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I really don’t have anything new to report. I’m still doing the same routine. I don’t know if you remember when I told you that I didn’t plan on being an affiliate forever. I just needed money so that I could do the things that I’ve always dreamed about doing. Well, it’s finally happening! I’ve been able to revamp and expand my offline business. I now have the money I need to advertise properly and purchase the software and equipment I needed to aid in my offline work. I’m also a homeowner now with NO mortgage. We’re still renting though because we’re currently renovating the new home. I’m just happy that we’ve been able to pay cash for the house and the repairs. I really couldn’t have done it without my faith and also really believing and knowing that I could accomplish my goals. There is finally some light at the end of the tunnel. Anyway, I just wanted to post about the progress I’m making and why I’ve been so busy lately. If you haven’t done so already, you should definitely read the JackRabbit Factor and see how it can change your life.

I didn’t get a chance to bookmark my sites the other night. But, I’ll definitely have time to do some bookmarking today. I also need to finish the last three sites that I bought earlier in the year. My sales and commissions are back on track. After that I will focus on article marketing to backlink my sites. But, I’ll only do this for the new sites and for the two sites that are no longer on page one of Google. One of the sites has always bounced around on the first page and would sometimes go to the second page. So, I’ve been meaning to back link that specific site a little more. As for the other site, I never had a chance to finish my article marketing campaign for it due to the tech issues. So, it’s currently ranked at number 11 on the second page. I’m sure I can get it on the first page soon.

So, technically, this isn’t Day 192. After being hacked multiple times and dealing with technical issues and even having my hosting account temporarily suspended so that I could deal with these issues, things are finally back to normal. Or, at least, I pray that they are. It’s been almost a month since the last time that I posted. Time sure flies when you’re having “fun.” Anyway, I am starting over, but fortunately not from scratch. All of my sites, except for two, are still on the first page of the search engines. So, my rankings haven’t dropped, however, due to my hosting being suspended for a couple of days, I did miss out on sales and commissions. Now, that everything is straightened out again, I resubmitted all of my UAW articles and I’ll begin bookmarking later on this evening. I have about three more websites that I need to build and then I’ll move on to another batch of ten.

I am almost finished fixing all of my sites. If you remember the last time I posted, a few of my sites were hacked. While I was fixing them, the hackers apparently added some code that basically redirected my traffic to their sites, which contained malware. Google saw this and my sites were listed as “attack” sites. Fortunately, Google was aware that I was hacked and I was not the one redirecting my traffic. So, I was given the opportunity to find and remove the codes from all of my websites and then get re-indexed into the search engines. I was initially worried that my rankings would be affected. But, I am still on the first page of the search engines for many of my sites. So, I’m really happy about that. Things are almost back to normal and I should be posting regularly again.

So much has happened since the last time I gave you an update. First, a few of my sites were hacked, including this one. Things may look a little different around here but I’m still working on the site to get it back to normal. It’s been a nightmare going through every single site that was affected and making sure that everything still works and nothing was changed. I still have a few more sites to do and then things will be back to normal. Bear with me.

On a side note, I wanted to share my experience recently with Human Rewriter. I told you previously that I’m using an alternate article rewriting service called MAX because of the HR backlog. Well, I deleted my articles from HR and figured that it would be easy to have my unused money that is in the account refunded to me. What’s the point of just having money just sitting there when I can use it at MAX, right? Well, to this day, I still haven’t received a refund or even a reply to my emails to their support. I’ve sent paypal requests for the money and still nothing. So, that’s been a little disappointing. I liked their writing service, but this is extremely poor customer service. So, I am now recommending that everyone use MAX from now on. You’ll also get a discount on your articles through MAX if you’re a UAW member.

I’m still doing keyword research. I found a few good sites that I’m going to buy. I received an email from ezinearticles stating that they’re changing their article submission guidelines. They’re going to take a little longer to review each submission. Also, they’ve started requiring article lengths to be a minimum of 400 words. This isn’t a problem. Simply, choose articles that are 400 words in length from the UAW plugin or have one written for you at MAX.

Domains nine and ten are finished. I’m waiting on my rewrites at MAX. My bookmarks are set up for this month. I plan to buy another batch of ten sites. So, I will be doing keyword research for the rest of today.

Domains number seven and eight are complete. I’m going to delete my articles that are waiting at HR and have MAX rewrite them for me. It felt like this month went by really quickly. It’s already time to schedule my bookmarks again. Today I’m going to submit my MAX articles to ezinearticles and UAW. I have some errands to run so that’s probably all I’ll be able to do.

But, before I go, I just remembered that I should remind you about taxes. I don’t know where all of you are located, but if your country and/or state or region requires you to pay income taxes on the profits made from your affiliate websites, be sure to do so. I’m not going to give tax advice, but this is something you should be aware of and plan for if you’re just getting started and starting to make sales.

