Well what a difference a month makes! Sure its turning cooler here in Australia and we may have seen the end of the Perth swimming season but its all looking rosy from where I’m sitting! I have been a whole lot more focused in March though the Site Build It fracas was a little distracting. Trust me the amount of traffic would have taken this blog down if it had been on shared hosting – hostgator reseller rocks is all I can say! I made some new friends during the whole thing and I’d like to give a shout out to Lorecee at Work From Home On-Line Guide who really gave some thoughtful comments from an ex-customer’s point of view. Some people thought that I did the whole Site Build It Review to make passive income from their affiliate system. I didn’t. I initially did it to build my subscribers and hopefully get noticed my some people looking for information about how to start an online business. I have put an affiliate offer on the post now – a legit piece of software which will hand-hold you through the site building process, is a one time cost, offers a 30-day [...] Read more »
Overdue February Update
Sorry guys, its been a couple of weeks since I posted on passive income online, and yes I am a bit unhappy about the lack of progress I have to report. So the good stuff is I fleshed out this blog a bit: tidied up the blank pages on the header which were getting traffic but actually had nothing on them! 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 »
Understanding Buying Keywords with Market Samurai
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 »
How to Earn Passive Income Online – My Guide
Well I thought I would take you step by step on how to earn passive income online: just send me $197 by PayPal…. Sorry just kidding! I’ve updated some pages on this site to describe the key elements of my business strategy and how I intend to implement it. Up front – I am not making a significant amount of money with this strategy right now – I do intend to be in the next year or so though. What I do know is that other people are making money doing this – its not a secret, its not particularly difficult – though I wouldn’t say its easy. I also would definitely say its a lot of work without in prospect of being paid for at least 6 months. The thing is that you have to find your own way – because no one else’s business model will fit your personality and skills, but here’s mine for what’s it worth. How to Earn Passive Income – My Plan Software I use in my business How I create content quickly and cheaply How I get backlinks to my sites Photo Credit 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 »