I don’t mind paying for a service if it’s good enough to save me time, during which I’ll be able to make money.

But when the service becomes bad, I have to write my own tools.

This is why I had written my Free Pad Submitter in the first place, and this is why I have updated it now.

I had first made it for the project about screensavers, originally invented by Eli/Blue Hat SEO in 2006.

This project was not as easy and quick as Eli proposed, I had to add some twists to actually make money, and it took me quite some time before I could put it in use, so regarding the time spent, I had calculated that it would be considered profitable if it would be making money until the end of 2008. Well, guess what, I must say congratulations to Eli, because it still makes me money (without doing anything, it’s pure passive income).

Of course, since 2006, lots of people have done it, and now the field of screensavers is really saturated, but still I wanted to experiment a little bit with a couple of new screensavers to see the results.

This is why last month I have paid for a new licence to each of the 3 most popular pad submitters, and I was disappointed with the results : Almost 1000 submissions, and almost no results (99% of the sites where my screensavers are listed are shit).

So I checked my 2008 stats, to see where my screensavers where downloaded the most, then build my top-100 list of softwares repositories, and updated my Pad Submitter with this list.

So have fun with it, you can download it here

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Hi guys,
Usually I’m not discussing politics, because not everyone can agree about opinions, and that’s the surest way to raise trouble, but today I just want to make a quick mention about Obama, and how I just made money thanks to him.

By the way, I was talking in one of my previous posts about how you must be persistent and put effort to make money.
With so much attention on Obama, I had to do something to take advantage on this situation. And that’s the point I was making in my previous post, today it is Obama, yesterday was Paris Hilton, who knows who it will be tomorrow? But that’s a work of everyday, you can’t just find one thing and it’s gonna work forever. You have to search everyday for new opportunities to increase your online business.

Anyway the trick here was to leverage his popularity in order to generate cash.

I went to my sponsor, and set up some pay-per-lead campaigns.
I created a couple of html pages, each one with the affiliate banner for the campaign, and some text talking about Obama, which was easy to find there is so many content written about him.
with subdomains, I had a structure like:

http://insurance.whyobama.com
With a page having an quick article about Obama talking about the insurance system. Then in big characters a sentence saying “And you? are you sure you’ve got the right insurance? Take a couple of minutes to do a quick check, it’s FREE and private. A couple of minutes could change your life.”
[insert link to a pay-per-lead promo for insurance check]

http://alarms.whyobama.com
[insert Obama article here]
Unfortunately the number of crime rises. In these current time of crises, you should be protected, it costs less to invest a little to get a good protection for yout home than taking the chance to get robbed. There are many suprisingly affordable solutions, just spend a few minutes there.
[insert a link to a pay-per-lead promo for alarms]

http://paydayloan.whyobama.com
[insert Obama article here]
Get the things you need, regardless of your credit! We can help you find the cash you need for getting caught up on bills, car repairs, groceries, anything at all.
[insert a link to a pay-per-lead promo for a loan]

etc.

I was set then, I just needed to get traffic.

So I just used a good traffic source: Youtube!

I created youtube accounts, 5 for each websites. This can be long if you do it manually so I used a script I wrote, Youtube accounts creator. You can get it for free here. Yes you don’t need to pay $40 for those accounts creators, just use mine, it works well

I waited for the day of his inauguration speech. Just ripped the video from a website, and started to edit it.
I cut five interesting 30 seconds clips, then I added at the end of them some text:”want to know what Obama thinks about insurance? go to http://insurance.whyobama.com” etc.
I just had to upload videos on my youtube accounts. Why 5 accounts for each video? Because then I could change the title and description, and tags!!! I just made a quick run into google keywords suggestion to find good ideas.

Then I just had to wait…. Within the first day I already had traffic, some of my videos had good views numbers, some not, but the important is that I got instant traffic.

And that’s it, it was the perfect opportunity, people were going to want to watch videos of Obama. Redirecting the traffic to my sponsored websites was easy. I had leads, and made money while I was sleeping.

