by Mark Mason | May 4, 2012 | Internet Marketing
In 2012, I built a tiny niche website about corn shellers as an experiment. It ranked quickly, made money, and then got absolutely hammered by a Google update. The whole saga turned into one of the most useful case studies I have ever created about what happens when...
by Mark Mason | Jan 20, 2012 | Internet Marketing
Transparency is a core value of Late Night Internet Marketing, and sometimes that means telling you about the dumb things I have done. Getting my Google AdWords account permanently suspended is one of those things. How It Happened I started internet marketing in late...
by Mark Mason | Jan 16, 2012 | Internet Marketing, Video
Sometimes the best internet marketing lessons come from unexpected places. Mine came from ordering wine from a small winery called Moonstone Cellars after hearing the owner, Todd Clift, interviewed on the Podcast Answer Man show. Todd was not an internet marketer. He...
by Mark Mason | Dec 14, 2011 | Internet Marketing
We have all seen the sales pages. Internet marketers lounging on beaches, riding in limousines, dining at five-star restaurants. The message is always the same: making money online is easy. But if your experience is anything like mine, you know the reality is...
by Mark Mason | Dec 1, 2011 | Internet Marketing
One of the first challenges you face when starting an online business is figuring out how to choose a domain name. It seems simple, but it is a decision that sticks with you. Once you pick a domain and start building links, content, and brand recognition around it,...
by Mark Mason | Nov 11, 2011 | Experiments, Internet Marketing, Part-Time Internet Business
Editor's note (2026): Nuke4Me and the SENuke tool it was based on are no longer available. The backlink-building tactics described in this post — mass-creating spun articles across Web 2.0 properties and article directories — are now explicitly against...
