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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 ...
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"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 ...
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"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 ...
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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 ...
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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 visitor ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 was definitely outperforming other ...
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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. One of ...
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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 increase a website's ...
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This Kinsta review might come off like I'm part owner of the company, but I'm not.  I'm effusive with praise and only praise. Let me put it this way. I'm so happy I found Kinsta. It's the best hosting service ...
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Recently an email reader interested in my coaching asked via email whether my niche site success was a stroke of luck or whether it was a result of careful planning that can be taught and replicated? This is a great ...
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This is one of the most important posts I've published on this website.  The reason it's so important is it sets out how to ramp up website content production from a solo writer to building a team without losing money ...
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Over the years I've tried many ad optimization services and networks. Some are good, some terrible, some just okay. While not all want to get you signed to an exclusive contract, some will broach the subject.  Some may even urge ...
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My biggest niche site has 40,000 plus images.  Many posts have 30 plus images.  I spend a great deal of time managing photos. While the built-in WordPress gallery feature is easy-to-use and loads very quickly in a post, two problems ...
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This is a good question. I earn a large part of my income from ads.  I intentionally publish a lot of content that I know can only be monetized with ads. Notice the title to this doesn't ask "why would ...
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Sure, and while you're at it go rent an office, buy business cards, upgrade your computer, order letterhead and lease a photocopier before you earn a nickel. I jest. Don't hire a professional designer for your niche site or blog ...
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I've been reading about branded searches and SEO.  I find it super interesting because I can smell the black hat proxies and bots hammering out thousands of branded searches per hour all over the globe.  However, if branded searches do ...
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