I am on a train coming home from New York City right now and I suddenly thought to myself: my days are pretty random. And as I was thinking about the randomness of my days, I suddenly thought up a way to get a little link baiting going on. While it might not work, I thought that it would prove to be sort of interesting. So, how exactly does this work and how can you benefit from it?

The way it works is simple:

1. You write up a little paragraph about what you are doing before you start this post. It could be checking your e-mail or something like that.
2. In that post, you mention the blog that you found this link bait method from and just give them a link back.
3. You write about what your day is usually like. What sorts of work do you do? You can mention personal life or just keep it strictly business, that doesn’t matter. Just describe your day and how it unfolds.
4. You compile the list as below with a link to the blogs of the people already on the site.
5. You put up three new people with the question: “What’s your day like?”

So, how does my day start…Since I am on summer vacation, I don’t ever have a time to wake up. I like to get up at a decent hour naturally so that I can work; however, if the previous night was long, well, that doesn’t work. The first thing that is on the agenda is about ten minutes checking my e-mail as well as my stats. I’ll spend some time just making sure things look alright and if they are not alright, trying to figure out what happened. These first ten or fifteen minutes is a lot of trouble shooting. Why did this site not perform as well? That’s a big question.

Once I finish with the trouble shooting, I check out my sites and look for comments. If there are comments, I reply to them. If there are new links to my blogs via the technorati feed, I look at them. I like to know who is linking to me. I spend about five minutes looking at mybloglog and if I find a blog that is interesting (which I have numerous times) I spend about ten minutes on that particular blog. I make sure to run to my blog roll everyday to see how my friends are doing.

The next part of the day is cruising around digitalpoint. Since my new task is to build up my post count on there so that I can sell my signature links (I realized that it’d be good extra income per month), I have been posting a lot on there recently. I think I was the first to post about the agloco toolbar coming out, so that was definitely something I was glad about. I look for any sites that might be for sale, but I am either way too picky or the sites are just downright shitty, so I don’t buy them.

I spend a lot of time in my day reading other blogs, which I know that I shouldn’t because I could be working harder on my sites. But, I just love to read and see what other people are doing and see how they are expanding. I do post on my science forum often with the hopes of snagging some more attention. At the moment, it is a constant battle trying to expand that site, but it’ll work.

The final thing that I do in the day is write my blog posts. Contrary to what other people do with posting their blog posts in the afternoons or before lunch time, I do it late at night, right before midnight. I do this so that it is available for the next morning. I know some people that read blogs in the morning while drinking their coffee before work. My mentality is that if I can nab them and get them to read, I am good. My other mentality is that I know that a lot of people in Europe read blogs, so I want to try and get them to see my updated content a lot as well. It just works out that way.

My day is stress free which is nice, but I have a feeling that I would be making more money if my day wasn’t as stress free. I think that I need to spend less time on the other blogs and more time on my own. I could easily update my blogs twice a day if I really sat down and worked on them. But who knows? But this is my day. I am making decent money and I know that as time goes on, I will make even more money. One can only hope, right?

Read the Day of These People
Zero to Med

What’s Your Day Like?
Andreas Bard
Bob Buskirk
Jon Waraas

Thanks for taking the chance to do this blog link baiting technique with me. I hope it works out for everyone. Thanks.

It takes a lot out of me to write these blog posts. Buy me a beer to cool me off!