Yesterday…
I’m going to go on record and say that yesterday was a pretty darn good day. I had to make a hard decision and so far it has panned out. Plus, Google was good to me as well.
Let’s start with the hard decision. Since starting this semester at school I have known that there was no way for me to keep running Mlinkz directory if it kept getting the number of submissions that it was getting each day. So I was faced with a hard decision. I could either sell it, my only really successful site, and start over with something new or I could tack on a fee of some sort so that submissions would be slashed. I fully intended to sell it after the PR update because I expected the homepage to go to PR5 and the category indexes to go to PR4. However, Google didn’t do what I was waiting for, so I opted for the second option. Yesterday morning I decided to charge a reviewing fee for submission to the directory. I also doubled the price of the featured links and I told myself that I was happy with a single site submission each day. Yesterday I sold no regular submissions, but I did sale two featured links!
I said that Google was good to me. Well it was. After waiting the entire duration of this PR update for something to happen to Mlinkz, yesterday the category pages that were linked to from the index finally got some PR. PR3s all around. I’m still waiting on the main page to get updated, but for not it is not as important as the category page.
Secondly, February has ended, so lets discuss how I did at Adsense. My goal for the month was $1 each day for a total of $28. All was going good and I was well ahead schedule until I had a dry spell in mid-February. Well yesterday I had an excellent adsense day and fell just $.40 short of my monthly goal. So this month I’m going to possibly aquire another site and really make the $1 per day for a total of $31 at the end of the month. If I can accomplish that then I will be only one month away from earning an adsense payout, something that I was never really sure I would make it to.
