I can't help myself these days. I'm turning into a tinkerer; the eccentric guy in the lab coming up with hair-brained concept after hair-brained concept. If I were smart, I'd dig in and focus on stuff that's working.  Instead, I've turned…

"Money for nothin' and chicks for free." Iconic lyrics from Dire Straights. I'll leave the chicks for free bit alone.  Let our "dating" niche colleagues cover it. I'd like to discuss money for nothin' from the internet as best as I…

"Don't put all your traffic eggs in one basket" "Don't rely on Google for traffic" "Don't count on Facebook for traffic" "You gotta control your traffic source" The more I do this IM gig, the more I realize all of the above is nonsense.…

When I grow up I want to write "how to get rid of acne" product reviews. I bet that wasn't your childhood dream, was it? Funny when you think about it, though. Many-a-folk broke into IM penning such work with high hopes that one day the…

Striving to increase page views per visitor is ironic because most website publishers want to ultimately maximize revenue, which means for many publishers, we want visitors to click an ad or click an affiliate link. In a perfect world a…

Realizing that your niche site/blog is gaining momentum and has real potential is extremely exciting.  Getting to that point is not easy and usually takes a while, but once you get there, your brain will start spinning with ideas and…

One fun way to discover ways to make money as an affiliate is to observe your own search patterns, especially when researching and buying products online. If it's a decently sized purchase, you probably conduct a number of searches from…

I remember looking for filtered search solutions for niche sites many years ago.  The best I could come up with back then was hacking up a few real estate WordPress themes.  Obviously not idea. Fortunately, WordPress plugins have come a…

Whenever possible, I set out to optimize as many pages as possible for search engines.  I'm obviously not alone. About a week ago after deciding I needed to a coupon/discount section in one of my niche sites, I settled on WP Coupons Plugin …

During my recent push to dramatically increase affiliate commissions, I discovered by looking over quite a bit of commission reports that a "discount" page I set up on one niche site was generating some decent commissions consistently.  It…

When it comes to squeezing out a few extra dollars per 1,000 visitors, incremental revenue is where it's at, whether it's increasing affiliate revenue with existing traffic or incorporating some ad measures that notch up your ad revenue.…

There are two things I'm constantly doing with my niche sites in addition to publishing plenty of content.  They are: Working on increasing revenue per 1,000 visitors; and Increasing trafic. Success with either of those efforts will…