i had a guess where it came from and turns out i was right. a friend from a small private group on facebook deduced my url from my conversations and went to take a look at it. she has tons of problems with the issue my site focuses on so it was actually a valid ad click haha! Yay! that's sweet, because it gives me some idea what i'm looking at- IF i can get rank.

Question though- if someone gets to the site from direct entry of the url instead of the search engine, even if they are 7 states away lol- can that get me in trouble for suspect clicks? i asked her (and the rest of the group) not to do that anymore because i don't want trouble.



i do have a stats tracker plugin for wordpress, why did i not think to go look there yet *slaps forehead* so new.. i'm so new.. hehehe


ps your name / pic combo cracks me up!

I've only just begun to look into selling articles- I didn't think it was something i could do very well before. I've been using Instant Article Wizard to write my articles, but I've been using it only to pull research, and writing it up myself. I can't stand all the garbage I see on the web where people are "spinning" lol.

It turns out I can write fairly well- now whether it's submittable for money - that's the next experiment. I won't know til I try! I sure need the cash coming in to keep on and build the next site when this is done.

but i still don't know really how these sites work- are these original unposted articles, or articles tied to my web page? At any rate I have some resarch to do on THAT subject.. After I write my last few page articles. Half a site is not good enough LOL

Thank you all for the advice and encouragement! (And I promise, i will be Very Careful about clicking my own links!)

I am definitely a newbie. Which are a dime a dozen except I have one thing most newbies don't seem to, from what I read.. well two. Intense Motivation and Follow Through.

I am trying to learn all I can but sometimes it's hard to know where to look. Not for lack of information- but because there's too MUCH information. and not all of it good.

so many techniques, so many angles..

but hey, i LOVE that. been a while since i had anything to conquer.

i've been signing up for social networking sites and gathering them under ping.fm / hootsuite. i haven't set up any autocontent yet. i'm trying to figure out HOW that works. (autocontent to my site / quality control / autoposting through these networks.) i get the concept of automatically posting to all the social sites at once- and the concept of building backlinks that way but not really the specifics yet. Must figure that out asap! sites like tumblr are a mystery to me. i'm not sure how that site works LOL. it just seems like there are so many things to learn at once *chuckle*

plus i'm still writing articles. stay at home mom with 3 kids out of school, one of which is only 2 so he's a major time hog lol. but each article i write gets better and better, never an issue with copyscape, passing my wordpress SEO plugin with flying colors now.. i think i'm improving


sometimes i wish i could afford an education in this LOL! i'm kind of going at the learning sideways - i started with a program to help me get my site up, show me what it's using.. then i will learn what the plugins and tactics are as i set them up / use them. investigate as the site builds steam (hopefully). because to be honest, i didn't even have the foggiest where to start.

i just keep reminding myself that this training program is just ONE way. and it's far from complete. but my first goal is to make $5 a day doing it This way, then branch out. i figure, by then, i should have a good handle on the method i've chosen to start with.

the only bad thing about being a newbie is sticking my foot in my mouth almost every time i post hahaha

thanks again for the encouragement!

LOL i sure as heck hope so... my first goal is to make my husbands car payment every month. i don't know how long that will take ($10 a day) since i'm so dang new, but i'm going to try my darnedest to get there and go way beyond!