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.

Writing Successful Proifles - Interesting Writing Niche

I found this by accident.  Never thought of this niche before.  Maybe I'll go into it myself.

Professional personal ad and dating profile writer Felicity Fairport reveals secrets for hacking the ultimate self-marketing challenge: the online dating profile. Her Squidoo lens, "Learn to Write Successful Profiles" (http://www.squidoo.com/writing-successful-profiles ), shows how to break the task into manageable bites--how to come up with a riveting headline, an intriguing user name, an unforgettable photo, and an irresistible self-description. Her advice is hard to argue with: You're throwing your monthly dating subscription fee down the drain if your profile isn't working for you--so learn to write successful profiles!

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.

Google Doesn't Like My Lenses

I pinged my lenses.  I wrote about them in 3 long-established ezines.  I blogged about them.  I used was active on Squidoo.com. I commented on some forums and linked back to them.  And Google still hasn't indexed me.

And I'm ready with my next site (http://www.remortgagesbadcreditornot.com/ ). 

The first time I published a lens, Google indexed it in 7 days.  The second time, in 1 day.  This time I did exactly the same things I did as when it indexed my lens in 1 day.  So why isn't it working.

I could rant some more but my daughter needs to go to school and she's not getting up.  She's too tired, she says.

When school is on, she doesn't want to go to school, she hates school.  When she was on vacation, she wanted to go to school.  The grass is greener sydnrome?

Inner Thighs Workouts

I made two lenses www.Squidoo.com/InnerThighsWorkout.com and www.Squidoo.com/InnerThighsWorkouts.com  .  Interesting strategy or waste of a lens?

Because both lenses are about the same thing, selling the same product.

I think a very useful strategy.  If both are well-optimized for 'inner thighs workouts' they'd presumably show up as number 1 and number 2 in a Google search.  Choose either one and you're chosing the same.

Inner thighs workouts!

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.