4 Years Later .

Well, those 4 years went past quickly! Happy days, sad days and just 'meh' days, or, as they say, 'life's rich tapestry' (sometimes, I really despise 'they' or 'those people'!)Anyways, I have returned and OMG what have I returned to? This place is.... just freaking awesome! I'll need another 4 years just to understand what links to where.I have exploring to do,Bye for now

Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust

Well, all things end, so it seems.This is my last ever post here on WA as my membership comes due tomorrow and I just do not have funds available for even another month so I am cancelling my billingLadies and Gents, it has been an honor/honour and a privilege to have walked beside, behind and, very occasionally, in front of all of you for the last 4.5 years.May whoever you pray to, lift you up and keep moving you forward.More power to your elbow!Best WishesDom Valentine

The Birth Of A Business - A Business Plan

Hello FolksAfter yesterday's little piece of research I have formulated an idea as to the approach I want to take so I decided to get it all down on a business plan today.Does Every Business Need A Business Plan?According to The Balance Small Business website: "But if you don't need a business loan, you probably don't need to spend the time creating a formal business plan."According to the Small Business Development Center in Duquesne University, Pennsylvania: "A good business plan not only hel

The Birth Of A Business

Hello Folks1stly, I'd like to take moment to thank all of you for your comments on my last post. Thankfully we're all on the road to recovery and, hopefully, this is the last time Covid touches us (but I'm not holding my breath).OK, on to more important stuff.To paraphrase someone else's quote: "Quit half-assing 2 things; whole-ass 1 thing!"So, I am going to whole-ass this project (and judging by my reflection in my bedroom mirror, that's lot of junk in my trunk!)I have been doing a lot of rese

COVID Derailed My Personal Challenge

Humble apologies to all but the pandemic hit the family hard over the 1st week of 2022 and I have been scuttling around doing errands and shopping trips for various local family members so my time has been extremely limited.But, health is returning to those affected and so my time is becoming freer.A Big News update will be posted later this week.

30 Day Holiday Hurdle Challenge - Day 8

Ok, so the challenge almost fell over today - THE day I was going to commit and publish a post - Gawd, the amount of times my subconcious tried to pull me away and do something else - something it thought I would enjoy more.But...I won! Yeah me!I have published my 1st post - granted, it isn't that good, it isn't that long but, it answers the question, it has structure, it has external liks and will have an internal link, once I've published the next post.I can always improve and update it furth

30 Day Holiday Hurdle Challenge - Day 7

Hello there and welcome to the dawn of a new step in our creation of a brand new website; it's Day 7 of our 30 Day Challenge and today I'll be constructing the first informational post for the website Gerd PillowsNow, we are going to be using ParthaB's 'Perfect Post Plan' (my alliteration) with some help from a free (currently) Chrome extension called SEO Minion.Firstly, what is the PPP?In order to write the perfect blog post, 1. Conduct keyword research via Google Autosuggest to find a low co

30 Day Holiday Hurdle Challenge - Day 6

Good morning, afternoon, evening, tomorrow and yesterday; how are we all? Good? Excellent!Welcome to Day 6 of my personal 30 Day Holiday Hurdle Challenge; my challenge to myself to do something on my website every day for 30 days.Here is my link to my completed (so far) spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZnIMCy92T3sPMDyGt9vm...I finally managed to complete the search and I have, somewhat vividly, highlighted the questions that have UGC (User Generated Content) i.e. Quora, Redd

30 Day Holiday Hurdle Challenge - Day 5

Good afternoon, you lovely bunch of strange people; I hope this finds you well. Welcome to Day 5 of my 30 Day Holiday Challenge. Today, so far, has all been about making lists of lists of lists - basically refining my niche choice.As I said yesterday, I managed to create a raw list of questions using the SEO Minion Chrome extension and the People Also Ask section of Google's search results. I entered 4 separate keywords into Google Canada, USA, UK and Australia and this resulted in 1407 rows on

30 Day Holiday Hurdle Race - Day 4

Wow! Day 4 already and only 26 left to go! Hello and welcome back to the 30 Day Holiday Hurdle Race.Today I need to finish off the menus, get the site registered with the analytical stuff, add the site to my profile and start hunting for those unanswered questions about my subject matter.It's 8.15am, 26th December 2021 - Let's go!11am - menus completed, website on profilemidday - tracking setup complete2.30pm - after a somewhat boozy lunch with Father it's time to start researching questions as