Ah, don't you just love irony?

As I said in the lovely titled 'Blog Babies' post, I mentioned that I had submitted my site to various site engines and such, to try and 'build traffic' and I have got a few readers *waves little flag* though I highly doubt any advertising had anything to do - Like Ron says it's all down to connecting and communicating and other words excecutives in expensive suits use in meetings.

Anyway, so It's been nearly a week since I did that, and I was bored, so I searched my name on Google to see what came up, and I took a print screen of the first few results, - As you can see...And my blog doesn't come up - Not even further down but that doesn't matter. I just thought it was pretty ironic that the first and forth posts on the page were both links to a post I wrote on the help group about the things you can do to help advertise your blog.

And here's the link to said post for reference I suppose.

Blog babies

Okay, so obviously I've not been a blogger for very long, but already I've realised it's a lot like having a baby. And you think your baby is better than everybody else's. So because of that you want to give it the best start in life - Advertising it on the forums, submitting it to all the search engines and basically giving your little blog a nice big fan base and hopefully some rankings.

Bit of a bad analogy but it does fit, and I do admit - I've been submitting my to various places. And I've looked around a few people's blogs - Not posted much on the forums. Mainly because I don't want to act like a newbie going "Come read my blog - pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaase!" - No offence to anyone of course but that's not my style.

I do still want people to read of course and tell me what they think. But because they want to instead of me begging. But then it all comes back to advertising really.

I'm thinking of building a links section for other blogs that I've read and enjoyed, but I'm not sure when I'll get that set up. Been feeling less great than I usually do so the last couple of days I've been shying away from stuff - which I'm now kicking myself for of course, I've decided to try and do one of those daily goal list things, so I get my side projects finished sometime before the next millennium, whilst making sure I'm not neglecting my little blog baby...Yeah, I'm gonna stop calling it that for a start...