Instead, it happened in four days. And although eight visitors via Google may not seem too many, but it’s a pretty good start, I think.

I registered this domain on Saturday, launched the blog with the first post. The blog has been indexed by Google in less than 24 hours (thanks to the social bookmarking sites Digg, Mixx, Kirtsy and Reddit) to which I submitted my first post. But while being indexed by Google is nice, brand new sites (remember, this domain was free less than a week ago) usually have so low page rankings that those first indexes very rarely lead to actual visitors. Unless, of course the site covers a very specific and non-competitive niche, which is not the case this time.

Later on, yesterday, I launched my second blog under this domain on Charities Donations Volunteering and Nonprofit. Again I submitted the first post to various social networking sites, without any significant effect on their behalf. But it turned out that it had an effect, after all.

Less than 24 hours from posting the first article on my Charity Blog it has been indexed by Google, and the search engine has already sent 8 visitors on the first day. As I check my referer data, the article on Chosing wise Christmas gifts while supporting Charity organizations ranks pretty well on keywords, such as “charitable donations as christmas gifts“, “christmas donation presents” or “child present charity” (I haven’t tried all the possible combinations, I’ve just sampled three of the eight referer records on my Sitemeter account). Nice, general keywords.

And more importantly it’s nice to see that something has been started. We are on track.

Also, I received my first comment from Ben at Toptenblogtips.com, and my first pingback from a pretty obscure-looking site. It looks pretty much a splog, but I approved it this time, as it was the first one.

At least now I feel that I’m alive!

Okay, it’s a bit more complicated than that. I’ve always been dreaming about building up a business on the Internet, including content and service sites, and I got very enthusiastic when I made my first move last week, and decided it was high time I started. So last Friday I registered the domain http://zsoltballa.com (although my real name is Balla Zsolt, but Hungarians, like the Japanese and the Chinese use family and surnames in reverse order, so the English compatible version of my name is Zsolt Balla), and started this blog.

I also wrote down a couple of ideas for the first blogposts, and after setting up the blog environment on Saturday, I started working on them full throttle. I also wrote down a couple of my already existing ideas I was planning to work on for the first few weeks (originally this blog was meant to be a report or a diary on the proceedings of those projects). These notes were not a specific business plan or something, that I am yet to create. But all the while it turned out that I had a hell of a good time writing blog posts.

Based on the fact that I thoroughly enjoyed writing blog posts, and brain storming on possible topics (I had over 30 topic ideas for future posts in virtually no time), and the other fact that I always wanted to have thematic blogs on two special subjects (one of which was charity, the other one I will reveal later on), I decided not to register dedicated domains for these blogs. I thought It would be a nice idea to use my personal domain for these blogs, especially as both of these subjects are of the kind I will gladly give my name to.

The charity blog I launched yesterday evening will feature news, articles, tips (and possibly a nonprofit database and a job board) on everything in connection with charity, donations, volunteering, fund raising, nonprofit works and aid works. I couldn’t resist but started the blog with a bunch of tips on charity Christmas presents.

Call it a cliché, but once I started the blog in the Advent season, I couldn’t find any reason why I shouldn’t do so. I’m planning to have approximately three posts a week up (similarly to this one), although the posting frequency may be a bit higher until the blog gets well established and widely known.

Although the blog is on charity and nonprofit, the blog itself is a for-profit project (I see nothing wrong with that), so for now, I’ve put a few Adsense stripes here and there. Later on I’ll see what works best for me (and for the blog).