The best is that you have important events every week, if you wanted you could do this all the time and getting piles of money.

And don’t forget seasonal subjects… Like tax season coming upon us…

TIP: The superbowl is this weekend, it’s gonna be perfect for this project! Just get ready, it takes a couple of hours to set everything up, you should be rolling quickly!

But that’s not a magical trick, it needs work and dedication if you want to make a lot of money on the long run. If you do it just a couple of times you wll make only a little extra money. When you get the hang of it, go on, do it to the max, that’s the way you’ll get a lot.

Back to work! See you soon
Alan

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This is a little tool for you to create Youtube accounts.

Originally, I didn’t want to waste my time writing such a tool, as there already exist several Youtube accounts creator.

Unfortunately, I’ve tested 2 of them, which were quite bad.

I wouldn’t have cared to pay $40 but yeah since they were not good, it was better to write it myself.

Instead of writing a whole software, I just did this quick php script.

There’s a simple reason to that, it was to avoid the proxies need problem.

Indeed, when you’re creating youtube accounts, you need proxies, or you risk all of your accounts to be erased when one of them is flagged.

The beauty of using this php script is that you can install it on any php server, and it will use the IP of the server. So you just have to open a free hosting account (do a google search, there are dozains of them).

Then upload the script on the server and execute it, create a couple of accounts.

And go to open another free hosting account, on a different server, where you’ll get another IP.

Repeat and you can open many youtube accounts.

And you can create 2 or 3 youtube accounts per day per server, imagine if you have 10 servers, it’s 20-30 youtube accounts PER DAY with different IPs at NO COST!!!

So here you go, Click here to download it

Alan

PS: It is not perfect, I wrote it quickly, so if you use it on non US-based servers, it might fail. If anyone has the time to fix it, just send it back to me, I’ll put it there and credit you, cheers!

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Hi, this post won’t be about giving some specific tip on making money, but I felt I needed to repeat some ideas to help you make it.

When I wanted to make money, thanks to the internet, I was chasing the one great idea. There were so many stories about people who got a great idea and became rich. Think of the One million dollars page, with this student selling blocks of pixels where people could put a link to their website. He managed to earn 1 million in a couple of months… Great! Why we didn’t think of that?

The problem is that we hear all those wonderful stories every day, and we live in this world where we’re led to believe that there is a magic filter.

A filter that separates the average persons from the successful ones.

It seems that we just need to find that great thing, that one gateway to become rich/famous/powerful etc.

But that’s a big lie, there’s no such magic filter. There are some good ideas, but they’re negligible in numbers, compared to the normal way to become successful.
It’s like bands, they all believe that they just need to get signed by a record company, and with this contract, they will move from unknown artists to superstars.

It doesn’t work like that, look at the majority of billionaires… They’re old. Why? Because they spent time and effort before they became successful.

There’s always this equation I believe is accurate:

Consider money, effort and time.
You can choose two of the three you need to spend if you want to achieve something. Only two. Take your pick.

I could spend 6 months of holidays, visiting Australia and caressing kangaroos, going to France and drinking wine, etc.
But that’s not because I had found one magical solution, it’s because I had slowly spent time and effort to create money-making sources.

You want to make more money, you want more freedom, even with the current crisis, that’s definitely achievable. Hell, I didn’t notice more than a 10% drop in my revenue even if we’re meant to be in trouble. And that’s more likely because I wasn’t touching a thing on my websites.

So yeah, that’s a path, to be able to make money, and the hardest is that you’ve got to stick with it, it’s not always fun, like your everyday job, you’ll have to do many boring tasks.
But if you keep it up and work steady you’ll be able to be more successful at the end of this year than today.

In a few days I’ll post the details of a little project I am currently doing and that illustrates my point.

And even better, it makes me a bit of easy money. So there’s no way you couldn’t make something out of it.

See you quickly!

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Hi people, it’s been a long time I didn’t post, the truth is, I had been working non-stop for two years on my websites and needed some rest, so I took 6 months of holidays. That’s the cool part of having websites that bring automatic streams of income. But now I’m back in business.

