Today, I’m going to write about a subject that was brought to my attention in an interesting way.  As you are well aware, I have created the Niche Websites Hub where I openly asked all readers to suggest topics that I should write about.  This page has been up for over 9 months and has [...]

Today, I am going to focus specifically on how to optimize and test your Google Adsense ads on your websites; however, these general principles could be applied to any other type of advertising.  Monetizing your site with Google Adsense can definitely lead to some great earnings; however, the earnings can be ever greater if you [...]

I can hardly believe that is was six months ago that I created a batch of 20 niche sites in August 2011.  I have been disclosing the earnings, rankings, and much more on these sites for the past few months.  You can see the earnings after 90 days here and 120 days here.  In addition, [...]

Today I wanted to cover a subject that I have not discussed at all in the past: Smart Pricing for Google Adsense.  So, what is “smart pricing”?  Essentially, you know when this has occurred if the amount you are paid per click is suddenly and drastically reduced in your Google Adsense account.  So, if you [...]

A few days ago the “Distinguished Engineer” Matt Cutts wrote about Google’s new page layout algorithm improvement on the Official Google Webmaster Blog.  In a nutshell, if you are overloading ads above the fold on your niche websites, you could be in trouble.  But don’t worry – you can change your ad layout and be [...]

Today, I wanted to do something a little bit different.  Over the past couple of weeks, I have been thinking about some of the major accomplishments that I have made in 2011.  When I look back, it really has been a STELLAR year!  After all, I began 2011 working for someone else, NichePursuits.com did not [...]

I can hardly believe that it has been a full-month since I posted my most popular post on my blog ever; Income Report for 90-day old sites! That blog post totally took me by surprise as I was not expecting the response that it got at all.  As of right now, it has received 265 [...]

I often get asked to share what the best WordPress themes for creating a niche site that gets great adsense click through rates (CTRs).  I usually try to explain that Click through rate (CTR) is less about the theme typically and more about the Google Adsense Placement (or other monetization ads) and less about the [...]

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 [...]

On October 13th/14th, Google made some adjustments to their algorithm again that has effected lots of website owners.  I have gotten lots of questions and comments about how this has effected my own sites, and what this means for the future of niche websites; so I wanted to make a post dedicated to this question. [...]