I was so mortified. I have been looking for a job and one of the things you need to do is have a really well crafted and well written resume. I had labored over my resume. I had diligently and carefully wrote, re-wrote, and edited it to death. When I moved from California to Salt Lake City, Utah, I had to, of course, change my location.

At the top of my resume I have my name and then directly below it my locale.

Well, after applying for many jobs using that very resume, I noticed an error. An embarrassing error. I had inadvertently written, "Sale Lake City." I was mortified, embarrassed. My embarrassment was compounded by the fact that directly below my contact info was a brief synopsis of my professional acumen. One of the lines reads thus: "Excellent oral and written communication skills with a strong attention to detail."

Oh man, I was aghast. I can only hope it doesn't hurt me too much, but I believe it will.

I am usually very careful -- especially in formal writing -- with my grammar, punctuation and spelling. Sometimes, people just make stupid and inadvertent errors. Some of the ones that upset me are:

• When people say they are "nauseous." Well, nauseous means, "sickening to contemplate." For real! The proper way is to say, "nauseated" as in, for example, "I feel nauseated."
• Confusing its and it's. "Its" is an ownership pronoun signifying some kind of, well, ownership. "It's" is a contraction of "it is."
• Subject-verb errors.
• Saying "good" when you should say "well." Baseball manager is notorious for this. He'll say, "He hit really good." Or, "He fielded that ball good." Ah, Jim, that's wrong. You should've said, "He hit really well." And, "He fielded that ball well." This error is so common it was even in the movie Shawshank Redemption.

Notice an error in the bullet list above? I'll give you a second to see if you can spot it. Give up? In formal writing, it is verboten to end a sentence with a period (.). In informal writing, such as this is, it is okay, which is why I didn't mind. If I were writing a college paper, and with two master's degrees I've written many, I would not do that.

I was doing fairly well until Penguin hit on Tuesday, April 27, 2012. (I think it was a Tuesday, anyway.) I was not getting rich but was at about $3,500 per month income from my CayennePepper.info, Nutritional-Supplement-Bible.com and BeePollenSecrets.com sites.

I wasn't real aggressive with SEO work, btw. I think the reason why my rankings dropped so much for keywords like "nutritional supplement" and "dietary supplement" and others like that where I had a top 5, top 8 ranking on any given day was because Google favors large corporations versus publishers like us. I at one time was beating companies like Walmart, Gaspari Nutrition, Vitacost and other major retailers for terms like "Nutrition Supplements" but no more.

My CayennePeppper.info site was averaging 75,000 unique hits a month as I dominated #1 and #2 for the term cayenne pepper. Now, you can't find me for that term. My cayenne site is rich in info and literally every article was written for the viewer in mind, not Google. For real. Not that I didn't try to optimize for them but not really aggressively. For the cayenne pepper health niche,

I wrote original, primary research articles that have been rewritten to death by other "stellar" sites like NaturalNews.com. Can't do much about that, though. I have come to be regarded as an expert in it and have had a lot of interaction with people with the site. I've even been interviewed on the radio twice for my site's contents but Google thinks the site is webspam. I beg to differ.

It did real well with Google AdSense but now the bottom has dropped out. Now, I make about 65% less what I was at. I also joined Build My Rank, a now defunct blog network, in October 2011 with a friend (he and I shared the cost).

I think that really hurt my rankings -- a lot.

I'm optimistic about my new FranklinDigest.com site, though. I'm following John Robinson's publishing guide book and I'm very impressed with it so far. That site is still being built so if you go over there, don't expect much yet.

Plus, I'm still learning Clickbump and Wordpress. All my other sites were made in XSite Pro 1.5 as you can probably tell if you go to them.

Getting back to SEO, I don't do much with it anymore. However, that said, I am doing some Web 2.0 stuff and am building up my own blog network slowly with original content. It's been tough to be sure.

Google certainly doesn't live up to their mantra. They say, "Do no evil" is their slogan or mission. Yea, right. One of the things that I found so maddening about all of this was that they used to say in their own webmaster guidelines that if you wanted to rank with them, you had to get backlinks.

I even was in touch with a Google customer service rep a few years ago and she told me that if I wanted to rank -- you guessed it -- I had to get links. Such hypocrisy! They penalize people like me for "webspam" when I do the very thing they said to do! I NEVER did any blackhat stuff. My content is good, too. I wrote it all.

I do believe links still work, though. Check out Dave Kelly's comments over at Articlez.com (you'll get his "comments" when you subscribe to his list). He believes Google cannot detect blog networks like his as it's on thousands and thousands of separate IP addresses all over the world. He believes ample usage of articles and press releases is the waya to go. I've not bought any of his services, yet, but I will. That said, I have tried a couple like the Hoth and LinkItPro but they have actually hurt my rankings. A lot in fact.

Anyway, hope this helps you in some way. You can read more about the Google Penguin here at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Penguin.

I'll never forget the first time I saw my master herbalist friend chug down an eight-ounce glass of cayenne pepper water. He put a large teaspoon of cayenne powder into the glass, poured in about 6 to 8 ounces of warm water, mixed it and then poured!

I couldn't believe it! He drank it all down. I mean all of it. ALL OF IT! He coughed a bit and wheezed some, and had some phlegm come up but he was fine.

By the way, don't do what he did! You are nowhere near as used to it as he was/is. He's been taking cayenne for years. He got the idea to drink it from the chief master herballist of his time (and naturopathic doctor John Christopher. Christopher used to take it three times a day!

No kidding.

I drink mine in orange juice, which I mix really well with a shaker or tomato juice. The tomato juice (or V8 juice) really is the easiest way to drink it for me. I know for a fact that drinking it in water is the best way -- especially warm water, but the tomato juice gives me some flexibility and some convenience. I don't think people will stick with  something for too long it it's too hard. The tomato juice gives it a nice taste and doesn't give as many of the immediate side effects like burning tongue, lips and throat the way water does.

A good site on the health benefits of cayenne is this one here: https://www.cayennepepper.info/health-benefits-of-cayenne-pepper.html but you can get good, basic info on it from Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.

Nevertheless, the main point of this article is whether or not cayenne is a great health secret. I think it is. I have done a lot of primary research on cayenne and I'm convinced it's one of the greatest health secrets in the world.

I even put up a website on it (yea, that cayenne pepper link leads back to my site on it, which I launched in late October 2007. I've literally received emails from people all over the world touting the benefits of taking cayenne. People seem to have genuine enthusiasm for cayenne and all thigns naturopathic. I think a lot of people have soured on traditional Western medicine as everything related to it is so very expensive.

I've received emails from people asking about it, sharing ideas, and asking questions. I've received great testimonials too, which you can see at the site's testimonials page here.

It's been a great site to work on, and to help people, inspires me and makes me feel good, too.

So, is it a great secret to health? I really think it is. Check out CayennePepper.info to see for yourself. And, yes, that's a shameless plug! :)

Thanks for reading.