New post added about quit smoking..

Smoking impacts people and their lives in horrific ways. The most recent post is about a smoking related death. This loss of life served as a hard message for the rest of the family to quit. They took the brave decision to quit and saved themselves money too.

The post was pinged as well being announced on twitter.

Quit now and live longer

I am claiming my blog on technorati

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The code above is from technorati. The purpose being to get the blog listed in the technorati blog directory.

Lets hope it works..

New post about patches added

I have added a new post about patches. These were considered a safe alternative. Now, scientists are claiming that patches improve the success rate with quitting.

Pinged the change on my main blog and also twittered this change..

Quit smoking and use patches to help you do it.

I have added and uploaded another post

Here is a log of what I did.

I wrote another post and used an existing article to provide a background. I, subsequently, pinged the search engines. Twittered the news too.

The new post looked at quit smoking drugs, remedies and therapies.

Video is being watched..

I uploaded my stop smoking video on youtube some 8 hours ago and already it has been watched 137 times. That in my view just amazing.

Take a look at http://quitsmoking4thjuly.blogspot.com/2009/07/stop-smoking-video-check-it-out-now.html

I twittered it .. and now I am going to go back to twitter and talk more..

I did not know.. Video makes such a big difference in a short time span. This experience is a revelation indeed.

I have added a link to Tell a link ...

Now it is later afternoon..

I am still working on this blog of mine.

I have added telalink to both my blogs. It meant copying a snipt of code to gadget that I created in:-

1) http://quitsmoking4thjuly.blogspot.com/
2) http://quitsmokingblogjournal.blogspot.com/

I called the gadget Link exchange and copied the code in the body of the gadget. I tested both blogs and the links work. I need 48 hours for the links to become alive.

There are supposed to be 4,500 free links. So, by adding two blogs I supposed I have increased the possible number of links to my blogs.

I knew of another site that I have used in the past where one goes and announces ones site. Let me find the site URL for you http://www.heynounce.com/ There is no requirement to register but the site allows you to provide a few snipts of information which is made available to all sundary.

I have no idea what and how much benefit this site can and will have for my blogs but I have announced them both earlier this afternoon.

Story so far..

Video is finally online.. check it out here..

I am really really excited. My long awaited video is online at last. I added it to youtube and the I placed it on my blog..

I have called it it stop smoking just to give it another tag to work with.

I am very very remarkable. Now I know for sure

Wow

One of the routine task that I perform daily is pinging..

I have started to ping my blog everytime it is updated. This is something that Howie advocated that bloggers do to alert the search engines.

Every quit smoking update is pinged.

New quit smoking findings added

Quit smoking blog has been added with new research information.

Twitter has been updated with the latest developments.

Youtube Video has not been uploaded yet. Article marketer article needs to be edited again. This time they are saying that the title format is not right. This means another edit and yet more time because it will need to be reviewed again. This is somewhat annoying I must admit.

Is my page on google yet? No ..

Blog Journal 8th July 09 late afternoon.

I have done the follwing late after today.

I wanted to set-up an auto-responder series for my main blog. Which I started to do to day.. So far, I have added 4 letters to the auto-responder.. In intend to do more over the course of next few days.

I have added another post to my main blog. This will be the second one today.

The good news is that I may have a video to upload to youtube this evening. I think a video will really boost my ranking.. Let's see what happens.

I have pinged the search engines again. as well making an announcement on twitter.

So, all in all today has been really fruitful

Quit smoking is takin shape and gathering its own momentum..

I need to create video somehow..

I am thinking video to help me speed up the ranking for my blog. I need to create some videos about the niche and post these to services such as youtube.

I cannot find an easy to use tool to create reasonably good quality videos. I have looked at another tool that someone spoke highly about.

I shall take a closer look at this tool during the course of today.

Quit smokng blog needs a boost and quick one too.

Additional updates today

I pinged the search engines as well as announcing my blog update at twittter.

No sign of blog on the first or second page of google yet. I still have not heard from amazon affiliate support. There is no urgency with the affiliate stuff because there is no traffic to the blog yet

My progress.. so far.

