If you believe you’ve found a niche market with paramount advertising opportunities and very little competition, you may want to run a brief test before getting involved in designing a fancy website. The method is simple and only takes a few minutes.
Once you’re done with keyword and prospective affiliate research, go to blogger.com and set up a free domain there using your best niche keywords (for example: solar-cell-research.blogspot.com). Create a blog using all the default settings and submit an article relative to your niche, full of keywords…

Most small businesses owners were hit hard by the economic crisis in 2008. However it had little or no influence on some online ventures, which not only maintained their operations but their owners turned into millionaires.

The year has been an inspiration for hundreds of thousands bloggers and Internet entrepreneurs world whide especially after the sale of the 3 most talked about blogs for some fairy tale money. These widely rumoured super expensive blogs were:

ArsTechnica.com acquired by Conde Nast

Just several days ago Google launched SearchWiki, a service that allows users logged into a Google account to customize search results for their needs. Now Googlers can vote up/down websites, delete and add websites, write notes and reviews of any website they like or dislike.

Google claims that these changes only affect the search results of every individual user, however it also states that the results can be shared with other Wiki users. Here’s what Google Blog says about the feature and its goals:

Talking about Splogs (Spam Blogs), I’d like to agree with many Internet moralists that these sites may…

Recently I’ve encountered a number of articles discussing the SEO…