Thursday, July 23, 2009

My Blogger Blog Level Today: Low

Today, I'm kinda low in terms of motivation and ideas. This is my second post on my Blogger Blog. As I don't have ideas yet for a new article for Moralde.com, I decided to write it here. Cool, isn't it. With this blog, 'Blogger Blog: Chronicles of My Blogging Experience', I could write something even when I don't have ideas at all. Having no idea, after all, is still an experience.

I'm still continuing my tweakings for my Moralde.com blog. I'm using MoWeS Portable to make all changes locally (in my Flash disk) prior to doing the real thing on the site. Yesterday, I bumped into this cool plugin, the WP Postviews plugin, which counts the views for every post in your blog and use the data to rank your posts for the most popular or the least viewed. Of course, having just a few visitors for now, I think it wouldn't be very good to show them a post view of 1 or 3, so I sort of tweaked the plugin template to not show the numbers at this time. Later on, probably after a couple of months, I'd change that and display the post views numbers.

I still haven't decided when to make the final facelift for Moralde.com. I still am on the lookout for essential plugins that will contribute for both SEO and functionality. Another important reason why I cannot yet do the facelift is my need to find free downloadables, e.g. ebooks, software, etc. You see, the facelifted version sports a 'page peel' feature which promises readers some free downloadables when they click it. I could always disable it for the time being, but looking at it now, I think it's so cool that without it my blog would look incomplete. Besides, the downloadables will require membership to my list, and should I launch the facelift, I also want to kick off my list building.

I have a subdomain blog: Binaural-Isochronic which deals with brainwave entrainment, meditation, self help, etc.

Yesterday, I also wrote an article about tweaking wordpress so that I could add something cool to my sidebar, a new widget container below the existing container in my sidebar. I was about to publish it in Moralde.com when I realized that the tweaks I did were done only in the local (flash disk) version of Moralde.com. Since I plan to effect everything on the grand facelift, I may have to hold that article's publication for the time being.

I'm also still in limbo with regard to the niche I need to focus on. I love wordpress tweaking, but I have no hope of besting the veterans in this niche in the google search pages. So, my hunt for probable google-winning key phrases continues.

Be happy and have fun changing the world!