From the Desk of Jerrie Dean

Robber arrested after returning to place he tried to rob the day before - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

2011-03-06T12:21:00.000-08:00

A criminal that should be in the TV show "World's Dumbest Criminals" was arrested after walking back in to the Jack in the Box that he tried to rob the day before.

Shawn Dustin Page was arrested at the Jack in the Box on 804 University Avenue on Thursday, by the police that were there to take a report from the manager about the attempted robbery, the day before. The manager told the police a man had demanded cash from the employee and the employee told him he didn't have the key, so the man left. While the manager was accounting what happened, the same man entered the Jack in the Box and got in line to order food. The manager identified him and the police detained Page.

Continue reading on Examiner.com: Robber arrested after returning to place he tried to rob the day before - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/headlines-in-san-diego/robber-arrested-after-returning-to-place-he-tried-to-rob-the-day-before#ixzz1FqwLRrEo

Is Academy Award nominee Banksy in Imperial Beach?

2011-02-27T11:38:00.000-08:00

Early Sunday morning, another "rat" has shown up in San Diego County and the rumors are that it is the artistic work of Banksy, the international graffitti artist that has been nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary "Exit Through the Gift Shop."

This one is much, much smaller and is located next to a sign that says, "No Dumping Private Property, Under Video Surveillance" on 9th and Emory Streets in Imperial Beach.
Yesterday, a "big rat" appeared on the exterial wall of Bull Taco Shop in Oceanside and is believed to be the work of Banksy. Did Banksy decide to hang around San Diego for another night, before going up to LA for the Academy Awards this Sunday? Possibly, but there is speculation that he won't even show up for the award show, but if he does, he will he be in disguise, and many of his fans will be watching tonight to see if he does.

Continue reading on Examiner.com: Is Academy Award nominee Banksy in Imperial Beach? - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/headlines-in-san-diego/is-academy-award-nominee-banksy-imperial-beach#ixzz1FBpc32iz

Academy Award nominee suspected of tagging Oceanside Taco Shop

2011-02-26T11:35:00.000-08:00

A street artist known as Banksy, who has been nominated for an Academy Award, may be responsible for the "tagging" of an Oceanside Taco Shop, early Saturday morning.
Bull Taco shop has a new oversized white rat flying a kite on it's outside wall now. And it is not just any kite, the kite shows a family running, depicting the highway sign that is familiar to San Diegan's driving the freeways near San Ysidro.

There has been a lot of sightings of the artists portrayal of these road signs popping up all over Los Angeles and this is the first one in San Diego County.

Continue reading the full story on Examiner.com: Academy Award nominee suspected of tagging Oceanside Taco Shop - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/missing-persons-in-national/academy-award-nominee-suspect-tagging-oceanside-taco-shop#ixzz1F5yW53s1

How I increased my blog views in 30 days

2011-01-30T13:17:00.000-08:00

I wanted to drop by and tell everyone about how the views on my blog is going.

I started the blog on blogger.com called Missing Persons of America to run side by side with my Missing Persons Examiner column. I picked this one because it was simple and it was very automatic for putting adsense and amazon ads on it. Since I don't have anymore time in the day to dedicate to one more thing, I knew it had to be simple and easy.

I started off with a eerie looking background and a very "bloggy" look to it. Then whenever I posted an article on Examiner, I just hit the "Add This" button on my browser and clicked on the "Blogger" button and the headline was posted as a hyperlink. I noticed some traffic, at the most one day 20. I was getting hits, that I never really thought I would get. With blogger it was easy to see where the hits were coming from and the majority were coming from searches on google. I earned five cents. Not much, but that is the way all the earnings start, you get a penny, a nickel, and it just grows from there.

I get Pat Flynn's newsletter and decided to read more for tips on growing your blog. I decided at the first of the year to see if I could grow my blog and possible get it to the front page of google, like Pat Flynn was doing. First I noticed that my website needed updating. Goodby, eerie background, hello white background. I rearranged things, still am, but not as much the last week. I also started putting more details in my columns. Instead of just pasting the headline, I decided to paste the first paragraph. What was cool about it was, when I did, the Examiner automatically added a link. Perfect.

I saw my hits start to grow substantially. I added a link to my Examiner articles back to my blog and saw through the stats on blogger that it was sending people to my blog.

