One creative introvert’s effort to figure out how to earn an income from their content without having to resort to their old extroverted carnival barking techniques!!!
Welcome to day number fifty-three of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where… yesterday… I may have shifted my thoughts on the use of advertising and am starting to see it as more than just a necessary evil… that’s required if you have any hopes of not having to hold down a day job… and creating text-based content is your preferred craft…
Read MoreWelcome to day number fifty-two of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where it’s been a pretty casual day so far… and I plan to keep it that way… considering the fact that it’s technically the last day of a weekend… even though the day of the week no longer means a thing to me… after being a shut-in for over five years… but I still know what day of the week it is… at least most of the time… and try to take things a little easy from Friday night to Monday morning… to avoid another bout of burnout…
Read MoreWelcome to day number fifty-one of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… and I’m finally done with all of my 404 error hunting… damn that ended up being a lot more work than I thought… I’m sure that it would have been a lot quicker… if I knew all of the wild card symbols and how each one works… since I only know that * will catch everything before or after the symbol is used… but am not to the point where I know how to handle deleting the middle sections of the URLs that I needed to redirect…
Read MoreWelcome to day number fifty of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… and I’m still hunting down pages throughout this site that are throwing 404 errors… according to Google Analytics… there are over seven-thousand pages that make up this website… and only a little over three-thousand pages are actually content…
Read MoreWelcome to day number forty-nine of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me…where yesterday… I did nothing but hunt down more 404 errors throughout this website… since I made an SEO rookie mistake and haven’t redirected my URL changes correctly the entire time that I’ve been writing thing blog… because marketing was never on my mind until I started this here project…
Read MoreWelcome to day number forty-eight of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where I found out yesterday that when I upgraded my Cloudflare account up to Pro… it somehow disconnected me from my advertisement server… which is why my revenue for the past few days have been a little lower than usual… which is kind of a lot lower considering how low my revenue is on a typical day… when all is going well…
Read MoreWelcome to day number forty-seven of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where I just finished my free seven-day trial of SEMrush… which I found to be a useful tool… but between them and Moz… Moz takes the win… because it feels like Moz feels more like a team effort that encourages you to get involved… they even have an onboarding process to make sure that everything is set up alright… as opposed to SEMrush where it just felt like a tool to use… and not an actual service…
Read MoreWelcome to day number forty-six of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where I’m excited to see that this website is showing signs that it’s healthy once again… and my traffic and revenue are no longer stagnant and low the way that they were at the start of this challenge… ah the joys of working on a project where it can take up to a month to see the benefits of any fixes/change that I make…
Read MoreWelcome to day number forty-five of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where I learned today that I’ve been handling my 301 redirects improperly for the past couple of weeks… which means that I may have been doing more harm than good with all of my recent efforts… it turns out that when you do need to steer users to a renamed URL that there is no need to then hide each page from being crawled using robots.txt… ant that you should only do one or the other… not both… the way I opted to take on these issues…
Read MoreWelcome to day number forty-four of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where I woke up this morning to yet another annoying email from customer support… this is regarding a new issue… and not the problem that plagued my site at the start of this challenge… but I’m having the same problem with the reps seeming to look for keywords instead of reading the entire problem…
Read MoreWelcome to day number forty-three of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where today I finally decided to create a temporary header image for this project… a task that I was hoping to do before I even started this marketing effort… only my desktop computer’s power supply died before I could get to it… and this laptop is to slow to handle photoshop… but I got tired of seeing the default/unfitted The Wicker Breaker header image… so I downloaded a simple photo editor to slap together what you see at the top of the page…
Read MoreWelcome to day number forty-two of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… and I am so annoyed that it’s this late and I’m just now getting around to writing this post… because my intentions were to get it out of the way much earlier in the day… but then I decided to do a little maintenance on my piece of shit laptop because it’s old and wasn’t all that great of a computer in the first place…
Read MoreWelcome to day number forty-one of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where I can’t believe that it’s already almost five o’clock… this is probably because I spent most of today problem-solving a couple of complex issues with my SEO score that took way more research and effort than any of the other issues that I’ve worked on… over the past couple of weeks… put together…
Read MoreWelcome to day number forty of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where yesterday… I signed up for a free seven-day trial of SEMrush… with the hope of using it to increase The Wicker Breaker’s revenue by improving my SEO score… last night… after my first crawl… I learned that I had a little over thirty-five-thousand crawl issues to resolve…
Read MoreWelcome to day number thirty-nine of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where I just got done changing the last page with multiple H1 tags on this site… or at least all of the pages that I could find with this problem… it was much easier to find all of The Wicker Breaker’s flaws back when I was using a free month’s worth of Moz.com SEO tools and services… actually… they were nice enough to give me two free months… since the first month I only corrected issues that could be found using free SEO auditing tools…
Read MoreWelcome to day number thirty-eight of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where I’m still tracking down any pages throughout this site that contain multiple H1 tags… I thought I got them all yesterday… but I was apparently drunk when I made the call that the task was complete… because this morning I found that the multiple H1s throughout 365 Days Of Resolution hadn’t been touched… but I should be able to get through those today… while the Super Bowl plays in the background…
Read MoreWelcome to day number thirty-seven of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where I spent the entire day nursing a hangover from my once a month bender where I polish off an entire five-liter box of wine to force myself to take a day off… which was needed considering the fact that I have yet to take a break since I started this project back on New Year’s Day…
Read MoreWelcome to day number thirty-six of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where I’m still hunting down pages with multiple H1 tags throughout this site to change the tags that aren’t the title to H2 or H3 tags in an effort to improve my SEO score… I should have and could have completed this task this morning… but my internet was down for most of the day as our internet provider replace all of the old cables throughout our house to fix our internet speed issues…
Read MoreWelcome to day number thirty-five of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where I’ve spent the last three days hunting down webpages with multiple H1 tags to narrow down to one… in an effort to improve my SEO score… I should be done with this marketing task at some point tomorrow… since I’ve only got ten more seasons of searching through from the My Saturday Night Life challenge… which is the main source of the multiple H1 problems…
Read MoreWelcome to day number thirty-four of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where I’ve spent the last couple of days hunting down pages on this site with more than one H1 tag in an effort to increase The Wicker Breaker’s SEO score… with the hopes that this will boost my revenue in the process… having built this site as a hobby with literally no thoughts of marketing on my mind…
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