Matt Cutts announced on this on his blog Friday, and you can also read more at the Google Webmaster blog… Google now uses your websites Speed as a metric in how its ranked in search results… In other words, speed up your site, or we won’t send you traffic!
While Google says that this change affects less than 1% of the websites “It’s customers visit”, that’s quite a lot!
One other interesting thing this new “Speed Metric for Google” brings up, is that you MUST subscribe to Webmaster Tools in order to have …

So… you had an OK month on a specific site and after expenses, you were able to bank $500 of profit for your efforts… what are you going to spend that money on now? Disneyworld? A New Car? How about the site?
I like use a 10% rule on ALL of my earnings, regardless of where they come from, how much I made and how much it took to make it! My 10% rule is pretty basic… I start by paying myself 10%. ALWAYS pay yourself first! Serious… Always pay YOU …

Just trying to get a quick pulse of the traffic and earnings outlook in 2010 so far… and looking for feedback on the questions below. Just to be transparent, I will also answer them myself first! :-)
I truly don’t want or expect to get any EXACT numbers… just a pulse.
Share Your 2010 Traffic & Earnings
I am going to try and make this as copy/paste easy as possible! Just copy from the ___ red line on top of question 1, to the ___ red line at the last questions, paste it …

Two of my favorite times during each month, are the first and last days. It’s during these days that you can really gain the most from your general site statistics, and act on what you see to get the most from either the following month, or the rest of the month. In this post, I want to talk about 3-4 quick and easy thing you can do at the beginning of the month, today for instance, that will benefit you throughout the month, sometimes, longer.
Find and Fix 404 Errors!

A 404 …

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 …

Not a day goes by that I don’t get at least one email, asking my opinion on the Best Tools or Best WordPress Plugin for Affiliate Marketing! The truth is, the best WordPress Plugin for your affiliate site and mine may differ completely, depending on our target visitors and how we want them to interact with our website and our content.
That said – there are 8-10 tools and plugins I would not want to live without! Since using these, life has become much easier and building an affiliate site, much …

It’s a beautiful day in Charlotte today! Looks like we will reach into the 60′s as far as the temps go, and it already has me thinking about playing hookie and spending the day cleaning my car! I know, shame on me! :-)
What it REALLY means to anyone who is site building, is that its time to get in front of the spring and summer seasonal trends our own niche markets tell us will be popular! I know, some of you are staring at the screen right now with 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 …

After several weeks of planning, starting and stopping between several other ongoing projects, and oh… Christmas Shopping, I have completed the Website Rebuild of the Niche Store Builder site.
Hopefully, when you finish reading this post, you will have a better understanding of Why I rebuilt the site. The level of planning that goes into a website rebuild,  the new features I added to the new site along the way, and of course, future plans I have at the Niche Store Builder.
Feedback is greatly appreciated and you will find a floating …

You read it right… Google has delisted one of my BANS sites that was showing Google adsense!
Photo courtesy of: ahomeinrichmond.com
The really weird part of the delisting is that the site in question, more than 9 months old, was NOT just a replica of hundreds of other BANS sites, and was rather popular and unique, with more than 400 unique visitors a day! I won’t link it in this post, to avoid bringing further attention to the matter.
In addition to the BANS site, a different site not using BANS was also brought …