About ArsalanMasood.com: Who’s Behind It and How We Work

About ArsalanMasood.com: this is a practical site for people who build, grow and earn from websites of every kind, from blogs and niche sites to online stores, business websites and larger content projects. It’s run by me, Arsalan Masood, a digital entrepreneur who has worked with WordPress, SEO and digital marketing since 2006 and has been involved in more than 500 web projects of every size. Here you’ll find step-by-step guides, honest reviews and checked deals, written from real experience and backed by official sources. This page explains what the site covers, who it’s for, how every page is made, and how the site earns money.

Want the full story of how I got here? Read my journey from first blog to 500+ web projects.

Who’s behind ArsalanMasood.com

I build, grow, buy and sell websites. I started with small blogs and business websites in 2006, sold my first website on Flippa in 2016, and since then I’ve worked on more than 500 web projects, with website deals I’ve sold or brokered adding up to more than $300,000. I also founded A Digital Motive, my agency (“Fastest and Most Scalable Digital Solutions”), and DigiFlippers, a marketplace for buying and selling websites and other digital assets. Everything on this site comes from that work: what I’ve tried, what worked, and what I’d do differently.

What you’ll find here

• Guides: step-by-step help with starting a website, WordPress, hosting, SEO, content, social media, email lists and making money online.
• Reviews: honest assessments of hosting, SEO tools, WordPress themes and plugins, AI tools and marketplaces, with what each does well, where it falls short and who it suits.
• Deals: the real current offers on each company’s own website, with first-term and renewal prices, how to claim them and the refund rules. No made-up coupon codes. See all current deals.
• Website flipping: how to value, buy, grow and sell websites, starting with how to flip websites for profit.

Topics covered on ArsalanMasood.com

• WordPress: installing it, choosing themes and plugins, speed, security and fixing common problems. The complete WordPress guide is the place to start.
• Web hosting: shared, managed and cloud hosting compared on real prices, renewal costs and support, in guides such as the best WordPress hosting.
• SEO: keyword research, on-page SEO, technical basics, links and rank tracking, explained with Google’s own guidance.
• Content and social media: writing, images, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and X, done within each platform’s rules.
• Making money online: affiliate marketing, ads, email lists, freelancing and digital products.
• Buying and selling websites: valuing a site, due diligence, marketplaces and handing over a sale safely.
• Business and productivity: planning, partnerships, goals and working from home.

Who this site is for

• Beginners starting their first blog, store or business website.
• Bloggers and content creators who want more readers and income.
• Small business owners who manage their own website.
• Freelancers and agencies looking for tools and methods that save time.
• Website investors who buy, grow and sell online assets.

Whatever kind of website you run, the principles are the same: a clear purpose, useful content, a fast and secure site, honest marketing, and a plan for how it earns. The guides apply them to your situation.

How every page on ArsalanMasood.com is made

1. Research from the source. Prices, features, plans and rules come from each company’s own website, help pages or terms, or from official sources such as Google, government and health services. Each guide lists its sources with the date they were checked.
2. Experience first. Advice comes from building and running real websites. Where I haven’t used something myself, the page says so and relies on the official information.
3. No invented facts. There are no made-up statistics, reviews, quotes or coupon codes on this site. If something can’t be confirmed, it isn’t published.
4. Real screenshots, clearly labelled. Images marked “Screenshot” are real captures of the company’s own pages; diagrams explain ideas and never invent numbers.
5. Kept up to date. Prices and rules change, so guides, reviews and deals are re-checked and re-dated. When something changes substantially, the page says when it was updated.

Corrections and updates

Mistakes happen, and prices and rules change quickly. When a reader or a company points out an error, I check it against the original source and correct the page, usually within a few days. Substantial changes update the page’s date, so you can see how recent the information is. Deal pages show the date each offer was checked, and offers that end are removed rather than left to mislead. If a company changes its name or closes, as A2 Hosting did when it became Hosting.com, the page says so plainly.

How each guide is laid out

Every guide follows the same shape, so you can find what you need quickly. It opens with a short answer to the question in the title, followed by key takeaways for readers in a hurry. The main sections then go step by step, with diagrams and real screenshots where they help, followed by common mistakes, answers to frequent questions, and the sources used with the date they were checked. At the end, a link points to the logical next guide, so you can keep going without searching.

How to get the most from the site

Start with the guide that matches your stage, follow the next-step links, and come back when you’re ready for the next stage. If you’re comparing products, read the review first, then check the deal page for the current price. And if a guide doesn’t answer your question, ask it: reader questions are one of the best ways I find out what to write next.

How reviews and ratings work

Reviews rate tools and services on what they actually do for the kind of reader they suit: features, price and renewal price, ease of use, support, and the terms you agree to. A company can’t pay for a rating, and an affiliate commission never changes one. Readers can also rate the products reviewed here; when enough readers have rated something, their average is shown alongside mine, so you see both views.

How this site earns money

The guides are free to read. The site earns in a few transparent ways:

• Affiliate links: some links to products and services are affiliate links. If you buy through one, the site may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. These links are marked as sponsored for search engines, and they never decide what’s recommended. See the full affiliate disclosure.
• Advertising: some pages show ads. Ads are kept separate from the content and never shape what’s written.
• Services and courses: if you want help with your own project, you can work with me, and step-by-step video courses are available at learn.arsalanmasood.com.

Where I recommend one of my own companies, such as DigiFlippers among other marketplaces, I say that I founded it, so you can weigh the recommendation fairly.

What this site won’t do

• Promise overnight results. Real websites grow over months and years.
• Recommend shortcuts that break the rules, such as buying links, followers or reviews.
• Publish a deal it hasn’t seen on the company’s own website.
• Hide who benefits. Affiliate links and my own companies are always disclosed.

Where to start

• Starting a website: how to start a blog and the complete WordPress guide.
• Growing traffic: SEO basics and keyword research.
• Making money: how to earn money from a blog.
• Buying and selling: where to buy or sell websites.

Work with me

I help website owners and businesses with WordPress, SEO, growth strategy and buying or selling websites. One-to-one help comes through this site; full website builds, ongoing SEO and paid advertising go through my agency, A Digital Motive. To talk about your project, see work with me. To advertise on the site, see advertising options.

Stay in touch

The easiest way to get new guides and checked deals is to subscribe to the newsletter. You can also follow along on social media, where I share tips and new guides, or send a question through the contact page. I read every message, and many of the guides on this site started as a reader’s question.

My promise to readers

I started from scratch, made plenty of mistakes, and learned most of what I know by doing. This site exists to save you some of that time. I’ll always tell you what I know, how I know it, and when something isn’t worth your money. If you ever find something on the site that’s out of date or wrong, please tell me through the contact page and I’ll check it and fix it.

The internet changes fast, but the fundamentals don’t: build something genuinely useful, look after the people who use it, and keep learning. That’s the approach behind every page here, and it’s the one I’d recommend for your own website too.

Thanks for being here. Whatever kind of website you’re building, I hope you find the next step on these pages.