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		<title>Using Catalyst Theme To Build An Authority Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authority Site]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[authority site case study]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The original title of this site, when it was on blogger, was building an online income one website at a time.  I figured I&#8217;d need about 100 websites.  I&#8217;ve hung onto the niche website model for longer than most. I may well go back to it. But at the moment I feel like I&#8217;m swimming against the tide too much, and I&#8217;ve decided to build an authority site &#8211; just to see what happens &#8211; oh and to make lots and lots of money (of course)!  I&#8217;ve already have one authority site &#8211; this one &#8211; but I built it my accident, I want to build this one deliberately.  As  Regev asked a question in my last Catalyst Theme Review  I thought it was time to add a bit to that earlier review &#8211; by describing how I used the theme&#8217;s flexibility allowed me to achieve what  I want to do now, and how I can evolve the site  to what I want in the future, without a complete re-design.  The Two Main Types of Travel Readers  In my view, there are basically two types of people who read travel articles, be they blog posts or magazines:  armchair travellers, those reading about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postrunner V2 Is Coming &#8211; Sneak Peak Review from a Beta Tester</title>
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		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/postrunner-v2-is-coming-sneak-peak-review-from-a-beta-tester/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paid Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Keyword Academy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guest posting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[postrunner guest posting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Postrunner is the guest blogging system which has been part of the Keyword Academy for several years.  Now however its being re-launched as a Postrunner V2.  What&#8217;s New With Postrunner V2? Well the core of Postrunner is the same as I described in my Postrunner review over a year ago. However Postrunner V2 is a complete re-write of the existing functionality &#8211; so it works robustly, plus a host of new features. The whole user interface has been greatly improved &#8211; its nice and smooth to use compared to the old one. The key functional changes are: site owners can determine how long an article they want and how many links they allow. No more standard 300 word posts with two links!  If you want 1000 words with one link &#8211; you specify that at Postrunner will ensure that is all you get.  site owners can add a long blurb introducing their site and saying what you will and will not accept &#8211; you can link out to a requirements page so you provide potential contributors detailed instructions  there is now an author score &#8211; this is determined by owners who score your articles. Site owners can restrict access to their sites by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build My Rank Alternatives</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/backlinks-build-my-rank-and-alternatives/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/backlinks-build-my-rank-and-alternatives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Back Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beginners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Build My Rank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paid Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Keyword Academy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BMR alternatives]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[build my rank alternatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[building a passive income business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I originally published this post in November 2011 pointing out that people really didn&#8217;t understand how to use link networks. I&#8217;ve now updated it = UPDATED: March 2012 after Google de-indexed Build My Rank  OK guys apparently the world changed and some of you didn&#8217;t notice. Ironic really, I&#8217;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&#8217;t look &#8220;real&#8221; and weren&#8217;t niche specific. There are two really obvious things that are apparently from Google&#8217;s swipe at backlink networks. First obviously backlinks from these networks were effective (otherwise Google would have just ignored them) and, in future you are going to have to play smarter.  Build My Rank was not the only network to get deindexed and devalued, it was probably just the highest profile one amongst the make money crowd. SEO Nitro, SEO Linkvine. The sites that have not got hit are generally keeping a VERY low profile.  This is quite specific &#8211; Google isn&#8217;t targeting spammy backlinks from forums, automated bookmarking or the other stuff you can buy for $5 at fiverr.  People who have spammed the hell out of their own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build My Rank Is Dead &#8211; Long Live Links</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/build-my-rank-is-dead-long-live-links/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/build-my-rank-is-dead-long-live-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Back Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Build My Rank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paid Tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Build My Rank has been good to me. They&#8217;ve ranked my sites for years. It was easy, it was hands-off (I used an outsourcer), it worked. Until some time last night, my time.  