Then I got an email from a woman connected to the Nancy Grace show. She asked if I would watch the show about Adji Desir (that's him in the picture) since she saw that I had just written about him, and then write about it in my blog. Notice she didn't say on my Examiner column but my blog.

I believe this was the turning point for my blog, as I realized that was what was missing. Posting the stories was good, but my own voice wasn't there. Writing as a journalist is different than writing as a person, and that was what I needed to add to my blog. I needed to switch from fact writing to emotional writing. Tell people what I'm really thinking.

Then the following week, I realized there are many times that I will read a update about a missing person, but it is not enough to write a whole column about. For example, last weekend they announced they were going to get a search party together to search for Brittanee Drexel. I posted that on the blog, and over the weekend other updates on other missing persons.

I saw my hits begin to grow more and all of the sudden last night I received 358 hits, the biggest night I have had on the blog, so far. So, when I started I was getting about 5 views a day and by the third week was averaging 175 and then last week I received several 200 days and then yesterday 358. 68 of the views came from the Examiner from the link I put in at the bottom of the article. Please note, at the Examiner I received 75,000 views in January for my national column. If you have a national Examiner column, too, you can get that many hits, too. If I get enough Email's wanting to know more, I will write about it here next month.

With blogs you need to get around 1000 a day to see any substantial money, but what is encouraging is when you see views going up, you begin to think that maybe there is a possibility you can get up to 1000 a day, and you begin to brain storm on ways to do it.

My next step is to buy an url and switch the blog to that URL. I think that if google see's me as a website instead of a blog (as what is in my current URL) that I will begin to see myself on the front page of google.

Thanks for reading! --Jerrie

Writing Online / Alrady Blog: How I increased my blog views in 30 days

2011-01-30T10:16:00.000-08:00

Chelsee Oaks and American Idol moment:: Duets and an "Idol Moment’ - National Celebrity Headlines | Examiner.com

2011-01-29T11:20:00.000-08:00

I have to post this as Chelsee is my niece. The family is really proud of her. And we are proud of you, too, Rob. :-)
Chelsee Oaks and American Idol moment:: Duets and an "Idol Moment’ - National Celebrity Headlines | Examiner.com

Amy Sue Henslee: Bodies of Amy and another woman found (video) - National missing persons | Examiner.com

2011-01-28T10:02:00.000-08:00

The bodies of Amy Sue Henslee who has been missing since Monday (more here) and another woman, Tonya Howarth have been found. They were shot to death and buried.
Amy Sue Henslee, the missing Michigan mother of two and Tonya Howarth, 36, was found just a few miles from where Amy disappeared. Both the women had been shot several times.

Continue reading on Examiner.com: Amy Sue Henslee: Bodies of Amy and another woman found (video) - National missing persons | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/missing-persons-in-national/amy-sue-henslee-bodies-of-amy-and-another-woman-found#ixzz1CM1kRRAE

American Idol 2011- Audition- Ex Lovers- Chelsee Oaks- Rob Bolin

2011-01-27T21:12:00.000-08:00

How to Get your Tax Refund Back Fast | eHow.com

2011-01-23T20:20:00.000-08:00

How to Get your Tax Refund Back Fast | eHow.com

San Diego News, San Diego Information, San Diego Events - Examiner.com | Examiner.com

2011-01-23T20:19:00.000-08:00

San Diego News, San Diego Information, San Diego Events - Examiner.com | Examiner.com

13-year-old attempts to rob Radio Shack - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

2011-01-22T22:48:00.001-08:00

13-year-old attempts to rob Radio Shack - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

Home | Examiner.com

2011-01-22T22:48:00.000-08:00

Home | Examiner.com

How to Begin Writing Online and Earning Money | Writinghood

2011-01-22T13:36:00.000-08:00

How to Begin Writing Online and Earning Money | Writinghood

How to Make Some Extra Cash | eHow.com

2011-01-22T13:22:00.001-08:00

How to Make Some Extra Cash | eHow.com

How to create an online income - Part 1 - San Diego women’s business | Examiner.com

2011-01-22T13:22:00.000-08:00

Over the next few weeks, I will be doing a series of articles, outlining work at home job ideas that can actually earn you money.

This is #1 of the series, called "How to Create an Online Income."

First, you need to set up your own paypal.com account as most of the online business' pay this way. As you earn money, it will be deposited into your paypal account and you can withdraw from it with the ATM card they give you.

