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I started this blog in the last week of Feb. 27, 2006. It is now May 17, 2006.

When I started, it was because I had heard you could drive a lot of traffic and make a lot of money with a blog. I have had online businesses before. I usually had to pay for traffic. I had become quite an Adwords expert. The idea of free traffic had enough appeal to get me started blogging.

I use BlueHost.com. I chose it because it was the cheapest I could find that had a crazy package. It has 50gig storage, 999gig bandwidth, and free domain and sub domains. Back to the point, my host had lots of free, one-click to install, software.

I installed and removed them one at a time, not really knowing exactly what I was wanting. Then I came upon Wordpress. It was easy and I liked it. So, here we are. You’re looking at over 2 months of blogging right now.

When I started, it was all about finding an income source. It’s still about that, but I have discovered something that is fun for me to do, and that has almost doubled its income each month.

In February, I went crazy getting started. I made a whopping $3.57 that first week on adsense.

In March, I spent a lot of effort learning my way around Wordpress. I had to know how to do PHP and especially Javascript in a WordPress post. I first used javascript in a post making a BMI weight calculator. Then, I shared how to easily get javascript in a Wordpress Post.

Then, I started seeing that just about everything I was posting was in the top pages on Google, and in fact all the search engines had me in their top pages.

I’m on the first page with ‘javascript wordpress’, ‘wonderful relationship’ , ’sudoku create’, ‘bmi weight calculator’, and on and on. In fact, it’s incredible the ways you get found in the search engines–ways I never expected when I was writing a page. Sudoko has become my highest traffic. But before that it was ’stupid christians’. I was really surprised by how many people search for ’stupid christians’. But, there I am, on the first page in the search engines.

Several years ago, I did a lot of search engine optimization, but I had never had such easy success as I was having in WordPress. I finally figured out why I was having so much success with the search engines. I’ll share that in another post, or write an e-book (ha).

Anyway, with only my Adsense income:
$3.57 in Feb,
$9.52 in March,
$18.89 in April,
and now, as of the 17th, I’m over $1.00 per day, I’m headed for over $30.00. I’m at $18.19 at this moment.

My pages viewed is doing the same thing. It’s not doubling, but its adding about 5000 pages each month. This month is heading toward 21,000 pages viewed. It’s right at 12,000 pages right now.

So, at the present growth, this thing should become my full time job in under 1 1/2 or 2 years.

I couldn’t do it with the adsense alone. I’ve actually made over $100.00 selling games from free traffic to my game site from this site in the last two months. You can see all the ways I’ve monetized my blog at the top, the side, in the content, and at the bottom.

My whole point with this article is how I have evolved in these short 3 months. This is actually fun. Sure, I’m still doing this with the money as a goal. But, it’s really fun tweaking a page and seeing it on the first page of Google. Particularly, when it is on the first page ahead of 60,000,000 web pages! That’s just cool.

Do, you think the lottery pages are a competitive group? Right now, if you type ‘lucky powerball’ in Google, I’m the first one on the first page. And none of this is to mention the directory traffic and direct link traffic. Also, don’t forget the feeds traffic like technorati, wists, de.licio.us, furl, and others. Having those links on my pages is really viral.

Well, so far, I’m writing all my own material. I don’t know if you have to do that or not. It seems to me that original material is the best material. I’m sure you could reach a point where it may not be practical.

Well, I’ll try to come back and update this as things change over the next months. I’ve added two new money sources in the last two days. Things are changing quickly.

Hope you have success with what you are doing as well.

Here is more about online marketing.

Regards.

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Completing a sudoku puzzle can be tough, but the rules for sudoku are very simple.

Sudoku is made of nine by nine squares that are subdivided into a three by three set of squares. To solve a sudoku puzzle, enter a number from 1 through 9 in each square, so that:

Each row across contains each number only once.
Each column up and down only contains each number once.
Each subdivision only contains each number once.

The Japanese name, sudoku can be roughly translated “numbers singly”.

Sudoku will appear as: Su Do Ku, Su Doku or Sudoku. It is mispelled VERY often. You will find many more resources under sodoko, soduko, suduku, and other variations and mispellings.

Here is the best Sudoku online I have found anywhere.
Unlimited creation of Sudoku Puzzles
Print Sudoku Puzzles
Solve Sudoku Puzzles

It even has a timer. You can save and upload puzzles. And it has a test mode and help mode. Have fun. Play as often as you like.

Your Free Sudoku Puzzle (Click create button.)

You cannot change the given numbers. They are arranged to have only one solution to the puzzle (in a good sudoku puzzle).

In order to save your game, just click the button. Highlight the text. Save the text under the name you want for your sudoku puzzle. To load it again, just copy it from the file where you saved it and click the load button above and paste it back. It’s simple.

Here’s a better FREE really professional version CLICK HERE to download it and play it on your computer. Just scroll the left list down to it. To play it online for FREE, CLICK HERE. Just scroll down the right side list down to it.

Also CLICK HERE for this great online sudoku version I’ve found above on its own full page. Likely the best online version I’ve found to learn how to solve sudoku puzzles.

Sudoku can be extremely addictive. Sudoku became really popular in 2005. There are books upon books of sudoku puzzles.

If you can’t spell, notice its free sudoku, not free soduko, free suduku, or free sodoko.

It is easily placed in a wordpress post.

Regards.

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The other day I wanted to enter a bit of javascript on one of my posts. I was making a BMI calculator page.

Well, I followed my first stupid inclination, and started typing javascript tags with code and form tags directly into the post editor in WordPress. You guessed it. That didn’t work.

After snooping around a bit, I started to rework the javascript code I already had in PHP. PHP is much easier to integrate with WordPress.

Well, I’m the kind of programmer who cuts and pastes everything I can. I haven’t mastered any given language. So, anytime I need to do something, I search for examples to get me started. If you can program in one language, all you need is a good example to get you going in another language [usually].

Many of you WordPress and Javascript gurus may think this is a stupid simplification or just plain unnecessary. But I’m a rather lazy person with a natural tendency to find the path of least resistance.

Forgive me if this is common knowledge in WordPress using javascript. But, I hadn’t gotten very far when it hit me that there was another really easy, very lazy, yet rather exotic way to put javascript into a WordPress post that would allow site wide editing. So I’m sharing it even if you gurus already know it.

If you have used WordPress at all, you likely are familiar with comments that look like this:

Well, look at this one:

Now look what it does:

That’s right! It hit me that the common plugin, Adsense-Deluxe, was already allowing the Google ads to use javascript anywhere you placed them in WordPress.

He he. The lazy man is a superior man.

Again, forgive me if using Adsense-Deluxe to get javascript into WordPress posts easily is old news.

If you want to go just a little further all you have to do to include javascript in the traditional way is to save a file with your javascript in it and place it in your post like this:

If the script just runs as a whole, then you don’t need to call the function.

Now, there is a third way to get javascript into a WordPress post easily. It can have some issues if you aren’t careful, though.

Simply echo your script where you want it using PHP.

But, we were looking for an easy way to do it. Weren’t we?

One other way is an iframe tag. You can see my sudoku page doing that by Clicking Here.

Regards.

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