I woke to find this:  Unfortunately, this morning, our scripts and manual checks have determined that the overwhelming majority of our network has been de-indexed (by Google), as of March 19, 2012. Read more here I wasn&#8217;t having a good day yesterday &#8211; seriously questioning what I was doing online and trying to figure out a new direction. Wizzley wasn&#8217;t living up to expectations, I was stuck in a funk of self-doubt and analysis paralysis.  When I read the post above I expected myself to freak out. Oddly I didn&#8217;t. I know this means I&#8217;ve probably lost two sites which I&#8217;ve aggressively used BMR on &#8211; the same two sites which I&#8217;d just received the dreaded &#8220;notice of detected unnatural links&#8221; message in Google Webmaster Tools.  Or maybe not.  The more I think about this the more I see the opportunities. I finally know what I&#8217;m going to be doing over the next few months.  First I&#8217;m not going to be doing anything Google would like me to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Market Samurai &#8211; Rank Tracker Alternative</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/market-samurai-rank-tracker-alternative/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/market-samurai-rank-tracker-alternative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paid Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keyword strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market samurai alternatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic travis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lissowerbutts.com/?p=3352</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you don&#8217;t know how much you like a tool until its gone. Although I&#8217;ve never been an affiliate for Market Samurai &#8211; I&#8217;ve used the tool on basically a weekly basis for years &#8211; I may have had it for about 3 years actually!  I used it to track my rankings &#8211; and now changes to Google mean that they are going to probably start charging for ranking data, at the moment its only working it a limited format.  If this is all news to you &#8211; then check out James&#8217;s post on Rank Tracking Software Other Than Market Samurai and Pat Flynn&#8217;s Interview with Market Samurai&#8217;s CEO Bugger, as they say, in software development, what do I do? (Oh I could rant on about the changes in costs for Market Samurai- but frankly, even if I never use them again &#8211; I&#8217;ve had enormous value from them for a $97 payment some years ago &#8211; I have no problem with them &#8211; I understand the problem is Google not them, and I can&#8217;t fix Google!)  But my issue is that I feel like I&#8217;m flying blind with no quick and easy way to check rankings &#8211; and worse &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pinterest For Backlinks, Affiliate Sales, and Recipes</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/pinterest-for-backlinks-affiliate-sales-and-recipes/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/pinterest-for-backlinks-affiliate-sales-and-recipes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Back Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am liking Pinterest! SY gave me a heads up about why I should use Pinterest ages ago, and sent me an invite. I ignored it. Then she told me I REALLY needed to have a look, and finally I did. I figured it would be a distraction, it was, but what may well be a useful one.  First off the site scared the bejeesus out of me &#8211; it is very &#8220;pretty&#8221; &#8211; I am graphically challenged and easily scared by people who can do pretty! Apparently a lot of the users are female &#8211; I&#8217;m not surprised.  But even for the non-visual amongst us, and, dare I say it, those of us who don&#8217;t have any clues as to &#8220;our style&#8221;, and no desire to plan a wedding, its kinda cool, and useful.  Cool Stuff You Can Do On Printerest  Its good for collecting stuff together &#8211; I did a bit of baking around Christmas I was forever googling &#8220;how to make marizpan&#8221; and similar stuff &#8211; I found some good recipes &#8211; this would have been a good place to keep them all together (maybe next year).  You can upload your photos. Its as close to a good place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All I Want for Christmas Are Long Tail Keywords &#8211; Keyword Researcher Review</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/all-i-want-for-christmas-are-long-tail-keywords-keyword-researcher-review/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/all-i-want-for-christmas-are-long-tail-keywords-keyword-researcher-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paid Tools]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[how to make money online]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah Christmas or whatever you choose to celebrate or not in this happy/stressful/profitable time of the year!  I think its fair to say that 2011 has been a bit of an up and down year in terms of Internet Marketing, maybe I&#8217;m just bloody lucky, but really all the bad stuff that&#8217;s happened to me has been thanks to the TOS changes with HubPages plus nervous clients.  