Day 11

Bah, the indexing trick is still failing me nearly 60 hours later. I swear, Google is trying to make me go insane. I really want to start perfecting my sales pitches and site setup, not worry about if I'm doing something wrong. I really just want to keep pumping out content, but I'm sitting at something like 20 lenses (some of them 12 days old) and NONE of them are indexed. Even the supposedly fool proof indexing method is leaving me empty. I'm starting to worry I'm doing something wrong.

On that note, I began messing with Blogger some more. I hadn't used them before because, in the past, none of my blogs ever got indexed. Like, 6 months with no index. Turns out there's a reason for that. I learned a little trick that actually allows them to get indexed, woot. I made a blog, did the trick, and did nothing. The blog had no content, nothing. It was indexed about 3 days later. I don't think Blogger has quite the same ability to dominate search results like Squidoo, but I think it has more staying power (it's Google's own service, they're never going to give it a bad rating. I'm thinking as Squidoo gets flooded with more bum marketers, it will lose it's luster in Google's eyes). I also like the overall layout of them. I can make a pretty good looking Blogger. Squidoo lenses look cluttered and unprofessional no matter what you do. Plus, I got a blogger indexed, unlike my lenses, lol. That makes me a bit more hopeful.

I spent most of today taking a lot of my lens ideas and turning them into Blogger's. Also did a couple ezine articles. I need one more to apply for platinum membership. I really should use those more, I just keep getting ideas that don't lend themselves well to being supported by articles. Ezines seem to have a really high ranking, so I should start tapping them more. I have two articles, one is ranked in google on the first page, but not for a great keyword. It was one of the first articles I wrote, so it wasn't very focused. Still, those two articles alone have over 130 views in about 4 days from (mainly) ezine itself, not Google searches. I thought that was pretty good.

I really can't wait to get rid of that goose egg in my sales column. That'll be a huge monkey off my back. Unfortunately, I'm somewhat stuck until Google decides to cooperate a bit more with my efforts.