Family Tree And New Blog

Nearly two months since I last blogged here.

No I didn't get rich and retire and I didn't give up and go away either. Still here, still crazy after all these years.

I have been blogging but I have started a new blog to record when I submit articles or make changes to my website. I did this to help me keep track of my publishing rate and also because I am working through all my articles, making a few updates and putting them into my new template. This job is going to take weeks, or maybe even months if I get busy with other things but it has to be done. Trouble is it is quite boring but I won't stop until all the pages of the website match. I'm also working on two niche websites and planning numbers three and four.

At least I'm in a happier frame of mind compared to my last post. Never really got to the bottom of what was happening with my MSN PPC ads but things improved and that's all that matters. In the meantime, had a bit of a disaster with Yahoo but (fingers crossed) that campaign is back on the right road.

Biggest time consumer has been that I started trying to trace my family to build a family tree. As I have very few documents, little information and no older relatives to question, I expected it to be a challenge. Didn't realise how totally addictive it can be. I'm having a great time using the Ancestry program. I didn't realise until after I started that it is the exact same software they used in the TV series "Who Do You Think You Are". It's magic and I'm going to write all about it when I get my family tree finished. It works for USA and Canada as well as the UK. That will help me tract my Canadian relatives.


United States Family & Local Histories


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That's Why They Call It Crapcenter

After being locked out of MSN all weekend, I managed to log in today. It was very disappointing to see that none of my ads have been running for the last three days.

I'm having exactly the same problem as before. The campaign started out well but just withered away and died. Rang help desk and they can't help. They will escalate the problem on the UK targetted ads but they don't have the right equipment to view the USA targetted ads. Give me strength! The poor guy there sent me the link so I can contact the help desk in the USA. Now waiting for a reply.

I would really like to know how the ads can be fine when they start but then wear out in a matter of days.

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Autumn Is Here and MSN Adcenter Is Down Again

Within a matter of a few days we have gone from summer into autumn. It's quite a relief to feel cool after all that mind-numbing heat.

My autoresponder problems got sorted out. Get Response say they found no irregularities with my account, so that's a good thing. It is a pity they don't have a mechanism in place to warn their customers when this sort of thing happens. If I had known, I could have got it sorted out in time to publish my September newsletter before the month ended.

My PPC campaign at MSN seems to be taking off after I made all the changes. The Adcenter is closed again today. Seems like Saturdays are their big day for maintenance. Can't tweak my ads there but there are plenty of other things to be done. Averaging over 400 visitors a day so far. Fingers crossed for the rest of the month.

Published a new article today. It's called Using Self Motivation Techniques To Keep Your Goals In Focus. Not exactly a snappy title but the best I could come up with - at least it tells you what the article is about.



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Into October, MSN Sucks And Dollar Monster Returns

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October is here.

September was a funny month. It started out on a high note. Pity it didn't continue on that level. It was a series of disasters for me.

MSN PPC advertising was working great and I was looking forward to masses of new visitors. It suddenly stopped. Yesterday they managed to send me a measly 2 visitors. To add insult to injury, I am no longer getting visitors via their organic searches. There is obviously something wrong with their system but they are not admitting it. I am sick of being given the run around.

I produced my September newsletter, held it back so I could include a programme that was about to go into prelaunch and then found out Get Response had disabled my main autoresponder so my newsletter could not go anywhere. So I missed that opportunity of building a downline during a prelaunch period. The thing that really got to me was the fact that Get Response did not bother to tell me they had disabled my autoresponder and removed all my contacts. That was my main contact list and it had taken me over two years to build. I'm not happy.

Keep seeing a new site called eDalty on the traffic exchanges. Apparently it's a payment processor and auction site. It might be perfectly legit but something about it just looks fishy. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood.

Also saw Dollar Monster being advertised. That is a total scam and I never expected to see them again after they took the money and ran. Do they really think people won't remember as far back as 2004?

