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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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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I’m taking a bit of time to give you a few tips about writing an e-book,

But before a few updates.
I’m still getting emails for the adult blog project, and the waiting list goes very long, but the good news is, I’m currently experimenting an evolution of the adult blog project, mixed with the be a whore post, added to some of the latest moneymaking tips I got. If it goes well, I’ll create an adult blog project v2, still free and still private. And Everybody on the waiting list will get access to this new project.

Besides I’m having 2 other projects to share with you but no time to prepare them yet!!! So probably you’ll discover them around may or june, so if you didn’t do it yet, subscribe to my RSS feed to be sure not to miss those.

Now, why do I say that you have to write an e-book? I’ll tell you my little story.
I began in the business of internet marketing in 2004 when I decided to write an ebook.
You know the trick: You choose a subject that you know. You write an ebook. You sell it, and you become rich.
Of course it doesn’t work so easily, but it was a good project, I learned many things, and it really got me started in this business.
It took me around 6 month working part-time, because I knew nothing at the time… SEO? Affiliate? What? I had to learn everything along the way.
I picked up a subject, wrote a 50 pages ebook about it.
I did some keyword research with wordtracker, and registered a domain with those keywords, then set-up and SEO’ed a website.
I did some backlinks building, nothing fancy, mostly by hand.

I waited then for the money to flow, but nothing, I was really disappointed (first lesson, don’t expect to become rich so easily!) so I didn’t take care anymore about the website. But after 6 months, I got my first sale! Still it wasn’t enough to make me spend more time marketing it. (first mistake, you always have to be patient, and put the effort to make money). Anyway after one year, when I checked the sales, I realized that I had made $600! Totally passive income. Imagine if I had worked a bit more to get more traffic.
I had to close it for some personal reasons, but I decided to re-open it in 2006.
Meanwhile, some domain squatters had already bought my domain to put some domain parking on it
So I used the same name and added “tips” : “xxxxx.com” became “xxxxxtips.com” so I could have the same keywords in the domain name
And I added a blog.
This one is really what everyone should do when they sell an ebook.
You look at any ebook landing page, you see it is always this big white page with a long speech and testimonials. They all look the same.
But by adding a blog, I think it gives some trust to the people, because

1) you give some info to people, if it is good enough, they see you’re not going to sell them a crappy ebook.

2) By seeing some activity, they know that your site is still maintained, it doesn’t looks like old stuff (even if you wrote your ebook 4 years ago like me).

What’s my routine? I write a short article on the blog, every two month. If my article is too big, I cut it in several pieces.
I wait a bit to get my new post indexed by Google.
Finally, I go to those articles directories, and submit my article to get some traffic/backlinks.

I have maybe a dozain of articles since 2006, and spend an evening once every two months for writing the new article, but I could write more articles if I wanted to market more my ebook.

Results? I get a steady 150 visits per day and make a couple of hundreds per month.
Having a blog really increase my organic traffic and my sales.

So I advise you to write an ebook, it’s not a big instant moneymaker, but with consistance and patience, you can get a nice passive income.
And you’ll learn many things along the way.
There is the majority of people who try to make money on the internet and fail/don’t make a lot. I believe that one thing that the successfull minority has, is patience and consistence. Yes, you can try to make big and quick money, but ALWAYS work on some long-term side project, even if you earn nothing now.

It’s like the stocks market. You can make a lot of money quickly but it is not easy. Or you can make good money on the long-term if you take some safe stocks that you know for sure they work with time. But of course, it is more boring, and you need more patience.

Some long-term project is basically everything that involves creating your website around a subject you know: Sell an ebook, but could also be to set-up a community through a forum, or create a resources website (like those myspace goodies websites)…
You have plenty of opportunities, just take action now!!!

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Hi guys, this blog has been quiet for a while, I must say that I spend quite some time for support on the adult blogs project, and the newsletter project.
I can also say that the second starts to give some good results for a few people who are delivering the effort, so I’m happy with it.
I’ve got a big dilemma because it’s really difficult to add more people to these projects, as it would spoil some of the tricks, and besides I have at least 3 other new projects that I could share with you, but if I would open sections for them, I would not have the time for my own work anymore. I have to think of a solution about this.

Anyway, meanwhile, I am experimenting with a funny little project that I will describe soon on this blog, I call it “Be a whore”, because it is not far from it. As you must imagine, this is another adult related thing.

But today I want to give a warning about “Google adwords for free”.

You can find several ebooks on the subject, that promise to give some trick to use adwords and still not pay for your ads.
As this seemed too good to be true, I have read several of those ebooks, and I must say that those promises are among the most misleading I have seen in my experience of crappy ebooks.

