Hey all you non-believers! I slept at a friend's house last night and am still there. I thought I should do my blog now and not have to wait until I get home.
Good news! I have my studio equipment set up now. That means that I can start recording weekly material and release an EP in the near future. Last night I recorded a track with Sampson, but my vocals weren't great so in the next hour I'm going to redo them. I'm pretty sure Sampson is working on his album now too. Anyway, this day is a long time coming. The only thing I have to do now is finish making my booth. It requires drywalling, soundproofing, and carpeting (are carpets good flooring for a booth?). But before that is done, I will be recording in a makeshift booth with some blankets and four sheets of acoustic foam. I will have to wait for the booth, but I will not wait to record.
I did my backlinks as usual. I regret not having time to create more articles on my site, but I am now making some money through the site, and this money will only increase once the Googlebots see my backlinks. I'm almost positive they have noticed at least one of my backlinks, but when I do a search to see how many backlinks I have it says that I have 0. I think this probably has to do with the proverbial "Google Dance", which is the period when Google updates its server and ranking information. I guess I'll have to wait for the next Google Dance before my site will start ranking. The good thing is that I've heard it happens weekly, usually on Mondays. Hopefully I can make some money to buy another domain name, which I can then optimize, and then sell. You can sell a site from anywhere between $100 to $30,000, or more. I'm sure most sites being sold are not optimized, so if I decided to sell my site once it starts ranking then I could make some quick cash. There's also people looking to hire those who understand SEO and can optimize their site. That might be a cool job.
I went to see my grandmother at the old-persons home. It's always weird when you go in there. If you've ever been in a really awkward situation, think of that but with the added inability to make it less awkward. My grandmother doesn't know who I am. Because she doesn't know that I'm her grandsom, she sometimes will make verbal passes at me. I pretend I don't notice. Dementia is a horrible condition; no doubt I'll be studying it at University in the coming years. When I was sitting with her on the top floor, the song "Tears In Heaven" came on the radio. For those of you who don't know, it is an Eric Clapton song about the death of his four year old son. When I was listening to it, I found that it could relate perfectly to my grandmother. The main chorus says "Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven? Would you be the same?". Though I don't really believe in Heaven, I wonder if believers think people lose their dementia when they go to Heaven. I guess most people who believe in Heaven don't think about it. If you think too much you start questioning your beliefs.
Last night was fun, even if I didn't do much to improve my website. I'm not going to put a link to it on this blog because I'm pretty sure Google doesn't care if you have 1000 backlinks from the same website. They like diversity. I also, at least so far, am under the assumption that the more people I get to my site that do not click my links, then the less money each click gives me. I haven't fully reconciled the whole money-click problem, partly because I didn't really want to go through the trouble. Call me lazy if you want.
So we're still in the negative thus far. That will change soon.
Ryan Hartigan
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