Things are chugging along - maybe a bit slower than I would like but it's going. I got an Adsense click on one of the articles I posted on Saturday and made $1.30! I didn't expect those articles to make money so quickly. I hope that's a good sign of what's to come.
I decided that I really want to win the contest this month. I think my best bet to win is a sneak attack. The current leader is dj who won the contest last month. Whenever anyone gets close to him in points, he posts 10 or so more articles to get ahead. The articles he posts are "reviews" but they are all quotes from other people. I don't know where he's getting these quotes from as they don't show up in the search engines so either he's making them up, which is just plain wrong, or he has a survey on a private message board where he asks people what they think of these products. His articles aren't very helpful - they are mostly quotes like "I would never buy that laptop computer. I hate the color. I would spend my money on a laptop that looks good." Anyways, I'm not here to flame dj but I'm just saying that anyone can crank out hundreds of those type of articles a day - which is what he is doing. That's why the sneak attack will work best. I will save all of my articles as drafts and then post them an hour or two before the contest ends. He won't expect it and won't have enough time to get more articles posted (I hope). Last month, he won the contest with 311 points. If I can get to around 350 points, that should be enough to beat him - as long as he doesn't expect it. If he realizes what I'm doing, he might post 50 of those bad review articles to try to counteract me. I think I'm going to post just enough articles this week to get me into third place and then save the rest of the articles for July 31 at 11 PDT. Some people on InfoBarrel get mad when people use the sneak attack to win the contest. Yes, it is sneaky but dj won the contest last month. He should give others a chance to win. I probably wouldn't do the sneak attack if dj's articles weren't so, uh, thin. When the entire article is quotes and he hasn't written a word in the article that is his, it seems like he is cheating even though I don't think he's breaking any rules. So, yeah, that's my plan for winning the contest. Shhh...don't tell anyone!
As far as my progress for the experiment, I didn't write any new articles today but I spent all day finding pictures and Amazon links for the articles. I'm almost done with this task and then I can write the articles. I'm hoping to have all pictures and Amazon links saved before I go to bed tonight. Tomorrow I will try to get as many articles as possible written. I wanted to get all 30 articles saved as drafts on Infobarrel by Wednesday but I don't think that will happen. Maybe by Thursday.
I think I've covered everything. I'm off to Amazon to find some pictures.
