If you have been following along with my public niche site project, you know that it has started to rank on the first page of Google, and is doing very well.  The site is currently ranking #3 or #4 in Google for its primary keyword and traffic continues to climb for related keywords as well. [...]

Google still loves links; that much is undisputed.  However, the question of how to build links or whether to “build” any links at all is always debatable. For example, I have never “built” a single link to NichePursuits.com; however, I have thousands of links pointing to my site.  All of the links have come naturally [...]

Today, I am going to share another update to my public niche site project that I started just a little while ago.  So far, I have written 6 posts that explain exactly what the project is all about, what my goals are, how I found the keyword I’m targeting, and more. Public Niche Site Project: [...]

I am VERY excited to share with you some recent developments in my niche site business.  At the end of September and early October, I decided to focus my attention on just 2 new niche sites. As you can read about here, I wanted to focus on starting a little bit larger niche sites rather [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last week I ran a half marathon race. Leading up to the race, I decided I was going to plan an overall strategy for the race in hopes of running my fastest time ever. This was my 3rd half marathon, and while I did just “OK” in one race, another one was a complete disaster. [...]

The past couple of posts that I’ve made here on the blog have been related to building links.  I’m going to continue that trend, as its both a highly complicated topic, and a highly controversial one depending on the approach you take. Building links also continues to be very important to rank your sites in [...]

Today’s post is a guest post by Tyler Herman. Tyler is a web designer, internet marketer, and has some great insights into quality link building.  As we all know with recent updates in Google and more updates sure to come, quality content and links are now vital to the success of your online business.  Tyler [...]