Is Fresh Content Really The King?

Posted on August 11, 2011
Filed Under SEO | 15 Comments

Content is King – is what we’ve heard many times in the online business world.

If your goal is to receive free search engine traffic (and lots of it), you need to create lots of quality content.

But how does adding fresh content affect your traffic? What if you don’t add new content?

I have a smaller blog where I was observing the answers to these questions. Keep in mind that this is just one example and that in now way I can sayI have figured out Google’s algorithm – but I hope this gives you some food for thought. Read more

FindTheBest.com Review – Learning From The Best

Posted on August 9, 2011
Filed Under Recommended | 5 Comments

I recently stumbled upon FindTheBest.com website and after doing some searching on it, I became quite impressed.

FindTheBest.com (FTB) launched in May 2009 and after 2 years they are getting more than 1,5 million monthly visitors.

According to the founder Kevin O’Connor they don’t pay for the traffic – it’s all search engine traffic and referrals.

So they must be doing something right.

What could we – “normal publishers” – learn from FindTheBest.com’s approach to online business? Read more

What Bing Tells Us About Keyword Research And Link Building

Posted on July 31, 2011
Filed Under SEO | 4 Comments

Bing Webmaster Blog has recently published an article on the topic of keyword research where they also mention other SEO topics and mention how to go about link building.

Since all search engines try to avoid manipulation of their rankings they also avoid telling you exactly what you need to do – but they do give good hints which you need to interpret correctly.

I’ve taken some of the more interesting and important hints from the above article and tried to interpret them (when needed) in my own way. Read more

USA Trip – September 2011

Posted on July 30, 2011
Filed Under Travelling Free | 17 Comments

I am planning a trip to the US Open tennis tournament at the end of August and will be staying in the USA for the most of September.

If you’d like to meet, share a pizza and a beer – let me know!

I’ll be in NYC and have time to meet from 5th to 9th of September.

Then I am off to Milwaukee where I’ll stay a day or two. Read more

Design Contest Websites – Best Way To Outsource Design?

Posted on July 6, 2011
Filed Under Recommended | 2 Comments

In my quest to find the best way to outsource design, I’ve recently tried a few design contest websites.

The difference and the key advantage of design contest websites and the usual outsourcing through freelancer.com or elance.com is that you get multiple designs to choose from.

When you’re using the freelancer, you choose one of the providers based on their portfolio – but you cannot really know if they will »guess« what you had in mind for your site design.

With a design contest website, you’ll get multiple designs (logo, website, wordpress theme, …) and you can ask every provider to tweak their design until you like it or you can simply ignore and dismiss the ones you don’t like and eventually choose the best one. Read more

Why Start An Online Business And How It Trumps Offline Business

Posted on June 5, 2011
Filed Under Work From Home | 11 Comments

The financial crisis of 2009 / 2010 has severely affected the financial capabilities of many households. According to Wall Street Journal, half of Americans would not be able to deal with an emergency that would cost them $2000 in the next 30 days.

And many experts suggest that the risks are still enormous when it comes to stock markets and economy in general.

So how do you make yourself financially secure in the years to come?

Why An Online Business Trumps Offline Business

Lots of people have been looking to start an online business now that the Internet is all around us. And common sense tells us that there is no stopping the Internet from getting to every possible device and part of our life. Read more

How To Deal With The Constant Change And Problems Of Internet – And Life

Posted on June 2, 2011
Filed Under Earn money online | 10 Comments

As we all know – the only thing that’s constant is change.

It’s really annoying that this is the reality but unfortunately it is. We’d like things to be easier but they are not.

Today the Sitesell.com’s page on Facebook has been removed without any warning.

If you’re an SBI-er, then you know how long and how hard Sitesell team has been working on their page.

Basically every newsletter they sent in the last 6 months had something related to Facebook. They became experts on getting Likes and traffic on Facebook and taught all of us along the way.

And yet the reality of Internet and life is that bad things happen. Read more

Checking Outbound Links Of Your Website – Part II

Posted on May 30, 2011
Filed Under Blogging advice | 1 Comment

I blogged about checking outbound links before where you can the tools and operators to do that.

But I only mentioned this because of how you can check for reciprocal links.

Here are a few more ideas why checking your website’s outbound links here and there can be very useful:

1. Check for spammy outbound links
You might think that you have full control of the links from your website but that’s not always the case. Read more

Sightseeing in Singapore

Posted on May 19, 2011
Filed Under Travelling Free | 10 Comments

I just spent 10 days sightseeing in Singapore. This was my third time in Singapore and it was a blast.

The city is modern, clean, organized and it has tons of cool attractions that make your trip very colorful.

Here are some of the Singapore attractions that I checked out this time and that I recommend you visit… Read more

LastPass Review – Easy To Use Free Password Manager

Posted on May 1, 2011
Filed Under Recommended | 5 Comments

I’ve decided to share this Lastpass review after using Lastpass for about 2 months now.

The reason I wanted to use a password manager was because I often travel and my laptop is basically my office with all the information and passwords to my sites, logins (Google, Amazon affiliate program, …) and emails.

If someone stole my laptop, they would have easy access to all my login info.