If you have your own website(s), you may have noticed a couple of days ago that the PageRank (PR) of your site(s) changed. Yes, it’s that time again, when Google do a soft-shoe shuffle and change how things work.

What seems odd with this update is that established White Hat sites have lost PR whereas newer or Black Hat sites seem to have done pretty well.

If you’re not familiar with those terms, White Hat refers to sites that are built to provide quality content for visitors and are built and added to over time. Black Hat sites are built in a day (or less) and are made up of RSS feeds, scraped content and/or free or PLR articles. Black Hat sites are designed to make money from Adsense and/or affiliate marketing. The idea is not to worry about the quality of any one site but to build 10s, 100s or 1000s of them. While each site may only make between $0.20 and $0.50 per day on average, having lots of ‘em means the money adds up.

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Ok, first of all welcome to my new blog.

I’ve been running the Home Based Business Directory since early 2004 (and still do) but I think a blog is better suited for the commentaries I want to make on making money online.

So that’s why I’m here.

Now what’s a Thousandaire? Ok. it’s a term I just made up. I make a full-time living online and have done so since 2004. I put Home Based Business Directory partly to self-organise and also to tell others about things that I’ve tried and worked for me. Now, there are so many opportunities available online, no one can try them all. So I also mention programs that I haven’t tried myself but that have been recommended by friends and contacts whose opinions I trust.

Anyway, being a thousandaire that means I make a few thousand bucks each month online which keeps food on the table, the bills paid and puts a little extra into the bank for those rainy days (and vacations).

Some things have worked for me and some things haven’t. And I’ve spent some of my hard-earned cash on the latest and greatest must-have marketing products and been mightily pissed at myself for having done so afterwards (at least in some cases).

Having gone htrough the rigors of surviving online, I think it’s time I started commenting on what I see happening (good and bad) in the big bad world of internet marketing.

So welcome one and all and feel free to comment on my diatribes!…

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