WAHM to Be

OK so I was premature in my Adsense happy dance…someone was actually click bombing me. Folks over at TNB forum read all about it but basically I used Statcounter to determine that two different IP addresses clicked my ads about 60 times in two days, give or take. I freaked out! That is not good. I banned their IPs on my host and reported it to Google so that hopefully I don’t get in trouble. I haven’t heard anything from Google yet and they say they may not get back to you if they don’t see a real threat. There hasn’t been a problem since then so hopefully Google lets me keep my account!

In other fun news, my site where I sell a product got hacked by the BaghdadSniper – or something like that. Uh yeah, that was fun. I had to reinstall Wordpress and recreate the site. Luckily I only had two pages to do over. It didn’t take but a few hours. I had a problem when upgrading a couple of weeks ago so I think that might have been the problem.

Eveything is back on track now, I hope. I will be updating maybe later tonight on my  income from January.

Whew, this roller coaster/yo-yo thing is giving me a headache! When I last posted,  my XF site fell off the map again but apparently, I caught it in some kind of short lived shuffle because it came back within hours to #1! Since then, it has settled in at #2 while my .org version is #3. Earnings started picking up this week and yesterday, my total Adsense was $46.05!! That site alone made $34.60!! I am so excited about this but I realize that my site could vanish again. I’m hoping it’s there to stay. My experience has been that once you get to the top 2 or 3 for awhile, then you will stay there. I have two other sites that have been at #1 for months and months without me doing any work to them. One is my first TNB blog and the other is a Clickbank sniper site. My first adsense goal is to average $50 a day. I am in the process of finding new KW to get more sites going and backlinking like crazy to get my other XF sites ranked higher. I continue to use Angela’s links and they are working! Edit: OMG I just looked at my stats at there was one person who spent an hour on the site and they clicked 20 Adsense ads o_O!!! I hope that doesn’t cause me a problem! I don’t think it’s any kind of sabotage because they came to my site searching Google with a long tail KW. Yikes!

For all you XF followers, just to recap, this site of mine gets 9900 global searches (exact) a month but local search in December was 14,000. The competition in quotes is only 24,300 but I rarely look at that number anymore because I don’t think it means much. You have to look at the competition on page 1. At the time when I set this up last Sept., the front page was mostly PR 0-1 with the top spot a PR4 that was not optimized. I have already beaten that site a couple of times so I think with more backlinking, I could get back to #1.

Just for fun, here is my traffic since last September when I launched the site and the Adsense earnings. Excuse my poor Photoshop skills LOL Hopefully this demonstrates that SEO does work if you pick the right niche with the right keywords and work your tail off doing backlinks (click to see the whole picture – sorry this blog isn’t wide enough!)

Don’t you love when you come across something that makes you giddy because it has so much potential? This is how I felt when I first heard about the service called Burn Your To Do List. I’ll give credit to Amy from TNB as she is the one who sent an email about it. So [...]

I was all set to come on here and post that my problem Xfactor site that yo-yos all the time came back at #1!! Woohoo, right? Well, I noticed there have been no Adsense clicks today so I just knew what that meant – after 2 days sitting at number one, I got booted back [...]

Happy New Year everyone! I finally completed my December tally and due to a boost in Amazon income, my income increased about $70 from November! All in all, it was a good month considering I didn’t get much work done over the holidays. I decided to format my earnings page a little differently. I consolidated [...]

Hey everyone – it’s that time again! I’m a little late posting this. We’ve been sick at our house. Anyway, I am SO excited about this last month. I earned $709.40!! Several things fell into place this month to make that happen. First and foremost, my disappearing Xfactor site made a return and I discovered [...]

I fired up Micro Niche Finder this week and discovered that a new version has been released. There are a few MAJOR changes to the software which will my my life much, much easier. In fact, it will probably change my keyword research workflow!

You can now see if the domain is available right inside the [...]

Well, kids – it’s been a year now since I started on this IM journey with TNB. I have learned SO MUCH not only through TNB but every other program I have picked up or countless blogs I have read. I feel like I have come a long way, which is supported by the $565.76 [...]

So no doubt that everyone knows that George Brown relaunched his Google Sniper product recently. I noticed I have been getting quite a few visitors to my blog for those looking to research this product. I have nothing but good things to say about the program. And I don’t hold it against George that he [...]

OK so I was really excited about the Xfactor Adsense system. Well, I still am but I suffered a setback this month which took the wind out of my sails! I am working on 4 of the sites right now. The one that was doing really well for me just disappeared from the SERPs last [...]