well it seems that i have all but given up on the blogging platform. i thought it was cool when i first got into it about 6-8 months ago, but i just dont have the time to put into the blogging community and network with all the awesome peoples i found out there. i wish i could, but its just too hard for an amateur to monetize a blog and make it profitable. so i’ll just keep this going without a posting schedule, and add a few random thoughts here and there as i remember it. and then i’ll tweet it out, so you guys can still keep track of me that way. tell a friend too, i could always do with a few more Twitter followers. find my Twitter link over there on the right —>

anyways, here’s a little anecdote i recently shared with some of my forum friends.
hope you enjoy.
-Scoob

so did i ever tell you guys about my spider story? :hmmm: …

this happened when i was in 4th grade. got up at 7 in the morning to get ready for school, which started at 8. had breakfast, brushed my teeth, changed, etc. this was in the fall/winter because i remember it being dark still. so 7:30 comes around and i sit on the couch in the dark living room to watch some Jetsons before i leave. the lights are off and the curtains are still shut, its just me and the glow of my cartoons. i like Astro. i guess i have a thing for talking dogs. anyways, i see this vertical line on the tv screen, which was weird. i try to focus for a better look, and it turns out its not on the screen it was actually a thread of spider silk coming down from the ceiling. and it wasnt even near the tv. it was right in front of me. so i look lower and the damn spider is actually at the end of it going straight down towards my lap. ahhh fuck.  whatever, i wasnt really afraid of spiders. so i grab up above at the silk so i can transport the spider to the sink, but when i pick it up, the spider is gone. wth. so i stand up and try to shake my clothes off in case he jumped on me and thats when i feel i sharp sting on my crotch! :faint: WTF?!?! apparently i had not zipped up my zipper when i had gotten dressed earlier and the fucking spider got its way into my tighty whiteys and bit me on the crotch!!! holy shit did that hurt like fuck. i ran to the bathroom and took all my clothes off to shake out, but there was no spider to be found. i then went to inspect the area, and sure as shit, the fucking spider bit me. lucky thing it didnt catch me on the wang though. it was just above.

so yep. i got molested by a spider that ran away and was never to be seen afterwards. and i had to walk to school that morning. do you know how uncomfortable it is to walk to school with a spider bite on your crotch? yeah, it kinda sucks. i think i had a big ol’ bite mark for a week after that. the kind that turns into like a big boil. ewwwww. and of course i didnt tell any one coz i didnt want anybody to have to go lookin at it. just had to walk very carefully for a good long while. :/

suffice to say, i hated spiders for a very long time after that.

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  1. akemi says:

    aaww :hug:
    glad i don’t have to call you scooby-dee :lol:
    akemi’s lastest post: Something smells fishy

  2. Joss says:

    hi scooby, I wanted to comment since you said its too hard for you to make this blog profitable. I had a blog in 2008 and also failed to make a reasonable profit but i now realize what i did wrong. Perhaps you may be going through the same issues.
    1. I spent 80% of my time writing content. Wrong. This is ok at the beginning to get google to love you but after that you should promote the site anyway you can to get links to it

    2. You need to know what profitable keywords you are targeting and write content populating your blog with the right keyword density on the page you want to rank. Main page or subpage etc.. This page has no profitable keyword in the title tag.
    There are many bloggers spending 1 hour per day and still able to make it profitable. You just need to do the most important things and lose the rest of the time wasters.

  3. ScoobySnacks says:

    thanks for the tips, Joss. unfortunately, as you can see, i just dont have the time to put into blogging any more. maybe one day i’ll pick up on it again. but for now, RL duties call. heh, guess i never was that good at balancing my time wisely. ahh well, i’ll get back to it eventually :P

  4. Charentes says:

    Joss - I agree with you; you need to find keywords that have good search volumes but are not over-competitive. So you need to target 3 to 4 keyword phrases - use a product such as Market Samurai (last time I looked there was a free trial to evaluate) to indentify keyowrd phrases that match those criteria.

  5. The number one fact of making a site profitable is that it has to relate to products people buy. That’s the first step. I’ve been making a pretty good living online for about 2 years, and that fact made my business turn around in the span of a month.

    Rather than target specific keywords, you should focus your content around keyword/buyer related topics. For example, if your topic is a specific type of software, find about 6-7 buyer focused keywords per post and sprinkle them in. Don’t worry about competition. The search volumes won’t be as high, but the traffic you do get will be way higher quality as far as making a profit goes.

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