Remortgage Blog

The word does make sense, however, I spent over 45 years never hearing it.   Obviously now I come across it often, but never in conversations that I do not initiate on the subject.  I started a remortgage blog.  You know, because I take an interest in Chicago mortgage stuff.

How many new words must enter your active vocabulary before you're a different person?

In other news, it's hot in Chicago, too hot for my taste already.  My oldest daughter has a field trip today, at the zoo.  She told me she doesn't want to go but she wants to go.  Life is hard when you're six.

Remortgage Web Site

I finished the site a couple of days agoa and got Google Adsense.  I copied the codes and pasted.  I had codes at the top.  It did not work.  The codes disappeared. I did it again.  This time it still did not work.  I went online and found out that many people have the same problem. So ciao world.  I was putting the top codes directly at the top.

When I say it did not work, I mean the codes actually disappeared from my pages. 

I took a break, figured I do it one more time, then leave it alone.  So I did.  Except, this time I put the codes not at the top but below the title on each page.  It worked on 2 pages.  Pumped up, I figured, I'd add codes to the bottom.  That screwed everything up.

Way to go!

I took a break, put the codes at the top, right below the title and called it a day.

I let it be for till the following morning.  Lo and behold, without me doing anything, there were Google Adsense Ads except on the home page and  www.RemortgagesBadCreditOrNot.com/RemortgageAdvice .  In addition, on www.RemortgagesBadCreditOrNot.com/OnlineRemortgages the ads were in Russian.  I'm in the Chicago area, so I said, "Huh?" 

I looked at some of the other ads more carefully: not exactly the kind of ads I was aiming to get.

So I proceeded to Google Adsense, copied and pasted codes again.  Results did not improve.  I copied and pasted and checked and copied and pasted and checked.  Ads did not match, the ads in Russian were still in Russian, and www.RemortgagesBadCreditOrNot.com/RemortgageAdvice was still ad-less.

I figured I'd let it be till this morning.  This morning, I only touched the ad-less page and the home page.  And, magically, everything is woring fine.  Some of the ads are a bit of stretch, if you ask me, but my wife's siding with Google Adsense, so, overwhelmed, I decide to enjoy the results of my toils.

Seeing that my other two lenses were doing well as far as ratings were concerened (one of them as far as organic searching too) but were getting no sales, I've changed strategy.  I've made 4 new lenses (www.squidoo.com/viziotelevisions , www.squidoo.com/viziolcdtv , www.squidoo.com/viziovf551xvt ,
www.squidoo.com/Vizio32s ).  This time I paid a lot of attention at how they look, scaled down content.  My wife says that in the first 2 I gave too much and that gets people into study mode not buy mode. 

I did them over the space of 2 days.  Squidoo gave them a ranking right away.  The first one and the last one are 2,433 numbers apart.  That means that 2,433 squidoo lenses were created in 2 days.  That impressed me. 

Now I have to go take my daughter to school.

It's snowing, snowed by the looks of it all night.  My daughter was hoping her school would call today a snow day.  I don't know why.  When she's home she's complaining that she misses her friend from school. 

Now to my lenses.  I've changed strategy, seeing that the other one got me good rankings but no sales.  I've made 4 lenses on the same subject.  This time I paid a lot more attention at how they look, not just what content they have.  I think they're better.

Check out my lenses.  Vizio does have amazing prices considering the quality is good, for some of the models it's better than some of the big, well-established names. 
www.squidoo.com/viziotelevisions
www.squidoo.com/viziolcdtv
www.squidoo.com/viziovf551xvt
www.squidoo.com/Vizio32s

Hallelujah! Google's indexed my lenses

Not only that, but www.squidoo.com/Vizio_XVT_42_LCD_HDTV_Deals shows up on page 2, second one, if you search by vizio 42 tv deals, on page 5 if you search by vizio tv reviews.  Now I've got to work on converting visitors to buyers.  Don't have many ideas. 

Actually, it's hard to get ideas these days.  My youngest daughter gets very exicted about a lot of things, and needs to share with me.  That kills my concentration.  It's interesting, cute, surprising what a 4-year old finds interesting. 

