“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.” - that Shakespeare guy.
Here’s a little inspiration for you all. I felt like playing around with some graphics, so I created this just for you. Yes, I can make images to order.
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Well, a few weeks ago I added Project Wonderful to all my blogs, and at first it was really exciting to be approving all these adds every day, and slowly seeing the cents accumulate. However, recently it seems to have faded out to a tiny trickle, despite the traffic to my blogs improving. I have to assume that something screwy is going on with the PW advertisers.
Some of you know that I do paid posting work for KickstartYourForums, and occasionally I write articles for the same company. I’m perfectly fine with being paid to make high quality posts or forums, comments on blogs or even write the articles for other people’s blogs, but when it comes to writing something for someone that isn’tgoing to stay on the Internet but possible actually get into print, I start to wonder whether I actually should.
When I was 13 years old I started writing a book of my own. It was a fiction story with magic and dragons and adventure and all that sort of stuff. It was about 80,000 words when it was finished the first time, and I printed it out and bound it with wood to be a nice achievement. I then went and wrote four sequals (of 120,000 words each) the next year. I had two books half finished before I started to lose my muse, and went back to re-write the first book again as a 17-year-old with all the experiences and knowledge I had again (like how to use adjectives).
One day I plan to finish re-writing that first book for the fourth time and getting it published in real, hard copies. If I have time before I die, I’ll finish the other 8-12 books and get them published too.
So I’m squirming over writing the chapters of this book that I’ve been hired to do, because I’m almost certain that I’m not going to get any credit for it. Then if it does get published (possibly even becoming a best seller), I will have written large parts of it and nobody will know except me, and the ‘author’.
For now though, I suppose I’ll just write the thing and see how it goes.
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It’s important to analyse which keywords are bringing readers to your blog. But it’s also important not to panic, because there are some weird people out there searching for some weird things.
I went though the long list of keywords which brought people to Nearly-Dr Ferox (see link in blogroll), and I felt pleased, surprised, disappointed, concerned and scared as I read down the list. You see, I write that blog to have a record of my own experiences, but also to inform the pet owners out there and hopefullystop them from doing something stupid. So when I read though the list of keywords or questions typed into google that brought people to me, I can assume based on how long they spend reading whether or not they found their answer and if I have been at all useful. Read more…
I had a big surprise today whilst innocently jumping between my blogs and updating them. More that a month ago, before even starting this blog, I had signed up for the palperplay phenomena, netaudioads.com, to see if it was going to be a viable way for me to earn from my blogs.
I eagerly awaited the first of February when they said that these ads would start playing, only to find silence. I forgot about it for a while, until today.
I am not impressed. The range of ads played seems to be mostly payperplay itself, desperate for advertisers, or political garbage for the upcoming elections in the USA. These ads are boring, not relevant, irritating and now removed from this website.
If I don’t want to have to listen to them, then I don’t expect you to either. All my blogs are now silent and free from audio ads.
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