If any of you missed out on whats going on so far here is the short and simple. I bought Link Farm Evolution and challenged my self to pay off the cost of the program within the 30 day trial. I started a new site and went to town. The site ended up making $750 or so before CJ shut me down for having a brand name in the domain. They then reversed all the sales I had for the program and banned me from using it again. I ended up having to go though 3 domain names and finally got back in the program with their in house program.

I then posted how my 30 day challenge failed since I ended up losing all the money I had made. Since I had gone though 3 domains and 301′s and a big mess I could not say how well my linking plan had worked. I still can’t comment on the links as a whole since I don’t even have the blog names I made a few months back. What I do have is a brand new domain that’s got two other domains 301′ed to it and a big mess of links.

So here is where I stand today. First page for my targeted keyword (8), generic domain with no keyword in it, and a page rank of 2. Truthfully I am pretty shocked. The linking for this project turned into a big rats nest of dead links, 301′s, and web2.0 pages.

My plan was to build several 2.0 pages (articles, squdoo, hubpages, etc) and then build LFE blogs that linked to them. They in turn would link to my site laundering the links a little so it was not so oblivious. I managed to get the squidoo and hubpage up and I had LFE make me 500 blogs (380 worked). I then had these 380 blogs post about my topics and had one of the 2.0 pages in its blogroll. I also had a few of the blogs just have my main site in the blogroll so they had one of three possible links. I also had LFE pligg each of the blogs I made, I think it was 20 times per blog post.

This is when I ran into my problems with CJ and ended up kinda scrapping the project because it took more than the 30 days to get the new domains up and to get accepted into the private offer. I didn’t see any use to continue with the site if I was going to get denied for the affiliate program. Things halted and I moved on.

It wasn’t until you guys started to ask me about my recap that I took the time to see if “time” had played a major factor or not. Like all SEO projects it did. The site isn’t ranking in the cash as well as I would like but since I joined the private offer I have made $215 in earnings from my site. This is all SEO traffic because I have long since moved on to other projects. So if you want to turn my 30 day challenge into say a 6 month challenge then its been a great success. With a bit more work I could continue to work on this site and easily increase its income and want to know how I am doing to do it? LFE.

I have actually repurchased LFE since my challenge and I hope that it will help me with this site and a few new sites that I am going to be working on. LFE takes a LOT of work to get running properly. Its got a huge learning curve and its going to take you months to make your own lists to get it working at 100% like it should. But I think its worth it, I own the program and I have several sites ranking that can back up my claims. You can never have to many links or to many tools to help you make them. Check it out at LinkFarmEvolution.com give it 30days and see if you can get better results than I did.

The First Blow:

I believe it was around April 10th, I had just gotten back from a week long trip to Key West to visit family and work a bit on my iPhone app. I got back home rested and full of new ideas, until I checked the mail. Seems the day after I got back I got a lovely letter from the IRS saying I owed over 10k in back taxes. Over 10k…  I went a bit pale and called up my accountant. Normally he mails me the taxes due (quarterly) I go to the bank and pay them, no problem. But it seems that one of his letters got lost in the mail and I never got it. It was this letter that told me I owed the IRS this extra 10k. So the taxes were never paid. Ive got the cash to pay them, it is just quite the blow to see it vanish when you thought it was yours. To add insult to injury  the IRS taxed on a good 1.5k in fees and intrest for being less than a month late, we are working on getting them removed. Taxes due the 26th, gotta remember to sign in a pay them…

The Second Blow:

My iPhone app has grown beyond my design and needs to almost be completely reworked before its released. Not a problem except at the same time I figured this out my program got flaky. I don’t know what his deal is be is business or personal but hes almost fallen off the map. Slow to respond, and slow to get things done. Its been 3 weeks now without a finished version 1, 3 weeks to fix 2 little bugs. Ive finally gotten hold of him and we talked it over, I told him if he is not capable of doing the work I will find a guy who is. Hopefully this will get him in gear, thank god for escrow.

Third Blow:

I had been working on importing some products from China to get into the online retail space. Durring said time I found a product and found that I can drop ship it before I stock it. Awesome. So ive spent 3 weeks building a online store and setting up amazon sales. I find out after I pay amazon the $30 that they have the category locked and I am not allowed to sell stuff in it. No refund allowed they duped me into paying them to not be able to sell anything. On top of this I learn that the drop ship guys are super flaky. They have no need or want for drop shippers, you have to pull teeth just to be told whats in stock and don’t expect to be told if it sold out. Customers have no problem waiting weeks for shipments right? The store has finally launched though and they say everything is now in stock, time to see if this is a waste of time or not.

Lots of bad news so far this month, lots of scares. There is a sense of worry each time I get the mail now. You can’t let stuff like this get you down though. I continue to try my best push though this mess and I hope that next month most of these problems will be resolved. I also have a few more projects I have thought of, maybe their launch will go smoother.

So in an effort to get the plugin out to more people I have lowered the price to $2.00 for the plugin and unlimited use. I really can’t think of a better way to spend two bucks I hope this new price will allow more people to try out this amazing plugin.

