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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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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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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I’m finishing my tests with my Adult blog V2, so far, I’ve reached $130 with one blog in 10 days, for 1 day of setup + 1 hour of work every day. Not that much yet, but I’m gonna stop working on it, and see how much more it makes.

I’m also testing the sponsor, I should be receiving my first payment soon.

What I’m really happy about it is how I manage to create a powerful moneymaker, thanks to the experience of the first adult blogs project.

The problems with the first blog project were:

- not too easy to setup

- generating traffic was a bit tedious

- sales were difficult to get, the sponsor was not so easy to market

- it was more a long-term project, it took months to make sales

The good things were:

- the blog was a “set and forget”, once done, you didn’t have to take care of it

- if you like adult videos/pics, it was fun

- you could expand it and make a big network (=big money)

So I decided to keep the advantages and find new solutions to get rid of the disadvantages. And I’ve managed quite well. Now the adult blog v2 has the following good points:

- damn easy to setup (requires some html knowledge though)

- generating traffic is a breeze thanks to a couple of techniques + some automation tools I’ve written

- sales seems good. As written above I’m at about $13 a day for 1h a day, and I’ve not even yet optimized my work, I’m still testing many things. I already know how to add a 10-15% increase within a few days AND multiply the figure by 2 or 3 after a month or two (yes that means one blog could generate up to $50 a day, and you can setup as many blogs as you want).

- it’s short term for sure (The first day I did my blog, the second day I started to market it and made the first money within 24h). I don’t know if it would work long-term but I’m pretty sure this can last one year at least.

- the blog is a “set and forget”, once done, you don’t have to take care of it

- if you like adult videos/pics, it is fun

- you can expand it and make a big network (=big money)

So, as promised, everyone who wrote me to be part of the adult blog project v1 will be able to take part of the v2. I’ll have to finish my testing. Basically I’m waiting to receive my money from the sponsor to certify that the method work, and after it will be a question of fine-tuning.

I’ll contact the people who wrote me, and be aware that I’ll put some kind of “activity control” for this project, because I want everyone to really do the work and to make the money. I think this will be unique and very interesting, because when you take part of any project on the internet, no one is looking at you to see if you’re working. On the opposite, usually people are selling subscriptions, and their goal is to have consumers who are paying but lazy and never make money so they need to stay subscribed. I’ll do the opposite, there will be some dashboard where people will see what task they’ll have to do on a weekly basis, and they’ll be controlled. By doing that, they’ll make the money and I’m sure it will be a good motivation to start. And the people who are lazy and don’t care of earning money will be out of the project,so other people can have their slot.

And since this project is private (it’s necessary that not too many people are doing it in order to keep its effectiveness), I will also write a post about a different project, a whitehat/greyhat one, nothing to do with adult, I don’t have the time to implement it, so I want to give it to you so maybe some of you test it, hopefully make some money, and share their results…

Write you soon,

Alan

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So here we go for that little project I’ve been playing with.
The good part – It doesn’t require any investment, and you can start making money within a few days, if not today.
The bad part – It’s kinda weird. I’m telling you, even if I had reasonable success with it, I don’t think I will go on doing it. It can be fun on the begin, but it gets old very fast.

And a warning : It is again an adult project, so if you were shocked by my adult blogs project, don’t EVEN read the following.

So what is the idea? Again, like everything about sex on the internet, that’s quite simple : Taking advantages of the poor horny guys who are trying to meet girls on the web.

You might already know that the dating industry is big, and companies are fighting to get their share. Especially since social websites (e.g. myspace) have appeared, where it is easy to meet people (at least virtually).

So for this, you can target either dating sites or social websites.

The idea here is to pretend to be a sexy girl, and trick pervs into subscribing to affiliate adult websites. There are a bunch of adult websites that will pay you up to $75 for every people who subscribe to them, through your affiliate link. And there are many desperate guys, who don’t care to pay. Your job is to make both meet.