Continue reading on Examiner.com: How to create an online income - Part 1 - San Diego women's business | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/women-s-business-in-san-diego/how-to-create-an-online-income-part-1#ixzz1BnkxYlTw

Father, Mother and Son Electrocuted by 12,000 Volt Power Line in Back Yard | Newsflavor

2011-01-16T10:12:00.000-08:00

Father, Mother and Son Electrocuted by 12,000 Volt Power Line in Back Yard | Newsflavor

Lawsuit Says Golden Globes are Corrupt | Telewatcher

2011-01-16T10:04:00.000-08:00

Lawsuit Says Golden Globes are Corrupt | Telewatcher

10 woman grabbed by the Chula Vista Groper - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

2011-01-15T22:03:00.000-08:00

10 woman grabbed by the Chula Vista Groper - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

Paige Valisa Johnson: Police revoke parole of Jacob Bumpass - National missing persons | Examiner.com

2011-01-13T21:23:00.000-08:00

Paige Johnson, a 17 year old teen that has a 2-year-old daughter was last seen near Scott and 15th street in Convington, Kentucky on September 23.
The last person to see Paige was Jacob Bumpass, as he said he dropped her off at 15th St. on September 23rd. Cell records showed that Johnson and Bumpass talked to each other via cell phones all the time. Police have questioned Bumpass to get more information about Paige's whereabouts, but they say that Bumpass will not cooperate.

Continue reading on Examiner.com: Paige Valisa Johnson: Police revoke parole of Jacob Bumpass - National missing persons | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/missing-persons-in-national/paige-valisa-johnson-police-revoke-parole-of-jacob-bumpass#ixzz1Az5QvoWt

80-year-old woman convicted of jewelry theft at Macy’s - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

2011-01-13T16:46:00.000-08:00

80-year-old woman convicted of jewelry theft at Macy’s - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

Search is on for second man in Arizona shooting - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

2011-01-09T10:32:00.000-08:00

Search is on for second man in Arizona shooting - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

Wikinut

2010-12-12T09:04:00.000-08:00

I have found a new place to earn money writing on line. It is very casual and you can even repost your ehow articles and such. http://www.wikinut.com/in/vnhfj/

Suspect in the murder of U.S. Navy man dies in jail - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

2010-11-29T20:11:00.000-08:00

Suspect in the murder of U.S. Navy man dies in jail - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

Wal-Mart and the Black Friday videos - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

2010-11-26T23:57:00.000-08:00

Wal-Mart and the Black Friday videos - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

Music Articles

2010-11-26T21:16:00.000-08:00

Music Articles

Pasties are new protest against TSA body-scanners - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

2010-11-21T10:07:00.000-08:00

Pasties are new protest against TSA body-scanners - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

San Diego women charged with financing Somali Terror Group - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

2010-11-20T13:09:00.000-08:00

San Diego women charged with financing Somali Terror Group - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

Airports are not required to have TSA screeners - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

2010-11-17T21:32:00.000-08:00

Airports are not required to have TSA screeners - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

TSA Pistole talks (kinda) about TSA airport security - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

2010-11-16T22:55:00.000-08:00

TSA Pistole talks (kinda) about TSA airport security - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

Be prepared to get ’groped’ before your flight to grandma’s - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

2010-11-16T08:40:00.001-08:00

Be prepared to get ’groped’ before your flight to grandma’s - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

Man tells TSA before pat-down "Don’t touch my junk!" (video) - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

2010-11-16T08:40:00.000-08:00

Man tells TSA before pat-down "Don’t touch my junk!" (video) - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

2010-11-14T13:04:00.000-08:00

Be prepared to get "Groped" on your flight to Grandma’s - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

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Amber Alert for Zahra Baker, mother arrested - National missing persons | Examiner.com

2010-10-11T13:05:00.000-07:00

10-year-old Zahra Claire Baker is missing from her Hickory, North Carolina home and authorities have not ruled out Zahra's step mother as a person of interest.

Amber Alert for Zahra Baker, mother arrested - National missing persons | Examiner.com

List my Five Experiment Week 3

2010-10-10T10:59:00.000-07:00

For all of you that haven't looked at their calendar, today it is 10/10/10. The storm has left some really dry weather that is normal this time of the year in Southern Calif. and makes it difficult for me to get into the fall season, especially Halloween.

