Jasmine – 30 Days Challenge Log (Feb 15 – Mar 15, 2012)

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Posted by Jasmine 87 days ago
I’m Jasmine and this my personal challenge log about my progress in the 30 Days Challenge taking place in the period between Feb 15 and Mar 15, 2012 on Seekyt.


I made a very important decision at the very beginning of this challenge, and that is to write a lot more, especially this year; skeffling and Ddraig encouraged me to take the Writers Challenge announced by an Infobarrel member CrystalNici who created a Wordpress page where all the participants of that challenge can place their challenge article links and report about their progress. The goal of this challenge is to have 500 articles published in the period between Jan 30, 2011 and Jan 30, 2012. The challenge on Seekyt is my first step towards reaching this goal. This also means there will be a lot more writing challenge right here on Seekyt during this period :)

In the comments below, I’ll be including links to my Challenge articles, keep you posted about the reasons making me slow down or accelerate in publishing, my choice of topics and learning experiences.

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Other participants of the current Seekyt 30 Days Challenge are:

Skeffling – Challenge Log

Ddraig – Challenge Log

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10 Comments

Written by Jasmine, 87 days ago.
Four days since the Feb/Mar Seekyt 30 Days Challenge has started. I wrote four articles. These cover a very popular, but not an attractive topic - depression. they include bookreviews on books on depression. With these, I want to backup one of my previously written articles both for readers and search engines. One article is an extension of my depression quotes collection (depression quotes about love). It's an experiment in terms of ranking and earnings (hope to see positive results). Here they are:

#1 Bookreview - The Mindful Way through Depression
#2 Bookreview - Living with a Black Dog - His Name is Depression
#3 Collection of Depression Quotes About Love
#4 Bookreview - Depression (first version of C. L. Hammen's Handbook of Depression)

Why depression quotes? A long time ago, I read it would be optimal to create a web page listing depression quotes because it would pay off. Yet, beating competition for rankings and traffic is completely something else. I checked top results on this search query (more than 100,000 people look for depression quotes every month), but you'll rarely find methaphorical definitions of depression on those websites. My collection is unique, right on the spot, and a result of time-consuming and not very fun reading, or scan-reading more than 100 books on this popular, but depressive topic :) Can't wait to finish with this subject and move on to more interesting topics :)
Written by Jasmine, 87 days ago.
Trying to be a few steps ahead:

#5 Jennifer Rozines Roy Biography
#6 The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression by William Knaus
#7 Article Writing Websites

I'm so sleepy...coffee time!

Just thought of skeffling. She must have a flu or something - Claire get well soon :)

I published Jennifer Roy's biography 4 hours ago. It's on page 2 in the SERPs. Unbelievable!
Written by Jasmine, 86 days ago.
#8 Judith Peacock and Jackie Casey - Depression

Bed time...
Written by skeffling, 86 days ago.
Well done Jasmine you are streaking ahead! Great you are doing well in the bigger year long challenge too!

No flu, I'm just a bit anaemic so don't have a lot of energy. Hubby had been ice fishing and was coming home after a week, so tidying the house wiped me out! But the awesome snacky supper he made will be my next article. Off to write it now! Baked Brie and Garlic Crostini!
Written by Jasmine, 85 days ago.
@skeffling: Yes, I'm streaking ahead for now, but that's because my latest articles were shorter than my usual word count. Yet, I couldn't find more information about the topics, and interesting enough, it took me longer to write those (because of research) than some other stuff. To be honest, I'm in a hurry to get rid of depressive topics LOL I have to add here that two of those articles already rank among the first top results in the SERPs and the article I was aiming to push back, that is, up on the SERPs chart, is back on track (it was buried for a while). So, the experiment works for now and we'll see about the monetization part after we're up and running here again :)

One question though: how do we save changes after we've edited our pages on The Writers Challenge Wordpress page?

P.S. I seriously suffered from anaemia as a child. Six months of therapy and I'm well ever since (at least as far as aenemia is concerned). I'm glad you're safe and sound again :)
Written by skeffling, 85 days ago.
Sounds like it is working well. I am on a roll this morning, I have published 4, some previously written, and not all count for my challenges but it helps pay the bills!

Saving changes on the 500 articles site, there's a blue "Update" button at the right that you can hit. After that, I usually go up to the top (to the top left of the text box) and "view page" to make sure it looks OK.

Glad you are fine now too, it's crazy how tired it makes you, like you took a Nyquil or something. Makes it hard to get anything done.
Written by Sgolis, 87 days ago.
okay....So do I understand this correctly you want every member to have a a separate journal for their 30- day articles rather than one journal that shares all participant content for the 30-day channel....?

In order to locate these separate journals we are to come to the main hub (here) and click on the link...

And if you do not do a journal...you are not a participant of the 30 day challenge?
With so many individual participant journals they will no doubt loose their home page ranking, so I hope the main hub journal stays on the home page so people will be able to find the participant journals easily....Got it I think, correct me if I am wrong.....
Written by Jasmine, 87 days ago.
@Sgolis: Please, create a journal and keep it as your challenge log, like skeffling and Ddraig. Then place your links there, but after you've placed those links here (the official Feb/Mar 30 Days Challenge Journal). I'll add a link to your journal above (and in the 30 Days Challenge journal) as soon as you post it. Challenge logs are intended for individual links and progress, and the 30 Days challenge journal for collective links. Thanks :)

P.S. Note that the Challenge started on Feb 15 so articles published before that date don't qualify as challenge articles.
Written by Jasmine, 87 days ago.
There is the 30 Days Challenge announcement journal published on Feb 15, 2012. In that journal we are supposed to share thoughts related to the Challenge and include links to all of our challenge articles.

I suggested Challenge Logs so that writers can keep a kind of diary describing their personal progress during the challenge month and include links to their articles there, too. This is of course optional.

In other words, a journal in which we share our challenge articles exists from Day 1 of the challenge - it's the announcement journal. Although there are other comments in that journal, links to our challenge articles have already been posted there since Day 1. I don't see the point of posting another journal with the same purpose.

This is not the main journal, but my personal challenge log or diary associated to the current challenge. The main page is here.

This means you'll have links pointing to your articles twice: once in the 30 Days Journal and once in your own personal Challenge Log journal. This will, of course, increase the visibility of all your articles because you will be linking to them from two sources (if you want your own personal journal).

Just save the 30 Days Challenge if it's easier for you, and if people continue posting challenge articles in the journal every day, it will be on home page the whole month.
Written by Jasmine, 85 days ago.
Two for today:

#9 A Review of Patricia Ainsworth's Book: Understanding Depression
and
#10 A Review of the Book Understanding Depression by DePaulo and Horvitz
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