Three Weeks Until India and ThePlanetD is Going Strong
November 2, 2009 by davendeb
Filed under Building a Better Blog, JOURNAL, Planetd News
Another week has come and gone and it is business as usual at theplanetd.
I wanted to thank Andy Hayes for his help this week. After taking a look at our blog, he noticed an error that he showed us how to fix immediately. Within a couple of days, our site was bumped up to a PR4, we owe it all to him. We would never have even noticed the error. His insight and knowledge with code, online writing and marketing is second to none.
We have just finished reading his new book Write Right Online and it is invaluable. I am going to write a review later this week, but we highly recommend it for anyone that wants to increase traffic to their blog posts.
We have finally moved out of our place and are officially homeless.
The last 4 days were tough because Rogers cut off our Internet early so we fell behind on keeping up with other blogs and our twitter friends. We asked for them to disconnect on the 31st, so they followed directions well and disconnected on the 28th. When we travel we are prepared for this, but it caught us off guard when we woke up on Wednesday morning to find that our Internet was gone. We did get a very weak Wifi signal once in awhile so we managed to get the odd post up. Luckily I have already started scheduling posts and tweets so it was good practice for our travels.
I am so grateful for everyone that tweeted and stumbled our posts for us.
All of our friends kept our tweets going for us even when we couldn’t make it to the Internet to tweet back. Plus, for the first time ever, we saw significant traffic from digg.
That is a first for us. Our Great Canadian Word Post caught on with the online community this week and we saw first hand the value of digg.
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We are going to start publishing a newsletter once we leave for our travels
Our first one will launch at the end of November. We are in the process of setting it all up and will let you know when you can subscribe to access fabulous updates as to what is going on with our blogging, what will be coming up and a few stories that we won’t be posting on our regular blog posts.
Once we start traveling, we are going to stop these weekly updates so hopefully our newsletter will give you the lowdown on what we have been doing to further our blog and our goals, successes and failures.
Unfortunately, I have let MatadorU fall by the wayside. Now that we are finished moving and only 3 days left of work for me, 1 week for Dave, I am hoping to catch up on all of the work that I have fallen behind on.
Continuing with a little update from last weeks post…
We have not changed hosts yet, but we want to thank everyone for their advice on which company to go with. We ran out of hours in the day last week between working at our day jobs, writing posts and trying to catch up with friends before leaving town. Hopefully we will get to it this week.
There is still a lot to be done, but, all of our hard work from last month paid off and we have the next 3 weeks to relax and focus on the Blog and writing. Maybe just maybe we will have everything in order before our flight to India.
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