Let’s take again the sentence:
“Don’t pay for your adwords click”

And let me explain you the trick which is explained in the ebooks (I’m gonna save you the money):

1 - Set adwords ads to attract people to your website.
2 - Sell something on your website, so you earn more money than you spend on adwords.

Voila, because you earn more than you spend, one can say you are not paying for your adwords click.

Who said “Are you fucking kidding me?” ???

This is really the kind of marketing ebook that I hate, not only because you waste your money on it, but also because it is another evidence to make you feel that you can’t make money on the internet, which is of course false.

So be warned, if you find anyone who wants to sell you a secret not to pay adwords, don’t trust it at all.

But I will not leave you without a good tip to get similar to Adwords, but for free. I could make an ebook out of it, and I won’t be surprised when someone will do it.
Anyway, my advice is: Get registered on Google Local Business.
In case you don’t know, Google Local Business allows any company to register and gives its info, including its URL. The info will be displayed during a Google search when relevant, at the top of the page, making it even more visible than adwords. And IT IS FREE.
Register at Google Local Business

Be careful to choose a real address as there will be a verification letter sent to you.
And as today there are still a lot of good opportunities, e.g.:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=dating+dallas
vs
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=dating+miami

So see you soon and be ready to “be a whore”

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Hi everybody,

I have opened the private section for the project “Make money by creating your newsletter“.

Subscription is FREE, but LIMITED.

In the private section, I am sharing more powerful tricks to increase the effectiveness (and reduce the effort) of the project. You can guess that I can’t release the tricks openly, otherwise they would get spoiled, and would become useless.

If you want to be part of the private section, hurry-up, send an email to nlproject@ideasbeta.com

Note: Sorry, enough people have already answered and the subscription is closed.

Also, I am about to share some of my private ressource on another private section, stay tuned! It will be some powerful suff I use for one of my main sources of income : The 40,000 pageviews a day goal. I reached this goal since a while, and now, the infos/scripts and tools I used are mature enough to be shared with a few people who are really motivated to make it this year.

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First of all I wish you a happy and successful new year.

Since I started my blog, I have often received emails of people asking for help, they were trying to make money on the internet, but were unsuccessful.
This is a real problem for many, you can get a lot of information on how to make money, but usually, there is too much overload, and it is difficult to find THE way to achieve it. It always seems like a race to find THE information that will make you rich.
So let me give you the big secret.

To make money on the internet you have two choices :
- either you know THE place or THE people that will give you THE secret,
- or you jump in the swimming pool, and learn to swim.

The first one is not impossible, but it will take you time anyway. Don’t expect people leaking out their big secrets for nothing, unless you happen to be the best friend of one of those people, but even then, you’re in a bad position because when THE big secret will not be “hot” anymore, you will be helpless to make money.
So you can spend the time to “network”, and with time you will “virtually” meet the ones who can give you good tips, but anyway, at this point you will have to be good too, and also be able to give other people nice tips. So, in the end, it is not more different than the second choice : jump in the pool, and learn to swim.
And this is where most people are failing, they read a lot of information, but they never put their mind into one project, so they read, try something for a while, fail, and repeat.
Even worse, many people actually NEVER start to work on one project, they will find a thousand excuses, that’s exactly like when you want to stop smoking all year long but never start it.

The internet is like the gold rush era… Anyone can be successful, it doesn’t depends on your family, your relations, your skin color… But you can’t expect to dig a bit and immediately find big nuggets!

So the first big secret to be successful in making money on the internet is… Start a project! Yes, read it again: Start a project. You can read a zillion blogs with great ideas, but you’ll only get the USEFUL knowledge with EXPERIENCE. So, whatever you might think, even if a project seems totally out-of-date, just start it now because even if you don’t make money, you’ll get experience. And little by little, you’ll get the good knowledge, you’ll start to know the tricks, the people, share ideas, make money and then it’s a virtuous circle: you’ll make more and more money, until you’re one of the $50K+ a month club.
But you must start today.

The second secret to really make it, and this is probably the most important is to be CONSISTENT. Don’t give up too quickly on one project. Usually it takes months before you start to really get results. I know everybody wants everything fast “yeah I’m on a diet to lose 8 pounds a month”, come on, GET REAL, how do you see yourself in exactly one year? Do you want to have some money-making online business, or still be searching for THE great idea?