I've got some interesting stuff to tell everyone. First, I was super busy with all my jobs and missed posting my third week by about 3 days, that is not all that interesting, but I am getting to that part. Just note, that most of the views and earnings will be higher than they would have been. I noticed a nice jump this morning before I started this post, but here are the stats:

Total articles
56
Total Views  
6474
Earnings for October, 2010  
$2.49

The end of September after 2 weeks I was showing $2.36. So, not quite mid October I have more than that. So, I think I can safely say that I will at least make $5.00 in October.

The most interesting happening was my Websites for Pumpkin Carving Patterns. This is the one that I created after seeing a google trend (which is still trending today). It is at 782 views and .38 earnings. I anticipate it will peak at around 1000 views by Halloween.

What was so interesting is that a couple of days after I wrote it, I twitted it out and looked back at my views to see it go from around 100 to 500, just like that. I blinked, I reloaded and I wondered if there was a glitch, but no there wasn't. I find it fascinating to network my articles and watch the views go up like hitting a jackpot at a slot machine, but this one was spectacular. I networked it out at the most perfect time and benefited hugely.

This article was also posted in List My Five's front page. I saw more comments because of that and about 75 extra views. Speaking of, if you are looking to get your article on the front page, you will increase your chances if you do have a seasonal article that has a nice word count to it. Write at least 3-4 sentences for each step and it will bring it up to more of what List My Five is looking for. Me suspects that LM5 may use google trends, too, to see what everyone is looking at, so my article would be a good fit, just for that reason.

With the pumpkin article the overall average is a little trickier to figure out, so I am taking that one out of the equation, altogether and am showing an estimate of 115 views per article.

If your stats are showing much less than that, you need to look at 2 things. Your article titles and your networking. Networking will let people know about your articles, but if they don't have a title that will intrigue people, they are not going to click on it no matter how much you network. So, think outside the box on your titles, spend a little more time on it and don't forget your SEO.

I am still shooting for my goal of 90 articles in 30 days, but I am slowing down a bit. I have been writing 2 a day and find that I seem to run out of ideas after that and it becomes torture spending time looking for inspiration. It really cuts into your earnings if you lose an hour in writer's blog mode.

Remember the Stink Bug article was the view winner last post? This time it is the Pumpkin article. The Stink Bug article is at 289. I think the bug crises is over anyway, so I don't see that one doing much more till next year. Part of the problem with seasonal and hot trend articles.

The others that have higher views are Homemade Halloween Costumes for Dogs at 177 at .13, Haunted Houses at 164 at .06 and Signs you are addicted to Facebook at 199 at .12.

Highest earnings: Tips for new Businesses at .81 which incidentally, I just wrote two days ago. It only shows 75 views, but it has a new, killer looking ad about owning your own vending machine. I am going to give all the credit to that ad, as I don't see it posted on any of my other articles. The Stink Bug article is at 289 views with .97.

Everything else is from 0 (yes, a few of my articles show views but no earnings) to .30.

I also want to thank LM5 for listening to the writers. I have read people's suggestions on the forums and they are right-on. All that eHow experience, makes our information valuable to them, and they are smart enough to know that and act on it.

If you have a LM5 experience with views or earnings, please take the time and leave a comment about it, so we can all learn from it.

Next post will be the last for the experiment. My idea is to let the articles marinate for a bit to see if how they do. Then I will let everyone know about that.

List My Five Experiment Two weeks later

2010-09-30T17:01:00.000-07:00

We got a wonderful fall storm, that feels more like a late summer storm, in San Diego today and it has been special to be able to listen to thunder for most of the day. Something you could never do in an corporate office.

Anyway, I have been on List My Five for 18 days now. I have 41 articles (a little under the 3 in 30 day goal, but I should be able to make that up) and 3238 views with a grand total of $2.36.

That is about 3 times the amount of views I last reported, but sadly not 3 times the money, more like double the money. Which means views do not mean earnings. Just because they clicked on your article doesn't mean you will get any money from it.

That was the same at the old eHow. That is why I was not such an advocate to have my friends come read my article and rate. Rating never meant more money.

Now let me break down what has the most views and the most earnings.

The Stink Bug article is still the most views and the most money, at 204 views and 86 cents. I wrote that article after I saw it posted on Google trends. I didn't even know there was a stink bug epidemic in the east coast till a few days later. In fact, it got worse over the following week, so I believe that is why my article is doing well. But, I can't find it on a Google search, so I don't know how anyone else has been either.

