Old Web, New Tricks
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Everything I’ve tried on my own sites and written down. Newest first.
How I check an expired domain’s past before I buy it
Six checks, where I run them, and what makes me walk away.
Coming soonThe AI tools I actually kept in my SEO work
And the ones I dropped after a month, with the reason for each.
Coming soonWhich affiliate pages still earn on my sites
Reviews, comparisons and “best of” lists: what still gets clicks, and what Google stopped sending.
Coming soonInternal links vs. new backlinks on two of my sites
Same niche, same month, two different levers.
Coming soonBringing a dead site back: the first 30 days
What I rebuild first, what I leave alone, and what I check every week.
Coming soonWhere AI writing helps a site, and where it quietly hurts
Page types I hand to AI now, and the ones I never will.
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One email a week. What I tried, what worked, what didn’t.