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Well I have had a very good day, updated several of my neglected sites, had a chat with my daughter, that is always lovely and have succeeded in getting up to Day 11 with the #30DC. Haven’t finished Day 11 yet but will do tomorrow.

The part I didn’t finish was the Hubpages, so tomorrow I will be fresh and rearing to go.

I seem like I’m behind but I have done a lot of preparation for the challenge. I have watched most of the videos and there were lots of articles needing to be written, all unique so I have written as many as I needed to add to all the sites that have to be set up.

Then after watching the Traffic Bug and seeing the number of titles and descriptions needed, I used a great tool that I have, well actually two tools that I have.

The first one is Power Article Writer which is an article spinner, not the garble type spinner, the one that you select all the changes and the article reads just as well, sometimes even better than the original. So I used this tool to get the titles and descriptions, I spun out 50 of them for each article. So while adding the sites and links to Traffic Bug, I have all that I need and all so simply done.

The other tool that I use is called Content Checkup, Google it, I think it came from Jason Potash, this is one handy little tool when you want to compare the uniqueness of an article rewrite against the original.

So I popped the descriptions and titles into Content Checkup and compared them to the original and used the ones that came up over 75% unique. Mind you these aren’t for submitting articles to directories or on websites, I make sure they come up over 85% and EZA gets the 100% unique original article.

I have also set up my spreadsheet to keep track of where I’m at. All these Web 2.0 sites etc need something to keep you up to date with where you are. The other thing is after the challenge it will be a good blueprint (is that still a buzz word?) to refer too.

I did find something unrelated to the #30DC today and that is how to add shadow to an image, a <div> or a block quote. Have gotten it to work on an image, the other two will have to wait for another day.

These are my little friends to show you how smart they are with their new shadows.  I’ll learn a little more and come back to show you how to do it or I should say how I do it, others may do it differently.