At the time of writing, the number one suggestion in the Votebox is about online security. How can you keep your site from getting hacked and taken down, or worse, being "injected" with malicious code that might even affect your visitors in a negative way?
In many ways, marketing is about making yourself, your product or your brand noticeable. If you can stand out from the crowd and offer something unique or superior, half your marketing is already done. The good news is that there is one simple factor that…
In this interview, Matt Carter discusses the keys to his amazing success with niche marketing and talks in detail about what he does to make sure his sites rank well. Matt Carter is a leading authority on SEO and niche marketing, as there are few…
Understanding match types is essential to both SEO in general and more specifically keyword research. I've received various questions about the significance of match types and I've seen some rather confusing and conflicting information on this topic, while searching through forums and blogs. In this…
A marketing lesson that can't be repeated too often is that you always need to focus on your customer's or prospect's wants and needs. Who are they? What are they looking for? What are their issues? What are their goals? The more insights of this…
In my post about the lessons I learned during the past year, I mentioned that along with quite a lot of success, I also experienced a lot of failure in 2011. I lost quite a lot of time and money on projects that failed for…
No-Hands SEO is a desktop-based Windows program that promises to take all of the work out of search engine optimization. It's supposed to do so by automating the backlink building or "off-page" part of SEO. Beyond that, it's not all that clear what exactly the…
Just like last year, I want to share the most important lessons that I learned during the previous 12 months. Both from a business perspective and in my personal life, it was a successful year, although it was also a year filled with many unexpected…
BuildMyRank is what might be described as a "high-PR blog network" in the style of LinkVana. What you get with "usual" blog networks is the ability to post spun articles to potentially hundreds of (mostly low-quality) blogs. With BuildMyRank, you write unique posts with your…
Blog networks are among my favorite sources for targeted link-building. There's no other way in which you can so easily get in-content, anchor-text backlinks from a whole lot of websites all over the Internet. The question is: which ones of the many available networks should…
PayPal can be a blessing and a curse, in more ways than one. Anyone who accepts PayPal payments for their business knows that, on the one hand, it's fantastic to be able to use such a simple and widely accepted form of online payments without…
In late July, I started the "Throw Money At It" project, in which I attempt to build profitable niche sites while spending only money, not time, to make it happen. My three test sites have now been up and running for two full months and…
