. I did some more social bookmarking with other sites for my blogs.
Disappointed to find my main blog’s home page not even in the top 100. Gave up looking in the end. But some of my individual posts are around, although one has been penalised by Indian Pad for breaking irrelevancy rules. I thought the description was quite accurate myself. And two people voted for it, but I don’t know who they are! They don’t seem like Pauline and Asbjorn.
I need to do some serious social posting without overdoing it. I reckon asking some of my non Internet Marketing friends to do a bit of bookmarking won’t do any harm.
Also finally downloaded my printer software. Spent all morning looking for the drivers online, unsuccessfully, then I remembered I had the CDs in a large card envelope with all the manuals and Quick Guides inside, that I’ve kept for the past two years – um, right next to the printer.
I could do with an index similar to that in a library, that tells me where every single thing is in my flat, because I’m clearly incapable of thinking of the most obvious place!
I also downloaded some stand alone organizer software so that I can cram as much work as possible into every day. Why I didn’t have this before, I don’t know.
It alerts me with a pop up and a sound of my choice, so I can’t forget to do stuff. It’s called Total Organizer and has a forum if I need it.
I’ve got the free version for now, but the pro version is only $20 so no doubt I’ll upgrade eventually, but it will do for now. If you don’t have anything like this already, give it a try because if I can use it, then it’s safe to say anyone can.
And I have found out that my Digg account has been reactivated, so I spent some time digging news stories and videos of interest, that were not to products of any kind. I’ll tread very carefully with Digg from now on. I did some more social bookmarking with other sites for my blogs.
Disappointed to find my main blog’s home page not even in the top 100. Gave up looking in the end. But some of my individual posts are around, although one has been penalised by Indian Pad for breaking irrelevancy rules. I thought the description was quite accurate myself. And two people voted for it, but I don’t know who they are! They don’t seem like Pauline and Asbjorn.
I need to do some serious social posting without overdoing it. I reckon asking some of my non Internet Marketing friends to do a bit of bookmarking won’t do any harm.
Also finally downloaded my printer software. Spent all morning looking for the drivers online, unsuccessfully, then I remembered I had the CDs in a large card envelope with all the manuals and Quick Guides inside, that I’ve kept for the past two years – um, right next to the printer.
I could do with an index similar to that in a library, that tells me where every single thing is in my flat, because I’m clearly incapable of thinking of the most obvious place!
Thursday, September 13, 2007
90. Minor Setback
I’m horrified that I’ve not been able to do any productive Internet Marketing work for over two weeks. After the clean installation of Windows, my PC is almost back to how it was, but not quite. I still have to download all the Firefox plug-ins again, and I might have to use Open Office, instead of MS Office, as I have a further 24 threats to MS Office, that no-one is able to sort out for me.
I also took two weeks off work for the last part of August and had all that trouble with my PC. It’s not as bad, however, as taking two weeks off work then becoming ill, as has happened to my friends.
I went into the Apple shop in Cardiff last week, to buy those spongey things for my ipod’s earpieces (the only thing I can afford from that shop!) but I came out wanting an iMac. I can dream. The sooner I get back to work, the better.
I had to hire a car and drive four hours to a funeral last week, so I had to cancel two photography jobs, and do them this week. I also didn’t sleep at all the night before. I think it was because I was scared to death of scratching the hire car, and them taking the £200 excess off my Visa card, making me go over my limit.
Sadly, I’m not like most people when it comes to sleep. I can’t just sleep more the next night to catch up. It often takes a good two weeks to get my body clock back to normal. But I’m hoping I’ve done it in one week this time.
Despite the lack of production, I really could not have done any more work than I’ve been doing, so I’ve still earned all four of my stars every day. I am today however, revising my daily routine to include time to review how well I’m sticking to my IM plan. I have been doing it once a week, but I think I need a more rigorous shake-up, as I need to be working faster. It may not work, but it’s worth a try.
The funeral I went to was Mike Blacktopp's. I’m glad Mike is no longer suffering with Motor Neurone Disease. He could no longer speak or move for the last six months of his life. But he was very inspirational. Before his death he managed to raise over two and a half thousand pounds for MND, the Motor Neurone Disease Association. You can watch the official video of Mike’s charity skydive, Here.
I also took two weeks off work for the last part of August and had all that trouble with my PC. It’s not as bad, however, as taking two weeks off work then becoming ill, as has happened to my friends.
I went into the Apple shop in Cardiff last week, to buy those spongey things for my ipod’s earpieces (the only thing I can afford from that shop!) but I came out wanting an iMac. I can dream. The sooner I get back to work, the better.
I had to hire a car and drive four hours to a funeral last week, so I had to cancel two photography jobs, and do them this week. I also didn’t sleep at all the night before. I think it was because I was scared to death of scratching the hire car, and them taking the £200 excess off my Visa card, making me go over my limit.
Sadly, I’m not like most people when it comes to sleep. I can’t just sleep more the next night to catch up. It often takes a good two weeks to get my body clock back to normal. But I’m hoping I’ve done it in one week this time.
Despite the lack of production, I really could not have done any more work than I’ve been doing, so I’ve still earned all four of my stars every day. I am today however, revising my daily routine to include time to review how well I’m sticking to my IM plan. I have been doing it once a week, but I think I need a more rigorous shake-up, as I need to be working faster. It may not work, but it’s worth a try.