Google has been, interesting, but the most interesting thing, and totally bloody irritating part, are their continuing moves to restrict access to their goldmine of data known as the Google keywords tool. For a long time using the tool direct doesn&#8217;t give you real long tail keywords &#8211; you only get to about 3 or 4 words: a real long term is longer than that. Its very, very focussed, its not in Google&#8217;s best interest to reveal those because a) PPC advertisers would save a fortune only bidding on very specific terms and b) evil affiliate marketers would make way too much money.  Google&#8217;s changes to their API TOS has meant than some previously good tools have gone away &#8211; and I am sure I&#8217;m not the only one who has found I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I See Video In My Future &#8211; And Its Very, Very Scary!</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/i-see-video-in-my-future-and-its-very-very-scary/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/i-see-video-in-my-future-and-its-very-very-scary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online  Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Passive Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audio for marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO Cobra]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lissowerbutts.com/?p=3036</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; I am scared of the camera &#8211; well one that takes moving pictures anyways! I don&#8217;t really have an issue with photos of me per se, particularly if they are stored on my computer so  I can delete at will. But video has always made me nervous.  I&#8217;ve tried it a couple of times &#8211; and I dislike the sound of my own voice. A lot.  Talking the camera is also perilously close to talking to an audience which is alive. And that gives me stage fright.  But the case for audio and video is becoming a bit overwhelming. For example. No prizes for figuring out that both this blog and Pat&#8217;s over at SmartPassiveIncome.com go after the same main keyword. There&#8217;s not much in it &#8211; at the moment he&#8217;s #2 and I&#8217;m #4 in the SERPs. But I&#8217;ve never been able to figure out one little thing &#8211; why the hell does he have so much more traffic than I do? According to SEMRush he doesn&#8217;t rank for another huge keyword in this niche &#8211; so WTF was going on?  Now there are a dozen ways to game social media figures and subscription numbers, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wizzley Review: The Answer to the Hubpages Scam?</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/wizzley-review-the-answer-to-the-hubpages-scam/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/wizzley-review-the-answer-to-the-hubpages-scam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Article Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are Lissie and her scams right? Well its hardly my fault that scam is a the word Google likes to give this blog authority on. Well OK maybe it is my fault! And so yes I can use it to my own benefit as in HubPages Scam, SEO Scribe Scam, Keyword Academy Scam, and of course the one that started it all SiteSell Scam.  What is Wizzley? Wizzley is a place to write articles and get paid via affiliate programs plus get backlinks to your sites. It has a nice set of tools which are drag drop to build your &#8220;wizzes&#8221; (yeah really that&#8217;s what an article is called, where I come from is what a little boy does when he stands up to go to the loo &#8211; but whatever!). You have to have at least 400 words, the usual topics (porn, guns, drugs) are banned as are some other rather commonly over-used topics including acne, credit card debt, forex and weight loss.  What does Wizzley offer?  revenue share starts at 50% &#8211; goes to 55% after 50 articles and 60% after 100 articles;  revenue is from Adsense, Amazon, Zazzle and AllPosters &#8211; and you are paid direct by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catalyst as a Post Page Associator Alternative</title>
		<link>http://lissowerbutts.com/catalyst-as-a-post-page-associator-alternative/</link>
		<comments>http://lissowerbutts.com/catalyst-as-a-post-page-associator-alternative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Catalyst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paid Tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve used Post page associator plugin for a while. Its a handy plugin which allowed you to do what it says on the pack; add a list of your posts in a certain category, at the bottom of the page. I used it here for example.  However the developer has been under criticism for included a &#8220;please donate&#8221;  large ad on your main dashboard if you hadn&#8217;t paid &#8211; in fact I had give a donation &#8211; but I was buggered if I was going to donate for EACH blog I used it on &#8211; so I found the advertising a little annoying.  There was toys tossed in the WordPress forums though, some users found the nag VERY annoying,- and the developer has taken his toys home &#8211; or in this case made the plugin paid only (and quite expensive at that). Free Option: List Category Posts Plugin  You&#8217;ll find this plugin if you search on the install plugins page. It works &#8211; you add a short code somewhere in a page where you want the listing of posts to occur &#8211; and it does. Now there are a bunch of options, but making it look pretty involved php and [...]]]></description>
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