The third big secret, is: don’t forget that the internet is huge, the sky’s the limit.
Not every project is profitable, but when you make money with one, try to EXPAND it.
I do myself the mistake of working on new projects regularly, instead of taking my successful projects and expanding them. I can do it, because I can afford it, but for most of you, you want to make enough in order to pay your bills first. When you will have several profitable money-making machines, you can allow you to digress like I do and have fun on new projects, but FIRST create ONE good source of income.
The very good advantage with the internet is that it is GLOBAL and it is HUGE, and it with the same amount of effort, your earnings don’t add, they multiply. It might take you 3 months before you make $1 a day, but with the same effort on the same project, it will take you another 3 months to make maybe $10 a day, and 3 months later you could be doing $50-$100 a day. Within next year you could reach the $500-$1000 a day if you’re consistent enough. I am not joking. But most of people will not put the consistency into one project, and many will not even really start it.

Much later, you can start to think about multiple streams of income, but not now, first get ONE good project, and do it to the max.

I found an interesting idea in another blog: instead of choosing good resolutions for this new year, you should choose only ONE WORD which will guide you through the year. I think this is great, and to paraphrase it, I’ll ask you to choose ONE project and do it all year long. You might try other projects IN PARALLEL, but don’t give up on this one project during 2008. Take any you want, maybe one that you wanted to do since ages, or a new one that you find exciting, don’t worry to know if it is “hot stuff” or “so 2005″, just start it and put some effort into it.
And come back in one year to tell me how much you’ve earned.

So, as promised, I have detailed in my last post the project idea I’ve worked on, I tried to be creative, twist some ever-working ideas and update them with some recent strategies, my starting point was to find an idea that a beginner could do, without investing any money.
More seasoned people will already have ideas to improve it, and also there are a few hot tips that would make the system much more efficient, but I can’t reveal them openly, so I’ll create another “private” project, like I did with the adult blogs project. I will limit the subscriptions to 40 people, and IT WILL BE FREE, just like the adult blog project. But don’t worry, even if you are not part of it, you can take the public information, do the project and make money with it. It is just that I have to limit some tips to a limited number of people or they would become useless… Stay tuned!

And let’s get working!

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I updated my Free Pad Submitter, cleaned faulty websites and added a couple of new ones.

The main change is  that it is now multi-threaded, and thus goes as fast as your internet connection is!

I am sorry I didn’t release the full version yet, I am quite busy but I am going to put some work this month to be able to release the v1.0

Anyway, you can download it now.

Also I am still working on this new project which can be done by anybody, I feel like giving you the details already, especially because I know that during the christmas period, people have  some free time, so that would be perfect to start working and make some money. However I would like to experiment further to give you really good tips. Don’t hesitate to shout and leave a comment, say what you prefer… have the project details already, with still a few parts to tweak, or wait another month and get the full report?

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Should you use subdomains or subdirectories when creating multiple websites under one domain? 
This is a recurring question, so let me treat it here with more attention.

First you have to understand that subdomains are considered by Google as different domains.
e.g.:
http://my1.ideasbeta.com
http://my2.ideasbeta.com
http://my3.ideasbeta.com

are considered as 3 domains
whereas

http://www.ideasbeta.com/my1
http://www.ideasbeta.com/my2
http://www.ideasbeta.com/my3

are obviously considered as 1 domain.

When you do a search on google, it tries to find the correct results into its database for EACH domain.
So let’s say you have 10 subdomains with some similar content, you might appear ten times in Google results (I said similar, non duplicate).
And if you have the same content on one domain with subdirectories, you will be displayed one time.

Do you start to see the advantages of using subdomains?
Be careful though to create several pages on each subdomain. If you just create many subdomains with only a few pages, it can be considered as spam by Google.

Now if you think that subdomains are considered as different domains, another interesting (mis-)use is to have many subdomains, all of them indexed through links on other “trusted” websites.
Then have all the subdomains point to one main domain. Voila, you get a powerful link building technique.

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This one applies to any kind of website, whether you want to be totally white and make a clean blog or just care to make money, whatever way.
You keep on hearing that “CONTENT IS KING”, which is of course not the exact truth, but definitely, if you have unique content and that content makes some sense, it will help a lot to get more traffic.

Before trying to get links back to your website or blog, adding content regularly is one the keys to make it successful, no doubt.

The problem is that good content takes time to write.

So here is a shortcut: Using content templates.
Just as you can use a design template to create the look of your website, you can use a content template to create the content.
Even better, you can reuse a good content template to create content for another one of your blogs/websites.

So it is in your interest to create a collection of content templates. There are a lot of application.

Let’s say you have a totally whitehat blog.
You can use a different template every week to quickly write a post. More content, good! And you still write the rest of your website manually.
You take another template and you write an article from it, with your link in it of course, then submit it to a couple of articles directories. It’s a couple of hundreds free links back to your website in a few months!
You could even go further, take a couple of templates, write a nice report from them, transform it in PDF. Good, that’s a report you can give for free on your website in exchange of a contact email, or even sell it for $0.01 on ebay, and make a bit of extra advertising to your website.

