I cannot believe I am approaching 3 weeks of being moved back home with my parents. It doesn’t feel it has bee that long and maybe its because I still have so much on my plate. Right now my parents and I have been making trips back to San Jose to clear out stuff I do not plan on bringing back home with me and some stuff I need to place in a storage unit. My dad is a contractor, so he has been working on putting in tile floors in the master bathroom and this week he is painting the inside. Goodbye purple bedroom walls…sniff. I am hoping my sister finds a place in the next 2 weeks so that she can move out and we get some renters in by the end of September. Once I get renters in place, I know I will be able to truly have an enormous financial burden lifted off my shoulders and I will be able to start to breathe again. …click here to read more
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I am posting screenshots of my earnings for the last 7 days compared to my best earning month this year which was May and then my worst performing month after my sites took a hit from the Mayday update. I post these to bring you hope because I know I am excited to see my earnings going in an upward trend.
The date ranges are all the same the 12th of the month through the 19th. Here are my May’s adsense earnings for the week. …click here to read more
On July 29th, I made a post that talked about how I did nothing to one of my micro niche sites other than incorporate some more LSI words in the content and with just a few weeks time it was ranking on page 1 again which was quite an improvement from being completely lost in the SERPs. I decided to try the same tactic as outlined in that post with one additional step which was a tip that Lisa said helped get some of her sites ranking again. It’s been about 2 1/2 weeks …click here to read more
Today was the day for mediation in order for my ex and I to come to an agreement on my request for a move away. It has been a very emotional and stressful battle but we finally came to terms. Neither one of us are 100% satisfied with the outcome but there was a lot of give and take. I am just glad it is over and that I can finally move forward with my plan to move back home with my parents and rent out the house and then sell it once the market rises again. …click here to read more
I’m back from my vacation and although it was nice to break away from the computer, my business and home responsibilities…3 1/2 days of camping was more than enough for me. We camped near a town called Medicino, CA. It was freezing cold the first night and I quickly learned that I would not be able to keep up with my protein shake drinking because I had to get up 4 times during the night to pee. Getting up to pee when its freezing cold outside and having to jet down 2 campsites away to pee just wasn’t my idea of a good night. There was a crap load of yummy food around 24/7 and even though I fought temptation 4 of the 6 days I was gone, I gave in on 2 days and somehow managed to return home with a 2 lb gain. I’m hoping its just sodium from all the BBQ-ed meats since they were marinaded or had some sort of rub.
I am setting out to leave for my parents this afternoon. We are going on a family camping trip up near Fort Brag on Thursday and will be camping until Sunday. Where we will be at there is very poor cell phone service. This means no texting, no checking emails, no logging into my adsense account and no twittering. Its gonna kill me yet it will be so nice just to get away. …click here to read more
5 days later and I am still seeing improvement on site #31. If you remember, the site was badly affected after the Mayday update and went from being #4 to lost in the SERPs. Now because my test is not pure, i.e. isolating only doing pure profile linking; pure article marketing or only switching over from HTML to using Thesis Theme for WordPress, I can’t say for certain which of those had the most affect on the site. I do know the steps I took to get it moving though. …click here to read more
In my previous post on a new plan to try and get my Mayday affected sites ranking again, I mentioned the action steps I would be taking this week. I came up with this new plan because I have been trying desperately to get my sites ranking again by relying heavily on article marketing the current website’s pages and seeing next to no movement in the SERPs as a result. Well, the action I took this week is helping me to see the light at the end of the tunnel because things are happening. …click here to read more
Yesterday it was pretty hot here, at least it was pretty hot for a day in the Bay Area and a rest day from P90X was much welcomed. I didn’t feel like sweating downstairs since I sold the family room floor fan off at one of our first yard sales and it was too warm upstairs to sit at the computer for very long. I made the mistake of attempting to play my The Sims 3 game with the room being so warm that the game crashed after only 5 minutes of playing. So what else could I do? That’s right nothing better than to …click here to read more
If you have read my previous posts then you already know I have been struggling to lose weight and now I have taken on P90X. Today is my Day 4 and it was the Yoga X day. Wow! That was a workout! I have totally underestimated the power of Yoga. I pretty just thought it was a bit weird with all the funky poses and weird meditation exercises but I actually think it is going to be a great weekly workout for me to help relieve some of the stress I am feeling and the stress is still burning as more fuel gets tossed to the flame with each week. …click here to read more
I’m back. I arrived late Monday night from visiting my family in Fresno. I was so good about sticking to my P90 workout even while being away. I brought my DVD and some resistance bands and I got up at about 7:00 most mornings to get my workout in before the rest of the family woke up. We had a huge annual 4th of July party on Saturday at my Nino’s (godfather) and I got to see some of my cousins I had not seen in 4 years and I got to meet some of their kids for the first time! The best part was, I swam and visited and totally ignored the brownies, cookies and most BBQ foods there. On the actual 4th of July we celebrated my oldest niece’s birthday with a day of more swimming, a BBQ and fireworks. Its legal to use fireworks there! …click here to read more
