Helpful Stuff and Progress Update

As part of Certification (course 4, level 7), it's now time for me to write a second blog post here.

I've decided to write about what I've achieved since joining, things I love and use everyday for my site, and the few things I'm looking at doing next.

Since joining (like so many of us!) I've established a website which to date has 15 posts, 9 pages and 124 comments.

I've started the following social media accounts for my site - google+, facebook, twitter, pinterest. If you'd like to follow, I've popped all the info down the bottom right of my profile and I'd be more than happy to follow you back (pm/leave a comment here) and like/+1 your posts as I see them. I've also started adding google adsense to some of my site pages, and a few affiliate links and banners here and there.

Things I find helpful (and you may too)!

Here is a list of things I use all the time that you may want to check out!

WEBSITES

• Wealthy Affiliate (the resources...oh my god the resources! And all you good people.)
• Canva (it's like photoshop for lazy people like me who don't want to spend months learning how to use the program!)
APPS

• Focus Keeper (free app for iphone, but I find it so useful that I paid for the upgrade to make changes to my time blocks. Great for limiting distractions, then for each time block I write what I've done in my diary so when I feel like I'm not accomplishing anything, I can look at my diary and see all I've done).
• Sketches (free app for ipad pro. I do my artwork on here, aka stick figures. Funny thing about me - I'm a really good at sketching lead and/or charcoal portraits, not that you'd guess from my website artwork!)
RECORD KEEPING

• Filtering emails from Wealthy Affiliate to their own folder in my email. Best. Thing. Ever!
• Keeping spreadsheets for comments (who I've left a comment for, who's left me a comment via the wa comments thread), another spreadsheet for published posts (category, title, date, links, shared on different social media channels), and a third spreadsheet with keywords and their competition/traffic ratings, suitable categories, for future use).
• Using iCloud and apple sharing for all my site related content so I have access to it wherever I am (like on my phone for school pick up, or when waiting for appointments, etc.)
PHYSICAL STUFF

• Macbook
• Ipad Pro (and pen thingy)
• Iphone
• Notebook (A4 spiral bound)
• Pen (has to be a bic 4 pen, look out if anyone takes my 4 pen!!!!)
• Diary
And things for the future/next steps...

• Developing more websites (so many ideas, must finish certification first!)
• More blog posts on here (not regular until I've finished certification, that's where my focus currently is)
• Continuing to build site content
• Increasing social media reach (I should start recording growth for analysis now!)
• Closing all the tabs on my browser (on all devices!) at least once a day - which is now much easier thanks to one of the recent apple updates.
• Researching what submitting a site map to search engines is all about (please, if you have the time and knowledge leave me a comment regarding this one!).

That's it for me now - over and out!