Progress Update on Christmas Eve 2010

I’m now intent on setting a program up where I now live in Kuching, Malaysia, which will be along the lines of helping local people to work online to see a good income, given time and given perseverance. Even a mere couple of hundred dollars a month is good income for some folks here, if on a part time basis then that’s a real nice boost to a salary which may only be $200 a month for full time work anyways.
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Imagine being able to double your income just by doing a few hours work a week.

For sure its possible I’m in the process of biting off more than I can chew. But at the same time there is the old saying “strike while the iron is hot!”. My intentions are good – I need to do this!
I approached Cyril Dason who is the front man of Sarwak Bloggers (an immesely capable and highly motivated and enthusiastic guy he is too! If I had a staff and needed a social media rep, then I would be strongly considering Cyril to do that job for me!) and I asked if it may be possible to gain some government funding, or some local company funding.
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After all, this is going to benefit the local community so why not expect to see a support network coming from either local companies or the government? Why should it be up to me to invest all my own funds to see the betterment of the Kuching community at large? Am I not doing enough already by offering a huge amount of my time over the next year to hopefully ensure the success of those that are involved in this initiative?
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I would have no issues in investing my own money in this. I just don’t have money enough to invest right now. But even if no backers come forth, I am thoroughly intent on going forward with this. After all, regular readers on this blog know full well that I am a headstrong, very stubborn, forward moving sorta bloke, don’t you?;-) And I intend very much to utilize those traits in this case too!
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Maybe I should get more involved in politics. But no. I remember to some extent what was said to Tim Ferris (of “4 Hour Work Week” fame) by one of his friends who is an eminenent Doctor and more besides. When Tim mentioned to her that he would really like to pursue his doctorate and thus become a medical doctor on graduation, she said to him in return (after both parties had consumed wine to a copious degree) (sorry, I can’t quote exact words but I’ll try my best…) “Tim, I admire you for wanting to become a doctor, but you would be best served as remaining a “dark knight” so you can spread the word freely without having to worry about your own reputation being tarnished as a medical doctor”.
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I am no Tim Ferris, as much as I admire the man! But I am motivated to do what I can to help some people to gain more control over their level of income and thus hopefully this will improve their standards of living.
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I know for a fact that if someone had knocked on my door in days gone by and asked me would I be interested in learning how to make a very good living online with little investment involved, I would have well and truly jumped at the chance and my excitement levels would have been to sky high!!
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I’m no politician anyhow, so that job would be out for me!
Okay, that’s enough on that subject – I don’t want to bore you all to tears, lol!
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Progress with Kevin?

Joseph Archibald’s Internet Marketing Income for November 2010

2010 12 02 0627 300x123 Joseph Archibald’s Internet Marketing Income for November 2010I’m going to start off this post with a layout of my online expenses for November. I know a lot of internet marketers tell you how much they are making each month, but they do not tell you how much they are having to invest to see that level of income (particularly the big hitters who may make $30k per month or something huge like that, but you gotta wonder how much they are investing to see that income).
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Here is a to-the-point break down of my own expenses for November.
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November online expenses:
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Outsourcing fees for November: $233
Hosting fees via Hostgator : $20
Domain name purchases: x 3 for $26.67
Software expenses: $258
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Total November expenses (see also below for another expense not included here): $537.67  (£340)
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Wowza! I’ve struggled along this month regards to online income – for the first half or longer it was very poor as far as eBay and AdSense are concerned, but in other respects – good. There were other things going on as I mentioned in previous posts. And these other things are going to have positive effects over the coming months and hopefully really boost up earnings for the next year! That’s what I’m hoping, anyhow.
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And of course, a part of my investment/ expenses for this month and last will be towards this future income boost.
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I want to say a massive thanks to everyone who either purchased via my affiliate links, or purchased my 40 Day Challenge eBook – totally and utterly appreciated!!!
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Let’s get to the stats, already!

