Ah, my newsletter is ready for tomorrow. That’s always a nice feeling.

I just finished reading a new ebook called Make Your Content PRESell! It’s pretty good. I think the lessons in it could be applied not only to writing for the web, which is its focus, but talking to people in general. It’s so easy to think that writing has to be hard, but unless you’re writing for your college professors it doesn’t have to be.

My satellite television website now has a home theater store. Still a couple bugs to be worked out in it, but it’s functional enough now for me to add a link to it and hopefully get some spiders crawling around. Maybe it’s just me, but I still have some tweaks I want to do to it. I can never stand to leave these things plain.

Hey, isn’t that part of preselling?

Call it a blinding flash of the obvious.

I’m always looking for more ways for my affiliate sites to earn money. Now, my jewelry website is quite new, and hasn’t made a sale yet. Then again, it barely has traffic since it’s still making its way into the search engines.

Now, this probably won’t earn me much money, but it was certainly worth a try. I’ve added a Buying Fine Jewelry on eBay page. Nice and simple, telling people what to look out for. Nothing terribly revolutionary, but with any luck it will get me an eBay commission or so. And if I feel like I might be losing too many sales later on down the road, I can always remove it.

Google has finally started getting serious about indexing that site. All last month, Slurp was creaming Googlebot in terms of how much was indexed. So far this month, Slurp’s been leaving me alone and Googlebot has been having a blast. Nice to see you, Google. My unique content is finally being indexed, rather than just the store, which, as a datafeed, is not all that unique.

Now, I don’t think an eBay page will work for my credit card applications website or my satellite television website, so I won’t do the same there… although maybe… hmm… DVD players? Home theater systems? I may have to rethink that one.

I did use Wordtracker to come up with some new keywords for my linking campaign for the satellite television website. I put those into the Ad Co-Op, so maybe I’ll see some good results in a few weeks. Some of my keywords on other sites have taken big jumps, so I am very pleased with the Co-op. The satellite site won’t have a lot of pages for a long time, probably, so for the most part it’s going to have to ride my larger sites to get serious Co-op links.

Ok, enough playing. Ariel is actually taking a nap today (she has a little cold), so I’d better get transcribing. There should be plenty of work there today.

Yes, I voted. Did you?

Got stuck in a bit of a line, not because the polling place was so very busy, but because all 3 of the people ahead of me had problems. Two had signed up for absentee but not sent them in, and one was at the wrong polling place. I think the poll workers were relieved that I was routine, because there were about 5-6 people behind me waiting by that point.

Ariel ran up and played on the little stage the polling place had, and was delighted to get a sticker when we left. It’s not easy taking a toddler to the polls, but it was the simplest alternative.

Now to see what I can get done today with eithr business or transcription. I’m going to try to get at least one new page up today on at least one site, and transcribe when Ariel goes down for her nap… if she takes one. She’s been very, very stubborn about that lately. But, even if she is in her room playing rather than napping, I can transcribe, and just keep an ear open for suspicious bumps.

What a Halloween.

Took Ariel to see her grandparents in her butterfly costume. She looked great, even though she would not hold still for photographs, so none of them came out especially cute, just generally cute. Another homemade costume… and it was so much fun to make. Ariel loved watching me work on it. She went trick or treating for the first time too, so combined with the time change, by the time bedtime rolled around she was utterly exhausted.

What’s that? What about business stuff or transcription? Let’s see… new month, so new pay period. Quiet month last month on business things, but hoping Christmas will help my jewerly site actually do something. I’ve added a few more pages to the satellite website today and over the weekend, so I’m generally making progress on things.