I’m New Here, part 3
Hold it, you might have a little catching up to do. Part 1 and part 2 are here. All caught up? Ok, good.
I’ll admit it, I get caught up in reading the success stories on the Digital Point AdSense forums. The stories on there have it all. There are comedies (ex. I made 7 cents off of 15 clicks), horror stories (ex. my $400 per day AdSense account was closed by Google), and even documentaries (ex. follow my progress as I try to make a living off of AdSense).
I don’t personally plan on trying to follow any of these scripts but you could put me in the category of “I have to see it for myself to believe it”. This isn’t a “I want to quit my job and live off AdSense money” thing. It’s more of a “hey it would be cool to make 50 cents a day off this thing”. So now you know where I’m at with that. As a matter of fact if you look around right now (and I know you’re not because no one has visited since the blog “opened”), as of April 22nd, you won’t see a single AdSense advertisement. I think I will get some content up here and start getting some visitors before I flip the switch on AdSense.
“But I have Adbock Plus installed so I wouldn’t see your stupid ads anyway,” said the haggard old internet surfer. Well good for you, and so do I. You read that correctly. I, the very person who you just read wants to make 50 cents a day from AdSense actually blocks the ads when he goes to other sites. I don’t leave my firewall without it.
That should be a pretty good introductory trio of posts. Feel free to add me to your feed list. I hope you check back in from time to time to laugh and point at my silly AdSense ad placement, scoff at my inability to know when to use “its or it’s”, and call me names in general.
Hope to see you around.
I’m New Here, part 2
Read this first otherwise some of this won’t make sense.
What I’ve done is write some posts about topics that I want to cover but aren’t very time or date sensitive. Or to put it a different way they aren’t current event dependent. Instead of posting them to the site, I’ve left them in draft status so that if there is a time that I don’t necessarily feel like writing a new entry I can just use one of those pre-written posts so the blog doesn’t lie dormant for very long. Sounds like a good plan to me.
So why start this site in the first place? Well, there are a couple of reasons. First, I’m curious to see if anyone is interested in what I write. I think I have some interesting and funny opinions on (especially but not exclusively) tech topics.
Second, there are a couple of expirements that I want to try. Yes they have been done before and yes they involve AdSense. I’m interested in seeing how blogs become popular, so what I plan to do is this. Without any promotion, advertising, word of mouth, forum posts, or comments on other sites, I want to see if it is truly possible to attract visitors. So how would anyone ever find this site then you may ask. Google I suppose. Using only the Wordpress ping-o-matic feature I’m going to see how long it takes to get the first visitor to the site the 100th visitor and so on.
By the way, the “I’m New Here” post has been up ~24 hours and there were no visitors during that time. I know there was nothing groundbreaking in it for someone to find but part of the reason may have been a mistake on my part. I had the Wordpress privacy option (wp-admin>Options>Privacy) set to “ instead of allowing Google and others to index the site. So there, that’s at least one post per day that I can make just by updating you on how many visitors there have been. Yet another reason for you to come back.
I only intended the intro to be a two-parter but I haven’t covered all my reasons for starting the blog and I don’t like really long blog posts so… on to part 3.
I’m New Here
Ok, let’s do this thing. Hey. I see you found me. Just where the hell have you been? What is this place? Well to be honest, I don’t really know yet. I really wanted to create a blog that leans tech, but those have been done to death right? Not quite. You can add one more to the list (or your RSS feed list) because I’ve decided to give it a shot anyway.
This isn’t my first blog though. Yep, back in 2002. It lasted for a couple of months. I checked the Wayback Machine and May of 2007 would be the five year anniversary of that blog. Wouldn’t that have been awesome if I could have kept writing on it that whole time? I could have been a blogging superstar by now ;). I do have other blogs right now though. I can’t really tell you what they are though. No, they aren’t of the “adult” variety (not that there’s anything wrong with that) but I will explain later why I’m not telling you their names. More reason for you to come back.
I can’t promise you I will stick with this for very long (months? years?) but I have taken steps to try to avoid burnout. The original version of this first post (w00t?) was probably written a month ago. See, from past experiences I know that blogs are all exciting and fun and to some extent cool when you first start them but that quickly fades and the dreaded laziness strikes. This sequence of events has killed many a blog in a relatively short period of time, but I don’t want that to happen here. This is long enough, I’ll continue in part 2.
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