Matt Coddington

Some of you probably remember the post that rocketed Net Business Blog from obscurity to a commonly read blog. It was my guide to building a niche minisite. After posting that article I promised to go more in depth on the subject and offer it in book form. Well I’m glad to say that although it has taken me a while (a year actually) I’ve finally finished the book and it’s ready for consumption.

What Small Sites, Big Money Covers

• Niche research
• Keyword research
• Competition research
• Design & development
• Monetization
• Search engine optimization
• All within the context of building niche minisites

If you’re interested in learning more, be sure to check out the sales page.

If you’re interested in promoting the book please contact me and I’ll happily get you a free copy and help you get setup with an affiliate account. Of course I’m not going to just be giving away free copies, you must have a decently well-read blog, forum, newsletter, or website.

If you were given the task of creating an SEO “cheat sheet”, would you do it? Is SEO simple enough to condense into a resume-sized document or are there so many intricacies to the practice that it wouldn’t even be possible to condense a book on the subject to less than 300 pages?

Lets take SEO out of the equation and instead replace it with any profession. Is it possible to create a physician cheat sheet? Or on the opposite end of the spectrum, how about a McDonald’s employee cheat sheet? I assume a practicing M.D. would have a tough time narrowing his job down to a few key points. And I can tell you from first hand experience that you can’t even put all of a McDonald’s employees day-to-day responsibilities on a single piece of paper.

So how would you respond if you were asked to create a SEO cheat sheet? Would you refuse or would you do it and just try to cover as much as you could? Or would you laugh and ignore the question?

This post is a review paid for by Visual Scope Studios.

The web consulting business has been booming lately with a ton of new, localized web design and SEO shops popping up everywhere. Visual Scope Studios is a web site development company located in Seattle, Washington.

If you’re interested in getting some SEO work done, these guys may be worth checking into. It looks like they have a good idea of link building. Paid posts are by far the easiest ways to get targeted inbound links to any site. Since they are obviously engaging in paid posting for SEO purposes I assume they’d do the same for their clients.

Looking at their homepage, however, I do see some missing elements of on-page SEO. Missing alt text, images replacing some vital text (like company phone number), etc. Of course one could argue that on-page SEO is nothing to fret over, considering the fact that link authority is the top ranking factor.

There are a ton of SEO shops out there now. If you’re in the business you should be sure to do your research. While you’re looking, check out Visual Scope Studios (and their web design portfolio).