I think I have learnt a lot, done a lot and achieved a lot in a short space of time in so far as creating and maintaining my blog is concerned. Having chosen a niche that is very heavily competed, I have made hardwork of what I wanted to achieve. But, that is good in my view for my first attempt at creating a help resource. This decision of mine leads me to conclude I should have carried out niche research as has been explained in Howie's training videos. I think I missed a few steps and that is one of my problems. That lack of initial research has been the most important lession for me so far.

All is not lost. I need to revise my strategy and fight harder before quitting. So, I need a lot of links pointing to my site. I came across some really good resources from Howies training material to help me do just that. However, it means I need to commit some financial resources. So there is that decision that I am toying with right now.

Additionally, I hope to get some credit from my article that is in the pending tray at the article marketer. I just checked there was a problem with one of the category that I chose. So, I have revised it again and again the article goes through another review. It has now been scheduled for that review for tomorrow.


Finally, quit smoking blog is alive and kicking.

I have published another article..

Today, I published another story about issues to do with quitting. There are clearly mental issues that smokers have to deal with when they trying to quit their habit.

This latest article deals with these issues and discusses at length what people are going through.

Kicking this habit is a long winded procedure and some people are not equipped mentally to overcome the obsticles.

No progress with amazon affiliate add-ons. I have yet to get an answer.

I had hoped that Amazon affiliate support will have sent me a reply to my support request. But, so far I have not had a reply.

I am therefore not able to offer any products with my material that I post and talk about.

Having said that .. I was curious so I did a quick search for the term "quit smoking" and there were pages after pages. Here is the evidence..

I hope to get an answer at some point over the next day or so. Meanwhile, quit smoking the natural way.

I have more news for people wanting to kick the habit.

I came across a recent news item which suggests prescription drugs are responsible for the side-effects when people trying to kick the habit.

Some of the side effects previously associated with nicotene are now known to be caused by drugs that people are taking to help them quit.

I have posted another article with a shpeel and added a video which I found really fascinating.

Subsequently, I twittered my action and pinged it too. I have discovered that using a roboform once needs to fill the form once, save it and the next ping is simply two clicks.. so that was a really good time saving trick thanks to roboform..

Adding hyperlinks to my main blog.

I am inclined to believe rightly or wrongly that linking is what internet is all about. I add what are known as hyperlinks to my main blog from the blog journal. This is what an hyper link is..

quit smoking This html code highlights the text "quit smoking" and sends the visitor to the main blog. The side-effect is that search engines see these links. These link together with the blog content are used for my ranking my blog as it were. That is what I think happens and my logic is based on the fact that everything is not only connected but it is interconnected.

Anyway, here is an image of the linking process that one can do using this editor.







I hope that the readers can read and duplicate this task for their own respective blogs. It is an easy technique that non-techies can incorporate in their own blog tool to add value.

Still issues with my article...

Article marketer lists some non-characters in the body of my quit smoking article. I thought I had fixed these when i edited the article the last time.

This is delaying my progress somewhat I had a secret ambition to have my blog at the top of googles organic listing in two days. I hope that this is the last edit for quit smoking article.

I have set-up an account on wikispaces

Wikispaces is another resource where I have added details of what I do. I have created a page where I talked about quit smoking blog.

I then sent a couple of posts. These will hopefully start a discussion and get the blog noticed.

I then went back to twitter and announced that quit smoking 4th July is now on the wikispaces.

Whilst on twitter I noticed I have a few people who are now following me. I was quick to approve their requests. Why not I said to myself?

I hope these people themselves have a lot of followers which in turn may be of help to me. Wait and see what happens.

I have also decided to put the hard hitting video which talks about the harm of smoking on the top of every new post to really drum the home.

Quit smoking and become independent now!

7th july and my progress report.

Last night I tried to do two things. One was to find an affiliate product which I wanted to add to my blog. I became an affiliate for amazon. Went through the sign up process but could not add any products. I will take another look at getting that done today. Amazon talks about a store etc but I simply wish to add a few products right now. Adding a store is only viable if one has ones own domain name. That is what I understood from my reading.

The second major task was to create a video. I looked at various free video creation tools but still did not manage to produce a video. I intend to give it another go today. I thoght about getting a few images and then using movie maker to create a sequence. That is easily said then done.

