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[Dumb] Passive Income Report for December 2013

January 8, 2014 by Matthew Allen

Welcome to my [Dumb] Passive Income Report! This blog is all about what I am doing to create several different passive income streams. This monthly income report details my results. I work very hard and dedicate many hours each week to working on my different online endeavors in an attempt to create passive income. So why do I consider it passive income then? Because I am not trading specified amounts of time for a predetermined amount of money like I do at my day job. Most of the income you will see in this report results from work I have done in the past.

Why am I sharing my income publicly? Hopefully to gain credibility with you (the readers) and to maintain a certain degree of accountability for myself. I could blog all day long about what I am doing to create passive income online, including some of my unique strategies. But why would anybody trust me and believe that what I am doing works if I don’t prove it by sharing my results? This is what I mean by gaining credibility and this is one of the main purposes for sharing my income. I also share my failures on the blog, which holds me accountable. Knowing that I will be publishing a monthly income report will keep me motivated to keep pushing forward and plugging away on the things I need to do to create future passive income.

[Dumb] Passive Income Report for November 2013

December 31, 2013December 13, 2013 by Matthew Allen

How to Find Profitable Keywords for Amazon Affiliate Sites

August 8, 2015November 29, 2013 by Matthew Allen

Amazon affiliate sites seem to be all the rage lately. It seems like everybody is building them. The popularity of Amazon product-based niche sites seemed to make itself apparent when Spencer Haws published his first public niche site project on his popular blog – Niche Pursuits. Ever since he shared his success with that public project – I’ve been seeing Amazon affiliate niche websites everywhere! The popularity of Amazon sites was proven even more to me recently when I launched my own keyword research service. Just during the beta test period, 60% of my customers wanted me to find keywords for them to build Amazon sites around. As a result, I’ve been doing a LOT of keyword research around topics that relate to products that are being sold on Amazon. In case you didn’t know – Amazon sells almost literally everything imaginable! In other words, there are limitless products being sold every day on Amazon and even more keywords that can lead to those products. Amazon is willing to pay out healthy commissions to their affiliates – which makes creating Amazon affiliate sites more and more attractive. Once you see how easy it is to find low competition keywords that lead to profitable Amazon niches – you’ll likely want to jump on the bandwagon too!

Providing a Keyword Research Service – Increase Traffic and Profits

November 19, 2013November 18, 2013 by Matthew Allen

In the past, people have suggested to me that I should start a keyword research service as an offering via my Dumb Passive Income blog. I’ve blogged a LOT about the benefits of keyword research and why I think it is beneficial not just for niche sites, but for other types of sites (blogs) as well. I’ve written so much about keyword research over the past year that people have started to perceive me to be a bit of an expert on the topic. I wasn’t so sure that I was an expert. I thought I was just learning as I go just like everybody else. But after reading blog posts by actual experts and even watching tutorial-type videos by experts on how to do keyword research – I realized that I know just as much as they do. I’ve learned from some of the best and I’ve applied some of that knowledge with my own experiments. I’ve gained valuable experience and people have noticed.

Which brings us back to the suggestions that people have made to me – more than one person over the past year has suggested that I start my own keyword research service. Despite the fact that I like doing keyword research and there seems to be a need in the market for a service like this – I rejected the idea for two main reasons…

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[Dumb] Passive Income Report for October 2013

November 15, 2013November 12, 2013 by Matthew Allen

The Carnival of Money Pros

July 2, 2014November 9, 2013 by Matthew Allen

I got an email earlier this week informing me that I was scheduled to host the Carnival of Money Pros on my site this week. I honestly had no idea that I even signed up, so I was a little confused. I did some checking and figured out that I did indeed sign up to host this carnival on a site of mine that is no longer active. Oops! The site I had intended to host the carnival on was a niche blog I was working on and trying to build a community around @ payoffcreditcard.net – I stopped working on that site and haven’t published any new content since April 2013. It gets almost no traffic at all and the site statistics are dismal at best.

To be fair to everybody who has submitted to this weeks carnival, I’ve decided to post it here on Dumb Passive Income. This site has better stats, more authority and some actual traffic – compared to the site I originally signed up with. I think this will be good for everybody involved. Plus, it’s a perfect opportunity for me to explain to my audience what a blog carnival is and how to use them.

