Day Two Report
Money made today $0
Hours spent working on Internet 8
Hits to Blog yesterday 6 Here it is day two. I started this morning about 8:00 am EST. I got this blog and the blog at http://bofirebear.blogspot.com/ up and running today.
The first blog post went up yesterday and so far there have been 6 hits on the two blogs. This is a start from scratch and see what happens situation.
Here is how I spent most of my day.
Remember while I was doing all the things below I spent a good bit of time going, “Now how am I supposed to do that.” My generation didn’t have computers when we were growing. Yes, the wheel had been invented when I was young and there were no dinosaurs alive so don’t go there.
Anyway I started out the morning spending about an hour reading. Most of the time was spent reading a free blog http://www.problogger.net/31-days/ by Darren Rowse. He is not one of the original gentlemen who sent me emails talking about making money on the Internet but he seems to have good information on his blog. This free site is supposed to help me have a better blog in 31 days. I will keep track to see how that goes. I am going to try to implement at least one suggestion he recommends each day and I will list the suggestion used on the website each day.
Now I am not patient enough to read everything before I get started, so after about an hour of reading websites and e-books I was off and working.
With high hopes I started off working with http://feedburner.com According to the site it will help me get free traffic to my blogs and to give me some neat tools to handle RSS subscriptions. I can also send updates by email without using an autoresponder using this site. I will investigate tomorrow if I have access to the people who sign up or not. If not I will not use this service. Update tomorrow. Wasn’t easy to figure out everything and I lost time but that was to be expected on the first day.
One of the cool things I did was making sure that I had free Share This button from http://sharethis.com on the blogs so that people could easily send the blog to someone else. It seemed like a pretty cool little gadget and easy to set up. I was impressed and believe it will bring additional free traffic. It was easier then feedburner to work with. I even added it to my personal website http://turtlebowbear.com
Myy adsense ads are now on the blogs. After I added them I wished I had read this page first. http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/08/24/adsense-optimization-tips-buzzmachine/ It would have saved me some time and I would have placed the ads in the right location the first time. According to the site ad placement is very important. So there I went backtracking to redo the ads.
So the blog is up, I am on twitter a social site like Tweetmyblog suggested. I was ready to use the free software I downloaded from there which would automatically post to twitter for me. I found out that you can not use the free software on a blog that WordPress host. You know one of those we will host it for you free WordPress blogs. You can only use the software if you host your own blog using WordPress. I didn’t see that in the fine print. Okay got to figure out how to work around that tomorrow or go ahead and set up a blog on one of my sites. Hmmmm!!!!!!
This evening I am going to send out emails to Michael Cobb, James Grandstaff, Mike Dillard, Derrick Van Dyke, Bob Jenkins, John Merrick, Soren Jordansen, Guido Nussbaum, and Alex Goad. Remember them? Those are the ones we talked about yesterday that said they could show me how to make money on the Internet. Now I know these men are busy making six figures and may not have time to answer the emails personally, but someone in their organization should at least answer. Tomorrow I will post a copy of the email I send to them and I will keep you updated on if they answer or not.
So here it is the afternoon of day two and progress has been made.
The websites I worked with today are:
http://bofirebear.blogspot.com/
http://www.problogger.net/31-days/
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/08/24/adsense-optimization-tips-buzzmachine/
The adventure continues tomorrow.
