Beginner’s Blog

Well, so much with daily postings to the diary. Real life interfered. ‘been on a business trip, then some office work. Still managed to keep posting to two of my content blogs almost daily, or at least a post a day. If I miss a day, I do 2 post the nex day.

It appears that ads on CoreDuoNews started working, without any effort from my side. Must be googles servers. Found out about some glitch in WP2 - displaying ads in a prview form. Corrected that.

This weekend did not do anything in promotion field, but Core Duo now is getting 200+ hits, mainly from google. Adsense earnings fluctuate a lot. I usually get about 6 clicks a day. Sometimes earn $.50 sometemise over $2.

Installed Ecto and writing this post on it. Doesn’t seem to add much to my current setup, so I’ll probably abandon it after free trial expires.

My current posting process:

Start writing post with performacing. That helps with research I can do it in a browser and then write in the same window. AFter the draft is ready I copy paste it to Word, for spell checking and more editing. After I’m ready I copy/paste it to WP2 rich text editor on my blog. Add missing links, pictures. Save and look at the preview. More editing. When I’m satisfied, I turn Rich Text editor off and add more tag and adsense in text with “adsense deluxe” plugin. Then add post slug, select categories and post.

Seems complicated, but I did not find any single tool that will satisfy me.

Now I need to find some pagination plugin for my longer posts. Did one very long post and it really not good from monetization point of view.

Find two promising themes: “Tricolumn” and Problogger clean. Should have to check them out. Tricolmn seems very simple, even primitive, but appears to be highly cutomizable. Problogger looks quite optimized for adsense, but not sure about customizability.

Thinking on starting another blog, similar to Core Duo. It will be Intel Viiv related, so pretty close to the one I do. Should be easy to find topics to write about - already lots of topics overlap with core duo.