Day 6 - The End

Well I have been doing a lot a reading and listening to people and realise my folly at such an undertaking. After beginning my fifth blog yesterday I realised my heart really isn't in it.

Most of the prevailing advice about how to make money from blogging is get as much readership and authority as possible, then moniterise.

Part of the problem is me sticking to stuff. I start doing a site or project then get bored, or think it is rubbish, or think that I shouldn't be putting all my eggs in one basket or get a better idea.

I think that this site has been a result of a bit of mania that creeps into my life from yesteryear.

I have decided to concentrate on www.portablelives.net as it is something I am in interested in and is a popular.

To deal with a the constant influx of ideas that buzz around my head I am playing with the idea of blog giving them away for free. I read how Seth Godin thinks it could be holding you back if you don't act on them. So to focus I will concentrate on www.portablelives.net and maybe introduce another site in a couple of months and let the other ideas that I know I won't work on free.

Day 4 - An Auction A Day

Day Four and another blog - An Auction A Day, something that I have been thinking about for a while now. The Wordpress theme is the classic version as the one I uploaded didn't work properly. I do think that it is actually really nice. Simplicity itself.

I have decided to not to continue following Problogger's 31 Days To A Better Blog as it more suited towards slightly older blogs. I did however have some feedback from someone from the Bloggeries Forum. Skins commented on an earlier and has a cool blog. So I will be checking it out more often when I have the time.

I do really want to promote the blogs more but the prevailling advice is to build up more content so that when people come they have plenty to look at. So I will be researching ways to promote for when I have a older more mature blog.

Thanks for the support from people already. My wife thinks that this blog is a bit of a waste of time. I have my doubts over the purposefulness of this blog, it's worth. Also I feel like more serious bloggers might think I'm an idiot. I do want to be a professional blogger and this is how I'm getting my head around it. I don't know how long I can maintain this because of other responsibilities but is an experiment so we'll have to see.

Day 3 - Debt Diary Blog

Although the site was live yesterday I did not post about it. It is my debt diary. I still have to change the skin as the title is not visible. It has been changed around a little from what was originally planned. I was thinking about stopping it but I couldn't handle adding to the flotsam and jetsam of the internet. Also I do think that it will be good to write about my journey out of debt so it might help others. I will put a screenshot up when I find a decent skin for blogger.

Building A Better Blog (Day 2)

As part of my drive to improve readership of this blog I am using Problogger's 31 Days to Building a Better Blog. Day involves someone reading my blog but as I have no one able to do that yet I went onto Day 3: Search for and Join Forums on Your Blog’s Topic. I joined the Bloggeries Blog Forum which seemed quite intimate and non-threatening and responded to a few posts. I aim to post on the forum once a day to build a relationship with the people there.

There was some advice from the moderator which went a long the lines of not doing any major promotion till the blog has at least 5-10 posts. I suppose it makes sense. I will keeping an eye on the forum then posting about blog in two weeks. I'm going to spend the rest of today making sure this blog and http://www.portablelives.net/ is looking and feeling like I want it. Playing with plugins and learning my way around blogger.