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Hi there, I am Nicole. This blog is simply my little corner of the writing world. I used to own and operate the previous website known as Freelance Writer's Exchange, but my focus changed a lot and I decided to let that go and run with this.

I am a YA & Women's Fiction writer. Trying my hand at my first steamy romance novel. Wife. Mom to 5. Freelance contributor to family, food & lifestyle pubs. I love chocolate, books, photography, scrapbooking & Sushi. Not necessarily in that order.

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Update on Today.Com

Written By Nicole Humphrey Cook

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I’m pretty sure I pegged it, when in the previous post I mentioned that as soon as google picked up that post, I’d be removed from today.com.
Well, I checked my email and I did got an email and this is what it said:

Dear VIP Blogger COOKWITHME.TODAY.COM, (please do not direct anymore traffic there…. visit www.dailydishrecipes.com instead – it’s better!)

You have not consistently posted since becoming a VIP member.
We only retain VIP members who consistently post as this benefits
both the VIP member and our program.

As a result of this inactivity we have disabled your VIP account.

Thank you for trying out our program.

Best Regards,
The Today.com Team

I will admit it was certainly not what I expected. I was surprised. Only because I got removed for not posting regularly and not because I posted a hateful review of their precious website. Hmm…..

So then, I went to sign into today.com for the heck of it. (actually I wanted to look at which posts were not paid because they were “duplicate dates”, but that’s beside the point). Obviously I couldn’t. I was truly removed, but I got a sweet little (gag) message that said that today.com wanted me back.

So it was done and over and I could move on. haha yeah well, last night I went back and when I first typed in today.com NOTHING came up (as in page not found). I tried it three or four times and I still got not page.

Then, I finally was able to sign in except I am not able to look at any of my posts. I’m able to look at the blog control panel where is shows the last few comments on your blog and where you select whether you want to write a post, edit a post, create a page… etc. etc. but it won’t let me click on anything and when I try to access the forums I get “Your account is inactive. Contact support@today.com for help if you think this is a mistake.” THEN when I access the VIP Stats page, I get “###ALERT###
you’re not a VIP blogger” < —hehe they spelled YOU’RE right this time.
Anyway, weirdness all around. I’m so glad not to be with them anymore. Now, to get all the traffic I was bringing them to refocus on my new site!

Update:
I got THIS in my email this morning and I did NOT sign up for advertising?