To find people, I went to a dating website, and created a fake profile, uploaded a few pictures of a hot girl, pretending to be searching for a casual relationship with older guys.
Another way was to make a fake profile on a social website, and start sending friends invitations to get people to see my profile.
What would be better?
- Being on a dating site, you are sure that many guys will contact you, the only problem is that they are looking to date a girl, not registering to another website, so the task is gonna be a bit more difficult.
- Being on a social site, you can buy a bot that automatically send invitations to get friends. But you can be sure that with a bot, many other people will do the same and it will be more difficult to get responses. The other solution is to attack a social website that is less known (avoid myspace, facebook, tagged…). But of course it is going to be some stupid work to add new friends.
On the whole, you must remember that you’ll have to contact a large number of people before getting results. Don’t expect to contact 50 people and earn $1000. You’ll need more than that.
This is why I would advise the dating site, you can be sure to get 100′s of men trying to contact you if you put the right pics (Think student girl – hot but believable, avoid model pics – mix hot pictures with more casual pictures. Hint: I love webshots.com to find plenty of pictures).
You could even create several profiles, why not? But don’t start too big.

I registered to one dating website which I believe is not very popular, but has a good number of profiles – very good, enough users to work on, but no competition. To find it, I just did a google search, and read opinions about it to know if there was some activity. Compete.com is also a good indicator to check a site popularity.

I forgot to tell you, you need to register to one of those adult websites, as an affiliate. Before registering, be careful and read the TOS, because you’re gonna market the adult site through online chat – This is often referred as Instant Messenger Marketing – and many sites don’t allow that.
I used Camkingscash they allow such marketing method, and actually even give you a full training ebook, their ebook is a good read, just don’t go to the websites they list to find customers, because as you can imagine, other people have already done it there, and opportunities are scarse. I switched to Dating Gold. Better find yourself some websites with no competition (easy, just use google).

Once you get your affiliate link, note it, and start to prepare yourself. In the webcams programs, you can select a model to promote. Choose one whose face is not visible, and get on webshots some pictures of a girl who could be the model. You should actually do that BEFORE creating your fake profile on the dating site.

Register on AIM or MSN, that’s what you will use to chat with the guys later. Be sure to get a good IM software, I like to use Gaim, because with it, you can chat with several identities simultaneously.

So far, not so much work, but already time to chill, wait a few hours, before the next step.

Then, look on the dating site if you already got some messages of guys who are interested in you, otherwise start to send messages to random men such as:
“Hi sweetie, my name is xxx! I have seen your profile and maybe we can chat, my AIM address is xxx otherwise I have a MSN address : xxxx”
If you got some people contacting you, reply with the same kind of message. Don’t waste time, don’t try to be nice, just give them your IM address.

Later, fire up your IM, and wait for people to chat with you. When I did that, on the begin I was disappointed, because I had no one contacting me, so during that time, I was contacting random people on the dating site, sending them my IM address. And eventually my contacts added up. So keep on getting new contacts, it is very important.

Then what’s going to happen when you talk to the guy ?
As for my story, I was presenting myself as a wild student, who is trying to pay her bills by doing some cam show.
The key is to go to the point. My mistake at first was to try to be friendly with the guys, but that was not working. Be aware, the guys who are willing to pay for cam shows are people who are there to have sex, even if it is virtual.
It’s gonna be your role : Being a whore. And that’s the disturbing part of the job, you’ll have to talk dirty with guys, pretending to be a girl.
So, when you start to chat, be direct, start by asking their age and sex.
Then you be straightforward. What worked for me was to say things like “oh I’m happy to chat with you, I liked your profile, and I am a bit nervous because I am going to start my shift at work”
the guy of course always asks me what is my job… Be funny and wild! “I am flipping burgers, totally naked, in front of a webcam” Guys always crack up to this… So I add “Ok, I am not flipping burgers, but the rest is true…“.
Your strategy is to get the guy horny… because when all the blood will be down his pants, he won’t think logically and he’ll register to your affiliate link. So, open the dating site during your chat session, so you can look at his profile and give him compliments, and be provocative and dirty. THINK ABOUT PORN MOVIE LINES!!!!
Don’t waste more than 10 minutes on a guy, at the end of the conversation tell him to register, give him your aff link, it’s usually free/ultra cheap ($1). Explain him that this way you and him can finish your stuff, otherwise you’ll have to chat with another guy eventhough you would prefer to finish with him. Remind him that you are a student who needs to pay the bills, and if he doesn’t want to register… just cut the conversation and block him on your IM so you don’t need to chat again with him.
Anyway, every time after a conversation, block the guy, you don’t want to talk with him anymore, you want to talk with new guys who can brings you more cash!

