Fill It Up and They Will Feed or Read - NOT!
What you are looking at is my latest attempt to attract birds. A couple of months ago I filled this tube bird feeder with some cheap old bird seed from last year.
I’m thinking to myself, “Ahh the birds will love it. The seed looks fine to me and after all they’re just wild birds, they’re hungry and they’ll eat anything…right? Wrong.
The feeder hung abandon for over a month. Nary a wing in sight of the thing for the entire time. Now…I’ve been told it can take up to three weeks for birds to find feeders but I gave up when a mangy squirrel started to borough his way into one of the yellow holes on the feeder.
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Just Write
There is a scene in the fine movie Finding Forrester where writing legend William Forrester sits down with his new found prodigy Rob Brown, in front of an old cast iron manual typewriter, and says to him simply; “just write”.
Rob looks back at William with a quizzical look, as if to say, “about what?” as William responds, “it doesn’t matter, just write.” Rob turns his attention back to the black typewriter and timidly strikes at a single key with his index finger.
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Alert Google Alerts
I created this Google Alerts folder in Microsoft Outlook a couple of weeks ago with the intention of establishing a content database of blogging ideas to draw from as needed. Google is a treasure-trove of Internet resources every blogger should learn to wrap their arms around.
As Google Alerts are new to me I wasn’t quite sure exactly what I could do with them. On another blog I am running called “Boating Today” I recently posted a short article generated from a Google Alert. The alert directed me to a news article on a blog which sent me scurrying all over the Internet in search of information on the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac Island.
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CONTENT IS KING
I have been “mulling” what JTPratt so clearly and eloquently stated in his recent BANS blog entry entitled “Why BANS Niche Sites get Banned from Google”.
I’m not putting words in JT’s mouth, but what JT’s blog post alerts ME to is that the vast majority of my affiliate marketing time and effort should first be focused on the consistent production of web content across the current web domains I have interest in that both entertains and educates my readers. In that order.
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