Hundreds of articles covering topics such as membership sites, site building, marketing automation, traffic, entrepreneurship, and more
An ultimate SEO guide for bloggers and content creators. How relevant is keyword research? What are the factors Google looks at? How exactly do we go about attracting organic traffic from the world’s most popular search engine? This guide covers it all.
After 6 years with WPEngine hosting, I have made the move to WPX Hosting. Here’s why I switched… and my decision-making process along the way.
ConvertBox is an up-and-coming opt-in form software currently available with lifetime pricing. But, is it any good? What are the bad parts? Let’s take a look…
An inside look at exactly how to set up a powerful affiliate program for your Wordpress-powered membership site that is simple to manage and easy for your affiliates.
A lot of people think of blogs for marketing an online business. But, how useful is a blog for an offline business? Do they work? Are they worth the work?
How often should you publish a new blog post? What is the best blog post frequency for SEO? The answer might not be what you expect…
How do you get a new blog noticed by Google? This video post walks you through how to set your blog up properly with Google… and then what to do from there.
Most blog posts look like a big wall of text. Boring! Or, to make them look better requires a host of plugins and shortcodes. Here’s how using Thrive Architect as a blog post editor solves the problem.
How do you pick a domain name for your blog business? This guide covers the best practices and tools and answers common questions on how to pick domain name.
What if your blog actually changed based on who was visiting it? You might get way more opt-ins and sales, right? It is called onsite retargeting. And we’re looking now at two tools which do it: RightMessage and ConvertFlow.
How can you change the domain name for your Wordpress blog, without having to move your site, and without damaging your SEO rankings? This tutorial will walk you through it.
None of our businesses exist in a bubble. After doing some of my own research on money and our economy, I wanted to raise some attention to the bigger picture and how we can make our work today last into the future, despite coming changes.
A summary of 84 lessons that I have learned over the course of 20 years as an online entrepreneur, through highs and lows, and different businesses.
Major update for 2024… and what has happened such that I no longer recommend either one.
How do you become an authority in your niche? How can you do it without having to wait on others to recognize you? Here are 5 strategies to engineer instant authority.
A blog content strategy that makes efficient use of time, works for SEO, and helps you build traffic with less effort. I call it The Redwood Strategy.
Should you monetize your blog right from the beginning? Or should you wait to build up your audience first? Here’s my official answer…
A membership site has long been considered the “holy grail” of online business – mainly for recurring revenue. However, there are other reasons why I recommend you turn your blog into a membership site.
What if we could make every day as productive as the day before we leave on a vacation?
Which comes first for your blog: Traffic or monetization? It used to be that you had to build the audience before you could monetize. Is that still true?
Sometimes the best way to get the juices flowing for your own membership site is to take a look at others. Here’s 10 different membership sites, from different niches.
Got a nasty email from a reader or customer? Got a complaint? Maybe it is out in the public and you’re worried about the right way to handle it? This simple guide discusses the best ways to handle complaints in your online business.
The ad industry is broken. User privacy is being abused. Sites get deplatformed. Could the Brave browser and the Basic Attention Token be a potential solution – and a new option for blog monetization?
A blog doesn’t make money. If one wants to make money, you don’t start a blog in order to do it. Here’s some real-talk about exactly what makes money – and how.
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