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Thanks for the tag Belle, I must admit I got a little bit of a second wind in trying to blog more frequently as well. I'm not sure why but I suspect to get a bit of focus in my life.
In the past few weeks I've had a lot happen, we recently purchased a new condo... so with that came a move, we just finished moving last weekend. I've also accepted a new position as a Sr. UI Developer as JumpTV. This after working at my company for seven years, so it's going to be quite a change for me. I've also had a bit of an incident playing basketball and I've been seeing dentist left and right trying to figure out how to fix my teeth for less then 10,000... but that's here or there.
So back to the subject at hand... why do I blog. As you can see I don't blog much but I hope I can change this.
I'm not sure how many of you listen to Coast To Coast AM but I try to catch as much of the show as I can. I was more of a fan back when Art Bell was the fulltime host. Anyway browsing some of the guest sites on the coasttocoastam.com site I noticed that a 99% of the people on that show had no clue on how to build a site. All the designs were from the 90s with no SEO or any other proper formatting behind them, the only thing they had was domain age. So I started thinking... I could do a lot better then that.
This is when aboutmyplanet.com was launched. It was originally supposed to be a website that talks about alternative energy, UFOs and other weird stuff. I got three other friends interested who also listened to the show, however after the initial interest they never ended up contributing much to the website. Again the word DEDICATION just jumps out at me.
So anyway, having a good background in design and development I chose wordpress and designed my first theme. Got the website launched just a couple of weeks later. Now what... I'm not a writer... so not knowing much about SEO, marketing or anything to do with SEM I stared looking at cool articles and copied and pasted them into my own site... (remember this was over a year ago when I had ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE to what I was doing). So here I am with a few cool articles and a neat site, and no visitors.
Luckily for me, social sites were just really starting to take off and doing really well... and you didn't hear much about gaming systems or using using social sites to do SEM (Search Engine Marketing)... so being a big fan of digg I started posting my cool articles on digg... and viola I managed to get to the front of digg a few times... each time I would get 20,000-30,000 visitors... not bad I was on top of the world. That's until people started to really abuse the systems and they cranked the screws on anyone submitting the own articles... so that lasted about 3 months.
In the next post I'll try and put up some graphs of those days and illustrate how digg traffic can affect your site and how "borrowing" articles fits into launching your own website.
