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Passive Income Online: Lis Sowerbutts

Making passive income online - one website at a time

How I Earn Passive Income

This blog is my play area - don't copy the layout and content of this site and think this is the way I make my online passive income. It is not.

Instead you may want to check out how I EARN PASSIVE INCOME ONLINE

How I Make Money From HubPages

Hubpages.com is a Web 2.0 website where you can post articles and get paid 60% of the advertising earned. It was the first place I ever had any success making money online and it makes me money to this day. Check out my beginner's guide to HOW I MAKE MONEY WITH HUBPAGES

Warning From Adsense!

Written by Lis on November 19, 2009 - 16 Comments
Categories: Adsense, HubPages

censorship

I think a few people at HubPages recently have had warning emails from Adsense – in part the email goes something like this: While reviewing your account, we noticed that you are currently displaying Google ads in a manner that is not compliant with our policies. For instance, we found violations of AdSense policies on [...]

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Passive Income and Online Friends and Competition

Written by Lis on June 17, 2009 - 16 Comments
Categories: Making Money Online, Online Business

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 [...]

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Hubpage Challenge 100 Hubs in 30 Days

Written by Lis on May 10, 2009 - 12 Comments
Categories: Back Links, HubPages

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 [...]

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Passive Income for March Update

Written by Lis on April 3, 2009 - 23 Comments
Categories: Making Money Online, Online Business, Passive Income

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!

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Entrecard Will Kill Your Search Traffic

Written by Lis on January 18, 2009 - 18 Comments
Categories: Back Links

OK I have been doing some Web2.0 stuff over the last few weeks and have looking for sources of backlinks which will a) work for the search engines i.e. give me a do-follow backlink and b) might even get you some focussed traffic.

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Self-promotional backlinks – which don’t annoy

Written by Lis on January 16, 2009
Categories: Back Links

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 [...]

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2009: The Year I Make it?

Written by Lis on January 11, 2009 - 6 Comments
Categories: Online Business

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

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Today Works Well for Trends Blogging

Written by Lis on November 18, 2008 - 2 Comments
Categories: Blogging, Making Money Online

IMPORTANT: Read this update on blogging at today dot com – it still works well for trends though. Well I am enjoying blogging at today.com more and more. Mainly because I am finding it pretty easy to get my posts indexed and then get search traffic to them. What I am doing is something that [...]

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Google Reveals SEO Secrets

Written by Lis on November 16, 2008 - 2 Comments
Categories: Marketing, Search Engines

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 [...]

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HubPages is NOT a Waste of Time!

Written by Lis on October 17, 2008 - 6 Comments
Categories: HubPages, Online Business

I occasionally get the comment that I shouldn’t publish all my better content on sites I don’t own or control. The comment came up again on HubPages where I was told again that I was basically wasting my time publishing there. Well its true at one level: the actual direct income I make from Adsense/Kontera/eBay/Amazon [...]

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AMA After 2 Weeks

Written by Lis on October 8, 2008 - 13 Comments
Categories: Paid Tools, Tools

Wow I am really impressed. I have been tracking the sites/pages I am promoting using Article Marketing Automation. Today I had a quick look – expecting the usual list of “not found” mean I’m not ranking in the first 1000 results and just about dropped the laptop – I am ranking wow! Success Originally uploaded [...]

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