I’m taking the week off of Twitter, but my followers continue to grow. I’ve had to spend some time figuring out CSS and other website issues, not to mention more problems with Twitterfeed. With the Genesis Rocket course, my accounts have mostly targeted followers, so they seem to automatically find more as time goes by. This is time well spent; once I pin down the problems with my RSS feeds, I should get reasonable results from my Genesis Rocket marketing.
Found out why Google Adsense wasn’t working. It was for awhile, but then all I got was public service ads. It turns out that a file called robots.txt has a switch in it to tell Google not to work with your site.
The problem is, I didn’t have that text file ANYWHERE on my site.
So I created a robots.txt file that says Google isn’t blocked and uploaded it to all my root directories. Hopefully they get the idea that it is okay for me to advertise for them!
Unfortunately, I figured this out right after their bot crawled and said BLOCKED. So I will likely have to wait another week for the ads to show up again. (UPDATE: Less than 24 hours later and the ads are back. I think someone is watching out for me!)
Here is the file in case someone else needs it; apparently it is a common issue.
Robots.txt
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
Results for this week (11/2/09 – 11/8/09):
Total Twitter follwers: 9422
Website: $2.70
Genesis Rocket hits:
Hits 3513 Unique 611
My website earnings are down due to a lack of new posts, problems with RSS feeds, and problems with Adsense. I can’t earn very well if my links don’t go out half of the week! Some technical trouble at home, too, but that is the beauty of working at home; problems don’t have to completely keep me away from work. I did get my Genesis Rocket stuff done, so the network was built for another week regardless of the marketing issues. At least I know the hits are there when I can provide quality content.
That aside – nearly 10,000 followers! And those are mostly targeted, and not a big pile of zombie accounts. When the numbers hit, they are gonna hit big.
My magic touch is at work again today. I upgraded Wordpress and now I can’t change the pretty picture up on the top of my blog. I have future plans for that picture spot but they aren’t really ready to go, yet. Oh well, Ayumi is beautiful to look at, eh?
It is amazing how noisy it gets during a normally quiet naptime when you try and record a podcast.
I have been busy with getting the new website and blog set up for two weeks, now. Traffic seems to be picking up gradually. I’ve gotten a better handle on the Twitter stuff, finally, so it didn’t take quite as long for me to grow followers this week.
Twitter: LadySivitri