Are you a spammer?

I know what you are thinking: “Of course I’m not – I go by the book, providing quality content on my site and getting backlinks in the most ethical way possible.”

Yeah, okay, fair enough. However, if you do any sort of link-building at all, you are artificially inflating your popularity and that is what Google is trying to stop. If you own a site, it’s unlikely that you have never dropped a link somewhere with the intention of appearing more popular in the search engines.

But don’t feel bad, this isn’t something that you created. It is all down to the fact that the search engines really don’t have any way to gauge popularity, other than tallying the amount, and quality, of links you get. Of course, this has lead to wide-spread abuse and attempts to game the system. Unfortunately, if you want any chance at all of competing, you are going to have to play the same game. Read the rest of this entry

A few years back, all you had to do to make money online was sign up to Clickbank and Ezinearticles, write a few articles with a link to your affiliate product, and wait for the cash to come in. Really, it was as simple as that. Times have changed, though.

These days, it has to be more thought out than that. I admit that a lot of times, I didn’t even bother choosing a keyword for my article – I simply created a flashy title, wrote a 300 word article, included a decent resource box, and managed to make sales from the initial burst of traffic from the article directory itself. Read the rest of this entry

Okay, So I’ve been getting a few emails and messages from folks who are wondering if I can give a little more information as far as the exact methods I use to earn an income online. As I’ve mentioned before, I make my money from two sources: article marketing and a portfolio of websites. So, I figured that I would start a series that covers exactly what it is that I do. I am not worried about competition because I am not going to give away any of my niches or actual websites. It is a big world out there and the chances of anyone getting into my niches and becoming my direct competition is pretty remote. Read the rest of this entry