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.

I have shared before how my mother believes in my business. So yesterday, I finally came out and explained to her how I am even more stressed because of my sites taking a plunge and I am earning half the amount that I was. My mom reminded me of some things that I was overlooking or ignoring. She said “Since all of this started with preparing to move and this court date, you stopped going to the gym and because you let the stress get to you, you stopped working on your business”. Leave it to a mother to point out the obvious. She is right though. I even at first tried to explain about Google’s algorithm that changed how my sites rank and she just replied with “Well, just work on your business again and find out how to get those sites earning again”. Bless her heart. As if its just as easy as 1-2-3.

She also reminded me since now we are going through mediation and then there will be an evaluation interview hearing which is the final ruling in allowing the move; I need to have a cut off work time. This is important so that I can spend some time with my son. In the evaluation interview, the court will interview my son and if he just responds with “I have fun at daddy’s because he takes me here, or takes me there, or we go to the movies, or go to Great America, or we play video games together and with mommy we don’t do those things. Mommy works a lot and mommy always tells me she doesn’t have the money to do those things”. Well, then things could look really bad for me. So my mom was reminding me that it is important for me to work hard but not to work in a fashion which it cuts into time spent with my son. So for the summer, I am going to be ending my days at 2:00pm so that I can still take my son to the park or do something he wants to do. Sometimes the kid enjoys nothing more than me sitting next him watching him play his Nintendo DSi. lol At any rate, mom is right again.

Yesterday was one of the better adsense days I have seen in the past 2 weeks at $18.80. I did notice I earned a few clicks at over $.78 and one click for $1.90 so this is good news. Over the past 2 weeks many of my cpcs were very low at about $0.15-0.20.

While I work on my amazon review site. I might try throwing some ezine and go article submissions at some of my xfactor sites that dropped in ranking due to the mayday update. One guy on xfactor’s forum reported that tossing 3 ezine artices at one site helped re-gain his first page ranking and he believes now that consistent link building is going to be the key to pull these sites out of the abyss.

Meanwhile another person reported how he has helped two websites improve. Site 1 improved by adding more images, several brand names and model numbers, some h2 tags and then he pinged it with 6 different services. Site 2 improved by also adding a few brand names/models, images and adding a few internal links with more varied anchored text links to the homepage even with every page having at least 2 internal links. he then pinged it and bookmarked it.

Another person has reported that by simply adding one new page about a very specific model number that had affiliate links going to amazon and then submitting an article to ezines to backlink the new page brought his site back to page 1.

All are interesting things to try. for today, I am gonna finish writing that first review for my amazon site and then write a quick article to submit to ezines for it. Then social bookmark and possibly do a few forum profile links.