Green Flamingobecause I said so

Before I get into my little post lecture about commenting and so on and so forth, I am just writing this introductory paragraph. I usually do this and talk about how things are going before I get into my post. An update on the virus situation, I think the virus is cleared, all sign show it is gone. I am posting from the other computer though, because my laptop is acting up and being really slow. I will have to look into that. I may have been overworking it trying to catch up on what I and many other MMO addicts call life. I am coming back on track, or catching the express to Hogwarts, whichever you want to say. If there is something crucial I have missed over the past few days leave a comment and we’ll go from there. My introductory paragraph has grown so long I should have renamed this post, “Catching up on life.” All I have to say for now, be looking for the summary paragraph to tell you more (I am annoying, aren’t I?).

So! What do you know about commenting? You know that you comment on some people’s sites but not others, and hopefully people do not purposely skip your site. I will talk about the benefits of commenting and how some miss out on them.

What do comments build? Comments can bring things to your site that are completely wonderful. Sometimes commenting on a site can make a huge difference! (Ok people, transferring computers, I know this isn’t live, but it feels that way).(Transfer complete). So, commenting on a site can have them check out your site, and if they like your site, BOOM!, you are bookmarked or have another subscriber. Now, in the next paragraph you will see another reaction, that may be even better. Or, it magnifies this.

What blogs to comment on? Speaking from experience, you do not want to waste your time commenting on big wig bloggers. The biggest blog I read is TUK, or the University Kid, (maybe tech-buzz.net is as big or bigger as TUK) and that is not that big. I don’t read and comment on things like John Chow or whatever, that to me seems like a waste of time, So, if you want to develop some links, try smaller blogs. If you comment there, the will follow to your site and may become lifetime readers, but John Chow people will glance at you and leave (especially if your site design is crappy). So, if you comment on a small blog, they will come to you and help raise that count. For they will tell friends and family and maybe post about you on there blog, link to you, and so on.

Why don’t many people comment on my blog? That I have no idea, but I wish I did, because it is really weird. I don’t know why I don’t get many comments, I think my content is pretty decent, but I guess people don’t always feel the need. Sometimes is fine. But some of you (spies) have never commented, even lie commented, lying about who you are. Things are just weird how they work. But commenting does really improve your blog.

Wrap up paragraph. I am thinking about having a contest soon of a few different things, not a major one, but minor, very small. One of the things will be top commentator I think. Also, don’t forget, talk like Yoda day is on Thursday.

Edit: It is Trojan.Zlob, not blob. So all those times I spelled or said it wrong, ignore. Also, I think the virus is gone, but I would still be grateful of advice.

Another of my excuse posts. Yes, it is true. But here is a problem hard to handle: A virus by the name of Trojan.Zblob. This must be a killer. I wanted to write everyday starting Saturday, but that ended when Norton told me it detected a virus.

As you probably know, a virus name with “trojan” in it means that it opens up a backdoor so your computer might be accessed by a third party. I defiantly don’t want someone hacking into my files, so I am trying to prevent the sneaky ones from hiding in a horse that I let into my city and then have my city destroyed and burned to the ground.

This also means while I am consumed in trying to kill the virus (I really want to open up my computer and perform a surgical removal of the virus. Or, I could just fight the virus face to face in lightsaber combat. And since I possess the force, I would have to say, “Good luck sucker.”), I cannot be posting for (1. It would be really hard to and slow, and (2. it would just let the virus creep in more. Are you guessing how I am writing this post??? I am on another computer, that I don’t think was used for writing since December 24th (I may have used it once), but now I am just trying to keep up and keep you informed.

To all of you whose blogs I read: I am really, sorry, I will not be able to keep up with you very well or your posts. I will also not be able to share my ideas(comments). I am not checking email to in depth, I will see the mail but will probably not follow your post. I am really sorry this is happening, but if I finish this post quickly and work on fixing the virus I will be back to my normal way of trying to figure out the maze of making money online.

A last plead for help: I will be looking for comments on this post to see who can help me, I would really appreciate it. The virus is located in the recycle bin, if that means anything, and I am not sure how to remove it. Norton will not remove the virus for free, you have to pay for a package or something. If you know of a reliable program that will remove the virus that would help, because I am not to into having to remove the virus manually. I don’t want to delete the recycle bin either, and I don’t know if that would even help. So, in my last plead for help, leave a comment on your experience if you have had one with this virus, or a possible way to be rid of it. I really would appreciate you feedback!