When she gets excited about things, she talks faster and she shows what she's seen.  So she'd be talking and walking, crawling, jumping, twisting, whatever.  It's awesome.  Still, not good for my concentration.  Daddy's got to make money.  Daddy needs to concentrate to do that.  How to get her to understand?

My older daughter's never retold things with movement for emphasis.  Interesting.

Do Astronauts See God When They Go In Space?

Every now and again I tinker with my lenses.  Yesterday I tinkered with www.squidoo.com/Vizio_XVT_42_LCD_HDTV_Deals and today again.  Today I also tinkered with www.squidoo.com/Samsung-Flat-TVs but not as much: my daughters have questions.

That was the question my 4-year old daughter has for me today.  I get interesting questions from my daughter.  My 6 year old has been after me for 2 years to tell her who made the universe.  She does not find the religious explanation sufficient.  Yes, God made the world but who made God?  The scientific one does not satisfy either.  Who made the little dot of matter that exploded at the time of the Big Bang?  And they are relentless.  I once clocked my older daughter, when she was in her early fours, during a car trip.  She asked 423 questions in one hour.  All of them statrted with Who, What, When, Why or Where.  Should I take that as an indication she's going to be a great journalist?

Speaking of journalism, I've got 4 articles publised in EzineArticles.com  They're informative or fun or both, if I say so myself.  I know because quite a few people are reading them (between 5 and 10 reader/day, depending on article).  My favorite is not the reader's favorite, though.  Here are the links to them:

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Secret-of-Success,-Seriously---Cross-My-Heart,-Too&id=3633073

http://ezinearticles.com/?3-Techniques-That-Can-Turn-Anyone-Into-a-Perpetual-Aspiring-Writer---Advice-From-a-Master-PAW&id=3589318

http://ezinearticles.com/?Plasma-TV-Or-LCD-TV?-A-Comparison&id=3658657

http://ezinearticles.com/?2-Things-to-Watch-Out-For-When-Buying-LCD-TVs&id=3602282


Back to my Squidoo lenses: Google still doesn't know they exist but they've moved up in the Squidoo world.  www.squidoo.com/Vizio_XVT_42_LCD_HDTV_Deals is ranked 38554 overall ins Squidooland, and 4122 Squidoo shopping while www.squidoo.com/Samsung-Flat-TVs is ranked 44907 overall and 4826 in shopping.  No sales yet, no comments, and nobody in Squidoo has marked them as favorites.  C'est la vie, huh?

Sent another article to EzineArticle

It's called "The Secret of Success. Truly. Cross My Heart Too".  Like  the other article on writing 3 Techniques That Can Turn Anyone Into A Perpetual Aspiring Writer -- Advice From A Master PAW (here's the link: http://ezinearticles.com/?3-Techniques-That-Can-Turn-Anyone-Into-a-Perpetual-Aspiring-Writer---Advice-From-a-Master-PAW&id=3589318), it's got little to do with tvs but still I am trying to get back links to my squidoo lenses on tvs, so I put it in shopping.  Let's see what happens.  Expected result: not much.

Oh, yeah.  Since EzineArticles.com did not publish "The Secret of Success.  Truly.  Cross My Heart Too" I don't have a link to it yet.  Stay tuned.

Results

First, I wrote a couple of articles and sent them to EzineArticles.com, Bukisa.com., and ArticleBase.com.  They all accepted them.  I'm told I was naive to expect otherwise.  So now I have 2 situations where I have the same article in 3 places.  "3 Techniques That Can Turn Anyone Into A Perpetual Aspiring Writer-Advice From a Master PAW" got picked up several times.  Not everybody is giving me credit.  One of the places took it, changed it, mangled it.  I think they had a computer replace words here and there with synonyms.  It was beautiful, if I say so myself, it's incoherent on their site, if I say so myself. 

I reread it, found several errors, mispellings.  Next time I will have to proofread the proofread version.

Since it seems every ezine I send something to accepts it, I need to send out an article to only one ezine(unless I rewrite it).  I plan to write 2, one for EzineArticles.com, since I got so many hits from there, and one to another, random (the goal is to link from many sites to my lenses). 

