I know a lot of internet marketers outsource work to the Philippines these days and the people they hire are diligent and hard working.  I myself have a small team of writers and webmasters and watching the devastation unfold filled me with horror and sadness.   Worryingly, I also have one of that team unaccounted for – the last message he sent told me he was about to lose internet connection as the water was at the door!

The disaster hasn’t been as widely publicized here in the UK as I would have expected but the country really does need massive [...] Continue Reading…

How would you like to add a custom menu on a page of your choice in Wordpress?  This is something I have wanted to achieve for ages.  I’ve searched high and low for a plugin but to no avail.  Then today, I receive an email containg a link to the top 160 wordpress plugins and low and behold it recommends an awesome plugin called Simple Sidebar Navigation.   I’ve installed it, tested it and it works like a charm.  Now you can have a custom menu on every page/post of your wordpress blog if you so choose.

Oh and the rest [...] Continue Reading…

Well I not sure whether to laugh or cry today but I favor the latter.    With the bulk of my income coming from Yahoo and next to nothing from Google/MSN/Live/Bing,  I fear the worst.  Why does anyone think combining these two search engines will dent Google?  More likely, it will drive more traffic to Google.

Bing is the new kid on the block and it has no track record – it should have been allowed to stand on it’s own two feet for a couple of years before being pushed into the spotlight.  It is now going to power [...] Continue Reading…

So I’ve been catching up on some of the latest news and I see a whole bunch of people have received an adwords slap on their review sites and suffered from falling quality scores which begs the question does Google hate affiliates?

There have been many responses and more than a few people have pointed out that Google has it’s own affiliate network so it shouldn’t be looking to make affiliates suffer unnecessarily.  What are your thoughts on this?

For my part I don’t really get it.  If someone puts up a review site and then wants to drive traffic to [...] Continue Reading…

In the last month or so I’ve been building a team in the Phillipines to help run my business.   I did this because I simply couldn’t manage the number of websites I’d created nor build new sites efficiently or quick enough any longer.  I have now trained these guys and suddenly find I have time on my hands to start learning once again.

Most of you will know the importance of getting backlinks to your sites but this can be a royal pain because our niche sites, whilst serving a valuable purpose, hardly have people queing to link to them.  [...] Continue Reading…