well there is much I need to say, having not posted here in well over a year, but I will be filling you in on things piece by piece instead of in one big long ramble.  right now I am finally getting back into the swing of things and trying to organize and optimize what I have before making anything else new.  this is very hard for me as I would much rather create but it is what needs to be done even if its going to be a long and grueling process.  I have so much that needs to be updated or fixed that I cannot justify doing much of anything else and when I finally get it done with I will feel sooo good.

So right now my focus in on the keyboard playground.  It is actually the most profitable of my sites as it does well in the search engines, but it still has a lot of room to improve.  To that end, I have a single-minded focus at the moment: get onto the front page of the google results for the search term “typing games”.  I am #3 in “online typing games”, #5 for “free typing games” and #1 for “keyboarding games” but the volume of those searches pales in comparison to the searches for just plain typing games.  If I can move up 10 spots (right now I am #15) to #5 I think I will make enough money from the google ads to be able to abandon any freelance work (which is one of the things that has been distracting me) and be able to focus full-time on my own enterprises.  This is my goal and I am going to stick to it.

Basically this means two main things:  get inbound links and improve the quality of the site / the scope of the content.  I have shifted the site to run on wordpress so it’s now like a blog which makes it easier to  update and more visible to the search engines.  I am reviewing other typing programs and sites to bolster my content and presumably increase my google authority on the subject of typing games.  I am also revitalizing the typing test (which died from lack of love)  and once I get that going again I will be promoting it heavily.  I am also spending a lot of time going around site by site and trying to get people to link to me. There are hundreds or maybe even thousands of sites run by schools that provide resources for keyboarding practice and if I can get on all of those I think I will reach my goal.

More coming soon.  I have also realized how much I miss writing so I am going to be a lot more active here again.