It’s been a month since my last update to the Niche Site Duel and I’m happy to report that both Tyrone and Pat Flynn have hit their goals of hitting the front page of Google and making some money from their niche sites. In his last post on the subject Pat himself announced he had landed on the #6 spot on Google after steadily climbing the ranks for 2...

Updates might be sparse in the next week as I start prepping for my  trip to the Dominican Republic for a fun week of R&R. I haven’t actually decided whether I’ll actually be bringing my laptop along with me. One part of me says it would be good for me to disconnect and go on a “digital diet” – and then another part of me wants...

After I recently tweeted about the sale of one my first web properties quite a few people asked me how I did it and suggested I should do a writeup about it on my blog. I didn’t think there was anything special about selling a website but as it turns out there’s quite a bit of interest. With recent news about Mark Zuckerberg’s pre-Facebook gag...

Just finished reading Maren Kate’s Startup School, a free eBook she has for download on her blog Escape the 9-5. It’s a fantastic quick read packed with tons of insight about her rise to successful internet entrepreneur. Maren is one of those internet personalities who’s really made her business and brand really distinct and she’s done an...

Instead of keeping all the goods to myself (that would be selfish wouldn’t it?) I decided that it would be cool to share a lot of the tools and resources that I use or have used in the past in my day-to-work. So today I announce a new section of MikeZiarko.com (above) simply called “Resources” or it’s longer form The Resources and Tools For...

It’s been a couple of weeks since my last report on participation in Pat Flynn’s Niche Site Duel with Tyrone Shum and I’m happy to report that as a result of these strategies I’ve achieved spot #17 in Google for my broad position , and spot #9 for my phrase position which puts me on the pages 2 and 1 on Google respectively for one of my...