I stumbled upon this post titled Successful Bloggers and How They Got There Start
ShoeMoney.com – Now I really don’t know if this was his first post but here it is – Shoemoney meets a Chihuahua…and Paris Hilton. He also runs eliteretreat.info, that has to be the first .info domain that I’ve seen that actually had something else other than adsense ads.
Its always interesting to read others takes 
Here is the story on how I started blogging. I was at my first search engine conference SES San Jose. I met up with my friend Jason from the digitalpoint forums and we got on the subject of blogs. I told him I thought blogs were stupid and I did not understand why anyone would take time out of there day to write a blog when they could be working on stuff or whatever. Well after I got back from San Jose SES I made a photo gallery on my site. Then I wanted a place to put down just random thoughts so I figured what the heck and I pinged Jason and asked him what was that blog software he was talking about. Of course it was wordpress.
I originally used wordpress with gallery integration but I had such a tough time with it that I ended up writing my own integration pieces (that were compatible with my theme and upgrades to wordpress).
My first post was actually a backdate from when I met paris hilton. I really did not think anyone would ever read it. I went weeks without posting. I still thought a blog was very silly for the most part.
How the blog really started getting traffic was from the digitalpoint forum header:
When I started this blog that accounted for about 95% of the traffic to it. Now it still accounts for over 5%.
Anyway thats how it started
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March 25, 2007 at 5:42 am
Oh yeah, I forgot to comment here and thank you for linking to me, hope you read it Shoe.
Thanks
March 11, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Is it effective put the google adsense in the right sidebar?
March 3, 2007 at 10:57 am
I agree, I’d say about 10% of my visitors come from DP. Not even worth mentioning really.
March 2, 2007 at 10:26 pm
I have always noticed the Digital Point forum blog link. I just started my blog, and I have it added my profile there. I’m hoping this will drive some traffic.
Digital Point is the first place that I heard of ShoeMoney!
March 1, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Based on his original Paris Hilton post, it would have been 2004
February 28, 2007 at 8:29 pm
What year was it that you started this blog?
February 28, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Wow, you seem to be meeting all the famous chicks in the biz. Paris and Jenna, who’s next?
February 28, 2007 at 4:04 pm
If it wasn’t for the blog though, I wonder how more/less famous Shoemoney would be. I sure think it helps.
February 28, 2007 at 1:14 pm
We’ve got memcache in the bz toolbox, that slowdown caused by a missing index just surfaced as things are growing quickly. I hope things are a bit better now.
February 28, 2007 at 7:26 am
Amen brother, everyone wants the quick riches but they don’t realize what’s involved and how it’s just as much work to stay there as it is to get there.
February 28, 2007 at 4:03 am
Start small,Finish big!
February 28, 2007 at 2:58 am
well… i first meet you at the digital point forums and you’re the one that me inspire to blog.
February 28, 2007 at 1:13 am
I used to have the same hesitations about blogs. I then realized that most of my attempts at building content were bloggish, and gave in…
February 27, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Really, I still get a good percentage of my blog traffic from that feed.
February 27, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Could be to do with a lot of the links going to feeds rather than the lastest posts.
February 27, 2007 at 10:19 pm
It’s Paris Hilton–you’ve got to bother her. It’s like a requirement or something. Nice to see how far you’ve come.
February 27, 2007 at 9:17 pm
I think it’s important to note that most EVERYONE starts out small doing it for fun or just to do it and then over the months/years it could turn into something. A lot of people think one day you just hit a switch and are famous and have a popular site/blog.
Good on you for sticking with it even to this day! Keep up the good blogg`n!
February 27, 2007 at 9:06 pm
The link to Jason’s blog doesn’t work. Is it supposed to be http://www.golod.com/ instead?
February 27, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Did you love it, Shoe? That’s hott.
February 27, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Did someone say memcache?
February 27, 2007 at 8:24 pm
He isn’t bald because he wanted to be!
February 27, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Wow, very touching story ShoeMoney, ironic how you’re blog is such a big thing in your life now.
February 27, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Hope you didn’t catch anything off Paris man, that would suck
February 27, 2007 at 7:01 pm
It is interesting to read about your “start” – I wonder if I could write about the time I didn’t meet Paris and her dog? *grins* As always, the devil is in the details, thanks for posting this.
February 27, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Shoe – BumpZee is really slowing down your pages. I think they were not designed for your level of traffic. Memcache anyone?
February 27, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Like you said about subscriptions, give something a try because you never know.
February 27, 2007 at 6:19 pm
DigitalPoint members don’t seem to care about recent blog posts as much anymore…
February 27, 2007 at 6:06 pm
No wonder some people call you “showmoney”… it’s right there in your digitalpoint forum header!
http://www.shoemoney.com/images/dpforumheader.jpg
February 27, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Ah yes, The Big Shoe Theory: Nothing…BAM! Then there was Shoe.
Humble beginnings to an excellent resource.
February 27, 2007 at 5:59 pm
DP and Paris Hilton in the same post?
February 27, 2007 at 5:36 pm
hehe that is funny, before getting into blogging I also used to have this prejudice that it was something not useful at all… by then it completely changed the way I interact with the Internet.
February 27, 2007 at 5:17 pm
It’s good that your’s blog is all about the SEM but you can post something more about yourself in your blog… ofcourse I’ve readed your bio, but you can post something more about how you learn so much stuff and about early days in SEM industry.
February 27, 2007 at 5:12 pm
thats awesome man. Just think if you wouldn’t have started the blog… people wouldn’t know who shoemoney is… well ok maybe they would have