Today, I’m sharing a podcast interview I did with Perry Rosenbloom.  I think you will find his story interesting, because he was able to build a large website based on his passion for hiking and the outdoors. The site was so successful that he expanded his business into other related sites and was able to [...]

A couple of days ago, I wrote a beginners guide to ranking in Google.  While I did touch on link building, I didn’t cover it in depth…like it deserves.  The reason for this is that as a beginner, I honestly don’t think your focus should be on links. Your focus should be on writing great [...]

I quit my job about 2 years ago thanks to micro niche sites.  I built lots of sites, ranked them quickly in Google, and made money with Google Adsense. And even though I constantly blog about both micro niches sites and larger “authority” sites.  You can read more on the niche website hub here. I [...]

This has been an “interesting” year for niche sites to say the least.  With my Google Adsense getting banned (and then opening a new one), the Penguin Update, the EMD Update, and more; my niche site business has seen its share of ups and downs.  However, through it all, I’m still a firm believer in [...]

Have you ever sat down in front of your computer, knowing you need to write a blog post, but just not knowing what to write?  I have, plenty of times.  Despite this, somehow I’m able to get out of my writing “funk” and constantly come up with new blog content ideas. I thought I would [...]

Wouldn’t it be great to build a valuable internet property that attracted hordes of free Google traffic all day long?  Not only is this fun to dream about, it’s a reality for many bloggers and other webmasters.  In fact, just last week, I answered the specific question related to getting free traffic from Google: How [...]

As I’ve mentioned over the past couple of posts here and here (podcast), I’m still actively building niche sites.  But instead of tons of small niche sites, I’m planning to build just a select few large niche sites; or as others call them, Authority Sites. Even though the idea is that authority sites will get [...]

After a break of about 4 months, I’ve finally done another podcast!  The podcast recording is just me…no guest this time.  I felt it was important to say a lot of things that are hard to say in a blog post.  I can talk for a half hour and make my points much better than [...]

A couple of days ago, I discussed my strategy moving forward for building niche sites.  In a nutshell, this strategy includes focusing on larger and higher quality sites; rather than starting sites with only 1 to 5 pages of content.  Of course, its not all about the amount of content a site has; quality is [...]

The majority of this post was written last Wednesday as I sat in the airport in Lihue, Kauai waiting for my flight back home from my vacation.  However, Google also just made some algorithm changes affecting exact match domains that I wanted to address.  I point out the timing of when I wrote this post [...]