Old Fart keeps a diary of his efforts to publish his Historical Adventure Novel.
Well, I haven’t started the course yet but I thought I would really like to mention my entry into blogging for those who are following my dumb plan of action and who, like me, think it’s all going to be easy.
So far the easiness escapes me. It may be that it is easy and that I am further gone into senility than I thought. But then I would hardly spot that would I?
In my simplicity, knowing nothing about blogging, I thought that I would open up a blog, have a domain and my blog name would pop up somewhere near the top of the list in all of the worlds major search engines.
Imagine the excitement with which I, naively flew to Google after publishing my first Blog in Wordpress. Imagine my puzzlement when I failed to find it there; or in Yahoo or for that matter in Wordpress ( except through my Homepage).
Quick as a flash, well actually, slowly, with some hair tearing and a great many rough words I managed to erect duplicate blogs in: Bloggers( Google); Yahoo Blogs as well as the newly published one in Wordpress.
Surprise, surprise, there was still no response or success in searching with either of the search engines. After all, how many Old Fart Wannabe Blogs are there? Surely a name of such singular distinction should pop up right away.
Well let me tell you, in a world populated by billions there is nothing singular or distinctive, there are many Old Farts blogging away out there, and also many Wannabe’s some of whom are old farts.
Checking out the forums in Wordpress I came across a really cool, and useful site, by name: onecoolsitebloggingtips.com. Check it out before you start. I didn’t know search engines prioritise by traffic density although it should have been obvious.
So write lots of blogs. Contact lots of people and leave links so that they can visit you back, even if only out of curiosity or to show support, the blogging community, it seems, is mutually supportive. Get all your friends and on-line relatives to check out your blog and leave comments. Maybe then, in six weeks time a search machine will deign to notice you and your site will start to grow organically.
PS. With some small excitement I can report that my Blog has popped up on Google. But you knew that didn’t you? That’s how you got here.
Bessaruck as they say, somewhere or other.
I wrote a novel while my beloved lay sleeping. Now I would like to publish it. My Blog is a diary of my efforts to do so and what happened along the way. If I am successful maybe the method will help someone else, if I am not, perhaps it will show others what not to do. ---- Oh, the title of the novel I seek to publish is 'The Axe and the Shield, when it appears the cover will be by my really clever daughter the graphic designer.