Review Rant and Rave

Self Proclaimed Internet Marketing Gurus Versus True Internet Marketing Jedi

April 18, 2012 by Loretta · 2 Comments

When I started this blog, I will admit it was more for myself than for anyone else. I needed this place to organize my thoughts, record my progress, and I wanted a level of public accountability on my projects and what I was working on. I chose a blog format in the hopes that it would not only help me, but help others as well. I wanted to share my ideas and spread tidbits of knowledge around the web.

If you’ve read my About page here at Niche Twitch you probably noticed that I don’t like the word guru in relation to internet marketing. Simply put, it makes my skin crawl. [Read more...]

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Why I Switched from HostGator Hosting Services

January 29, 2012 by Loretta · 2 Comments

Over the past 10 years I’ve had tried out several hosting companies, some good, some not so good. With 1and1 and Dreamhost my sites were always experiencing drastic downtime and no one was ever available at customer service. With Bluehost the downtime was less, but the customer service was lacking. With GoDaddy nothing ever worked when it came to PHP and plugins, and their customer service didn’t seem to know which way was up when it came to anything other than domain registration.

I landed at HostGator several years ago and stayed firmly there for a long time. WordPress and plugins were working good, they had 1-click installations with cPanel, everything seemed smooth for quite awhile. For awhile. Things seem to have shifted in the last few years and the only thing I was able to get from customer support was canned responses that in most cases didn’t address the issue I was having. [Read more...]

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PostLinks Service Trial and Error

January 26, 2012 by Loretta · Leave a Comment

Back in October I was reading a post from Michelle MacPhearson (1,000 Free Backlinks and How to Get Them) where she was talking about the PostLinks trial where you get 1,000 free backlinks.

Of course, 1,000 free links is an interesting and tempting offer – paying ongoing monthly fees for them thereafter was not all that interesting, so I skipped the 1,000 free links offer. What really had my interest was the other side of PostLinks where you can monetize your site with it. I had a few unused domains that had PageRank on them and I wasn’t doing anything there.

I figured I’d give this thing a try. I signed up for PostLinks and installed their plugin on two of my domains to start monetizing these neglected websites. That part was easy. The plugin installs easily and you enter your verification code. Then posts start coming in and you don’t have to do anything. [Read more...]

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