The second most popular is the Top Halloween costumes one at 163 views and 16 cents.

I have high hopes for my Top Holiday Toys of 2010. The idea came to me when I read about the toy conference and as I looked for research there was no definite list of the top toys…yet. Maybe by the time it gets closer to Christmas the article will have "aged" and it will show up on Google search.

A good reason to read as much as you write, because inspiration will come to you that way.

I also have high hopes for my haunted house article, which has earned 4 cents since I posted it yesterday. I couldn't find a definite list for the top haunted houses, so after doing extensive research, I came up with one.

My average views are around 80 and my average earnings are 13 cents a day. Don't take these figures to heart as I am still writing every day and there won't be a real clear picture till I stop writing after 30 days, to see what happens.

Also, when I started eHow I was only making pennies a day and after about 1 1/2 years it was a $1.00 for each article a day and then it is two to three times that. Point is most people bail because they are only seeing pennies and they think, "I did so much work and that's all I got." That's all you got for this week, but I guarantee if you dedicate yourself to it, it will grow. The first month it may only be $3.00, but the next month it's $6.00, next month, maybe $10.00 and after a year, your earning $100.00 a month and it keeps growing from there. I saw the exact same thing happen with eHow, so I know it can happen.

This month will be another record month at eHow and I have not written any new articles in 4 months, but I have still been social networking my articles. I go back and as a season or holiday nears, I market those articles, and you should be doing that, too.

With LM5, I am finding that Twitter loves these articles and it is so cool to tweet it and then go back and watch the counter go up. Nice to know that people are looking at my stuff. I think they are popular because people wonder what is the top haunted houses or what is going to be the top toys this Christmas.

This should help give you a basis on how to come up with article ideas. You come up with a question and then give the answer. Then post the question on Twitter (marketing) and then your link.

I am off to write an article on a Discovery show called Disappeared they will be debuting October 4. They sent me a preview of the show and I watched it and want to get the word out about this missing teen and the show on my other blog and at the examiner.

Talk to you guys soon.

The Top Five Signs You Are Addicted to Facebook

2010-09-23T22:02:00.000-07:00

The Top Five Signs You Are Addicted to Facebook

List My Five Seven Days Later

2010-09-23T12:27:00.000-07:00

It has been 7 days since I joined LM5 and I bet you all are wondering the outcome, so here it is:

Highest paying article: Ways to Get Rid of Stink Bugs 62 cents

Most views: Lies Dating Women Tell Men with 113 views

Total views: 1374

Total articles: 20 (one short of the 3 a day count)

Total Earnings: $1.33

Remember after I saw the stink bug article earnings jump pass my other article earnings, I decided to write another pest control article? Well, the second pest control article has only made a penny. Both have the same ad on them and there is a 60 cent difference between the earnings. I can only account for that as the stink bug article was on google trends and the other one was not.

One article I did no social networking on to see what effect that had on views and earning now stands at 15 views. The average view on my other articles is 50 each. Obviously, you have to advertise your articles.

I have done a google check on my article titles and nothing is coming up. Very depressing. I do know that conventionally, without a "Big Name" website to help, that it can take a month for your article title to appear.

Doing my own search, I typed in 5 ways to get rid of a moocher (my first article) and it does not come up on the first, second or even 3rd page. I added the word "top", and finally I am on the first page about 6th one down. Trouble is when people search they do not put in a whole title, they put in keywords, so the chances of my article being found is zilch. But to be fair, it may take a month before we can see if LM5 articles will be found via google search.

That is only if google does not do the new algorithm as mentioned in my blog a couple of days ago.

Looking over my list of articles, the higher views are related to dating, the stink bug article and Halloween.

If you wondering what to write about this week, I would stick to autumn, upcoming holidays, dating advise and check google trends for ideas.

Is google going to force change for online writers?

2010-09-21T10:46:00.000-07:00

I ran across this article this morning written by Nick Usborne, and he is saying that Google is changing their algorithm to ignore short articles (approx. 350 words or less). For all of you that write for Demand Studios and in particularly LM5, this is going to have a big effect on earnings.

I have many old eHow articles that are near the top of Google search. They have been there for a long time and have earned their way to the top, from hits and links. In other words from popular choice they have inched their way to the front page of Google.