The funeral I went to was Mike Blacktopp's. I’m glad Mike is no longer suffering with Motor Neurone Disease. He could no longer speak or move for the last six months of his life. But he was very inspirational. Before his death he managed to raise over two and a half thousand pounds for MND, the Motor Neurone Disease Association. You can watch the official video of Mike’s charity skydive, Here.
Saturday, September 01, 2007
89. Thirty Day Challenge - Day 32!
Ok, that’s it. I’m gonna carry on numbering the days until I complete the 30 Day Challenge. It took Asbjorn 88 days to get his first sale in 2005, but he did it in the end. And so will I!
It will take as long as it takes, but I ain’t giving up. So the title of this post may look ridiculous, but I don’t care.
Spent the morning visiting the local computer shops getting advice, after my PC has become corrupted. I’d love to build myself the meanest, baddest PC possible for as little cost as poss, but that may be slightly too adventurous just yet. I’ll make my first ten bucks through the 30DC first, before I commit to learning how to do that.
For now, I need to totally reformat my existing hard drive. Gaurav at Microsoft has promised to ring me back on Monday to talk me through it. He was prepared to stay on the phone way past his home time, but in India they don’t get paid overtime, so I wasn’t having that!
Reformatting means I’ll probably lose a lot of software, but it’s my own fault, for not backing up the installation files. Only this week did I learn about that. I’ve been deleting those files as soon as I’ve installed the software in many cases. Dipstick!
The good news is that several of my program files will have the installation files included, so I’ve copied all of them onto the external hard drive, in the hope that most of them will work on the new Operating System.
The other good thing is that a lot of my software was free online – no NOT dodgy pirate stuff, I don’t get involved with those, but reputable sites, I can go to again. And all the programs I’ve paid for, I either have the CDs or the emailed receipts, so I should be able to download them again. Never delete your emails with receipts on, people! And if they’re for your business, always print them out, of course.
I even managed to do some 30DC work as well. Not much, but I finally put my tracking link in place of my affiliate link on my two main sites, and they appear to be working beautifully. Seen that tutorial video three times now – twice before I did the task myself, and once simultaneously. Wow, a six syllable word on a Saturday night!
It will take as long as it takes, but I ain’t giving up. So the title of this post may look ridiculous, but I don’t care.
Spent the morning visiting the local computer shops getting advice, after my PC has become corrupted. I’d love to build myself the meanest, baddest PC possible for as little cost as poss, but that may be slightly too adventurous just yet. I’ll make my first ten bucks through the 30DC first, before I commit to learning how to do that.
For now, I need to totally reformat my existing hard drive. Gaurav at Microsoft has promised to ring me back on Monday to talk me through it. He was prepared to stay on the phone way past his home time, but in India they don’t get paid overtime, so I wasn’t having that!
Reformatting means I’ll probably lose a lot of software, but it’s my own fault, for not backing up the installation files. Only this week did I learn about that. I’ve been deleting those files as soon as I’ve installed the software in many cases. Dipstick!
The good news is that several of my program files will have the installation files included, so I’ve copied all of them onto the external hard drive, in the hope that most of them will work on the new Operating System.
The other good thing is that a lot of my software was free online – no NOT dodgy pirate stuff, I don’t get involved with those, but reputable sites, I can go to again. And all the programs I’ve paid for, I either have the CDs or the emailed receipts, so I should be able to download them again. Never delete your emails with receipts on, people! And if they’re for your business, always print them out, of course.
I even managed to do some 30DC work as well. Not much, but I finally put my tracking link in place of my affiliate link on my two main sites, and they appear to be working beautifully. Seen that tutorial video three times now – twice before I did the task myself, and once simultaneously. Wow, a six syllable word on a Saturday night!
Friday, August 31, 2007
88. 30DC put on hold
My hard disc seems to be corrupt, so I can't do a complete copy of it. For several days I have not been able to right click on my temp files to get rid of them, or delete them in any other way. What happens is, Windows Explorer either freezes, or just instantly shuts down.
Now it has got even worse. I cannot delete, copy, rename or do anything else with any other file or folder!
The only way I can copy a file is to left click on it, and click 'copy this file' on the left, then it gives me a box for the destination.
Also, whenver I go into any boxes like System box within Control Panel, the whole PC just freezes.
I've been on the phone to Microsoft for four hours on Wed and six hours on Thurs, and he's phoning me back again today. I've tried two offline complete scans, and four online scans.
He wants to make a new username, transfer everything across, then delete the old username (with corrupt files). I have transferred some files myself and tried to use Windows Explorer in the new user account, but it still won't work.
So I'm not confident that his plan will work. He's been a tech for years and has never come across this problem. My PC won't even let me do a System Restore - at all!
So I just want to get everything I need to put on a new computer, via my external hard drive, but I’m not sure that’s possible. I already looked at iTunes in my new user account, and three years worth of songs are gone. I don't know how to get to keep them. Most were paid for and downloaded, and I don't have them on CD.
I’ll just be spending the morning trying to salvage what files and folders I can before the MS tech rings me back.
To cap it all, I was still only on Day 23 of the 30DC before all this happened. I'm still able to watch some videos, but my system is so unreliable, I can't do much work at all.
Still earning all four stars, every day, as I've been doing ewverything I can. Non of this disaster has come about through laziness!
I guess I tempted fate by saying on Tuesday that I love my life - that'll teach me!
Now it has got even worse. I cannot delete, copy, rename or do anything else with any other file or folder!
The only way I can copy a file is to left click on it, and click 'copy this file' on the left, then it gives me a box for the destination.
Also, whenver I go into any boxes like System box within Control Panel, the whole PC just freezes.
