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The last few days have been filled with mapping strategy, keyword research, and catching up on reading. I’ve been reading the series of ebooks in JP Schoeffel’s, How to Turn Sites into Money. These are valuable so far for his analysis of the state of internet marketing (i.e. adsense sites alone are no longer viable) and his recommendations for how to monetize for success. He talks about building a group of websites based on different aspects of the same niche, basically building “silos” and linking them to a central landing page.

His Niches-In-A-Box membership is based on that concept. I have to admit I’m very interested in it, believing I could learn a lot. We’ll see.

System Restore is now functioning beautifully on my computer. I did get a response to my inquiry on the Tablet Questions forum. The response just referred me to another website that I had already scoured in an effort to troubleshoot, so I thought it wasn’t helpful. But I went back to that site anyway and played around somemore, tried some things that shouldn’t work, and voila!, discovered that System Restore was restored! Puzzling process, but very gratifying in the end.

I’m also reading an ebook, Blog With Success, by Shannon Herod. I’m looking forward to implementing some of his recommendations. You can look forward to some evolution on this blog in the near future.

Thanks for being here — have a good one!

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Today I was working on updating a website that I’ve had going for a number of months. The site got a new header graphic and some new colors and a couple new articles. I used XSitePro for the website design. As I went along I used the preview a couple times to get a sense of what the finished product would look like, and sometimes the result reminded me of a Picasso painting. The website structure was all over the place and everything was everywhere but where I would expect it to be. Frustrating.

Ultimately I realized that if I viewed the website in Explorer, it looked great. It was only askew when I viewed it in Firefox. Boo! I love Firefox, but do I have to do my web design with Explorer? Usually when I view websites in Firefox they look fine. The problem just occurs sometimes during and just after the design process. Boo. Not sure how to resolve this one.

Have a good weekend.

P.S. aLink worked great yesterday! The hyperlink shows up after I publish the post. I bet it will work today too!

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Seems as if someone has visited my blog since my post yesterday. This is welcome news. Getting and tracking traffic is something I do not have a handle on yet.  The reason I suspect I had a visitor or two is that I had some clicks on the links I included yesterday.  Very cool!  This is an area I intend to master.

I realize I didn’t include an update on my computer situation from many weeks ago.  What happened is I ordered a new desktop computer from Gateway in August.  The computer did not work.  They sent a technician to my house with a replacement motherboard.  That was a worse nightmare.  I sent the computer back and they sent another new one.  I still have it, but I’m far from satisfied.  It is very quirky and I’ve had to use a bunch of work arounds and troubleshoot a bunch of problems (i.e. I couldn’t record sound or talk over the internet; help files in the preinstalled programs were not accessible; sometimes when booting the keyboard does not work; sometimes I get images of two desktops on my monitor; sometimes I get only 3/4 of the desktop; sometimes restarting helps, sometimes it doesn’t….)  They did send a replacement monitor but that made no difference with the problems. Their support is hit and miss. Sometimes I’ve reached someone who knows what they’re doing and they offer tremendous help.  Other times they’re very poor or they hang up. The chat option for support does not work at all.  I did send one email and received a prompt and helpful reply.  So that’s the summary.  I sure wouldn’t recommend a Gateway to anyone.

What I do have is tons more RAM and a huge monitor.  Huge benefits.

That’s it for today.

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