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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: Best Posts of 2009

Written by on January 2, 2010 · 27 Comments

Categories: Making Money Online, Passive Income - 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!
An Online Business in 2009

Well this seems to be the tradition at this time of the year to look back at your “best of” posts of the previous year. In fact its not a bad idea because internal linking is really a good idea – and hey some of your visitors may even find some benefit. To (mis)-quote Dickens it was the best of times, it was the worst of times… My optimistic 2009 goals are a fairly embarassing example of now NOT to goal set – they are too vague, not tied to abig picture aim really – but at least I had some. I did at least realise that yes, you can make $1000/month with Adsense This post was pretty much when I hit rock bottom with my hopes for making passive income online – I figured out that all the options were worse than bad – and oddly enough once I understood that  if I didn’t believe in my business no one else would things really turned a corner – mainly because of one my worst written posts ever! May was the month of the infamous 100 hubs challenge and although I boosted my hubpage earnings significanty. They have since dropped [...] Read more »

Making Money with An Online Gold Rush

Written by on August 15, 2009 · 40 Comments

Categories: Online Business, Passive Income - 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 had to explain my business to my accountant recently having finally made some online income to declare! Its been a while since I tried to explain my business to someone who, although they had their own website and is very computer literate, really had no idea what I was talking about.  The thing is that people think because the Internet has only be around for 40 years and Google for less than 10 years, maybe making money online is all different and there has never been a moment like this in history before – well I beg to differ  – there is nothing new under the sun and understanding history is certainly useful in avoiding the mistakes others have made. The Internet Marketing is like a gold rush people – Klondike, Otago, Victoria, doesn’t matter which country: gold is found, some people make money, many don’t, some companies are made others die, and society changes forever. For those of you are not familiar with history: gold rushes brought incredible wealth it a few and incredible hard work and death to many more – and I am a firm believer that understanding history can sometimes stop you repeating it.  Your [...] Read more »

Online Income How To Make $1000 Online!

Written by on July 2, 2009 · 19 Comments

Categories: Online Business, Passive Income - 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!
River Cruise Europe

Well oops – I see I haven’t done an online income post for a while – and now its the new tax year in Australia this is as good an excuse as anything to avoid doing my taxes! Back in May I had some new goals – so lets report against though shall we – well it amuses me – sorry if you find it boring! What has happening in the interim is that my passive online income has doubled from May to June.  My overall income including some freelance work was US$1400 – not too shabby really – considering where I’ve come from. OK I’d struggle to live on that amount in Australia, though I certainly could in some parts of the world, but at least its more than I would have earned on the dole! And I figure its just the beginning because certainly the passive component of that (about 50%) will only keep on going up. Update on Current Business Goals Get those 10 sites up and running with backlinks built and starting their run up the SERPS. Hmm not quite – “excuse” below Build more backlinks to the hubs which make me money- after all they [...] Read more »

You Really Can Make Thousands on Hubpages

Written by on June 23, 2009 · 23 Comments

Categories: Adsense, HubPages, Making Money Online, Online Business - 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!

As most of you probably already know I have been on Hubpages for a very long time – it will be three years in October actually.  I knew Hubpages very well, I liked the site, the community and my ability to publish there – I thought it was an adjunct to my “real” money sites.  I was wrong. Over that time I saw it more as a hobby than serious online money making. In fact hubpages has earned me thousands of dollars  -indirectly – by getting me several freelance writing gigs – but I’m not talking about that. I also used hubpages to jump start this blog as my earliest readers were fans who followed me over from hubpages – thanks guys. Its a good place to build “a brand” – but I don’t mean that either. I knew hubpages was great for backinks – I have PR4 and PR3 pages there and they were easy to get. I knew I could make some income on HubPages  – April was a good month it was the first month I hit over $100 in Adsense – from hubpages alone. But I didn’t realise you could make serious money on hubpages -  [...] Read more »

Passive Income and Online Friends and Competition

Written by on June 17, 2009 · 16 Comments

Categories: Making Money Online, Online Business - 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!

There is a great debate about how much those of us who build online passive income sites as to how much you reveal of your niches. There is every opinion out there – some people don’t care who finds their sites – others go to great lengths to conceal their niches. Its at tricky balance in my opinion and part of the answer lies in people’s underlying personalities and some in their business model. Its an issue that anyone doing passive income blogging has to deal with at some point though. I resisted the idea of having multiple online personas for a long time. Eventually though I realised that I wanted to start a couple of new personas on hubpages for the hubchallenge – having a few more profile pages which I could link to my sites seeemed like a good idea. Then of course if I build backlinks to those hubs from other sites such as article directories then I need the same persona to link there, and so it goes as they say. Here’s some points that people do confuse themselves with – who are you hiding from Google or your competitors. If you are running Adsense you [...] Read more »

Hubpage Challenge 100 Hubs in 30 Days

Written by on May 10, 2009 · 12 Comments

Categories: Back Links, HubPages - 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!

OK so not a day after I write about diversifying to other Web 2.0 article sites and review  InfoBarrel the great Hubpage challenge blows up all over the Internet. If you have been asleep under a rock and not paying attention it went like the: Court decided to have a new money making experiment: 100 hubs in 30 days. Well Hubpage’s marketing guy Ryan Hupfer noticed this (btw if you are wondering how this sort of thing happens – I have 2 words for you “google alerts” a great way to know what people are saying about you!). Long story short we now have The Great Hub Challenge: Read more »

How To Create Your On-Line Business For Beginners

Written by on March 28, 2009 · 22 Comments

Categories: Making Money Online, Online Business, Passive Income - 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!
Follow your dream to an online business

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 »

Understanding Buying Keywords with Market Samurai

Written by on February 15, 2009 · 34 Comments

Categories: Feature, Online Business, Paid Tools, Passive Income, Tools - 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!

Sorry I am doing a lot of talking about software – and mostly they don’t even have affiliate programs – aren’t I a bad Internet marketer! At the end of the day though you need to the right tools to earn passive income online. I don’t know about you but my biggest technical challenge with Internet marketing, aside from the whole “I’m a marketer” mind shift was figuring it out what a profitable keyword is. I’d say its still my major issue! Its confusing – I start with a good idea – I create 1000′s of associated keywords with Keyword Elite and then try to figure out whether I can take on the competition in SEO Elite. Although these tools are incredibly powerful they also have a couple of disadvantages: They are slow – and quiet often my IP gets banned from Yahoo or Google for a while – so I have to stop and start again the next day; There is no obvious workflow – step-by-step procedure if you like. The software’s videos are useless and the best I’ve seen on how to actually use it are Vic’s videos on Bloggerunleashed Market Samurai has been around since last August [...] Read more »

MyStarterBlog: An Alternative to WordPress?

Written by on February 11, 2009 · 4 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!

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 »

Passive Income Online – How Much Does It Cost To Start

Written by on February 6, 2009 · 17 Comments

Categories: Passive Income - 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!

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 »

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