I must confess, this idea has slowly wrapped itself around my brain - and I should have paid attention much earlier... but if you want to make money on the Internet - there's only one single skill that you must have! With it, you can make money easily, without it, you'll work quite hard no matter how you try to earn online.

Alexa, as most all webmasters know - is the most authoritative and reliable way to judge just how much traffic a website is getting.  It becomes critical to have a low Alexa ranking (Lower is better!) if you want to sell advertising on your site - or if you're looking to sell your website.

I recently had a rather interesting experience... I use 'GetClicky', as those of you who follow this blog are surely aware... and I pay attention to what keywords visitors to this site used in order to get here.  It's always a good idea to keep an eye on how people are arriving at your website - you may discover that you're ranking for a keyword or phrase that you never would have guessed.

Goal Setting - The Antidote for Information Overload

That's the question I ask myself every night, before turning in to bed... "What did I do today to earn extra money online?" If I cannot answer that question in a positive manner - then I know that no matter what else I accomplished, earning more money was not one of them.

Why EzineArticles Beats Your Website Every Time!

I have a wonderful website... but a simple 4 or 5 paragraph article will jump to the front page of Google everytime!  Why does Ezinearticles, or similar article directories - have such powerful results, and my website such poor results?  The answer is simple:

A Simple Way to Draw Repeat Traffic!

I must confess that I’m well aware of one key concept that you should be doing on a blog, and am failing myself to follow it... this one simple trick will bring traffic, and more importantly, will bring repeat traffic, better than almost any other method...

Do Webmasters Have Brains?

I got an interesting email yesterday, and it suddenly occurred to me that perhaps the members here would like to see it, so I've included both the email I received, and my response to it:

Feeding RSS Directories - Have You?

RSS content is becoming more and more popular, and with good reason.  It allows the end user to have some control over what he wants to read - and for the webmaster, it allows him to bundle everything up, including articles newly written - and immediately publish everything. RSS is simply a method of syndicating content. The idea of aggregating content is very useful - the readers of your website can view your latest offerings without being bothered with email spam, and without taking a trip to your website. RSS allows users the flexibility to regain control of their content. The creation of RSS feeds provides content, yet doesn't force it on anyone who isn't interested in what you say.

Leveraging the Efforts of Others

One of the reasons that small business owners are generally in the top tax bracket, is not because they tend to be workaholics, putting in 60 hour workweeks – although such is common.  The reason they tend to be wealthy is because they’ve learned that a business can take on a life of it’s own – and you earn not just from your own efforts, but from the efforts of others as well.

Leveraging only your own work into pay can be quite profitable on the Internet, since if you blog well enough, your audience can conceivably be in the millions. (Most local businesses do quite well with no more than a few thousand customers – millions are far beyond any conception for the average small business) Unfortunately, those with the skills to command the attention of millions are few and far between. I know that my name isn’t Matt Drudge.

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