A few days ago, Jeremy published a post over at Shoemoney titled: SEO Has no Future. As you can imagine, every time he posts about SEO… the comments tend to carry on for several days during a sometimes heated debate, this was definitely no exception! The problem with his post is that what he talks about has very little to do with actual SEO and more to do with search engine marketing, or SEM.
SEO itself is considered as EVERYTHING you do to help your site rank better in search engines. From …

Save on Gas?
How about Gas for .75 Cents a Gallon?
How about FREE GAS!
I know, loaded statements for sure! Yesterday, Alan over at Affiliate Confession wrote a post about using the current gas prices to your advantage with Build a Niche Store.
While I don’t have a store of my own in the exact market (I do have a Segway store though), I thought it was worth going a bit deeper into and explaining how to use BANS to actually Save on Gas and stick it to the Oil Companies at the same time!
I see heads spinning from …

May 2008 Featured BANS Site Review for the Cactus Products for Sale website.
Site: http://www.CactusJax.com/
Target Niche: Cactus, Cacti and Succulents
Date Reviewed: 05/02/2008
By: Mark Hansen
Overall Score: 3.2 out of 10 (10 being the best)

Domain Name: 9 (Has target words in domain name)
Domain Age: 1  (Active for  1 month)
Niche Specific Site: 9
Site Indexing and Spider Revisit Frequency: N/A
Use of Unique Meta-Titles: 1
Use of Unique Meta-Keyword Tags: 1
Use of Unique Meta-Description Meta tags: 1
Public and xml Sitemaps: 5
Use of Targeted Articles and Information: 2
BANS Default Menu Optimization: 0

In addition to the measures above, the site has a total …

Well – 30 days ago, I wrote a post about my Custom BANS Template with the Build a Niche Store entry and a Blog incorporated into the backside. In the post, I promised I would provide follow up for the next few months so we can see how the combination works together. I am very happy to say… it has been wonderful thus far!
First 30 Day Report of the Fine Designer Shoes site
Just to refresh everyones memory, the site in question is the Fine Designer Shoe site I used as one of my …

On Weds, I discussed a few ways to know when it was time to turn a growing store into a top performer! Over the next several days, I am going to cover many of the steps you can take to do just that! As I stated in the earlier post, before you do start making the changes, you want to be sure the site is worth the added time you are about to invest into it. Review the metrics in the earlier post to learn more… So, where do you …