If you have no idea what I am talking about or want to order CommentKiller you can learn more at http://www.commentkiller.com/.

Better Version of the Song.

This song should be a indication as to how my new year has started off. My lack of hardcore working has started to defiantly take its toll as several campaigns got the axe in december thanks to my good friend Google. I would stop using the fuckers all together but many of the sites I advertise on still have google placement ads. many of these sites to small to have their own advertising options or operate on only a CPM basis, which would be fine if it wasn’t for the insanely high CPM prices.

December ended up being the worst month of 2009 for me making half of what I pulled in the month before. Sure some SEO sites pulled in some extra cash from the shopping rush but my PPC campaigns are what brings in real money. As I had mentioned a few posts back I am trying to get enough SEO sites going that they will provide the majority of my income but as of yet I have not been able to get enough established sites going to offset the PPC income.

I have many projects that I am planing on working on and PPC campaigns that I need to give a booster shot. Hopefully I will be able to pull out some better numbers and recover from the December of Doom.

The conditions are

• Has to be a legit charity, the Dennis Yu Legal Defense Fund does not count.
• Has to be over $25 in value. (Hey, it’s a fucking charity, splurge a little)
• The charity has to provide some sort of receipt that you contributed.
• Take out any personal info or financial info from the receipt.
• The donation dose not have to be in their name.

After your donation has been made you just need to forward the receipt (minus personal info) to ILoveJonFisher [@] reviewpluginforwordpress.com. Then you get to wait and see what the WFReview santa delivers to your mail box! I commend and respect him for doing this its not many that are willing to give up their work for the sake of others.

Also if anyone is interested in giving but dose not have a favorite charity I highly recommend Heifer International they have many worthwhile projects all across the globe and also allow the gift of animals.  Every year I get their catalog in the mail and show my support by donating a few animals for myself and as gifts to family and friends. The best part is that the families that receive the gift of these animals agree to also give away some of the offspring to continue the gift.  If one family received two flocks of chickens their offspring could help support entire villages or towns. Its defiantly a cause that is worth giving to.

Anyway since its Christmas I wanted to post an update but once again I lost it… instead I hope you will all humor me for this post as I am planing on ranting about gift giving as this seems to have become quite the problem for people.

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So this Christmas since its one of the first times I have not lived near any of my family they all are going on about what to get me or what do I want for Christmas since they know nothing about me. Rather than ask what hobbies or interests I have currently they are just asking me what I want. Sure this is great if you are lazy, poor, and just want stuff it makes it easy if you just get want you asked for. But I already own most of what I need or want.

It was great when I was a kid, when I would open that box and see the new mario I asked for I would go nuts. Alas now that I am a adult if I open a box and its just what I asked for I am not really going to be all that surprised or thrilled. More just slightly happy that I didn’t have to pay for something. Yaya Christmas! Just how boring would Christmas be if everyone started to do this?

We have become a lazy society with our lack of understanding each other and our gifts cards and other stupid easy ways out gift giving. But not I! I actually spent time looking for stuff people might actually like. I could care less if they wanted it or not, its a gift thats how it works. I buy it since I thought they would like it they get a surprise gift, if they don’t they return it and get something else they did want. While this dose seem kind of mean or insensitive I feel that it shows how much I know a person or how much thought I put into their gifts.

I didn’t need to call them and ask what they want, I didn’t ask them what their hobbies were. I already know this stuff. I mean they are friends and family I have known them for years. Even if I didn’t know what new hobby they are into I still at least know what they like and dislike in general. I am just at a loss how so many people seem to be getting caught up in Christmas that they seemingly forget everything they know about people. Are we all really that busy? I did 99% of my shopping online and had it all shipped free to my door. It really only took a few hours digging around and most of that was finding the best price. What’s the big deal?

So that’s my rant, I don’t see how I am so imposible to shop for. I can think of tons of stuff I think would be cool. Heck I am sure the world if full of interesting stuff id love. Why must I find it all my self?

Also one final point, this isn’t just shopping for me. People have asked me for advice for other family since they didn’t know what to get them. Wives, Brothers, Grandparents, Dads etc. How is it no one knows what to get each other?!

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Anyone else having a similar problem?

Once your in though you can ditch all that shit and get to making phpbay autoblogs, bans stores, review sites anything you want.  But should you even bother now that eBay has launched quality click pricing. Well for some they have seen payout increases and others have seen some big drops. Not to mention that no one know how they are figuring out this pricing structure works. eBay is pretty much going to make up any number they want and pay you that. I still have not seen how this is going to affect my eBay sites but I will continue to make sites for EPN.

Why? Because eBay is easy. Most of the sites I have I made over a year ago. I did a little seo made them look pretty and forgot that shit. They sat around on the net and found their own traffic. Giving me a bit of extra income that is totally hands off. Spend a few hours make a few sites and see how it goes. After this month I will see how my sites do with EPN since I have had to spend the time today moving them all from PepperJam to EPN. Here is hoping for some more extra cash.