The reuslts of the articles, there were 7 visits from EzineArticles.com to my lenses, 3 from Bookisa.com, one from the site that copied my article and mangled it.

I looked at the Squidoo ratings for my lenses every evening.  And they changed a lot. 

Samsung lens

date          overall rank         Shopping rank                visits             activity 

01/18         875,250            67,367                             1                 facebook, digg, blog, ping, edited lens
01/19         176,095            67,367                             3                 blog, ping, articles, edited lens
01/20         119,380            16,135                             3                 blog, ping, articles, edited lens
01/21         119,389            16,135                             4                 edited lens, articles, ping   
01/22          55,100             16,135                             1                 none
01/23

The first lens I did is ranked 44,227th overall, and 7,655th in Shopping.  I created it on 4 days before the Samsung lens.  I diged my lens in digg.com.  I sent emails to all my firiends and family members asked them to look at my lenses, maybe bookmark them.  Not one did. 

So, I am going to create a lens in which I cover what I did and my ranking.  It will create another link ot my lenses and give people an idea of how to move fast up in the ranks.

What do you think?

Belated Introduction and Vizio TV Squidoo Lenses

I guess I should have started with a bit of introduction. I like writing and I think I need to do marketing, which I also like. I decided to make money online, and Squidoo.com and Amazon.com seemed to me the easiest way to get started. I might be wrong as I do not know enough about affiliate marketing.

In any case, I made 2 Squidoo lenses. Why are they called lenses? I figured people are forever buying electronics. On E-bay, Vizio LCD TVs, especially the 42" had sold the most in the 2 weeks prior. So I did a lens for 42 Vizio LCD TVs. Since the next big seller were Samsung LCD TV's, I made my second lens for Samsung TVs. I actually own one and am quite happy with it.

Then I had to start on getting visitors to my lenses. I mentioned them on my Facebook page, in some articles, here. The result, after 5 days, the Vizio LCD TV lens has got 21 hits, no buyers and it is ranked 54,829 overall in Squidoo, 7,655 in Squidoo shopping. The Samsung TVs lens, after 3 days has had 9 hits, no body bought. It is ranked 119,380 overall in Squidoo, 16,1315 in shopping.

I am going to make another lens today. Well, I'll start one. I'll make one about a computer Dell laptop that's going to be released soon. Then I'll make another one about my lenses. Like a Master Lens.

Today I will also submit 2 articles to ezines. I've already submitted them to several.
http://ezinearticles.com/?3-Techniques-That-Can-Turn-Anyone-Into-a-Perpetual-Aspiring-Writer--Advice-From-a-Master-PAW&id=3589318

http://ezinearticles.com/?2-Things-to-Watch-Out-For-When-Buying-LCD-TVs&id=3602282

I submitted them to Bukisa.com, Articlebase.com, and will submit to many more. I am told this is the way to move up in the Google ranks. As of today, my rating in Google for these 2 lenses is a big fat 0.

Now I have to go take my daughter to school and walk the dog, so end of blogging activities for now. Just so you know, we have a Maltese, 8 year old, Lollypop, and my daughters adore her, expecially my youngest.

If you want to see the lenses I've been blabbing about, look at my first post.

I keep going on

I did another squidoo lens. This time it took almost half the time the 1st one required. I think it's also better. Here's the link to it: http://www.squidoo.com/Samsung-Flat-TVs. Here's the link to the first one: http://www.squidoo.com/Vizio_XVT_42_LCD_HDTV_Deals. Which one is better according to you?
The trick now is to move them up in squidoo ratings and, obviously, in Google and other search engines. The first one started being rated in Squidoo.com as 875,250 overall, and 67,367 in shopping. That was on the 14th. On the 18th, it was 85,391 overall and 8,881 in shopping.
How do I movit it up>

I Made One, I Made a Squidoo Lens, I Must Be a Genius

Today, January 15, 2010 I finally entered the world of Squidoo with a lens on Vizio 42 TV's. If I did it, anyone can. So get started.
Now I've got to figure out how to get people to see it. Which means I've got work to do, can't keep blabbing on and on, not even in writing.
Yes, I picked a lousy nickname to have on Squidoo, sue me.
Ciao