Working Towards Home » articles http://www.workingtowardshome.com My journey to working from home Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:17:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ah, the Irony http://www.workingtowardshome.com/ah-the-irony.html http://www.workingtowardshome.com/ah-the-irony.html#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:16:16 +0000 Carrie http://www.workingtowardshome.com/?p=385 In case you just crawled out from under a rock, Google has updated their algo to try and weed out “content farms”. Talk has been buzzing on the forums and blogs, but exactly who and what is affected is still being hashed out.

Apparently, Ezine Articles is one of the sites hit: see here. [...] Related posts:

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What you don’t see is that my personal site, which I don’t include in my earnings as it is an older site and not meant to be a moneymaker, had a drop in adsense earnings so June was not a good [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://www.workingtowardshome.com/earnings-and-status-update.html/feed 14 Very Short Update on Rankings from Test http://www.workingtowardshome.com/very-short-update-on-rankings-from-test.html http://www.workingtowardshome.com/very-short-update-on-rankings-from-test.html#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:46:26 +0000 Carrie http://www.workingtowardshome.com/?p=275 I have been very busy with house stuff so I haven’t been doing much. But I did want to check in and say that my rankings for Site 1 and Site 2 homepages (didn’t check inners) are holding. I was hoping to see more movement upward but that hasn’t happen yet. But I think it [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://www.workingtowardshome.com/very-short-update-on-rankings-from-test.html/feed 1 Building Article Backlinks – Posting Complete http://www.workingtowardshome.com/building-article-backlinks-posting-complete.html http://www.workingtowardshome.com/building-article-backlinks-posting-complete.html#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:12:22 +0000 Carrie http://www.workingtowardshome.com/?p=250 Well, EZA actually approved my articles within a few hours of submission so those articles went live last night. This morning I posted articles for Site 1 and Site 2 to both Info Barrel and Squidoo. Now I have to wait for Info Barrel to approve my articles since I am still under the 10 [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://www.workingtowardshome.com/building-article-backlinks-posting-complete.html/feed 4 Building Article Backlinks – EZA Submission http://www.workingtowardshome.com/building-article-backlinks-eza-submission.html http://www.workingtowardshome.com/building-article-backlinks-eza-submission.html#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:25:50 +0000 Carrie http://www.workingtowardshome.com/?p=247 I finally received my article set for Site 2 this morning. The 3 rewrites were all 87%+ unique from each other so that was good. The writing quality was also good although I always make edits for better flow.

So I spent this morning editing the two sets of articles for my 2 sites and [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://www.workingtowardshome.com/building-article-backlinks-eza-submission.html/feed 2 Building Backlinks with Articles – Article Order http://www.workingtowardshome.com/building-backlinks-with-articles-article-order.html http://www.workingtowardshome.com/building-backlinks-with-articles-article-order.html#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:02:50 +0000 Carrie http://www.workingtowardshome.com/?p=242 Background on building backlinks with articles.

I have received one set of articles back (site 1)  from GetArticlesDone.com but still waiting for the second set. The first set wasn’t bad and should only require some minor editing so that is good. The 3 rewrites (one article rewritten 2 times) were at least 80% unique [...] Related posts:

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