Filter on: if all you do in your online business is writing unique, high quality content, this tip will be useless to you. However, if you rely on third-parties' content to quickly build large websites, then please read on. I have something for you :-). Filter off.

I will show you how to create unique content in a matter of seconds, without paying a dime. If you are anxious to discover the method, scroll down a bit, to the details section.

The greatest problem with reusing other people's content is the threat of being penalized with duplicate content filters which prohibit your website from ranking well. The simplest solution - at the concept level - is rewriting the content. But rewriting content manually is almost equally time consuming as writing from scratch.

Have you ever dreamt of the freedom provided by your own online business? If yes, have you ever felt the disappointment of discovering that running an online business may sometimes be worse that the regular 8-5 day job? If you develop content sites in many niche markets, that's more than likely.

If you own a network of white-hat websites in different niches, you invariably face the dilemma of generating content. There are many options, the most popular ones being as follows:

Even while off-site factors may be far more significant today in achieving high rankings, on-site factors are not to be neglected.

Making sure that the code of your blog / site is SEO-friendly is still a very important step. As you maybe using a ready-made template for Wordpress or other CMS, here's a quick tip to make sure that it is not doing harm to your positions in the search results.

Fantastic sources of keywords are available virtually to everyone - you only need to know where to find them.

When I am looking for new ideas for articles or when I'm trying to optimize some of my content for specific keywords, I very often rely on my own keyword bookmarklet that many of my readers seem to like as well.

The trick is really to find a good starting point for this bookmarklet. Today, I am going to share with you 5 of my best and proven methods (sources) for working with this tool.

Perhaps instead of selling a website, you thought of buying an already established online property with proven track record in terms of traffic and revenue. Obviously, as a buyer you would probably use either Digital Point or SitePoint.

The important question here is how to maximize your chances of investing in a good property which would indeed ensure you some return.

In the perfect world you could simply ask for live access to traffic and monetization statistics. But that's rarely a case. Sellers usually provide just some proof in the form of screenshots from analytics software or AdSense interface, etc. That's all nice, but you still should make every effort to perform proper due diligence before spending any money on your next website.

I've recently come across a truly ingenious post on how to build an affiliate site that you can sell for $1M. I will not try to recap its content - there are too many valuable points and it's really worth reading in its entirety.

However, during reading it has struck me that I am really most focused on properly developing a website into a profitable business when I consider selling it eventually as my exit strategy.

It provides me with the energy and determination to make sure that all bases key for valuation are covered. And guess what, when they are covered, the profits usually grow fast, even if I don't sell it after all.

However, if you have a website that you think could have some tangible value for other people, what are your options when it comes to selling it?

 If you've been following this blog, you probably know that I like to develop some custom tools to help me with generating keywords or niche ideas.

As effective as they are, the one key component still missing is further analysis. It's very easy to generate hundreds or even thousands of promising keywords using these tools, but you really need an automated way to tell the really good ones from the probably less profitable ones.

If  you have something like 15 minutes to spare, you could use that time to find some really excellent domains to register. But please note that domain-hunting can get addictive. You've been warned... :-)

I’ve just noticed a rather creative attempt to use the sponsored reviews systems. One of the advertisers at Sponsored Reviews is offering up to $10 for your review of a website hosting/building program. The twist – the advertiser does not own the site – she is just the affiliate and asks you to use her affiliate link in the review.

That’s interesting. I could imagine that if the affiliate program converts well, the advertiser could indeed profit from this scheme. Compared with using AdSense to drive traffic to your landing pages etc., this approach has two advantages:

If you're still not using Firefox, I will give you a very strong reason to switch immediately.

As you may know, the Google Webmaster Tools can be used to display a detail breakdown of your backlinks. But the problem is it shows no further information, meaning no PR of the linking page and no anchor text, which renders your analysis still far from complete.

Well, no worry. First get the wonderful Greasemonkey extension (if you still don't have it, you will love it on many other occasions as well). Then go straight to this Greasemonkey script and get it. When it's running visit the Google Webmaster Tools to see how the links section improved magically.