Web Dev Notes

Are chihuahua’s holding you back? Don’t let those little buggers grab you by the tail and slow down the success of your website!

If you read this website or others like Problogger, then you know there are people out there who make a great living from the internet. What’s holding you back from accomplishing the same? Who is your chihuahua? Is is lack of time? Are you too lazy? Maybe you are afraid of failure, or are unwilling to commit to something that is guaranteed to generate close to zero income for the first year!

If you want to be successful, you need to identify your chihuahua and toss it a bone. Do what you need to do to get that bugger off your tail so you can take the steps necessary to become successful. You don’t really want to be the one afraid of such a tiny little dog do you?

Ever since Darren Rowse from ProBlogger published his first book, many bloggers have been wondering, can they get published too? Bloggers have a lot to say and if you never thought about publishing your own book before, you probably have now. Of course, not everyone will be approached by a publisher, but don’t let that stop you because there are a lot of self-publishing services available online that can help get you started! If you have good advice to share and the motivation to write it all down, self-publishing could be right for you.

Wordclay’s Online Publishing offers a user-friendly service that will help guide you through the process of publishing your own book. With Wordclay you can choose your book size, design the cover, and make other design choices to customize the look of your book. The best part is that their self-publishing service is free! They will only make money when you sell your book so they are focussed on helping you become successful.

In addition to helping you through the steps required to publish your book, Wordclay also offers additional marketing services to help bring your book into contact with as many potential buyers as possible. Remember, their success is reliant on your success, so once again they offer a high quality service that will help increase your sales and revenues. For more detailed information regarding how the whole self-publishing process works, visit their FAQ section for answers to most of the questions you may have.

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Becoming successful running a website all by your lonesome is as likely as a turtle flying a spaceship to the moon. Why? Because the turtle can’t reach the pedals LOL! I made that one up all by myself! Hmmm.. ok back to the website thing. You can work on a website alone definitely, but without incoming links, your page rank will stink, nobody will visit, and you will be doomed like the passengers on the turtles spaceship.

So… how do you get links? Find the perfect partners! Find other websites similar to yours and build relationships with them to help both your sites succeed. Sometimes, the purrfect partner can be found in the most unlikely of places… For example, I have recently begun working with a group of cats and kittens in order to deliver the best web development news possible. The only difficulty with these partners is their need for frequent napping which ends a lot of meetings early…

Why have these furry partners helped increase traffic to Web Dev Notes? Probably because they add a little fun and mischief to an otherwise somewhat less exciting subject matter…! And how is this helping another website? Every one of these pictures is a link to the website from which they originate, thus thanking the creators and sending them back some traffic!

While cats may not always be able to offer the best web development advice, this week they have definitely helped prove that a picture can make an article much more valuable, entertaining and meaningful than the text itself could standing alone.

Take responsibility for any mistakes that you have made. Everybody messes up, but most people are not able to admit it. Don’t be embarrassed to admit you were wrong or to tell someone you made a mistake. While it’s not an easy thing to do, people will appreciate your honesty and maturity.

What kind of mistake did you make? Maybe you got into an argument with a reader of your website or maybe you posted an article with incorrect information. Maybe you accidentally deleted the wrong database and therefore erased an entire forum with hundreds of posts which you had not made a backup of. Yup, I’ve done that one…

No matter what it is you have done, never try to hide it. People hate dishonesty. Everyone makes mistakes, we are only human. People can understand that and will realize it can happen to anyone. If you lie to your readers however and they find out, many will not be as forgiving because lying is not a mistake or an accident. Lying is purposefully misleading people. If you want return visitors, earn their trust and show them your are confident in your content and website and not afraid to admit defeat on occasion.

One of the great things about doing freelance work or running your own blog is that you get to be your own boss. When you are your own boss, you don’t have to worry about finding yourself in situations as show below…

Of course, being your own boss isn’t easy because then you have to figure out how the heck your are going to make some money to live off of! Is is possible to make a living from blogging? Obviously the answer is yes. There are many examples of people earning above average salaries just by running a website or a blog. However, even though it is possible, it is definitely not easy.

