I have recently been sharing the success of my public niche site project.  I’ve been able to start from idea inception to ranking #1 in Google in just a couple of short months. That site, bestsurvivalknifeguide.com, continues to rank #1 at the time of this writing for the keyword, “best survival knife”. I’ve written several [...]

I am excited to officially announce that my public niche site has reached the #1 spot in Google!  My niche site began ranking at the top spot in Google sometime yesterday for my primary keyword of best survival knife. If you have been following along with my Niche Site Project, you know that I have [...]

A couple of days ago, I walked through the process of how to find a keyword to target for a niche site.  Now, I want to give you a very real demonstration of how I found my primary keyword that I will use for my niche site project! This is by far the most important [...]

Despite the so called “apocalypse” of Panda and Penguin, I still keep hearing of people dominating the search engines with long tail traffic.  But how is this possible in a world where Google penalized so many sites?  And somehow the traffic to many of my sites, including this blog continues to grow!  What’s going on [...]

When I first started thinking about building websites many years ago, I had absolutely no idea how Google worked.  The year was around 2003 or 2004, and I honestly didn’t even know that normal people like you and me could create a website and have it rank on the first page of Google. Maybe I [...]

Marcus Sheridan is an entrepreneur that truly understands content marketing. He was able to take his pool business from the brink of the financial abyss to strong profitability primarily through the use of online content marketing. I absolutely love the story that Marcus has to share, and it was a pleasure to interview him for [...]

Last week, I held a webinar to showcase some of the new features for Long Tail Pro.  These new features are currenlty in beta, and will be part of an upgraded version called, Long Tail Platinum. Unfortunately, the webinar recording did not work properly.  Uggh! However, I still wanted everyone that didn’t make the webinar [...]

After creating Long Tail Pro, one of the most common questions that I get is, “What is the difference between Market Samurai and Long Tail Pro?”  Well, trust me, I could go on for hours.  But rather than do that, I decided to make a video that demonstrates some of the basic differences between the [...]

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 [...]

I’m excited to see what the future brings for niche sites.  I really am. I think in the next few years, there is going to be lots of opportunities for intelligent webmasters to do very well with niche sites.  But that will require innovative thinking, and the strategies of yesterday won’t work anymore. As recently [...]