Perhaps like you, I love public case studies.  I really enjoy being able to read about the success of others.  So that’s the purpose of my post here today; to find MORE case studies to follow! So in short, I am looking for YOUR response to this question: “What public case studies are you following [...]

One of the aspects that I love about running a business, is dreaming big and making income projections.  I’m sure that many of you are the same.  After all, what can be more exciting than getting struck with inspiration of a business idea and then quickly calculating potential profits and losses? Pulling up an excel [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Google officially announced yesterday “Another Step to Reward High-Quality Sites” on the Official Google Webmaster blog. This announcement is also being referred to as the “over optimization penalty”.  Matt Cutts discussed about a month ago at a conference that this penalty would be coming out.  So, its not totally unexpected.  However, I have been hearing [...]

I am excited to present to you my first “official” podcast!  I have one previous Q&A recording right here, that I have listed on this site; but this will be the first podcast listed in iTunes officially.  (The iTunes page is not officially up, but will be very soon). In this first podcast, I decided [...]

I tend to focus heavily on building niche websites on this blog.  However, I also have several other projects that I am currently working on that I have not discussed very much or not at all up to this point. Because I am working full-time for myself, I have a lot of flexibility in the [...]

On October 13th/14th, Google made some adjustments to their algorithm again that has effected lots of website owners.  I have gotten lots of questions and comments about how this has effected my own sites, and what this means for the future of niche websites; so I wanted to make a post dedicated to this question. [...]

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 [...]

As I discussed recently, I prefer to host my niche websites on Bluehost (read my review here).  However, is it really a good idea to have all of your niche websites on the same server?  Are there risks associated with having your sites all in one place?  What options are there for hosting lots of [...]