Just One Thing Left to Do:  Build Traffic
This is a summary of my work to build traffic for several web sites during the fall of 2010.   For the past few weeks I have setup the BiiG Network (biig.com) and reviewed my work on several other sites.  I feel that growth has stagnated for about a [...]

When Google Knows it All — The Next Step!
Introduction to the Google Toilet.

What will Google do next?  This weekend I relived my childhood by playing a Packman game at Google.com.  That was a surprise, when they created a mini, working Packman layout for the 30th anniversary.
Well, I only spent about 5 minutes reliving what [...]

Getting Back to Work
I needed a break.  I got it.  During the break I thought a lot about what has worked and what improvements were needed and most importantly what my focus needed to be.  So, a lot of thinking.  Yes, even a Sage needs to “refresh” from time to time.
So, I’ll not make a [...]

Around 45 Days Later — Traffic Broken and Momentum Stalled!
I needed a break.  As you can see from my last post, I have not updated the Rich Sage for a month and half.  The result is that the site went from a sub one hundred thousand ranking to about 1.5 million on Alexa.  Ouch.  That [...]

Rich Sage Business Model Changes:  Simplify to advance.
Over two years of updates I’ve managed to create a community and traffic has steadily grown.  However, I still don’t see the rapid traffic growth that I need to catch up with the, for example, TOP 10 make money online bloggers.
I need to make some radical changes.
While the [...]

In Search of a SEO GURU by the Rich Sage
I’ve documented the best ways to build traffic for several years.  I’ve used several of these methods, but in the end there is only one that should be your focus.
There is only one way to achieve long-term, consistent, dependable and effective traffic:  Search engines.  Simply put, [...]

Anatomy of Search Engine Good Will by the Rich Sage
By using the below techniques, you can greatly expand the traffic you’ll get  from the likes of Google and Bing and other search engines.  My focus here is on Google, and in the exercise, I’ll show you what I have done to build my “good will” [...]

Savepedia(TM) Building Challenges:  A Make Money Online Rich Sage Update
It’s easy to setup Mediawiki on a website and then proclaim that a community is growing.  Such a plan can be executed in 15 min. from domain setup to hosting to the deploying of Mediawiki.
Then begin the challenges.
As it’s often said, the DEVIL is in the [...]

Building Savepedia:  August 2009 Update
I’ve started to insert data –discount offers that consist of a listing, like the one below with each listing having a “More Info” page.  All of that will take a long time.  At best I can enter about 10 listings per day, as each one takes some research.
The above listing is [...]

Growing Traffic at Rich Sage dot Com:  In the Slowest Quarter
The summer tends to be the slowest part of the year for Internet traffic, at least to the Rich Sage.  That means it’s time to look at what has worked building traffic and do more of it in the coming year(s).
So, what has worked?
Search [...]