I love when someone else’s plans to scrape content and build a “niche” site from that content fails miserably. Sites that are offering worthless content in the name of “gaming” the system for monetary gain are popping up by the thousands every day it seems. Many of these sites will[…]
Anyone that uses affiliate programs to make money online should know the benefits of masking your affiliate links. If you are promoting or selling multiple products having links that look like blah.blah.te.dah.com/purchase.php?productid=1&affiliate=bob not only looks terrible but it also exposes your affiliate id to your site readers, opening you up to click theft and it makes the links much more difficult to insert into your content and so on and so forth. Additionally, if you are interested in tracking statistics for your affilaite programs using masking allows you that option as well[…]
As the popularity of blogging continues to grow, the desire to gather as much traffic from search engines like Google grows as well. Everyone wants their piece of the pie (and that of the blogger to the left and right of them as well)
There are several factors to consider when setting up a site, developing content and optimizing that content for the best ranking in the eyes of big brother Google and uncle Yahoo, many of these factors we all know, and yes, as far as SEO is concerned, content is king and always will be. If you simply keep feeding the monster fresh, original content on a regular basis and do nothing else, you will do well. However, for those of us that are looking for that extra leverage, or that little added edge to not only increase the perceived value of our content, our sites and in turn our site income, I will give you a few sure fire solutions right here, right now[…]