I realize I haven’t been writing as much as I should have in this blog lately, and I am really sorry about that. Thing is though that after my break I had come to the conclusion I was on the wrong path, spending my time in ways that weren’t very productive and I was spreading myself way to thin on too many projects.

Having to get into another working schedule has cost me quite some sweat and elbow grease but finally being able to focus is really getting my energy levels up again.

Running this blog has been a great learning curve for me so far, and I have come across some pretty decent advice to finally become serious about business.

During the break I was getting really geared up about setting up BANS sites (building niche stores) and I actually got started to set up different eBay sites. However, during this process it just did not feel right for me.

Maybe I am wrong, maybe not, but already knowing a bit more about the ins and outs of wordpress and setting up regular websites, it just did not feel right to leave that in order to start learning something new and figuring out how to have the design stand out in order to make it interesting enough for a potential buyer to click on eBay products.

I figured I should better stick to what I already knew how to do and focus way more on getting content up and dedicate way more time to building links, instead of spending more time on learning a new process, setting me back again time wise.

Creating unique content, either written from scratch or rewriting PLR articles has always been a slow and difficult process for me, I would only get up to writing a certain amount of articles on one subject and then my attention span would be completely gone, making it almost ridicules to start promotion, there just wasn’t enough to promote in the first place.

However, I finally got to shift that focus span and got into writing big time, having a set dream in mind surely did help and one way or another, winning the Manifest a Miracle in Hochstadts competition also helped me a bit on the part of focussing on where I wanted to go.

A few months ago I found out about an affiliate program which was giving out $45 in total of sign up bonuses ($10 to sign up, $15 when you started promoting links, another $10 for participating in their forum etc) but after having signed up and find it was not a direct $45 bonus straight away, I kind of set it aside thinking it was just another waste of my time.

Anyhow, I went back to that affiliate program to have a closer look since I was looking for a few good products to promote and found they had a lot of good guides for their affiliate marketers so I started reading them and that is when I really got into things.

There are a lot of extras they offer, like a huge amount of articles to rewrite, website templates to use, complete how-to guides, graphics etc plus an affiliate support team which can help you succeed what you started, and having a closer look at their forum was actually quite surprising. Surprising because they do seem to offer some decent support, working hard to have their members succeed in selling products. Of course, the more the affiliate marketers sell, the more they earn as well, so it is a win-win situation, but I have to say, there are many really useful threads I have been learning a lot from that forum so far.

My goal for today, after finishing this post, is to actually set up a complete new website, write at least 10 articles, reviews, product comparison and put everything into place in order to start promoting the hell out of it through article marketing and building links through directory submission on a continuous base.

I will be posting on my progress over here but it would really be great to see others who are using this affiliate program already to compare experiences. If you have never heard of this program before and are looking for a solid affiliate program and support, you can check it out here.

A little sidenote, you can get a total of $45 in bonuses but you will have to reach $100 minimum payout first, which should be pretty easy to achieve, following their advice, but you have to work for it!

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Already read it in Court´s blog a few days ago, there is a PageRank Update going on.

I really did not expect too much of it, since this blog is only 3-4 months old and I haven´t really paying a lot of attention to what I should do in order to get a PR.

I have been outlinking a lot to other blogs and turned dofollow on relatively early in the game, so there is linkjuice flowing out of this blog like a small river. I did not think I would get any PR this soon so my new PR3 is a little reason to take out the bubbles and celebrate!

Congratulations to my friend Jose who finally went from PR1 to PR3. And of course congratulations to my friend Alex for his new PR3. He was the first to contact me and tell me about the update this morning and I was really happy to see we both got a PR3 since we started with our blogs around the same time.

Looks like it is going to be a good day today, hopefully this lucky strike will continue for me since I am participating in two competitions ending today, the huge one Marcus Hochstadt is running and the $25 contest going on on webdigging and if you are participating in them, I wish you good luck!

Update:

I was looking at my other sites to see what had happened with all the PR over there, and there was this really strange thing… I have a blog that is not even 2 months old, on a new domain, hardly update it, haven´t been promoting it or anything, it has only a few inbound links and there are only 4 articles there.

Basically the only thing I did was setting up the site with 4 keyword optimized articles and kind of forgot about it.
And guess what… It also got PR3 according to my firefox toolbar!

How strange is that?!

Even stranger, when going to google.com and checking the site through the SEO for Firefox add on, it shows up in the Google Search Engine for a mayor keyword with a PR3 on the main domain and PR2 for the other indexed pages.

Just for the fun of it: it has an Alexa of 24,000,000 something according to the SEO for Firefox tool

I almost fell off my chair when I saw that, and it does make me wonder about the importance of PR and what it really tells us??

I suppose it will all go back down to PR0 once the update is finished, right?

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