As I write this post, I am over 1300 miles away from my home, and I’m enjoying lots of time with my family.  So, if you happened to notice a lull in my activity on the blog here, it was because I DROVE the 1300 miles and I haven’t had much time outside of enjoying [...]

What’s the best WordPress Theme to use for niche Adsense sites?  Is there one theme that should be used all the time?  Or should a new theme be used for each site? These are some of the questions that you should consider when building sites.  If you are only building one or two larger sites, [...]

No video today.  I’m worried about how my hair looks and its just not working right today.  Okay, I could care less about my hair – its just quicker for me to type out an update! I think in the last update I gave, I was still debating exactly what iPhone app idea I was [...]

Today I am happy to share a guest post from Tom Ewer, the owner of Leaving Work Behind, about some of the struggles associated with building niche sites.  I often post some of the successes that I have had with niche sites, but I also try to be very realistic about both the risks and [...]

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 [...]

When it comes to WordPress, you can pretty much set up your site any way you want.  The default setting is similar to the way most blogs; including mine, are set up with the latest blog posts showing up on the home page.  But this doesn’t have to be the way you run niche sites [...]

I made a quick video today in order to report my progress with my iPhone app project.  I discuss getting bids on Elance and other details as I decide whether or not to move forward with my current iPhone app idea.  I would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks! Update 5/28/2012: I decided to build [...]

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, [...]