It’s that time of year when we have to look back and remember all the good things that got us up to today. Two of the biggest things that helped us turn this into a great year was our dedicated writer Rob, and you… the readers.
As many of you recall, Kim entered a contest, kind of accidentally… and with all your help (Thanks Adam and Kelvin also!) and votes, she came in second place in the USA and won $2750 worth of groceries! Now, I don’t need to tell you …

How many times have you wanted to follow along a website build from the ground up, and then further into the first 30/60/90+ days of existence? In this article at the Niche Store Builder, I am going to try to relate the important stuff so you get to see just that, a day-by-day status update to what is done, why it’s done, and what kind of results are being seen to that point.
Warning – This article gets long, it is already more than 2500 5400 6270 words, and likely to …

Interestingly, Amazon announced in an email overnight that they are changing the way the product API works, and it will no longer return a list of customer reviews. Instead, there will be a simple link over to the actual reviews by the Amazon customers, on the Amazon site.
This means some change in the way reviews are used on your site as well… and with the new format, it seems the only way to show the actual reviews on your site is going to be in an iframe.
This does several things…

Keeps …

Many of you said you liked the last Back to Basics post on What is an RSS Reader, so I thought I would dip back into that pool of things that some of you may not know about and shy away from, because you think its too hard to do. I mean, even though it comes easy to some, it may not be so easy for others.
No use debating the fact that video is AWESOME for your review sites and readers LOVE them! So lets add one!
How to Add a …

One of the biggest areas ANY website owner struggles with, is finding ideas for new content! Sure, we all “think” we know whats best for our visitors based on our own experience and research, but how about taking it up a notch, and delivering content on top of what they already like!
This post is going to walk through a simple way of discovering exactly what your existing readers like, turning that into fresh content, and ultimately appealing to an even wider reader base. Along the way, we will also see …

How many times each month do you stare at your screen and DREAD the task in front of you? Whether its Designing a theme for the site, Building the actual site or Marketing the site once it’s out there, we ALL have a weakness or two that simply takes too much of our time and drains us of our energy and productivity.
My own biggest weaknesses are link building and content generation, but I am a few steps ahead of you, because I KNOW that I suck, and I have already …

Last week I was asked… “Where do you find inspiration or sources for new Posts?” The truth is… if you have to search too hard to find an idea for your post content, you may be targeting the wrong niche market! Now, with that out of the way… lets take a look at one of the hidden gems buried in Google Search, that you rarely hear about…
The Google Search Wonder Wheel!
If you have been around search for awhile, you may or may not have visited a site that was very …