I can't believe how late I stay up at night playing with this new toy: my website. I mean, I could spend less time, but I'm trying to make it look good, and I want the ads to flow properly, and I really want to advertise things that I use and think are useful for people. I have a bottom section on each page called "keywords." Now, I think I know that this is where I can fill in those words that would presumably be used in a search. But, every time I close the thing down, it saves the last set of key words I made to some pages, leaves old ones on others, and puts the last set on a bunch more. In fact, the site does unexpected things often; however, given my learning curve, and my experiences with the more sophisticated sites, this is really great design software for a newbie like me. I can't decide whether to keep changing the keywords if they are just going to disappear or if I could somehow put them in my site.
I also want to mention a couple of wonderful things that have happened. By chance, I asked a question of a gentleman named Jon, and Jon was just so lovely to me -- he seems to be on a similar journey through a slightly different, and, seemingly, more successful route, than me. I think you might enjoy his website, here's a link: http://www.successpart2.com/ I used to fear being out there on the computer, I'd read web posts, but rarely post my own; I thought it was strange that people had social networks on computer sites. But, I think that the appeal is that no one in our day to day life really wants to know the details of our finances -- in fact, I've tried to keep this general enough so that those people won't find out. But, somehow, although I've decided not to be anonymous, I feel like I can't be judged by other people who are reading because we're all talking about the same things: our lives and what happen to be important in them now. I look forward to people giving me feedback -- I'm going to start sending out my site to some of my friends and family (the supportive ones) -- and, my own family can't believe that I actually learned enough to create this. So, I feel good.
On the practical side, I spent the better part of the morning trying to get through current paperwork that I needed to take care of: bills and getting accounts into quicken. I spent little time on researching other sites, but I did add a couple of applications to some affiliate programs. And I did get some hits on the site -- adsense showed me that. That was actually exciting because it made me feel like the site can do all of the things I want it to, including, possibly, bringing in extra revenue. I will write an article on all of these things when I feel like I have something to add to the conversation. So, I'll publish and look one more time, and then off to bed -- hopefully, tomorrow really is another day.