It seems my plan has finally paid off! After my last trip to ASW and meeting several new bloggers with press passes. (I am looking at you ppc.bz) I told myself if they could do it than I could. 1 Years later and 51 posts later and I was finally able to secure my press pass for affiliate summit west coming up at the beginning of the year. So congrats to me! and thanks to all my readers who have helped me get a pass for this years ASW!

CommentKiller

This was the first digital product I have ever made so I was hoping to see some better results. I had a lot of good feedback and lots of people telling me they would love a plugin like this. But even at $5.00 ($5 Off Coupon Code: B1541ABA40) I have been unable to generate a single sale. But I really had intended on only using it myself for my own sites so my plan was basically to break even and then maybe sell a few more. Perhaps I still will some day, but as with any online venture there has been a lot that I learned from this and a lot I did not expect. For one I had no idea that so many bloggers actually signed up for askimet for all of their blogs! I mean this blog has it. But there was no way I was going to register every time I made a blog.

Ebay

I was not planing on doing any eBay posts since I had been hiding out with pepperjam for awhile now avoiding EPN and its crazyness. Well this month I decided to check out their new cost per click thing they just launched. My revenue with pepperjam had already fallen horribly low so I didn’t think I had much to lose. Well after a months of traffic I can say I was wrong. After a full month of traffic eBay now reports I have made a whopping $75.00 with them for September! I am so going to retire now. But since this is only my first month with EPN I have not given up on this system yet. Perhaps it is just to soon for me to really see results since they have no account history with me. I have also confirmed that pepperjam will soon be also switching over to this quality click pricing so there is really no way around it. They only thing left to do is step up my eBay game and find new niches to dig into to make up for the loss of income with this switch over.

Family

This Friday I received a call from my father who was at the hospital. It seems on Thursday he checked him self into the emergency room for shortness of breath and chest pains. many of you can now see where this is going. It seems he was on the verge of a major heart attack but was lucky/smart enough to seek help and was able to dodge it. He has been in the hospital for two days now as they test and monitor him to make sure nothing more is going to happen. Tomorrow he ‘may’ be checked out to my custody for a Sunday at home. After which we will be driving to Miami for him to have a angioplasty and possibly have a bypass or a stint done on Tuesday depending on how the tests go. its time like this I am so happy that I am an affiliate and that I was able to drop everything to fly down to see him today. I will now be in Key West for the best week and a half taking to the hospital and what not and making sure he rests after the operation. I highly doubt I would be able to do this if I had a real job. It looks as though all will be fine after his operations.

So what dose this plugin do?  Comment Killer was designed to help purge databases of mass amounts of spam while still doing its best to filter out real user comments.  It does this by filtering pending comments based on number of links in them, which you set in the plugin options.  But not only dose it clean out old comments but it keeps new spam comments from even making it into your blog.

I personally have a fair number of wordpress installs all over then net. Most of which run automatically and only need checking up on every few months.  Well as you can guess these things build up spam like crazy. Some of these sites have as many as 10,000 pending comments. Deleting them 20 at a time from the admin panel takes hours of my time and just mass deleting them may delete real user reviews. With Comment Killer I was able to clean out all of my wordpress blogs in a matter of minutes. I was damn happy I did too, because I found a lot of real user reviews in my review sites that might have been lost with a mass delete.

Since I paid to make this plugin and because I put a fair bit of time and effort into it I can’t just give it out for free. But as make it fair for all bloggers I have priced Comment Killer at only $10.00 to use all you like on your sites.  I mean who wouldn’t pay $10.00 to remove thousands if not hundreds of thousands of spam comments across all of their blogs? Not to mention once installed your spam will be cut down nearly 90% next time you log in. Its been well worth it for me and I hope you will like it too.

Check it out at http://www.CommentKiller.com and feel free to post if it’s helped you out.

Anyway after what was one of the worst winters of my life I managed to convince my girlfriend that moving back to Florida would be a much better idea than another year in Minnesota. So here I am back in Florida! St Petersburg to be exact. I now have a wonderful apartment that is waterfront on Tampa Bay and the rents still cheaper than Minneapolis.

What I did not expect was how much of disaster this move has been. When we first got here everything went wrong. It’s been damage control for the last two months trying to just get settled. Just this week I think we finally got the last box unpacked. The office is still somewhat of a wreck but is usable now as tings are slowly finding homes in our new place.

But what has really has really saved me is affiliate marketing! No other job I can think of would allow me to totally vanish from work and all work related responsibility for 2 months and still get paid! Seriously I haven’t done jack shit work related and I am pretty upset that I have lost so much time and that I am now in the mental state I am in. Its hard to just jump back into working when you haven’t for the last two months.

I hope that next week I will finally be able to spend some time at the desk and start damage control on all of my sites and campaigns. Yes everything managed to still run fine but I am sure something horrible has happened. Probably 10,000 spam comments across my wordpress installs too.

I will start posting more usefull stuff again (if I ever did) once I get back to work and start making more sites and campaigns, and sorry to all of my online friends about vanishing for a few months.