Robby94LS..... The Blog

Well I have good news, I finally got AdSense all straightened out! I think I did it a real roundabout way, but I accomplished the end result I was hoping for..... Now the second project..... My domain.... Blogger is not bad.... but I THOUGHT  it had evolved into a full fledged web host.... I was wrong... blogging is ALL it does. I want / need a regular website. If anyone happens to come across this and has ideas, I'd LOVE to hear from you! I've tried Google webpage builder and that seems to lack control just as much as Blogger, in fact, it seems to work JUST about the same as Blogger, I think it's Chrysler 200 version of the Dodge Dart..... A little more polished, but same garbage underneath....

Google..... It's a love hate relationship.... Love Google services, the hoops you have to jump through drive me CRAZY though..... I've had my YouTube channel since before Google owned YouTube, and long before the attempted and failed Google+ integration. (which is what I THINK fucked me up, but more on that later...) So skipping ahead TO the G+ integration, Google kept trying to get me to consolidate my channel with my Google account..... I didn't want to do that! I wanted to keep my channel name as it was, because of this Google would pop-up question why over and over, I finally just checked one of their bogus boxes and said it was a business. I think that's what at the root of my issue here, Starting to get REAL tired of this, but I don't want to start another channel and have to start over....

So it seemed like a great idea to buy this domain at the time, I mean I couldn't beat the price! I figured, Blogger can't be that bad, right? It's a Google product after all!!.... Well after messing with it for a couple days, I'm starting to have second thoughts.... The few templates that are built in all suck, the HTML of the templates doesn't take changes well and doesn't look or act like HTML I've seen before, (I'm no expert though) and no matter what I do it just looks like an old Myspace or Xanga page! I was under the impression that it was going to be able to manipulate it more like a website  and less like a 90s or early 00s blog.... I guess the only positive thing I can think to say about Blogger is they've really stayed true to their roots..... If anyone has any suggestions, I'm MORE than open to hearing them!

So in trying to monetize my videos on YouTube, I needed a website with a domain that I owned.... Long story short, I joined YouTube before the Google+ integration, didn't want to lose my name, so I just said it was a business channel.... Weeeeell apparently you need to link business channels to a website.... Makes sense I guess. At any rate, I already had this as a blogger site since it was a google service, and they give you the option to buy a domain at the price most people spend on meals out in a day soooooo, here we are!! Don't really know what I'll do with it LoL, but it's here!