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Right Keywords + Right Platform = Cash!

Written by on January 15, 2012 · 18 Comments

Categories: Back Links, beginners, Lis Recommmends - Tags: , , , ,

Do You Want to Make Online Income?

I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
Gum Digger with His Tools - (Kauri gum made some people a lot of money in 19th century NZ - if they looked in the riight place) Dargaville

Who needs new keywords then?  Well any of us who want to make money online in my experience. As I mentioned recently, I’m using Wizzley to make some fast cash - though this approach will make you money regardless of the platform – so long as the website is in Google’s good graces.  So does it work? Let’s see – I was aiming for 7 articles/day on Wizzley – hmm not quite – I’m up to 17 articles on my main account on wizzley – so what have I have I earned?  As as of 13 Jan – I’ve made $46 from Amazon and  as of 15 Jan $30 from Adsense, that’s not bad given the age of most of my articles and how few of them I have.   I’m also getting a 10% order rate ie from around 450 clicks – I had 45 orders – I don’t have a huge amount of Amazon data to judge this by – but to this looks like a pretty darn good conversion rate.  What I am doing with Wizzley is a slightly new approach to me. As some of you will know most of us have been continuously frustrated with Google’s [...] Read more »

Empower Network Scam or Legit?

Written by on January 3, 2012 · 17 Comments

Categories: beginners, Rants, Scams - Tags: , ,

Do You Want to Make Online Income?

I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
empower-network

I was introduced to the Empower Network by an acquaintance at a rare blogging meetup in my home town.  I have said that I’ve sworn off scams – but this one came looking for me – its not just a scam, its a pyramid scheme – so illegal in most decent countries (including New Zealand). I’ve written my review on the blog they so kindly set-up for me for my $25/month.  I’m curious to see if it will rank for the appropriate terms before I get terminated!  Anyways here’s my review on the Empower Network Scam :  Read more »

Backlinks: Build My Rank and Alternatives

Written by on November 14, 2011 · 26 Comments

Categories: Back Links, beginners, Build My Rank, Paid Tools, The Keyword Academy - Tags: , , ,

Do You Want to Make Online Income?

I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
Bamboo builds strong buildings; links build strong websites; Khao Sak, Thailand

OK guys apparently the world changed and some of you didn’t notice. Ironic really, I’ve heard plenty of people whinging about not being able to get good backlinks. Or asking for alternatives to Build My Rank because the BMR blogs didn’t look “real” and weren’t niche specific. You want links from relevant sites.  You want links from sites with PR, authority and even traffic.  Then you get an opportunity to join just such a network  - and you spam it with crappy spun-content from your favourite fiverr outsourcer!  Come on guys!  Obviously I need to review backlinks 101 for you guys – maybe some of you never knew, some of you forgot, some of you just don’t want to hear it.  Some links are worth more than others!  I started a new site – 3 weeks later it was a PR3 – three months later its still  PR3 and on page 1 for its desired keyword? What did I do? I gave it one single link from a PR3 site which I controlled which was relevant to the niche and didn’t have too many outbound links. It not rocket science, it hasn’t changed any time recently. Some links are more useful [...] Read more »

An Apology – I Need To Come Clean – A Z-List Blogger Is Born

Written by on November 8, 2011 · 39 Comments

Categories: beginners, Passive Income, Plan Review, Rants - Tags: , ,

Do You Want to Make Online Income?

I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
Picture of this C-List Blogger Living The High Life, Ko Samui, Thailand

This stupid MMO blog is a curious thing. It started as my online learning journal/personal diary thing.  But its become something a lot more than that.  You see, while publicly, calling out the A-List bloggers –  I have somehow become one:  a C-lister anyways, woops  no, now a Z-List Blogger! I am making money from you guys, that’s the truth of it.  Its not what  I set out to do – but over the years – its just kinda happened – and an incident over the weekend really highlighted it to me. I’m sorry – that’s my dirty little secret, it would have been obvious to some of you for some time, but not to others and its always made me feel apologetic and uncomfortable.  I have probably been reading way to much personal devlopement stuff recently – but I’m not happy with my record here – so I’m putting that record straight.  It Started With A Cashflow Crises My cash flow was ugly in October, and not looking much better for November – HubPages is not playing nicely, and come the new year will be screwing  me out of significant Amazon earnings. Late on Friday night I did the Oct [...] Read more »

Keyword Academy 2.0 Review – TKA 2.0 Review: Scam or Legit

Written by on August 13, 2011 · 39 Comments

Categories: beginners, Blogging, Lis Recommmends, Making Money Online, Paid Tools, The Keyword Academy - Tags: , , ,

Do You Want to Make Online Income?