So you get the idea. Get many contacts on your IM, chat with them, be dirty and explicit quickly. Get him horny, drop your aff link, and promise you’ll finish him during the webcam session. After 10 minutes, cut the chat and block him, whether it worked or not.
Chat with several guys at the same time, with multiples IM accounts… Repeat, repeat repeat.
You can do that an hour or two every day and quickly get some easy money.

Some stats on my experiment : one profile got me around 60 messages per day, and turned into 30-35 AIM adds. When connecting 2 or 3h in the evening (US hours), I could chat with 10-25 guys. Was doing my story, sending them hot pictures as well, and made from $40 up to $120, depending on the day.

The last questions :
- Is it profitable? Yes, you don’t invest any money, and potentially, you could make around $50-$100 per hour.
- Is it for you? Depends on yourself, if you feel comfortable with it. People there want SEX, you need to be dirty, that’s the only “skill” required.
- What’s the catch? The difficulty lies in your ability to find places where people are not already over-spammed. Don’t forget, Google can help you for that.
- Why don’t you like doing it? Because apart of the schizophrenic aspect of having to pretend to be a girl and have online sex discussions with unknown perverts, I found that this job was terribly repetitive and not very intellectually challenging. Besides, you can’t really automate it a lot, and if you read my other posts, you already know that automation is a must in my projects.

The final line… If you need a bit of money and are bored during a weekend, get a couple of movies, put yourself in front of the TV with your computer, and do this project as the same time. It’s always better to make a few hundred bucks than lazying around for nothing.

PS: If you try this, please use my aff link to register at DatingGold Thanks and good luck!

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Hi guys, I wanted to talk about one project I have done, which took me 60 minutes of my time and brought me $1500, plus an additional $500 for every year to come, if things go on well.
All this started by pure luck, about 6 months ago. I was at a friend’s party, when I heard my friend saying to a girl “hey you have to discuss with Alan, it’s his job to make websites and stuff on the internet”. Then the friend introduced me to that girl, and we started to talk.

She was starting a business, she was organizing “risk analysis” courses, and she would have like to have a website to get some customers.

I asked her: “What do you want exactly?” She didn’t know… By experience, I know that when you create a website for someone, you have of course to give choices, but you have to take decisions on many things, because if you start to rely too much on the guy’s decisions, he’s gonna drive you mad. He’ll say stupid things like “Oh I want that you put the menu 15 pixels more to the left, people will find my website more user-friendly”. And then you’ll spend hours to find the perfect green gradient that he likes, and getting headache because of changing the HTML a thousand times.

Therefore, I usually ask for what content the person want, ask if he has some idea of the organization of the pages, and if so, that he draws screens on the paper, indicating how he wants things to be displayed. And if the person doesn’t know anything, I just ask for the content, what kind of colour theme he wants, and then I find a couple of templates around that color, show it to the guy for him to decide which one he wants. Then I create the website, show it, ask for remarks, and make the modifications if they are not too big, and nothing more.

But I have to be honest, normally I only create websites for friends or family.
Because this situation happened to me a couple of times: I’m discussing with someone, and when I explain I do internet stuffs, he mentions he would need a website, so he asks how much it would cost if I do it.
I ask what he wants, he says “Oh some website with pages to put information about my business”.
I see that it will take 1 or 2 hours to do the job, so I tell him “Yeah I could make it but for the time it would take, I can’t make you pay more than $50″.
Then hell happens.
The guy eventually wants some website with an online shop, and makes me change 10 times the design because he doesn’t sell anything and he thinks it is because of the design. And when the website gets 1 visit per month, the guy will complain, and if I try to explain that if he wants some serious SEO, it would take me at least a few days, which would cost him at least a thousand $ (and that’s a friendly price), then the guy doesn’t understand why it cost $50 to make a website and $1000 to get some visitors… and eventually things turn bad…

But one friend asked me once last year to make a website for his association. Because he knew about my stories, he asked me to give him some rates that would NOT BE cheap, but similar to other web agencies. He could pay the price, but he preferred to have me because he knew I was going to do something good.
So I set up some rates, there were cheaper than any other companies, but it was enough to cover all the extra time I would be spending on that project to make things go right.

- $300: website one time setup fees, advices, basic SEO and getting listed on Google
- $20 per website page.

