Spent all day researching how to drive traffic to the BLOG

Friday night, most of Saturday and again Sunday morning we were at a prohetic conference so no BLOGing
Sun afternoon through till now (1am Mon) I've been solidly trying to work out how I get traffic to my first main BLOG.
I've found heaps of good articles and it looks like I'm already doing quite a bit of what they suggest, but there's lots more I can do also.
So, over the next few nights I'll start to try a few of those and see what happens.
Once I start getting some traffic, I'll put Adsense in place.

I've been compiling a spreadsheet of terms (jargon/slang) I've run across as I've been on this journey of discovery, so I think I'll start to record them here in case they assist someone else who may read this hotch-potch of my experience.
(God I'm tired ! I'm making SOOO many typing mistakes!)

I've also amassed a whole bunch of useful links so I'll start recording them in here as well.
So-far to-date they include:

Pre 8th October 2006
AWM Forum
http://www.adwordmentor.com/members/forums/index.php?
Digital Point Forum
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
ABAKUS Revrese Keyword Generator
http://www.abakus-internet-marketing.de/tools/topword.html
Adsense URL Checker
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-sandbox/
Overture Results Generator
http://www.resultsgenerator.com/overture/
Blogger.com Login
http://www.blogger.com/login.g
First blog attempt
http://blog-monster-taming.blogspot.com
Second blog attempt
http://digital-video-security.blogspot.com
Site Feed URL
http://{sitename}.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Affiliates Alert
P:\Program Files\Affiliates Alert\AffiliatesAlert.exe
Tips for Making Money via Blogs
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=141305
Pro Blogger (Auzzie)
http://www.problogger.net
Page Rank Explained
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/07/16/google-page-rank-explained/
Blogging For Beginners
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/14/blogging-for-beginners-2/
All my DigitalPoint forum posts
Find all my DP forum posts

8th October 2006

Great Adsense Newbie link
http://www.adsensechat.com/showthread.php?t=3666
Another good newbie article
http://www.webpublishingblog.com/2006/03/

Biggest Google AdSense publishers
http://www.johnchow.com/index.php/the-internets-biggest-google-whores/

Excel version of Ping-O-matic
ping_your_weblog_with_excel

keyword analysis
http://www.pingoat.com/goat/keyword_analysis

Kping
http://kping.com/
Ping My Blog
http://www.pingmyblog.com/
Ping The Empire
http://www.pingtheempire.com
Pinger
http://pinger.blogflux.com/
Pingoat
http://pingoat.com/
Ping-o-matic
http://pingomatic.com/
RPC2 Ping
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2

Spider Simulator
http://www.pingoat.com/goat/spider_simulator

Ten steps to a well optimised site - p1
http://websearch.about.com/od/beginnersguidetoseo/a/tenstepsseo.htm
Ten steps to a well optimised site - p2
http://websearch.about.com/od/beginnersguidetoseo/a/tenstepsseo_2.htm

Top Ten Tips for Improved SEP - p1
http://websearch.about.com/od/searchenginemarketing/a/toptentipsSEO.htm
Top Ten Tips for Improved SEP - p2
http://websearch.about.com/od/searchenginemarketing/a/toptentipsSEO_2.htm

Where and how to place keywords
http://websearch.about.com/od/seononos/a/spooky.htm

The Glossary

CPC
Cost Per Click
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CPC.html
Advertisers will pay Internet publishers based on the number of clicks a specific ad gets
Black Hat
Black Hat SEO
http://seoblackhat.com/
THE Black Hat SEO forum !
Black Hat
Black Hat SEO
http://websearch.about.com/od/seononos/a/spamseo.htm
Explanation of "Black Hat" "Search Engine Optimization"
● Keyword stuffing● Invisible text● Doorway Pages
BTR
BlogToRank
http://www.blogtorank.com
BlogToRank(BTR) is an automatic blog and ping Microsoft Windows platform application
Cloaking
Cloaking (Black hat SEO)
http://seoblackhat.com/category/cloaking/
Cloaking involves using the ip address or features of the HTTP request (e.g. the User-Agent field) in order to identify and deliver unique content to a specific ip or User-agent.
SEC
Search Engine Cloaking
SEP
Search Engine Placement
YPN
Yahoo Publisher Network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Publisher_Network
The Yahoo! Publisher Network (abbreviated YPN) is a beta network, launched on August 2, 2005 by Yahoo
AdSense
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adsense
AdSense is an advertising program run by Google. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text and image advertisements on their sites. These ads are administered by Google and generate revenue on a per-click basis.
AdWords
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdWords
is a search marketing program utilizing small textual advertisements on Google and it's partner sites on a CPC (cost per click) basis.
AWM
Ad Word Mentor
http://www.adwordmentor.com/members/googleadwordsguide/copywriting.htm
Chris and Jeremy have teamed up to provide you with the latest cutting-edge information on making a killing with Google Adwords--Adword Mentor!
CPI
Cost Per Impression
Instead of paying by the click for those ads, you will pay by the 1000 impressions.
CTR
Click Through Rate
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CTR.html
the ratio of the number of times a user clicks on an online advertisement per number of viewers who view the Web site that has the advertisement on it. For example, if one out of 100 people who visit a specific Web site click on an advertisement and are taken to the advertiser's site, then the CTR of that advertisement is 1/100, or 1%.
IMO
In My Opinion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMO
Impression
Page Impression OR Ad-Unit Impression
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/whats_a_google_adsense_page_impression.html
Until now, your AdSense 'page impressions' reflected the number of times the AdSense code was triggered. This meant that multiple ad units on a page would log up to 3 'page impressions' in your reports, when only a single page view had taken place in a user's browser.Page impressions are now just that - the number of page views we detect. Ad Unit Impressions are the new name for the old behaviour: one impression logged for each ad unit shown.
KEI
Keyword Effectiveness Index
http://www.goldranking.com/search_engine_ranking_keywords.html
KEI is a statistical formulationthat reveals the most effective keyword phrases and terms to use to optimize your web pages
MFA
Made For Adsense
http://www.wootsite.com/HOME/webmaster-news-articles-tips-25.html
A site is made for AdSense if its sole purpose is to get users to click on AdSense ads. Its owners don't intend that users will learn from its content or participate in a community. All that they want is for them to click on an ad.
PPC
Pay Per Click
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PPC.html
an Internet marketing formula used to price online advertisements. Same as cost-per-click (CPC)
PR
Page Rank
http://www.strategic-ranking.com/FAQ/pagerank.htm
the name given to Google's link popularity calculation or score. PR is determined by measuring both the quantity and quality of incoming links to a website and is a major factor in Google’s site ranking algorithm
R/SORD/S
Results / Supply OR Demand / Supply
Ideally you want to have keywords which have high demand and low supply.The ratio is calculated by Supply / Demand
RDF
Resource Description Framework
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RDF.html
RDF is a general framework for describing a Web site's metadata, or the information about the information on the site
RSS
Rich Site SummaryORReally Simple Syndication
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RSS.html
Short for RDF Site Summary or Rich Site Summary, an XML format for syndicating Web content.
SEM(1)
Search Engine Marketing
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SEM.html
SEM is often used to describe acts associated with researching, submitting and positioning a Web site within search engines to achieve maximum exposure of your Web site
SEM(2)
SEM Glossary
http://www.strategic-ranking.com/semglossary.htm
All the SEM terms explained
SEO
Search Engine Optimization
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SEO.html
the process of increasing the amount of visitors to a Web site by ranking high in the search results of a search engine
SERP
Search Engine Results Page
http://www.strategic-ranking.com/FAQ/serp.htm
SERP is a web page that a search engine returns with the results of its search.