News & Links Archive

Today Aaron Wall has the best definition I've seen yet of what constitutes search engine spam. It's simple, clean and true. We should all apply it to our sites.

Sahar points out something in a post today that you should never forget: if the price of a site is a hurdle to you, it was a hurdle to others before you, too, but you can succeed where they failed by being creative. This is particularly important if you, like me, don't exactly have a lot of cash laying around to invest in a business :)

Patrick posted 21 More Really Funny Search Queries today and invited others to do the same. I know I get some pretty interesting queries, so I decided to take him up on his offer. Here are 10 keyword phrases that have actually brought people to my site over the past 4 weeks. blog get more visitors Looks like Tarzan is having trouble getting people to his site. how to get money from revenue generation That search answers itself. how to hide screws Frankenstein's ... Keep reading »

I've been tagged by Shai over at Just Make Money Online to tell you "7 Things About Me That You Might Not Know." Here goes! 1) My first foray into online business was an online computer store that I started with my good friend Bruce back in 2000. We ran it off a cable modem in my study, and we did over $1,000,000 in sales in our first full year of business. (A sale to NASA ... Keep reading »

Good post today from Al over at Self Made Minds on how he targets affiliate offers. He mentions Christmas specifically, but most of these strategies work year-round.

Monday, Frank Schilling coined the term Ballmerfreude -- taking pleasure from Steve Ballmer's misfortune. I shared that post from within Google Reader, so it shows up on my sidebar now. Well, an unintended side-effect of that is that I'm now the only site that ranks for that term right now in both Google and MSN, while Frank is the only one who ranks for it in Ask. (Strangely, Yahoo still doesn't have any ... Keep reading »

Great post by Aaron today on How to Create & Unlock $100 of Value Per Word.

I wrote last week that you can learn a lot by looking at the public stats of those who are already successful. Well, an article in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle reveals that A-List blog TechCrunch makes $240,000 a month with about 1.25 million unique visitors. That's $0.19 per visitor. You have to dig deeper into those stats to get the real story, though. The 1.25 million visitors comes from comScore, who in ... Keep reading »

Of course, that's not because I have budged from my PageRank of 4, but because ProBlogger.net, CopyBlogger, John Chow, and Blog Herald have all been chopped to a PR 4 -- apparently for selling links. Again, I'm not taking a stand on it one way or another, but if this doesn't convince you to stop selling text links, you must be earning a ton.

Guest blogging can be a great boost for your blog or website (more on that later), and Blogging Experiment put out a call for guest bloggers on their site this morning.

I'm an admitted Iron Man nerd.  I saw it three times in the theater, and I almost never go to ...

Mark at Business is Personal generates more genuinely great content consistently than any other blog I know of.  He hits a homerun just about every time up to bat.  ...

Love this post by Alan today.  Here's my favorite part: Gurus claiming they make money from the net or whatever line they’re using is like saying the guy we buy ...