Well, I did it. Got a new article up on my jewelry website. It’s nice to be getting some things done on the site. Of course, you know what this means…

That’s right.

Ariel opted out of her nap again today.

She’s been taking them so well the past couple days, but today, nothing. Good bonk while she was playing in her room instead of napping, which got her to set up quite a howl and brought me up there, but no nap.

Oh, well. Good thing is that it means she should go right to sleep tonight. The past couple nights she hasn’t wanted to go to bed until 9 or 10 at night. Brent went into her room the other night because at 9:30 her light was still on, and she was sitting there flipping through a book. She informed him that she was reading and did not want to go to bed. That’s my daughter! Lots of bookaholics in my family! He read to her, then she was finally ready to sleep.

Hmm… I think I can sneak some transcription in now. She’s BUSY!

Well, I managed 10 directory submissions today. First day I’ve managed that since I decided to do it.

Of course, that’s 10 directories, but I realized after the first few that my other sites weren’t listed in most of them yet, so I added 1-4 sites to each directory. Glad I realized that before I got too far that there was no reason to be treating the submission of each site as a separate project to be done at a later date.

However, I probably deleted more than 3 times that many sites from the list I found. Lots of places I just didn’t feel were all that relevant, charged, nonexistant, etc. Should have a nice list by the time I’m done with this project.

Ariel’s been a pretty good sport about this. Now she gets her reward… Mommy’s coming to play!

Wow! I got to take a day off yesterday!

Well, from Ariel at least, and only for a few hours. I was helping my sister with her website. It’s still a bit rough, but it was so nice to be able to go over and not have a toddler interfering in our work.

Aside from that, I barely touched the computer yesterday. No transcription, only a few discussion boards… boy I’m going to play catch-up today.

At least once I’ve taken a break. Ariel got me up way too early and I haven’t been sleeping well. Ah, the delights of pregnancy.

I’d call it a pretty productive day… lots of directory submissions, as I said earlier, and five new articles. Wish I could do this much every day, but it’s not going to happen. I think, though, that I will try to maintain a rate of 10 new directory submissions a day for a time, until they’re all done. That will hopefully keep building my links steadily. Most days, in all honesty, I’ll probably be lucky to get one new article in. After all, I still have the transcription to worry about.

Maybe I can get a test ad going on AdWords now, before Brent gets home or Ariel wakes up. That’s right, she’s napping, so I have to get this stuff done now.

Just got some promotion started on my fine jewelry store. I’ve submitted to several search engines and directories (mostly directories; good search engines don’t need submissions). I have huge list yet to submit to. Hopefully this will get me a good start on backlinks. It’s a lot of work, but hopefully it will be worth it.

Now it’s time to continue with the content writing. I still have a few dozen articles I want to write for it, so I’m trying to alternate promotion with content production. Work, work, work… despite the myth of easy income, that’s the real life in affiliate marketing. Takes a long time to get things automated.

I think when I’ve submitted to 200 or so directories (my list is longer than that), I’ll make a list of the ones I’ve submitted to and use it as an incentive for the upcoming newsletter for my home business website. Who doesn’t need to know where they can submit their links? But first I want to be certain that I only include sites I know.