As regular visitors have probably noticed, I’ve been posting less text and more images — and that’s going to be more the norm here for the near term.
I’ve got a lot of pictures — and I want to share them, which I am doing here.
I currently have 552 images in a pool that I am more or less randomly selecting from for posting.
I’m also editing images taken from last summer’s trip. All of the images taken since September 22 have been processed. The one’s worth keeping have been edited and stored, with the edited image uploaded to flickr. My intent is to process all new images as soon as possible and to work my way back through the backlog in reverse order. Today, I processed the pictures taken on September 22 on the drive from Rock Springs, Wyoming to Moab, Utah. The next set is the pictures taken on the drive from Jackson to Rock Springs and then I’ll be working on the images from the Tetons.
I have one more week on my contract job before I have a 4 week break. I’ll have completed about 5 weeks of the contract and there will be about 21 weeks left. I’ll start back about the 7th of April.
A while back, I removed all of the advertizing from this blog and a number of other blogs and web sites. I concentrated my ads on one site which I optimized for the search engines. The site isn’t significantly different content wise, but the income from the site is averaging four times what it had dropped to before I incorporated some SEO (search engine optimization) strategies. I’ll be doing some more tweaking over the next few weeks.
This is a prewritten post from last night. I really didn’t write it at 2:11 pm, because I’ll be at work then, and it would be pretty stupid to write a blog article and post it while at work as a contractor — but, then, I’ve seen some contractors get away with some really stupid stuff over the years. I’m not going to go there.
Mike Goad
22:15 pm, February 28th, 2008
February 29th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Well, you DO have great pictures so I don’t mind visiting to see those.
Oh, I’ve seen some contractors do silly things as well. Sadly, the most recent lost his job after a very short time for visiting some unsavory sites.
March 5th, 2008 at 3:08 am
That’s precisely one of the types of things I was thinking of… and I know of some employees who got canned for the very same thing. Not smart.
March 5th, 2008 at 8:52 am
I’m glad you didn’t write it at work Mike. I hate that sort of stuff. I like looking at your pics, so this will be great.
Which blog did you monetise?
March 5th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Actually, it wasn’t new “monetization.” I removed ads from virtually everything except Haw Creek (web site) and Haw Creek Out ‘n About (blog). On the web-site I’ve been tweaking the content and ad placement for SEO. Surprisingly, that has had more impact than anything I’ve done in all the years I’ve been trying to produce some income on-line.