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A friend of mine has started up a blog about motherhood and the trial and tribulations that go alone with it. A quirky blog with fun pictures, nice recipes, and joys that only parenthood can bring. It is new and I am in the process of helping her to fix the layout of everything, but feel free to give it a look! 

Clout Level 5

I haven't been writing much for !Yahoo/AC this month. Not that I have been slacking off but I have been hooked on NBA 2K11 for a little while now. I checked my page views over the past month to see then plummet to around 4-5 page views a day. Not top of the line by any means. Slowly adding to my total of view. My clout level is now at 97% of the way to being clout level 5. It adds no bonus or more per 1000 views. Just the fact of getting it alone is great for me. A sense of achievement for myself. Don't take it the wrong way, I would love to be at level 10 right now, and pulling in a couple thousand views a day. Yet at my writing level and time spent writing, I am not up to par with those types of articles. I guess they are out of my league for the time being.

The Power Of A Gfail

So I have been trying to post good articles over the past week. To no avail....Suddenly Gmail crashes and I write a post about it. Within one hour I got more hits then I did all week. I went from 4 visits to 12 visits within an hour!

Thank you Gfail! Don't worry Google and of course Gmail, I still love you all and will continue to use your products. Hell you just gave me a boost! Now of course it is bad for you all. Sorry.

here is proof that it jumped up within the past hour.

30 Days to Sucess

Over at Steve Pavlina's site. There is an article on 30 days to success. The full article here. I have read it about 3 times now and decided to give a few of them a shot. I chose these based on my own personal endevours to gain some personal development. I think that is what my goal is going to be here at Tim Freeman's Blog. Personal development. Not only for me, but for you as my readers ( as soon as I get some). To be listing my own experiences and giving you insight on how they work and if they even worked at all. The list of my 30 day challenges will be as follows.

1. Become an early riser.

I chose this one because I have been sleeping in now for some time, which really impeades my progress in life. I used to wake up early as a cook in the U.S. Army. Waking up before all the other soldiers to  have them breakfast made by the time they were dont with physical training. 

2. Read for an hour a day on a topic you enjoy.

I chose this one because I really like to read. I prefer fictional stories or something that has some actions in the lines. Yet this go round I will be reading something that can help me within my personal development. Since that is the subject I am wanting to get enolved with.

3. Writing a new blog entry every day.

This one should be easy. Sit down and write something in a blog, anyone could do that really. I will be taking this a step further. Write an article on my daily progress in my own life. Which if my progress is slow, will be a task for me.

4. Learn a vocabulary word every day.

I really liked the idea of this one. Not only can it improve you vocabulary, but it will also make me a better writer. When in a group of people and a time arises I can use this word and seem smarter within that group. Which is great for self esteem.

So these are my challenges for the next 30 days starting Feb 21, 2009.

What Is A Niche

So I sit down today to do some research on niches. If you don't know what a niche is then allow me to tell you. A niche is a specific topic and all of the sub topics that remain to the subtopic. For example Dumb Little Man niche is Tips for life. I didn't know this before today but there is two different kinds of niches. Niches for authority websites, and niches for "niches" websites. What that basically means is. Niches for authority take on a broad range of niches. I lue of getting the most readers possable.  Niche websites are lower in content quantity but have more relavent content, as well as being able to bring in more search engine traffic. These websites contain ads from which if people click on them the owner gets paid.

Niches are not hard to find really, just do some research on certain niches.  Niches can come from passions, hobbies, work, school and even home. Try to pick something that you have a "niche" for to make it easier to come up with a way to have unique and up beat submissions. If your forced to do something it gets dull after a while. If you love it in some way you will always have something to say about it.

A niche can make or break a blog or even an entire website. No matter the way its developed. Find out from yourself what would make the best niche for you.