First of all, I 'd like to apologise for not posting in over a week. I spent a lot of time promoting the Affiliate X Factor and it was the easiest 50 bucks I ever made online. The product hasn't launched yet and hopefully a few of those 50 people I referred will purchase the product and I'll get a nice little check from clickbank too.

I also launched my new blog "Best Way To Lose Weight – Watch Me Lose 100 Pounds". Yes, I am a fat ass but not for long! I have already lost 16 pounds and am on track to meet my goal of 100 lbs. by the end of the year. I am keeping of log of how I am accomplishing this, so if you are trying to lose weight, you need to check it out.

OK, first an update on the Grafixplus promotion. I made a post on Feb 20th and the Grafixplus home page was had moved up 20 positions in the Google search results to 230th. That was in 1 weeks time. I checked it a few minutes ago and it is now ranked 108th place for our target keyword phrase "web page graphics". That's 122 positions in 3 weeks. Not bad considering I have been slacking on my end. The results so far have been brought about by builidng a Hub page and a Squidoo lens.

Now that I have my weight loss bolg finished (a blog is never really finished) and Andrew Fox is no longer paying for leads, I will turn my full attention back to the Grafixplus promotion. I still haven't finished my article and submitted it to a ton of directories. Speaking of articles…have you created a good one for your product or niche yet? Get on it, because next post we are going to hit the article directories hard and I am going to tell you about the best kept secret in the Web 2.0 realm.

Actually, I'll clue you in now. Go sign up for an account at Gather.com. You can look around and set up your profile. Check out some of the articles and you will see that this is not a place for spammers and blatent promotions. This is why you need at least one "really good, original" article for your promotion. Get one ready and next post I will show you how to use Gather.com to your advantage.