I've been on the phone to Microsoft for four hours on Wed and six hours on Thurs, and he's phoning me back again today. I've tried two offline complete scans, and four online scans.
He wants to make a new username, transfer everything across, then delete the old username (with corrupt files). I have transferred some files myself and tried to use Windows Explorer in the new user account, but it still won't work.
So I'm not confident that his plan will work. He's been a tech for years and has never come across this problem. My PC won't even let me do a System Restore - at all!
So I just want to get everything I need to put on a new computer, via my external hard drive, but I’m not sure that’s possible. I already looked at iTunes in my new user account, and three years worth of songs are gone. I don't know how to get to keep them. Most were paid for and downloaded, and I don't have them on CD.
I’ll just be spending the morning trying to salvage what files and folders I can before the MS tech rings me back.
To cap it all, I was still only on Day 23 of the 30DC before all this happened. I'm still able to watch some videos, but my system is so unreliable, I can't do much work at all.
Still earning all four stars, every day, as I've been doing ewverything I can. Non of this disaster has come about through laziness!
I guess I tempted fate by saying on Tuesday that I love my life - that'll teach me!
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
87. Thirty Day Challenge Day 28
Here’s something I only just found out. When looking down the list of StumbleUpon’s list of categories for websites, I noticed that one of them was ‘learning disorder’ – not ‘learning disability’, or ‘learning difficulty’ – so they obviously use a different term for it in the Sates. And I’ve never used ‘learning disorder’ as a tab for this blog. Learning, learning all the time. I love my life.
I was still behind on the 30DC, and manged to add Google Analytics to my main niche blog. It took a while finding the video, then finding a forum post that amended the instruction from a Tumblr blog to the blogger blogs, then I had to sign up with Google Analytics, and then put the code into the special box within my blog. so I had to have all these windows open at the same time, whilst I slowly but surely managed to do what turned out to be a one minute job. It just took slightly longer to learn it that’s all!
Had our weekly team Skype call, but Asbjorn couldn’t make it this week. Got Pauline set up with Google chat. My blog is now number 60 in Google, down form 45 yesterday. Hope it moves up or I’ll never get any traffic.
Spent way too long answering emails, and on the phone to Microsoft again, trying to sort out a malware alert.
I was still behind on the 30DC, and manged to add Google Analytics to my main niche blog. It took a while finding the video, then finding a forum post that amended the instruction from a Tumblr blog to the blogger blogs, then I had to sign up with Google Analytics, and then put the code into the special box within my blog. so I had to have all these windows open at the same time, whilst I slowly but surely managed to do what turned out to be a one minute job. It just took slightly longer to learn it that’s all!
Had our weekly team Skype call, but Asbjorn couldn’t make it this week. Got Pauline set up with Google chat. My blog is now number 60 in Google, down form 45 yesterday. Hope it moves up or I’ll never get any traffic.
Spent way too long answering emails, and on the phone to Microsoft again, trying to sort out a malware alert.
Monday, August 27, 2007
86. Thirty Day Challenge Day 27
Did nothing but bookmarked my sites and my two team mates’ sites. I can’t believe how long it took, and I only stumbled them, put them all through Onlywire, and Netscaped a few of them, but it made a difference. Pauline reported that she had got indexed in only two hours! She’s number 17 in Google for her phrase.
So I checked my phrase, and my blogger blog is number 45 in Google for my phrase, so I sent an email asking for more love!
Wrote more short articles to blog about, but I’m so far behind. I didn’t even have time to look at today’s stuff. I plan to get up very early tomorrow.
So I checked my phrase, and my blogger blog is number 45 in Google for my phrase, so I sent an email asking for more love!
Wrote more short articles to blog about, but I’m so far behind. I didn’t even have time to look at today’s stuff. I plan to get up very early tomorrow.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
85. Thirty Day Challenge Day 26
Feeling a bit foolish, as I went and asked about cloaking links on the forum, and if I wasn’t behind on the 30DC I’d know that using the tracking tool in the dasboard would do that exact job. I did watch the corresponding video, but as I hadn’t done the task myself, I forgot about it. Duh. I’m not safe to be let loose on the forums!
Spent all day getting wise about the various bookmarking sites listed in Social Poster. It’d be silly to just go and vote for your own sites on all these sites without undestanding what they specialise in. For example, Sk-rt.com is just for women’s topics, PlugIM is just for internet marketing topics, and Kick.ie is just about Irish sites, so it’d be pointless voting for my niche sites in the last two at least.
And another site was clearly owned by an internet marketer who had a very bad attitude, and sounds to me as though it was a male with a female name! So it paid off to spend some time doing this research.
Added more posts to both my blogs and social bookmarked them. Hopefully I can catch up tomorrow and sort those affiliate links out. I’m still not giving up on the possibility of winning the 30 day Challenge.
Spent all day getting wise about the various bookmarking sites listed in Social Poster. It’d be silly to just go and vote for your own sites on all these sites without undestanding what they specialise in. For example, Sk-rt.com is just for women’s topics, PlugIM is just for internet marketing topics, and Kick.ie is just about Irish sites, so it’d be pointless voting for my niche sites in the last two at least.
And another site was clearly owned by an internet marketer who had a very bad attitude, and sounds to me as though it was a male with a female name! So it paid off to spend some time doing this research.
