No nonsense Internet Tips

Building Backlinks

Bruce Hopkins — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:04:36 +0000

Many people consider building backlinks to a site one of the most important things you can do to help increase search engine rankings. I would say after creating interesting and unique content that this is true. Well really if you build backlinks you don’t have to worry as much about creating unique content. With enough [...]

100 Dollar a Day Challenge

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:28:54 +0000

I was cruising over at the Warrior Forum yesterday and came across this interesting post about Steve Crooks who started a challenge to see if he could take a brand new blog and have it earning 100 dollars a day with Adsense within 3 months. I love to see these types of challenges as they [...]

Do you Twitter

Bruce Hopkins — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:24:47 +0000

I have to admit that I’ve pretty much resisted this entire twitter craze going around, but I think I may have been missing out. Every time I went on twitter I was bombarded with people selling this or selling that and I did not see a lot of sense in it. I see people with 100s [...]

$2049.43 with Adsense in a single day

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:51:49 +0000

Is it possible to still earn money with Adsense? A lot of the Gurus will say no, but I disagree. I’ve been trend blogging for a little over a year and I’ve learned a few things about this technique and it pays off for me. Now those of you who know me know I don’t [...]

Growing your Blog through development of readers

Bruce Hopkins — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:04:37 +0000

There is a really interesting post over at TechCrunch today on development of your readers. Neil makes some very valid points and offers some ways you can better engage your readers and as a result create more loyalty. This is something we probably do not do enough of. Of course we are always obsessed about out [...]

Making Business Decisions Count

Bruce Hopkins — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:04:21 +0000

I may change this theme very soon. I have a couple of reasons, the first is because I don’t like this one and second I’ve had some changes in my life which has prompted me to change my frequency of posting to this blog. Some of my long term readers know I have not been [...]

Selling on Ebay

Bruce Hopkins — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:49:35 +0000

Many people overlook the power of ebay to an online business, but the truth is many people earn a full time living from selling items on Ebay and many more supplement their incomes. Most brick and mortar business even have started selling on eBay and for many it means the difference between success and failure. [...]

Marketing to Marketers

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:49:43 +0000

Marketing to other marketers to make it easier to make money is great but many of the buyers never use the products and just try to pawn them off on other marketers. So you wind up with all these people selling scripts, programs, eBooks, and more to other online marketers and they profess how great [...]

Cost Per Action Affiliate Networks

Bruce Hopkins — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:21:12 +0000

You will hear a lot of people tell you you need to diversify your internet income with multiple programs. I’ve always been a huge supporter of this philosophy. Not only does participating in various programs increase your revenue avenues it also provides a richer experience for your visitors. I know a lot of Internet Marketers [...]

Making Money with Ebay

Bruce Hopkins — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:42:09 +0000

Lots of people say you can no longer produce cash with Ebay, but that is just not true. There are millions of people all over the wold who make a full time living with ebay marketing. Most people just don’t know how to make it work properly. There are lots of books out there which [...]

Ecommerce Web Hosting

Bruce Hopkins — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:58:14 +0000

eCommerce is the wave of the future, and it is very difficult for an eCommerce business to be successful without a good web hosting service. As the proprietor of a web hosting business, your website is everything. It is your calling card and the portal to your goods and/or services. Without it, there is no [...]

Linking Analytics and Adsense to Earn More Money

Bruce Hopkins — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:32:29 +0000

I’ve been playing around with testing some new Adsense ads on some of my sites. Anyone who has utilized Adsense should know that to receive the highest paying ads and CTR, then you must test. Testing with various colors and placement is paramount to the success you will have with Adsense. This testing has always [...]

New Year

Bruce Hopkins — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:31:46 +0000

Well its a new year and a time when many people make new year’s resolutions. I’ve thought about it this year and I don’t plan on really making any changes in my life. I may make a few in my business online, but that is about it. I could set goals such as I’m going [...]

Make Money with YouTube

Bruce Hopkins — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:21:03 +0000

If you are like me then you spend a good amount of time watching YouTube. I actually spend too much time on Youtube and I should be using some of that time to make money. Well it seems as if I could do both at the same time. Many online marketing people have been talking [...]

Wordpress 2.7 Coltrane

Bruce Hopkins — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:36:58 +0000

I was just taking a look at the new version of wordpress, Coltrane, and it looks pretty cool. Wordpress is really making a lot of progress through the past few versions. I’ve been a fan of Wordpress for a long time and its pretty much my platform of choice for building websites of all types. [...]

Best blogging tools

Bruce Hopkins — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:20:03 +0000

I’ve been neglecting this blog for a while but I had a good reason. This is always been a hobby to me and not something I really used to earn money but that’s about to change one thing that I’m going to do to make my life a little easier is to use Dragon Naturally [...]

Building Blogs

Bruce Hopkins — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:13:19 +0000

I have not posted on this site in a while. Partly because I’ve been busy with other stuff, but mostly because I’m not into the genre of this site any longer. I’m probably going to change the focus of this site in the near future as Internet Marketing topics are not really something I care [...]

Problogger Book Review

Bruce Hopkins — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:08:45 +0000

I purchased Darren Rowse’s Problogger book a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to write a review on the book. Its a fairly quick read and has some fairly decent tips for blogging if you are starting out with a blog and even for people who have been blogging for a while. The book [...]

Revolution Themes Review

Bruce Hopkins — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:58:13 +0000

I installed Brian Gardner’s City Revolution Theme on another of my sites today and it came out really well. I bought the developer set of these themes a while back but never installed one. I had started work on putting the Magazine theme on that same site I installed the city theme on this morning, [...]

Technorati Train Meme

Bruce Hopkins — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:48:13 +0000

There is an interesting meme in process over at Brad Blogging. It woks a lot like the Big Bang Meme worked a few months ago and should help you improve your Technorati Ranking. Your Technorati Rank is one of the main things you can do to improve the reach or your blog. *–Copy Here - [...]

Building one site at a time

Bruce Hopkins — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:32:48 +0000

For those of you that are long time readers of this blog you probably have noticed I’ve been a little lazy lately. Actually its not that I’ve been lazy as I’ve been working my tail off on other projects and as result have not had time to dedicate to this blog. I’ve not been spending [...]

Google Trends for Websites

Bruce Hopkins — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:07:22 +0000

Google has launched a new tool that could be used to get some insight onto the search volumes of other sites. It does not work for low volume sites so you won’t be able to spy on other small guys, but you will be able to check out the big sites and derive some insight [...]

Media Breakaway ordered to pay MySpace 6 Million

Bruce Hopkins — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:40:08 +0000

MySpace has won another lawsuit against a spammer Scott Richter and his Web marketing company, Media Breakaway LLC of Westminster, Colorado. MySpace has been aggressively targeting people who spam their website. This is just an example of how a good thing gets abused by Internet Marketers. It was not too long ago that eBooks on [...]

Amazon Mechanical Turk

Bruce Hopkins — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:05:21 +0000

I’m always looking for other methods to earn money on the web and Amazon Mechanical Turk has some capability to earn a little bit or cash, but a better use for it is to get low cost workers to help you with your web promotion. Basically it works like this you sign up for an [...]

Using FARK to gain visitors

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:52:00 +0000

FARK is a website like Digg where users submit stories of interest throughout the web. The main difference between FARK and Digg is FARK is more democratic in nature. This is because while a DIGG story can become buried by just one power user.FARK is different while its the same. I’m not sure of exactly [...]