Easy Simple Side Money

Running a vacuum cleaner reviews experiment on my side money blog ;-)

Cody Sortore — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:58:30 +0000

Okay, so I understand that this is my side money blog, but I’m running a short little experiment that may last for a couple days on vacuum cleaner reviews. So the question is does this place fair better, or rather does my vacuum cleaner reviews sites fair better when I write about vacuum cleaner reviews, or reviews in general? Or should I just stick on my side money topic and leave it at that? Does mingling side money and vacuum cleaners reviews screw with my ratings, or is it helpful, or does it do nothing? Eh, only time shall tell right? Generally speaking, whether you are talking about vacuum cleaners or side money the main thing that matters is the amount of work that you put into it. So after a 30 day blogging challenge where I reviewed hundreds of items, and did a lot of work getting the templates for my easy simple side money blog here ready for a long haul run… then never went the long haul… well it only makes sense to pop in occasionally with some side money news from time to time ya know? But that’s not really what today is about, for the most part today is about my vacuum cleaner comparison site that does decently well, but not as well as last year… so the goal is to regain the supremacy that I had on the vacuum cleaner rankings stuff again. So how does one do that? Well that is the question of the hour is it not? In general being so lack luster and spreading the same message over a wide birth of topics is not a great thing… but I am hoping that I can make this vacuum cleaner reviews topic long enough to make up for the indiscretions that may present themselves at times. I think that what I am missing may be much worse than just a few vacuum cleaner reviews, but rather a vacuum cleaner content lack… so we shall see. Onward and upward though, that is the side money way right? Or is that just the best vacuum cleaner ratings talking to me?

Easy Simple Side Money Blog

Cody Sortore — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:33:24 +0000

Since this is my Easy Simple Side Money blog I guess it is appropriate that I share that my Easy Simple Side Money reviews will be somewhat lacking for a while. I’ve got a whole bunch of work to do with multiple projects, including but not limited to The Bible Animated! Got a whole lotta stuff to do, but The Bible Animated is kind of priority in the matter. It is a huge undertaking with CakePHP and I’m the only one working on it, so it’s hard to find the motivation… also it’s hard to keep up with this Easy Simple Side Money reviews blog when I’ve got so much to do with The Bible Animated. Anyways, we’ll be back to the Easy Simple Side Money blog at some point in time, just not right this second since I’ve got several other projects to build on, also including a food site HealthyBudgetCooking.com to help people learn to do Healthy Budget Cooking

Update to my 90 day blogging challenge

Cody Sortore — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:48:12 +0000

I might have to modify my idea for the 90 day blogging challenge for myself… Right now I’m struggling to keep 9 websites up to date EVERY SINGLE DAY!!! Even just a quick write up takes a good 30 minutes to run through. So what I think I’m going to do is keep my personal blog updated every day, keep my watches blog updated every day (since the two of them are syndicated better than any of my other sites) and then update one of the other 7 sites each day so they get updated once a week. I think this change will increase the quality of my blog posts, and help me to keep my sanity For now I’m going to try and keep up with all 9 blogs every day for at least a full week, and that will give me some time to sleep on the idea and decide whether or not it’s worth it. 9 blog updates a day could pose a huge benefit to my sites… but it might be detrimental if I cannot keep up with such a rigorous schedule.

Performance enhancing drugs… and blogging

Cody Sortore — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:41:50 +0000

As a stay at home father, and husband finding the energy to update 9 blogs every day doesn’t come easily! Besides trying to keep up with a rambunctious 2 year old, my wife never got her drivers license, which means driving her to work, and picking her up most days… which interferes with sleeping schedules. Since our son generally sleeps in the car, thats a minimum of 2 hours of sleep that he gets, and I do not. Plus, driving generally wakes me up getting a little bit of adrenaline flowing, so I can’t go back to sleep right after, and by the time I could go to sleep our son is generally awake! I’ve always been against performance enhancing drugs, but have accepted their usefulness as of late! Especially caffeine where Folgers Cappuccino, Mocha Chocolate Coffee Beverage Mix, 16-Ounces Canisters (Pack of 6) (with Amazon’s auto-ship for extra savings) has become a life saver! I also extensively take Organic Life Vitamins which are specifically formulated for that extra burst of energy!

The combination of organic liquid vitamins, and caffeine allow me to keep up with a crazy 2 year old boy, a demanding wife who needs to be driven to and picked up from work most days, and a rigorous blogging schedule where I update at least 9 websites a day!!! It’s like working two full time jobs, and believe me I would not make it through my day without my magic juice

Day 3 of 9 blogs

Cody Sortore — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:38:12 +0000

Wow, so it’s day 3 of trying to keep up with 9 blogs at once… I have been graced with some P3 opportunities that have given me a little variety beyond what I have normally been doing, and that is very good! By the end of the day my mind is generally mush! Seriously it takes all the energy I have just to concentrate enough to kick out some very simple entries. Even now it is a bit of a stretch to get the words on the page without sounding like a complete moron! Well, no matter how you look at it, this will be a stretch to complete 90 days and 9 blogs every day! I will do everything in my power to make it worth it, but no guarantees right? This blogging challenge comes a little bit out of necessity since one of my favorite old exploitable websites sold and no longer lets you exploit it for ranking power so I’ve got to make my own ranking power!!!

Laying out the network!