Let’s say now you have a blackhat website.
You could automatise the process of using templates. Create unique and non-spammy content out of it.
There are even other possibilities, just use your imagination.

But, hey what is what you call “content template”?
You can get here an example I wrote : Content template example.
It’s the format I use, but of course there is no rule. The point is to have a text file from which you can QUICKLY, create a UNIQUE article, with a good dose of KEYWORDS in it.
As you see in my example, the template contains a bunch of sentences such as the following:

Have you {ever|already} tried {one day|yet|anytime} to {find|search for|bring to light|bump into|discover|come across|get|locate|spot} the {best|greatest|most informative|top|supreme|rocking|top-notch|unmatched|unsurpassed|unparalleled|very best} website about [keyword] ?

When a list of words is between {}, it means one of them has to be chosen. And when there is [keyword], it must be replaced by one term from your list of keywords.
Of course, you’ll have to make a keyword research before you use the template. So if you want to write an article about “cheap insurance”, let’s say you have keywords surch as : “cheap insurance”, “low cost insurance”, “cheap insurance rates” etc.

The above sentence would be transformed from:

Have you {ever|already} tried {one day|yet|anytime} to {find|search for|bring to light|bump into|discover|come across|get|locate|spot} the {best|greatest|most informative|top|supreme|rocking|top-notch|unmatched|unsurpassed|unparalleled|very best} website about [keyword] ?

into:

Have you already tried yet to discover the top-notch website about cheap insurance rates ?

So you can imagine it is very easy to generate one full article in a couple of minutes from one template.

But then, you are probably already thinking “Cool, but the hard work is to create templates!”.
Not at all, it is quite easy to create a template if you follow the same procedure as me.

First you need to write an article. Yep sorry, you have to write at least once. It is tiring, you may not like it, but think of it as an invesment. Spending half an hour writing an article will give you the possibility of generating dozains of unique articles out of it.

Just take one subject, ok let’s say again “cheap insurance”, and let’s do a little calculation. We want a 5% of keyword density into the article. So for 400 words, you’re going to put your keyword 20 times in the article. (Remember that keyword density calculation changes according to search engines, so that’s a rough guess. You might want to check it later with one of the various tools that exist online).

I’ll give one article I wrote as an example using this keyword: click here.

If it is too difficult to write an article for a specific keyword, you can try to write a generic post talking about something unknown. Take “XXXXX”, and try to write some sentences like this:
“You’ve just got some problem about XXXXX. Or perhaps you want to change and check if there are other XXXXX possibilities?
Maybe you just want to have a look at XXXXX, nothing more. No matter what your desire is, you will find you can be overwhelmed with the variety of choices! Snap out of it, XXXXX can be easy to find if you look at the right place, the one I am going to tell you.”

When your article is written, the fun starts. Open first a thesaurus, there is this one I like http://thesaurus.reference.com/, but you can choose your own, there are many available.
The process is to start taking every word in your article and search synonyms for them. This way you can rewrite your article piece by piece.

E.g., for the sentence:

Have you already tried yet to discover the top-notch website about cheap insurance rates ?

it becomes first:

Have you {ever|already} tried yet to discover the top-notch website about cheap insurance rates ?

then:

Have you {ever|already} tried {one day|yet|anytime} to discover the top-notch website about cheap insurance rates ?

then:

Have you {ever|already} tried {one day|yet|anytime} to {find|search for|bring to light|bump into|discover|come across|get|locate|spot} the top-notch website about cheap insurance rates ?

etc. until:

Have you {ever|already} tried {one day|yet|anytime} to {find|search for|bring to light|bump into|discover|come across|get|locate|spot} the {best|greatest|most informative|top|supreme|rocking|top-notch|unmatched|unsurpassed|unparalleled|very best} website about cheap insurance rates ?

And finally the article will look like this.

You’re almost done. Now, check your keyword density if you want, and finally replace your keyword by a general tag (e.g. [keyword]).

The final content will be like this:

Have you {ever|already} tried {one day|yet|anytime|for good|month after month} to {find|search for|bring to light|bump into|discover|come across|get|locate|spot} the {best|greatest|most informative|top|supreme|rocking|top-notch|unmatched|unsurpassed|unparalleled|very best} website about [keyword] ?

Here is the final result to download.

So that’s it, you can create a bunch of templates really quickly, and you’ll be able to reuse those templates for many occasions.

And I even wrote the script to put this into practice:

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

Have fun!

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Please don’t read that post if you’re not major in the country you are living.

Which means if you’re not at least 18 or 21 years old, according to your country, you should go there.

If you are major, you can read “More”.
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