JoeBailey.ORG

Experience
Well, this was the best experience I’ve had so far with an installation. In fact, I didn’t even have to install it. So, off to the next task.

Requirements
I must have a widget ready theme. Note, if you have WordPress version 2.2 or later, you don’t need this. See the note in the upper right of the installation page.

Installation
When I arrived at the installation page, I was confronted to install and download for WordPress 2.0.x or version 2.1.x. Ah, which one do I have? At this time, I have Version 2.3.3. Here’s how to find out what version you have of WordPress.

How to determine what version of WordPress is installed
1. Log in as the administrator
2. If you have my version, look at the very bottom of the first page. It shows the Version!

Link for the installation:

http://automattic.com/code/widgets/

On a completely separate note, I added some generic links from some of my other sites to this site. Of course, no other visitors have arrived except myself. So, we’ll see what happens.

As I viewed the statistics for some of the other sites, which are not optimized at all, I did realize something. On two different sites, I had one article that was gathering visitors. Since no one really comes to the site, it appears that each article is producing about 10 visitors a day. Which, is not bad. I can easily see how one blog can become popular very fast. Here’s my “pie in the sky logic”. If I can write at least one good article/blog a week, that would be 520 visitors a day in one year. To me, that sounds like a lot. So, that would be 520×365 = 189800 visits a year. I’m not sure how this multiplies out when it comes to revenues, but, it does appear to be a ton of potential.