I'm a little worried because it's now the second time I see a spammy event added without my consent on my Google Calendar. How is this person sending a Google event directly to my calendar without me approving it first?? Did anyone have the same problem? Here's the SOLUTION You can stop events from automatically appearing in your Google Calendar by editing the settings. I highly recommend you take action no ...

I just bought 23 new domain names so I now need to get them setup as quickly/efficiently as possible. These new sites will become WordPress niche sites with 5 to 10 articles on each property + a little bit of backlinking. I do not monetize at first and wait for 2-3 months so that'll be for another post. Here's how to setup your sites as quickly and efficiently as possible: Do your keyword research and find ...

You might be in danger if you don't hide or cloak your affiliate links. Google could penalize your site if they don't like what they see. Someone could hijack your links and send the traffic to their own affiliate link. If the affiliate program modifies the links then you'll have to go back to all your articles and manually change one by one your link. Redirecting your affiliate links could fix all those pr ...

The date 6 months from now will be December 14th, 2012 (two days later it's my birthday!). In 6 months time, I want to come back to this post and compare my objectives to the actual numbers and hopefully see that I've achieved or surpassed my expectations. So let's see where I'm hoping to be in 6 months with my blog eMarket Elite. What are your goals? Be realistic! I highly recommend that you also start wor ...

A lot of my sites have been hit hard by Google and it's stupid Penguin algorithm. I wanted to know if my major money making site had been hit by a manual or algorithmic penalty. If it's a manual penalty then the quickest way to fix your site is by sending a reconsideration request to Google AFTER having fixed your site's issues.   How to know if you've been penalized by Google? If you get no results wh ...

A lot of blogs I follow write a monthly post where they publish how much money they have generated during the month. I have to admit I love reading those articles like and I find them quite motivating to read! If you follow smartpassiveincome.com by Pat Flynn, you know he makes more than $40,000 per month! I drool thinking about those amounts! That's almost half a million dollars per year! Crazy! I want to ...

On April 24th 2012, I got a bit of a shock when I checked my sites statistics. I had been hit by the Penguin effect! My main niche website which promotes iPhones had lost a shit load of traffic and so did a lot of other smaller sites. I have 50 niche websites and most of my older ones have been hit and the newer ones are ok. I believe the reason is that the older sites had more backlinks coming from devalue ...

My sites have been hit HARD by Google Penguin and so I've been reading all the information I could find on the new algorithm which has affected so many websites. This page is a summary of the information you'll find around the web and the best practices to remove the penalty and get your rankings back.   5 steps to recovery after Google Penguin   1 - Send a reconsideration request Some may disagre ...

A lot of my niche websites have been hit hard by the new Google update called Penguin. My revenue has gone from $150-$200 to $20-$30 per day. This really gets me thinking about the future and how to continue my online businesses. Niche sites have worked great these last couple years but today it’s become much harder to just create a website, add a couple pages of content and create some mediocre backlinks a ...

Backlinks serve as an important part of Search Engine Optimization. Search engine major Google sees backlinks as recommendations that websites, generally of similar type, make to each other. Such links give Google the insight into a website’s popularity. In the Cyber Space of billion plus websites, Google needs to distinguish relevant websites from trash ones. They do it by analyzing backlinks of crawled we ...