Now according to Usborne, they will no longer be found because Google will put them on page 20 of a Google search. Fair? I don't think so. I think popularity should decide where these articles should go.

We are all now going to have to think of the future of our eHow articles. Most are short, they were made that way, so people could read quickly how to do something and move on. In fact, DS is a stickler about fluff words. They want you to start every paragraph with an action verb and cut out any conversational style of writing. This is one of the reason's I don't write there anymore. I fluff too much. Take away my words and asking me to write technical style, was cramping my personality. Anyway, what is going to happen to DS now. Are all those millions of articles suddenly going to disappear to the back of the line? What is that going to do to them?

Usborne goes on to say that DS is paying their writers peanuts and in order for the writers to make any money that have to write quick, low quality articles. Really? I know personally, I don't feel any of my articles were low quality. What keeps the quality up for myself, and I believe everyone else is that we are putting our name on it. We have pride and know that people will be seeing it. If it is low quality at all, it comes from writing inexperience, that remedies itself over time.

Usborne also says that more people will share a video on clipping a dogs nails that an article. I totally disagree. I took time to produce many videos on playing the piano, and they did not earn anywhere as much as my writing. I personally don't like watching someone else tell me what to do, I would much rather read it. I can skim, reread and get what I need out of an article, where with a video, you are stuck listening to every drone the speaker is saying. Makes me feel like I am in school again.

So, what do you think? Is the future of DS, LM5 or online writers earnings in general in jeopardy?

Should we all be making sure that each article has 350 plus words in it. Google is going to force online writers to add extra fluffy words so that we have a chance of making it on the front page. Frankly, it sounds to me that writing quality will go down instead of up as we all clamour to figure out a way to stretch out an articles word count.

List My Five Experiment

2010-09-20T13:39:00.000-07:00

I have joined ListMyFive.com and since I have had experience with eHow over the years, I wanted to use that experience to see if LMF will be another alternate way to make money online.

I decided to try to write 3 LMF articles a day. Why three? About a month ago I read read an article where an author said that if you write 3 online articles a day on infobarrell.com, that after 5 years you would be bringing in a residual income of $10,000 a month. Now think about that. You work your tail off for 5 years and then from that point on, until the website no longer exists you have a constant income of $10,000 a month without doing another writing thing online. Let's say the author is wrong and it comes out to be $7500 a month or even $5000. That's a lot of money to keep earning a month for your prose.

If I had been more diligent with my eHow writing, AND if they had not gone DS on me, I believe I could have come close to that. But with life, sometimes getting in the way, there were many days that I didn't write one, let alone 3.

So, I thought this would be a good chance for me to try it with LMF. I chose LMF instead of infobarrel, just because of the ease of it. Infobarrel requires at least a 400 word article and that can take a bit, and when you times it by 3, it can take a bit longer, and some days I know I wouldn't be able to do the challenge. But, with LMF, I can pound out an article in under 30 minutes, once I did it in under 15 minutes, when I came up with an idea. I think my previous experience with eHow helped.

The first day, September 14th, I only wrote 1, then 2 articles the next two days, and now I writing 3 a day. I will do my best to do this every day for a month, so we all can see how it comes out.

To back track a bit, here are my stats for the first couple of days.

I wrote 5 articles and had 300 views and earned 24 cents.

Tomorrow will be the first week, but let me show you what is going on now.

I have written 15 articles, 1011 views and $1.15 in earnings. The average earnings are around .05, with the least amount of .01 and the most 61 cents. The one that got 61 cents had an ad for pest control, so I will assume that ad brought me the extra money. I quickly wrote another article on pest control, that gave me the same ad. Tomorrow I will find out if it will show higher earnings.

Also, I wanted to mention that the pest control ad did not have higher views. My dating article had 106 views and has earned 04 cents, where the pest control articles has 57 views and 61 cents. The ad on the dating article was about meeting woman, and I have no clue why the ad was not as popular and the pest control ad. Although today my dating article has a great ad with Jane Seymore, so maybe it will do better.

Tomorrow will be the 7th day, but true earnings won't be till the evening of that day.

Also, my articles are all across the board with pest control, dating, Halloween costumes and jobs, so I am not sticking to one subject.

Some of my inspiration came from the eHow articles that generated the most money for me and others were based on google trends. At this point, the are all about the same on views with the dating article alone getting about 25% more than the rest.

