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This is Why Your Website Header Sucks

Posted in adsense, affiliate marketing, tutorial, header, website | Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Your website header sucks for two reasons:

1) your color choice is shit

2) you should be using a logo instead of a cheesy picture header

A clarification on number 2: you can use a cheesy picture if you’re building a spammy Adsense site that’ll never make more than $30 a month, or you have a sales letter for a product (note my cheesy picture header above; I’m selling a product).

So in this tutorial I’m going to show you how to make your website look much more professional. First, consider replacing that header with a logo on a white background.

Seriously. Reflect on it.

Do you want to become an authority site in your niche or not? If you do, go to Google and search on your niche’s main keyword. Look at all top ten sites. Note how many have 700 x 150 picture headers. Note how many have JUST a logo. I’m willing to bet that they all have just a logo.

You STILL want a picture header? Fine. I give up. At least we’ll make it look better than this (more…)

Something we are all doing wrong?

Posted in content, articles, writing, website | Sunday, September 3rd, 2006 | No Comments »

When we are writing content for our sites, there are many methods. One of my favorites is by a guy named Andrew Hansen. He has an ebook course on writing content quickly, and it essentially boils down to doing a five minute Google search on your keyterm, pulling out three or four points supporting that term, and then just writing about them in your own words following a specific formula.

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