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Moments and Notes Of Brilliances
AT the most inconvenient time those great ideas comes, crossing a busy intersection, parking the car, chasing a run-away dog. This is why I carry a little note pad with me, whereever I go. Sure I get teased, insistently, at times even abusively. But hey, it’s my blog, and I am running it. I’m the one with lofty goals, not them. So I do what I got to do. If they knew, oh boy, I would be taking so much more teasing. More times than I like to admit I can’t make a lick of sense from my own notes! I can’t figure out why I was so inspired or even what inspired the note. I know it was some sort of great idea, for what would be a great article. I know it was like a lightning bolt hitting me top center of my head, I remember that. Otherwise I wouldn’t have made the note in the first place. But good golly, if my cryptic notes were the password to open the safe at Fort Knots no one would ever get in. Not even the workers. What do you do with your brilliant ideas for your blog articles? I know you and others know exactly what I go through, I know that for a fact. What I don’t know is how you deal with it. Or if you have your own solutions. Next time brilliance strikes, and before you put your head on your pillow, re-read … Continue reading
The Challenge 2010: Module 3/Days 4-7 – Using Posterous
I haven’t abandoned the Challenge or this blog. It’s just been Drama City at my home, then I had to get caught up. I have watched most of the videos, just haven’t had the energy to write my posts here.
The rest of Module 3 is using Posterous and ways to develop backlinks and generate traffic.
Day 4 : setting up Posterous.
The way Ed Dale shows how sign up w/ Posterous is not what I have found on the site. Maybe they changed it? There is a big box on the right- which has the option of skipping the 3 fields to fill in and sending an email as Ed has done. Continue reading
Edge Girl & The Challenge
So this year I decided to try and salvage a project I started before I knew better–meaning that I did not have all my research done correctly and so failed dismally last year.
However, since I created a product around the niche already, I thought it would be best to try and resurrect it instead of abandon it.
It has been an uphill climb! Continue reading
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Tagged 30dc, ed dale challenge, tc10, the challenge, thirty day challenge
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Flipping Websites Made With WPD
One of my plans for the site I will be creating for the Challenge is to sell it afterwards. I haven’t started the site yet, still deciding whether or not I want to use WP or WPD. I have been wondering how using WordPress Direct would affect selling our sites. How much would it complicate the transfer of the site? And how does it affect my WPD account or it’s connection to the website? I guess my concern is – if you install a site through a membership site (which makes it tied to that membership account), what’s involved in transferring that site? Can they keep the same theme, since it belongs to from WPD? Do they have to join WPD also? How would this affect the site’s value? I know that new sites can sell between $100 and a couple thousand dollars. If I delete the site from WPD, does it also uninstall the blog? UPDATE 8/9/2010 – I checked the WPD site and cannot find a TOS, found FAQ, but that was no help on this matter. I guess that I have to contact them to find the answer. Update 8/11/2010 - I just received a reply- “Hi, You can sell your site just as you would any WordPress site. .coms are better than .org, but if you can’t get the .com, the .org will do. Your Free account allows for 3 installations. Thank You, Roy Support Representative WPDirect.com” They really didn’t answer my questions, about how it … Continue reading
Posted in Kathy Pop's Ramblings
Tagged 30dc, flipping websites, the challenge, thirty day challenge, wordpress direct
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What To Do On The Off Weeks In The Challenge
All caught up in this year’s Challenge and looking to do something more? You can as Ed Dale suggests, keep on w/ the free writing and have some articles ready for your site. How about exploring some of the other Challenger’s Blogs? I have checked out about a dozen so far and I have been largely disappointed.I found on that only says that it’s under construction, a few that started, but have nothing more. But- the majority so far are kinda bogus blogs with a short 2 sentence post and a big moved to sign, straight to their website and their promotions and not another word about the Challenge. A way to get around no self-promotion I personally don’t like tactics like that, and when I get emails using misleading subject lines such as “Order complete! Your download is ready” or “Support ticket or Confirmation number xxxxxx” I didn’t order anything and if I did, why should I have to opt-in to get it? Chances are it’s a JV partner of someone that is trying to get me on their own list. Mike Filsaime is a good one for using dirty little tricks to get folks to opt-in to his list by letting them think that they have already signed up, but haven’t verified their info. Don’t Fall For It!!! It’s by unsubscribing that we tell those Marketers that we do not like being tricked! BUT! There are some folks that are really trying to create a good online journal … Continue reading
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Tagged 30dc, Challenge journals, ed dale, Google Docs, the challenge community, thirty day challenge
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The Challenge 2010: Module 2/Day 6 – Google Analytics
Knowing how many and from where they come and to where they go can be quite helpful things to consider when tweaking your site. Stats can tell you all sorts of details about your site’s visitors. Emily Becker from WordPress Direct, shows how to setup Google Analytics using WPD for your new site. Although, Google Analytics is the industry standard, I also check my stats log in my C-Panel. I found something interesting, the numbers in GA is lower than those in the stats in found in C-Panel. I don’t know why or which one is more accurate- I do believe that those in the C-panel are. I’ve tried them all in C-Panel, but I like Awstats the most. Here’s an interesting video on viewing bounce rate in your stats right from the horse’s mouth. If you want to know anything about Google- go to Google for the answer, instead of listening to all the BS and hype, some Marketers would like you to believe in order to sell you their crap. Avinash Kaushik describes bounce rate as “they came, they puked, and they left”. Use this stat to see how many people are clicking off your site almost as quickly as the clicked on it. Ben from Market Samurai gives you an overview of using and interpreting the results in the Rank Tracker in MS. Plus how it monitors your site’s progression through the Google ranks. Action for the day - You guessed it, sign up for Google Analytics, … Continue reading