After almost being reduced to hysterics, I calmed down, regained focus and control and managed to get quite a lot of work done. Wrote a couple of articles, published one new article and caught up on my email. Only thing I didn't manage was building a bit more of my new websites. Why am I building two at once? It just seemed like a good idea when I started and the one I started first was not supposed to take this long. My new mini site is due to be reviewed by the team at
MPAM tomorrow. I feel strangely nervous. Silly, because they won't throw me out and I can always change things.

October is starting on a pretty low note for me. I hope that means it will get better from here on.






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Jennifer Lopez And Multiple Streams Of Income

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What bad timing! I wish I'd watched Monster-In-Law before I published my article about multiple streams of income.

I never liked Jennifer Lopez until I saw her in a film a couple of weeks ago. What was it called? Dear oh dear, are the grey cells wearing out? I think it might have been called Shall We Dance, anyway, JLo starred in it with Richard Gere and it was about a middle aged man learning to dance. Doesn't sound like much but I thoroughly enjoyed it and I thought JLo was good - and I would not have watched the film if I'd known she was going to be in it!

Having warmed slightly to Jennifer Lopez, I decided to watch Monster-In-Law. Now I wish I'd watched it a few weeks earlier. Jennifer Lopez's character was a dog walker and a yoga instructor - multiple streams of income! I could have used this in my article as an example people would relate to so easily.

Any other big movies out there that relate to Internet marketing?


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Long Sales Letters And More Success

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Busy, busy month so far.

Today I finished two new articles and posted them on my website. The first one, How Unique And Believable Is Your Website Copy, has been submitted for publication and I'm hoping to add a couple more to the queue after : Does Your Sales Letter Make Sense. As usual, these began life as one article, branched of into two different directions and still ended up in the 1000 word region which is pushing the limit. If only I could learn to use fewer words! I did consider cutting each one into two again but there was no natural break and there was only one subject.

These articles are about the new-fashioned long sales letters so many website owners are using. I am all for them but too many people are using identical stories with only very minor changes. I can' imagine many people will be falling for these ads in a few months because the Internet will be overrun with clones (probably down to the typos as well).

Profits and traffic have been strangely up and down after an absolutely brilliant start to the month but, as long as I stay in profit mode I'll be happy. Most of my time has been spent setting up campaigns with search engines. The ppc with Overture has been the worst mainly because I can't use Firefox there and it loads terribly slowly in IE or Crazy Browser. It was almost like hard work for a while because it is so boring. Now I am in the middle of setting up a campaign with MSN but took a day off to rebuild my index page in stacked tables. Today I must go back to the boring job of loading in keywords and making up ads.

One day I'll look back at this and smile but, for now I'm sick of messing around with keywords and can't wait to get back to finish my new set up and then I can get on with designing my new website. Oh well, boring stuff first, I need the traffic.

A young chap on our forum started advertising his website for the first time yesterday and had $70 in sales. He was wildly excited - I would have been too if my first day had gone like that. I think he started straight into ppc but I started out with ads on other sites so my start was slower. It's nice to see people succeed, not just because it's further evidence that our programme works, but for the sake of sharing the happiness of others.

Oh well, sales need traffic; traffic requires advertising, so I'm off to visit MSN with another bunch of keywords.







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Multiple Streams Of Income And The Internet Fairy

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Back on track. Published another article today called Multiple Streams Of Income And The Internet Fairy.

August has been a good month so far. It's been so good, I am beginning to relax and accept it as a trend instead of fearing it's just a fluke. Sunday was my best day for profit in all time. It's too early for the back to school phase to be starting, so I'm as sure as I can be that all the activity is due to the increased advertising. Definitely going to keep that up.

Must also get a new monthly newsletter out. It's been on hold for about three months since I went on holiday and had all the health problems.

Must keep on track and make sure I publish an article every 3-4 days until I use up my credits and then I can go back to one per week. Only slight problem is that I want to build two new websites and if I get started, I won't stop and write.

I have been good though - this month I wrote a new series of email newsletters. I hope they will help some newbies find their way into working at home.


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