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December 31, 2008
Happy New Year to everyone! I am still sitting in sunny Florida, but we took a short break from running today, and between a beer or twelve, I decided to sit and tell you all the 5 things I learned when I decided to check email and just basic happenings on the web! I AM having a great time, but also looking forward to getting home next week and getting 2009 off to a kickin start! …Read more about A Few Things I Just Learned while On Vacation
December 24, 2008
Christmas is here again, and I just wanted to take a moment to wish all my readers a very safe and Merry Christmas and a very Prosperous New Year!
The family and I will be gone for the next 10 days on our annual holiday vacation. When I return, I have some big news that will be coming to the NSB website… Until then…
From my Family to yours - Happy Holidays!
Mark Hansen
December 19, 2008
Earlier this week, I posted about the easiest way to make money, is to save it! There were quite a few comments that left me wondering… What is MOST important to YOU when buying or evaluating and new piece of software, a plugin, or even a web based service like WordTracker.
The thing is… there are SO MANY on the market today… when you start looking at them, which can cause script blindness… what are the KEY things that jump out and help you with a decision? We all know how lopsided the affiliate marketing reviews can be! :-)
Mark
December 15, 2008
At one point or another, we all buy a new plugin or script (aka software) that promises to help us make thousands of dollars in no time at all, and most claim you will need to expend very little effort! I keep track of every dollar I spend and not one month passes that I don’t buy at least 1-2 new plugins or software scripts! The fact that I buy these does not even begin to tell the tale of how many I review for purchase and walk, no RUN… away from though! This post will give you all a bit of insight to the process I use when evaluating a new plugin or script, before wasting that hard earned money! (Which I have done countless times)
Click on the image below… the one on the left is the actual, real, unedited report snapshop from my clickbank account for a 2 week period. By using the Firebug plugin, I can actually edit the file inside the browser in less than 2 minutes, and multiply the earnings screen to read ANY way I want, which is what you see on the right side of the image! If you don’t think some of the snake-oil salesmen on the web are doing the same thing… well, this post is for sale for $100 per view, just click on the donate button to the right and send your money, it will make you rich! (I’m kidding) …Read more about How to Make Money by Saving Money!
December 10, 2008
Have you ever wondered if you were being followed? I have a new website, its actually a part of a Joint Venture Project I have been slowly building with a few others you will recognize before long. The site is LITERALLY HIDDEN from public eyes. We have an index page with the noindex, nofollow meta tag in place and none of the pages in the site have ever been linked to from outside sources. None… zero, null, nada, choose you own favorite word and insert! Guess what… Google found it, and indexed it anyway! …Read more about We ALL Have a Google Leech in our Pocket!
December 3, 2008
It’s a well known fact that ALL Build a Niche Store owners can verify, Google is not too fond of thin sites! We have all seen many of our sites dropped from the index, including several that have above and beyond the normal point and click sites! Dave (Soggy Dave for those who don’t know him) wrote about it yesterday, in a piece about Google throwing out the baby with the bathwater. He is just one of many of us who are digging into this and trying to find out what can be done to make the most out of the software!
There was a time, less than 45 days ago… that I completely gave up on BANS and started focusing on other projects. As you will read at the end of this post, I decided that this was NOT the right answer for both myself or any of you, and when I launched the Hybrid Golf site last month, I decided I owed it to all of us to do the same with the BANS software, and compare my results! No WordPress on the site… just a BANS site, with a bit of customization. …Read more about Why Does Google Deindex a BANS Website?
November 26, 2008
Over the years of working on websites… the one common thing everyone with a website strives to achieve, are top 10 search engine rankings. One of the most common strategies we all chase to increase those rankings are inbound site links from other websites. In this post, I am going to list a single poll and talk mostly about Google… lets face it, they own search with about 80% of all search customers, going through them to find a relevant site. (Link to market data)
My goal of this post… to find out what most people think are the most important factors in their link strategy!
In the poll below, I have listed several answers to a common question. Please choose the one answer you think is the most important, and if its not listed, feel free to add a comment below, letting us know your thought on this.
I know how I would answer this poll… but the truth is, it would be a very different answer over the course of many years!
November 18, 2008
How many times each month do you visit Google and run a search on one of your target terms? If your answer is more than Zero, you better start looking for another way to measure success! Several Months ago, Shoemoney posted that SEO Had No Future… at the time, I questioned the reasoning behind it. Guess what - He was Right! …Read more about SEO Just got Flipped on its Head… and it Died!
November 12, 2008
Part of the learning curve with Learning the ins & outs of Internet Marketing, is the onslaught of information overload we seem to stumble onto every day! Well, I got an email from Gyutae Park over at Winning the Web yesterday afternoon, telling me that my Niche Store Builder site was ranked at 151, in the list of Top Internet Marketing Blogs.
According to the site, the list is:
The ultimate ranked list of the best Internet marketing blogs in the industry. It factors in data from Feedburner, Alexa, Compete, Technorati, Google PR, Yahoo links, StumbleUpon, delicious, and some others to create a more accurate list of the top blogs.
The really cool thing is that in the one day since I got his email, I jumped 20 places! Looks like someone went over and put their own review rank next to my site! I suggest you go over and check it out, and if you feel like it… vote me up the list while you are there! One of the big benefits to someone like myself with lists like these, is that I can immediately see areas where I have the most impact for improvement!
If you have your own IM blog, I suggest letting Gyutae know about it so you be included in the list! If you have a blog about Niche site building, don’t forget you can add it to my own Top Niche Building Blogs list!
November 12, 2008
Just announced on the Google Webmaster Blog! After quite a bit of feedback, Google is responding to one of the most common questions they hear from Webmaster:
How can I improve my site in Search Listings
The answer… a 12 page Google SEO Starter Guide! They start it out by saying that it was originally meant for their internal teams to use as a guide, but they saw the need to release it to everyone! I wouldn’t expect to find any “Glowing Nuggets” that are magically going to change the way your websites rank, but getting a guide directly from the King of the Web, will surely help!
Sure would be nice to be Brandon’s Baseball Cards!
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