I Need Help and/or Direction

Because I am 68 years old and don’t have a pension, my husband does physical work to help support us. I have been trying for 3 years to create something to make a small income from so that he could go fishing more. We live on a freshwater canal in a small home we are restoring.

I started my main blog (this one) in 2004. Then in 2008, I created 6 separate blogs each with one topic from the topics in the main blog. I don’t know if that was wise. I am currently trying to get some work from odesk or other sites. I hired a couple to give me an audit of what is needed. The audit showed the following needs.

Audit–

- -Remove /blog subdirectory from kathyberman site

- -Install the Redirection plugin and create global forwarding rules to remove 404 errors

- -Ensure that the home, posts, and pages all show the correct header

– Review any pathing errors and update

–Update permalinks to more friendly URLs

-Install / configure the following plugins to assist with SEO

- Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.2 (make sure it is working)

- All in One SEO 1.4.7

Update WordPress– WordPress 2.62 –> go up to 2.7.1

-Update these plugins

- Akismet 2.1.8 –> go up to 2.2.3

- Broken Link Checker 0.4.8 (does not work with 2.7.1)

- Reveal IDs for WP Admin 1.0.1 –> go up to 1.1.1

- Theme Test Drive 2.6.1 –> go up to 2.7.2

Add these plugins

- Google Analytics for WordPress 2.7

- Viper’s Video Quicktags 6.1.16

- Simple Trackback Validation 2.1

- WP-DB-Backup 2.2.2

Delete Unused Plugins

Upgrade all blogs to WordPress 2.7.1

Update the URLs to SEO friendly ones, and install Redirection

Add, update, and delete plugins

I was promised that my financial position would be taken into account so I guess the price quoted for this work is a discount. The price quoted is for $1650.00 which I can’t afford. I don’t know what absolutely has to be done and what would be nice to have done

I have been trying to get a sitemap approved. No luck. It always comes up with errors. With wordpress.tv, I wonder if I can do any of it.

Please advise me. If you can, point me to some help that I may be able to barter some work for by doing some work for the persons helping me. I have been writing about my life since Nov. 2004 so I am not misrepresenting anything. Thank you for your kind help.