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For everyone that is experiencing long delays with Human Rewriter, you should use MAX as an alternative article rewriting service. Their system is very user-friendly. They can write three articles for you from scratch, which is their UAW article set, or rewrite any article that you give them twice, or just write one unique article for you. If you use UAW, they will also upload the MAX articles right into your UAW account.

My articles were waiting for me this morning. It took them about 3-4 days to complete them. I wanted to test the quality of their writing so I selected the UAW article set. Since I am a UAW customer, they gave me a discount. Instead of $13.85, I paid $11.85 for three unique articles. I am impressed with the quality of my articles. It flows well from paragraph to paragraph. They also wrote attention grabbing titles for each one for me. I did not order resource boxes this time, so I will have to do that myself. But, it is an option for those of you that don’t want to write your own resource boxes.

So, now that I have my article rewriting service situation worked out, I can get back to promoting my websites. While I was waiting for my articles, I went ahead and set up wordpress on the remaining websites. Now, all I have to do is add the articles as they get completed. I believe that by next weekend I will be buying another batch of websites.

I’m testing out the article rewriting services of My Article Express. They’re recommended by UAW so you can upload the articles directly to your UAW account. They are a bit more expensive than HR. I’m still going to leave the pending articles at HR for a bit longer in the hope that they will be done eventually. My Article Express, or MAX as UAW calls it, has different rates based on the number of words in your article. The cost for ordering three 300+ words articles (5+ paragraphs) cost $13.85 for the set. They have video tutorials of how to order. So I’m about to watch those now. They state that they can finish articles within 3-5 working days. But, if the system is full, it could take up to 7-10 days. I’ll report back and let you know how user-friendly this is.

Happy Valentine’s Day! I’m still working hard here. I haven’t had any luck with getting my articles back from HR. Today, I really have to find another alternative or spin my articles. I’m still waiting for articles that I submitted in December 2010. I finished domain number six and now I have articles piling up that need rewrites. I’m sure you do too if you’re following my system. I’m contacting their support today to see if they have any idea as to when I can expect my articles. I want to give them a chance before I delete them and withdraw my money.

All of my articles that I’m going to use to market domain number five are done. I still haven’t received my articles back from HR. So, I’m looking for an alternative. I’ve been checking around and so far I haven’t found anywhere with reasonable prices. I’m seeing offers for three 350 word articles starting at $15. I pay way less than that at HR. So, I’m still on the hunt. If you know of any alternatives, feel free to share in the comments section.

My bookmark queue is all set up and running too. I plan on starting domain number six today, in addition to finding an HR alternative.

I’m still playing catch up with my work that I had to put off during the month of January. Domain number five is finally finished. I pinged it and submitted the rss feed. I was about to add it to the bookmark queue, but I just realized that I forgot to schedule my bookmarks for this month. So, I’ll do that today. Plus, I’ll also have to work on my articles to promote the site.

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I didn’t finish domain number five yet. I still have two more pages to add. My articles are not finished yet at HR. But, I’m still adding more. I figure they will get to them eventually. I’m updating my general domain names. One site, which is a hobby site, has been getting a bunch of spam lately. So, I found 2 additional worpdress plugins that has nipped that right in the bud – NotCaptcha and WP Captcha Free. If you’re having problems with spam, give them a try. They’ve certainly made a difference. I also added a few articles to my 3AI sites. That’s all I could get done this weekend.

But, while I’m on the topic of spam, if you noticed, I didn’t include posting comments as one of my steps to making money online. In my experience, I did not find it necessary. No one is going to see your links. So, what’s the point? If you can rank and stay on the first page of the search engines without posting comments, then again what is the point? Your links will just get deleted by site owners. That’s just my 2 cents on the topic.

I spent yesterday adding new pages to domain number five. I’m very happy that the script is working. I also checked on my bookmarking queue since I didn’t have time to do any of that in the last few weeks. I saw that BMD had a new version that needed to be downloaded. Just in case you didn’t notice that, if you look in the lower left corner of the BMD screen, you will see a yellow blinking prompt telling you to download the latest version if necessary. I still don’t have my articles back from Human Rewriter. For this fifth domain, I may have to use my alternate rewriting service, which is a spinner. It’s not as convenient as HR, but I can spin the articles faster than their current backlog. I’m hoping it doesn’t come to this because I have to admit I’ve become spoiled by HR.

I also updated one of my general domain sites with a couple of pages. I’ll continue to do the others today as well. This weekend I plan on catching up with my 3AI articles. I saw a message on my UAW account stating that they were having issues tracking the backlinks due to Bing & Yahoo. I didn’t read the entire message or the blog post that they linked to, but it seems that temporarily we’ll have to search for some of our articles in the search engines ourselves until they figure out a solution. So, I’ll be looking into this over the weekend. But, I still have a massive amount of articles to add to BMD from previous months before they started having this issue. By the time I catch up, I’m hoping that they would have resolved this problem.