Day 24 - Bum Marketing Adventure

Not as a productive day as I would have liked. First off, I again hung out with my brother most of the day. Then I sat down, ready to work, and started working on a lens. I had been thinking and typing for a good 20 or 30 minutes and I thought to myself, "I should really save this in case something happens." So I copy it and get ready to paste it into notepad (don't ask why I didn't just hit save on Squidoo, sometimes my brain doesn't work) and as I do it, I lose power. Grrrr. I couldn't believe it. No more than five seconds after I had that thought the power goes out. It's like I had a really crappy sixth sense. A sixth sense that warns me of danger...but doesn't give me enough time to do anything about it. We lost power for about 4 hours.

So with that setback in place and my own lack of ability to stay focused I didn't get much done. Having family members around all day (in a very small house) makes it impossible to not get interrupted constantly. I wish we had a basement or something. Still, I finished another good lens.

One sale today, plus a subscription thingy (a couple of my sites didn't have very good products out there, so I found an affiliate for a subscription based site, they don't pay very well, but whatever, better than nothing). The sale came off of one of my newly indexed sites. My big site continues to see tons of traffic but no sales.

One problem I'm a bit worried about is lenses losing rank. It seems as though they don't cling to high spots for long unless they get lots of backlinks, which is something I don't have easy access to and no experience in how to go about doing it. So I'm a little afraid that even my good lenses will eventually drop into no man's land. I'm gonna have to figure that one out.

And on another note, I'm surprised the amount of traffic this blog has been getting lately. More than I would expect from a site based around my rants and ramblings, lol.