Added more posts to both my blogs and social bookmarked them. Hopefully I can catch up tomorrow and sort those affiliate links out. I’m still not giving up on the possibility of winning the 30 day Challenge.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
84. Thirty Day Challenge Days 23, 24 and 25
I’ve had terrible trouble the last few days. Firstly I have a migraine for two days, then yesterday I just had to do something about my PC running so painfully slow. It was literally taking over 2 minutes for links to open, and I was typing whole sentences before the first word even appeared on screen. So editing stuff was a nightmare.
It only happened online, not in a Word doc or anything. So I tried all sorts to speed it up. I can no longer watch videos in iTunes whilst I’ve got any browser open. They just keep stopping and starting. So this defeats the object of watching a video, and pausing it whilst I carry out the instruction.
I’ve already uninstalled lots of programs I no longer use, but I think I’m going to have to just add more RAM. I hope that will sort it out. Couldn’t do any work last night as I was doing a diskcleanup, and defrag all night.
Today I watched all last weeks videos again, and played the podcasts again. I went back and looked at last week’s video on Social Poster, as I’ve fallen badly behind. I’m pleased that I got through half the list of bookmarking sites to sign up with, but as I was curious to see what all the unfamiliar ones did that differed from the others, I got a bit sidetracked. A lot of sites are quite new and even the ‘most popular’ sites listed only have 1 vote – I noticed quite a few familiar names and phrases that looked like the work of fellow chellangers!
I also got hung up on trying to find out how to cloak affiliate links. I’m convinced a certain blog type site other than Tumblr is deleting pages with affiliate links in (judging from the sites I’ve viewed today) but one obvious 30DC page is surviving and has a cloaked link. I’ll have to contact them and find out how they got it.
I was going to buy Jim Edwards’ Affiliate Link Cloaker, but it says it only works for your own domain, not hosted blogs.
It only happened online, not in a Word doc or anything. So I tried all sorts to speed it up. I can no longer watch videos in iTunes whilst I’ve got any browser open. They just keep stopping and starting. So this defeats the object of watching a video, and pausing it whilst I carry out the instruction.
I’ve already uninstalled lots of programs I no longer use, but I think I’m going to have to just add more RAM. I hope that will sort it out. Couldn’t do any work last night as I was doing a diskcleanup, and defrag all night.
Today I watched all last weeks videos again, and played the podcasts again. I went back and looked at last week’s video on Social Poster, as I’ve fallen badly behind. I’m pleased that I got through half the list of bookmarking sites to sign up with, but as I was curious to see what all the unfamiliar ones did that differed from the others, I got a bit sidetracked. A lot of sites are quite new and even the ‘most popular’ sites listed only have 1 vote – I noticed quite a few familiar names and phrases that looked like the work of fellow chellangers!
I also got hung up on trying to find out how to cloak affiliate links. I’m convinced a certain blog type site other than Tumblr is deleting pages with affiliate links in (judging from the sites I’ve viewed today) but one obvious 30DC page is surviving and has a cloaked link. I’ll have to contact them and find out how they got it.
I was going to buy Jim Edwards’ Affiliate Link Cloaker, but it says it only works for your own domain, not hosted blogs.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
83. TDC Days 20 and 21
Watched yesterday’s 30DC videos and I’m so glad I didn’t bookmark any of my pages, apart from one stumble, because so many people didn’t realise, and they overdid it. That was what drew attention to the owner of Tumblr. He was notified by Digg and other sites that people were abusing the system.
I’ll just keep writing content! I’ve put pages up on various blog platforms. We’ll just have to see if they’re as sensitive as Tumblr.
The really cool thing is that Google indexed one of my pages before it was deleted, and I hadn’t social bookmarked it at all! So all the other things we are being told to do with the post optimization is really working. I wanted to set up Google analytics, but I was too busy setting up the blogs in the first place!
The other cool thing is that I’ve found other platforms that Ed didn’t mention, and I would never have thought of even looking for them, if this hadn’t happened with Tumblr. There are hundreds of other opportunities. I spent ages writing content for one, then found out that the title of the blog wasn’t in the url! Your username is in the url. That’s no good!
So I deleted it all, but I didn’t have to rewrite it all when I took the content elsewhere, so that was good. Every mistake is a lesson learned.
I’m off work for two weeks so I was up all night last night on the computer, til I realised I wss supposed to be somewhere at 11.30am.
Stupid to stay up all night, but I was on a roll!
Today I added more content to my Hubpages and had my Skype call with Asbjorn and Pauline. Asbjorn couldn’t talk, but us girls talked whilst Asbjorn just typed. It worked quite well!
I’ll just keep writing content! I’ve put pages up on various blog platforms. We’ll just have to see if they’re as sensitive as Tumblr.
The really cool thing is that Google indexed one of my pages before it was deleted, and I hadn’t social bookmarked it at all! So all the other things we are being told to do with the post optimization is really working. I wanted to set up Google analytics, but I was too busy setting up the blogs in the first place!
The other cool thing is that I’ve found other platforms that Ed didn’t mention, and I would never have thought of even looking for them, if this hadn’t happened with Tumblr. There are hundreds of other opportunities. I spent ages writing content for one, then found out that the title of the blog wasn’t in the url! Your username is in the url. That’s no good!
So I deleted it all, but I didn’t have to rewrite it all when I took the content elsewhere, so that was good. Every mistake is a lesson learned.
I’m off work for two weeks so I was up all night last night on the computer, til I realised I wss supposed to be somewhere at 11.30am.
Stupid to stay up all night, but I was on a roll!
Today I added more content to my Hubpages and had my Skype call with Asbjorn and Pauline. Asbjorn couldn’t talk, but us girls talked whilst Asbjorn just typed. It worked quite well!
