First Page Finally!

After nearly six months at WA, a post I wrote in December has cracked the first page of Google. It's at the bottom, but it's still on the first page. The post is regarding the history of Lays Potato Chips and I'm genuinely surprised at just how many people are Googling that these days... but hey, I'm not complaining! Maybe there's some sort of school project going on. Regardless, first page! Most of my other articles are severely buried and I'll have to work at improving the onpage SEO to get t

5 Months with WA

Hellooooooo! April 10th means it's time to check up on my progress here at WA. (Looks like I missed it by one day.) 5 months feels like a middle month to me. One more month and I'll hit my 6 months. That's insane!As always, lots of writing was done. I'm starting to look forward to hitting my 100-200 posts per website because then maybe I can scale back a little bit. I've written almost all of my posts for April. In the past month I wrote 64921 words for a total of 194771 words over five months.

Getting Images Without Buying a License - Just Ask!

This is just a quick note to offer an idea for those of you who may be stuck on images. Today I wrote an article on Disney World snacks. Obviously, I want my post to be rich with photos, but I was struggling with the images not appearing in any royalty-free sites. So I took to Instagram, where people are snapping pictures of their food all the time. I searched each food that I wanted a photo of and contacted a person whose photo I liked. I simply stated that I'm writing an article on Disney Wor

Dark Sucker Theory

This is an article you can find various places on the net. It was also given to us by our grade nine science teacher.I tried to post the entire article here, but WA won't let me under plagiarism, so if you'd like to read it, click this link!http://web.mit.edu/kolya/misc/txt/dark_suckersEssentially, it proposes, quite convincingly, that light bulbs and other light sources do not actually produce light. Rather, they suck dark. Go ahead and read it. I'll be here when you get back._________________

4 Months with WA

Hellooooooo! March 10th means it's time to check up on my progress here at WA. I've somehow been around for 4 months already. While I know that's not a long time in the grand scheme of life, it does mean I've stuck it out this far, which is encouraging to me.This month I did a lot of writing again. Prepped almost all of my posts for April. I think I only have two more to write. In the past month I wrote 65,320 words for a total of 149,023 words in my four months at WA. The math on that doesn't

Tasty Rubber Pants

So I used Form 7, a popular plug-in for creating Contact Forms and the only weird thing I've noticed about it is that I get really random spam/bot messages from it. I get the ocassional spam marketer trying to offer me SEO products, but mostly I just receive a barrage of one word or one phrase messages that make zero sense. One I found today really made me laugh.Subject Line: SquareMessage: Tasty Rubber Pants.That's it. That's the whole message. Hahahahah. Some others I've received lately inclu

Pinterest and Instagram and Facebook, Oh My!

I finally started in on the social media game!I've been overwhelmed with the idea of using social media for my websites but I didn't want to miss out on a great source of traffic. So I started a Pinterest account and an Instagram account for one of my websites this week. I also accidentally made a Facebook page through the instagram account. Hahaha! But I will hold off on doing anything with it until next month. Here are my first impressions/thoughts:Pinterest is great and I forgot how much I l

Retreat! Retreat!

What does the word 'retreat' mean to you?Oftentimes, when we hear 'retreat', we think of a week on the beach or in a cabin in the woods. How many of us, when we hear 'retreat', think of soldiers in battle retreating from enemy lines?"Retreat! Retreat!"When troops are overwhelmed by enemy fire and don't have the strength or resources to overcome their opponents, they are forced to retreat. Retreating does not mean surrendering. Retreating gives troops an opportunity to regroup. To look at their

Month Number 3!

It's the 10th day of the month which means it's time to check my progress here at WA once again. Still chug-chug-chugging along and waiting for my big traffic boom to happen in the next few months. Because it will happen. I can feel it. This last month I was a writing machine! I wrote all of my posts for February so that they're ready to go. In one month I've written 59,593 words for a total of 104,185 words in my three months here. That's more words this month than in my first two months combi

Huge Win!

I'm immensely proud of myself right now and honestly? I deserve it! So last month, I intended to write all of my content posts (34 between two websites) throughout each week. It was a convoluted system. The first week I would write 10 posts between two days, the second week 10 posts between two days, the third week 8 posts between two days and the fourth week 6 posts between two days. The two writing days were scheduled to be Wednesdays and Fridays. I was also hoping to do more behind-the-scene