Hubpages – Can You Still Make Money in 2011?

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!
Traffic drop on Hubpages.com as measured by Quantcast

I started on Hubpages.com – because of Hubpages I made my first $100 online and got paid out by Google’s Adsense program. In fact the precursor of this blog was built to support my hubpages – not the other way around! Until recently I highlighted my pages explaining how I made money on Hubpages – the posts were genuine – but I also made money from those writers who signed up using my affiliate ID – personally I’d moved on from Hubpages, Hubpages is no scam, but I prefer  to put time into my own sites – but my hubpages were still making me hundreds a month – until recently. Panda Update and Hubpages I’ve already written about how the Panda updated failed to deliver quality to the searcher – and still my niche sites are  ranking pretty much where they were before the so-called update. But Panda was originally nicknamed “Farmer Update” by SEO’s – because the update seemed to particularly focus on large content sites – sites like HubPages. The official figures – as provided by Quantcast – seems to support this: Looking at my own analytics for the same period – its the same but different : My point [...] Read more »

Catalyst Theme and Adsense Review

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 »

Postrunner Review: The “Quality” Debate

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!
These cars aren't Quality - but tourists now pay a premium to hire them in Berlin!

If your response to my title was WTF is Postrunner – then check out my earlier post. If you are a member of The Keyword Academy you will know  that Postrunner is system used with TKA in order to create keyword anchored links for your sites. I’ve compared to BuildMyRank to Postrunner – and Mark is now trying to differentiate Postrunner from BuildMyRank and similar schemes. His argument is that Postrunner needs to evolve: needs “better quality” sites in Postrunner. the reason more “quality” sites aren’t in Postrunner is because of the “quality” of the articles being sent to them. his proposed solution is an author scoring system which will reward the writers (or buyers) of superior articles. The Argument About “Quality” Articles As soon as the thread started in the forum the predictable grammar Nazi’s (Nazis’? Nazis’s ??) were out in force. Too many trailing commas – FAIL. Use of nonstandard spellings FAIL. To be fair to Mark, in the seminar he specifically mentioned that he wasn’t concerned about grammar and spelling problems, he was more worried about the articles being relevant and having a point. Its all looking like this will be seen, by many, most of whom haven’t [...] Read more »

Catalyst Theme Review

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!
catalyst-468x60

Yup its all changed around here again! Well not the content just he look and feel (ie if you are reading this via RSS – click thru !). I had hoped that going from Thesis to Frugal would be my last major change.  However Eric Hamm -the guy who created Frugal – upgraded the product so much – it now has a new name – Frugal is now Catalyst ! Catalyst actually came out just before I took off for a 2 month overseas trip with a 10″ netbook – netbook are good for lots of things but doing site design is not one of them! When I got back I had a look at Catalyst and upgraded some of my niche sites with it. I liked it – but it didn’t have Frugal’s easy to install front page – with a wide choice of widgets. So I  didn’t upgrade this site. Then back in February Catalyst upgraded to 1.1 – and YES now there are EZI Widgets – which allows a flexible front page – like Frugal’s – but with even more options! Still I hesitated – this site is a pain – it has a number of different [...] Read more »

Catalyst Theme and SEO Options

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!
catalyst-250x250

From time to time I mention the theme I like de jour – but my most abiding love affair with a theme is Frugal Theme – now replaced with Catalyst Theme – and I like them both! (Well sort of replaced I haven’t got around to doing this site yet – its still in the “not broken – haven’t fixed it yet”) pile. But with the release of Catalyst v1.1 I am pretty darn impressed and even WordPress 3.1 is appearing to be stable enough to upgrade to – so here’s my first Catalyst Theme Tutorial. So how is Catalyst for SEO – well its pretty good – its flexible, it won’t do it for you – but you can set and forget it. First if you are already using a plugin such as All-In-One-SEO or Platinum SEO – then you can keep on using them, they play happily with Catalyst 1.1. However if you are starting a new site – you can probably skip the plugins and just use Catalyst’s built in SEO. Once you’ve installed Catalyst and the Dynamik child theme – you will have a Catalyst Sub Menu on your main WordPress menu and under that three [...] Read more »

