Confession time -  although I planned on sticking only to backlinking this month, it didn't work out so well. I really tried - I really and truly did. However, temptation got the best of me and I just had to  build a few more blogs around some really good keywords. 

I tried so hard to only concentrate on the sites I had and backlink only but when researching for my existing sites,  I found more keywords and just had to build sites around them. Yikes. Now I have a few more sites in my mix.

On a more positive note, I am getting much better at building backlinks and seeing my sites as one big network that need to be connected and share the link juice. I have been building Squidoo lenses, submitting to article directories, social bookmarking and a host of other traffic building strategies.  In addition, I've been repurposing my content a bit so that I can multiply my efforts by creating a blog post from an article - a lens from an article - etc. 

I don't think I'll make my $ goal of increasing my residual income by $500 this month but I'm definitely going to try! Keeping my fingers crossed.....