As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, the Google Penguin update resulted in many legitimate online businesses and quality websites getting penalized by Google and plummeting in the search engine rankings. It’s not an overstatement to say that many people’s businesses were killed off overnight.
It’s now been a few months since the Penguin Terminator was set loose and concrete data about what exactly it was doing has been gathered. There was a lot of speculation about this in SEO … 
UPDATE: Loki Link Builder Is No Longer Available
My current recommended alternative is SENukeX TNG.
Getting SEO backlinks can be both a pain and very time consuming. A while back, probably more than a year ago, I promoted a WordPress plugin called Web Traffic Genius [no longer available]. It’s a plugin I used on all my blogs as it created an RSS feed for each post I made, with additional articles I specified being added to each …
As we all know, the apps market is booming. Android has somewhere between 50% and 60% of market share, depending on where you look and Apple have between 23% and 30%. Yet it’s the apps for Apple’s iPhone and iPads that seem to be selling. Android users seem to expect to get apps for free. There’s a good article about why app developers do better with iOS than with Android here.
Given that the apps market for iOS is …
Back in early May, I wrote an article about how the Google Penguin update affected affiliate marketers and offered some advice on how to do backlinking following that update. The article was originally written for EzineArticles, to provide useful information to readers and to advertise my site via my author bio.
EzineArticles refused to publish the article. I’ve since added the article, verbatim, to this and you can read it here so you can judge it for yourself. Here’s the …
This Guest Post is by Nathan Nead
Selling Your Virtual Company: Three Things to ConsiderBuilding an online empire on the spammy recesses of the web isn?t necessarily easy, but it can be. Building a quality turn-key operation, on the other hand, is almost always difficult and time-consuming. Many have succeeded wildly in building spam-laden affiliate businesses on the web. Many cases of half-baked affiliate networks include cheap outsourced tactics used by some of the world?s biggest companies. It begs …
Well, Google has thrown the cat among the pigeons again with its recent Google Penguin Update.
Many affiliate marketers have seen their traffic plummet in the last couple of weeks and site rankings have been affected as well. What’s more, searches for keyword phrases are tending to show sites with poor content above those with useful content, in the search results.
So What’s Going On?Well, first of all, the Google Penguin update has proven to be very unsettling …
If you look around the web, you’ll find glowing reviews of One Minute Commissions. So will my review of this product fall in line with those from other reviewers? Read on…
First Impressions of The One Minute Commissions Sales PageWhen you visit the One Minute Commissions website, you’re presented with a video of a young fella saying how great the system was for him, and a rolling clock of how much money this system has made for people. This …
I’m going to be talking about some changes that are required to your link building strategy today, thanks to a new little update at Google.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard by now that Google has been on a rampage this last month, testing out some new spam prevention features, and leaving devastated webmasters (and many affiliates) in their wake.
Unlike most algorithm updates, this is one that you really need to pay attention to if …
UPDATE: Affiliate Recon Is No Longer Available
If you’re looking for a course on how to build a profitable blog, my current recommended courses are Wealthy Affiliate, Affilorama and Clickbank Passive Income.
You may not be aware that a brand new service just launched, one that gives you “verifiable 6 figure affiliate niches” on a platter, every month, complete with keyword research, competition analysis, backlink opportunities, affiliate offers and more.
It’s called Affiliate Recon, and it was …
If you’re interested in making money online then at one stage or another you’ve joined an affiliate network or ten.
We tend to assume that that these institutions are above-board and act in a fair and reasonable fashion. But that’s not always the case.
Some are certainly above-board and honest in their dealings. Others, however, use umm…questionable…tactics in dealing with affiliates. Let’s look at some examples…
1. Clickbank
These guys are pretty honest as networks go. However, there are some …
