Starting A New Niche Site From Scratch – An Experiment

I’ve always felt that with enough dedication, anyone can start a new website and succeed. Even now in 2014, while ranking is difficult and expert marketers seem to have made it challenging to compete. Some say making money online today is impossible.  I’ve set out to prove them wrong.

However, I want to make sure this experiment is fair. Therefore, I’m going to level the playing field. I’m going to put myself in a brand new blogger’s shoes. This new niche site is going to be completely anonymous. This means I’m not going to use my Author Rank, current followers, my email list, or my current websites to drive traffic to this one. Other than knowledge, I will have no advantage over someone who is just beginning blogging today.

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Do Amazon Product Review Sites Still Work?

Amazon affiliate sites used to be extremely popular. After all, how nice would it be to set up a product review website, write up some articles, and then sit back and collect nearly passive income from search engine traffic? It was great, and many people capitalized on this opportunity to do exactly that. Recently however, many of these sites started disappearing, and fewer and fewer have been starting up. What happened? Can you actually still make money off of Amazon product review sites? Do product review sites still work? 

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5 Free SEO Plugins Essential For Any Blog

Important Note: This page is now considered outdated, and has only been left up for legacy purposes. Google Authorship is no longer relevant, and P3 Performance Profiler will break your website if you try to install it.

One of the features that makes WordPress one of the world’s best content management systems is the fact that it is so changeable, so easily. With only a few clicks, webmasters are able to install plugins that can completely change the website’s functionality: adding new features, tweaking your design, or even improving your sites search engine optimization. While it’s not a good idea to clutter your blog with unnecessary plugins (as these can slow down your pages load time or cause bugs and security issues), there are a few plugins that every blogger can benefit from. In this article, I will share 5 plugins with you that are essential for any blog to reach its maximum potential.

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Are You Spending Too Much Time With Niche Selection?

Niche selection is often the hardest part of starting a new website for beginner webmasters. After all, it’s the first step in the entire process – you usually can’t even buy a domain without first deciding on your website’s topic. It’s also one of the most stressful. Typically, if you get the niche selection wrong, the majority of the time you spend on that site will be a waste. You usually can not change the website’s niche after it’s been started, and it ends up being a huge waste of time.

However, perhaps an even bigger waste of time is worrying too much about the above issues. Let me quickly share with you my story.

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Should You Start A Blog In The Sports Niche? A Quick Analysis.

With the start of the 2014 World Cup, I thought it would be a perfect time to write an article geared towards sports blogs. People absolutely love sports, and new bloggers are often urged to blog about something they are passionate about. But would it actually be a good idea to start a sports blog? If so, what would be the correct or most profitable way of going about it? Let’s take a look. 

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How To Invest In Your Blog Long Term

Imagine if you could turn a little bit of money into a lot more, simply by making a few small investments into your blog. Whether you think about it or not, your blog is a business. I’d hope you would want to make this business as profitable as possible. By making a few small investments for your blog, you can rake in even more money for the long term.

Here are five things you can invest in to make your blog even better than it already is now.

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