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In compiling this list of passive income resources, I did it with my best effort to avoid any scams, giving mostly practical ideas that work for me and many others. While I have used a few of them I have to admit that I’ve not tried all of them. As in all new home business startups, you should therefore find out as much as you can before you join. But this is a start….

Your Start to Passive Income:

1. Start a home business
2. Launch 6 Automated Income Streams
3. Maximum Paid Surveys - take online surveys and make from $5 to $75 each
4. Join Ewen Chia’s Work From Home Income Program
5. Start a blog and make money with it
6. Join SFI Marketing Group, in business since 1998 and has the greatest growth potential.
7. Sign-up with the 7-Dollar Mall and start to get a complete commission earning Mall 100% FREE.
8. Earn cash by Selling Your Stuff at Amazon.
9. Learn to write and Create Ebooks That Sell.
10. Be a Ghostwriter and get  paid to write books, articles, stories, reports, or other content which are officially credited to another person
11. Make money from your blog using Performancing Ads.
12. Join IAHBE - International Association of Home Business Entrepreneus
13. The Top 25 Home Based Business Ideas
14. The Passive Affiliate Marketing System-on Complete Auto Pilot
15. Get Paid For Your Opinion

Passive Income Resources:

1. 3 Easy Steps To Get Started With Investing at My Two Dollars
2. Multiple Income Streams: 10 Ways to Earn Extra Income at The Dough Roller
3. Spend less than you earn - the wrong way to think at Brip Blap
4. How To Make Passive Income and Create Successful Small Businesses at Lamgy
5. Create Passive Income with Real Estates, Stocks, Bonds, Businesses at Passive Income Info
6. Passive Income: How to Earn More and Work Less at About.com
7. 8 Ways To Earn Passive Income Online at iSiteBuild.com
8. Living Off Dividends and Passive Income at Living Off Dividends
9. 20+ Free Passive Income Resources at Liftoptimizer
10. 11 Great Ways to Earn More Money at Free Money Finance
11. Defining Alternative Income at Lazy Man and Money
12. Ten Ways to Translate Your Passion Into Additional Income at The Simple Dollar
13. 50+ Resources to Legitimately Raise Your Income at My Super-Charged Life
14. 40 Ways to Make Money on the Internet at Dumb Little Man
15. A New Goal: $300 Monthly Passive Income by Year End at Saving To Invest

Well I hope I’ve given you enough passive income resources to start a worthwhile pursuit for financial freedom, extra income and something to call your very own home business.

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The Basics:

What is Twitter

OK, let’s get it started, but just before that and so as to make some sense of what Twitter is all about for those not in the know, you should read up the following so as to get yourself up to speed:

How To Use Twitter-Tips for Bloggers

The Intermediate:

Tweet My Blog Plugin

This page tells you everything you need to know about this excellent plugin and can be summarized as:

• Combine the power of Twitter and Wordpress to create viral traffic to your blog
• Automate your new blog posts to update your Twitter page
• Grow your home business blog traffic exponentially
• Generate an Income Stream-link contains your unique affiliate ID

Read up a post ‘I’ve Just Added The Tweet My Blog Plugin‘ from my good friend Sire of WassupBlog.

The Advanced:

A Neat Trick for home business blog

For those of you who are not yet following me on Twitter you can easily do so by clicking this link, and for other bloggers who for any reasons have yet to join, where have you been this is a good time as any to do so as Twitter is a great way to let your followers know what you are doing besides getting more traffic to your blog.

Here’s the deal. Your Twitter plugin allows configuration to a maximum of 20 tweets. You could use it to start a “sidenotes” section at your sidebar along with the twitter feed text. I’ve made a screenshot of mine so you can have an idea. Simply go to your Twitter page and type your text and it will automatically show on your blog sidebar. It’s that simple. Doesn’t this make Twitter more interesting?

What to put on your sidenotes:

• your blog posts that are not so visible to your readers e.g. those you liked but didn’t make it to your popular posts.

