Green Flamingobecause I said so

I have decided to change what I do and how this blog runs a bit. I am just going to write what comes to me, and it may not be in the make money online niche. The only reason I joined the MMO niche was to gain more acceptance from the other MMO bloggers and social networking places. To back up this decision, I received some very good advice - that helped change the way things roll here.

Try writing for yourself, to please yourself for awhile and forget the stats.  If you aren’t pleasing yourself you aren’t pleasing your readers.  And no more apologies about not posting!!!  As far as your readers know you could be off on some super-secret mission.  No apologies, just post more if you feel bad about not posting.  Also don’t write about your lack of readers.  And proof your posts more…sometime spellcheck doesn’t catch everything.

Some of your strongest posts have been your reviews.  When you write about yourself it’s good too (use more paragraphing though).  And I heard that Twitter is a good way to build a blog following, but I don’t know how exactly.

Just read a LOT of blogs.  5-10 new ones every day.  Comment there with something funny or insightful or helpful, and then be sure you have great posts up on your blog for them to see when they check back.  I don’t know another way.  But it always does start with good writing, so please yourself with that.

So I thank Karen, from LightSpring Transformations, who is guiding you to your inner light. I am just going to blog and write how I want to, with the niche of new and helpful things, reviews, and so on. Those are where my best posts fall in, and the MMO will not be lost, but it won’t be the only niche that Green Flamingo is in. I will start of this new way with creating a new category called daily ramblings and post one there.

Well, I am slacking off. Published late in the day, this post is useless on the 28th for some people. Anyway, this is the last in the Ideas And Updates series. This is the advice.

Here is it…

drum roll if you want and you have drums…

keep things short

That is my advice to you. I should tell you why as well.

Most make money online bloggers sort of target those longer posts, the ones that will have people marvel at their writing skill. They use unnecessary words, to many its and thats and so on.I read posts that if they were converted to a distance, would be kilometers or miles long. Take The University Kid for example. His posts are those page long posts. It takes you a while to read them. They can be good, with  lot of information, be he could cut down on word usage. Now Jason’s posts are not usually the ones that use extra words, they are just really long. Why target long posts? If you have something really long to say, you might consider breaking it down into other, smaller posts. These three in the series, when I posted the first one, I was originally going to put it all into one huge post, three topics, but I decided to do this series. This, my 103rd published post, could have been my hundred and first if not broken down (more posts doesn’t really mean anything either by the way). So keep things short and to a minimum. Your readers don’t like those kilometer/mile long posts either.

Time for the updates people. Get rockin’ with new things. I have a few things to tell you about the progress of myself and this blog.

So, what has been updated? Look at the top links. They all work. That is all except blog, an since this is a blog, I don’t need anything there. Any ideas to change it to? If so let me know. The about page is getting settled, I am still not finished, but it works for now. I may put child pages under the about page, because there are so many categories. The contact page is working, no contact form but enough ways that you can contact me, either through email or through instant messaging.

As you probably noticed, and how it has been that way for about a week, the RSS button is much bigger. I give a special thanks to Big Ben Patton for helping me with this.

I have been working on fulfilling some of the suggestions sent out to me at Blog Premiere, one of which is a header logo. I created a button, now only to get it in there properly. I now learned that the style sheet controls colors and sizes and other stuff (dumb newbie, aren’t I?) which helps me a bit in trying to increase the size of certain elements.

These are updates for my website, and I have other updates too. These could have fallen in ideas, but who cares.

I am writing a book/ebook guiding you to live a better life. You may think I cannot accomplish this feat, but I think I will. If you know, I type an average of 5000 words a day, including blog posts, comments, IM, etc. So I hope I will be able to step up the pace, and maybe slow down how long my comments are, some of them are a few paragraphs long.

Look for the next post on advice to being a better writer! I will see you soon!

I’ll tell you a bit what this post is about, because it extends farther than that title can carry it. I have many ideas in my mind, I will relay them to you, and also give you advice. I just keep reading these blogs that need some changes.

Let’s start with ideas.

I will put some of these ideas on a separate page, because they are similar to goals. I will be starting a few new websites I am hoping. Once I have the money situation set up where I will be able to handle it and invest my money into domains and hosting then the new websites will start.

Recipe/cooking website - I have already started thinking on this one, not that hard to pull together. I will be targeting the cooking niche, adding some of my own recipes as posts. Yum yum!

Other design websites - Besides interior design, I specialize in many other types of design too. One of the main ones though will be on web design like Shauryadeep.com. By that time, I hope I will be able to create my own theme.

I may be going down the photshop route soon. I long and difficult trail I hear, through jungle areas that are hard to learn to adapt to. There are a few things I want to use photoshop for. One of them, I want to be able to create different backgrounds, behind a window, or anywhere, this would be used mostly in my design, as in the photo shoot I am coming out with soon. I will announce the coming of the first RSS only post, which will introduce the photo shoot. When Green Flamingo Designs goes up, it’ll be in the portfolio section.

I am also thinking about devoting a website to StarWars, another favorite of mine. This will probably go up  the soonest after Green Flamingo Designs because there are star wars things going on. Yoda has also asked to participate regularly, and may be one of the admins behind it meaning I would not have to do all the work. This will be nice. He will probably write some long essays on what actually happened, the movies didn’t alter much, but the movies did emphasize the events.

I think that is all for now, there will be three parts on this series (at least I think so), this one the ideas, next the updates, and then the advice. See you soon.

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, pretty much returning to the blogosphere. I am listening to The Octopus’s Garden, resting peacefully, thinking about being how I’d like to be, under the sea, in an Octopus’s garden, in the shade. For a few days I have pretty much been out of the blogosphere, not writing, not reading, and not helping my blog or other website I am starting in anyway. Well, maybe a little. But I will not get into why, for in the book that I have been reading, No One Cares What You Had For Lunch, says even not to make all the reasons so…you get the idea. I mean, take Putting Blogs First, for example, a great site, by I kidblogger as I am, but has been talking about for most of the first page it is talking about how he is sooooo sooorrryyy because he cannot blog because of exams, which I can totally relate to understand, but you don’t need a whole page. I do get a little over excited when I don’t blog for a while, saying I’m terribly sorry, and I post more than once about it sometimes because I am afraid my readers don’t understand and so on. But do we really need to talk and talk about how they were on the plane, and it was delayed, so they had to wait on the tarmac of Dallas Fort worth for 3 hours, and I was gonna blog, but when I finally got to the hotel at 2:00 in the morning, where I was supposed to arrive at about 10, I was soooooo tired I couldn’t blog that night, I’ll make up for it by doing this this this, PLEASE come back! People aren’t as drastic as that, but I hope you get the point. And speaking of points, a few points to me for having a really long sentence of tradegy mand plea there! So, I don’t think you should worry about not blogging as much, but just think of it as a short break, and if questions are asked, answer them.