Cody Sortore — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:49:44 +0000

Okay, so it’s important to keep organized… and to do so I’m laying out my blogging network! This is a lot for me, though it can show you a good path of what it means to keep categories of blogging separate.

For myself, often stress relief, and just random updates I’ve got Cody Sortore my personal blog!
Then we have my next oldest blog Archmaille which is for gaming and technology related posts.
After that my old store blog has been transformed into a watch and Jewelry Blog.
Of course we gotta get to the Asian and Food blog that never met its potential until now
I threw in a toys and games blog to keep things interesting
Got a Shoes blog to keep ya on your feet.
A Bible study guide site to keep the faith.
And finally a vacuum cleaners reviews blog to pay da bills

So that’s my network that I plan on keeping up to date for the next 90 days, including this blog

Wicked WordPress Themes

Cody Sortore — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:25:18 +0000

I’ve seen some preliminary results from my 30 day blogging challenge that I started with CodySortore.com/Blog/ which officially ends in 2 days… on the 19th I will have done a full 30 days of blogging… well actually since last month was a 31 day month the 18th will be 30 full days of blogging!!! Well, as everyone says it takes 30 days to form a habit, and it’s habit, I blog every day out of instinct now! Which is a good thing in many ways If you’ve followed me here I created a 90 day blogging challenge here, and I intend to follow through on it, especially after I’ve seen what kind of power you can get from a 30 day challenge on what ended up being 3 sites… I’ve taken the challenge to the next level though, not only have I extended it, I also added 9 of my websites with any kind of PR to the challenge! So the goal is to go for the next 90 days with 9 websites, thats 810 posts in 3 months… most of which will contain Amazon Links, some will be sponsored in other forms. Either way, I couldn’t do it with the basic bare WP template, So I got some Wicked WordPress Themes to pimp out my sites!

There are a few reasons why I chose the specific themes that I chose… but don’t be too surprised if I add 3 or 4 other websites to the mix by the end of this! I enjoy building my own websites, but WP is just so easy to use, and get started with… for the next 90 days I plan on being a WordPress master

Comfortable Blogging

Cody Sortore — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:43:38 +0000

Okay, it’s kind of a funny story getting into this… but one thing that a lot of people don’t think about is the fact that being a successful blogger means you don’t have to leave your home. Some times we joke about working from our boxers. It is one of the major perks of the job! You can sure save a lot of money on pants if you don’t have to put on an expensive pair of dress pants to go to work! In fact I’m blogging comfortably from my chair in these premium boxer briefs:

Yeah, I know you wish you were me we’ve been talking a lot about how to become a successful blogger… and I’m not quite sure you could call me a successful blogger just yet, but hopefully if you keep following us on this journey we can all say that we have become successful bloggers, sitting around in our boxers kicking out stories and making bank

Scheduling Posts

Cody Sortore — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:55:30 +0000

One of the most important techniques to learn in blogging is to schedule your posts. This may seem funny at first, but it really will help you to keep a good daily blogging schedule. Most blogging services allow you to do it, and it’s pretty simple. With WordPress you look to the right at the top under “publish” somewhere in that box it will say “publish now” and have an “edit” link beside that. When you click edit you can choose a date and time to have your article published! Simple as that. The value of this feature is immense! I suggest you stick with a 30 day blogging schedule where you are actually writing every day, it takes 30 days to form a new habit and you need that habit of writing every day! After a while you can start saving your posts, you don’t necessarily have to post every day, maybe just once a week with a very good thought out post. That post may take you weeks, or just several days to write though! When you start picking up readers you can say to yourself “every Wednesday I will release a new story” well maybe one week you write 3 amazing posts! Fight the urge to send them out when you write them and let each one hit on Wednesday, schedule it to do so. Now if you run into writers block you’ll be ahead of the game and won’t have to let that choking throw your blog off! Another great reason for doing this is so that you can have vacation time! Something that isn’t too common for us work from home types Remember many of your readers have jobs, and families to take care of, so once a week is generally about all that they will get to of your posts, just make it good! Write a post that they want to share with their friends, then their friends want to share it with their friends… this is what we in the biz call “going viral” it is one of the most coveted situations in blogging… Going viral can bring in hundreds of dollars in a single day (it can also crash your server bringing us back to that reliable web hosting I was talking about in another post) it can also bring in hundreds or possibly thousands of subscribers! This is where you want to be. So remember once you have your daily writing schedule set as a habit, feel free to publish only once a week, use those times when the creativity is flowing to pound out as much as you can, but only release what you need to it will keep the subscribers, and cash flowing evenly

Stronghold 3 Download at 20% Off – Forget Steam ESSM Found it for $10 Dollar off!

Jordan M. Mackey — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:10:23 +0000

Stronghold 3 is the long-awaited third installment in the award winning castle-building series. Set 10 years after the original, it appears the Wolf has cheated death, and during his painful recovery he’s become even more bitter and twisted. Now he seeks revenge. Raiding villages and towns during the dead of night, the wolf has created a tide of panic. You and your allies are the only force that stands against him. In this stunning new update to the world’s favorite castle sim – will triumph by day or die by night?

Build and manage mighty castles with an improved building system allowing unprecedented levels of realism and intricacy
Dramatic night time sieges add a new dimension to the Stronghold franchise.
Besiege other players’ castles or defend your own in a range of action-packed online multiplayer modes.

Stronghold 3 [Download]

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