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 [...]

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 [...]

This has been an “interesting” year for niche sites to say the least.  With my Google Adsense getting banned (and then opening a new one), the Penguin Update, the EMD Update, and more; my niche site business has seen its share of ups and downs.  However, through it all, I’m still a firm believer in [...]

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 [...]

Establishing links to your sites is almost always essential to rank anywhere in Google.  In a few rare exceptions, you can find extremely low competition keywords that require no link building whatsoever. For most sites; whether you are creating micro niche sites or a large authority site; some sort of link building will be required.  [...]

Last week, I wrote what I considered a “controversial case study” on expired domains; but as it turns out, everyone seemed pretty supportive!  The controversial part was really in the fact that I discussed the potential to link from these expired/reclaimed domains to your other existing niche sites.  This is definitely not a “white hat” [...]

Is linking to yourself evil? Today, I am going to discuss the topic of using expired/reclaimed domains to link to your other niche sites.  This is a controversial topic, so I want to give you fair warning.  These practices may be considered gray hat or even black hat. Anytime that you venture to manipulate the [...]