Happy New Year to everyone! I am still sitting in sunny Florida, but we took a short break from running today, and between a beer or twelve, I decided to sit and tell you all the 5 things I learned when I decided to check email and just basic happenings on the web! I AM having a great time, but also looking forward to getting home next week and getting 2009 off to a kickin start!

Christmas is here again, and I just wanted to take a moment to wish all my readers a very safe and Merry Christmas and a very Prosperous New Year!
The family and I will be gone for the next 10 days on our annual holiday vacation. When I return, I have some big news that will be coming to the NSB website… Until then…
From my Family to yours – Happy Holidays!
Mark Hansen

Earlier this week, I posted about the easiest way to make money, is to save it! There were quite a few comments that left me wondering… What is MOST important to YOU when buying or evaluating and new piece of software, a plugin, or even a web based service like WordTracker.
The thing is… there are SO MANY on the market today… when you start looking at them, which can cause script blindness… what are the KEY things that jump out and help you with a decision? We all know how …

At one point or another, we all buy a new plugin or script (aka software) that promises to help us make thousands of dollars in no time at all, and most claim you will need to expend very little effort! I keep track of every dollar I spend and not one month passes that I don’t buy at least 1-2 new plugins or software scripts! The fact that I buy these does not even begin to tell the tale of how many I review for purchase and walk, no RUN… …

Have you ever wondered if you were being followed? I have a new website, its actually a part of a Joint Venture Project I have been slowly building with a few others you will recognize before long. The site is LITERALLY HIDDEN from public eyes. We have an index page with the noindex, nofollow meta tag in place and none of the pages in the site have ever been linked to from outside sources. None… zero, null, nada, choose you own favorite word and insert! Guess what… Google found it, …

It’s a well known fact that ALL Build a Niche Store owners can verify, Google is not too fond of thin sites! We have all seen many of our sites dropped from the index, including several that have above and beyond the normal point and click sites! Dave (Soggy Dave for those who don’t know him) wrote about it yesterday, in a piece about Google throwing out the baby with the bathwater. He is just one of many of us who are digging into this and trying to find out …