Here I am in that MMO (make money online) niche, telling you how to do things like all those other bossy MMO niched sites (no offense people, your bossiness does help!), and now I am telling you why you must be consistent.

I myself am not very consistent, and I need to be. It is mostly because of school things, and I don’t have time to write, and a lot of you will say, “Post ahead.” There is a reason I can’t do that though, unless it is a post like this. The reason is, I blog about new things, and after a few days new things get old, at is why I didn’t tell you that you could download a star wars book for free (yep, they are giving it away, a smart way of marketing, to be sure. Here is the link to download it here and find more info on it), and also why I didn’t mention I would be getting rid of a few links and adding some new ones (probably for free, probably of TUK, Rob’s blog, BBPP(Big Ben Patton’s Place), maybe Monkeyblogger(Mark), and even others that I feel like adding). So if that would just happen, it would be all right. I am not consistent though and since my new posts get old then it is hard to work ahead.

So one of the things you need to stay consistent in is time, meaning you should update your blog or website every so often. It is nice if you can update everyday, but some value every few days, and maybe some every week. If you are a website that has a lot going on, and there is a community you can join, services you can buy, and lots of content to read, and you have a blog section of the website, you are probably safe with once a week. If you are just a straight forward blog or news blaster, you should update everyday, or every two or three. Readers like to read. Not barge through your archives.

The other consistency matter is style and niche of writing. They fit together, and you must keep them on track. Green-flamingo stays nowhere close to the same stuff all the time, but hopefully I mange to come out with a few readers. Green-flamingo is a bit experimental, and since I started it with knowing nothing except how to type, very slowly, at the pace of a snail, and now I am hardly thinking about it. I can practically type without looking, though not quite. NOT THE POINT! YOU MUST ALSO STAY ON TRACK AS A BLOGGER(That is if you want to be successful). So I started knowing nothing about making money online, or MMO, and know my blog is turning into one of those bossing centers! It is hard to let go of what my blog was, and still is in a way, and will soon be 1 year old. So if you stay consistent in your niche, such as flowers, weddings, celebs, fashion and style, crafts, tech news, boring news, MMO, life, and whatever else the hell it might be, just try to keep a bit of the same stuff rolling through. You should also stay semi consistent to style, your style of writing, though to me this is not as important. For example, one day you should not be saying, “Hello. May I welcome you to green-flamingo.com, where you will find so and so and so and so.” And the next day be, “Howdy y’all, you doin’ gooood???” or even, “Yo! Whatsup? Yo wat you think yo’r doin’?” So don’t do that. Try to stay consistent of style (unless you have a niche of weird types of blogging, in which case, it’d be OK). That is all I have to boss you around in. (Though, you might find this post at monkeyblogger.com inspirational but also a bit more bossy(no offense Mark) but read it)

I am packing up, well, in the process. Sometime at the beginning of summer I will be leaving the blogging house, or actually the blogging house will be leaving me. It is both sad and happy, good and bad. All of the designs I worked on for the past year and a half to two years will be gone, and sadly I will be living in a house that is cluttered, though I am trying to inspire the cleaning of it. (By the way, for people who are spying on me, ahummm, and thanks. I do know who you are). Now living with these people who won’t automatically clean on their own, won’t try to improve their living space, they shock me. I see they don’t care as much about their surroundings and how they affect them. I want to wipe all that junk right into a huge empty trashcan, jst take my hand and swipe it off. Seriously. If I was given a few thousand dollars and permission to throw anything away to give the house a makeover I would trash that shit and furniture and have something worthwhile living with. These particular two people that I live with think there is a value in everything, and there is and they are right, but sadly this thinking of theirs also means they will keep all those things they feel have a value, and then the house will become a junkyard. (Thanks again for spying, I really appreciate it). So, back to cleanin and packing up.