• blog promotions, special offers, seasonal ads, contests

• news headlines

• your rants, any digression

• your shameless advertisements

• Compelling titles like ‘How To Earn a Six Figure Income from Blogging in 2 Easy Steps‘

Tip: Make your text as short as possible using TinyUrl. This way it stands out and looks more appealing while not interfering with your blog theme’s codes.

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This Top Commentator for The Month of October goes to …(drumroll) Sire of WassupBlog - for the second consecutive month (29 comments). As you know, Sire was also crowned “Top Commentator for September” and has never failed to join a discussion, contributed his thoughts and knowledge of the topics in discussion or initiating interesting ideas on his own blog. In fact, I’ve noticed that Sire is usually one of the first to do so and I just wonder how he does that.  Is it telepathy, ESP, a new plugin that alerts him on new posts? Whatever it is, do share it here Sire. It could be another good comment strategy that I missed. Thank you Sire for being my top commentator, yet again and please contact me to claim your reward.

As you know I officially announced The Top Commentator award from Oct 1. Hey but how did Sire get his September award?  Well I felt so good announcing this award in October that I gave out a special award for Top September commentator. So don’t you think being top commentator has its rewards. Who else better than Sire himself to tell us so when he wrote Proof That Regular Commenting Does Pay.  See I told you this guy Sire is telepathic because he knew I was going to use it here. That award was a banner of either “468×60, 120×600, 234×60″ , designed by a professional web designer. Here you can take a look at what he received:
Looks good? Yup! but it looks better on his blog which is now home to this nice banner. Go take a look at WassupBlog.

Now what do the rest of the Commentators get as a reward? You’ll get a link love from yours truly as a gesture of my appreciation to you.

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This wraps up a pretty hectic month of October which saw one of my posts The Easiest Way To Get Backlinks Starts Here getting 93 comments, an all time high for this Work From Home Business Blog. Thanks to all my readers and subscribers for making this possible and supporting this blog and making a better place to exchange ideas, tips and knowledge sharing. I look forward to your continued participation in November and onwards. For more work at home ideas, don’t forget to Subscribe to my RSS as the best is yet to come.

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As an eBay member you can create your own profile page. Your profile is a nice way to increase your eBay credibility but it doesn’t really bring visitors to your other websites and doesn’t allow link backs. But there is something else that does.

Here’s where the link juice is…

Your eBay About Me page. Start to build your own About Me page using HTML complete with clickable links but only after you’ve read eBay’s About Me Guidelines so that you do not violate any eBay terms and conditions. There are certain links you can not have but you may be surprised at just how relaxed eBay is with their terms.

More on eBay’s About Me page

My About Me Page:

Your Ebay Blog:

You may already know that eBay allows you to create your own blog. But not many realize there is a better way of using your eBay blog to help you in your link building. Essentially what you should do and how you can get the best out of your eBay blog:

• do not start an eBay blog like a normal blog. For God’s sake, don’t start posting hundreds of pages like it’s your Wordpress blog. Keep your blog posts to a bare minimum perhaps 2 to 3 posts.

• Use one of your pages to build a List of Resources in which you link out to your Resource Partners. It helps to diversify your link exchange program.

• Obtain quality inbound links to your eBay blog as you would similarly do for your other websites.

• Do not be afraid of linking out to others but especially so to bloggers who are already your link partners. It’s called linking to a link. The rationale is this. When you link to them, you build their authority and in turn you’ve boosted your own page authority and backlink.

Sample eBay Blogs:

Here is mine:

…and yippee! it has been indexed just after 2 days!

That it took only 2 days for Google to index this page and already given a page 2 SERP for one of my keywords I’m currently ranking ‘work at home ideas‘ speaks well about eBay and more importantly this page is now getting a certain amount of Google Juice from it. It’s indeed a pleasant surprise for me although my primary interest in this page remains in facilitating link exchanges with others. It goes to show also that what you decide to name your ebay blog is extremely important (see screenshot).

