BANS site suddenly dropped from google or no traffic? This article is for you…!

This is the long overdue installment #4 in the series Watch Me Build a BANS Niche Site from Scratch. First to answer a few questions - the most often asked seems to be either “why is this series taking so long” or [...]

Did you know you could get a “google penalty” just for writing about or linking to certain sites? Even if you “nofollow” the links? I had a google penalty for one year, and I didn’t even know why until just now…”
I’ve been very surprised lately at the number of bloggers that don’t check their search [...]

Are you reading your XML Sitemap when it updates and checking your SERP’s (Search Engine Results Pages) to make sure your site is indexing ok? If you aren’t - you could unknowingly be driving your site into the ground and killing your traffic off.
This is the third installment of “Tracking Your Blog’s Progress“, and [...]

Are Text-Link-Ads dead? I think they are. Back in August 2007 I wrote about the google text link ad penalty. It was pretty controversial then. Now it’s pretty much accepted that paid text links are bad and will get you banned from google. So I was on 45n5 today and was catching up on posts [...]

A lot of people monetize their blogs with Text Links Ads. I mean, why not? If you’re not making a pile of cash with adsense, your low traffic, better than PR2 blog or web site can make an extra hundred bucks per month using this service. Just list your site, and you can sell up [...]