Busy at Business

I have been blog hopping quite a lot lately, mostly looking for ways to increase traffic to my Be Your Own Detective blog. I still do not even understand a couple of the sites that are highly recommended by Search Engine Optimization "experts". I am not sure that I should even embarrass myself by saying what an idiot I am at del.cioi.us I just do not get it. There is a part about having a "community" but for the life of me, I have no clue how to use it.

I know that there are folks that make money online, but I seem to not have the flair to make Google like me. What is funny is this - this blog is looked upon with favor by Google, yet I cannot even get my Be Your Own Detective web page nor blog get indexed by Google. What is NOT so funny, is searches that should bring up my page bring up basically "dead" sites before mine. Sites that offer things that do not even exist any more or that have not been updated for two years. Yahoo has another way of indexing sites, it is simple: bribe them with 300 bucks AND if they think your site is worthy, then they will index it. Would it be worth 300 bucks? Sure, IF they index it. Am I gonna gamble on it? I am not sure if Google has not yet indexed my site.

I am not trying to fool myself. I don't expect to get rich online, I just wanted to generate income. Maybe I should do like all the real money makers - it seems all they sell is "how to make money online" which I am not selling. I sell legitimate service(s) - background investigations/checks and cell phone lookups.

This isn't a sales pitch, just a little venting of my frustrations.

Y'all stay safe!

Laptop Back in Business - Woohoo!

Yes!!!

I was able to fix the laptop. Except yours truly forgot to take photos of the laptop in pieces and the repair job.

Added after original post:

I had to re-solder a power input jack I had re-installed on the laptop (apparently a common problem with a Toshiba Laptop like I have) I was able to borrow a soldering iron form the air conditioning repair guys here. I re-soldered the jack and put some epoxy on the other side for re-inforcement. That way it cannot work loose again.

Now I may be able to get back to my online business.

Now to find a guitar here - supposedly they aren't hard to find. My three trips to locate the guitar store have been fruitless.

Stay Safe!!