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Saturday Morning

Posted April 26th, 2008 by David and filed in Blogs or Posts, My Writing

Tags: blog, blogger, Blogging, coolphoto, davidlind, davidnotes, hotphoto, Jordin Sparks, linkreferral, lorelle, My Photos, Nikon D70, people, sun, surf, surfing, tomorrow morning, Video, Virginia Breeze

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Well here we are and it’s the weekend again. The weeks are going by quickly now that the warm weather is here. Why is that? Maybe the heat warms up all the molecules in the air and that makes time go by more quickly.

Doubtful Einstein. And we can’t say time has been going by quickly because we have been having so much fun. Well, maybe you have been having a great time.

But it was not a fun week for your aged blogging buddy. It rained a lot for starters. And then I found Lorelle’s reply to a comment I made about a month ago when I was experiencing blogger’s remorse and spent time wondering if anyone cared.

Lorelle suggested I not blog for awhile. Find something else to do. Don’t they have group recreation projects in the Happy Hotel where you and the other psycho’s live?

She didn’t say that but I can read between the lines. And she really is a nice person but somebody shoot me before I ever respond to one of her post’s again.

And then there was the surfing forum where I started posting some of my surfing guy photos. I have been trying to do the forum thing because you are supposed to do it.

So I posted some photos and this is what happened. My first mistake was misspelling Rudee’s inlet.

HIM: you would think if you have a house there you would actually know the name of the inlet…

ME: I do know the name of it. I just didn’t spell it right. Did you ever misspell a word?

Probably not in your state of near perfection. Could you please let the sun shine for a few days.

We are tired of the rain.

HIM: I think I have misspelled a word or two in the past.

Sure. I will make it foggy again tomorrow morning but tomorrow afternoon I will allow you to have have some sun. I will keep it rather sunny for Friday and Saturday too. Happy?

Things were going pretty good at this point. I had arranged for some nice weather and my new friend seemed fairly content since I appeared to understand his grandness in the scheme of things. But things started to go south shortly thereafter as I posted some of the surfing photos you see around here.

HIM: I guess I am not the only one worried about our newest poster who can not spell the name of the place he lives and has a true fondness for VB, young boys and fat chicks. Great pictures of some ****ty waves though.

HIM’S FRIEND: got any killer photos of you david—barrels–airs–floaters–video?????????

ME: Sure. Just send me a SASE and I will send you an autographed copy. And thanks for asking. I knew you would come around.

ONE OF THEM: your photos are awful

ME: Appreciate your honesty there Gas

And things went on for awhile in this vein until one of the guys suggested that the FBI might be interested in some of my photos. Apparently he feels people should be dressed up at the beach like they were back in 1910 or thereabouts.

But enough of that. And then there was the guy over at LinkReferral who came out of the blue and gave my photoblog four 2’s when it had been getting 5’s and had an average of about 4.9 (no more). He also left a comment. It read:

Nothing great in this. Put up something new and useful.

Thanks guy! What did I ever do to you? Do you know some guys who post at a surfing forum?

Oh well. The nice things people say from time to time MORE THAN make up for these folks who walk around spreading negativity. And I guess this is the price you pay for trying to stir up some traffic.

But, thankfully, it is the weekend. And it’s not raining outside! It looks like it wants to but clearly someone is keeping their crooked finger in the dam.

Thanks guy! You are a Prince! But you really should start to wear a hat when you are out in this wonderful sun.

And Jordin if you run into anybody who is spreading negativity around just let it slide off your beautiful self. They are out there but you need not be afraid.

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LinkReferral/ Doesn’t Require Too Much Time/ Increased Traffic

Posted April 1st, 2008 by David and filed in Blogs or Posts

Tags: blog, Blogging, coolphoto, hope, hotphoto, interesting, linkreferral, love, My Writing, surf, surfing

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“The blog is worth $64K+. It may very well go way more than that price. The layout and postings are professionally done. The pictures are great. I think these are the reasons why it’s rank high by pagerank and alexa. This is definitely one of my favorite. Kudos to the author.”

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Recently I got involved in something called LinkReferral. I noticed that some traffic was coming from there and so I followed it back and investigated the source.

In the past week it has brought in about fifty visits per day. And a lot of that is probably due to the fact that I bought an ad there. But there are also free ways to bring your blog to the front of the line and it doesn’t take a lot of work. The formula involves looking at the other blogs there and also writing reviews.

The reviews are graded by the staff. So meaningful reviews are rewarded. And I have found them to be very encouraging. Here are two of them (above).

There is also a little thing you can put in your sidebar and it is recorded when readers click on it and go to LinkReferral. Mine is at the bottom on the further sidebar. If someone goes there and joins they become part of your group. It’s a MLM arrangement and it theoretically can lead to large cash rewards.

I am not sure how realistic that part is but I have found the whole concept to be useful. I have found some very cool blogs while surfing there. And I have brushed up my reviewing skills while doing a few reviews.

So I recommend this program. And thanks to all the folks at LinkReferral who contributed the encouraging reviews about my blog. I appreciate them and you all very much. Blogging can be a lonely road sometimes and it is very helpful to fill up your tank on a few words of praise once in awhile.

Statistical Sample/ Words Of Encouragement For Young Bloggers /Part I

Posted January 1st, 2008 by David and filed in Blogs or Posts

Tags: blog, blogger, Blogging, coolphoto, davidlind, davidnotes, Grass, hotphoto, interesting, love, My Photos, Nikon D70, presents, Statistics, surf, surfing, talk, Virginia Breeze

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Table of contents for Writing About Blogging

Statistical Sample/ Words Of Encouragement For Young Bloggers /Part I
Words Of Encouragement For The Long Distance Blog Runner/Part II
What Are Major Project Milestones? / Ten Thousand Views This Month
Writing A Note To Someone/ Rocking Ruminations
Search Engine Optimization/ From Seattle to Boston

I recently started using statistics in an attempt to find out how many actual regular readers I have. I have a few courageous regular readers who actually comment here. So I am not talking about them. I am talking about the hypothetical regular readers who are here for the duration but can think of nothing to say.

And I can understand that. I go places and read too. I would like to comment but my mind is not up to it. It’s in surfing mode and you don’t use your rational mind when you surf. You use your relaxed mind. Your bag of tricks is up there and he’s awake. But he’s not working. He’s sitting in one of those chairs you can find at The Sharper Image store. It has ten different vibrators in it plus stereo speakers on each side.

So how does the young blogger who may be 94 years old but has only been blogging for six months deal with this situation without becoming discouraged? Well he or she could hire readers. I do that and presently I am worried because they want to form a union. Clearly they need to use their relaxed minds more and stay away from their rational minds. Or my blogging sisters and brothers could go to Google Analytics and start tracking their visitors and discerning their longterm intentions. In a statistical example from my photoblog PhotoLinkLove.com we will see shortly how this may be working.

I spend very little time on this blog and mainly just post a few of my best photos here every day. And in response maybe ten or fifteen readers come by to look at them. At least that is what I thought was happening. But Google presents a slightly different picture.

And I am not disturbed by this situation or the apparent lack of growth. I don’t have much invested here and am just happy that a few folks are enjoying these photos.

But I am a curious person and so would like to know what is happening here. Is any growth happening? It has only been around for about ten weeks. Can Google tell me something about it? I had a garden as a young boy and would come out every day to see if something had happened. It was like watching grass grow only a little more interesting.

And that is what we will discuss next time since we are just about out of time boys and girls. Didn’t you used to hate it when the guy or girl on the tube used to say that! Captain Kangaroo used to say that and look what happened to him!

Until next time Buckaroos!

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