Interesting article:How To Build A Popular and Profitable Forum CommunityFrom the article:You may have heard that having a web community is a great way to increase sales, customer loyalty and word of mouth for your web business. In fact a web community itself, if large enough and targeting an affluent demographic (or one that advertisers like to target), has the potential to bring in revenue.

Let's say that you have looked through Lessons 1 through 14. You have chosen an idea and you have created a site. You have called in every favor you have to get some friends to link to your site. Now what?Now it is time to find out if your site resonates or not. You need to know this BEFORE you start trying to get links on large sites like Digg, Slashdot, Fark, etc. The reason why you need to

People have started sending in links to blogs and web sites that they are creating. They come to WebKEW, get inspired and get moving. They are excited about getting started.Here is an example of such a web site -- in this case a blog called "Our Technological Future":jwbats.blogspot.comThe blog's first major post is called the Singularity FAQ for Dummies.This is a very simple and straightforward

When you think about different business ideas to work on, there are many different angles of approach. Most people, however, would not neccessarily have "start an airline" on their short list because, mentally, it seems like a lot of work to start an airline. That's what makes this article particularly interesting:British teen launches airline from bedroom.From the article:A British teenager says

Amazon is having a contest to name the best nonprofit web site. They have 10 finalists:Amazon.com Nonprofit Innovation AwardThe interesting thing about it from a WebKEW perspective is that these are 10 good web sites. Let's look at the sites and ask some questions. How do they feel? When you first open each site, does your gut say "good" or "bad"? "Interesting" or "boring"? "Cool" or "Uncool"?

The tech world is abuzz this week with this:Earning MilestonesFrom the article:I went to the PO Box this morning to grab my mail and found my monthly cheque from Google’s Adsense had arrived for earnings in the month of May. May was my biggest earning month since I started blogging (June was a little lower due to me being away for the full four weeks).The check was for $14,000. The author answers

We have talked about several different sources of visitors in previous lessons: Resonance, Links and Advertising. In this lesson we will talk about the most powerful form of free traffic on a long-term basis: Search engines. If you are creating a typical content web site, perhaps half of your daily traffic will be coming from search engines. In other words, if you have a content web site, about

This site is interesting to me simply because it has taken an idea that is as old as the hills (recipes) and added a new twist to it to create an interesting web site:Visual Recipes - Community of Cooking EnthusiastsIf you are trying to come up with new web site ideas, think about this: Is there something old and familiar that you can do in a different way to make it fresh and unique on the Web?

At the two-month point, we took a look at the progress of WebKEW in this post. At that point, 60 days into this project, WebKEW had 383 links in Google. Here we are about a month later, 90 days into the project, and there are two things to note:The number of links is continuing to grow. On June 17, WebKEW now has 4,940 inbound links according to Google: [Click for larger image]What kind of sites

As I mention in Rocket video, the kids and I have been doing a fair amount with rockets lately. David is interested in this rocket, which has a small lo-res video camera built into the nose cone. That got me wondering what else is out there in the world of rocket video. Going to Google, I typed "rocket video" in as my search term. I didn't really find what I wanted on the left-hand side of the

Top 500 Sites Have All the LuckFrom the article:Every two months Alexa's crawlers go out and scour the web bringing down 100 Terabytes of Web content and over 4 billion URLs into the archive. In the process we discover over 18 million unique sites on the Web. These are e-commerce sites, blogs, news sites and more. Virtually anything you can imagine is on the web spread out among these 18 million

Nine Truths That Can Set You on the Path to Financial FreedomThe article contains several good points that are worth repeating. From the article:The general population has a love / hate relationship with wealth. They resent those who have it, but spend their entire lives attempting to get it for themselves. The reason a vast majority of people never accumulate a substantial nest egg is because

Here is a letter that came in from a reader recently:Hello. I have read your article on "how to make a million dollars" article and I disagree with your article. The "tone" of the article seems to be that it is easy to make it a million dollars, and that we are oblivious to the obvious. As the article suggests, I have read some of the titles listed on your articles. Your article and the books

Here's one way to get a lot of traffic -- launch a satellite that crashes into a comet:Comet collision a historic oneFrom the article: "NASA's Deep Impact Web site registered nearly 1 billion hits when the space probe collided with comet Tempel 1 late Sunday -- about twice as many hits as the twin Mars rovers got when they parachuted to the Red Planet last year."If you look Nasa.gov up in Alexa

The following email came in the other day:Hi Marshall. Love your Blog. I was reading your entry titled "15,000 page views per day". Letter E of 26 steps to 15k a Day says...E) Content:Build one page of content and put online per day at 200-500 words. If you aren't sure what you need for content, start with the Overture keyword suggestor and find the core set of keywords for your topic area.