{"id":8403,"date":"2010-12-19T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/?p=8403"},"modified":"2021-09-14T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:16:06","slug":"boy-these-blog-things-are-a-lot-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/boy-these-blog-things-are-a-lot-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy These Blog Things Are A Lot Of Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dailythunk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dailythunk.jpg\" alt=\"another thunk\" title=\"dailythunk\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2594\" width=\"100\" height=\"136\"><\/a>\n<p>Boy these blog things are a lot of work, aren&#8217;t they?  I&#8217;ve always been a big believer in typing my way into reality and I think they&#8217;re worth it, but boy, they&#8217;re high maintenance.  You have to feed them, care for them, buy them stuff to eat, take them out for exercise&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I hope this blog is blatantly commercial-that it seems to be mostly about Things for sale.  I&#8217;ve had the same kinds of Things for sale throughout most of my career, so I get a chance to concentrate but it turns out there&#8217;s always more information that could be useful, particularly in terms of &#8220;tags&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The tags turn out to be important to search results, the search results, to sales, the sales to how long I can just loll around and sleep all day.<\/p>\n<p>And right after you get done realizing your tags will never be finished, you realize blogs can make money in other ways, like advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a Google Ad:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3748068889732192\";\n\/* 300x250, created 12\/18\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5200231260\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/--><br \/>\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>You see them all over the Internet.  This one is supposed to &#8220;adjust itself&#8221; to my content (we&#8217;ll see if it does that).  If you click on it, I accumulate some credit and will eventually get paid, partially by the guy who bought the ad.  So unless he steals my sale, I like that, which is why you see them all over the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>So I need to think about how much space I devote to that type of thing, and Google is only one example.  On top of that, I need to try to control what kind of ads might be shown (I&#8217;d be not-so-enthusiastic about anti-hippie ones for example).<\/p>\n<p>Right after I start to &#8220;get&#8221; that, I also start to &#8220;get&#8221; out to construct my OWN Google ads, but that&#8217;s probably another topic.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m pretty happy with the traffic I get although I notice it takes a minor miracle to get somebody to stick on a page longer than two seconds once they arrive at it.   And I have reason to believe that so far I send very few people to any of my pages where they can buy stuff (they get to those pages but not necessarily through the blog).<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that&#8217;s probably because there are a lot of good bloggers out there and I&#8217;m not really one, but if I can JUST learn to move Things out of the Preview category once I&#8217;m done previewing them, and point them to the pages where they can be converted (sold), or to the Postviews, I hope to make the whole thing a very handy tool in 2011, so please stay tuna&#8217;d<\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- WordPress Posts --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:468px;height:60px\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3748068889732192\" data-ad-slot=\"6038161031\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script><br \/>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Large Rectangle --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3748068889732192\" data-ad-slot=\"1055474237\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script><br \/>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy these blog things are a lot of work, aren&#8217;t they? 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