Smart Passive Income #145 - Further SEO Optimization & The Experiment Begins

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Pat names three ways (he thinks) search engines use to rank web sites:

• The number of links to the page: More is better, Links from higher ranked pages are even better ...
• The activity of the page: Is it still alive or did the content change recently?
• The relevancy of the page: Does the page match the search query?

Concerning the relevancy he provides more detail:

• The relevancy of the domain and URL themselves
• The title and headlines of the page (especially ones wrapped by header tags)
• The consistency of the content (does the content contain only keywords without "real" text)
• The relevancy of the back links (if their content matches the query)
• The relevancy of the text of the back links (does the text of the actually link text match the query?)
• The relevancy of the used media

For his SEO experiment addressing the items above he decides to:

• Create a new post containing his keywords in the title.
• Create a YouTube video containing his keywords in title, description and tags.
• In the video ask a question to be answered via comments.
• Bookmark blog and video on various bookmarking websites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious et al.
• Post links to the blog and video on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter ...
• Later on write additional articles following the steps above and in addition link to the previous articles and videos.

... let's see what happens ...

Smart Passive Income #107 & #108 - iPhone App Nr. 2 & eHow Experiment Summary

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Pat released his (their) second app on the AppStore. Baby Maker! morphs two photos into a new one "showing what a baby would look like" ...

... and he summarizes his success with eHow. Remember his eHow experiment. He decided to write five articles per day for a month ... stopped during his experiment and decided to spend time better writing for his own blog ... Nevertheless, from his first articles he made more than 100 USD per month totaling to 880 USD after six month ... not bad for "doing nothing" (quote Pat).

Smart Passive Income #36 & #37 - Income Report - eHow - Recap

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Pat's income report for December 2008 says he has made more than 12.000 USD - nice for him, and of course the IRS. He also summarizes what he had learned that month and makes new goals for January ...

... in the second month of his eHow experiment Pat did not write any new article but made nearly 100 USD from his old articles ... which you could call a perfect example of passive income ...