Emerging from Hibernation

Thats how I feel the last two or three weeks.

Its like I have been sleep walking the last 9 months, maybe longer, a year or two, and I'm finally waking up.

The work has piled up but my enthusiasm has returned full force. My income is steadily growing and I put together a rock solid savings plan. I'm eating better and getting some exercise again, work doesn't infuriate me like it used to and all the dishes are clean.

Sure I still have problems getting online after having been off for most of the last two months but the future looks bright.

According to a recent study at the University of Georgia being angry can create a lack of focus. And I was Angry. It was counter productive and destroyed much of the last 6-9 months of what could have, should have been, productive work time in building my online empire.

That was the original plan. I had the funding and timeline all worked out. Only the anger crept in and I let it stay.

My mistake.

Now its back to work. I just wanted to post since I haven't updated in a while and a few people have asked about whats going on in my life.

Top Websites Online for Promotion

There is a graph of the top 5 websites online as far as traffic is concerned.

Mostly search engines in the top ten, with the exception of YouTube, so in my mind optimization is a priority. However I did uncover other websites where I would focus future traffic building efforts.

There is a goldmine in the top 200, and maybe more, websites viewed online. Look for the list at Alexa.com.

MySpace.com, Wikipedia.org, and FaceBook.com all hit in the top results as potential places to create traffic.

And I hate MySpace and have no idea aout Wikipedia.com.

But I guess I'll have to figure it out if I want to build traffic besides Search Engine Optimization.

Getting my PHD

PHD - Poor, Hungry and Driven/Desperate

That's where I'm at lately.

I can't even write this post again for the third time. You see I tried to post to my Yahoo 360 blog but that has become a potentially fatal website as far as my laptop is concerned.

I try to post after spending half an hour typing my entry only to find it disappear, forever lost to Yahoo's failure of a blogging system. Apparently using the preview or edit buttons deletes your post.

MuthaFuckers aren't right here so trying as much as possible I barely manage to stop myself from smashing the laptop to pieces after the second rewrite also disappears.

I may have tourette's considering the uncontrollable language that spewed from my mouth.

Anyway, I burned through way more money this month than I thought humanly possible and I am now scrambling to make ends meet and not screw up future plans of traveling to Oregon in June.

People that owe me money can't pay, I'm making calls, eating grilled cheese sandwiches and trying to focus on anything that will make me some money quick and instead I get FUCKING YAHOO SUCKING MY FUCKING TIME!

Little Pissed.

So I'm going to walk away for now, mentioning only that I took a couple of parked domains off of being parked to build out a one page landing site with no ads like I did for the Marilyn Monroe Death website. When that got spidered and started seeing regular visitors I knew it was time to build a website for it.

These two have a great CPC income potential if built out into websites but aren't making anything parked. Registered Nurse's of Vermont and Seattle DUI Defense Attorney's could both be very valuable properties in the very near future.

eBooks, Ebay and Things Going Smoothly

Finished writing my second eBook the other day. The first one still hasn't reached the sales levels that I had hoped but I chose to push on, esp. since now I'm using Open Office instead of PrimoPDF or PDF995 to convert the finished product. This works great because I can integrate clickable links that aren't blatantly http:// then with my affiliate code.

Anyway the latest DNS changes haven't gone through for me to upload the sales site so I figured I would try and get the sales machine going by uploading to Lulu.com. Everything went great until I double checked my eBook. NONE of the links worked.

Whatever they do to prepare your eBook for printing kills all the links. So I pulled it from distribution.

So why not Ebay?

Ebay changed their policies towards Digital Download Products March 31st. Now if you want to promote an eBook you have to pay for their $9.95 Classified Ads in the Everything else > Information Products Category.

Sure it's a 30 day listing but you don't get any feedback about the transaction towards your Ebay account.

Truthfully I can see why they would limit such auctions as they were a way to falsely inflate your feedback by purchasing 100 1 cent eBooks and getting 100 positive feedbacks in the course of a few hours.

I think there was an eBook about it.

So I'm coming into the eBook Marketplace as a Publisher at the wrong time.

Always seems to be the story lately.

Anybody want to buy a Hot Dog Cart so I can pay rent?