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.

Here is what I have done so far:

- On June 29th I wrote and submitted two ezine articles. Both were approved a day later and I pinged them using Book Marking Demon.

- With my site still lost in the SERPs, On July 6th I wrote 2 more articles and submitted them to Ezines. Once approved I pinged them again with BMD and then I changed the title and resubmitted to 3 other article directories.

- With still no changes in the SERPS,  I purchased the Sick Profile Maker on July 16th and used this site as my first test site using the software. Over the next 2 days I submitted set up site #31 to register on about 100 forums and on July 23rd I noticed that my site went from not being found in the SERPs to sitting at #50. It showed 4 fresh profile links in YSE.

- On July 19th I went ahead and used The Ultimate Keyword Theme Extractor to find some more juicy LSI words that I could use to add a quick 250 word paragraph onto my main page. I also wrote an additional page of content.

- On July 20th, I wrote another article for ezines to back link my new page of content and send another link to the main page and pinged it on the 21st.

- On July 23rd I decided to switch the site over from HTML to now running The Thesis Theme for WordPress. On July 24th it was ranking at #42. It had also gained 2 new profile backlinks showing up in YSE.

- Today its at #39 and has a total of 8 profile backlinks so it gained another 2 since July 23rd.

So was it just a matter of getting 5 new ezine articles to the site, or the profile links, the new page of content, the new added paragraph with LSI words or a more SEO optimized layout? I don’t know. All I know is that the action steps I took have caused some movement in an upward trend. :)

On Sunday I converted another site over to Thesis which is site #46 and that site was also lost in the abyss. This site will be a more pure test because I have not done anything to the site since mayday affected it.

Yesterday, I ended up converting another site (site #44) over to using the Thesis Theme. This site did have 4 new ezine articles submitted on July 7th but there was no sign of it in the SERPs as of yesterday (July 26th.)

Today, I plan on converting my site that Backlinks Philippines worked on in June for me. It seems to have settled at #14. This will also be a pure test because there has been nothing else done to the site since John’s team worked on it in the beginning of June.

Over the next few days I will be converting some sites over to using Thesis and for some of my newer sites that are 4-5 months old that are running on wordpress now, I will be using Sick on them. It seems that all of those newer micro niche sites that used Blog Blueprint as its main source for backlinks, have lost every single backlink from the blogs in that network.  So there was $201.00 down the drain. My guess is that Google discovered the network and deindexed all or the majority of the blogs. I am done with those types of services and won’t be using them or the like in the future. For all the bad-mouthing I have done regarding UAW and the longevity of backlinks, at least with UAW you can come out a year later with a few backlinks still in existence. It is quite a bitter pill to swallow knowing you fork out $200 only to have all the links vanish in less than 4 months time.

Adsense is still up and down in earnings. The past few days it has been pretty low with my lowest day on Saturday at $9.94 (ouchie) and with Sunday’s high of $24.60.

On another note, I am on day 16 of P90X. I have yet to miss a workout or cheat on my diet. Goooo me! Bad news is I gained an inch in my hips. What the heck is up with that?! I am not sure how much I have lost just yet since I hid my scale up in my bedroom closet to eliminate unnecessary stress and from discouraging me.

Today is a busy day. I need to start my P90X workout right now followed by a chiropractor appointment (unrelated to doing P90X) and then my friend just got me some VOIP box that allows you to basically talk on the phone for dirt cheap. You pay $40 for some box and then a yearly fee of $20 for a phone number and then you can talk  to anyone at from any distance for free. More about this later when I understand it more. He is coming over this afternoon to install it and show me how it works.  I am excited about it. It will save on my cell phone minutes since we do not use a home phone only cell phones. :)