I don’t use a lot of images on this blog, but images can really add to a site. They look great and can serve to keep people on your site a little longer. They can also really bring home a point you’re making in your blog post. Here’s the rub… Where do you find great images you can legally use without paying for them? Sure you can scour...

I recently subscribed to Traffic Bug. I told my Squidoo readers about it yesterday and received a comment that there was a huge thread on the warrior forum that said it sucked and didn’t do anything. Not surprising. The comment and the warrior thread. I don’t buy too many things anymore, but there are times I pull out my wallet. I want to share with...

There are days when you get this “brilliant” idea. It glows in your head, it keeps you up all night (because you know those flashes of brilliance always come just as you’re laying down to go to sleep, right?!), it seems like the perfect solution to some or all of the problems you’ve been having. You get up the next day (after having fallen...

A big part of my plan for monetizing sites that haven’t done well with my usual tactics is to create a great opt in gift and get people on my list. Once you’ve got them on your list there are 3 key elements to make that list successful. You have to KEEP them on your list, build trust and make some sales.  Let’s look at these three elements your...

If you’re building a niche blog/site,  link building is just part of the process.  In fact, it’s a HUGE part of the process, it’s the part of the process that if you skip the whole thing doesn’t work. It doesn’t matter if you’ve written content worthy of  a Pulitzer Prize ~ if you don’t build links you will not get ranked...

Most of us create sites with a pretty stable plan in mind for how we’re going to make money from that site. Generally that includes putting ads on the site, selling products from the site, putting up banners that people will click to buy something from the site… it usually means making money ON the site in some form or fashion. Often we get very STUCK in...