This morning I found a news item which talked about the subject of "How to guit smoking" . The most interesting revelation was that president Obama has quit his 30 year habit. So, what I did was to talke about smoking first, I added a graphic image of what harm smokers are putting themselves through, and then added the quit smoking story to my blog post.

The last thin I did was to go to twitter and announce it. I did mention Obama in my twitter one liner. Let's hope that helps my ranking.

On the ranking front, there is no sign yet. I think I need to add videos about this blog to youtube and other services like that to help my blog. But, my gut feeling is that I need a few videos to do that.

One final thing that I have been doing on my blog journal blog with each post is to add links to the main quit smoking 4th july blog. I will explain that in my next post on the blog journal.

Amazon affiliate program

I have been trying to add an amazon store or products related to my niche. I have not had a lot of success with creating the store so far

But, my intention is to find books and other items that one can market to would be non-smokers.

I am going to ask the amazon help centre to see if they can help me get started with the store.

Quit smoking has ambitions to sell quit smoking type of products too. Is that remarkable?

Pinging your news to the search engines

Ping-o-matic is the service that I use for sending my pings. Type in www.pingomatic.com in the browser address bar and enter return. You will be presented with the screen shot below.


The bottom half of the screen is shown below:-



Click on check all and all the search engines are checked.


The screen below shows you my blog details that I need to ping.




The screen shot below shows the search engines that have been pinged.



The final task is the send your ping and bingo it is done.

Quit smoking blog has been pinged to help it get ranking on the search engines.

Article revised and again ready for a review!

I have checked my article for errors. This first review is normally carried out by a computer. The computer found some foreign characters.

I have deleted the foreign characters. The next review is carried out bya human operator.

The human review should be done within the next 24 hours. The quit smoking article should be ready to.

I am very very curious as to the outcome of this endeavour.

My first quit smoking article.. in the pending tray at article marketer

Article writing and submission is a key part of internet marketing someone said. I recall a conversation with an internet expert who claimed that he generates a big portion of his income from writing and submitting articles. You know the old saying "proof of the pudding is in the eating". So, I will see what happens to my article.

Wrting my article took best part of a day. There was a lot of writing and then re-writing because the idea changed or the focus became more clear as I went along.

Here is a snapshot of my article for your reference and information..

kick start your marketing. Quit smoking is getting along ok

I did post the article on my blog the moment it was ready. Here it is for you to read and refer to others 7611 people quit smoking, so can you

I have started to ping the search engines now.

Pinging as far as I am aware is simply alerting the search engine bots that there is new content that they should take a look at.

There are a number of services available to perform this important function. I use ping-o-matic to send my pings.

Here is a url to ping-o-matic http://pingomatic.com/ I will post a screen shot and explain exactly what is involved in sending a ping.

Finally, my message to help smokers kick their habit is now getting another helping hand. This time it is ping-o-matic.

I want to find an affiliate program

I need to add a quit smokng related product to monetize my blog. I have done a search on the affiliate network. There is only one product but the vendor requires the affiliate to market it via e-mail. I cannot use this quit smoking product.

I have been thinking about becoming an amazon affiliate and promote quit smoking related amazon books and product.

Mu next port of call is to become an affiliate at amazon and then promote these products that ones that are relevant to my market/niche. That is my task for today.

No sign of my quit smokng blog on google organic search

Where am at in reference to google? Does my blog appear on any of the googles page that matter? I am talking about the first page and above the fold.

Having checked again, this morning. I have concluded that I have got to do a lot more work to get this blog to rank high.

My article will have given me links but it is yet to be distributed. Article marketer takes your article and then puts it through an approval process which could take as much as a week if not longer.

There is good news. I have just checked. My article needs attention according to article marketer. This means I need to go into the article and correct points that have been raised by the article marketer approval team. I shall do that later and send you a screen shot of the article marketer.

I think quit smoking is about get a push up the ranking ladder. I hope so.

In short, what is this article about. I have called it "7611 have quit, so can you". The article focusses on a UK service which has helped the above number become independent and thereby regain thier lives back.

Do you think one article is enough? No of course not. It is simply a start. Helping people quit smoking is a huge subject therefore there is a lot more to write about.

I have been twittering a bit.. What do I think of twittering?

I am now twittering. I find this really very fascinating.