To the people who wrote me about the adult blog project, I’m keeping your email, and I will contact you later this year. I’m currently setting up the adult blog project v3. So please be a little patient.

Meanwhile I’m gonna put a serie of posts about another money-making opportunity that you can try. It’s a longer-term project, but a reliable one.

I’ll try to put a couple of hints also, as you can guess, it takes time to write and I’m working on some new projects for myself, but I won’t forget you

So happy new year and I wish you make money this year!

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Hi guys, usually I don’t talk about others stuff than making money on my blog, but I really wanted to share this.

I’m working with 2 monitors on my computer. If you don’t work on two screens yet, you should. Even if it’s using an old monitor as a second screen, it boosts your productivity. More than 2 monitors is for ego, but really 2 screens is a plus.

If you didn’t realize it yet, everytime you switch from what you’re working on to some other application, you’re losing your focus for some minutes when you switch back to your work, and along the day, sum up all the minutes, it’s a huge loss of time.

With 2 monitors, you can have your main screen with your work, and the other screen can gather all the secondary applications (e.g. email, chat,web browser, skype, p2p apps…). So when you switch from your work to something else, you lose less focus. And sometimes it’s good to be able to watch two things at the same time. Like reading a tutorial on a website on one screen, and doing the actions on the other screen.

An extra note, I’m following the GTD method to boost my productivity, have a look at it, it’s really great. Also when I’m really busy, I even don’t let my email client run in the background, I start it only three times a day, answer urgent mails, then close it. That prevents me from losing time on not-so-critical emails conversations.

My computer runs on a dual core processor. And I was considering getting a quad core, as my dual core is not powerful enough for all my apps running. If I list the minimum number of apps I get running simultaneously during the day I have : local web server, local database server, Firefox with 10+ tabs open, internet explorer, database client, FTP client, Mail client, Notepad++, Eclipse, XML editor, Regex Editor, Winamp, emule, muTorrent, pidgin, skype, tor+vidalia, antivirus, and multiple explorer windows.

I had another problem, it was synchronization with my laptop. A farmer can’t spend a day without taking care of his animals. When you have multiple websites, it’s the same, except that your websites are your animals. So I always need to be able to go anywhere with my work even if I leave for a week.

Then I eventually stumbled upon a fantastic tool to share computer, called Synergy.

With it you can share your computer keyboard and mouse with another computer. It’s really straightforward. You’re on your master computer, where you type and navigate with the mouse, then you just go to the edge of your screen and the mouse go to the other computer screen. At this point you can do any action on the other computer without switching mouse or keyboard.

And this is when I realized I didn’t even need some newer computer. Now I work on my laptop, so I can go mobile anytime I want without the hassle of synchronizing. And on my desktop I have all secondary apps either in portable version or installed on my desktop.

The portable apps are mail client, for instance, everything I really need to be able to share, they’re running from an external drive than I can take with me and plug anywhere I want.

The apps on the desktop are more p2p, mp3, etc. These are the ones I can let at home for a couple of days and not miss them.

So if you have a slow computer and you want to boost your productivity, instead of buying a brand new machine, get one extra old computer with screen (ask to family or friends, I’m sure there is one in someone’s attic). Install synergy, and share the load between the two machines. Not only working on two screens will make you able to do some tasks much faster, but you also won’t need to spend some money on a new machine, while many “old” machines are powerful enough for most of your tasks.

And I recommend that you install Linux on one of the machines. Whether or not you intend to program and do technical stuffs, it’s a great experience to work on the unix system.

Ok, last note, I’m going away for three weeks of holidays… One week enjoying the fine food and wine in the south of France, then one week surfing on the atlantic coast. Last week will be with my family, then I’ll come back to work!

I still have a great post to share with you. It’s a full description of a money making project I can’t do because of lack of time, so instead of letting it rot away, I prefer to share it with you… In case I have the time to write it before my holidays you’ll get it otherwise I write to you in august!

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Ok, so you want to make a profitable website?