- $500 per year maintenance fees (include hosting, domain name, and minor changes on the website, i.e. all changes must be equivalent in total to less than a page every month).
- $20 to create a new page on the website
- $10 to do major changes on a page

These rates seem expensive if you compare to some indian hired on rentacoder.com, but people who come to see me for a website are people who don’t know shit about creating a website, and they wouldn’t be able to work with some freelance guy, because they don’t event know what they want. Saying “I need a website” is one thing, but defining exactly what needs to be done requires someone in front of you who can discuss with you.

If you live in a populated area, chances are that there are many professionals who don’t have a website because they don’t know who can help them, or it is too expensive for them, so you could actually build a profitable business around this. Go to small shops, find a few clients, get started, see how you can adjust your rates, and if you do a good job for a fair price, you’ll get clients by word of mouth.
I don’t do it because I already earn enough with my internet stuffs, but I think that searching “offline” to sell your “online” skills is really a good way to make a lot of money.
The main reason why people will not be interest in paying for a website is, of course, money.
And this is where my little story taught me something interesting.

When I asked what content she wanted to put on the website, the girl showed me a brochure she was always carrying with her, it was 4 pages, plus an additional page with courses and prices.
Frankly I wasn’t interested at all to work for her, even with my “high” fees, so I just popped a random rate out of my mind… “I’ll do it for $1000, plus $500 yearly fees.”
I explained her it was a bargain, because she would have to pay at least $2000 or $3000 if she went to a web agency.
But I could guess she wouldn’t spend that much money, and I was expecting that she was going to forget about it.

Indeed, she said it was too much, she couldn’t afford it… But she asked me, “if I pay $1500, how many customers can you send me?”
Of course, I couldn’t know, and I was not going to lie to her.
So I proposed her a deal… “I’ll do your website for $100, and everytime you get one customer through the website, you pay me $100, until you have paid the full $1500. But because your investment is only those first $100, you will have a website which takes the content of this brochure, nothing fancy, you can’t expect to have it fine-tailored.”
She was selling her courses for $400-$2000, so obviously, it was a good bargain for her, she really had nothing to lose…

I thought to myself “Ok I don’t have a clue if she will ever get one customer, but at least I will get $100 to make a 5 pages website, and she gets her website at a killing price, that’s fair enough”.

Still I wanted to see if I could get her some customers… That meant getting some good traffic, without spending time on it. I used my personal backlink network to make her website rank well, and decided to look at adwords… It was damn expensive, something like $2-$5 per click! So I used instead the trick I explained in my previous post: Getting listed on Google Local.
The whole thing took me around one hour to setup (creating the website using a template, buying the domain name, setting my backlink system to send some links to her website, and filling the google local subscription form).

I made one change once, to her request, but otherwise I didn’t touch anything on her website since, I was quite happy because I made some money without headache. She was happy because she got her website at a great price, and she actually liked the template so she didn’t have any problem with the design.

But guess what? The best was to come… Customers actually found her website, and I started to get money from her for every customer… And today I have officially sent her 14th customer! I earned my $1500 after 5 months, and, I repeat, the whole thing took my one hour of work.

It doesn’t seem much, 14 customers is less than one customer per week, the average traffic is around 15 visitors a day, but all of these customers pay several hundreds for a course! So she’s very happy with my work, and I’m very happy to have made that much money without all the fuss I had with previous people.

If I was doing that kind of deal like ONCE every TWO WEEKS, I would make $3000 per month, plus the future $500, which comes automatically every year.

Even if you don’t have the backlink system like mine, just getting the website listed on Google Local will make your client appear on top of the search result page. If possible, be careful to choose businesses that are not yet listed (e.g., avoid restaurants, or any profession which is already full of listings in your area).

But I know, you’re like me, and even the prospect of making that much cash is not enough to make you move.
Too bad, but if you are really looking for some money, take the rates I wrote above, just spend one or two days and go to small shops, preferably during quiet hours, talk to the owner, make a deal like I did, to pay a bit now, and the rest when results appear, try to find a contract or two, and see if it is worth doing it. Just think that if you have a free day, instead of spending it in front of the TV, just do what I say, at the very worst, your time will have been as useless as watching the TV. Chances are that you will find one contract and make maybe a $100 now, and a couple of hundreds over the next months. Not bad, but even better, you might be luckier, make a couple hundreds now, that will result in a couple thousands. So think again how you would like to spend your next free day.

