Archive for the 'internet business' Category

A Make Money Online Reality Check

Monday 28 April 2008 @ 05:41 pm

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. 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 […]

Monday Morning SEO Tip - Google Exaggerates

Monday 24 September 2007 @ 04:51 am

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 […]

U.S. Inflation is Costing Online Entrepreneurs

Thursday 20 September 2007 @ 12:23 pm

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 […]

Are You an SEO Expert?

Friday 14 September 2007 @ 03:10 am

SEO Professional - 76%
Are you an SEO Expert?
I came across this cool SEO Expert quiz at SEOmoz and decided to give it a spin. Just a warning this isn’t a lightweight fluff quiz to boost your ego, it’s pretty hard core. 75 questions that will take you about half an hour to complete.
It is a […]

Warning: Are You Blogging Like it’s 1999?

Monday 10 September 2007 @ 08:57 pm

In the late nineteen nineties, many many people began to invest in the stock market primarily because online brokerage houses made investing so easy that anyone could do it. There was no longer any need to contact a stock broker, so everyone could believe that they had the knowledge needed to beat the market. For […]

TLA Goes Underground - Are Paid Links Evil?

Thursday 30 August 2007 @ 05:47 am

I received an email from Text Link Ads a couple days ago telling me that I had to update my affiliate links to their new ones. Fair enough, but then I noticed that the new ones were being run through the “tinyurl.com” service.
Here’s my new beautiful affiliate link: http://tinyurl.com/2twhrb
Very weird, I thought….why would they completely […]

Negative to Positive…

Wednesday 29 August 2007 @ 10:25 am

After my last story about some dude trying to copy my Ninja Blog Setup site in Spanish I received the following email via my contact form:

hi jon i’m being honest, and i tell you, you had an amazing Idea… I’m also a
hug fan… But the funniest thing is “I didn’t know it was yours” […]

Offline Ads Are Heavy Drivers of Search

Wednesday 22 August 2007 @ 08:30 am

Here’s an interesting report with a message that makes sense when you think about it, but is often taken for granted or overlooked.
Anyone involved in online business knows and spends a lot of time trying to grab searchers from search engines: analyzing keywords, traffic conversions, search volumes etc. But what makes people search for certain terms in […]

Four Hour Work Week for Free When You Elance

Tuesday 21 August 2007 @ 05:22 pm

I heard through the grapevine that Elance is running a promotion where they will give a free copy of Tim Ferriss’ popular book Four Hour Work Week to anyone posting a new project on their site.
I searched their site up and down to find evidence of the promotion and couldn’t see it, so I shot […]

Building A Profitable Niche Blog With Minimal Effort

Thursday 16 August 2007 @ 05:35 am

Derek Beauchemin ran a very useful series of posts about creating low maintenance and profitable niche blogs that is definitely worth checking out.
My goal for this case study is to build a profitable blog with minimal effort. I will be shooting for a minimum of $100 profit per month after all expenses (including content production […]

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