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Adsense Tricks: 7 Ways To Increase Your Adsense Earnings

20 January 2012

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photo credit: alt1040 Google Adsense is one of the simplest yet most popular ways to earn money from a website. However because it is so simple to implement – just paste in a snippet of code and you’re off – many people end up missing out on money that could rightfully be theirs. They simplky [...]

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Ed Dale, Fiverr And The Power Of A Single Tweet

28 June 2011

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photo credit: eddale On April 19th this year Ed Dale, well-known Australian internet marketer and all-round good-guy, posted the following tweet to his 45,000 Twitter followers: That little link at the end points straight to my article about Fiverr which I published here on Lifestyle Design Unleashed recently. Now, as calls to action go there was no real [...]

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The Definitive Onpage WordPress SEO Tutorial

19 June 2011

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photo credit: dcJohn If you have any kind of WordPress-powered website – whether that’s a static site or a regularly updated blog – then you may well have fallen prey to one of the most common WordPress SEO myths around. And it’s costing you a lot of traffic… If you listen to some of the [...]

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How To Get Free Products To Review On Your Blog

14 June 2011

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photo credit: Howard Dickins Creating honest reviews of products on your blog is one of the best ways to attract highly-targeted traffic from the search engines and then convert these visitors into affiliate commissions and advertiing dollars. The problem with “product review” articles though is getting hold of the products in the first place. Either [...]

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EasyAzon Review: New Amazon WordPress Plugin Launches

6 June 2011

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EasyAzon is a new Amazon WordPress plugin created by affiliate marketer Chris Guthrie. I have been lucky enough over the last few weeks to be able to extensively test the EasyAzon plugin after Chris invited me to be one of his beta testers and so I thought it might prove beneficial for other Amazon affiliates [...]

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How I Just Got Published In A Print Book (And Some Important Lessons I Learned Along The Way)

3 June 2011

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photo credit: Lori Greig In early July a new book is going to be published which will feature contributions from a number of writers. As you can guess from the title of this post I’ll be one of them. Now this isn’t a book about internet marketing or lifestyle design it’s in another niche in [...]

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Make Money With Adsense: Case Study Of A 23% CTR Adsense Site

6 May 2011

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photo credit: Freddy The Boy While the heady days of five figure monthly paychecks may be well and truly over for most Adsense publishers a lot of marketers – myself included – still use it as a valuable way to monetize their sites. The money you make from Adsense is really controlled by quite a [...]

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Article Marketing Secrets: How I Get Up To 58% Of People Who Read My Articles To Click The Link To My Website

1 May 2011

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photo credit: Tamara Manning At first sight article marketing can sound like a dream come true. Do some keyword research to find “low hanging fruit” keywords. Write an article about each one, add a short “about the author” bio file at the end that links back to your website and then submit your articles to [...]

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Amazonian Profit Plan Case Study

27 April 2011

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photo credit: Giorgio Montersino I have been hearing for years about the benefits of promoting physical products through Amazon. Apparently while cookie times are short (just 24 hours) and commissions are reasonably low, by applying the right marketing techniques response rates can be incredibly high. Many months ago I wrote a review of a product [...]

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Bluehost Or Hostgator: A Review Based On My Actual Experiences

22 April 2011

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photo credit: kevinzim Bluehost and Hostgator are two of the largest and most popular web hosting companies online and justly so. They offer high quality and very competitively-priced hosting accounts which offer very similar features of which arguably most noticeable is that with both Bluehost and Hostgator you can host unlimited sites. The benefits for [...]

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Fiverr Review: My Own Experiences (With Actual Samples Of Work Done For $5)

12 April 2011

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photo credit: Helga Weber If you’re interested in outsourcing some of your online activities then this Fiverr review should provide an insight into what you can expect from the site. Incase you’ve never heard of Fiverr before it is quite simply a website which lists hundreds of things that people will do for $5. There [...]

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My Experience Of Sponsoring WordPress Themes As A Link Building Tactic

10 April 2011

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photo credit: Igor ™ While the results of significant link building can be spectacular when you do it right the process of link building is, quite frankly, incredibly dull on the whole. Analyzing your competitors links, reaching out to other webmasters, writing unique articles to submit to other sites and so on seems like a [...]

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Warning: Visiting This Site May Harm Your Computer Removal

8 April 2011

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So you’ve just noticed that when you search for your website in Google, along with your standard listing you also have a message which reads “Warning Visiting This Site May Harm Your Computer”. This article is all about *why* this warning appears, how to correct any issues with your website and finally how to go [...]

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How To Increase YouTube Views For Free

5 April 2011

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photo credit: woodleywonderworks If you’ve uploaded videos to YouTube but you’re not getting as many people watching them as you’d like then I think you’re going to find this tutorial on how to increase YouTube views for free very useful indeed. Getting a good number of YouTube views is actually a lot simpler than many [...]

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Article Marketing Robot (AMR): A Review And Case Study

1 April 2011

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photo credit: pasukaru76 (sry bad internet) Over the last few months it seems I have been hearing more and more about Article Marketing Robot (AMR) and how useful it can be for quickly and easily building links and, as a result, significantly increasing your website traffic by helping you rank better in the search engines. [...]

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Actual Traffic Results From A Single Contextual Link Published On An Alexa Top 1000 Website

27 March 2011

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photo credit: andrewrennie I remember the day vividly. Gently easing into my morning’s work online I like to check up on the previous day’s results before I start on any “real” work. This generally involves going through my major affiliate accounts to check the previous days sales, checking Adsense and logging into my website statistics [...]

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Growing Your Targeted Website Traffic Using Offline Niche Marketing

23 March 2011

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photo credit: moriza Without significant traffic arriving at your website on a regular basis you’ll never achieve your goal of quitting your job and going “full time” on the internet. We all know about the various online methods for targeted website traffic generation but one traffic-generating technique often ignored is the use of offline niche [...]

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The True Story Of How I Escaped The Rat Race, Replaced My Salary Yet Didn’t Even Turn On My Computer For Three Months

12 January 2011

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photo credit: © Ahmed Amir In 1997 I went off to university – an experience that would change my life – but not for the obvious reasons. Sure, I studied hard, I got good grades and I came out after three years with a good degree. But the really life changing things about university, for [...]

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Why Passive Income Will Explode Your Lifestyle Design Plans

11 January 2011

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photo credit: pasotraspaso Working in a full-time job puts severe limits on your freedom. A full-time job controls when you have to get up in the morning (and thus also when you need to go to bed). It controls how much you earn – you only make more when you get a pay rise or [...]

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Hard-Won Lifestyle Design Lessons From 10 Years Of Building Successful Online Businesses

8 January 2011

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photo credit: claudiogennari Since I launched my first webite in 2000 I have tried just about everything out there from minisites to authority sites, from SEO to PPC, from affiliate marketing to ebook selling and have made a huge number of discoveries. I have also either proved or disproved a number of popular internet “golden [...]

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