Sunday, August 19, 2007
82. 30 Day Challenge Day 19
Two of my Tumblr pages have been deleted simply because they had ‘How To’ in the title. I put up a short article and some of my own artwork on both pages, but the owner Marco has indiscriminately deleted sites involved with the Thirty Day Challenge. I’m not the slightest bit surprised, as there are so many thousands of people doing it.
But Ed says he’s hoping to talk to them. They have jumped to conclusions that we are all affiliate marketing spammers but we are selling quality information. They haven’t touched my main phrase page, but it doesn’t have a ‘How To’ in it. I have been back though and deleted all the affiliate links though, so they don’t delete it, but I’ll put them back when it’s all blown over.
Tumblr have shot themselves in the foot by deleting all the 30DC sites and directing traffic (who want all this niche info) to Tumblr’s home page.
Google won’t like that and could penalize Tumblr for sending honest searchers to a dud page with no info.
As I’ve put a lot of hard work into this, I bought a domain name and plan to host it myself. This may be a premature move – but even after the 30DC I could do with my own site on the subject. And at least I’ll have somewhere more permanent to direct readers of my Ezine article.
The point of the 30 Day Challenge though is to earn $10 in 30 days, by spending no money, but never mind.
Many people are setting up Blogger blogs instead. I’m sure Google who owns Blogger aren’t going to be that bothered as long as they contain good quality info. And with Adsense on there, they should be laughing.
But Ed says he’s hoping to talk to them. They have jumped to conclusions that we are all affiliate marketing spammers but we are selling quality information. They haven’t touched my main phrase page, but it doesn’t have a ‘How To’ in it. I have been back though and deleted all the affiliate links though, so they don’t delete it, but I’ll put them back when it’s all blown over.
Tumblr have shot themselves in the foot by deleting all the 30DC sites and directing traffic (who want all this niche info) to Tumblr’s home page.
Google won’t like that and could penalize Tumblr for sending honest searchers to a dud page with no info.
As I’ve put a lot of hard work into this, I bought a domain name and plan to host it myself. This may be a premature move – but even after the 30DC I could do with my own site on the subject. And at least I’ll have somewhere more permanent to direct readers of my Ezine article.
The point of the 30 Day Challenge though is to earn $10 in 30 days, by spending no money, but never mind.
Many people are setting up Blogger blogs instead. I’m sure Google who owns Blogger aren’t going to be that bothered as long as they contain good quality info. And with Adsense on there, they should be laughing.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
81. 30 Day Challenge Day 18
Re-watched Thursday’s 30DCIII videos and watched yesterday’s videos about social bookmarking and ezine articles. Noticed Rob Somerville’s Tumblr blog has his link to the ‘money page’ in a separate link post, rather than in the posts. The separate links don’t look spammy at all. I’ll have to do that,
Spent the rest of the day finishing and perfecting my ezine article. I know I’ll never make any money if I spend most of the day writing an article, but it was quite long, and I wanted to make sure it was quality stuff, and that it gets verified for publication.
Maybe I won’t be so fastidious after writing a few hundred articles, but to be honest, I do hope mine are a lot better than some of the crap on these article sites. Even some that have perfect grammar make it clear that the person is not really an expert in the subject, and as a reader I wouldn’t want to believe anything that isn’t referenced properly.
Didn’t have time to sign up with Ezine and submit my article. I’m planning on having an early night tonight so I can get a record amount of work done tomorrow.
Spent the rest of the day finishing and perfecting my ezine article. I know I’ll never make any money if I spend most of the day writing an article, but it was quite long, and I wanted to make sure it was quality stuff, and that it gets verified for publication.
Maybe I won’t be so fastidious after writing a few hundred articles, but to be honest, I do hope mine are a lot better than some of the crap on these article sites. Even some that have perfect grammar make it clear that the person is not really an expert in the subject, and as a reader I wouldn’t want to believe anything that isn’t referenced properly.
Didn’t have time to sign up with Ezine and submit my article. I’m planning on having an early night tonight so I can get a record amount of work done tomorrow.
Friday, August 17, 2007
80. 30DCIII Day 17
I created a Clickbank hoplink and put the link into some of my posts on my tumblr page. I am only putting my affiliate link into every other post, as I think it will look too spammy if it is in every single post. I am also putting links to other sites too, offering free quality information, so I think visitors will be pleased.
Ed said we should ask ourselves will our visitors be happy or annoyed with our content, and as I’ve given them what they are looking for for free, I think they’ll be happy. I’m just hoping they will buy the product too, but no-one’s forcing them.
I watched Ed’s video this morning and he said lots of people on the forum are getting indexed in Google in only a few hours, so I checked my phrase, and I’m nowhere! But then, these other peole are probably a day ahead of me, and been social bookmarking like mad.
After work, I spent every minute writing more short articles and a larger one for Ezine Articles, but that’s not finished yet. Then I signed up with more social bookmarking sites, so I can ‘give love’ to my sites, and ask friends to do the same.
It’s possible that this method of getting ranked by search engines may not last long, especially if spammers are going to abuse it, but there’ll be some other method by then.
Sadly, I kept getting distracted on a lot of the social bookmarking sites, because I kept finding sites that were related to my niches, so I naturally wanted to check them out.
Still haven’t looked at today’s work, and may have to re-watch some videos from the last few days, to make sure I haven’t missed any part of the process. Still haven’t signed up as an Amazon affiliate, which I should have done years ago!
I’m hoping I can get lots of work done over the weekend, as I think it’s product creation next week, and that will involve technical stuff, so I must catch up for that.
