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  • Domain Name Coupons and Flipping Your Sites

    A couple of useful things came across my desk this week, so I thought I would pass them on. One is a cool site for finding the latest domain name discount coupons and promo codes. The other is an interesting case study of how a guy flipped an Adsense site for $11,000.

  • Want To Know How Google Decides To Ban Your Site?

    Here is a link to an internal Google document that shows how they manually review and rate websites*:[linespace] Google guidelines I’m not sure how long this document will remain publicly viewable, so if you want to get a peek into the mind of Google check it out as soon as you can.   * Link…

  • Less Expensive Than HostGator

    I recently signed up for an account at a hosting company called iPage. iPage offer hosting with all the same features as HostGator,  for only $3.50 per month. At HostGator you can get hosting for $3.96 per month, but you have to sign up for 3 years to get this price. The low iPage price…

  • Exact Match Domains In Reverse?

    A while back I wrote a post (You DON’T Need An Exact Match Domain) that answered this question: What can you do if an exact match domain is not available for a particular keyword that you want to build a website around? In that post I listed 4 alternatives: Register the INFO exact match domain…

  • Cheaper Alternative To Multiple Exact Match Domain Names?

    One of the issues that often comes up when creating more than a handful of niche focussed websites is the cost of domain names. At $10 per domain name per year, a group of 30 websites with exact match domains will cost $300 per year in domain registration fees. My view is that if any one website…

  • 5 Minute Keyword Research

    One of the most common questions I get asked is how do I choose a product or niche to build a website around? There’s no getting around it – keyword research can be a time consuming pain in the a** !! There are keyword tools available that simplify the process. But I find many are expensive,…

  • Do Exact Match Domains Still Rank High On Google?

    Google’s love affair with exact match domain names (EMDs) has been going on for a long time. I’m sure everyone has seen sites with no links, not much content and no authority at the top of search engine results. Why? Presumably because they have perfect query matching domain names. But is this still the case? After…

  • Takes 5 Minutes, Increases Adsense By 146%

    Of all the factors that go into making a successful autoblog, the one that you have most control over is the theme that you use. The theme can be the difference between a 0.5% click through rate (CTR) on your ads (bad) and a 10% CTR (great). During most of the past year I have been…

  • The End Of Dot Com Domination?

    New rules okayed by the body that oversees internet addresses (ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) now allow a virtually unlimited number of domain name extensions – “.anything”. ICANN will accept personalized domain name requests for almost any word in any language, including in Arabic and Chinese, based on themes as varied as…

  • Why Are Google’s Average Cost Per Click Values Wrong?

    Up until recently it had bugged me why the average amount I was earning per click on some of my sites was nowhere near the average cost per click reported by the Google Adwords Keyword Tool – even allowing for the fact that Google only pays approx 60% of the click cost to the Adsense…

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