Outsourcing Content for Cheap – How I Paid Only $76.66 for 40 Articles

July 23, 2015November 7, 2013 by Matthew Allen

Post updated October 18, 2014…

Note: There are several mentions and links within this article to Odesk. Odesk is now known as UpWork – so any links that previously led to Odesk now lead to Upwork.com. The platform is essentially the same.

You are not misreading the title for this post! I didn’t add a zero to the number of articles by accident and I didn’t forget a digit in the cost. Last month I did in fact get 40 articles produced for me from various writers and the total cost was only $76.66! Each article is 500 words minimum and is written according to my specific instructions for where and how to include specific keywords. The quality of the content turned out to be perfectly acceptable for what I wanted to use it for. I wouldn’t consider it to be excellent quality, but great for secondary articles on some of my niche sites. My intentions for these types of articles is to target very low competition keywords that get a decent (lower) number of searches, with the goal of attracting more search traffic to my sites. In this post, I’m going to show you exactly how and where I get articles outsourced for such a low price. I’ll show you every detail, including how I attract the writers and exactly how I instruct them to write the posts.

Passive Income Report for September 2013

October 7, 2013 by Matthew Allen

Welcome to my (Dumb) Passive Income Report! This blog is all about what I am doing to create several different passive income streams. This monthly income report details my results. I work very hard and dedicate many hours each week to working on my different online endeavors in an attempt to create passive income. So why do I consider it passive income then? Because I am not trading specified amounts of time for a predetermined amount of money like I do at my day job. Most of the income you will see in this report results from work I have done in the past.

Using Keyword Research to Grow Your Blog – Everything You Need to Know

January 22, 2020September 27, 2013 by Matthew Allen

If you are a blogger and you aren’t taking advantage of keyword research and simple on page blog post optimization to grow your blog – you are missing the boat big time right now! Can you grow your blog without keyword research and search engine optimization? Of course. But why not learn to do some simple keyword research and a few easy optimization techniques to keep that targeted traffic flowing to your blog month after month after month.

I’ve actually written quite a bit on this site, in the past, about using keyword research for blogging. I’ve been using these techniques and tactics myself and seeing positive results. I have a background in both blogging and building niche sites – so I understand the power of utilizing good keyword research and optimization techniques quite well. In this post, I am actually going to bring together everything I’ve written in the past and create kind of an ultimate guide to using keyword research to grow your blog. I also want to explain why I believe that bloggers should be using keyword research for their own advantage – now more so than ever before!

Plus – to keep it interesting, I’ve actually reached out to several others in the internet marketing space who I know have extensive experience with keyword research. I wanted to get their thoughts on using keyword research for blogging. A few of them are big names that you will recognize, and a few you might not recognize. I’ve sprinkled their contributions throughout this post.

Current State of Google – Niche Sites vs Blogs

September 20, 2013 by Matthew Allen

Have you been paying attention to the state of Google? Which way is the wind blowing today? Which types of sites is Google giving precedence to? What should I be doing to get my site to rank highly in Google? Why was my site ranking highly yesterday and it completely fell off the radar today? What did I do wrong or right? What the hell is Google doing? What are they going to do next? Does anybody know?

Most of these questions are great mysteries. SEO geeks are constantly trying to solve them and sometimes they do… for that day. And then it all changes again. The trick to keeping up with Google and all of their changes is to stay on top of the game and try to keep up to date as much as possible. Read the SEO blogs. Keep up with current case studies done by others. Figure out what used to work, what is working now, and what appears might work well into the future.

Passive Income Report for July and August 2013

September 6, 2013September 5, 2013 by Matthew Allen

A Backlinking Strategy Experiment for a Small Niche Site

August 22, 2013 by Matthew Allen

In June of this year I published an article explaining my specific backlinking strategies for niche sites. In it I admitted my dislike for having to do backlinking tasks but also acknowledged the need to do them. I highlighted and linked to some of the stuff I had read recently about link building – stuff written by some of the leaders in the internet marketing and niche site building space. I concocted my own customized link building strategy based on stuff that was working for others. I even set up spreadsheets for each of my current niche sites in order to keep myself on track. The purpose for the spreadsheets was to act as kind of a check off list for each of my backlinking tasks. It has now been about two and a half months since I published that post. Would you like to know how it is working out for me?

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