Its time to start a BLOG

Well I have finally got around to writing a BLOG, I will probably post once a week or maybe a bit more if I feel so inclined.

Never really done this before as not into social networking I find I never have that much to say and my Facebook posts normally read 'Stephen is sitting on a train' or something equally interesting.

Several of my online friends are able to produce witty one liners in their status updates on a daily basis so they are either naturally gifted at writing short and snappy comments or have too much time to think about it.

Considering I work in web development I really should have done this sooner I have lots of stuff to say but will try and keep it to specific subjects for each post.

There is an ulterior (have I spelt that correctly) motive in that I am trying to promote my website www.shopoftheworld.com that is basically a amalgamation of affiliate products - suffice to say its not easy getting traffic and every guide I read suggests getting bloggers to link to your site with 'interesting and real' content to increase your sites google ranking. So hands up I will sprinkle in a few links to my site and products from time to time, so far I have earned 29p commission and that was from a sale to myself - I will post details of my earning as well so you can all see how easy(not) it is to make money from the Internet when you don't actually have anything to sell.

At one time I did actually have products to sell online (guitars, strings and accessories) and it was all going well for a while but not easy to actually make money from. That's another story for another day.

I will save these stories for later posts but look out for some stuff about Easton Lodge which was my childhood home, The story of www.shopoftheworld.com , my life in F1 and some truck rental stories as well as the usual family,kids,dogs,cats stuff.

Well that's the end of my first ever BLOG post normally at this point I would delete it as not interesting enough (which it probably isn't) but I am going to see it through and press submit.

Thanks for reading