My new site blog

I got so sick of waiting for Ezine Articles, which today has approved 4 of the 5 waiting articles, and upgraded me to expert status. I can now submit another 25 articles to try for the next level (I wonder how long it will take them to approve those?) However, the wait is worth the frustration as the views, clicks and other publishers giving me publicity by using my articles is one of the best ways I am advertising.

I joined the Warrior Forum (http://www.warriorforum.com) and asked some questions about CMS (content management systems) for my website as I want to set up a membership site. What has resulted is that someone will install Joomla for me and I installed Wordpress so I can blog and use my own articles. The result is that I have put about 10 articles up there in the past few days, including a few product reviews. I found ping-o-matic recommended on Warrior Forum so I went to the site. It's great. A free tool. When you update a blog, you 'ping' it to the sites that are interested in blogs. One click and over 20 places 'know' about your update.

Today I re-evaluated my ad campaign on Google as well. There are huge numbers of views and the CTR (click through rate) is OK but not as good as I'd like. What is showing up is that my home page is crap to the visitors coming to my site. Most leave when they arrive, so an update is urgently required there, because they're not converting well to sales or even to subscribers, which means the cost of a signup through AdWords is very expensive! And I'm getting equal traffic by other (no cost) means.

I'm writing a course on how to start blogging and hope to have that out in the market soon. If I could think straight, it would help enormously.

On top of all this, one of my former website clients has come back to me and wants a total redesign of her website to reflect her new book and new direction. Thank heaven's I have insomnia and can't sleep!

But, just to keep my life challenging (?), I have a bad chest cold. Ugh.