More learning, tired now.

So rather than rush off and put everything I’ve got so far into a blog I decided to be a bit more experimental. I had a good look at ezine articles. Not as straight-forward as I had first imagined.

I did manage to find some quite detailed guidelines about how to write them, what makes a good one and what not to do. Most of this came via the ezine blog. This has to be essential reading. The guide tells you exactly what makes a good article in their terms, exactly what they think is good content. So that’s helpful.

I also found out from the ezine terms and conditions that you mustn’t link to your affiliate scheme anywhere in your article. Not even in the resource box. You can link to your web site, blog, squidoo or whatever there but not your affiliate. Niet. Nada. So I won’t do that then! I think Rob could have made that a bit clearer in the video.

Finally I signed up for and had a good look round Squidoo. I read lots of lenses on all sorts of topics to get a feel for what needs to go there.  So tomorrow is a big writing day. Blogger, Squidoo and Ezine. Three focussed and quite different articles.

Blogger gets 4 or 5 of the shorter more topical blog posts re-worked from tumblr, Squidoo gets some sort of longer article listing article probably with images and Ezine gets something more detailed. Phew!

Too tired to do any more now….what a day!

Here comes the sherriff!

IT”S NOT ABOUT TUMBLR SHEESH – Thirty Day Challenge

It’s not about TUMBLR and if your not putting quality, brilliant information that delivers supreme and real value to the reader thereA pox on your house.

I mean it – I hate spam, I hate get rich quick, this is not what the thirty day challenge is about. I hate arbitrage opportunities This is about creating a brilliant business one step at time – slowly and surely. Putting in effort as opposed to cash. So that people have a chance at doing something online without getting exploited by bastards who will take a couple of grand from you and teach you something that could never work.

Make your content EXCELLENT, Make it USEFUL – If it’s salesey you will get banned and I’ll be the first one clapping my hands with joy when it happens to you.

This is about creating a REAL, SUSTAINABLE, ECOLOGICAL and ETHICAL business.

Full Stop.

The man is 100% stone guarenteed right! Back to thinking about what my traffic wants to find rather than what I can scrape together.

Spam? Or a friendly message?

Ok – so within an hour of creating the new blog I get an e-mail asking me to moderate a comment. One look at it has my spidery spam senses twitching – two (I ask you!) not one but two links to IM sites in it. So, seasoned blogger that I am, my finger hovers over the delete button. And then a strange thought enters my mind – (cue Twilight Zone music….) I am in a very different world here in 30DC land, we are not in Kansas anymore Toto, this nasty spammer might just be a friendly fellow 30DC person. One who’s wearing a slightly grey hat and doesn’t realise it. What to do?

I really don’t know. Er – there are two of them now. They are breeding!!!

Ok – take a deep breath. What is my usual criteria for spam comments? The very few that get past Spam Karma and Bad Behviour ? Do they add value to the post? Are they some sort of response to what I’ve written?

In these two cases – Nope. Problem solved.

Listen up Folks – I have a comments policy! Never needed one before but things change.

Comments which link out to your commercial site and add nothing of value to my post will be ruthlessly deleted! Get that hat to the dry cleaners before you leave it in my attic!!