The last book I bought was a total failure. It was titles “How to make millions off your ideas” which sounds great right? Because I have a ton of ideas all the time. Most of them super awesome! As I started reading the book, it felt dated to me. I then checked the publishing date which said 1996. I threw the book away. I can’t be reading a book about how to make money in this tech filled online internet world if AOL 4.1 wasn’t even out yet. It would be fine to read if I was taking a history class or something. That being said, I am sure its a good book, and has some good ideas. I didn’t really throw it out, I just put it down for the time being. I only made it past chapter 2, and from a tip I read in The 4 hour workweek, don’t waste your time on something just to finish it. Tim made reference to walking out of a crappy movie. Same goes for a book. I may come back to it later.

The new book I started is called “Problogger: Secrets for blogging your way to a six-figure income”. Already threw chapter 2, and this book is way way better than the last. Like a breath of fresh air. So far I have learned that I am what you call a typical failed blogger. I possess all the traits of what NOT to do haha. I find that pretty funny, but what I take from that is I am running the gauntlet. With all my mistakes, I can turn them around. Look, I’m writing a blog post right now aren’t I?

I don’t plan on going pro blogging, I’ve already come to the realization that I find it a chore to keep writing. I am more fascinated by the building of blogs, and the technology behind it. Which makes sense, I am a programmer, not a writer. As I am very quickly finding out right now, with all the miss spellings, and red underline text I am seeing as I write this.

Where am I going with this? I need to figure out what I’m really trying to do with blogging. What I think I am realizing after the first chapter, is that I don’t want to make money off blogging directly, I want to make money from blogging indirectly. Meaning, I would like to use blogging to get more business for what I enjoy doing. Like building websites, and helping other people starting their own sites. I’ve helped many friends start their sites, and have been learning and sharing my tips with them. I will throw in the word SEO, for some good SEO google indexing right? Probably not going to work.

Since I don’t write very often, it will probably be a while before my next post. Now top off the post with a nice pictures and I’m finished. Back to reading.

This is a famous picture of Shoemoney’s monthly adsense check. Not mine but I am consistently making more money in Google Adsense revenue than I am on my Allybank account in interest each month. Not really sure what this means, its just an observation.

Bank interest rates have not stop falling since late 2007, meanwhile my random websites have been gaining small pennies in click ads over the past 2 years.

One of my sites, which is a host to funny pictures and video¹, I plan to try and outsource the search for new content to India. An idea from the latest book I am reading called The 4-hour Workweek. I am blowing through this book faster than I’ve ever read a book before in my life. It’s that interesting. Keep in mind that I am NOT a very fast reader, and I haven’t completed a book in over 5 years. Most of my daily reading is through social media websites, and AIM. I am more than half way through the book, and I plan to finish it this weekend.

Reading the book, I’ve already thought of some great business ideas which I will try to implement. One quote from the book, that I find myself using as a pep phrase is tomorrow means never. If you think you are going to put something off until tomorrow, its never going to happen. Do something right now.

¹. SEO tip: I used Funny Pictures and Video as my hyperlink to funny4me.com instead of using the text funny4me, as a way to target search engines to my site through keywords and not the title of my site.

I just installed twittertools by Alex King. The plugin connects your blog to your twitter account by posting a tweet when you write a new blog post. If you are reading this via twitter, then it worked. The plugin also works the other way as well. You can choose to have the plugin create a weekly blog post about all your tweets of that week.

This is my first week using this plugin so we’ll see how it goes. Next week I will setup the wordpress all-in-one SEO pack. I hear its the bee’s knees when it comes to wordpress and SEO. SEO is so hot right now.

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