Many of you have already become very familiar with WordPress, and how it can be used to build a website that does anything you want it to do! From Building a Product Review Site to a Free Article Directory, WordPress is quite a powerful content management solution that will fill the needs of just about ANY type of website! One of the best habits you can learn, regardless of the type of website you run, is keeping your website lean and clean of all the clutter that is no longer …

At any given time, many of us have domain names we have purchased with all the right intent, but never got around to fully developing. Essentially… they were an investment of $8, or whatever amount you paid for them at that time. Kim and I go through our domain inventory on a monthly basis and review the intent for the names. 98% of the time, we end up keeping the names in our inventory for future use, but there are many times that we have to think hard about whether …

As part of my weekly posts on Spring Cleaning your Niche Empire, today… I want to focus on your hosting account! Whether you are with HostGator or some other host, chances are pretty good that if you don’t clean it up regularly, it will eventually start filling up, running slower, and you will end up with plenty of unused content on in your hosting panel. I have mentioned many times that I have several Hostgator accounts for different purposes. I use a Hostgator reseller account ($24/mo) to list sites I …

Like I posted yesterday, we are all very aware that ePN is closely watching affiliates to be sure they are bringing value to eBay. While we don’t know the metrics for measurement, we can be sure that sites producing little to nothing over a period of time are junk! Not only in their eyes… but in ours also! All of us have this great idea for a new niche site at one point or another… purchased a domain and tossed up a new site within the same day, and never …

Like I mentioned in a post on Friday, Spring is in the air and its time for a thorough spring cleaning of many areas within your own Niche Store Building efforts. Throughout this week, we will look at several different areas you should visit on both your sites and your affiliations, to clean them up for the new season! Today, I am going to summarize the weeks posts, so you have an idea of what to expect! If you do not see something listed you might want covered, drop a …

As we can all feel outside, Springtime is right around the corner! In 4-6 weeks, people are going to begin shopping for seasonal items from Grills to Bikini’s… is Your Site ready for them? Now is the time to begin preparation for the seasonal shoppers! If you wait until you are planting your own bulbs, waxing your own car, or looking for ways to trim down to get into your bathing suit, you are going to be too late! In this post, I will examine just a few ways …

If you are a phpBay user… which at this point, I don’t know why you would NOT be… there is a plugin called Search2Post written by Alan Lewis, that can make your day so much easier! I briefly mentioned it yesterday in my post about Prioritizing your Time. Essentially, the Search2Post plugin takes the search stings typed into a widgetized search box and automatically creates a new post on your WordPress blog, populated with the products the user was looking for! Finding topics for new content is just no easier …

If you come here regularly, you know I have taken a bit of time off since the beginning of the year. In January, we took all of our kids to Florida for vacation, then Kim and I took a cruise with her sister for 7 days in late January into Feb. Vacations are always great to help you wind down… but in the world of managing multiple websites, you tend to get into a routine. Vacations kill that routine and getting back into the flow of work is a bitch …