I recently published a case study around a very small niche website that generated good revenue within a short time-frame without doing any backlink campaigns. After much thinking I decided to sell this affiliate website with Empire Flippers.
Read on to find out more about this website, my reasons to sell the site and my review of Empire Flippers as a broker.
Read moreHow I Sold a Niche Website for 21K with Empire Flippers (A Review)
Pinterest is one of the most powerful traffic generating sources for bloggers and Internet marketers. While organic traffic from the search engines is still the best kind of traffic, one can’t ignore the potential of Pinterest as a traffic source.
The main prerequisite to be successful on Pinterest is using purpose-built images. You know, those big vertical images with catchy taglines. To encourage your website visitors to share your blog posts on Pinterest, having a Pinterest-ready image available to share is crucial.
Read moreHow to Hide a Pinterest Image in a WordPress Blog Post (The Right Way)
Moz DA score has been a popular SEO metric for many years, used by lots of bloggers, agencies and SEO practitioners to get an idea of a website’s authority and organic traffic. I’ve always tried to ignore it because in my opinion Moz DA is flawed, irrelevant and inaccurate.
There are other, much better ways to determine how authoritative and well-established a website is and how much organic traffic it roughly attracts. Moz DA simply doesn’t add much value anymore in this regard.
Back in March 2016 I took a week off from my online business work to have a bit of a strategic think about the way forward. I had a couple of niche websites that were doing reasonably well, and one bigger authority website that was growing steadily and earning me a good income.
You may or may not already know what the Google Featured Snippet is. It’s that little box of content on top of the search results that highlights the best possible answer to a user’s query with a link to the website that has provided that answer.
The Featured Snippet is designed such that it provides an immediate answer to a user’s query, without having to actually click on the link to the article that provides the answer. Or otherwise, it is designed in a way that the user is very likely to click through to the featured website INSTEAD of choosing the website in the classic number 1 spot.
Read moreHow to Earn the Google Featured Snippet with Simple HTML Tweaks
The Internet is overcrowded with WordPress blogging tools, services and other goodies designed to make your life as a blogger easier.
With so many options available, it’s tough working out which ones you should use and which ones you should avoid.
Read moreBest WordPress Blogging Tools for Beginners and Pros
WordPress is by far the most popular blogging platform. Countless of new WordPress-based websites go live everyday with no signs of slowing down.
WordPress is reasonably easy to use, but it can be challenging to find your way through so many different themes, plugins and configuration settings. It’s easy enough to install WordPress, but what do you do after installing WordPress?
If you’ve been running a WordPress blog for some time now, you probably know already that HTTPS and SSL are a hot topic. Google has been pushing hard to get all blog owners and webmasters out there to migrate their blogs and websites from HTTP to HTTPS.
As with anything in life, security is a big thing. Having a proper SSL certificate installed and having your domain configured as HTTPS is now officially a search engine ranking factor.
Read moreHow to Migrate Your WordPress Site from HTTP to HTTPS