And you are still stuck with no idea?

You wish you could go back 3 years ago with your current knowledge, and be able to build the killer website that will make money?

But whatever idea you have, it has already been done and you have no chance to compete with websites that were made years ago.

Here’s a tip.

In case you didn’t know, it is possible to create an exe application from HTML. (Sorry I don’t have the software name in mind and I’m not at home now to find it).

So here’s what you do :

- Pick a popular website idea… e.g. a videos website, a games cheats database, a myspace layouts collection.

- Find the most visited websites for the idea you’ve chosen . Get help from Alexa and Compete (I use Firefox’s free extension called SearchStatus, it displays the Pagerank, Alexa and Compete values for every website you visit). Then copycat what seems to be working, and also steal the best ideas about ads placements.

- Make the page that you will transform into an exe file. This page can simply redirect immediately to your website homepage. Or it can be a custom page if you don’t need a redirection to your whole website.

- Create an exe from this page.

- Create a small installer script, that will create an executable to install your program on the user computer. I like NSIS, a free script-based installer maker written by the guys who made winamp. But you can pick anyone you want.

- And finally submit your final installer to shareware repositories. Give it a name which is composed of keywords.

Let’s say you have made a blog where you post some funny videos from youtube. Call your file “Daily funny videos”, with a description such as “A program that brings you daily doses of funny videos”.

And that’s it, because you put it on the shareware websites, when someone is looking for “funny videos”, he will get all the results of the shareware sites (because they rank high in the SERP) pointing to your exe. And the guy who gets your exe will go to your website. You pass over all the other people who’ve made the same kind of site. And another advantage, it’s better than a bookmark, once the guy has the exe installed on his computer, he’s more likely to come back to your site, rather than having a bookmark lost in dozains of others.

So here you go, just start to list all the “old” ideas of money websites, and see which one you want to implement, and take advantage of the easy instant and free traffic that this method brings.

And an extra tip, what I recommend is to be creative, so instead of creating another myspace layouts website, I’d rather write some online software on the website, and make an exe out of it. You can even steal it if you don’t know how to program.

For instance, you search for an online javascript-based Mortgage estimator. You save the page, edit the HTML to keep only the javascript function and parts of the HTML, you write a new layout around. And you put some Mortgage affiliates links to get commissions! Make an exe from it and you’ve got your Mortgage estimator software to distribute…

Think of all high paying sponsors and try to do a google search on “online calculator” + niche name from the sponsor. You’ll find plenty of ideas.

Go to work now!

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1) Buy/steal any ebook that explains how to make money…

2) Paraphrase it, and write your own. Usually a 40 pages document full of shit is enough. Do not forget to fill it with affiliate links in case of some fool would actually follow the outdated/crappy advices you put in it

3) Make an annoying website that tells one is gonna make 1 million within next month if one downloads your ebook for a nice price (your price must end with a 7, why ? Because years ago someone did some study somewhere that says that if you end your price with the number 7, you’re gonna sell your shit much more. And, funny thing, everyone still believes it). So let’s say $47.77

Of course don’t forget to put intrusive javascript of a fake sale agent on your website so the poor guy is annoyed until he agrees to buy your crap.

4) And because you’re cheap, don’t buy google adwords. Instead, search for a list of marketing blogs that talks about making money (there is a gazillion of such blogs - mine included). Then spam blindly each owner and say you loved their blog (that you actually didn’t even look at), and you’re looking for a great business partner, and the guy seems to be the one. But he’s got to hurry otherwise you’ll have to find another partner. The deal is simple. He writes a post on his website telling how great your ebook is and that everyone who wants to make money should buy it, and by the way his readers can have a great deal… $37,77 instead of $47.77, but only for the first 500 (even if the poor guy has only 30 readers).
What does he get in exchange? 50% of any sale of your ebook made through his website.

Don’t laugh, all this sounds terribly lame, but it actually works, at the cost of clueless/naive people who are desperate to make money.

