As a supplement to our Niche Site Ranking series, I wanted to write a series explaining exactly WHY ranking well is so important for a niche site builder, this might seem obvious but you might be amazed how much you are leaving on the table by settling for long tail traffic. Way too many builders get caught up in building their empire, meaning the more sites they build then the more impressive it seems, at least on the surface. I constantly have to fight this train of thought …

Building niche sites successfully is a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde affair when you get down to it. The Jekyll part is the actual site construction, which most of us find rather enjoyable, at least I do. I love finding a niche, developing my targets, building out the site and getting it looking, feeling and smelling just right.
The “Hyde” part of being successful at this game is the link building and site optimization piece. It’s just no fun for a lot of …

Many EPN affiliates are scrambling to find an alternative to Ebay since the QCP debacle and I am no different. I have managed to rebound pretty nicely between converting sites to Amazon and adding adsense to various sites but I made a promise to myself to never get myself in the same position that I was when the hammer came crashing down from Ebay. I had all my eggs in one basket, but I am not going to do that again.
So my latest experiment is an article directory. …

As you know from my last post I have run into a great deal of friction with our friends at EPN over this QCP payment model. I have seen a number of people report that they are seeing some amazing improvement in their EPN earnings but most that I know are similar to me, they WERE making GREAT money but have seen that cut in half or even worse since the implementation of QCP. So now that I pissed and moaned for a month or two and got …

As you can see if you look back at the date stamps on this blog, you can see I’ve been an absentee landlord for the last year or so. I enjoyed blogging for a long time back when I was a noob but to be honest, once I started making a lot of money with content based websites and EPN, I dropped blogging like a hot potato.
QCP Makes it’s Entrance
As most of the MMO world knows, Ebay recently revamped their affiliate program making it MUCH less desirable or attractive …