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.
I didn’t expect things to happen this quickly after a first mediation appointment. naturally, I had prepared myself for the worse and figured we would have to go through 2-3 more mediation appointments with a final court date in October or so. Because we came to an agreement today, I am officially granted permission to move right away. This could not have happened at a better timing since my son’s first day of school is Monday. I was apprehensive about having him start school here in San Jose, only to have to adjust him to a new school in 2 months or so. Now he will be able to attend his first day of school in Fresno as planned.
The real kicker is that I will be living in Fresno during the week and then staying in my house in San Jose on the weekends in order to finish boxing up things and selling off items I am not taking with me through the move. This means taking my computer down to Fresno this weekend and setting it up for me to be able to work during the week. I have already discussed with my mom that we will need to upgrade the internet connection. She has AT&T but its not U-Verse which is what I am accustomed to here in San Jose. So we will need to set that up right away because there is no way I can operate with a slow connection. That will drive me nuts.
I am really happy today and feel like some stress has been lifted off of my shoulders. Now, I just look forward to getting settled into my parents home so I can focus 100% on my business.
P90X is also going very well. I have managed to drop some of the weight I gained while on vacation (which I think was really water retention) and am seeing the number on the scale go down consecutive days in a row now. Yay me!
I did $27.63 in adsense yesterday and I estimate today will be just over $20. I am still unable to figure out why my one site is getting a lot of visitors even with its poor ranking of #159. It is not listed in Bing or Yahoo so it must all be traffic from additional keyword phrases that I was unintentionally ranking for. It did $4.84 yesterday and today the site has already done $2.76. I have been working on writing more articles for backlinks for it and I also did some Sick Profile Maker runs with it yesterday.












Why don’t you simply add a Google Analytics code to your mysterious websites? Than you will know exactly where do the visitors come from…
I finally did add it a few days ago so we shall see what’s going on.
Glad to hear that a weight has been lifted off your shoulders. That may very well make you more productive in the months ahead adding to your income. I am still amazed by seeing you speak of $20 AdSense days. Maybe someday?!
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That’s good news. Glad that stress is over. Good luck with the move!
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Great news, Sara! I’m sure the moving and commuting will be tiring as well, but not having that stress hanging over you should wonders.
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Did the new AdSense changes affect your earnings? The URLs are next to the title tags right now when you put up a 336 AdSense block. I hope it is just a beta and that they will stop doing that… It is hurting my earnings by about 20%.
I think it may have had some affect initially but my earnings have actually increased the past few days so I don’t think the changes are impacting my CTR all that much.
I’m glad to see things are working out for you! I bet once you’re settled in your parents house, you’ll be able to to focus and make things happen more quickly with your sites.
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Thanks Selena!
I am sooo ready to get these sites to push me past the $30 a day mark again.
Yay! I’m happy for you Sara
, It’s not 100% what yo wanted but it’s a start right?! At least you’re able to move! WELL DONE! Now kick some adsense ass
! Smile Sara
Nice – glad you can move on. When we were there, the best internet connection we got was w/Comcast – cable.
And good to hear about your son’s first day in school being all settled for Fresno. Good to have some kind of stability.
BTW: not sure why, but ComLuv don’t love me. Saying something about errors…hmm…not liking the sound of that.
BTW – Mendocino – not sure if that comment made it through or not as I was having “issues” with ComLuv and Feedburner not having a happy relationship -
We LOVED Mendocino. Went to a place called “Lord’s Land,” very affordable and you decide how much you pay for the cabins.
It’s Mendocino-ish.
In that vicinity or beyond, further up the 1 or 101…I forget. I think it’s 1…the cliff-hanger freeway.
Yep. been a while.
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Hi Sara (and everyone else)
I just wanted to introduce myself as I’ve been reading this blog – and very much enjoying it – for the last couple of months.
Sara you’re very inspirational and the rest of you seem like a great bunch of people:)
The reason I’m posting now is that I haven’t seen any of you talking about one of the new WSOs – heavily promoted by Daniel Tan – which is basically a live SEO challenge that’s aim is to get everyone building a site that will be earning the equivalent of $200 a day in adsense in 30 days. With a supposed 300% money back guarantee if it doesn’t work for you.
I’m very sceptical but have signed up (it’s $88) there are about 10 pages of posts on this – some have been getting quite tetchy people calling it a “no brainer” – it’s quite amusing!
Anyway, I’d be quite interested if any of you guys have looked at this. Personally I think the adsense earnings looks like it could have been doctored – but hey what’s another 88 dollars down the drain in thisGod forsaken business? So here’s the link – let me know what you think.
http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/247019-live-search-engine-optimization-challenge-go-0-200-month-adsense-search-engine-optimization-300-money-back-guarantee.html
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It’s actually $200 a MONTH in AdSense…
Which is still good – but not $200 a DAY.
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Sorry meant $200 a month. So were you tempted?
I was tempted in a way – but not really since I don’t have the extra to be spending on another ebook at the moment (I’ve actually only bought 2, and use them) -
But recently I did a Daniel Tan interview at my blog and he mentioned he was going to be releasing 4 more products (or 6?) this year.
I use his SEOPressor and it’s very effective, and helped me to see why a few earlier sites just didn’t do well in the SERPs.
Anyhow, I’d have not hesitation to get it if I was in the market. He’s the real deal, no doubt. And $200 per month in AdSense sounds much more plausible, and was MORE tempted to get it when I learned that.
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Well we’ll see. It’s not actually Daniel Tan’s WSO – he’s just put his name too it and said he is going to personally make sure it works. I can’t believe you’ve only bought two ebooks – good for you- just wish I’d been more restrained.
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Hi Lisa. Welcome!
No, I have not read about Daniel’s WSO. Daniel does have excellent products and seems trustworthy so I have no doubt that his earnings are legit. My problem is I have gone the route of trying different WSO’s and ebooks to earn money online and I end up getting overwhelmed juggling different methods that I never receive maximum success with any one method. I have seen the success with Xfactor’s method and prefer to stick with that for now. Perhaps if Daniel’s WSO was for earning with affiliate products or amazon or anything other than adsense I would be interested because at some point I do want to be earning money from different avenues besides just adsense.
It certainly couldn’t hurt to try Daniel’s product especially if he is providing a money back guarantee of 300%!
I’d love to hear your take on it. I still think earning $200 a month is a good starting point with adsense.
Well I’ve signed up and started. They’re offering three times your money back if it doesn’t work and to be eligible for that you have to complete the home work which has been set for each of the 30 days of the course.- You get a worksheet to fill in for each day – and when you’ve done it you have to upload it to their website. All worksheets have to be uploaded within 90 days of the start date which was yesterday.
It’s basically a live challenge. They put a new video up every day for thirty days which takes you through building the site from scratch and doing all the seo etc. When the 30 days are up you are meant to have a site earning the equivalent of $200 a month.
I’m highly skeptical but I’ll let know how it goes. Here’s hoping

