Dave W. over on the NC forum just posted this and gave me permission to re-post it here, so this is really hot off the presses!

http://www.websitepositionwizard.com/

Check this out! It’s awesome and FREE! I just recently got and subsequently recommended Indexing Tracker, which is quite excellent and much “prettier” than Dave’s new tool, but Website Position Wizard is pure utility. It does what it needs to do quickly, easily, and even has some nice historical data tracking that IT is missing. All in all, Dave is coming out with some truly fantastic stuff and continues to do so here.

I have decided to begin to take down my thoughts & ideas on programming, with the eventual expectation of turning them into some kind of course, book, autoresponder series, SOMETHING. In the mean time, they will begin to appear here as I sit down and blast them out. So, watch for ‘em! You just might learn a thing or three.

I told myself I wasn’t going to mention this in a public fashion until I was more sure of its results, features, stability, etc. But then I’d hate to think that people whom I consider friends (as I feel many of you reading this have become!) missed out somehow because I took my time.

So, what am I going on about? Well as many of you undoubtedly know, I’ve been using NicheCreator for a month or so now, and I like it a LOT. Prior to that, I was using Traffic Equalizer, which I’ve stopped using now that I have NC.

I’ve been intending to write something about this for a while now, but the subject came up today on one of the forums I frequent and so I pretty much said what I wanted to say. This is of course with regards to creating revenue generating “niche” websites. I don’t have a ton more to add really, so I’m just going to re-post it here verbatim (gee, I’m syndicating my own content… how novel!) Enjoy!
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Good discussion…

I’d like to add a comparison - television.

I should start off by saying I have NOT used this database yet. Honestly, I’ve been mostly avoiding articles up to this point because they are a pain to integrate! However, this has me about to change my mind. I’m still teetering on the edge personally, but I know some of you are specifically looking for a good article database solution, because we’ve talked about it. Anyway, if you’ve been after something along these lines but didn’t want to pay a big monthly fee, check this out. At the holiday price of $47, this may be pretty dang hard to beat. No it’s not ArticleMiner or whatever other article system, but it just might solve a problem and is really cheap. The integrated rotation functions are a big part of what has me intrigued. Oh and of course, the idea of having article snippets as content for a site, that are keyword specific and will rotate.

Here you go… for all you NicheCreator fans/users out there. Steve already posted “+” and “-” keyword tokens on the forum, but nobody had done the KEYWORDCAPS token that was asked for. I really thought someone else would do it before I got to it, but aparently not. So, here it is!

NicheCreator %%KEYWORDCAPS%% token.

Enjoy… not much to it really, it will make the first letter of every word in the keyword/phrase into uppercase. Just drop it in your include directory and you can use the %%keywordcaps%% token to call it wherever you wish!

… A man playing Polo on a Segway!

Wait - back up. Did he just say playing polo? On a Segway?? What the - ?

Yes, that’s right. Here is a small glimpse into my “real” life, such as it is. Check out the official Segway Polo Website. This is not a joke. Oh and if you don’t even know what a Segway is, you can learn about them here at the Segway Corporate Website.

To answer your next question - it’s a long story. But you can get the basics of it at the SegPolo website above. Now, here’s the exciting part:

If you do anything online with blogs, you no doubt know (or sure as heck SHOULD know!) that you need to ping the various blog update services, so that you can get more spider activity to your blog. The trouble is, so many “sploggers” and the like have hammered the update directories so much that many of them are either not accepting pings at all anymore, or have pretty severe spam filters in place. So far every ping list I’ve ever seen for people to use in their blogging software has contained sites that either specifically blacklist anyone who pings, or just plain don’t accept your ping at all, wasintg your bandwidth & server resources.

Yesterday I wrote about FastContent, a cool little utility for grabbing articles in quantity and formatting them for your websites.

I am digging into it a bit deeper, and have found one annoying limitation. It does not seem to handle multi-word keywords as a single phrase. For example, a search for red widgets seems that it would reveal articles with EITHER red OR widgets ANYWHERE in the article. This is a real drag… putting the phrase in quotes does not seem to change anything, nor does adding a plus sign between keywords, such as red+widgets.

I’m really happy to have happened upon this little gem. It’s dirt cheap (especially before December 15th) and is basically what Orwell wishes it could be. You enter a keyword, and it goes out to a number of article directories and grabs articles on the keyword, and if you want will even spit them out as their own mini site complete with cross links, adsense, etc. I’m using it to get articles on my NicheCreator sites personally. I was able to put nearly 50,000 pages online just last night alone, but I was skipping articles for them because Orwell was too dang tedious, and I can’t justify something like ArticleMiner right now.