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 [...]

If you were to create your own Google algorithm for ranking sites, you might come up with all kinds of reasons to rank sites higher than others.  So, imagine for a day that you had the power to create your own ranking formula…what sort of factors would you include? As I personally think of this [...]

A new podcast is here! I felt like it was time that I sat behind the microphone and shared a few of my thoughts on the current state of SEO and my public niche site project.  In fact, as I look back at when I published my last podcast, its been over 4 months!  What [...]

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. [...]

I have some good news and some bad news about my public niche site. The bad news is that I got hit with a Google penalty on March 9th.  The good news is that I figured out what happened and the site recovered 100% of its rankings on March 12th! When the penalty hit (and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]