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 waterplay area from 11 until about 4:30pm and by the time I came home, I attempted to write an article but I just had writers block. Nothing could get me going. (I totally feel for you people that have to work a full time job and then come home ready to work on your IM business. I don’t know how you do it.) And so far today (Thursday) I have managed to write 2 articles for ezines and then I had to run more errands to prepare for our weekend at my parents tomorrow. Which by the way I will be gone Friday until Monday so don’t expect any updates. Sorry MatthewDC, you will have to stalk my twitter again. haha
But I am happy to report that today; one of my micro niche sites that was past page 10 in the SERPs, is ranking on page 1 at #8. I did not update the content with LSI words but what I did do was on Monday; I published 4 ezines articles that pointed backlinks to the main page and each inner page. On Tuesday; when all the articles were approved, I then pinged all the articles and bookmarked 2 of the ezine articles and some of the pages of the site itself. The ezine articles aren’t even showing up in YSE yet so I am not even sure what kicked in for the boosted ranking. I can only speculate that its going to be related to the bookmarking and article submissions.
On another note, I am kicking my own ass with P90. I had really good success with it my first round in which I dropped 25 pounds in 3 months. But I cannot repeat the same success on my own. Basically, the last 4 years I have tried various workout plans and going to the gym 4 days a week with only a 15 lbs loss to show for it. I’ll be meeting a guy named Jon that I have a romantic interest in sometime at the end of summer so I want to be smokin’ hot! Anyhow, 1,300 calories a day totally blows but I can honestly say I am eating much healthier. Essentially I have to give up sweets and sugar in general. I hope I can manage this weekend. We have an annual 4th of July party at my uncle’s set for Saturday and then a birthday party celebration for my niece on Sunday. I’m looking forward to seeing my family though, so it should be fun!
I won’t be getting any work done tomorrow and basically won’t until next Tuesday. Happy 4th of July to you all and enjoy your weekend!
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It’s amazing how fast a week goes by when you are busy with kids. Woohoo for your site being on page #1! Hopefully you see the increase in your revenue as well.
Good for you for getting yourself healthy as well. I personally love Turbo Jam (also by Beachbody). I have never done Power 90 or P90x but have heard good things about them. Have a good weekend and fourth of July.
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I am also a Turbo Jam fan. I was on a TJ kick about 1 1/2 years ago and I loved it because it never got boring. I have about 5 different dvds from the series so I would just mix them up all the time. Chalene looks amazing too! I follow her on twitter.
Say it ain’t so!
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Hey Sara,
I need to go back and read like 2 weeks of updates on your site-I am lagging
After the birth of my first child I finally agreed to get married to my Husband-its a commitment thing-glad I did it now though.
I went on a pure raw diet-well I was allowed Dr. Pepper. I included fish, salad, and as much fruit and vegetables as I wanted. I let myself have a break every 2 weeks (basically I could cheat, but with light food). I was on it for 2 months and I lost 35lbs. The first week was hard then it got easy, and it stayed off until I got pregnant again years later! The exercise was light I did not want to overexert myself, but it worked and that is the only diet I will ever do.—just fyi.
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I don’t think I could go raw. I have some friends in the youtube community that have done the raw diets and they only last a few weeks on it. It seems like a very sensible and healthy way to eat but I just am not disciplined to follow that way of eating.
“Big box” gyms are a waste. Most people just walk on treadmills and watch tv. They’ve become catered towards lazy people. There’s no structure, most people don’t have a clue on what to do and they just start lifting weights at random. Want to look unbelievable and lose every pound you’ve ever wanted? Join a crossfit gym. Google them.
Dude. P90X = Jealous me. I want that workout. I have a set of freeweights in my garage, a full bench, squat rack sorta, leg press…got to where I was benching 400 pounds.
Well. One pound at a time. Four hundred times. That counts, right?
If you are SUPER bored, I wrote a teeny post on my blog about my article marketing method.
OK. IT’s almost 6,000 words, but well organized by headers in H1 tags, easy to navigate I hope. Enjoy your fourth, being here in Idaho I bought launching mortars, some M80s, and other pyrotechnics.
It’s was George Washington wanted. My patriotic duty: do NOT set anyone on fire like last year…(That wasn’t me, actually, it was a friend, but pretty interesting show).
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I have read that if you are sticking to strict diets you can increase your fat loss by having a free day-in which you can eat whatever you want all day. It keeps the body from going into “survival mode”.
Just stuff I have read though(Tim Ferris actually…), so don’t blame me if it doesn’t help haha.
Also james-its about damn time you updated your blog
Sara, have you tried low carb? It’s the only thing that works for me and it’s great if you want to lose weight quickly, especially if you combine with exercise. It’s hard to start but once you are doing it for a few days it’s pretty easy. Much easier than calorie restriction. I also find I need less sleep on it.
Nice to see a site come back with some BLs. Hey look, BLs is like lbs but the B and L are reversed. So maybe you are to something – get BLs while your try to get rid of lbs. Right?
