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This Lolcat is For My Favorite Attorneyman, D - Have A Good Monday!

Seriously.  I’ve lost track.  I thought it was Monday on Friday and today I forgot it was Sunday until long after the Simpsons were over.  I am busier than ever, which is a very good thing if you’re someone trying to run a business.  Nobody wants to start a business and hear crickets.  In fact, we’ve got so much on our plates that we’re probably going to leave a few blogs dormant.  We considered selling the domains, but ultimately they are costing us nothing if they just sit there.  There’s no sense in getting rid of them.  In short, you won’t see much posted on MrandMrsKink.com or on CorsetandCollar.com, and you may have already noticed that I parked MommeDomme.com.  There just simply isn’t enough time in the day to take good care of them.  I do want to integrate part of MommeDomme into CatalinaLoves.com, but again- when is there time?  It’s a good idea to RSS feed to them so you get updates as they happen.

So this blog is really not a “useful” blog in the big picture.  It doesn’t have a motive.  I don’t really sell anything here.  I don’t really write sexy adventures or anything like that, but it is my personal journal in some ways.  I don’t write my really personal stuff here, but it’s a good place to sort of debrief at the end of the day.  It’s become a part of my bedtime routine that I enjoy - the opportunity to write freestyle without pressure to please an audience.  Read it if you want or don’t.  It’s not about readers, but just about writing.  How liberating!

So basically here was my day: Lochai, Trufetish.com, and Fetlife.com.  I slept in today - I went to bed around 4 am and I woke up at noon, the call that awoke me was Lochai.  Off the top of my head I can’t even really recall what it was about.  He is, of course, going crazy with wrapping up loose ends and moving to the other side of the country within one month and being ready to go to work.   I do have to say that I am pretty excited to work so closely with two men that I respect and admire.  They both have taught me a tremendous amount in a very short time.   I also enjoy them both on a personal level, so it makes working so friggin’ hard fun!

How does Trufetish fit in there?  I stayed up late and wrote my article to submit before the deadline.  How about that?  The deadline is the 26th and today is the (wait, let me check, I really don’t know) 25th!  Wow.  Big deal.  I thought today was like the 22nd and I was really early.  Not nearly as impressive, but it still counts. This month I wrote about roleplay.  You’ll have to wait until it is published on Trufetish.com to read it.  I’m curious to find out what people think about it.

So Lochai told me today to expect a package from Fed Ex this week.  I Love Surprises!  I hate them, and I love them at the same time.  They drive me crazy, but it’s a good kind of crazy, like when you were a kid and it was December 23rd!  It’s a good week for packages, actually.  I’m expecting a few!  It is so exciting!  I love just getting a card in the mail, a package makes me jump up and down with joy.  For real.  I love them.

In other news the-f-mag.com contacted us today.  They wrote that they stumbled upon Quid Pro Quo and were planning to write an article about our little empire.  Neato.  I’ll have to follow up on that tomorrow (today).

This week there is a lot on my plate - I have a lot of people to get in touch with, plenty to write, and I have raffle items that need to go to the post office.  I am giving all of my clothes that are too big to my neighbor so I’m cleaning out my closet, literally, not in the Eminem kind of way.  I think a lot of my friends are annoyed that I don’t have time to socially chat online very much anymore, but if I’m not incredibly disciplined about getting my work done, then it just adds up and freaks me out.   So to my friends, please just know that I’m not ignoring you, we’re just working our asses off right now, trying to make the Fetlife Marketing Department a huge success while we continue to work our asses off for our other clients at Quid Pro Quo.   This week that literally translates into working all day contacting various people for several projects, setting things up for various promos, having graphic design work outsourced, writing reviews,  and then working at night on a new blog for Sgt. Major and fine tuning Lochai’s blog.   I have the best job in the world.

Well, it’s 5:48 am, I just remembered that I need to set someone new up on the BestSexBloggers.com blog.  A lovely blog, Bloody Laughter, was personally recommended by our own Essin’ Em.   A superb blog.  I’m excited to see what she posts on BestSexBloggers.com.  Off I go, Chris Martin singing to me, to wave my magic wand and add a new contributor.

I got an email today that said:

Dearest Catalina,

I am a huge fan of Your blogs. After reading Your series on starting, monetizing, and managing your own blog, I decided to start my own sex blog! I just added You as my first link in my blogroll (did You already know that?) I have a question for You and I hope You have some time to answer it: Is there anything that stands out in Your mind as “I wish I had known that a long time ago!”?

Cheers!
g

Dear g:

I made time for it by making it a blog post. That’s maybe lesson number one? I don’t know. Also notice that when I copied and pasted your email into this post, I linked to My own blogs so that our curious reader can see what other blogs we’re talking about. I also linked to the series posts so that the lucky soul who just found my blog for the first time today can go back and get caught up.

One of my blogging regrets so far is not linking better in the beginning. Some of the early posts were linked in a sort of moronic manner. I’ve since gone back through them (I think all of them) on Catalina Loves and re-linked and tagged them, but that was a bitch to do.

Another is that I didn’t always use tags. I only have a category cloud in my sidebar and so I figured using tags also was a waste of time.  I was wrong. And just like re-linking, re-tagging was a tremendous pain-in-the-ass. Not only did I have to check the links in those posts, but really carefully read through each one looking for keywords (tags). Now, as a result, I write tags when I write the post and I do it every time I write a post. There are a number of people who skip from blog to blog via tag surfing. Those things matter! Do it.

I think my best advice to you looking forward is to think about your blog not now, but a year from now. Maybe it doesn’t need its own category now, but after a few months will you have to go back and re-tag it after you add the category? Ugh, that’s a pain. So try to get all your categories established early. Also consistent tagging is useful. Unfortunately, Wordpress doesn’t have a checkbox or dropdown box for tags, so you have to type them in. My reach around on this one is to go to Manage-Posts and then Copy-Paste the tags from a similar post. You can then delete the ones you don’t want to use easily (click the x) or add some if there are more that are needed. I do that for Sugasm, for example. I have a basic template like sex, sex blog, best sex blogs of the week, best posts of the week, BDSM, D/s, erotic fiction, hnt (etc. etc.) and then I can modify it easily after copying/pasting that string. (Always look for the easy way).

I hope this gives you somewhere to start. Find your tribe. A tight network of bloggers can help each other out a lot.

Best Wishes,
Catalina

If you have a question about blogging or Wordpress or… I suppose if you just want to know what the weather is like… email me by clicking on the grumpy kitty. I’ll post your question here and answer it just like this. You’ll be famous (and I’ll add you to my blogrolll even).