Category Archives: Online Business

Domain Names and Hosting

When I first started tinkering with the Internet, about 10 years ago, I did what every South African does, and signed up for a domain name and hosting with my ISP. I soon realised that this was less than ideal … Continue reading

Posted in Online Business | Tagged a small orange, cpanel, domain registration, godaddy, hostgator, hosting, resellerzoom | 31 Comments

A Cataclysmic Event in the History of the Internet.

Qassia is a new social networking site, brought to my attention by Jack Humphrey. Qassia describes itself as “a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based web directory.” You can add your websites, and promote them by adding what … Continue reading

Posted in Traffic | Tagged backlinks, qassia, revenue, social networking, Traffic | 3 Comments

Competition for ClickBank

It looks as if ClickBank has some decent competition, at last. I’ve never thought much of PayDotCom, mainly because of its reliance on Paypal for payments to merchants (South Africans still can’t receive payments via Paypal…) Don’t get me wrong, … Continue reading

Posted in Online Business | Tagged click2sell, clickbank | 9 Comments

James, James, James.

BTW, if you promote him on your blog, you can forget about getting any promotion from me in the future. I’ve really enjoyed your blog over the last year or so. It’s been inspirational. And thanks for the offer to … Continue reading

Posted in Online Business | Tagged cybercashology, james brausch, promotion, robert phillips | 12 Comments

The Ultimate Web Marketing Strategy

Ed Rivis recently mentioned that he’s taken his book, the Ultimate Web Marketing Strategy, off the market. He’ll be releasing a new paperback version shortly, and he’s promised his blog subscribers a free copy of the PDF version. Get over … Continue reading

Posted in Blogs | 5 Comments

How Blogging Regularly Can Increase Your Traffic

Both Maki and James Brausch have blogged about the value of posting regularly. This is a powerful technique for generating (and keeping) blog visitors, and one which I have been planning to put into practice for some time, with less-than-spectacular … Continue reading

Posted in Online Business | 41 Comments

3 Article Marketing Services I Use

Article marketing is one of the simplest ways to get free backlinks to your website. However, there is a bit more to it than just writing an article and submitting it to hundreds of article directories. James Brausch says that … Continue reading

Posted in Articles, Online Business | 11 Comments

Blogrush goes live

As you can see in the sidebar, I’ve signed up for John Reese’s BlogRush Blog Syndication Network. Like all the best ideas, it seems really simple and obvious in retrospect. It’s easy enough to get an RSS feed from, say, … Continue reading

Posted in General, Online Business, Products | 21 Comments

Do not download this report

…unless you intend to use it. Michelle Macphearson has released her “Social Media Daily” blueprint, and you can download it for free. This is one of those free reports that makes you question the value of all the $47, $67 … Continue reading

Posted in Online Business, Products | 9 Comments

Little Green Bars

As any fule kno, PageRank is merely a huge scam perpetrated by the not-evil geniuses at Google. Certainly, Google uses PR to rate the “worthiness” (sponge-worthiness?) of websites – but their internal PR algorithm is a far cry from the … Continue reading

Posted in Traffic | 13 Comments