Even if you’re not an expert in a niche, it doesn’t mean you can’t become an authority in that niche. I consider myself to be somewhat of an authority on mountain biking. I’ve been riding mountain bikes for over 20 years, and have ridden many different bikes in some amazing locations around the world. A couple of years ago I rode my bike solo from John O’Groats (The most northern tip of the United Kingdom) to Land’s End (The most South-western tip), a ride of over 900 …

“The number one mistake that many beginners make when trying to start an online business, is failing to create high quality, unique content and still expecting to attract visitors.”
Content can be anything of value that a user will visit a website for. It can be free, or paid for, and it can be one of many different types of media.
Articles, ebooks, video, podcasts, games, web applications, music, and downloadable software are just a few examples of different types of content. The medium used to deliver that content …

E-books, blueprints, free reports… in this first of a series of guides to producing content I want to show you how to easily create these using the free office suite software Open Office.
If you’ve not already got it, download it now from OpenOffice.org and go right ahead and install the package. What you get is a suite of 5 applications: Writer, which is a word processor to rival Microsoft Word, Calc which is a spreadsheet (like Excel), a Powerpoint style presentation application called Impress, a graphics tool called Draw, …

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the single most important thing for driving traffic to your site is content. Whether it’s blog posts, articles, ebooks, reports, podcasts or videos, good content will attract visitors, convert them (get them subscribing or buying) and get you back links.
There are different types of content, and you’ll need different tools to create each of them. The great news is, that most of the content can be easily created using free software tools.
That’s right, you can do all this with free …

Whether you’re affiliate marketing, selling your own products, or monetizing your site with advertising, you need traffic. While there are are countless marketing tactics to draw traffic to your site the number one key element is… you guessed it, content!
People visit websites for content, plain and simple. You can have the best marketing in the world, stacks of inbound links, great PPC campaigns, offline adverts, social networking and all the rest and you will get visitors to your site, but they won’t stay.
What exactly is content?
Content is anything …