Generally, SEO experts agree that 100 outbound links on a page is pretty much the top you should have. If you have more, your site starts to look like a link farm! Of course it also depends on the site type of site. An ecommerce site really has no reason to have many links on [...]

I just received this email from Adwords: Please note that when a site is found to be in violation of our Landing Page and Site Policies, the site is disabled within your AdWords account and respective ads are disapproved for “Site Policy.” Disabling is an action applied at the domain level, and it results in [...]

I had a billing issue the other day with my Adwords account and had to contact Adwords team for help. From time to time, in the Adwords help section, you can see a chat button, that will connect you with someone at Adwords. Really useful. Unfortunately, this button is rarely available. It appears Google shows [...]

I’ve just been accepted into Neverblue. From what I heard, Neverblue is the largest CPA network around. They have around 1100 offers at the moment, which is a lot…probably similar to Azoogleads. Their interface is sharp. Seems they worked a lot on it, as it is much more usable than most cpa networks Signup for [...]

I’ve been contacted by email several times by a company called More Digital, interested in purchasing text link on some of my websites. I get several similar emails from SEO companies, and usually if it looks minimally credible, I at least answer to get some more info. Here is the email: I work for More [...]

Mazecash is an affiliate product for a single product (at the moment at least). This product, Blue Label Fragrance Club, is located here: http://www.bluelabelfragrance.com/sampleOffer/ As you can see, Mazecash is promoting a $1 offer, that gives the user free fragrance samples. Women love fragrances samples even more than fragrances. They are small and cute. You [...]

I just bought a nice review site, dedicated to hair loss products. What is interesting about this purchase is that the site is not even indexed in Google, the site relies purely on paid traffic. Of course, I love, and you certainly love, organic traffic: it’s free and it converts. However, usually when a site [...]

Google Adsense is an important source of income for me. On this blog, at the time of writing this, I did not put any adsense ads up yet because I am focusing on building content. Optimizing Adsense revenue is almost an art, and can have dramatic impacts. Last time I took the time to do [...]

I’ve been using for 1 month the publisher program of Indeed.com for one of my job board sites. Up to now the results are deceiving. My CTR is really low, and CPC is around $0.40 However their interface is nice and simple and the stats reports is really clear so I will continue using, as [...]

There are tens of thousands of web directories, aimed at giving some link juice to websites, thus helping rankings. In the reality, most of those directories are crappy and don’t help your SEO at all. Submitting your link to PR0, .info directories, with a cookie cut template is not going to do much to help [...]

I purchased a Forex related website on Flippa Nice little site with around 40 pages talking about Forex and forex strategies. Site get few traffic, but ranks for 1 nice keyword in Google. Site makes money with Adsense, Forex Brokers affiliates, and various Clickbank forex related offers. Finding offers for a Forex website is really [...]

There is a nice website for sell on Flippa The auction is here: http://flippa.com/auctions/110813/Established-High-Traffic-Site—220Mo–on-Autopilot—1-in-Google-and-Bing So it’s a recipes site about sea bass. $230 per month for $3600, so 75% annual ROI. Around 7000 visitors per month. Honestly, I would buy it but what is bothering me is that chilean sea bass, even if not endangered [...]

I just got an awesome Adsense click on a site I own in the Education field: $22.37 That is a lot…I guess Google has been able to retarget a user on my site that is interested in a very costly service or product.

This is a question that is often asked by clients. Froma SEO perspective, should I use a subdomain or a directory to install my blog, my forum etc ? A Directory is considered by search engines as being an integral part of a website. Whereas subdomains are considered as being new sites, or as I [...]

I just got approved with JCWhitney.com on the Google Affiliate Network. JCWhitney is a major player in the car parts industry. I will put their banners up on a couple of my sites and see if it converts better than my actual affiliate progams. If it does, I will switch them over and eventually build [...]

Yesterday I did something really fun, that I already tried in the past, but not to that extend. You may remember this post My objective yesterday was to build 1 automotive site. Well, not only did I build one that is currently live, soon to be indexed, but I also developed a great system that [...]

Just saw this site on flippa. For those of you who have the funds and want an e-commerce site, this may be a great purchase! $4000 profit per month Here is a description of the site by the owner: TheHelmetZone.com is an online and retail motorcycle, atv, snowmobile helmet and gear website. A retail location is [...]

For those of you of don’t already know, automotive is a very lucrative web market. As a publisher, it is very easy to make some dollars with the automotive market, without having to develop complex sites. One of the reason is that automotive is a very local market, people are local for car dealers near [...]

I just put one of my sites related to computer the Hydra offer “PCWebDoc FREE PC Scan” that pays $7 per call requested from a visitor that suffers from a PC problem. The site I own get around 1000 visitors per day, highly targeted traffic, that systematically pays at least $1 on Adsense. I tried [...]

Linknami is a company that appears to be around 1 year and a half old. I just signed up with them a couple of minutes ago, as a user commented on the site, talking about this company. What is Linknami? It’s a bit complex. Taken from their FAQ: Depending on your needs, you can get [...]