I’ll be speaking at Atlas Digital Summit 2026, held on September 28 and 29 in Reykjavik, Iceland. This is a different kind of event from the domain and hosting conferences I usually cover on this blog (Domain Days Dubai, Domain Summit, Nordic Domain Days, CloudFest, etc.), and I wanted to …

In a LinkedIn survey of 250+ digital marketers, 41% named link building their single biggest SEO struggle. The market doesn’t help: it runs the full spectrum from genuinely excellent to outright scam. After my $5,000 link-building services review, the question I kept getting was: “What about marketplaces? Can I just …

In a LinkedIn survey of 250+ digital marketers, 41% said link building was their single biggest SEO struggle. It’s not hard to see why: the market is flooded with services ranging from genuinely excellent to outright scams. I spent over $5,000 ordering backlinks from 13 different services, so you don’t …

Back in 2022, I built a list of 100 blogs that the whole “make money online” world held up as proof the model worked. The six-figure income reports. The ones people screenshotted onto vision boards. I reviewed all 100 past success stories and tracked how their organic search traffic changed …

In the following roundup of 100+ websites and blog income reports, I analyze how bloggers and website owners make money with their sites. I grouped these 100+ blogs in 10 niches, and for each blog, you can see the yearly income, estimated traffic, main topics, and monetization methods. I recommend …

The state of WordPress in 2026 I’ve been running WordPress sites on this network since 2015. Monetizebetter.com, TopGold.forum, and a handful of properties in between. In that time, WordPress went from being the safe default to the safe default that everyone quietly asks whether they should leave. The numbers say …

This is Part 3 of my three-part guide on building an affiliate website that actually earns money. Part 1 covered the four foundational decisions: niche, audience, programs, and keywords. Part 2 covered the build itself: domain, hosting, WordPress, theme, plugins, and content. If you skipped either, go back. Growth strategies …

Do you want to know how many people visit a particular website? By learning how to check the website traffic for every site, you’ll be able to take insight from competitors to optimize marketing strategies for your business. By analyzing the website traffic of a business competitor, you can unearth …

This is Part 2 of my three-part guide on building an affiliate website that earns real money and can sell for six figures. Part 1 covered the four foundational decisions: niche, audience, programs, and keywords. If you skipped that, go back. The build only matters if those four are already …

Last updated: May 2026. Written by Daniel Stanica. I have been doing affiliate marketing for more than twenty years. I have built sites that worked, sites that flopped, and sites that I sold for a few hundred dollars when I should have grown them for another year. The pattern behind …