Start and Grow Your Online Business
Bryon started a technology consulting firm in 2010 and has since founded and sold numerous online businesses. He lives outside of Dallas in McKinney, TX with wife and four kids. Today, he helps entrepreneurs start and grow online businesses.
Black Friday is upon us! In previous years we have let the Black Friday season pass us by, as we didn’t want to run a promotion for the sake of it. When you’re getting bombarded with emails from marketers sending you their lists of 100 amazing discounts, we wanted to say “Hey, that’s cool and […]
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Using “Keyword Difficulty” metrics to do your niche research is usually a bad idea. Let me rephrase that. Relying mostly on KD scores is a bad idea. It’s natural that you’re going to use these metrics as part of your research, but time and time again I see people choosing niches based solely on keyword
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This is just a quick post to show you a video I made to share some of our results. I was looking over the numbers recently, and wanted to share with you how much potential niche sites still have. From just six of my niche sites, there are over 11,000 keywords ranking in Semrush. Now,
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There are two reasons why internet marketers never reach their full potential with SEO: One, they give up too early in the promotion stage. Two, they don’t test and optimize their rankings. Today, I want to talk to you more about the latter – adding that “Extra Mile SEO” into your workflow. We’ll be listing
What is “Extra Mile SEO” and Why Do You Need It? Read More »
A few weeks ago I was at a conference where Noah Kagan of SumoMe fame was part of a “Tear apart my landing page” workshop. The premise was simple: We showed him our landing pages, he showed us how to improve them. I didn’t put HPD up for the tear-down (I’m a sensitive guy and
How SumoMe Pro Helped Me Understand My Audience and Improve User Engagement Read More »
In our last post, we talked about On-Page SEO. These were the tactics you have complete control over when it comes to ranking higher in Google. This time we are going to talk about the tactics you can employ that you don’t have complete control over. Some you’ll have no control over, and some you’ll
Off-Page SEO Tactics You Must Know, Understand, and Capitalize On. Read More »
If there’s one thing you should know: It’s that, although SEO is a big subject – it can also be broken into tiny manageable parts and turned into a system. On-page SEO by definition is: The best practices of optimizing your web page(s) to rank higher in search engines by adjusting and measuring the factors
How to Perfectly Optimize Your Content for On-Page SEO Read More »
Most people understand that they need to rank in Google in order to get free, passive, “organic” traffic… But, what do fewer people really understand? One, that Google traffic is considered the best of all the free traffic sources out there and.. Two, exactly how Google rankings work. You might know some of the metrics
3 Big Pieces of the SEO Puzzle to Boost Your Affiliate Site Read More »
Often times, we’ll run across people who’ve heard of affiliate marketing but in a slightly different sense than what we’re used to. You see there are different ways to earn affiliate commissions and although we prefer the content publishing model and Amazon associates program, it doesn’t mean that other monetization methods don’t work. In fact,
What the Heck is CPA Marketing All About Anyways? Read More »
When you first enter the niche site world, there are generally two ways people will monetize their sites: Affiliate Products or AdSense. Of course, you can always create your own products or build a membership community but then we’d be talking about something much bigger than a niche site. At least at the very beginning.
What is Adsense and Who Benefit’s the Most from it? Read More »