I put some effort into regular posting on my group home support blog, and I’m back on page one for my keyword search! It has made a difference in traffic already.
I have a temporary design up because it looked like someone got into the old one and there was a list of spam like sites in the header and footer of the WP theme. None of my ads were targeted and the little income I was receiving went to zero. I took down all my ads for a few days, updated my WP version, changed my theme, and my login. There hasn’t been any trouble since. It still isn’t making money, but I know that will return now that I’m back on page one.
I’m working on changing the design of the blog. Bob Schmuck is helping, but it is hard for us to get together even on the phone to work on it with our schedules the way they are. I’m looking forward to when I can make the blog theme change for it. I’ve got one picked out for this blog also, but will work on it after I finish with the group home blog.
I just tried to get on line and there was no connection. 
It’s almost 5:30 am here (I went to bed too early and woke up early). My son’s already at work, so I called him in case he knew what was going on. Cox has an upgrade being installed, that was suppose to be finished at 5am. When his girlfriend wakes up, I’ll try to reset the modem and see if that works.
At first I was upset because I wanted to work on several internet projects since I was up early. I stopped myself from continuing to think about that and tried to come up with what I could do right now. I do believe in the motto “Let today turn out better than planned”.
I came up with a few things to do with my time:
- Cleaning the house-put that off for later
- Put some meat in the crock pot-it’s kind of early to start dinner
- Write-I can copy and paste when I have the internet back
Yesterday I really wanted to post, but got tired and went to bed. I usually have more energy in the morning and knew I’d be up early, I just didn’t plan on the internet being down! As I write, I’m thinking this is easier than going from blog to blog, writing, and posting.
This is what I’m doing this morning:
- Open a page for each blog
- Make a folder for the blogs that don’t have one
- Make a folder for “posts” in each blog folder
- Write posts on one document
Now when I get the internet back I won’t be overwhelmed with catching up or making time later.
(I got the internet back about 9am and had to go to an appointment.)
I wasn’t sure with all the hacking that occurred with my previous hosting company, if my 47 day challenge was on this blog or it was lost when I got hacked into. It was still there! I added links to the posts regarding that challenge.
Here is my 47 Day Challenge from last year. I’m hoping this year for my challenge I can keep up the momentum that I’m starting and have my income have a steady rise instead of a peak and drop until the next challenge!