I’ll repeat it over and over, because I want people to avoid such trap : There is a ton of money on the internet, plenty of opportunities, you can literally make money out of thin air. but THERE IS NO SHORTCUT. Only CONSISTENCY will bring you the money. You don’t know where to start? Look at my beginners project to make money through newsletter and start TODAY. And don’t give up.

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This is a quick post that summarizes the strategy I’ve been using to create adult websites.

Some reader asked me a few questions by email, and I eventually gave him most of the info that can make you hit big bucks, IF YOU ARE CONSISTENT, so I thought I could share it with you as well.

Why am I sharing this? Because this is a project that would require 1h per day for 3-6 months before it starts making money, so I know that 99,9% of you won’t do it. But for the braves who dare to put the little effort, you’ll get rewarded a lot.

So the plan is the following:

- Buy one .com domain
- get a $5 shared hosting
- install 10 blogs on subdomains from your .com (Use different templates)
- each one is an adult niche, e.g. : polish teen fetish redheads, polish teen fetish blondes, polish teen fetish brunette, etc.
- put some automatic content, mix it with RSS from sponsors. This can be text, galleries, videos.
- your subdomains link to your main .com, and you main .com is a blog regrouping all niches content (remix it a bit if possible): in my example your main blog would be: “polish teen fetish”
- submit your blog to adult directories, install links exchanges, post links to your blogs
- create and submit TGP/MGP, it still a good source of traffic

And your goal is to rank high enough in the SERP to get organic traffic (which converts much better than free traffic)
To achieve that:
- Buy a couple of .com; To host them, you can either use other paid hosting OR free hosting. The only point is to have each of your website on a different IP
- Create a couple of adult-oriented websites but NOT porn or sex (e.g. talking about partner relationships)
- Get links to those website, it’s easier because it’s not porn, do it the whitehat way so you’ve got hundreds of possibilities.
- The goal? Getting a good number of backlinks, good pagerank on your website. You don’t care if the traffic is good or not, you just care for the backlinks.
- Then when your websites get trusted (high PR, 6 months of existence at least), put on them links to your porn websites. Because it is adult content, the LSI google algorithm won’t penalize you (if you’d put link from a “gardens” or “recipes” website to your porn websites, that’d be a different story…)
- And you will just need a couple of high PR websites linking to your porn website to make it rank high enough, if you’re using some creative niches…

REMEMBER: For the niches… Go deep, don’t take “amateur teen” as a niche, but “amateur first-time blonde shaved teen”… Make a list of keywords to get nice ideas, and mix them…

Let’s break down the work

The one-time setup would be:
- make your porn blogs (install wordpress+SEO+templates+automatic content setup with wp-o-matic)
- make your adult websites (create 10-15 pages from articles/scraped contents, then rewrite/improve the content by hand
- setup links exchanges

Then work everyday at least 30 min. A typical day could be:
- content is automatically created to each blog. no work, just check that your blog is alright.
- create and submit TGP/MGP
- get some manual backlinks to your non-porn websites
- get also a few backlinks to your porn websites, but you don’t need too many, only relevant ones

During the process:
- look if you can automatize tasks through macros programs (Selenium!)
- look at your stats, and refine your porn blog (test banners positions, ads types, etc.)
- find other ways to get traffic

Starting from scratch, try to improve the traffic of your porn blog (read in adult biz forums to get tips), it should take 3-6 months to see any result anyway, then after 6 months, if you were consistent and you see that your porn blogs traffic is good enough, put the links on your non-porn websites, and watch your porn blog traffic rises.

And then, ONLY then, expand your empire to 10 or more other blogs.

Once the system is setup and the traffic is coming, that’s passive income, you can either go to sleep and count the money, or grow your empire, or work on other projects (as I do)

There are probably many details missing in this plan, but basically I listed the important info, for the rest you can find the answers to most of your questions by a simple google search, and of course you can always send me a mail if you have specific questions.

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Following my article The fastest way to write content, I wrote the script that spins for you articles.

http://www.ideasbeta.com/articles/

You just need to create your templates, and add some keywords, then you can generate dozains of unique articles.

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