The last few days have been filled with mapping strategy, keyword research, and catching up on reading. I've been reading the series of ebooks in JP Schoeffel's, How to Turn Sites into Money. These are valuable so far for his analysis of the state of internet marketing (i.e. adsense sites alone are no longer viable) and his recommendations for how to monetize for success. He talks about building a group of websites based on different aspects of the same niche, basically building "silos" and linking them to a central landing page.
His Niches-In-A-Box membership is based on that concept…
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Today I was working on updating a website that I've had going for a number of months. The site got a new header graphic and some new colors and a couple new articles. I used XSitePro for the website design. As I went along I used the preview a couple times to get a sense of what the finished product would look like, and sometimes the result reminded me of a Picasso painting. The website structure was all over the place and everything was everywhere but where I would expect it to be. Frustrating.
Ultimately I realized…
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Seems as if someone has visited my blog since my post yesterday. This is welcome news. Getting and tracking traffic is something I do not have a handle on yet. The reason I suspect I had a visitor or two is that I had some clicks on the links I included yesterday. Very cool! This is an area I intend to master.
I realize I didn't include an update on my computer situation from many weeks ago. What happened is I ordered a new desktop computer from Gateway in August. The computer did not work. They sent a technician to my…
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