I’ve found several other sites and tumblr blogs on different topics, whilst social bookmarking that are following the format of the Thirty Day Challenge, and one I found had an affiliate link that went to a sales page, but the affiliate name was not on the order page, so I found the owner on Facebook and let him know, or he won’t be getting his commissions.
Ed said we should ask ourselves will our visitors be happy or annoyed with our content, and as I’ve given them what they are looking for for free, I think they’ll be happy. I’m just hoping they will buy the product too, but no-one’s forcing them.
I watched Ed’s video this morning and he said lots of people on the forum are getting indexed in Google in only a few hours, so I checked my phrase, and I’m nowhere! But then, these other peole are probably a day ahead of me, and been social bookmarking like mad.
After work, I spent every minute writing more short articles and a larger one for Ezine Articles, but that’s not finished yet. Then I signed up with more social bookmarking sites, so I can ‘give love’ to my sites, and ask friends to do the same.
It’s possible that this method of getting ranked by search engines may not last long, especially if spammers are going to abuse it, but there’ll be some other method by then.
Sadly, I kept getting distracted on a lot of the social bookmarking sites, because I kept finding sites that were related to my niches, so I naturally wanted to check them out.
Still haven’t looked at today’s work, and may have to re-watch some videos from the last few days, to make sure I haven’t missed any part of the process. Still haven’t signed up as an Amazon affiliate, which I should have done years ago!
I’m hoping I can get lots of work done over the weekend, as I think it’s product creation next week, and that will involve technical stuff, so I must catch up for that.
I’ve found several other sites and tumblr blogs on different topics, whilst social bookmarking that are following the format of the Thirty Day Challenge, and one I found had an affiliate link that went to a sales page, but the affiliate name was not on the order page, so I found the owner on Facebook and let him know, or he won’t be getting his commissions.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
79. Thirty Day Challenge Day 16
I’d finished all my short articles before I even left the house this morning! Jeez, why didn’t I listen to Ed when he told us about feeds last year? It took me about 30 minutes to write five articles from content that I’d got through a feed from Google news containing my keywords. And there are tons of news items I didn’t even touch, and I didn’t use any of the blog feeds, so there’s plenty of content to choose from in the future!
So after work, I had plenty of time to catch up with yesterday’s and today’s Thirty Day Challenge Day video tutorials.
Later I set up a Tumblr page on one of my niches, and added a brand new article I’d written from scratch. There’s also a picture of mine and a video of someone else’s. I’m pleased with how it looks.
Today Dan showed us how to make a Wordpress blog. I need to learn this, as I’ve only ever had Blogger blogs before, but Wordpress is supposed to be more flexible when it’s hosted on its own domain name.
So although I’ll still carry on blogging about The 30 Day Challenge here, I’ll have my Wordpress blog as well, that will be hosted on the 30DCIII site.
And as Dan showed us how to insert YouTube videos into our blogs, I plan to put one in, but I haven’t made any YouTube videos other the ones of Mike Blacktopp’s skydive. I’ll make more when I’ve made my $10.
I also downloaded a Firefox plugin that Caro recommended called Cooliris that lets you preview a site just by hovering your mouse over the link then moving slightly to the right to a Cooliris icon. I think it will prove a massive time saver, and already, I have been using it loads today. It’s at http://www.cooliris.com Thanks Caro!
Tried to finished 30DC work at 9.30pm, but actually it was 10.30 (now) so I have time to post to all my blogs, write my personal diary, walk and stretch and be in bed before midniight. That’s the only way I’ll be able to stop these headaches. I’ve been staying up way too late. And it affects my work the next day.
Only just realised I’ve misspelt Dyslexic in all my tabs since the 30DC started (I’ve been copying and pasting them form a Word doc). I’ll amend it when I get chance, but if anyone searching for it has managed to miss out the ‘s’ too (and I am aware of the irony), then they’ll find me no problem!
So after work, I had plenty of time to catch up with yesterday’s and today’s Thirty Day Challenge Day video tutorials.
Later I set up a Tumblr page on one of my niches, and added a brand new article I’d written from scratch. There’s also a picture of mine and a video of someone else’s. I’m pleased with how it looks.
Today Dan showed us how to make a Wordpress blog. I need to learn this, as I’ve only ever had Blogger blogs before, but Wordpress is supposed to be more flexible when it’s hosted on its own domain name.
So although I’ll still carry on blogging about The 30 Day Challenge here, I’ll have my Wordpress blog as well, that will be hosted on the 30DCIII site.
And as Dan showed us how to insert YouTube videos into our blogs, I plan to put one in, but I haven’t made any YouTube videos other the ones of Mike Blacktopp’s skydive. I’ll make more when I’ve made my $10.
I also downloaded a Firefox plugin that Caro recommended called Cooliris that lets you preview a site just by hovering your mouse over the link then moving slightly to the right to a Cooliris icon. I think it will prove a massive time saver, and already, I have been using it loads today. It’s at http://www.cooliris.com Thanks Caro!
Tried to finished 30DC work at 9.30pm, but actually it was 10.30 (now) so I have time to post to all my blogs, write my personal diary, walk and stretch and be in bed before midniight. That’s the only way I’ll be able to stop these headaches. I’ve been staying up way too late. And it affects my work the next day.
Only just realised I’ve misspelt Dyslexic in all my tabs since the 30DC started (I’ve been copying and pasting them form a Word doc). I’ll amend it when I get chance, but if anyone searching for it has managed to miss out the ‘s’ too (and I am aware of the irony), then they’ll find me no problem!
