The Power Of A Single Child

I was busy ‘digging’ about today when I came across this site ‘Twenty Five Days To Make A Difference’ and was absolutely blown away. It’s a blog by a little girl called Laura who, to honour the memory of her grandfather, set out to make the world a better place by making a difference everyday for 25 days.

This is an excerpt from her blog - “I challenged everyone who read my blog to TRY to do something every single day during the holiday season to make a SMALL difference in his or her world. I explained that whoever made the “most difference” in December would win a $25.00 donation to the charity of his or her choice on Christmas night. I SAVED ALL OF MY ALLOWANCE ($25) FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, AND I WAS REALLY SURPRISED AND EXCITED WHEN SEVERAL PEOPLE GENEROUSLY OFFERED TO MATCH MY DONATION (OR MORE)! “

Christ, what an inspiration to us all! Here’s a child using the internet purely for the good of others and asking for nothing in return. I’m not a religious person but God bless you sweetie.

I stand humbled.

Woohoo! My Membernaire sites at No 2 and No 4

Things are looking good at Google. My Membernaire review page on Squidoo is doing pretty good. I’m at number four for the Squid page and number two for this blog. Can’t be bad. Now if I can just figure out why no bugger’s buying anything…

7Search have written to me again asking for my keywords and offering me a free $10 for doing so. Yeah right.

I’m going to keep tweaking away at the Membernaire site over the weekend but also going to start researching another niche to see if I can get similar results as I’ve been getting with Membernaire. I intend to follow the same model I’ve used with Squidoo and monitor the results the best I can.

I’m falling behind with my Wealthy Affiliate training. It’s find ing the time!

A Wobbly Day with Membernaire

Things have been happening rapidly with my membernaire site in terms of Google rankings. I dropped off the front page the next day, went to the third page and last I looked was back on the second page. However, I am showing up on the second page twice. Once for my Squidoo site and once for the article I submitted. I’m ok with that. Just have to figure out why.

From what I read though, Google has a mind of it’s own so maybe I won’t know for a loooooong while yet.

I closed my account with 7Search yesterday. I wanted to set up an ad for Membernaire and, with it being a new product, submitted only nine keywords. As I moved through the menu’s it rejected seven of them as the words hadn’t been searched for in the last three months.

This is what I wrote to their ’support’ section … “I have just started a campaign for a new product onto the market called ‘Membernaire’. As it is so new there is little in the way of keywords associated with this product. I wanted to use the specific word ‘membernaire’ and several long tail’s that include this word.

However, your program will not let me use them at all because there have been no searches on these words within the last three months. There wouldn’t be. It was launched about a week ago. So how can I set up a viable campaign if I cannot use the keywords I want? Is there a way around this?

This what I got back… “Please check out our easy-to-use FAQ page for answers on many of your questions about 7Search.com!
http://7search.com/faq/”

I went bolo! 48 hours for that. 48 wasted hours and no answer. The FAQ section was rubbish. I emailed them again and got this…“Thank you for contacting 7search.com! We have received your recent inquiry to our client support department. Please reply stating specifically what keywords wish to add your account. We appreciate your time and patience in allowing us to respond to your inquiry. It is our desire to adequately address all concerns expressed within the original correspondence. Please visit the following page to rate your 7search.com experience. http://7search.com/support/survey.htm “

So I did. After 24 hours nothing. So sod ‘em. I shut my account down and will never even contemplate working with them again. This is not the first time I’ve had zilch response from this mob so it’s not just a case of me chucking my toys in the air. I think they’re customer service is the pits. maybe it’ll get better but I won’t hold my breath.

My rating: -0/10

And good riddance.

A Good Day

Much to my surprise I woke today to find myself on the first page of Google with my Squidoo affiliate lens regarding Membernaire . I’m not quite sure how this has happened so fast.

I have been struggling with a couple of other campaigns and have not ranked at all but this Membernaire one has taken off. My article has only today been accepted on ezinearticles.com so I doubt that has had any influence.

What I did do, was to edit the site and spent some time making more of the text bold, added in a YouTube video on the virtues of Membernaire and have taken part in a voting thread over on Wealthy Affiliate.

It’s difficult to know what tipped the scales. One of them or all of them. However, the guy that holds the number one slot for Membernaire has a small one-page site with virtually nothing on it all. Bizarre!

I’m going to have to keep an eye on things over the next few days to see if I can figure it out.

Phew! I’ve been busy.

It’s been an interesting couple of days. The sun has come and gone, it’s still pretty cold and my missus has smacked the life out of the Visa card again (ouch). I feel like I’ve been stuck in front of the computer for ever and not achived a great deal, but looking back I suppose I’ve not done too badly all things being equal.

I signed up for a new affiliate program ‘Membernaire’ by Jimmy D. Brown and wrote an article on Squidoo which you can find here

In terms of construction this is the most comprehensive lens I have put together so far. I then went through the procedure of pinging etc and await the results. I submitted only one article this time and that was to www.ezinearticles.com. To be honest, I needed to spend some time sorting out a few other things, mostly this blog.

I then spent the rest of my time re-designing this blog. It took me a while but I eventually figured out how to get feeds down the side panel. Hey, no mean feat when you’re computer illiterate like wot I am. But, I cracked it and am chuffed to little mintballs for having done so.

Easy when you know how I suppose but it took me a few goes to get it looking right. The buttons down the side I got from this site

I also purchased a domain name for this site from www.GoDaddy.com. That was a doodle but the tricky bit for me now is figuring out how to get an email with the same name. I spent yonks going over their help pages and did all kinds of stuff it told me to do. I couln’t get it going though. So I’ve emailed them and await their timely response.

Whatever the outcome of my endeavours I am learning all the time and keeping the old grey matter active. Can’t be bad.