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I have to say that the one year old Eli’s post about screensavers is still very popular, I often receive questions about it.
Please find below some interesting snippets of the answers I have given by email.

“I don’t use pay-per-install anymore, they are just spyware so, morality put aside, they are worthless because they eventually get detected by antiviruses… Which means that you could get blacklisted but even if you’re not, most people will have a warning from their antivirus when they try to install your screensavers… I had that and it really “killed” the site where I had all the screensavers with spywares… Even after I re-created all the screensavers to remove the PPI and still today the downloads numbers are low…
Installing it at reboot is worthless as well, I tried it, but my antivirus could even detect there was the PPI INSIDE my screensaver setup exe!!! So even when I clicked on my website to download the screensaver, I had a big “warning” from my antivirus and could not even download it… Someone told me that changing the signature of the PPI exe could make it invisible to antiviruses… I didn’t try it because at this point, I didn’t want to lose time with PPI anymore…
Monetizations options are pretty summed up in my blog… Changing the homepage, Open a page full of ads at the end of the screensaver’s install, using the pop-up generator to have ads on the user homepage. These are what is working best for me.”

“The calculation is easy… XXXXXXXX (PPI program, sorry for hiding the name) is just a program that display popups… With a good CPM sponsor, you can make around $4 per 1000 pageviews, which is $0.004 per pageview. After 25 pagesviews, you earn $0.10, which is what they pay you on average to have their exe installed. Remember that $0.45 is paid only for US traffic, the rest is paid less if nothing.
I bet they manage to open their 25 popups within the first half hour of use… It took me several hours to figure how to get rid of their spyware, and believe me I’m not the average windows user.
I would advise you to use my popup generator code (given in my post Shameless path to the dark side of money), install it during the screensaver setup.”
By the way, if you do this technique, please use my aff link when you subscribe to it: advertising365
“Well if you hesitate about which monetization strategy to choose, just do like me… get 2 websites!
You can then try to experiment different strategies on each website, and if one gets flagged, you will not lose everything, just repack the screensavers, put it on your non-flagged website, and you can even reopen a new second website to experiment another strategy!”

“On the “thank you” page I created, I went really blackhat: I put the CPM sponsor so I am sure to get some money, I did a horrible design (like flashy green and pink), except for the adsense box which has normal colors. The idea is to push the user to click on adsense because the page is too ugly and he wants to navigate away from it. Believe me this works good. On this page I put some text related to screensavers and a high paying keywords so adsense displays high paying ads (you can find a list of high paying keywords by a simple google search)
Finally I put a Adultfriendfinder ad on the page and it brings me a bit of extra cash.”

“DO put in your installer the option for the user to set or not the toolbar/ie start page. I know it is mandatory by the law. You could get in trouble if you don’t do it. But do like me, in your installer, get all installation options on one page. And put the toolbar/other options folded and ticked. Give them a generic name ( e.g. “install google page”)
99% of users will just click on “next” and not read what are all the options.”

“Regarding success, yes I have some, but it took me a lot of time, definitely this is not a project you want to do without automation, the good thing is that I did my first screensaver last year and it still brings me some money… So for now, when I look at the time I spent, I think it is not so profitable. But I would say that if it holds another extra year, then yes it was worth the time spent.

Reaching $100 a day with this project is very hard, if you intend to put the effort to reach that figure, there are more profitable project you can spend your time on.

But if you’re just looking for an extra $1000 a month, that’s doable.”

Tags: make money, SEO, monetization, grayhat, online marketing, blackhat

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.

Tags: blackhat, online marketing, make money, grayhat, monetization, SEO

I have created a free ebook “Making money for beginners” out of this article that you can download and redistribute.

Hi, here is the last project I have experimented, I am still working on it so part of it could still be improved.
I started this because I wanted to find a project that could be done by anybody, without investing money.
It is meant to get you started with making money, because that’s really the first big step to be successful on the internet: Get started.
With the information in this post, you should be able to make it, but of course there are parts that you can improve and also there are a few good tips to improve the full process, unfortunately I can’t reveal everything openly, so you’ll have to apply to the private section, which is FREE and will stay free, just like I did with my adult blogs project.
But don’t worry, even if you don’t join the private section, you can be successful by following all the instructions here.

