Ramblings of a Niche Marketer & His Life

It’s official: Ezinearticles has announced that they are affected by the latest Google update.  You can check it out here. They are suggesting to implement “nofollow” links and articles need to be exclusive to EZA as well. I think that’s a definite over-reaction. First of all, EZA does’t provide revenue-sharing like InfoBarrel for example. Secondly, [...]

If you browse some blogs or forums that talk about SEO, most likely you will hear people saying that directory submission is dead. They said links from directories are not effective anymore and don’t carry much “link juice”, thus no point in wasting time and money submitting your sites to web directories. Although I believe [...]

Dropbox is basically an application for online backup, file sync and sharing. It stores your data in the “cloud”, so you can access your files anywhere (PC, Mac, Smart phones etc) as long as you have an Internet connection. It’s free and comes with a basic 2GB storage space. I know Dropbox exists for quite [...]

I can’t think of a better title because it’s really just some random updates from me: 1. Hiring a part-time assistant I will be hiring an assistant to help me out with data entry, articles submission and blog postings. I mentioned I will be focusing on my money-making sites on my last post.  There are [...]

I know it is a bit late, but I want to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a wonderful new year ahead! My plans and directions for 2011? Just gonna focus on these three: 1. Current money-making niche sites About 5 sites of mine are getting good traffic and I believe I can increase [...]

I have been promoting a physical product from Shareasale.com for a while and to my surprise, it is actually converting very well. From the screen shot below, you can see that it’s converting at 23.08% as of now. There are only 26 clicks to the affiliate product page so far in November, but there are [...]

Recently I encountered an interesting issue regarding lead generation. You see, I have a friend who is working as a budding wedding videographer in a certain company. Let’s call it Production X. So, I was thinking since my friend is working there, maybe I can help Production X to generate leads for them. More leads [...]

You’ve a new site and you want decent backlinks instantly? Press release (PR) is the way to go. Your PR might even get to the first page of Google depending on the keyword you are targeting.  Though PR in the SERPS may lasts only one day, it can generate the fast and initial traffic for [...]

No… The title is totally bullshit. I DIDN’T make $200k in a month. But did I catch your attention? Well, if you are subscribed to a number of  marketers’ or gurus’ email lists, you will definitely come across such headlines. All you need to do is buy the product, and you will make obscene amount [...]

If you are doing affiliate marketing, I am sure you will put banners, contextual links, popup etc on your website. But do you know exactly where are your visitors clicking? I came across a lot of niche websites where the affiliate marketers just slapped a banner on the sidebar or just putting  468×60 banners, hoping [...]