Twittering is the new buzzword on the streets everywhere. I cannot take to it based on my very limited experience. I set up an account only yesterday and I have yet to learn the twittering language

Good thing is I have already gotten requests from people to follow me. Some of these requests I need to either approve or deny. This needs figuring out.

Howie said somewhere get people to re-tweet your message or anouncement. How does one incoporate this in ones message. Is it simple this? Please re-tweet my tweet which goes at the end of the current message that I am typing or there is another format.

I will plough along. So much for twitter and twittering.

Quit smoking is now on the twitter board and building its own momentum. The whole project is now taking shape and set to become big over time.

Quit smoking now. Get your independence back and re-start your life. Don't forget to celebrate your independence.

Screen capture of google looking for quit smoking blog

There is no sign of my blog on googles first page or for that matter the second page. I rather suspect the reason for this is that my poor or no research. I did see Howie's training material about the keyword research but that was after the fact.

What I learnt was that early stage keyword research pays big dividents. Had I conducted thorough research as required then I would have opted to create a blog for a less competitive niche. Less competitive niche will have helped me get a better ranking of some sort.

As it is, I choose a very competitive niche hence the reason for not getting ranked in my view.

The last image of the blog

I have got the look and feel of the blog right. Now, it is a question of adding relevant content to the blog and the perhaps I should ping every time I add either an image ot other content.

Journal 5th July 09 .. Today was remarable for me.

5th July ..

Today .. I did so some really amazing things

Here is a list ..

I always struggled with adding an opt-in or e-mail capture box. This morning I managed to do that all by myself.. That in my view is truly remarkable.. So now I have an opportunity to get people’s details for future correspondence.

The other think I tried to do was to monetize the blog. So I checked for books on quit smoking on clickbank. There were books on clickbank on but there was no affiliate stuff with them for me to choose from. Instead, I added a few links in the template footer.. Here is a list .. I used a hyperlink for these links… and subsequently tested them and they worked to my astonishment..

Quit Smoking Help Resources ..
1. Smoke Free Help to Quit smoking 2. Quit Smoking - Advise to Help You Quit Smoking 3. Highly Rated Quit Smoking Help Online


Now I need to set-up a series of newsletters .. I need a template for that .. I have yet to figure out how to do that ..

My plane for this afternoon is to write a post.. but this post is going to be an article which I will post on my blog as well as submitting it to article marketer.. Years ago, I bought a subscription to article marketer.. so now I am going to make use of it.

The other thing that interests me .. is the blog feed. I am going to use feedburner to distribute my feed. And that is an other task that I need to work on this afternoon.

Final comments .. --- I will do more as the day goes by I am sure..

By 9pm on this day 5th July 09 .. I have set-up the adsense for the site quitsmoking as well as adsense for the journal that I am writng

My article which took a long long time to write. It was based on a news item about a service in the uK which has helped some 7611 people quit smoking in a one year period. I called the article. 7611 Quit Smoking, So can you. The article is just over 500 words in length. I used it as a post on my main quit smoking blog but also posted it on article marketer for webside distribution.

Aside from that .. I added another post to my blog. This time it was a youtube video which illustrated the risks of continuing to smoke in a very detailed and graphics fashion, I added some text which for the most part were my own comments about the video.

Blog Journal 4th July 09

Journal of all my activities 4th July.

I decided to take up Howie's challenge. So I have created a blogger blog on the quit smoking niche. My blog is title is Quit Smoking 4th July. I chose this name and the extention for two reasons. 4th July marked a new beginning for America and people who give up smoking do start affresh. The new life is rather like an independance that millions of Americans celebrate and cherish.

My blog called it http://www.quitsmoking4thjuly/blogspot.com

I wrote my first article about smoking related health problems .. and posted it

Then I googled quit smoking blogs. And add my comments to both leaving a link in both places..

Here are the blogs where I left my comments .. I have no idea the PR of these blogs yet.. No doubt I will find this information in due course.

Blogs where I left comments are:-

1) http://stopsmokingblog.blogspot.com/
2) http://quitsmoking.about.com/b/2005/09/01/tammys-quit-smoking-blog.htm


I have been trying to add a e-mail capture box for the past hour or so .. no such luck so far ..

I did try to use some smoking related slided to create a video using the windows movie maker. I did not succeed so I need to spend more time on that movie maker software.