“The RoseBouquet”

I’m trying a new promotional plan to get my sites noticed in the search engines. It’s going slower than I first thought, but I think it has great possibilities. It involves signing up for a number of social bookmarking sites, (no charge), and listing one’s favourite links. I spent a number of hours last week preparing a list of key URLs for my sites, and those I look after. Yesterday I started listing them on SearchBigDaddy.net but discovered that they want a title, description and keywords too. So I’m having to pause for each one, go look up the URL and check in the source code for my meta tags. Then copy-paste, copy-paste.

I have a lot of links, so this will take a while, but I’m saving all this in a plain text file, and when I go on to Deli.cio.us and others like Digg,Technorati, Netscape, Magnolia, - whew, there are direct links to 27 such social bookmarking sites from SearchBigDaddy.net!

I don’t believe I’ll do this that long! Still, I want to take advantage of this for all my sites, my clients’ sites, and my affiliate links. No reason why you can’t too.

Other news? I finally got feedback from a copy of my novel I sold back in 2005. This woman thought this book was too positive. Things always worked out for the heroine. My reaction? That’s what I was trying to achieve! There are some “life is ugly” scenes, but I wrote the book to show what life should be like for a young woman who talks over everything with the Lord, and He helps her in and out of various crises.

I just realized last night that I need to play up this difference in my promotional work. Some will see it as a drawback, but surely there are others who long to see an example close up, of how to walk and talk with the Lord in their daily lives, both ups and downs. That’s my niche!

More clients/ministries coming in too. Each case is a bit different, so I’m still learning - learning, but I should probably keep most of that to myself.