How about we do a JV and turn the idea into an eB and sell as a WSO. Although the WF isn’t fond of BL stuff anymore so we may have to go the the BF and do a BSFO. We could talk about P90 combined with EZA, UAW, BB, AR, TBS, MAR…did I miss anything?
IMHO we can do alot of LOLing along the way. Watcha think?
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Haha Carrie! That’s brilliant! Only I am quite pissed at my body this week. I killed myself doing my workout for the full 6 days straight plus I even did 2 of those workouts while with family, followed my diet perfectly except on the 4th I went over by 800 calories but still not enough to gain and today the scale actually said I am the same weight i was when I started. This is not the first time I have seen 0 results so now I am going to have my thyroid tested because something is wrong. Last November I was doing The Flat Belly Diet and doing 5 days at the gym with a 0 loss in 4 weeks and I thought then that maybe I just wasn’t being honest about my eating. So then I went 2 more weeks of writing everything down and I was eating about 1,500 calories a day with only a 1 lb loss in 2 weeks. So i gave up on being meticulous about writing everything down and just continued to work out. I maintained my weight ever since, until I decided to lose again. Hence the P90. But its pretty damn frustrating to not give into the brownies, cookies, cakes and even BBQ foods and have my family look at me like I am crazy because I am sitting there with my 45 calorie whole wheat bread turkey sandwich and some watermelon and grapes while they have baby back ribs, hamburgers, hot links and potato salad. And then still not end up with a loss this week. I should have lost at least 2 lbs this week. I am pretty frustrated right now!
I hear ya. I love to eat and every year I get older the weight keeps drifting up. Yet when I try to crack down and lose a few pounds it’s tough!
But yes, if you put in all that effort and nothing happen maybe you should check with your doctor.
Better yet, check EZA and see what kind of advice some IMer has
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I just noticed James is closing in on me on the “most commenting visitors” box. I need to step up my game.
Hopefully he doesn’t realize that the length of the comment doesn’t count …shhhh!
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hi Sara, glad to see that the niche sites are ranking on the first page again. currently I am doing articles and press releases purely to see whether I can get niche sites to rank as I have found that automated forum profiles are only good if your sites are already ranking in the serps….more articles go!
what’s your method for pinging the ezines, if i may ask? it sounds like it helped quite a bit!
Hi Ross,
I have a list of pinging sites and then I just imported my list to Bookmarking Demon and then I copy and pasted my ezine URLs into the pinging section in BMD and pinged them that way.
Page #1, nice!! It’s always nice to see your hard work is paying off, gratz!! I haven’t checked my latest page ranks in at least two weeks. I can only hope I’m moving up as well but prolly not since I didn’t finish going down my check list for all last months sites yet.
Happy July 4th all … have a great weekend Sara!!
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Witchie, what methods are you using to get back links?
How was the fourth?
Mine: I brought the *biggest, loudest, coolest* sticks of colorful dynamite that launched in the air, much like you would see at a professional show.
My 10 yr old son launched a bottle rocket at the crowd, by accident (I managed to get it deflected so it didn’t quite reach the crowd).
My best friend convinced me that tying 3 wicks of 3 mortars together would be good times…oh, that was fun: launched the third mortar (my big old stick of dynamite) at my best bud’s house (best friend vs. best bud, love ‘em both).
It was great – no one got hurt, but my pride (should have not listened to my pyro friend, but it was a guy moment…went all Beavis and Butthead for a second).
In other news: notice my ComLuv? Yeah. I have four days left on the day job. Here we go, article marketing for hire! <== shameless plug
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You are always so entertaining James!
I’ll be praying that you get a ton of article jobs to help make up for your current income dilemma.
I sincerely hope your guy is floored as soon as he meets you.
On another note, I appreciate the update about the micro niche sites. It is great to know that they are getting ranked in Google again. I have a bunch of them and to be honest I was really worried about my livelihood, especially post-mayday update when the general speculation was that Google has slapped all micro niche sites. Sometimes I feel that the life of an internet marketer is no less taxing than that of a stock market guy. 
You’re right, earning with adsense is a lot like the stock market. The 4th of July was a record low for me. It was enough to make any person cry. haha
Hey Sara,
Did you get the email from Tim today about SEO Blueprint? They have a new product coming out, but more importantly, they added an affiliate program for SEO Blueprint. So you can get commissions from BB and the likes now.
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Oh, great news. Thanks for posting this MathewDC!
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Oh its about time they released the affiliate program for BB. lol
My sole purpose here is to out-perform Carrie.
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Let’s see…how to contribute to the convo…without breaking a sweat…hmm…darn! Writer’s block. I need more fiber…
I am glad that your micro sites are doing well. It inspires me to build more of them. Mine too are primarily monetized by Adsense, but lately I have been experimenting with Chitika too. Anyway, did your meeting with the guy went smoothly?