As most of you are probably aware by now, Yahoo Site Explorer officially shut down on November 21st, 2011.  To many, including myself, this is a sad moment in internet marketing history!  I have relied on Yahoo to check how many links my competitors had and how many links my own sites had ever since [...]

After creating hundreds of niche sites with WordPress, I have tried and tested lots of different plugins.  Some of the these plugins are a lifesaver!  There is no way I could get my sites to perform the way I wanted them to without these very useful free plugins that I am going to discuss.  However, [...]

For those of you who have been following this blog since the beginning, you will know that I originally set up this blog to try different “niche pursuits”.  These pursuits were in reality meant to be small business ideas that I could try out to diversify my income away from just search engines (I view [...]

The most common question I got by far on my income report on my 90 day old sites was how I do my link building for these sites.  Today I am going to reveal exactly how I linked to these sites for the first 90 days.  However, first I want to give you some of [...]

A common question that I get from readers is how quickly can they expect new niche sites to start making money.  My answer is that is can be as quick as 2 weeks or it can take as long as 90 days.  However, my rule of thumb is that usually by 90 days you can [...]

This is a guest post by Sunil at ExtraMoneyBlog.com.  Before I turn it over to Sunil I wanted to add my input and say that I think this is a great strategy for certain types of niche sites.  I currently am monetizing one of my niche sites using the method he describes below in addition [...]

Since I started this blog, and began sharing some of my successes from building niche websites, I have been constantly asked if I offer any sort of coaching or training program.  The answer has always been no.  Well, not anymore! For those who purchase Long Tail Pro, I am now offering an in depth video [...]

The month of October was essentially the first full-month of my “Authority Site Project” website. There have been some interesting developments with this project that I wanted to share – and I will disclosing the earnings below. But first, I wanted to give a quick overview to both remind you “old dogs” and to inform [...]

I recently wrote about how building niche websites is a numbers game.  I think this is very true for those of you who may choose a similar business model to what I have; which is essentially building lots of small niche sites and then growing the ones that perform well. Using this strategy you can [...]

After I made my last post about the recent Google Panda update, I received LOTS of really great comments about different strategies that people employ to keep themselves “immune” from updates by Google.  This has got me thinking about my own strategy and how I go about doing things.  Don’t worry, I’m not about to [...]