Plus, I have social networked all my articles. The immediate counter on the articles on LMF, makes it easy to experiment the best place to advertise your articles. I was happy to find that twitter and facebook worked the best.

You can easily do your own experiment also, by writing several articles and then twitting one and facebooking the other. There are tons of social networking sites and the one that I like the best is stumbleupon.com. It works wonders for my other articles, but it does NOTHING for LMF. I don't know why, yet. I guess people over there don't want to learn the top 5 of anything.

Anyway, I am off and will post soon with more info on this. I would love to hear any experiments you are doing with LMF.

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2010-09-17T18:08:00.000-07:00

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2010-09-16T15:26:00.000-07:00

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2010-09-15T23:59:00.000-07:00

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2010-09-15T23:57:00.000-07:00

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Foreclosures are devastating military families says Rep. Bob Filner (video) - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

2010-09-09T13:54:00.000-07:00

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2010-09-03T19:29:00.000-07:00

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2010-08-19T12:59:00.000-07:00

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Two locals killed in Cal Baptist crash

2010-08-11T00:04:00.000-07:00

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Police search same area for Kyron Horman after tip from DeDe Spicher

2010-08-08T20:10:00.000-07:00

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Man impersonates US Marshal and breaches airport security to deport woman

2010-08-07T10:55:00.000-07:00

Man impersonates US Marshal and breaches airport security to deport woman

Government may owe you money for past service

2010-08-05T09:54:00.000-07:00

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Grandpa mails Grandma 6 pounds of marijuana

2010-07-29T21:09:00.001-07:00

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Man accused of throwing Cullen the kitten into wall

2010-07-29T21:09:00.000-07:00

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Military search for missing sailors in Afghanistan (video)

2010-07-26T19:28:00.000-07:00

Military search for missing sailors in Afghanistan (video)

Missing man died in trash compactor

2010-07-26T18:58:00.000-07:00

John Adams, 67, of NewYork disappeared without a trace on July 4th. Authorities and the family could find no leads to where he went until the police looked at video tape of the area around a trash compactor at the Niagara Center in downtown Niagara Falls where John worked as a maintenance worker.

What is the Internet saying about your reputation?

2010-07-20T11:12:00.000-07:00

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When life and working at home collide...become Gumby

2010-07-20T11:07:00.000-07:00

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Man dies after falling off of Star of India

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Woman trapped in car for 5 days rescued

2010-07-17T17:53:00.000-07:00

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Gay ex-officers to testify against "dont ask don't tell" lawsuit

2010-07-15T21:26:00.000-07:00

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2010-07-14T16:42:00.000-07:00

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Police shot out engine in boat to capture teenage Barefoot Bandit (arrest video)

2010-07-12T12:13:00.000-07:00

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2010-07-12T12:12:00.000-07:00

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Kidnapped 4-year-old Missouri girl found-suspect shoots self (video)

2010-07-08T01:10:00.000-07:00

Teenage outlaw living in the wild spotted in Nebraska (video)

2010-07-04T18:00:00.000-07:00

Teenage outlaw living in the wild spotted in Nebraska (video)

Homeowner finds naked stranger sleeping on couch

2010-07-04T17:59:00.000-07:00

Homeowner finds naked stranger sleeping on couch

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Stepmom of missing Kyron Horman barred from her kids

2010-06-30T22:29:00.000-07:00

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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse in theaters tomorrow (video and pics)

2010-06-29T20:10:00.000-07:00

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Father and toddler disappear from campground

2010-06-27T10:17:00.000-07:00

Father and toddler disappear from campground

Thousands protest off shore drilling with Hands Across America

2010-06-27T09:28:00.000-07:00

Thousands protest off shore drilling with Hands Across America

Man admits to impersonating husband of missing Venus Stewart

2010-06-24T23:49:00.000-07:00

Man admits to impersonating husband of missing Venus Stewart

Case of missing Erica Baker

2010-06-21T20:49:00.000-07:00

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2010-06-17T16:47:00.000-07:00

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Missing child alert for missing 4-year-old in Colorado

2010-06-17T09:35:00.000-07:00

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20,000 pieces of missing mail found in garage of missing man UPDATE

2010-05-17T09:01:00.000-07:00

20,000 pieces of missing mail found in garage of missing man UPDATE

Home video of the missing McStay family (video inside of home)

2010-02-21T09:07:00.000-08:00

Home video of the missing McStay family (video inside of home)

Will man in box survive 30 days?