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OK – now I want to see your progress – call me a voyeur, but where can I see your progress? The blog in your ComLuv? (Assuming?)
Here’s the thing: even if you don’t “make it” to $200/month – and “only” make it to $100/month – if that’s progress, that’s progress!
I’m excited for you.
BTW, anyone who follows my tag line – be sure to read what Yolanda has to say in the comment section. Gotta give her props.
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I have to agree with James. If they can show you how to earn more than the initial investment of the ebook then I would also say that is progress. I guess the biggest factor would now be how time do you have to invest in the single site and will it become a no maintenance required site after wards?
Best of luck Lisa. You got me curious and I can’t wait to see how it does for you.
That’s good Sara! I love fresh starts, I considered us getting a fresh start when we packed up the kids and moved across the country. We will probably do that again in 3-5 years I have my eye on Washington!
This has to cut your stress way down-one less thing to worry about

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I have craved moving for some time. Even all the while being married to my ex. I kept telling him how I wanted to move to southern Cali but he works for UPS and they do not transfer supervisors so I had to kiss my dream of moving away from San Jose goodbye. I still plan on moving to SoCal in a few years. Maybe in 3-4 years. I definitely want to hit my goal of 5k a month before I do that though so that I can afford to fly my son back and forth to visit his father and no more transporting for me.
Glad to hear things are working out for you Sarah. I know how stressful it is having to moving our children from schools so its great it all worked out in time. Your adsense totals are inspiring, thanx for sharing.
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Thanks Witchie! I am glad things worked out finally too. whew!
Sara I’m glad the relocation problem is over with and you can move on with your plans. Having that stress off your mind will let you focus. Congrats!
Sandy
Thanks Sandy! Yea less stress will definitely help my performance.