Microsoft kindly provided us with yet another reminder to diversify our traffic and income streams. Two of our sites got nuked from the MSN and Live search engine results yesterday.
You’re probably thinking “MSN traffic sucks so who cares.” Well, the MSN/Live combo sends us, I mean sent us, a decent amount of traffic. [...]
Think about sticking to one niche or maybe two niches in the beginning. Your personality or interests might make this difficult but there are several advantages to narrowing your focus.
How Do I Get More Traffic?
Building traffic to a site is likely the single most difficult thing you’ll do as a webmaster. It’s a [...]
I just wrote about getting bored with new ideas after three weeks and putting them on the shelf. It wasn’t meant to imply you shouldn’t think long-term or scrap an idea because it might take four months to finish.
What I meant was if you get bored with working on something then take a break. [...]
How many of you jump from idea to idea? Probably quite a few if blogs and forums are any indication. I didn’t used to be that way but I fight it tooth and nail now. Between the internet induced ADD and all of the ideas swimming around in my head, motivation for [...]
We accidentally found another reason that you shouldn’t take PageRank at face value. This blog went from PR0 to PR3 to PR0. It kind of makes you wonder how it got up to PR3 and dropped back down to PR0 huh? Was the PR fake? Nope. Did we anger Google [...]