I have no idea where this week has gone but its already Thursday afternoon and I feel as though I did nothing all week. I did manage to get my 4 articles for ezines written and 2 blog posts done on Monday. Tuesday was filled with a busy morning of errands which included a chiropractor appointment and a quick stop at the mall and then grocery store, so I only managed to write 2 ezine articles that day. Wednesday, I had promised my son a playdate with his best friend so we were at a park that has a …click here to read more
Well, last week was a funny week. I did not meet my goal of getting 10 blog posts queued up for my authority site. I did manage to get 10 done so basically I wrote 2 posts a day. So what exactly did I do the rest of my time? I managed to write 7 articles throughout my week for ezine submissions. So that was enough to back link 2 xfactor sites. To some this may look like not much work done at all but considering I ended my work days around 2 or 3 pm and I took off the entire day on Thursday due to a last minute schedule change. My sister was going to take my son to the local zoo with the kids that she nanny’s for (there is a boy my son’s age so it would be perfect) but then she called to tell me that the family car did not have a seatbelt in the middle. Since my son was ready to go and excited about going; I couldn’t let him down, so I ended up having to go too to drive us there. It was actually a really enjoyable day. So for 4 days of half days of work, it does seem pretty productive to me at least. …click here to read more
Yesterday I had a VERY good adsense day. Its still not back to where I was but its a huge improvement. I almost hit a $30 day. I ended the day at $27.79. So that is two days in a row of doing $20+ days since on Monday I did $22.52. …click here to read more
On May 21, 2010, I went ahead and sent John; of Backlinks Philippines, my site information to backlink. His team immediately started backlinking and I saw my ranks already improving after 1 week. My site had already doubled its income from the previous month’s earnings in just 1 week alone. …click here to read more
Oh the joys of having my son home for the summer. He just cost me $93.29 and it’s not even 11 am yet. He decided to stick his DSi game card into the Wii disc slot and now its stuck inside of there. For those of you that can’t picture this scenario. Its like a shoving a puzzle piece into your car’s cd player. There is no way to get it out without them having to take it apart to retrieve it. *sigh* …click here to read more
Ok, this post is not really meant to be a how-to or anything but yesterday I got swamped with emails saying I had a new follower just about every 5-10 minutes. Believe me, my Android was about to explode with its green flashing light and alert sound going off constantly. No joke! Yesterday I had 155 new twitter followers and I am still getting them this morning. …click here to read more
Amazing how I ended up getting quite a bit done yesterday even though the first half of my day was filled with a 2 hour mediation orientation (which had me crying when they made us watch a video on what can happen if we end up at the final step which is the judge requesting an evaluation of my son) and lunch with my son’s grandmother. So basically I didn’t get started until 2pm. …click here to read more
I just got back from my mediation orientation. This is the next step in the process to try and get approval to move. *le sigh* So, I haven’t gotten any work done although I probably should now while my son is being occupied by the neighborhood kids.
I decided to do some rank checking on my xfactor sites and I am still not seeing much progress. It still astonishes me how I continuously see scraper sites ranking on first page for my keywords with no original content at all. They are scraping the amazon product details and BAM…front page results. its driving me batty! …click here to read more
Well, I had to lighten the mood on this blog after yesterday’s post. I almost think it was worse to answer the phone calls last night because as I would explain the details over again to x person, I would start crying. I cried so much I had a headache for 10 hours. Enough is enough. …click here to read more
Today is the big day. I go to court in just a few hours to find out whether or not the judge will grant me my request to move back home with my parents. As of this very moment, I am not as nervous as I thought I would be. In fact, I slept rather peacefully last night. Which is surprising because I have not slept well the previous 3 nights. I am wrapping my mind around the idea that all is well and that things will work out just fine. I will definitely update how this turns out later tonight. …click here to read more
Since the hit with the Mayday update to my micro niche sites; which are now earning 50% of what they were prior to June 2nd, I’ve decided to let my xfactor sites just simmer on the back burner while I bring another project to a full boil. (I love food so why not use cooking as an analogy?!) I figure there is no sense in trying to “fix” my xfactor sites until I can get some solid proof on how to improve them to rank better. …click here to read more
Ok, I just watched this latest video in which WebProNews interviews Matt Cutts about the Mayday update and more about Caffeine.
In the video, Matt discusses the Mayday update and some quick tips on the types of content Google is ranking as better quality content. …click here to read more
My my my have you all been busy commenting in the last 36 hours I was gone. I had to do a last minute dash run to my parents home yesterday to get my son enrolled in the new school he will be attending for when I get it approved from the court to move. (Notice I did not say “If” I get it approved. I’m practicing the secret for this hearing on Tuesday.). …click here to read more
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