OK so this whole 100 hubs in 30 days game has been on for a whole day and I thought I might actually go daily on Passive Income just to keep you all up to speed! And to persuade Google that this blog really is about earning passive income online too. Read more »
Is Today Blog a Scam?
Short version – be careful! I use sites such as HubPages as a way to create content on a different IP and to provide free backlinks to my own sites. To honest I started with HubPages because I liked the community and now I stay because I liked the community, and because I can get free backlinks to my own sites – I think HubPages is OK with it – they make money from (some) of my hubs and I contribute to their community. Read more »
Twitter for Backlinks and Passive Income
I previously posted about using Twitter for backlinks and I thought it might be time to do a bit of an update. Read more »
How To Create Your On-Line Business For Beginners
Many people dream of making passive income online or starting their own online small business, probably home based, how to make money online they ask? Let’s face it there are an awful lot of us who dream of firing the boss and working in their PJ’s. Few succeed though the figures often quoted is that between 95% and 99% of people who start a blog or website fail to make any money doing it. I guess that’s why some people are looking for the “business in the box solution”. The follow this plan and all will be well. After all most of us who are trying to make money on-line are doing it after spending years as good little employees. You know do what the boss tells you what to do, when to do it by, and then praises you for getting it done correctly – or not. Business isn’t like that. On-line busines is different from real world business – but not as much as many people believe. Why Do Small Businesses Fail? Apart from cash flow issues, most small businesses fail because they can’t get enough customers. There is no demand for their service or product. Think of [...] Read more »
Get Paid to Blog: Is it a Scam?
UPDATE Please read this more recent post: Is Today Blog a Scam Getting paid to blog seems to be every writer’s dream and the dream of many who just want to make, what they think is a little passive income online. To be honest making anything more than a few cents with most programs is as likely as just losing a few kilos in your sleep or just getting fit my meditation – it ain’t gonna happen people! So sorry if you are looking to make $100/day blogging with no experience and not much effort – that money tree doesn’t exist! That said I do directly get paid to blog over at today.com both my blogs: Australia News and Travel Over 30s are still paid – the huge sum of $1/post (usually I’ll get to that) plus $2/1000 views. I’ve stopped directly promoting their ad on this blog though because they tightened up the criteria for payment so I figured most people wouldn’t actually get paid to blog there – let me explain. When I joined in Nov 2008 I got paid $1 from day one and I could have 2 blogs from day one: so by the end of [...] Read more »
MyStarterBlog: An Alternative to WordPress?
Guys – this is a neat new tool to create websites really easily, from a cool guy Steve McGrath over at McGrath Info Solutions. MyStarterBlog is an easy way to create a blog without all the overhead of WordPress – no database required! MyStarterBlog is a cool little program which allows you to upload a complete website – including content (which you have to provide of course) in one file. There is no database involved. There are a couple of advantages to this. It takes very little bandwidth or other resources from your host – it will run a lot faster than the equivalent site running WordPress or blogger. Although there is a comment facility (via email) – and most visitors will think the site is a blog (check out the example MyStarterBlog site here), its not a blog in the sense of spammers looking for a place to put their viagra ads in your comments! Runs out of the box with some themes pre-packaged but you can buy more themes or adapt whats available if you are prepared to hack some php. You don’t have to update your blog/theme/ widgets every time you login just to make a 5 [...] Read more »
Self-promotional backlinks – which don’t annoy
For important new developments at todaydotcom check out my update : is today a scam? The importance of backlinks we have discussed before. Many sites allow you to link to your own sites – two that I use are hubpages and today.com which are sites which pay you to blog. Today particularly require that to earn their payment per post the content must be original and not self-promotional. This appears to confuse people – and yet although many of my posts promote other sites I have none have them been flagged. 1-Feb-09 Update – today has now tightened up and will not pay the per post fee if you have a link to any site you own or to any article on hubpages , AC and similar sites. You still get the traffic payment. What’s the secret – write an original article, related to the same topic – add a link somewhere – not an obvious one – just a link with the text that you are are trying to rank for in Google. There’s a link in this paragraph which is relevant to the broad topic of making money blogging but this post would get approved if I had [...] Read more »
2009: The Year I Make it?
Time to take stock: the back story is here if you care from when I started this blog in April. What have a learnt in the last year Read more »
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