Focus Revisited

Tough day for focus! I just did not have it. Spent some time working on graphics and learning Photoshop Elements. That’s sort of time well spent because I want to develop those skills, but I have some more pressing priorities that I ignored. So, I get at them tomorrow.

It’s time to re-read the 5BucksADay ebook, make my list of projects, and really get focused. (I mentioned this program a couple weeks ago, by Dennis Becker, who lays out a plan for getting focused and building a little at a time to earning a good income online.)

Finally, I learned that the Blogini restructuring announcement comes out tomorrow, for sure.

That’s all for now.

SERP updates on Blogini and Boy Million

This is what I wrote on Senserely Yours today:

Decided to check Google again today to see where I rank for some of my keywords in the SERPs.

Blogini is the first keyword I checked on. Blogini is the ’Global Weblog Network.’ In Blogini we create and maintain a blog, and then in the background the engineers build a steady network of backlinks to our sites. It’s sort of like magic! All of a sudden we have all these backlinks and we didn’t have to do the hard work.

But, interesting results! My Technorati tags page is #7 for this word in Google and on page 3, I see an earlier entry on Senserely Yours and my bookmark page in del.icio.us. Cool! Sure says something about the power of social bookmarking, doesn’t it?

The other keyword I checked up on is Boy Million. This is a fun site where we’re building the longest list of backlinks on the internet. Check itBoy Million out if you haven’t!

With Boy Million I’m on the 2nd page on Google, at #13 with my Squidoo lens and #14 with Senserely Yours again. Pretty cool! It’s time to putsome finishing touches on my Squidoo lens.

I admit I’m bragging. I like seeing results and I’m still new enough at internet marketing that I can get excited by this level of ranking. I won’t be satisfied with this for long though…

New Blog Template

Hey! You’re in the right place…I’ve just changed the face! I mentioned a short time ago that I was thinking about putting a new template on this blog and it happened today. I found one I really like and have spent a little time adding and rearranging. What do you think?

Aside from playing with the blog appearance, I’ve been occupied with some computer challenges today. Those can sure eat up time! I have a conflict with system restore going on where is just won’t work. Not solved yet…

That’s all for now.

Got Page Rank?

Google must have done a PR update recently. Boy Million now has a PR4! It’s growing in popularity and authority. A link on the Boy Million website can help with your SEO…

Even bigger news for me is that many of my sites are now ranked. If they were ranked before this, I was not aware. I love it!

Actually, I’ve recognized my Google toolbar does not show page rank acurately at all, even after clearing the cache. Instead, I went to PageRankFaq.info to get an accurate update.

I’ve got 2 sites with PR3, about 5 with PR2, and a whole bunch with PR1. Many of the PR1 sites are blogs I have with Blogini. These have very little content yet. I wonder if Blogini’s backlink strategy is elevating those?

No word yet today on the new Blogini 2.0. You’ll be the second to know.

Frozen Broadband

Like so much of the country it’s been frigid here for days and days. Today I was without broadband all day, and still am actually. My dialup wasn’t working this morning either.

So it was a good day to work on “off line” projects, like websites on XSitePro. I thought about loss of service and how that would impact my work if all of my sites were wordpress blogs. I’ve thought of going in that direction and I may rethink it.

Learned just now that the announcement will come tomorrow about the retooled Blogini. It is now Blogini 2.0, with a vastly different foundation and fee structure. I am very excited to hear and will pass it on as soon as I know more.

That’s all for now. Everybody stay warm.