Sunday, July 29, 2007
59. Coloured Reward Stickers
I mentioned this a few months ago, and it's a great way to monitor whether you're on track or not.
I have star shaped stickers (to subliminally improve my self esteem!) that I put on a wall mounted calendar just for the stickers. So I can instantly see how good or naughty I've been.
Red = getting all my work done, and at least 90% of everything on my daily To Do list.
Yellow = keeping organized records, my diary and carrying out weekly tasks - a different one each day (usually household chores).
Green = keeping an organized kitchen daily and sticking to my healthy ADHD friendly diet, so I'll optimise my brain function and quality of sleep.
Blue = sticking to my exercise routine. That is to walk a minimum of twice a day for 20 minutes, followed by 20 minute stretches. This is great for keeping alert, preventing headaches and stiffness. And the stretches that follow include plenty of abdominal crunches which is a natural appetite suppressant and also improve metabolism.
I also award myself a second yellow star (they only come in four colours!) for getting to sleep before midnight. So obviously I have to wait til the next day to award that one.
The idea is to get a week of five stars every day, then I get a Gold star at the weekend and give myself a treat - NOT ice cream! A cinema trip maybe, but not whilst the Thirty Day Challenge is on.
Sadly I've yet to have a week of five stars, mainly because I'm such a poor sleeper, and even when I'm in bed for 11pm, I can still be awake at 4am. This is due to my mind still buzzing - part of my cyclothymic highs (especially when I have important work to do). That is why exercise is so important.
The thing is, all of these areas of improvement help each other, so it's paramount I get as many of the stars as possible. The only one out of my control really, is the second yellow 'sleep' one.
I often get three or four stickers, but only had all five twice since May when I first started them.
I have star shaped stickers (to subliminally improve my self esteem!) that I put on a wall mounted calendar just for the stickers. So I can instantly see how good or naughty I've been.
Red = getting all my work done, and at least 90% of everything on my daily To Do list.
Yellow = keeping organized records, my diary and carrying out weekly tasks - a different one each day (usually household chores).
Green = keeping an organized kitchen daily and sticking to my healthy ADHD friendly diet, so I'll optimise my brain function and quality of sleep.
Blue = sticking to my exercise routine. That is to walk a minimum of twice a day for 20 minutes, followed by 20 minute stretches. This is great for keeping alert, preventing headaches and stiffness. And the stretches that follow include plenty of abdominal crunches which is a natural appetite suppressant and also improve metabolism.
I also award myself a second yellow star (they only come in four colours!) for getting to sleep before midnight. So obviously I have to wait til the next day to award that one.
The idea is to get a week of five stars every day, then I get a Gold star at the weekend and give myself a treat - NOT ice cream! A cinema trip maybe, but not whilst the Thirty Day Challenge is on.
Sadly I've yet to have a week of five stars, mainly because I'm such a poor sleeper, and even when I'm in bed for 11pm, I can still be awake at 4am. This is due to my mind still buzzing - part of my cyclothymic highs (especially when I have important work to do). That is why exercise is so important.
The thing is, all of these areas of improvement help each other, so it's paramount I get as many of the stars as possible. The only one out of my control really, is the second yellow 'sleep' one.
I often get three or four stickers, but only had all five twice since May when I first started them.
58. Learning The Faith
Asbjorn emailed me late last night to tell me that 35% of his traffic comes from Twitter (well he typed titter, but I know what he meant and am far too mature - yeah right! - to make a joke about that).
But as a pragmatist, I would be happier knowing the ins and outs of HOW this happens before I plunge in.
He then said "Anyway, never mind, do as you like, which you always do anyway ;-)"
Oops, yes I'm very naughty. Usually because I think I know best. I need to learn to trust people know better than me. To be honest, having to figure out most things in life on my own has made me have little faith in others, so it's gonna be a hard habit to break, but it's all part of growing. I should trust Ed and Asbjorn as they are living proof that the system works.
It's much easier to be in this learning situation from the confines of my flat than in a classroom. I always end up get frustrated and upset when I don't understand something, and of course if you have people around you, you can quickly fall out with them. If there's no-one around you, you are blessed with TIME to compose yourself and calm down.
I'm praying I can manage to do the 30DCIII this year, but if I don't I'm determined to try my hardest. And this year I have vowed to carry on with it until I have made a success of it, and not give up like previous years.
But as a pragmatist, I would be happier knowing the ins and outs of HOW this happens before I plunge in.
He then said "Anyway, never mind, do as you like, which you always do anyway ;-)"
Oops, yes I'm very naughty. Usually because I think I know best. I need to learn to trust people know better than me. To be honest, having to figure out most things in life on my own has made me have little faith in others, so it's gonna be a hard habit to break, but it's all part of growing. I should trust Ed and Asbjorn as they are living proof that the system works.
It's much easier to be in this learning situation from the confines of my flat than in a classroom. I always end up get frustrated and upset when I don't understand something, and of course if you have people around you, you can quickly fall out with them. If there's no-one around you, you are blessed with TIME to compose yourself and calm down.
I'm praying I can manage to do the 30DCIII this year, but if I don't I'm determined to try my hardest. And this year I have vowed to carry on with it until I have made a success of it, and not give up like previous years.
Friday, July 06, 2007
54. ...Four Months Later...!
Well that didn't work too well did it?
Actually I've invented a coloured star stickers system that I will write about when I get home. And it is the only thing so far that is proving to keep me relatively disciplined, but I still need to improve - lots!
