The Blogging Continues

As mentioned in my previous posting entitled Lazy Blogger?, I have actually been busy writing for my other blogs, providing some editing for a friend who's first language is not English and slowly getting back links. Spring must be around the corner somewhere, I just wish it was a bit closer. It's still cold out here but yesterday I saw some brave guys wearing shorts and some girls out there, crazy enough to wear some skimpy tops. Brrrrr!

I really hate getting back links. I love writing, I love working on my sites, but the task of getting back links, yeah, I hate it. However, I do know the necessity of it, so ya have to do it. Probably a lot of you hate this task to, but we contact people with other sites, submit our sites to blog directories, perhaps use some bookmarking software which gets you more links, comment on other people's blogs, submit to article directories and maybe you use your own network or use some other network. It's an arduous task, but it eventually leads to high search engine placement and the result of that is more traffic from the search engines and a better potential to make some money online. It's that simple or that difficult.

I truly believe in "Visualization" where you visualize something which helps you to achieve the goal in your vision. Usually, I joke that I will someday make enough money to quit my day job and move south and manage my blog empire somewhere in the sunny south, wearing shorts and a t-shirt and flip flops sitting under a palm tree on the beach.

Well, I have to update my "Vision". I recently went south and took the faithful laptop. Reality peaks it's little head in the door. I found it virtually impossible to see my laptop screen in the bright sunlight. LOL! I ended up "managing my blog empire" inside the hotel room. At least in the room, I could actually see my laptop screen. I went for lots of long walks on beach, soaked up the sun, did some offshore gambling with my companion, at great food, drank lots of red wine, dinners.... etc., etc...

So update to the Vision: Managing the blog empire will occur inside. Beach fun will happen outside. Working 9 - 5 will long be gone. Hold onto the blogging vision.

What's your "Vision"?