Can’t Integrate Adsense and Analytics? FINALLY SOLVED

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!
integration-1

Unbelievable! I am doing OK with Adsense. And I am not stupid technically, and I’m a woman so I can follow  instructions. I have several degrees, and  I can connect a TV to a digital box and a DVD player, I can waltz..   But I have never ever  been able to integrate my Adsense and Analytics account until today. I have followed the standard instructions, I tried them again, I have changed themes,   I have deleted and reinserted code ad nausaeum, I’ve used plugins for WordPress – nothing bloody worked! If you have never tried to integrate your Google Analytics and Adsense accounts – you will probably get directed – to this page and if you have multiple domains running Adsense and a single Analytics account this is the relevant part of the page: This scenario is for people who want to track more than one website in their Google Analytics account. For each website, you may have one or more profile assigned to it. On the ‘Getting Started’ page, you’re prompted to select either ‘Create my free Google Analytics account’ or ‘I already have a Google Analytics account. Please link it to this AdSense account.’ Select the [...] Read more »

Build My Rank and Backlinking Profiles

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!
Rottnest Island, Western Australia

Build My Rank really has been a business changer for me.  Well not by itself obviously – in fact if you don’t have a plan to start of with then – you don’t need this post you need the Keyword Academy instead! Back about a month ago I signed up  to BuildMyRank: review and  rankings were on my mind, then I was pretty excited about it. Well now I am ecstatic about it! Why? I’m seeing rankings jump and jump significantly and with them income. Will the rankings hold? Who knows – but meanwhile I’ll take the money thanks. Have I a got detailed results to prove this? Nope – these were sites that I was previously supporting using Postrunner -  so maybe  I could have waited a month and seen the results jumping on the Postrunner submissions- I don’t know – frankly it takes a lot of time to document that type of detail and I don’t have duplicate sites: same niche, same age similar content etc to do  proper split testing. Instead  I swapped my writer over from writing for Postrunner to BMR and sat back to see what happened. What I do know is that BMR plus [...] Read more »

Missing Your Google Alerts? Read This!

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 »

Build My Rank Review Compared to Postrunner

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!
bmr

OK short version – BuildMyRank.com is the best thing since sliced bread -  will make you millions in your sleep without doing anything  – can’t imagine why they are giving it away at the current price – but I am sure it will go up – ACT now to lock in the currently insanely low price, BUY IT now! SELF SERVING HONKING BIG AFFILIATE LINK HERE! You still here? Darn – oh you want a real review ? Sorry I can’t actually give that to you – cause I haven’t been using it long enough to give you months and months of stats. But I’ve used it long enough to be hugely excited by it. UPDATE: May 2011 – buildmyrank still works well – and I am still using – the price has gone up a little – details below.   UPDATE: November 2011 – I’m still using BMR and am happy with it but also check out a Build My Rank alternative that is a new service - SEO Cobra Backlinks   As I wrote recently – I am not 100% happy with Postrunner – mainly because of the percentage of articles which aren’t getting indexed. So when I  was [...] Read more »

Keyword Academy Case Study: Does Postrunner Work?

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!
Wellington Harbour Entrance - looking towards Pencarrow

OK this is my last Keyword Academy Case Study post – its a review of where I got a new site to in the rankings by solely using Postrunner for back links and some thoughts about the quality of the Postrunner system. As of  27 September – my postrunner promoted site had the following statistics: Rankings on 27 September  (2 August, 2 June | 30 April ,14 April 2010 in brackets | 8 April 2010) 15 pages indexed in Google (18, 24, 26, 15 |13 pages) 23  backlink recognized in yahoo (15, 13,13 ,6,1, 0) domain name exact match long-tail: 5 (8, 12, 14, 17 | 17) main keyword: 9 (14, 21, 17, 34 | 61) main keyword singular: 1 (12, 19 ,19 , 31 | 61) 4 other cousins are on page 1 and the other 2 are on page 2. A qualified success I think – but only qualified. Why only qualified? I have published 69 posts in Postrunner to support this site the most recent went live on the 23 August 2010. However of those 69 fully 22 are not indexed.  Now each and every one of those posts went to a different site in Postrunner – so I [...] Read more »

Impact Page Builder Review

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!
impact_300x250_lt

Hi – its OK its really me Lis! I just moved the furniture around a bit!  BTW if you are reading this via the RSS feed you may want to click thru as I am talking about the look and feel of this page in this post – you kinda have to be here! Anyway as you might have gathered this post is promoting Impact Page Builder – why? Well because I have building up your trust so that you would buy lots from me and pay for the overseas holiday to somewhere warm! Well to be honest from what I’ve seen no one makes any serious money promoting stuff that is one off purchases like Impact Page Builder – the market is just too small and  there is no agressive upsell or membership sites – which is where the money really is at! Anyway getting back to Impact Page Builder. This is a brand new plugin from Eric Hamm – of Frugal Theme fame.  Well its been out a couple of weeks – it took Leo’s newsletter to wake me up to its potential. (If you are not subscribed – you’re an idiot – subscribe). Impact Page Builder – [...] Read more »

« Older Posts
Newer Posts »