A Make Money Online Reality Check

Apr 28

I’m writing this primarily as a reminder to myself, but if you’re trying to make money with an online business, you may enjoy it as well. It was taken from Shoemoney’s latest Q & A session: Marty asks: When you first got started, how long did it take you to start earning significant money online? Significant meaning when you started earning...

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Ultimate Blogger’s Survival Guide

Dec 04

WordPress Blogger’s (and My Sanity) Survival Guide As someone who sold videos that taught people how to install their own blogs, and now operating my blog installation service, I get A LOT of questions about WordPress and blogging in general. Quite frankly being a typical computer geek, these questions mostly drive me nuts, but I know that they are a part of...

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Killer Example of a Domain Name as Affiliate Redirect

Oct 24

Killer Example of a Domain Name as Affiliate Redirect

A while ago I posted my 7 Reasons to Use Domains for Affiliate Links and reason number three was “they can get listed in search engines.” Today I was going over my affiliate stats for the University 20/20 affiliate program and noticed quite a bit of traffic coming from Yahoo. I investigated a bit further and discovered that my affiliate link (the domain...

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Where’s Jon?

Oct 15

Yes, I’m still alive and I have been resisting the “why I haven’t been posting lately” post, but I guess it’s only polite to provide an update. A couple weeks ago I realized that the current trend that my online business was on, just couldn’t continue. The central problem was the I was spending more and more time doing maintenance...

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Monday Morning SEO Tip – Google Exaggerates

Sep 24

Monday Morning SEO Tip – Google Exaggerates

Here’s a little tip for you, for when you’re doing market research of if someone is trying to tell you how fantastic they or their product is for search engine rankings. Haven’t we all heard people say, my ABC SEO killer product is so great, “I’m the number one site in Google for the term blankety blank out of 1,630,000,000 possible...

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U.S. Inflation is Costing Online Entrepreneurs

Sep 20

U.S. Inflation is Costing Online Entrepreneurs

I went to my bank today to deposit two Clickbank cheques and for the first time since I was a kid, the Canadian dollar was worth more than the US dollars that my cheques were issued in. Which meant that I had to pay a subsidy to be able to deposit them into my Canadian dollar account. Same thing goes for my AdSense earnings, and every other source of funds in...

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