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Niche Site Update #4 – Traffic

by Mark Mason on September 15, 2010

Hey there.  It's 5AM here and I am just about to head off to my day job.  I am running behind in assigning tasks to my VA for the Niche Site Duel.  In fact, we have done very little to work on the site since we put it up.  The one exception is that one VA is still rewriting the articles on the site (a few every day).  There is no real strategy there -- just trying not to spend too much money on the site all at once.

Most of the traffic on the site is probably coming from people like you who are reading about the duel and then directly typing in the URL.  So, don't be too impressed by the traffic stats below.  However, I will show the traffic so you can get a sense of what is going on.

Niche Site Duel Traffic

What is interesting is that I am starting to see some traffic from organic search (but just a trickle).

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Does Google Love WordPress?

by Mark Mason on August 25, 2010

google loves wordpress
I hear this all the time when people are talking about old-school static HTML sites versus newer WordPress sites.  They say it loud and proud as if it were a law of nature like gravity or something.

Google Loves WordPress!

The truth is (as far as I know) that there is no real data that says Google prefers static WordPress versus HTML (or vice-versa). There is no reason that they should care -- and I don't think that they do.

People say "Google loves WordPress" because they see WordPress because they see WordPress sites doing well in Google. The question is this: is this correlation, or causation? In other words, are these sites doing well because of WordPress, or for some other reason.

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Avoid the Bright Shiny Objects in Your Part Time Internet Business

by Mark Mason July 22, 2010

My very personal favorite and my nemesis is that you’ve got to avoid bright and shiny objects as a part time internet entrepreneur. Marketers are really good at marketing, there’s a newsflash for you. These people, some of them are amazing. They can sell ice to Eskimo’s. You need to recognize that. You don’t need [...]

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Know What You’re Doing in Your Part Time Business and Stick With It

by Mark Mason July 1, 2010

The next thing you need to do as far as getting your head right and owning your plan, which is the second piece of the strategy, is you’ve got to know what you’re doing. I’ll submit to you that there are anywhere between 10 and 100 real legitimate ways to make money online.  As a [...]

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What’s Your Motivation for Your Part Time Internet Business?

by Mark Mason June 10, 2010

It’s Thursday again and that means Part Time Tips! This week we’re going to look at your motivation and what drives you to make your internet business a success (whether it’s part time, full time, or some time in between!) You really need to understand what your motivation is and what it is that you [...]


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Getting Started and Finding the Mindset to Work a Part Time Internet Business

by Mark Mason June 3, 2010

Welcome back to another weekly edition of Part Time Tips for your internet business. This week I want to talk briefly about what you need to be successful in your part time internet marketing business. Don’t panic, I’m not going to list a bunch of stuff for you to buy, this more about you and [...]

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20 Blogs About Outsourcing Worth Subscribing To

by Mark E. Mason April 22, 2010

Today we have a great guest author, Tom Hickman, here to share with us 20 blogs that he reads and enjoys and on the web that are relevant to our recent outsourcing discussions. Outsourcing is something that I do often and encourage you to do as soon as you are able to, it really does [...]

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Blogging Using Windows Live Writer 2009

by Mark E. Mason January 19, 2010

I am writing this post using Windows Live Writer 2009.  Normally, I write WordPress posts in Firefox using the admin interface inside of WordPress.  That is not the best environment sometimes – especially since you have to be online to use it. I looked at these type of desktop-based web publishing tools a couple of [...]

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