Use this Quick Checklist to Analyze Yourself and Your Own Blog

First of All ask Yourself Some Simple Questions

1. How well is your Blog structured?

2. Have you clearly identified your audience?

What is it, that it is that they desire from your site, Blog, and/or page. What is in it for them? As the client, reader or subscriber, when it is that they do come to your Blog etc.? Do you have a call to action? Is your Blog outstanding or so, so?

Maybe It is in the middle of the road. What are you doing differently from the others within your Niche? Find this out and note It, journal It, record It! Are you selling the right things?

The things that you are talking about or relating to. Are these things the most profitable and the easiest to deliver? And are they relevant to your topic or topics. Note what are the best things you are interlacing, promoting, and offering in your niche? Note what your visitors, subscribers, and customers are asking you for and about.

Have you a clear purpose for each of your web pages? If Not it better be for the purpose of entertaining your reader in the stuff that you are talking about always. If it is not guiding them to the next step and or level. You will need to paint them into the Birmingham (picture). Make them see themselves in that picture. At all cost as for them to be able to do It, receive It, and to accomplish It.



Have you defined the action(s) that you want your visitors to take?
Do you provide quality information on these steps and/or actions. You must guide them or better yet make them seek what is that you are offering, but not to hard or you'll lose them.

Are you building your lists? If Not! Why NOT! Are you selling a product or service? Are you gathering referrals, leads, and partners?, Are you building a relationship with your readers? Have you built credibility and authority within your niche?

Okay so maybe #2 is a little over daunting at first glance.
Hey Don't Sweat IT! Get over IT!
I said there was work involved, I never promised you a rose garden. And even If I did they take alot more work then this Stuff does. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. It is what is hidden beneath the waterline that requires the labor intense stuff. The things that you will need help with from others and believe me your going to need alot of help and answers to your questions.



Okay where were we? Have you promoted your success? Through the correct channels? Have you mentioned the receiving of any Awards, or have you been Featured-in Articles, Blogs, TV, Radio, or a Youtube channels? Do you have your own Channel(s) and are you using them? Are you noting you success in the Search Engines?

I hope you do realize that you are building an asset that you can sell later If you wish to go that route? Did you know that you are going to need more than one website if you want to make money from blogging? It may not have to be another one that you create or have created for yourself, but you are going to need another website, Blog, squeeze page, or forum to help you and your blog along. These could be your profile pages from your Social Networked Sites: Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon, or even other Blog sites such as Tumbler etc.etc.

How good is your copy written? Are you doing it all your self? Have you lined anyone up to help you out yet? They are thousands of Freelancers all over the world to help you or that will do it for you for a price. If Not you need to ask yourself some more questions my friends.

How Good is Your Copy? Be Honest with Yourself

Does your writing stand out amongst the crowd? Do you provide proof either through testimonials, comments, featured articles, endorsements, and/ or statistics? Do you do this in Text, Audio, and Video format? Are you able to do this in all formats? Are you Mobile ready?

Is Your Call to Action Clear?
Do you understand what it is, and are your customers clear on what it is?

Does your offer/provide great value? Does every single one of your webpages have a benefit-laden headline? Do you demonstrate how you are standing out in your niche? Do your products and/or services have a reputation? Is it one that you have built, provided, and/or are claiming? What is your proof of and to these claims, that you are making about your products/services?

Are your Call to Actions Above the Fold? Are you sure? Do you make no-brainer offers with clear directions to the next step and/or level? Even for your basic needs such as your E-mail opt-ins?

Are you enthusiastic about your site, blog, offer, Products and/or Services; as well as your reputation, but rather than provide enthusiasm without substance, make sure that your substance is substantial. And somewhat subliminal, as to not tell the visitor or customer what to do, but rather why they should do what it is that you are offering.

Do you write the way you speak? I always do this. It is sometimes frown upon, depending on how it is you are speaking, avoid Jargon, Street Talk, and by all means Text Talk. Don't talk above the teenagers readability level and never talk down to your readers. Not to technical and never dumb It down for them. Encourage them to advance forward always. Some things, some of Us will never get! It is above our need to know, so we won't seek to know it. And most of Us will desire not to clutter our minds with such massive amounts of information. As this will detract from what it is that we wish to learn and do.

