I haven't used this blog in over 4 years now because I've been busy marketing my own website for my children's book The Christmas Web - A Family Tradition.

The Christmas Web - A Family Tradition

My attempts to move my website up to the top of Google Search ranks have not proven to be very successful, most of my sales over the past two years have come from Christmas Bazaars throughout the Southeast and Midwest.  This is a lot of work and front-end expensive, thus I've decided to make an all out effort to get my site to the first page of Google Search for the following Keywords: Christmas Tradition, Elf Ideas, Shelf Elf Ideas and Christmas Elf Tradition.

The first thing I've done is to SEO my website for my Keywords and I've uses SEOquake to give me guidance on how my site compares to my competition.  I feel I'm in good shape for optimization.  Now I'm in the process of building links.  I've purchased two books by R.L. Adams that have been very helpful in guiding me to online sources for link-building and helping me to understand how to avoid any Google penalties for using Black Hap Practices.

I'll use this blog to keep anyone that's interested in my progress to build my online business around The Christmas Web.  I am writing another blog about the making and marketing of The Christmas Web.