Could I Possibly Make Any More Mistakes on. . .

such simple directions? I got my article, "Planning Your Container Herb Garden"for Scribd written today. I went back and watched the video just to make sure I remembered all the key steps to get it uploaded and published. OOOPS. First mistake. I'd typed my article in Word Perfect which doesn't save as a .doc file, so I had to copy and paste it into Google Docs. Then I linked my keywords to my site, saved it as a Word document and uploaded it. One of the links didn't work! It had a typo in it. I went back and corrected the Google Doc, and saved it as text which of course didn't upload. I think all in all I deleted that document 3 times before I got it into Scribd as a readable document with clickable links. I spent a lot of time doing something that shouldn't have taken but a few minutes because I was so nervous and wanted it done perfect. I don't know why new sites and programs put me in such a tizzy. I got it done anyway. I haven't gotten one written for Ezine Articles yet.

I watched today's video and a light bulb came on. Today's lesson is about making Squidoo lenses which I've been doing for quite a while now. I have an RSS feed module in most of my lenses, but I only had excerpts from my blogs showing. Google likes new content and updated sites, so by putting your RSS feed showing your latest blog entry in your Squidoo lens, you have fresh content every time you write a blog! Talk about automation! What an a haa! moment. Especially since my lenses all relate to one of my blogs or another.

Well I'm not quite so uptight today as I was yesterday. Maybe I'll go watch TV and pet my cat for a while before I go to bed tonight.