Following my post about the state of my first passive income website, several people wanted to know specifics about my SEO strategy, or how I get traffic to this website. Most traffic comes from search (Google). It boils down to creating content targeted to user intent. More specifically, it means doing research to discover what [...]
I set off in February 2011 with the intention to build a few websites to earn passive income, that would enable me to have more freedom to bootstrap more serious web applications without having to freelance to make end meets. It didn’t quite work out as much as expected, so I do some freelancing now [...]
Not too long ago (last June) I was on the lookout for simple ideas where I could leverage two things: my knowledge of software development and my interest for web marketing. In the middle of the crazy stream of ideas I then wanted to tackle, I selected a simple one: a Body Mass Index (BMI) [...]
Since I’ve had (moderate) success with my own websites (Gift Certificate Factory, Calculer IMC, Partage De Fichier…), a few of my friends have asked me how to market their own websites. I’ll try with this blog post to give a few pointers on how to do it for a specific case study. Thomas runs Flybilletterbillig.com, [...]
Since starting to work for myself, I launched a couple of websites, thought about hundreds of ideas and ended up buying quite a few domain names in case I want to implement these ideas. As you can see, I have a problem of coming up with too many ideas and having a hard time to [...]
A couple of months ago, I’ve launched a gift certificate template website. However it’s still not doing very well. I’ve recently started a new project. The basic idea is to provide a BMI calculator on a website. BMI? BMI means Body Mass Index. It’s an indicator that measures whether you have a healthy weight or [...]
To market my website, Gift Certificate Factory, I decided to focus on SEO (Search Engine Optimization). That means I hoped to rank high enough in Google and in other search engines to attract a good amount of traffic. Visitors would be eager to find gift certificate templates and I could in turn make a profit [...]
Having recently left my job and now left to my own means, I’ve decided to go the product route to earn a living. There are multiple things you can do to earn a living online, but I’ve decided to focus on things that would be easier for me: web applications. I had a couple of [...]
