Wherein the author sighs and wonders where the heck 2010 went

Circular. Working on getting menus in WordPress to work wasn't what I signed on for. But when they still don't work, my motivation to write content sinks too low to get more done.

Of course, if there was traffic to the existing content, I'd probably have enough positive reinforcement to overcome the menu curse. But no, traffic is drips and drops.

No links coming in from qydj, and tomorrow is Dec.1.

It's difficult to feel at all optimistic. And with no optimism, it's hard to keep writing content and working on link building... which was supposed to be what I signed on for.

Update 5 November, 2010

Hi Jeremy,

Things accomplished:
1) I'm working on the questions for the showcase.

2) I finished my first ebook and posted it. For now since there is so little traffic, I haven't set up an email list, just a download and suggested people favorite the page and join the Facebook page for free updates. Here's the landing page: http://netbookguide.org/netbook-guide-2010-free-e-book/ .

3) I had some fun and played with making a text to video movie via Xtranormal.com and posted it to my YouTube channel. BTW, currently the links from YouTube channels are still do-follow. http://www.youtube.com/user/netbookguideORG

4) Submitted the free ebook to various ebook directories, such as http://www.jogena.com/ebookdir/computers.htm , http://e-library.net/search.php?q=netbook+guide&cx=partner-pub-3841787588316075%3A3xfxvk-veru&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=ISO-8859-1&I1.x=0&I1.y=0#242 .

5) Posted these and other amusing video clips on my Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Netbook-Guide/162452683767371 .

Questions:

We forgot to discuss possible free options for an email newsletter to capture emails for brief follow ups after downloading the ebook. Do you have any thoughts on this?

all the best,

me