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

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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 [...]

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Third Tribe Review – Inside Rowse’s Third Tribe Is it a Scam?

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Which Tribe do you belong to? Apparently – according to Darren Rowse, Brian Clark, Chris Brogan, Sonia Simone – you really should be in the Third Tribe. Up until now there has only been two tribes: the sleazy, scum-bag Internet Marketers who promises the earth, or usually $14,449  plus a Lamborghini, while you sleep, and [...]

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I joined the cloud – do me a favour and join too!

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I joined the Cloud! You know cloud computing, personal PCs are so 2008 and now everyone lives in the cloud – well that’s what the Economist said a week or two back so it must be true.  Seriously though – I have just migrated all my important files onto an online backup system and I [...]

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Its Spring! End of a Quarter Report – How To Manage the Dollars

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So its the end of another month – another quarter anywhere so how is my journey to passive income online.  Well to be honest its been flat-lining since my record of making over $2000 in one month – in July. Bouncing around at the same level give or take in US$ terms, dropping in local [...]

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WordPress Themes – Should I Pay for a WordPress Theme?

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I’m a fan of WordPress – this blog actually started off on blogger a very long time a go – but I go so frustrated with their technical limitations I moved Passive Income over to self-hosted WordPress and never looked back. WordPress is free and of course there are approximately a zillion free WordPress themes [...]

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Passive Income and Time Management

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I’ve never worked for myself before and in the pursuit of passive income I have had to develop my own systems to become more efficient.
In fact I have come to realize that the whole routine of going to work was one of the things I really,really hated about working for some one else, that and [...]

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Twitter for Backlinks and Passive Income

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I previously posted about using Twitter for backlinks and I thought it might be time to do a bit of an update.

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Article Marketing Automation: After a Week

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Well my last post I raved about my initial experience with Article Marketing Automation so this is the update on my first week’s experience.
Just to recap what AMA will do for you: the free version of AMA will allow you to add your blogs to the network. Add your blog, select the categories [...]

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A New Article Distribution Tool: Very Cool!

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I have been planning on discussing on this blog which tools I use and why, but have been holding off until I was making a bit more money – so I had more credibility – at least in my mind!
There’s a new player in the game though and I am so excited that I am [...]

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Where to publish your best content

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I’ve been focusing very much on learning a whole lot more about SEO and winning the Google game to get myself ranked. One of the “light-bulb” moments I had as that content isn’t king and writing good content is not, in its self, enough to make you money from your own sites.
Another of [...]

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Q10: A Retro Text Editor

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OK I guess this is kinda going to show my age. I learnt to type on a typewriter: not

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even an electric one. I had a PC before there was windows. The first word processor I used was WordPerfect 4.2. What you got with WordPerfect: you got a black [...]

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