At some point you may need content:

• Content for your web site
• Content for your newsletter
• Content for a free report on a squeeze page
• Content for reports to sell

But what if you are not a great writer? Or you are targeting a language that is not your first language?

You can buy content.

If you use many of the cheap writing services the results you get back can be shockingly bad. But really, what did you expect from someone getting paid a buck...

There is a little known trick to do what many webmasters thought was dead: boosting PageRank via internal links.

This is what happened if you are not familiar with this:

Internal pages of a website which link to other pages of the same website pass link juice.

Assume for the examples in this post Page A has "10 units" of PageRank or link juice.

Example: Page A links to Pages B and C, passing whatever PageRank it has to those two...

I just saw this on the Warrior Forum, for the umpteenth zillionth time, being regurgitated without any thought, about how to make easy money:

1. Start a blog
2. Collect email addresses
3. Find products to promote as an affiliate

I'll guess 99%+ of Warrior Forum members doing this are making squat.

No one mentions flipping this on its head, where the real money is made - being the product seller.

1. Create a product
...

There is an affiliate program I have been a member of for years. I won't name names, but I have been their #1 affiliate 8 years in a row.

During this time I keep sending more and more traffic. But during the last year, despite sending significantly more traffic than the year before my commissions are suddenly off by about 50 percent.

Is it because the traffic suddenly got worse? No.

Is there new competition? Not in the last year, and I do not view that...

There are several methods to get free backlinks to your website.

Backlinks are important for SEO and all backlinks are not created equal. For example, a profile link on a forum is virtually worthless. A contextual link from a CNN story could be worth a mint.

When we are talking about "getting" backlinks that means taking them. We are not talking about posting some "quality" content on our blog and hoping and praying someone likes it enough to link...