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Cleaning Up Our Online Act | FTC’s Advertising Guidelines
I’m not going to rehash all the news today about the guidelines released by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). If you’ve been asleep and missed it see ‘Potential FTC Fines Raise Big Blogging Questions‘. Most of what I’ve read today … Continue reading
Five Quick And Easy Steps To A One Page AdSense Site
I’ve been building niche blogs and static sites and I thought I’d share how quick and easy it is to setup a one-page AdSense site. 1. Find a template Assuming you already have the niche figured out, the domain, keywords … Continue reading
Ten Reasons To Start A Paid Membership Site
Out of the various sites I’ve ran over the years membership sites have, by far, been the easiest to profit from. Easier than forums, classified sites, safelists, niche sites, ad boards, surfing sites and blogs. From my own personal experience … Continue reading
Use eBay Pulse For Product Ideas
Finding popular products and/or keywords for your affiliate and niche sites couldn’t be easier than with eBay Pulse. eBay Pulse will show you the top 10 searched products in any given category. The short video below will show you how … Continue reading
Snickers – Extreme Branding
There’s been a lot of marketing buzz about the recent massive Snickers campaign using distinctive made-up words without any actual mention of the brand itself. Snickers, owned by Mars, Inc., has billboards, bus & taxi ads along with broadcast commercials … Continue reading
If You Are Not Growing You Are Failing
Last month I asked ‘What Blog Promotion Steps Do You Take?‘. We had some interesting responses and some great ideas. Several of our sites, including this one, seem to have leveled off with very little growth. We loose as many … Continue reading
Ten Steps To A Responsive Email List
How ‘clean‘ is your email list? Do you get a lot of unsubscribes? If you do then good job! A clean and responsive list is the only list worth having – no matter how big it is. You would much … Continue reading
Flickr Follows
I was working on my personal photo blog recently and I decided to start copying photos over to my Flickr account. I setup a separate set (group) called ‘Passionate Photo‘ hoping to drive a little Flicker traffic to the site. … Continue reading
What Blog Promotion Steps Do You Take?
This post is all about blog post promotion questions and your answers. The answers will come from your comments. I want to know your immediate routine after posting to your blog. Answer as much or as little as you like. … Continue reading
Entrecard Widget No More
I’m not an Entrecard basher but I have removed the Entrecard widget from every blog with the exception of my personal blog. I just couldn’t see any real benefit to it. There may have been a little traffic from Entrecard … Continue reading