2010-02-14T22:53:00.000-08:00

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Can clients and customers trust you? Really?

2010-02-14T14:46:00.000-08:00

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Kind word from a nice guy

2009-10-13T19:19:00.000-07:00

I got a wonderful email from Mike Masterson from the Discovery Channel tv show, Verminators, which proved that what I said about him in my article. He is one of the nicest guys in the world.

"Hi Jerrie,

I received an email link to an article you wrote back in July regarding myself, ISOTECH and the Verminators show and I just wanted to express my gratitude. I was overwhelmed by your kind words and complete comprehension of what we go through in the pest control world of Kill or Not to be Killed."

The email goes on, but you get the idea. Now go set your VCR to tape the show. You don't want to miss a minute of Season 3.

Brown Widows found in East County VIDEO

2009-09-26T11:40:00.001-07:00

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Remembering the anniversary of PSA 182 crash

2009-09-25T22:32:00.001-07:00

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2009-08-17T23:45:00.001-07:00

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Mom abducted while talking on cell phone

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2009-08-14T17:30:00.001-07:00

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2009-08-14T17:27:00.001-07:00

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2009-08-12T23:05:00.001-07:00

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How to protect your laptop computer when using WiFi

2009-08-12T15:46:00.001-07:00

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Split decision on San Diego Gas and Electric shutoff plan

2009-08-11T22:08:00.001-07:00

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Another racehorse at Del Mar euthanized

2009-08-11T09:47:00.001-07:00

Another racehorse at Del Mar euthanized

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Severe Earthquakes hit Indian Ocean and Japan

2009-08-10T17:03:00.001-07:00

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Gas prices rising again

2009-08-10T11:41:00.001-07:00

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Where, oh where is Curly the Macaw?

2009-08-10T11:37:00.001-07:00

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Godfather to Jackson's kids volunteering for paternity test

2009-08-09T17:17:00.001-07:00

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Cocaine contributory cause to Billy Mays' death

2009-08-08T10:23:00.001-07:00

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Is Academy Award nominee Banksy in Imperial Beach?

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Chelsee Oaks and American Idol moment:: Duets and an "Idol Moment’ - National Celebrity Headlines | Examiner.com

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10 woman grabbed by the Chula Vista Groper - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

Paige Valisa Johnson: Police revoke parole of Jacob Bumpass - National missing persons | Examiner.com

80-year-old woman convicted of jewelry theft at Macy’s - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

Search is on for second man in Arizona shooting - San Diego Headlines | Examiner.com

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Pasties are new protest against TSA body-scanners - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

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Airports are not required to have TSA screeners - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

TSA Pistole talks (kinda) about TSA airport security - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

Be prepared to get ’groped’ before your flight to grandma’s - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

Man tells TSA before pat-down "Don’t touch my junk!" (video) - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

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Amber Alert for Zahra Baker, mother arrested - National missing persons | Examiner.com

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Taylor Guitars’ marketing as great as company’s guitars - San Diego women’s business | Examiner.com

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Foreclosures are devastating military families says Rep. Bob Filner (video) - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

Why entrepreneurs don’t fear failure - San Diego women’s business | Examiner.com

How do I know if my eggs have Salmonella? (video) - San Diego headlines | Examiner.com

Two locals killed in Cal Baptist crash

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Man impersonates US Marshal and breaches airport security to deport woman

Government may owe you money for past service

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What is the Internet saying about your reputation?

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Woman trapped in car for 5 days rescued

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The Official WD-40 Fan Club Original WD-40 View Video

Police shot out engine in boat to capture teenage Barefoot Bandit (arrest video)

Where is Aubrey Sacco?

Kidnapped 4-year-old Missouri girl found-suspect shoots self (video)

Teenage outlaw living in the wild spotted in Nebraska (video)

Homeowner finds naked stranger sleeping on couch

Stepmom of missing Kyron Horman barred from her kids

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse in theaters tomorrow (video and pics)

Father and toddler disappear from campground

Thousands protest off shore drilling with Hands Across America

Man admits to impersonating husband of missing Venus Stewart

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Missing child alert for missing 4-year-old in Colorado

20,000 pieces of missing mail found in garage of missing man UPDATE