Hello B

I just read your post and I am new to WA and my ranking went up as well. Being that I have a lot of work ahead of me, I can't worry about that now. Hopefully it will go down in the near future.

Rene'

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One thing I am becoming wary of is spending too much time worrying about responding and commenting on WA to raise my ranking and realizing even though this is a good thing, it really is not making me any money. It is taking time away from writing Blogs or otherwise improving my website where I have yet to make a dime or get any traffic. Beware!

I have read through the postings here. I have a couple of comments and yes they almost contradict each other. First, don't beat yourself up over wanting to make your postings perfect. Perfection will set you apart from others who just blast something on a page in 5 minutes. You see misaligned text, misspelling and other mistakes that scream the wrong message to your customers. Second, find a happy medium. Don't not post over an image. You can always go back and replace that image with a better one. One of my OCD moments is text align. See how this text goes so far to the right but rarely stops even with the text on the line above or below? Well I hate that. I use "justify" for my alignment setting. You don't see it listed as an option so I go in and code it. I feel the cleaner look is more professional as well as recognizable since news print has done this for decades. I have no way, that I know of, to code these posts or I would. So go do what you do. It's what will make your posts yours and your readers will expect it as time goes on.

Also don't be concerned about some fluctuation in rankings. Especially when you are breaching the 750 mark. People around you are more active and might beat you out on a day you were busier in your home life or other job. In the end it will work out. Don't knock yourself out unless you get a few days in a row of going the wrong way.

I am the same way so I feel your pain. I made myself publish my site and content even if it wasn't 100% where I wanted it. It was not easy but I am so glad I did. I keep updating and improving everyday. The work is never done but I felt it needed to be pushed out into the world as it was or I would never do it!

I recently hear in a webinar about internet marketing, that looking for perfection although praiseworthy isn't the best way to give products (any kind) to the world. First of all it is time-consuming, but also you can lose the momentum to act upon something specific, let's say a market opportunity or a great niche or whatever. So, it's suggested that you get your product (opinion, help, blog, tutorial, book, website, etc) when it has 70% of quality or the content you want to put on it. That's is not being irresponsible, just knowing that everything can improve with time, for instance you can come back to edit your blog any time.

I feel your pain. Slight perfectiions. As I start this journey, new to online and webbuiling as a while, I don't want to direct anyone to my site because I haven't got it how I want it, which is time consuming

I am glad you are trying to comment and be more active in the WA community. You are a valuable member and I know people appreciate your feedback. At first I was being OCD with my pictures too but in the end ya can't waste too much time on that unfortunately. Keep up the good work! Take care.

Think of the upward movement that you are busy with your site and it is more important. I thin most suffer the same until it becomes a habit and we get used to regularly doing it.
Cheers

My advise is to forget about perfect. Seriously. You can't allow yourself to become paralyzed by "what could be" if I just tweak my post a hundred more times.....lol