You can teach a old dog new tricks!

As I take one step closer to retirement age I find myself even busier that I was twenty years ago. I feel blessed to have good health and stamina enough to handle all the new things I have become involved with.

My newest, newest adventure is an e-book a friend and I have written on SEO for Drop and Drag sitebuilders. It took us most of the spring and summer but the book is complete and we are marketing it. How sweet that first sale was!

Both of us know we will not get rich. The little bit of income and the knowledge we can make life a lot easier for many people that utilize the same website service and site builder program is enough to make all the time spent worth it..

Along with our self help website optimization book, SEO Building Blocks, we have combined our two talents and are providing a Website Design and Optimization service for owners of Homestead websites.
Sue and I have done a couple of site rebuilds and worked together on optimizing several new sites and the results have been nothing less that spectacular.

We work well together and so far have managed to laugh and work side by side...from several hundred miles distance. That is what makes the internet and instant messaging and phones such great tools! Distance doesn't count - three cheers for technology!

Google, adsense and nonsense.

The past couple of years I have had a couple of sites that t have been set up with adsense. They are sites that have good content and generally a fair number of decent links.
The pages have been well optimized and my daily visitors visitors continues to grow.

I am afraid that when I set the sites up I designed their content to things I knew about personally. Things that I have confidence in and of course these subjects are not high paying subjects. I do make enough money to pay my hosting fees and gives me a little extra....darn little. This makes me happy and as time goes on I'll make more which will be even nicer.

For some reason I managed to get myself on someones mailing list and have been getting a large number of junk emails that tout the huge amount of money the little housewife can make from home with adsense. I am a reasonably intelligent person and know there are some people making some good money with this program but the average person is not going to get rich having ads on a website...

I suspect that there has been a slow down or many of the marginal sites have went away. Google may be in the process of recruiting more sites to handle ads...... and those people that are filling my email box with junk mail are reaping the rewards of supplying the hopeful and the desperate into probable disappointment.

So goes life

Time flies and things happen in life that create road blocks for some activities. I have been lax in posting but hope that will get better with fewer projects that need finishes.

I have been busy writing an e book on optimizing websites for the search engines. This resource is for the drop and drag site builder provided by Homestead Technologies. This site building program is a great tool for those who do not want to learn coding or want to pay a web builder.

I have been building websites with this program since 1998 and have been studying and researching SEO for just about as long. Boy, have things changed during this period of time!
I have read hundreds of articles, waded through huge numbers of newsletters, bought white papers and e books and consumed everything new that comes out on this subject.
I’ve have applied what I know and have used this information to optimize several websites with tremendous success.

So with the help from a friend who is exceeding talented and fun to work with we wrote our book for Self Help SEO . We feel it should be a big help to the beginner web builder for any drop and drag site builder buy specifically Homestead folks.

I hope by sharing this information it will show that as a person reaches retirement age life doesn't stop and good things will continue if you have the will to try something new........