One thing I HAVE managed to do, that has taken over two years for me to complete, is my photography website. Woohoo – it’s finally online! Take a look at www.ampersandphotography.co.uk I’ve got lots of photos and pages I want to add, but for now it passes as a website so I can finally put the url on my new business cards.
Actually I've invented a coloured star stickers system that I will write about when I get home. And it is the only thing so far that is proving to keep me relatively disciplined, but I still need to improve - lots!
One thing I HAVE managed to do, that has taken over two years for me to complete, is my photography website. Woohoo – it’s finally online! Take a look at www.ampersandphotography.co.uk I’ve got lots of photos and pages I want to add, but for now it passes as a website so I can finally put the url on my new business cards.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
53. Backlog
Now that I’ve committed to keep an Internet Marketing diary, I’ve gone and disappeared for a week. I know, I know – it reminds me of my friend’s blog: ‘How To Get Things Done’, which he set up seven months ago, and has yet to post on it!
I am still in the process of creating an effective timetable, and as I have a considerable backlog of stuff to get out of the way (not including my day job), I will need to incorporate it into the timetable.
I was going to try to get the backlog cleared before starting anything on IM but then I would never start.
The backlogs include scanning thousands of old prints and negatives, selling old equipment on Ebay, Filing; a whole 4 drawer filing cabinet needs seriously updating, and putting in order.
I’ve been blogging away every day on my niches, but until I’m earning any money I can’t afford to outsource the blogging.
Other people just copy and paste stuff into blogs and it takes only seconds, but I write or rewrite every post, and it takes at least half an hour, after I’ve swiped a photo, then found who to credit for it.
It’s Thursday tomorrow, which means Ebay Listing Day. Someone told me to always have 10 day listings starting on Thursdays or Fridays, so I can include two weekends. These have always been most fruitful for me too.
So today I have been photographing my old photo equipment, and a few other goodies ready to put up tomorrow.
I am still in the process of creating an effective timetable, and as I have a considerable backlog of stuff to get out of the way (not including my day job), I will need to incorporate it into the timetable.
I was going to try to get the backlog cleared before starting anything on IM but then I would never start.
The backlogs include scanning thousands of old prints and negatives, selling old equipment on Ebay, Filing; a whole 4 drawer filing cabinet needs seriously updating, and putting in order.
I’ve been blogging away every day on my niches, but until I’m earning any money I can’t afford to outsource the blogging.
Other people just copy and paste stuff into blogs and it takes only seconds, but I write or rewrite every post, and it takes at least half an hour, after I’ve swiped a photo, then found who to credit for it.
It’s Thursday tomorrow, which means Ebay Listing Day. Someone told me to always have 10 day listings starting on Thursdays or Fridays, so I can include two weekends. These have always been most fruitful for me too.
So today I have been photographing my old photo equipment, and a few other goodies ready to put up tomorrow.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
52. Accountability
I’ve recently been slacking in my online work, and can’t seem to stay motivated. But I think I may have the answer. I’ve got another blog on healthy eating, and as well as offering tips and recipes I had the idea of using it as a food diary, so that I have to account for everything I eat every day.
And it’s working!
I’ve only been on it three days, and so far I’ve stuck to this healthy food. I could lie, but that would defeat the object, and since I’ve been doing it, I’ve already noticed that I no longer have food cravings, and low blood sugar, so I’d be stupid to give it up.
Well the amount of work and what type of work I’m doing is not getting documented, so if it works for food, it should work for work!
What I need is a timetable of regular tasks. I made one up, but it had too much stuff on it. I was expecting too much of myself, and nothing got done.
I tried to do six hours Internet Marketing a day, as well as reading, filing, diary, blogging, learning Dreamweaver. It was simply impossible to do everything. All of the books were self help books too, so they were workbooks that required a lot more concentration than a fiction book.
My brain’s ok doing stuff it’s used to but as all learning involves the cerebellum, and mine is under-developed, I struggle a lot with learning new stuff.
As my shrink says, that much concentration for someone like me who cannot focus, is like trying to do a 10 mile run when you’re not fit enough to run round the block. She says the brain is similar; it can be trained to focus, but you have to build it up gradually.
So now I’ll create a more realistic timetable, and that involves only two hours Internet Marketing a day. It’ll be a lot more computer time altogether, but just two hours IM to begin with.
And it’s working!
I’ve only been on it three days, and so far I’ve stuck to this healthy food. I could lie, but that would defeat the object, and since I’ve been doing it, I’ve already noticed that I no longer have food cravings, and low blood sugar, so I’d be stupid to give it up.
Well the amount of work and what type of work I’m doing is not getting documented, so if it works for food, it should work for work!
What I need is a timetable of regular tasks. I made one up, but it had too much stuff on it. I was expecting too much of myself, and nothing got done.
I tried to do six hours Internet Marketing a day, as well as reading, filing, diary, blogging, learning Dreamweaver. It was simply impossible to do everything. All of the books were self help books too, so they were workbooks that required a lot more concentration than a fiction book.
My brain’s ok doing stuff it’s used to but as all learning involves the cerebellum, and mine is under-developed, I struggle a lot with learning new stuff.
As my shrink says, that much concentration for someone like me who cannot focus, is like trying to do a 10 mile run when you’re not fit enough to run round the block. She says the brain is similar; it can be trained to focus, but you have to build it up gradually.
So now I’ll create a more realistic timetable, and that involves only two hours Internet Marketing a day. It’ll be a lot more computer time altogether, but just two hours IM to begin with.
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