Green Flamingobecause I said so

Over the past few days I have been a bit discouraged over what has happened on the net, while at the same time I have enjoyed posting two wonderful articles on facing a blogger’s challenges and some creative ideas to focus yourself while you write.

On the 21st my Adsense account was sadly disabled. This I am very mad about, as I had nothing to do with invalid clicks and therefore am appealing. I have not found any suspicious IP addresses however, and if any of you have tips on how to get it back successfully I would appreciate them. Also I am really bummed about it for I had made $50 with it, the day before was the marking point, and I had made that much in about 10-11 days.

I lost my spot as the top commentator of the month of TUK, and though it wasn’t all that important to me, I like to be the best of the best. Suddenly when I had about 40 comments (sheesh! A lot isn’t it!) I was beaten by a 50 commenter! I have no idea how you should have 50 comments in 20 days, and it was only about a week ago the person started to comment! I wonder if any is spam, I hope not. I don’t really need the spot back, though it would be nice, but I don’t feel like spamming Jason.

I have not gotten my interior design services up still, though I have been on it for about 2 weeks. If I don’t launch soon nothing will come of it. There are a lot of things to be done, that is the problem, and I just don’t put 2 hours straight of work into it. If I did so, I would probably have it done, but I have to visit so many places I am sure to be distracted. I need to focus on one thing at a time, and then I will be ready. I guess I could lauch the first 5 free consultations, but I still have to have things ready if those fly. I will set up, then I will announce the free deals. By the way if anyone knows how to use Paypal to have someone pay 50% before hand and the rest after, then please tell me, for that’s what I need. That is one of the bumps I have to get over.

Jason has written some depressing posts, one on how anonymity is needed for online business, and another on how revealing your sources might be a bad idea. I guess these aren’t terrible, but I know those are two fields I don’t do too well in.

Besides all the bad things that have happened, good things have come out of it all too. Yesterday I was able to revisit the amusement park, but I have gone about 4 times in between when I posted about it.

I have had an increase in Technorati authority, and my rank has gone from 270 something to 264 something. I am happy with this, though comparing the two it is a much smaller difference than I thought.

My Alexa rank has gone from 690,730 to 630,370 which I am also happy about, though Alexa is not thought of as an accurate rating.

I am also writing some killer posts, and hope to do more, and I have had a bad and good week.