This post is installment #1 in my new article series “Watch me Build a BANS Niche from Scratch“. In future posts I’ll write about how to customize and promote this brand new site and you’ll get to watch whether or not I can make money with “Build a Niche Store”!

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Looks like Shoemoney is now accepting adToll adverts, so last week when I read that I paid $20 to get a 125×125 add for a week. In Shoemoney’s AdToll ratecard his CTR rate isn’t high, but I feel that $20 is a bargain for a site that has 15,000 rss subscribers and large volumes [...]

Welcome to the second installment of the “Tracking Your Blog’s Progress” series! This ain’t your grandmother’s bookmark! If you want your visitors to come back and bring others, you need to encourage them to use the social media. AddThis is a service that only serves one purpose - putting a little button on your [...]

Looking at ford.digitalsnippets.com you might just see another press release web site. But for the source code curious, under the hood you see the HTML code revealing that the site runs on open source Wordpress blogging software and uses a custom SMPR or Social Media Press Release theme developed by the Social Media Group.
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*Update 01-25-2007* This has become quite the monumental post. I love posts that incite some debate - and make no bones about revisions to correct content, or even change my opinion based on new information. This post is no exception - sorry about having to make it look like the 5th draft of a [...]

There’s a great new free Wordpress plugin by MaxBlogPress out called “Stipe Ad” that enables a small strip at the top of every page on your blog. You can place an endless list of rotating text links in that ad block from your Wordpress dashboard. It’s great for Clickbank offers, promoting your own eBook, landing [...]

So you want more RSS subscriptions? There are many ways on the web to get good backlinks and link love. The link juice you used to be able to get from link directories has just about dried up for good. What is now very popular is the social aspect of the web - the [...]

This will be the first in a series of articles where I will review other blogs and point out improvements, and mistakes that I have made (and improved upon). By no means does this mean I’m “picking apart” other bloggers - or that I’m superior to them, or even that I’m earning more money online. [...]