I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
Lissie hard at it doing more research for you!

UPDATED January 2012. The Keyword Academy drives me insane sometimes! If we could just get Mark to dot some “i’s” and “t’s” it would be so much easier!  Its been a long time since I did my first Keyword Academy review – nearly 3 years  in fact. So is the Keyword Academy still working in 2012?  Yes it is but some of wish Mark would hurry up and update his bloody sale’s page from time-to-time – like once every couple of years OK!  Google is always changing the game, and in 2011, in response to changes in Google (known as “”Panda-monium” by those of low humour standards) – so-called TKA2.0 was released.  The core lessons were updated, changed from video format (really hard to update) to written form, some tools had to be retired because they just didn’t work with anymore with the changes to Google’s programming feed. But now the buzz is that The Keyword Academy 2.0 is out and I’ve had emails asking – is this program still good to go – is it worth it could you please update your Keyword Academy review? What’s changed – will it still work for me? Does Keyword Academy work in a [...] Read more »

Catalyst Theme and Adsense Review

Written by on April 9, 2011 · 19 Comments

Categories: Adsense, beginners, Blogging, Catalyst, Paid Tools, Product Reviews, Tools - Tags: , , ,

Do You Want to Make Online Income?

I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
My Dutch is about at the same level as my php - I can recognise some bits but I can't write it!

OK this is another instalment in my collection of articles about how the premium WordPress theme Catalyst: it may not be free but it allows even the technically terrified to  do cool stuff! On of the things that I like about Catalyst is that its one theme that I can use for everything – from a mini-site to this site, to a client’s professional site. I use Catalyst for all  of them. Today I’m concentrating on using Catalyst with Adsense. Now there are plenty of WordPress plugins that promise to manage your Adsense easily with any theme. But plugins have their own issues- every plugin you add to a site adds a level of complexity and invariably need upgrading every time WordPress upgrades, and sometimes they break and sometimes they even send a quiet percentage of impressions to their author’s Adsense publisher ID! There are a number of ways to deal with Adsense using the Catalyst theme – I think I have the simplest - and I will point you to a couple of alternative solutions at the end of this post. How to Manage Adsense on a WordPress Blog My requirements for when I want Adsense to show – and more [...] Read more »

Missing Your Google Alerts? Read This!

Written by on October 27, 2010 · 25 Comments

Categories: Back Links, beginners, Free Tools, Making Money Online, Search Engines, Tools - Tags: , ,

Do You Want to Make Online Income?

I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
Waterfront, Wellington, New Zealand

Google can be more than annoying sometime – I mean, as Leo asks, what would you do if you woke up one day and all your rankings had disappeared? But that’s not what happened to me today. Instead I was talking to Dave – who runs the awesome travel blog GoBackpacking which allows old backpackers to guest post about Google Alerts – and I noticed something had changed… But first rewind: you do use Google alerts don’t you? Its the fastest way to keep an eye on what the great web is saying about you. I have alerts on my name e.g. “lis sowerbutts” my blog’s names e.g.  lissowerbutts.com. But I also have some more subtle alerts: site:mydomain.com – tells me every time Google indexes a url on my site; link:mydomain.com – tells me every time Google counts a link to my site.  NOT Yahoo – Google Now most of you know probably all know that and have had the alerts for years. But today I noticed there is a new column  in the Manage my Alerts screen. As well as “type” and “how often” there is a new column “Volume” – the default of which is “only the best results” [...] Read more »

What is a Long Tail Keyword? Keyword Identification for the New and Clueless

Written by on March 12, 2010 · 52 Comments

Categories: beginners, Blogging, Free Tools, Search Engines, WordPress - Tags: , , ,

Do You Want to Make Online Income?

I strongly suggest that you check out my review of the Keyword Academy - its not free but you can try it out for 30 days for free. So try it out for no risk - what's the worst that can happen? You might even make some money!
double-index

What is a keyword – or more specifically what is a long tail keyword phrase -  caused me endless confusion when I first began. I totally didn’t get it – that’s why products like Scribe SEO exist – to prey on beginner’s confusion. That’s unacceptable in my view – so here is the information that you need about keywords. Its here for free, you don’t have to sign up for any membership site or even a one off payment. There are heaps of erudite SEO expert posts on keywords out there – this isn’t one of them. Instead this is an attempt to take it back down to basics – stick with me because I want to start to with a real world business example – and then we will move onto niche sites and blogs. Keywords For a Service Business I’m going to tell you how to do it for free. Lets assume you offer house washing services – purely because I am in the market for the same at the moment. Now I may search for “house washing” now this gives me a mixture of results including DIY articles on how to wash my house down and news [...] Read more »