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All I Want for Christmas Are Long Tail Keywords – Keyword Researcher Review

Written by on December 19, 2011 · 13 Comments

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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!
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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’m just bloody lucky, but really all the bad stuff that’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’t give you real long tail keywords – 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’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’s changes to their API TOS has meant than some previously good tools have gone away – and I am sure I’m not the only one who has found I [...] Read more »

Passive Income Online – How Much Does It Cost To Start

Written by on February 6, 2009 · 17 Comments

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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!

Passive income – to my way of thinking is the best income to have. Why? Because I’m bloody idle that’s why! Oh and because I know its possible to. My partner and I own several rental properties in New Zealand, we bought them several years ago and every month we get paid the income from them. Is it passive income – sure it is – we’ve never met our tenants, we don’t mow lawns, we don’t take calls about broken toilets at 2am – my property manager does.  Property investment can be as active or as passive as you want to make it – but you have to pay someone to do the work for you. Property investment is not risk free either. Our rental properties are exposed to interest rate risks, tenant availability, natural disasters, property manager going bad etc etc. If we’d borrowed the amount the bank was prepared to lend us a few years ago we would be in a nasty position now. Making passive income online, to my way of thinking is a much better thing than making passive income from property investment. Why? The risks are lower much lower. The investment required is much lower. It’s [...] Read more »

Google Reveals SEO Secrets

Written by on November 16, 2008 · 2 Comments

Categories: Marketing, Search Engines - 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!

Google has just released their Search Engine Optimization Guide. Yes the big G itself is finally prepared to answer the most FAQ out there ” How do I get my site to rank in Google?” Its a pretty scary document: well scary if you are in the business of scamming people out of good money by pretending that SEO is hard to do – its anything but. In fact I suspect none of what is in this guide is new. Its just been finally collected all together in one place so that people can actually find it – now that’s an idea! The report is fairly simple to understand for anyone who has the rudiments of how a website is setup. The bottom line is excellent for anyone who wants to make money as an online writer because as usual the bottom line is that a website which is attractive and useful for readers will also attract the search engines. Get your headings right and make sure you correctly anchor your backlinks and Google will notice. I wrote an extended review of Googles SEO Guide an how it applies to HubPages here: SEO How to Do It by Google One [...] Read more »

Making Money On-line for Beginners

Written by on October 12, 2008 · 5 Comments

Categories: HubPages, Online Business, 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!

Sometimes I struggle as to where I should publish. I guess I am not a pure internet marketer because sometimes I just have to write about a topic! This weekend its been around the subject of making money on-line. Yes I know its idiotic to try and rank for that term. Yes I know I run the risk of just repeating the same old. I still had to try. So I did and you know I think it came out all right. There is nothing original per se. I am following the big three as usual as detailed in my original Internet Marketing and Hubpages article. In the end I ended up publishing not one but two hubs, over 3600 words for goodness sake! On a revenue site that I only get 60% of the Adsense, Amazon, eBay, Kontera impressions – why did I do that. Well two simple reasons really: I’m starting to see more and more new people arriving at HubPages, publishing a couple of hubs and then going to the forums and asking what’s wrong I only made 5c in Adsense! I can see this trend continuing. HubPages seems to be winning the race with Squidoo and [...] Read more »

Marketing: My Struggle

Written by on October 8, 2008 · 4 Comments

Categories: Marketing, Online Business, Rants - Tags: , , , , ,

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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!

Marketing and I have come a long way in the last year – its possibly one of the most important insights have got to this making money online game! Picadilly Circus Originally uploaded by msmail My first degree is in science and analysis is one of my strengths. Twenty years after my first degree and I did a graduate business diploma and was horrified by some of the courses. Marketing was the worst: they had “laws” about how to sell. I remember a big argument I had with a rather shrill marketing lecturer when I challenged her contention that you sell the dream not the product. She claimed it was a law: I pointed out, correctly I believe to this day, that it was an unproven hypothesis or even just a statement, it wasn’t a law. The fact that the apple will drop from the tree is a law, that the sun will rise tomorrow at a certain time is a law: that I will buy a certain brand of toothpaste because it will help me make friends – is, to be blunt, and I was, an un-tested theory. I lost the argument though: she had the microphone and no [...] Read more »

Google Censors the Internet

Written by on September 9, 2008 · 5 Comments

Categories: Online Business, Rants, Search Engines - 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!

I wasn’t intending to write this post: this is not a political blog, but I am MAD, very mad. Google has had bad press recently in Australia particularly, and in fact our competition watch dog is currently taking Google to court over anti-competitive practice. That’s kinda a given given the size of the US-based Google. That I can live with – its business. This however makes me mad! I posted recently about Courtney Tuttle’s keyword sniping approach which is all about creating focussed websites. Its NOT about spamming but apparently someone has reported to Court to Google and now he doesn’t even rate for his name for his main site Courtney Tuttle So what is so dangerous about Court’s site that he shouldn’t be shown if someone searches for his name? Well Court obviously thinks its because he suggested that content wasn’t King, and that getting legitimate backlinks via articles and other means would get your content ranked. So now Court has to backpeddle, take down his most useful posts on keyword sniping and post in effect a retraction saying he was wrong! Reminds me of the Spanish Inquisition to be honest – remember how you could get burnt at [...] Read more »