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Niche Website #5 is Ready

I just finished setting up my #5 niche website.  Unlike the last four niche sites I built, this one is not based on a product.  The topic is in finance.  I had this domain for over 5 years and it was getting nobody with 80 articles in it.  The reason being all 80 articles are free articles I grabbed from article directories.  I completely took down everything and rebuilt the website.  This time, I actually did keyword research and I will be targeting only a few keyword with this site.

All articles on the site will be unique.  My plan is to write a single article each day.  I’ve added two articles today and I will start article marketing on this site starting tomorrow.

Introducing My Niche Website #4

So here is my 4th niche project. This project will be a total makeover of my old niche blog. I’m going to take down everything and rewrite all articles based on the keywords I found during keyword research I’ve done two days ago. I’ve already added 5 unique articles to the website.

This niche blog is built with WordPress and my custom theme which is designed for phpBay. But my main focus with this site will be Adsense revenue. Although it doesn’t rank well for any keywords right now, I’m sure it will do just fine with my new set of niche keywords.

The topic of the niche blog is in home improvement area. I do see great potential with this site. I’m going to submit 2-4 articles starting tomorrow.

RSS2HTML Slows Down Your Website

RSS2HTML has been one of my most favorite free scripts for very long time. I used to use the script on many of our sites to display RSS feeds using keywords. Just recently, I noticed that one of my sites was doing 5-7 sec loading time on average. First I thought the site was slow due to heavy traffic, because I get about 4,000 uniques a day on that site. But it was hosted on a robust dedicated server and it shouldn’t be like that.

Here are the things I tried to track down the problem.
1) I removed Adsense ads one by one to see if one of the ads was causing the problem
2) I removed Analytics code to see if it was causing the problem
3) I installed WP Cache plugin to see if it helped – it did, but I didn’t like the idea
4) Finally I removed RSS2HTML code from the site – now my site’s loading time is less than 0.5 seconds.

Yes, it was RSS2HTML script that was slowing down my website. Now I have no choice but to remove it. I’m sure there’s a way to optimize how the script is called to my website and stuff, but I don’t feel like going through all that. I just simply removed the entire script and replaced it with a WP_Query statement. It works just fine for that particular site because it was not feeding from outside source.

So if your site is slow and happen to be using RSS2HTML, now you know why. :)

Niche Website #3

Here comes my 3rd niche website.  Am I going to fast?

My niche website #3 will be a micro niche website built with pure HTML.  For this project, I’m following the Adsense Masters Course written by XFactor.  So far, I’ve finished the step #1 out of 7.  I can’t really explain what this is about, but if you own a copy of Adsense Masters Course, you’d know.  But basically, the first step is researching my niche topic based on the criteria set by the course and build the first page.  I’ve done all that and already submitted articles to the directories.

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