It’s been a while since I updated this blog. I’m still working on developing a blogging habit.

It turns out one of those sales I made during the Thirty Day Challenge was charged back, so unfortunately I didn’t get paid for it. I’m still waiting on Ed Dale and Dan Raine to get their act together and finish up the awards ceremony for the Thirty Day Challenge.

Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of surfing around looking at websites for sale. After a week and a half or two of surfing, I found one worth buying. I’ve had it for 24 hours now and it hasn’t made a sale yet (it’s supposed to making about 1.6 sales a day on average). I have until Monday before I need to complete the transaction so I’m hoping it makes a sale before then so I don’t have to return it and waste the 10-12 straight hours of work I spent on it last night. At least the site looks acceptable now, and the bounce rate appears to have gone down.

Woohoo! After all that trouble with my first site - getting tumbled, redoing it on its own domain, getting slapped for duplicate content, etc. - it finally made me a sale. Now I just need to get them updated and submit a few more pages to social sites to get the traffic flowing again.

I’m so excited! I woke up this morning to a nice $31.85 in my Clickbank account. It was from the site I started Friday night - hopefully it isn’t to late to get my name in that raffle drawing for the trip to Australia. :)

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Free trip to Australia? I’m game!

I’ve just made my first post at a new blog that will hopefully bring me a sale over the weekend. I’m trying a different approach to promoting my affiliate product and I sure hope it pays off! I’ve always wanted to go to Australia - but to spend it learning internet marketing from the pros would be quite a treat!

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Rewrite. Your. Content.

Before you go to copy and paste your old content into a new blog, rewrite your content. It can be similar in structure but you need to move words around, use synonyms, etc. Be sure to also rewrite the descriptions you use to submit your site to social networks. It will save you lots of time and effort in the long run.

I’d also suggest removing all your old, dead links in the social networks you put them in. Many of them will allow you to delete or bury your own links so make sure you do that before submitting your new site.

After my Tumblr page was removed, I bought a cheap .info domain and stuck Wordpress on it. I spent a few hours tweaking the plugins and theme, getting it just right. I spent another few hours posting the content I had used on my Tumblr page, adding and tweaking a few paragraphs. But all-in-all, many of the sentences were obvious copies of the old, now deleted, page.

Unfortunately, Google didn’t see the old site removed before it saw the new site - so my new site was banned for duplicate content. Though, instead of rewriting my content and starting up another new site (the third attempt), I’m just going to email Google, explain what happened, apologize, and hope they give me another chance. And until that happens, I’ll be working on my next niche.

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