So…. Here are the basic principles of the whole project :

1) Write a newsletter
2) Get subscribers
3) Send ads along your newsletter and get money.

And repeat…

Sounds simple? It is, and I already see some of you laughing “Hey that’s one of the oldest trick in the book”. Yes, exactly, and this is why it is the kind of project that can work really on the long-term.
The trick to make it successful, is to twist it with the current marketing tricks, and that’s what I will describe in this post.
But before, let me describe a bit more the 3 steps:

1) Write a newsletter
Don’t spend your time to write fully original content, you will aggregate and digest useful content that you will find elsewhere. People will like your newsletter because it will be a summary of interesting information about one subject of their interest.

2) Get subscribers
You’ll use social places to get subscribers, we’ll concentrate here on forums, even though later you can take advantage of other social medias (e.g. Facebook) to really explode your traffic, but these techniques will not be discussed here (see the private section). Anyway, since it would not work very well to directly advertise your newsletter on a forum sites, you’ll create instead a website (a blog is good), where you’ll put information about a niche. You can advertise your newsletter on your blog, as both will be related, and of course you will talk about your website on forums to get traffic. The key here is not to spam, it is to throw a link when it is relevant. On your blog, you’ll have to give an incentive to make your visitors subscribe to your newsletter… Again a little piece of useful information about the subject will be good (give a free ebook in exchange of their email).

3) Send ads
CPA networks allows you to get paid when people do some simple action like giving their zip code. The beauty of the newsletter is that you can send one offer to all your subscribers and most of them will read it, as it will come directly inside of their email box. The payout is usually quite good, and as long as you’re not flooding your subscribers with ads, they will keep on reading your newsletter.

Before going further, be sure you understand those 3 steps. If not, read again, and if you’re really stuck, ask a question in the comments of this post.

When you’re ready to start, here is the step-by-step process I followed:

I – Set your website.

a) Pick a subject
It is easier to start with one that you find interesting. Or maybe you want to start with one which is popular. I will soon write a post: The lazy and quick way to find a popular niche. Meanwhile, my advice is to start with something that inspire you.

b) Do a keywords research about your niche.
Don’t try to go too complicated yet, use one of those 3 ways :
* wordtracker: open a free account, it will be enough for a start
* adwords external keyword tool: who else better than google itself will give you the popular keywords?
* keyword elite, if you can afford it, will give you lots of keywords.

c) Create a blog, on a free blog host.
You are just starting, so you don’t want to invest money before knowing if it will generate money back.
So take some of the best keywords you have found, and open a free blog, with the keywords in the URL of your blog.
HOT TIP: if the URL is already taken, just add a number at the end.

d) Get content about your niche
For the sake of efficiency, get all your content in RSS format that you will read with Google Reader. Google Reader is a free and powerful RSS reader, so create one account and subscribe to all the feeds there. Personally, I like to do the full Google solution: Open one Gmail account for one niche, open a blogger blog, and use Google Reader, everything with the same Gmail account. And of course, when you create several blogs later, you can open one Gmail account for each niche.

* Search on “top stories” sites for content related on your niche. What is a top story site? It is a site like Digg, where you can do a search for a specific keywords, and get relevant stories for it. See below for a list of useful sites.
* For each search, get the corresponding RSS feed.
* Add the feed to your google reader.

Here are the most popular places, where you are likely to find the most interesting content. The idea is to get useful content, agregate it, maybe digest it a bit, and propose it back to save people’s time.

. Digg.com
. Ezinearticles.com (RSS with EvilRSS, see explanation below)
. Del.icio.us (RSS with feed43.com, see explanation below)
. StumbleUpon.com (RSS with feed43.com, see explanation below)
. Reddit.com
. Slashdot.org
. BlinkList.com
. Furl.net (RSS with feed43.com, see explanation below)
. Squidoo.com
. Google News
. YouTube

For some sites, like ezinearticles, the search function is a google search, so you can use a nice utility called EvilRSS. It will transform a google search into a RSS feed.

Have a look at Kebberfeg too.
It is a keyword-based RSS Feed Generator: Kebberfegg.
You enter a keyword, and will generate RSS feeds for you, really perfect for this project.

