Welcome Denise to Blog Interrogation. Show us where you are coming from and where you want us to go when we get tired of working. Just 5 simple questions.



The name of my site is Tired of working? Take a break! The idea behind the site is to provide a place where people can leave their crappy jobs behind and pull up a good article or two and read and relax. What better article to share than the inspiration for the site: My tombstone read I was an excellent employee

I only get one answer? Holy cow, I'd need about four hands to rattle them off to you. Hmm, I'd have to say if I had to do this again, I'd take more time in putting together the look of my site. In three months, I'm on look number 3.

I'm not sure about the passing of time, but if I wanted to rename my site I might consider something like, "please help me find traffic.com"

I'm the only has been on my site, it's all me. You mean I can make money doing this? Huh, I'll have to alert Google to that one.

Any site with traffic Ed, any site with traffic ...

Ed extracts the bones from the blog interrogation

Thanks, Denise. You certainly have a great premise for a blog hook and should have about 98% of the working Western world interested in coming to read you.

All you need to do to get started on the path to attracting several hundred million visitors is to continue writing content in an engaging Denise way about topics that make us feel good when we are not working. That would be hard for most people, but man, you can write pretty good prose, so you are well underway, and judging by your list in the sidebar you have a few hours' worth of content accumulating.

You have the next base mostly under control too - somewhere inviting to post your content. You have quite a nifty banner to make first time visitors feel like they are really, really tired. Moving on down you need to pull out some stops, though. Judging by how much effort you must have put into 3 themes, I presume you have inexhaustible patience and stamina and knowledge to work with HTML and CSS? Bottom line, you could break the text up better with some bold or sub headings maybe? Or little squiggly bits? Blockquotes to die for? And drop some links in there. And there must be some plug-ins to activate to encourage interaction? Turning your comments on your star post would be a good start! (These site tweaks are all part of a plan for building traffic.)

You may have been joking but Please help me find traffic dot com sounds like a domain name worth some money! Check it out with internet entrepreneur, Tyler Cruz, or be cheeky and ask him about domain name buying and selling. That way, you make money off the internet, and delay the day you have to desecrate your blog real estate with Adsense!!

And finally, you want to know some more tricks to get traffic to your blog? Don't ask me, I am a lightweight right now, with not enough months behind me to know which bits are really working yet, but check out an A lister blogger who actually has something useful to contribute!

Best foot forward and write and promote what you write. I do know a couple of tips, actually, Use MyBlogLog, and go take a look around Polliwog's Pond, Are we there yet? and a few other writer bloggers with plenty of inspiration to offer. And always have fun. Stick at it for a couple of years and then see what is going on. I reckon you will do alright.

Hmmm. I think you turned the interrogation on me and made me do all the hard work !! You should go far. And everyone, add this feed to your reader and keep Denise on her toes!

So, who is next up? If I read it correctly through one eye, and a drunken one at that, Hari has a futile meaningless website whichever angle you look at it, but we really need to hear all about it, especially his Einstein theory of relativity blogging - before dismissing him for being way too clever for The Pisstakers readership.

This could be you under interrogation later in the week. Please don't think your blog is too serious or too trivial to provide the answers to the 5 questions. Everyone has a story to tell and the interrogation is a good measure of your understanding of your blog. You get backlinks amidst real content and you can be as whacky as you like for good measure too.