30 Day Blog Challenge

I’ve got my two blog posts for the day done. One of them took quite awhile, as I was making some recommendations for what I consider to be ‘must-have’ WordPress plugins. Narrowed it down to seven that I’d consider indispensible. All the rest is just gravy. At some point in the not too distant future, I’ll add a post about my other preferred plugins.

Here are the URLs for today’s posts: Read more…

OK, so we’re at Day 10 of the Challenge. And so far, this has been a great lesson in discipline. Granted, it’s been tough keeping up with three blog posts per day, as well as trying to ‘develop’ the blogs - whether by plugins, monetization, and so forth.

One challenge is that it’s still taking me longer than I’d like  to write an article. While I have decent command of the language, the writing process itself does not flow easily for me. Then, with lapses in Read more…

When I first set up my blogs a few days ago, I installed and activated several important plugins. One plugin I hadn’t yet installed was one that would back up the database.

Today I spent a bit of time researching which plugin I should use, as there are - as with most plugins - several available. I decided upon Lester Chan’s backup plugin. You can find it here: Read more…

Sometimes no matter how good my intentions are, some days just don’t go according to plan. Today was one of those days. It began with a series of phone calls from my nephew, who just turned 10 and had received a cell phone for his first double-digit birthday.

Then, clean up from an overnight snow storm, and a number of phone calls to catch up on. And before I knew it, it was time for the friends to arrive for dinner.

I got my two blog articles Read more…

Last night and into the wee hours of the morning I worked on getting Adsense set up. While I knew that I could just stick my Adsense code directly into the location where I want the ads to appear, that method is not very efficient. If I want Adsense to appear in a post, for example, I would either have to add the code to every post, or to add it once into post.php.

While the latter solution seems fairly straightforward, Read more…

Just for fun, I headed over to Alexa to check on my rankings. Of my three new blogs, only newbietrail.com is ranked - probably because I previously had set up the domain, added a now older-version of WordPress, and that was it. It had no content, but unlike the other two, it does have a history - of a few months or so.

When I set it up a few days ago, it ranked at 15,186,751. And imagine this: Read more…

I spent last evening doing a little research on Google Analytics. It wasn’t as troublesome as I thought it might be. Because I already have a Google account, it was a snap to set up my new Analytics account. Once the account is set up, you can add a ‘profile’ for as many websites as you like. I set up three profiles. Each profile generates a different code set for you to add to your website.

Then the question was, Read more…

I had a busy morning tending to other tasks at home, so I didn’t get started until the afternoon. I have two new posts online:

1. http://www.infoproductcreationlab.com/blog/day-3-generating-niche-ideas/

2. http://www.newbietrail.com/1300-in-2-hours/

I’m also happy to see that my blogs are starting to get some Read more…

When this Challenge began, I had no blogs ready to use in the challenge. Because I had to start them from scratch, every day I’m doing some behind-the-scenes blog and theme customization. So my daily goals are twofold:

1. Create a post for each of my two blogs

2. Work on some blog and theme issues

I feel pretty comfortable with the plugins that I’ve installed, though there are some that need Read more…