I’ve had the wordtube plugin for a while, yet somehow haven’t seemed to use it since I upgraded the Wordpress core. And it complained when I tried to upload a file.

amazing how useful it can be to create an uploads folder.

I’ve decided to write a few articles about various subjects, and submit them to article directories, purely for the purpose of SEO.

In the past I’ve used an article submitter program that I had bought, but it still ended up being time-consuming, and not showing exemplary results. So this time I thought I would just use the main three or four article directories: isnare, ezinearticles and goarticles.

I created a pen name. Spelled differently, so it was easy to find on Google. Wrote and submitted an article.

Two weeks later I thought I’d search for my pen name on Google. It found 513 references. Pretty darn good.

But paging through the results, I found one reference that had the description wrong. Instead of saying “avid online shopper” and “a huge range”, it said “esurient online shopper” and “Brobdingnagian arrange”, as if they had run it through a thesaurus. No matter, he still provided a link back to my site. Although I’m glad I used a pen name. And hey, it makes it look original to Google, so it’s definitely a benefit to me. Thanks!

More annoying was the cheat who published my article without a link back. A nasty little internetandbusinessestechnique blog. At least he’s unranked.

Searching for a unique phrase from the article brought up three initial results at Google. And if you expand the results list, you get up to 72 links.

The site is currently at page 12, for the main targetted keyword, so it has a long way to go. The original article as it appears on isnare, is at page 11. So that provided a boost.

It’ll be interesting if I can get it up to page one before Christmas. That would be unreal. And financially rewarding.

Just launched today in Australia.

It’s very cool seeing photos of your street. Gee, my hedge looked neat!

Our photos were obviously taken at Christmas time - there was Santa Claus and a reindeer on our roof.

Despite this, when I showed my high school son the photos, he immediately ran outside to wave at the camera.

I won’t say anything about his hair colour….