Add Value to Your Posts in Order to Get Long Term High Google Rankings

2010 11 27 0719 300x139 Add Value to Your Posts in Order to Get Long Term High Google Rankings I decided to do a check using Scroogle Scraper – the tried and trusted way of determining approximately where you are ranking for various keyword phrases in Google dot com. In fact, Scroogle is providing me better results than does the Google keyword ranking tool – and these results are fairly related to the use of Build My Rank! (Sorry to everyone who did not get in on Build my Rank at the lower price!).
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One of the bad things about WordPress is that it tends to mess up your post editing – hence this post is all squashed up. Furthermore, in this particular post its putting a score mark through a lot of my links. I’ve seen this happening on other blogs recently too. Anyone know what’s causing this?
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This time last year my rankings for similar keywords were pretty reasonable. And this time last year I was making more money, even though I did not really know what I was doing. But this time this year my rankings (according to Scroogle, which is supposed to be representative of at least some of the Google dot com database/s) are quite a lot better than last year.
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And as I mentioned already, this is because of my investment in Build My Rank and my investment in people to write articles for it, albeit I’m down to one part time writer who writes about 50 to 60 posts a week for me.
I could not be happier with what I am seeing in Scroogle. Often times I’ve got rankings 1, 2 and 3 in Google, which includes “Twilight poster”, which you can see in the above screenshot. But, I’m seeing almost no income from any of this which amazes me.

Akismet no More! (and Christmas Sales no More Either)

Okay, here’s a post!

I’m moving from my current appartment in the next few days so life is a bit of a mess right now, but then in some ways my life is always a bit of a mess, in a good way, that is!

However, one real good thing is that I can now get “proper” broadband installation, so no need to rely on this dongle thing that sits in one of the USB hubs on my laptop. This sort of connection is sketchy at best, so for someone who spends half their life online such as myself – the dongle is fit for the trash can!

I can’t expect the same level of broadband service and the same speed that I was used to in Britain, plus its more expensive here in Kuching by quite a long way too. The competition for providing these services is not as fierce as it is in western countries. But hey, you gotta sometimes just go with the flow…

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Hot tip for ya! I came across a new WordPress dot org plugin the other day thanks to a shout out on Facebook by Tia the BizChickBlogger. Its a plugin that’s been developed by Gail Gardner of Growmap fame (boy, does that lady know her stuff about everything there is to know!) and Andy Bailey at CommentLuv – the guy responsible for – you guessed it – the wonderful CommentLuv WP plugin!

Its a freebie plugin, so don’t get worried here.

I don’t know about you, but on this SEO tips blog I get my fair share of utter rubbish spam stuff, and recently all the more. Akismet is pretty cool at dealing with it, but it still ends up in my spam filter and its an effort to go in and check it all and then delete it all, hour after hour, day after day. Well…

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Jingle Bells – Christmas Sales Finally get Going in 2010!

2010 11 22 0501 300x176 Jingle Bells   Christmas Sales Finally get Going in 2010!

eBay sales graph for November 2010

Before I get onto the crux of this post, I just wanted to make mention of something that is very commonly mentioned, but not always carried out. I turned on my laptop at about 3.30am this morning only to find that it had crashed and had to do its re-boot thingy, which took about 5 minutes.

Fortunately it did re-boot okay, finally. But I got a bit concerned – did I back everything up over the past month? I had actually, so I should be safe. I’ve got it backed up in Dropbox, which is a freebie account (Dropbox is fantastic!), and also on my USB dongle storage device.

Nevertheless, I tend to rely on Firefox browser the most – its more dependable than I.E. and its faster and it also always loads up your previous tabs. I find that I.E. does occasionally, but mostly it starts all over again. Further, due to my poor connection, I find that I.E. can be very slow, and sometimes will not connect at all – particularly in the evenings.

Firefox therefore is my only real option here. Both these browsers work with Roboform, so I’m fine there because I rely on Roboform to store all my passwords and logins. Any other browser such as Opera will not work with Roboform.

But this morning it – Firefox – crashed time and time again. How annoying! I had no other option than to dump it and then download the whole thing again. But my main point here is – do keep regular backups of all your work – all the work that is worthy of keeping anyhow. You just don’t know when your laptop or PC or whatever is not going to function correctly.

If you’ve got backups of your important work, then you’ll be good to go as soon as you get things sorted out with your hardware. If you have no backups other than on your computer’s desktop, you risk losing a ton of work that may not be recoverable.

And even if it is recoverable, it may cost hundreds of dollars (perhaps even more) to get it back. My Fireforx is not functioning so there is obviously some conflict someplace, even though I’ve done a system restore. The joys of working with computers!

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I was (and am) going to write at this point (3.45am on Monday morning) about jingle bells and Christmas income.

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