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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Over the course of the past few years, I have tried out lots of different keyword research strategies.  In a nutshell, I think we are all looking for the same thing: how to find keywords that are easy to rank for as quickly as possible.  One of the “bottlenecks” of keyword research is that you [...]

If you happen to be a blogger, perhaps you understand the importance of content marketing already.  But, perhaps not.  Or maybe you are not utilizing the full potential that smart content marketing can provide you. In discussing content marketing, I want to expand beyond just how it can benefit bloggers; because content marketing if implemented [...]

I was recently asked by a reader (and I’ve been asked before as well), “Is [building niche websites] a numbers game?”  Essentially, they were asking, do I just need to build a bunch of niche websites in order to make good money from these sites?  My answer in a nutshell is “Yes”, the more sites [...]

I wanted to try an experiment on this coming Monday (October 3rd) related to keyword research.  But to make the experiment a bit more interesting, I wanted to use the input you provide for me in the first step.  On Monday I plan on posting a video of me hopefully finding a good keyword or [...]

I have been asked a number of times in comments on previous posts, whether the global or local search volume should be looked at for a keyword.  This is really an important question when you are basing the entire future of your niche website on these numbers, so I felt like it deserved an entire [...]

As many of you will recall from my previous blog post, I briefly mentioned that I am going to focus on building a larger authority site.  I typically have focused on building smaller niche sites – so I wanted to discuss more in depth what I have planned for my next big project and why [...]