The hardest part of earning a living from the web is going through all the steps and work that must be done before earning a single cent. You have to start somewhere, and usually that means working hard on your website for up to a year before you start to see any actual returns for all that work.

Is it worth the effort? That depends, are you the chicken or the cat?

Don’t let uncertainty hold you back from achieving success. You might not know exactly what lies ahead, but you’ll never find out if you don’t leap forward! If you’re blogging or starting up a website, hosting prices have become so affordable that there is no longer even much risk involved. In fact, you can even host a blog for free using Blogger or Wordpress if you are not ready to get your own hosting account.

How you define success will have a lot to do with whether or not you feel your website has become successful. If you define success as making millions of dollars, chances are you will fail. Before you decide your criteria for success, first ask yourself how much time you are willing to invest in your website. Now, taking this into consideration, determine how successful you believe you can be in that time-frame.

If jumping off the sofa is too high of a jump, leap onto a coffee table first! Define success as something within your reach, so you aren’t setting yourself up to fail. If you are not satisfied with the amount of success you believe you can achieve within your current limits, find a different project to work on or be prepared to invest more time in the project!

Are you sad because nobody visits your website? Do you wake up in the middle of the night with tears in your eyes because not a single person has noticed your online existence? Do you feel sick to your stomach each time you make a new post because you think you will die lonely and alone?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, don’t worry! You are among thousands of other crazy people who have joined support groups to talk about their lack of page views! Actually, crying about your present failure is a good thing, because it means you haven’t quit yet!

Will you get your cheezburger sumday? Err.. I mean, will you get page views someday?

Probably not. You’ll probably quit well before you start generating traffic to your website. If you don’t quit, you’ll continue waisting your time crying about your lack of success rather than putting in a serious effort to add new content daily while marketing your website. Most people will never get their cheezburger.

Sorry.

On a brighter note, an extremely small percentage of you will in fact be successful in the ever growing and increasingly competitve internet world! These people will be the ones who never gave up and who were able to survive the rought times.

Don’t let Chihuahua’s hold back your website! Start working with the purrrrfect partners and plot your plan for success. Make sure you plant the seeds for success early and listen to feedback so you can feed your readers a happy meal. Make good use of article directories and other marketing techniques and never forget the secrets to writing a successful blog!

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If you run a website or a blog you will soon realize that there will be good times and there will be bad times. The key to success is of course to survive the bad times and do your best to maximize the good times. Don’t let bad times drag you down even further by getting depressed as this will only cause you to slow down on your work pace. If you write a blog, you need to keep posting! Lack of readers could be a good reason to post more, definitely not less!

There are so many blogs and websites out there that chances are you will have competitors. No matter what, the internet is so very vast in size that people will find other content to view if you stop updating yours! If you let up for a second, you will fall behind. You blink, you lose! Keep plugging away at it and never give up. You can achieve anything you set your mind too if you put in enough effort!

Part of being successful is being realistic. If you have certain goals you really want to reach, don’t just set out to get them blindly. Identify your final target goal, then plan smaller, more realistic steps to help set you on the path to reaching the ultimate goal.

If you set your goals too high right from the start, you’ll never reach them!

Having trouble coming up with a new idea to write about? Are you sitting there looking at the blank text box, hoping for a miraculous inspiration to arrive suddenly in your mind? What if… it’s not coming! What do you do? Do you run for the hills and hide from all your angry visitors who are demanding a new update? Or do you write a not-so-good content filler that is of low quality and which will cause yet another revolt?

When I’m stuck and in desperate need of ideas, I take a coffee break!

Coffee might not be your magic cure, but taking a break to relax and clear your mind will definitely help. Browse the internet for a little bit and visit your favorite websites; maybe one will be discussing a topic that will light your flare and get those fingers typing.

I highly recommend visiting WebDevNotes.com as one of your favorite sites as well…! If my content cannot inspire you, at least the cats will!

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