I was working over a decade in the states on newspapers and even online websites since early 2000. I finally made it out of the usa to move to places of peace and freedom here in Europe in late 2008. Sadly I was one of the millions that was using things like cj and linkshare and other programs that were never seeming to track proper.
I spent about 20 hours a day working and gave up social life and sleep for years. I was fighting to find working programs and only found I never got paid fair. I keep shareasale and neverblue ads and a few others on my site still since the work is too much to remove them at this time. I make a little but, sure make more on google ads and amazon and things.
I can pretty much rank under all searches on page 1 with any search words or phrases I want via my hard work and tags with listing myself in them ect. I do not pay for ads or search listings or anything. I guess doing all things myself is why I work so much. Yet do not make enough ever to justify hiring help grin. Just wanted to say I know how it is and unless we are way lucky it seems we all work way too hard or too much.
I guess the more we make the more we spend in living too so, it is like an illness. Sorry for the long babble. I just wanted to say I am glad to be here with others that probably share some of the same stress and worries. I have lots of questions and maybe lots I can share here. I will just say Hi for now and peek in at times. I shall post later if I did not over write my first day.
tack,
hilary leigh