It has been 3 weeks since I submitted my first article (ie. "How To Turn Disadvantages Of A Reverse Mortgage To Your Advantage") to the article directories. The number of times it has appeared on the 3 main search engines are:

• Google: 169 (12)
• Yahoo: 40 (24)
• MSN: 17 (17)

The number in bracket is the number of sites which are not duplicated. This is so as some of these sites posted multiple links to the article on many of its pages. Hence the search engine does not count this in its search results.

The results has flunctuated over the past 3 weeks peaking at 300+. On analysis, I found that this was caused as some of the sites uses RSS feeds to provide dynamic update to their webpage. This sudden peak will subside over time. Hence, I am more interested in those sites that are providing static pages. I will be contacting this website webmaster in another 2 months time once the results has stablised.

• Google: 0
• Yahoo: 0
• MSN: 3 links

Will be posting the updates at a later date to see if this really helps in my incoming links buildup.

It has been almost 16 days since I last created myStore using Secret Money Generator. That was 1,500+ pages in total for this new section in mysite. Although Google, Yahoo and MSN bots has visited my site, they were not able to pick up those new pages. This was frustrating as I have set it up such that now Google is attracted to visit my site regularly.

Since then, I had also created the following new links

• Directory Exchange for automatically managing my links exchange with partners (this is to increase my site popularity links). If your website is similar to the theme of my website, you can also exchange site link with me. Just click on the "Add Your Site" link at the relevant sections.
  
  
• Personal Finance section for my compilation of articles, tips and guides for managing your personal finance.

The above site was not getting indexed too. :(

After reading around and getting updates from Mark Hendricks and the other gurus like Paul Short, I started experimenting with Google Sitemap (beta) tool. Within 48 hours of submitting my sitemap, Google started indexing those other sections of my site (this was not during the usual round of visit by Google as what I see from my logs). Within days, the number of pages indexed grew steadily. It nows starts at 266 (a big jump from 150 previously). I will be monitoring this more closely over the next few days.

Just in case you are interested to try out Google Sitemap (beta) tool, you need to do the following:

• Create a sitemap for your whole website. It took me 30 mins to create mine on a broadband connections. I highly recommend this free tool from SoftPlus GSiteCrawler by Johannes Mueller. You can download this 20MB file from http://johannesmueller.com/gs/. This only works on Windows 2000 or XP.
  
  
• Upload your new sitemap (in XML) format to the root of your website. This means that to the search engine, your sitemap will be at http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml.
  
  
• Go on over to Google Sitemap (beta) at https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login and login. You would need a Google (free) account. which you can apply at that same page. After you log in, just submit your sitemap details.
  
  
• After the above actions, have patience and wait for a few days. Monitor your logs more closely and go over to Google and type in "site:www.yourdomain.com" to see if the number of pages for your website has increased. (replace www.yourdomain.com with your own website URL). Some of my other partners has also reported that it took them 72 hours before their site got indexed in Google. Hence, the results might be different for you.

You can check my status anytime by going to Google and type in "site:www.wealthmountains.com". Most probably, I will report back again in another few days to see how it goes.

Once more of myStore get indexed, I will do a review on the effectiveness for my testing on the Secret Money Generator product. Do stay tuned.

I just got an important update from Mark and Frank today.

Frank Sousa, Jack Hughes and Mark have decided to limit the total sales of the Secret Money Generator (SMG) Software system to only 1,000 users. This software is a great help for you to generate your own online store after you can partner up with any of the retailers that provide datafeeds. They are many such retailers on the web. You can see my own store at myStore. Basically I attempt to set it up so that the store can run by itself and update the relevant sections automatically.

They have already sold over 500 copies and are now doing a major push to sell the rest out fast. Mark mention that they might also consider raising the price soon also.

Hence, hopefully my review can complete before his software runs out first. Or you can purchase a copy now to try out (there is a 30 days money-back guarantee). You can get it at SMG.

Note that you need some basic installation skills on web server. There are instruction and video demo showing you how to do this. Should be no problem as you can approach Frank directly for assistance. He can help to troubleshoot problems for you (if it is a valid one). Great service and fast response (from my own interaction with him).