Want to fire your boss? Work from home? Make more money than you ever imagined working from home? Want a system that does it all for you on auto-pilot? Read the rest of this entry »

Those of you who are new to blogging may not know the name John Chow, but if you want to become successful then it’s a name you need to know.  Even before the days of WordPress, before TypePad, before content management systems even existed… John Chow has been blogging. He started his first website in 1999… way back in the 20th century, and for all intents and purposes that site was a blog. He currently has nearly 39,000 RSS feed subscribers and earns in any given month, the equivalent of a year’s salary for most people.

The obvious path to success is to simply do what successful people do.  And what John Chow does is simple (don’t confuse the word simple with the word easy… there’s a lot of hard work involved).

So, what does John Chow do? Read the rest of this entry »

I was just going over my Google Analytics stats and I noticed several visits sent by organic Google search results for “web host” and “web hosting”, obviously keywords I would like my site associated with.  So, I did a search in Google myself to see if my position on the SERP had moved up, but I didn’t notice any change.

Looking more closely at Analytics, I saw these visits originated from Singapore. I did another Google search, setting the gl parameter to sg.  (BTW, you can check search engine results for any geographic location by setting this parameter, eg. &gl=us, &gl=ca, and so on. Just use the two-letter abbreviation for the country).  Anyway, there I was on the first page on Google in Singapore for “web hosting”.

Now, that led to a few interesting questions. First, why Singapore? Second, why would I have a better SERP position for Singapore than web hosts that rank higher on US SERPS? Read the rest of this entry »

SEO, it’s all you hear about these days and it’s all centered around the almighty Google. What works, what doesn’t?  Will I be banned if I do this?  Will I make it to the top if I do that? The list of questions can go on forever, and with no clear answers.  It’s enough to drive any webmaster crazy. Read the rest of this entry »