Professional blogging

[skyring]

I've been inspired by a few friends to improve my rather scraggly blogging performance. 1. Consolidate blogs in a professional manner 2. Improve content - basically switching from a what-I-did-today format to a standalone article format. 3. Monetize the site by including specifically targetted links. I'm mucking about with affiliate programs and this is by way of a test:
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Comments

[holmesfan.livejournal.com]

Dear Skyring,
If you've been putting bits on FaceBook, Twitter and various weird and wonderful diversions I can understand why you think you have a scraggly blogging performance. In that case surely it is not the blogging but the jumping about that is scraggly.
Do hope the friends who inspired you weren't criticising you -how dare they?
This fan wasn't complaining except for the fact that you seem to be here on LJ less these days. Many of your postings did indeed read like stand alone articles and there have been all too few of them lately.
The Bonk link you gave seemed just to lead straight to Amazon. Was that your intention?

[skyring.livejournal.com]

The book link goes to Amazon, and if you follow the link and buy the book I get a bit of money.

That's neither here nor there for me writing a dear diary livejournal, but if I have thousands of readers by providing good dependable content, then it becomes a good revenue stream.

I can do better - writing-wise - than what I've been doing so far. Money is all very nice, but I want to improve myself and make better use of the limited hours I've got.

Realistically, I only have a couple of hours a day to write, and safeguarding that time from jumping around on the web is important.

One reason why I'm not on LJ as much is because I'm spread so thin nowadays.