What? No Bloopers Today?

Today was fairly simple. I didn't get anything done on 30 day challenge yesterday. I watched the videos today about checking your stats in Market Samurai and publishing an article from Market Samurai to your website, then submitting it to Traffic Bug, all very streamlined and time saving? I didn't make any bloopers, but Market Samurai kept freezing up on me, so I wrote my next page "Herb Gardens" for my website and uploaded it manually. Traffic Bug is still ignoring me, so I'm not getting a lot of traffic.

I checked my Google analytics account and found that while most of my traffic was coming from the articles I've submitted else where, and this blog I am beginning to get a small amount of traffic from google.

I went back to the 30 day challenge site and watched today's videos. Nothing new there. LOL They were about how to create a blogger blog and link to your website. I honestly don't know how she managed to make the first video 13 minutes long. Setting up blogger is the easiest thing I've ever done and I've set up 5 blogs on blogger so far.

Somewhere in the midst of all this I went off chasing a wild hare, you know, that subject that just pops into your head out of the blue and you know you've just got to write an article on it. I pulled some articles for research, added some of my own knowledge, then decided I'd better check eHow to see how many articles on the subject were already there. OK, so one blooper, check first before you write the article. Anyway while I was checking every way I could possibly think to phrase the title and finding they were already taken, firefox decided to freeze my computer. Uh. . .two bloopers? I didn't save my article. I can only stand so much in one day. Good night all.

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.