I am packing all my things, starting with some of my closet things, and then eventually will come books, toys, and so on. Now, at my destination, I think I might even switch rooms, and have the room I have here (same house layout, funny eh?). In that case, things might work for me. Over at the non-blogging house, my destination, I will have to move the legos into a concentrated area instead of having them eat up the whole floor. Work has begun on this. Also, if I am going to switch rooms with my sister, then she will have to cooperate (I haven’t addressed the idea yet, I thought of it a few minutes ago and I don’t want to interrupt my writing), and have her move all of her stuff, and besides the cooperation that may be hard, especially because of her big fat dresser (we might not keep that though, it is scratched up, and was my older sister’s before, but we may sell it). I am using a lot of commas!(like you haven’t noticed).And a lot of parentheses! (Did you see that coming either, huh? Huh?). So their I will have to do something with my bed, because I have taken on to a low bed now. I will keep most of the things I had at the blogging house, because those are the things I like and have lived with, and I want my spirit to live on and not to be sucked into a world of hopelessness where I cannot clean anything, instead I will have one room at least that is clean and uncluttered, even if mission-the-rest-of-the-house fails. Those are my plans. So wish me luck on my mission, I will see if I can complete it, and complete it at that with the serenity of a jedi knight, though that will be very hard to accomplish.

All a question within all, bookmark or subscribe? And do you think this question means? It means I am asking whether you would think your blog would be honored more by someone subscribing or bookmarking your blog. Most of you would reply, “subscribing, of course.” Lets find out what they are.

Subscribing- This is a way someone can read your blog, or read your content without visiting your blog. It is also like subscribing to a magazine, where the magazine will come to you every so often. I know you all know what subscribing is, but it adds a little more “tang” if I explain it. So when someone subscribes, it is a great honor it seems. So in the view of the blogger, subscribing is great. Now let’s look at it in the eye of the reader. Reading a blog I like to visit the site, so I can comment, see any updates, and maybe find more interesting content on that site. When I subscribe it is OK, but I rarely visit Google reader. I do read my email frequently where I will see the blog post, but most likely I will follow a link to the post itself.

Bookmarking- Bookmarking someone’s site allows you to easily access that site. So, I am the blogger, and somebody bookmarks my site, I don’t know. I don’t know that they have bookmarked me. As the reader, I feel like the blogger should be honored for me to have bookmarked them, because I only have a few bookmarks. Also as the reader, everyday I will go through my bookmarks one by one to stay updated on the blog.

The bottom line- Both bookmarks and subscriptions can be valued, but usually subscriptions are valued more because people can be “judged” or “rated” that way.

Now it is time for you to cast your vote and we will see which rules!

I can’t wait to see the outcome!

A few days ago, with a little help, I set up a website. This website is not currently public, it is all through localhost. I have installed wordpress, and I have found a few themes that are really nice. And thinking of good themes, you should join Blog Premire Forum. It has everything from A-Z or from Wordpress themes to offline marketing.

As the title states, it seems I am starting all over again with a website, how that first post made such a difference, and I am doing that now. Since this site is about interior design, I am very picky about the design. Over the past few days, I have found 3 themes that I really like, and those will remain a secret. In this post it is only an introductory to the site. I am hoping that I can give separate posts through subscriptions, and then if you subscribe, I will give you behind the scenes articles and tell you how the design is coming along in more detail and how the site will work. Why I am doing that is the behind the scenes things will most likely be extremely good content, not that this isn’t, but it would be good if you subscribed. So, I am setting up all the details, starting to write on that site and get the pages in, and tweaking the design to my liking. After that all I need to do is buy a domain, host it, and I’m on the go. The final step from there is marketing it or milking it to perfection by attracting viewers who will purchase from me, then if that gets popular I can start other sites and make money from those, and there I am a top designer and Internet marketer! Wish me luck and see you soon.

Well, happy belated birthday to my mom, birthday of April 30th. As I have done in the past for my sister, dad, and so on, though I forgot my brother in November, (look at the archives of Nov and you will only find 1 or 2, that is why) I have talked about birthdays. That was it!

Sorry guys, for two things. Number one, for violating my code of not telling about why you were not blogging in a whole big separate post. Number two, for not blogging. I have spent the past few days off the Internet, not entirely, I was still active at Blog Premiere. But what I mean is I was not blogging, or reading blogs. And to tell you, sometimes you do need a break.