Variety Is The Spice Of life

Whoops, it's been 7 days since I last posted I can't believe how time flies when you are engrossed in the olympics. Here in spain most of the action happens between 2 am and 5 Pm so as a sports fan my body clock has been thrown into chaos. I've been enthralled by the performances of Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt and the British Cycling Team although I have to say calling Phelps the Greatest Olympian of all time is a bit premature, yes without a doubt he is the greatest swimmer of all time but people like Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis who won medals in multiple events or Olympians like Sir Steve … [Read more...]

Article Marketing Report – Absolute No Brainer

For the past few weeks I've been working on an article marketing report. I intended it to be about 30 or 40 pages and i was going to sell it for $7. Well I've now abandoned it!  Anik Singal from Affiliate classroom has released an Article Marketing Report to tie in with his new Affiliate Article Directory going from beta to live. It is packed with info and useful tools and only costs $5.  Yes a 96 page report for $5 . (it's $10 or $5 if you provide 3 friends email addresses) But the report is not the only thing you get.. You get a Niche Calculator which will evaluate a niche for you, … [Read more...]

EzineArticles Express Service & Bad Practices

I am going to cover 2 things in this post one really good thing and one thing that really winds me up. Lets look at the good side of things first. Out of the blue today I got an email from ezinearticles saying that I had been given access to the express articles service that they are shortly to launch. So i thought I'd better test how good it was. I always keep a folder full of articles for submission so I chose 2 and submitted them to ezinearticles. It can't have been anymore than 5 or 6 minutes later that I got an email telling me that the articles had been accepted. Now that is an … [Read more...]

5 Free Tools To Boost Your Site

Looking back at the last few posts it seems i've been a bit Negative and "Preachy " so to get some balance here is a list of 5 really great tools which will help you get your sites to the next level. The great thing about them is that they are free.  These aren't listed in any particular order just whichever order I think of them! 1. Ponyfish  www.ponyfish.com This is a great tool for creating rss feeds from sites that don't have RSS feeds. Obviuosly if you are using wordpress then you won't need it (you are distributing your wordpress feeds aren't you??)  However on some of my sites … [Read more...]

The Internet LifeStyle – A Health Warning

Over the past week the temperature has been in the 90's /30's so I thought to myself  yesterday  I'll try this Internet Lifestyle thing I've been reading about , a few hours work in the morning and then sit by the pool and chill out. So yesterday morning I did the bare minimum of work, loaded my iPod up with some Eban Pagan/Yanik Silver Mp3's I wanted to listen to and dragged myself from the windowless cave that is my office and went and sat by the pool for a couple of hours with a few cold beers...Man was that nice.... ...until I realised that I was sunburnt yesterday … [Read more...]

Reviewing Your Assets

Over the past 10 days I have been reviewing all my old sites old tools and e-books i've bought. I try to do this once or twice a year and it always suprises me how valuable this excecise is. I'll freely admit I make the same mistake that many people make, I get a great idea for a site then go ahead and build it but before i've got it as profitable as possible  I'll have another idea and move on to another project. These 2 to 3 weeks session where I review everything allows me to focus on the sites and get them profitable again. 2 sites I spent a day working on last week have already made me … [Read more...]

A Blight On The Internet

Recently I've been noticing more and more Wordpress Sites that contain nothing more than Adsense Adverts,and RSS Feeds and then maybe an Ebay or Amazon Store.  There is no content and absolutly nothing of value on these sites.  Now the crux of the matter is that these are sites that are sold like this, so who in their right mind would actually buy something like this? As you will know If you've been reading this blog for a while I think wordpress is an excellent tool and the foremost platform for internet marketers. Build a site using wordpress and you have a piece of virtual real estate … [Read more...]