Well I am ready to hit the sack or watch some TV maybe a little, before I jump or rather crawl into bed. Good night sleep tight and don't let those bed bugs bite.

Donnie/ Sinbad the Sailor Man

Hey All, How you doing?

In and out of Hospital all this month with family members, But one is out and the other is doing fair, I am again set a back, for I never have a back up plan here for these come upping's. And whenever I create a post. I post it for I have three blogs to feed, plus the Websites Blog as well. And I am still wanting to create a routine or weekly schedule which is easier said then done for me, at least.

I am also wanting to start trying to cut my teeth in, on some Youtube videos of my own. But I'll need to do their uploading at my cousins house, and on his daughters computer. None of us have video editing software that I am aware of. For to edit my videos with. So I'll need to get them done as close to right as possible on the first take and this will take some practicing and some time.

I have got a chance to earn some extra cash on Monday nights now. The local bar is starting a weekly pool tournament of eight ball, blind draw, double elimination with league rules. Right up my alley. This Monday I took third, but third didn't payout because there wasn't enough players for it to.Other than that, things are still super tight and I am stretched to the breaking point, as I image many people are feeling the hurt or squeeze of this economy.

With the Holidays coming things will only be getting tighter and more stressful on us all. If you got family you better start getting together and helping each other out. It will or its going to be a Blue, Blue Christmas around here, but this is nothing new for me and mine.

So I was working on some schedule's, and they only seem to cause me more stress, then I could handle. So I am back to winging it daily. I have a natural kind of schedule though, it is not written down or strictly followed. I have a routine nature. I do things the same way almost every time. So I'll give ya an idea of what it is I do.

First I get up shower No I am kidding. Not all that info do you need TMI. I do shower though, but I'll start by checking My blogs for comments, then I'll move to FaceBook check for friends and followers birth days, wish them a happy birth day. Then straight over to my Pay Per Click Publishers, check for comments and any new writes and poems. From my friends and followers. I then head on over to Digg a few minutes which becomes a half an hour or so. And then StumbleUpon a few minutes which always turns into an hour or two. Back to see what is new at FaceBook then off to the Website.

There I will start to surf it looking for things to fix or change, and from there. I will check all the Websites Traffic Wheel links. Which are my Blogs and my Pay Per Click Publishers Standings. With Alexa. after all this it is about time for lunch. But some where in there I have squeezed in a bowl of cereal and some toast for breakfast.

While sitting at the computer reading all these Wheel links and their formations. I am looking for things to write about and things to make a connection with. I am also checking each of the Websites three domains and their standings an their stats.

Now after Lunch and a walk to the Library or the post Office. I will come back and look for a place to make some quick comments at these Traffic Wheel Links. From there it is about six hours into the day. As I have been saying this is a job until it start to grow on its own. My wikinut Publisher account gets about 280-112 page views a day after I do a little promoting. And this will last now, about four to five days until it starts to get back into the teens per day, in views. Once this happens I promote once again at twitter.

 So if my page views are down. I will be spending time at either, Twitter, FaceBook, and Myspace or all three of them at the same time promoting. Which ever Pay Per click Publisher is down and is not getting traffic that day or needs it the most that day. Now both Hubpages and Triond do not hold their page views as long as wikinut does. But I have more works and more followers at wikinut then at Triond and Hubpages. Plus because of this fact I send a little more time there than the other two.

After that is said and done, its back to Youtube to post some Video of Country, old rock and rock and roll music and songs to my Facebook and Twitter accounts. I look for newer videos with less views on them so they can grow to together.

While at Youtube I am searching for individual songs or videos I can use to relate to and link to, for my poems and writes as well as I am building up my presence at all three of these sites which are connections and/or extensions of my traffic wheel. Which expands my Website and It's foot print, as well it keeps my SEO devices working and current. Which helps me hold my rankings.

Well Thanks for stopping by and reading these posts. Have a Great Day!





 TTFN CYA later Taters

Donnie/ Sinbad the Sailor Man