Here’s one from an SEO Specialist friend Scott Coplen:

Why Link with eBay?

Well when I last checked, this site has 56 million inbound links at Yahoo and a PR 8. That alone is good enough for me. But apart from the linking potential it offers, your eBay blog does bring you additional traffic to your own sites or work from home business blog. On the first day that I got my page indexed, I had 65 views for this eBay blog and about 20 views for the post I included “The Easiest Way To Get Backlinks Starts Here“. It may not seem much, but considering it’s the first day and I didn’t do anything to promote it, I’m just a little short of being ecstatic.

Although I’ve yet to venture into the full spectrum of what eBay offers to work from home business owners, my first impression of eBay has been better than I thought. In terms of backlinks, linking opportunities and its vast Google Juice sharing, eBay has shown why it’s one of the greatest sites on earth.

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If you’ve read my recent post ‘The Easiest Way To Get Backlinks Starts Here‘ I described some of these obvious benefits to blog commenting but I also included an important revelation:

Well someone I know who does blog commenting at blogs with ‘Top Commentator’s List for just 2 months gets him over 10,000 inlinks??? How? It’s simple ….the Top Commentator links are sitewide (because it’s in the sidebar) and it counts every single page as an inlink. So if you make top commentator on a site with 300 pages, it counts as 300 inlinks.

While I don’t disagree with how Blog Commenting can help you amass a substantial amount of backlinks, how successful you are at it is also determined by what comment strategy you used or how addicted diligent you are in making this effort a routine work before anything else, just to name a couple. I decided to start a little experiment to find out how many backlinks I can obtain for Work From Home Business Blog over 5 days of blog commenting.

Blog Comment Strategy I used:

Special Focus For this Experiment:

• Comment on blogs which have do-follow and Top Commentator List. The easiest way to find the DoFollow blogs is through the use of a search engine called DoFollo.com. Here you can search for DoFollow blogs in your niche by using relevant keywords. For this experiment I used my do-dollow blogs list in ‘The Easiest Way To Get Backlinks Starts Here‘ to find my blogs to comment.

• Focus on PR3 blogs. This is my short term focus as I reckon over 5 days it’s easier to get more backlinks from PR3 blogs than say PR4-PR6. I will change my focus once my experiment ends.

• Contribute only quality comments. If you think you don’t have anything good to add to the conversation, DON’T Comment. Move on to another blog.

• DON’T spam!

• Start with 5 PR3 Blogs on the first day and post comments until you can find yourself in the Top Commentators List (you may have to manual count for blogs which moderate comments).

• On subsequent days go to these 5 blogs and add more comments to maintain or increase your lead over other bloggers. Always aim for the No. 1 spot in the Top Commentators List. If this is not possible, be in this list at least. Comment on 1-2 new blogs and repeat comment strategy.

At all Times:

• When you received a comment give a comment back by visiting the blog. To let everyone know you are dead serious about this, display an icon that says U Comment-I Comment Back

• Reward your Top Commentators each month so as to give recognition as well as attract more people to comment on your blog. Write a Readers Appreciation post monthly as a show of appreciation.

After 5 days of blog commenting using this strategy you will find that you are Top Commentator for about 10-15 blogs.

Here are my Results:

B. Score Summary

Date of Report: Oct 17, 2008 (full report)

Date of Report: Oct 22, 2008 (full report)

Results Analysis:Blog Comment Experiment from Oct 17 - Oct 22

My total backlinks (Inbound Links) increased by 1259 and in fact my Traffic Rank, Google Indexed Pages and Blog Rank have also improved too. It is worth mentioning also that during this experiment, no other linking methods were used e.g. social bookmarking, article marketing, directory submission.

This simple experiment goes to show how effective blog commenting can be in generating you lots of backlinks provided you become Top Commentator at high quality blogs and follow a good comment strategy. My experiment is…well an experiment after all. If you have found other more successful ways to go about getting better results, I really like to hear them. Feel free to tell us your blog commenting ways in getting your backlinks.

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