Zen Zoomie’s Place: Chronicles of a (Wannabe) Pro Blogger

I’ve mentioned before that I think Tim Ferris’ book titled The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich is a great read despite the kooky title. First off, let me say that I’m not a believer in a 4-hour work week by any means (I work 10+ hours/day in my ‘normal’ military job and then another 3-5 in this one)…

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I wanted to share one of the resources of the Wordpress community that I have found to be particularly valuable. If you dig through the online documentation at http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page, you’ll eventually find it. It’s a hidden forum called “Your Wordpress” where people post some truly remarkable and just plain ugly wordpress themes and sites for the sole purpose of being critiqued by others.

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Checkout the six key factors you should always consider when choosing from the 1000+ available Wordpress themes that are available.

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Traffic, traffic, traffic. It’s obvious that without traffic, there’s not much chance that anyone will click on any of the ads that this site will eventually host to generate revenue. So how do you go about getting traffic to your brand new blog or website??

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Submitting your website will get each of the main search engines to start “crawling” your web content on a periodic basis. There are a lot of factors that determine how frequently your site will be indexed, but they all boil down to how popular the site is. Here are the links to get you started for Google, Microsoft and Yahoo’s search engines.

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Every few days, I’ll be posting a “report card” on how my blog is coming along as a viable business. The idea is to give you a firsthand look at a new startup by a new blogger. I want you to learn from my mistakes, and more importantly—I want to show you first hand that it is completely possible for someone with a normal full-time job to make the leap to become a profitable blogger.

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Well, I’m going to take you through the process with me—step by step, day by day, through the hard times (my website doesn’t even show up on Google or Microsoft at the time I’m writing this), to the day when this blog is earning $10,000 a month with the big dogs

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I invite you to watch as I build this blog and its surrounding website. As time goes on, you’ll find all sorts of my ramblings here, from military-related topics to family, finance & investing, self-development, and some of my favorite pass-times: computers & technology, music, scuba diving, running & fitness, beer & wine, and gambling (without losing!). I’ll periodically report my progress on this blog as a viable business, including how much I’ve spent and how much I’ve made (with an hourly breakdown of each), and exactly how I’ve achieved those results. Stay tuned!

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