Finally, for websites that don’t propose RSS, create a RSS out of it with feed43.com.

e) Post content on your blog
Just get a bunch of interesting stories, and use it to create posts in your blog. OF COURSE, NEVER FORGET TO QUOTE YOUR SOURCES. You don’t want to steal other people’s content, you want to find the most interesting stories, take an excerpt, put it in your blog with a link to the original story.
You really want to create a blog that is an interesting place to find useful information about a particular subject on other websites.
In other word you just want to skim the cream of the milk for your reader.

f) Put a tracker on your blog
This one is really important, I always repeat it: Track everything you’re doing.
The 4 main stats you will want to know are:
. Which pages are popular: obviously, this is to help you to know what are the interests of your visitors
. How many people are visiting your website: to know if a niche is getting enough traffic or not
. From which countries are they: this will be needed for monetization, at some point your sponsors will ask it.
. Is your traffic increasing? If not, you’re not doing the good thing, try to post other kind of content.

II – Organise your list of places to promote

The best is to use a spreadsheet, do a search on discussions places that are related to your niche, and note all the results that seem good:
- search related forums on http://www.big-boards.com/
- search related forums with a Google search
- search related forums on Google Groups http://groups.google.com
- search related forums on Yahoo Groups http://groups.yahoo.com

III – Register to the forums

a) Setup your tools
There are many ways to have a form auto-fill option : Internet explorer, Google toolbar, Firefox formfiller addon, or even Roboform.
You’re going to register to several forums, so you better automate it.

b) Register on all forums (at least the most 10-15 relevant forums) – use different logins if possible, and note the important info (login, password… in your spreadsheet).

IV – Warm up

a) Start posting on the forums,
The easiest is to begin by introducing yourself, and/or answering to a few general posts. You want to be active in each forum, this is the way you will gain trust and be able to promote your blog without being a spammer. But building trust is going to be a regular job.

b) Setup a FORUM ROUTINE
List the forums to consult, one after another – do a post a day if possible to gain trust: it can be new post if it is relevant, or you can reply to discussions, or even better help other people (that’s the best to gain trust).
A second task to do every day on each forum, is to scan quickly the last posts of the forum and if you see you can post a quick answer immediately, do it, but don’t waste too much time. The best is to use a timer, at first you let yourself 10 minutes for each forum, it will take 2h if you post on around 15 forums, then every day you reduce the time by 10 sec., until you don’t need no more than a couple of minutes on each forum.
There’s a great Firefox Addon to save sessions and restore them later, it is called “Session Manager”, what I do is that the very first time I open every forum in a different tab, and save the session, then, everyday, in my routine, I just need to restore the session, and can post immediatly in each forum.

V – Build up your website

a) Setup a BLOG ROUTINE
Like for forums, you must define a routine to find some useful content to add to your blog.
Use your GoogleReader to locate very quickly interesting and relevant articles. Then post on your blog an excerpt with the link to the original website.

Do that for a while (at least 2-3 weeks), until you feel you have a good number of posts on the forums you’re member of (depends on forums, on some forums you would need 50 posts, on others only 10 are safe enough to post without being bashed). Follow your gut feeling, and if you are unsure, just delay the process from one week, and during this week, go on posting regularly both on forums and on your blog).

b) Work on creating a free product
During those first weeks, gather the most interesting articles (Keep tracks in your spreadsheet!). Once you have enough interesting material, write a document with extracts of the best tidbits. Always link to the originals. Make one PDF ebook out of the interesting stuff you’ve found. It will be the free stuff you’ll offer in exchange of emails.

VI – Start to promote

a) Create your mailing-list
That’s the tool you will use to send your newsletter.
You will get a form script to put on your blog, so people can enter their email to get the newsletter.
You can use a free mailing-list service, I can’t give you advice on that as I am using a custom-made script (available in the private section), but if anyone knows a good one, just post it in the comments. Otherwise you might give a try with Bravenet’s free mailing-list tool.
Don’t forget to put the “subscribe to my newsletter” form on your blog, on the top, it must be visible!!!

b) Create an auto responder
This one will ask the visitor for his email to send him your free ebook. Don’t use a simple link to send your visitor to the autoresponder page, make a nice banner so people don’t miss it! Remember that your goal is to make people WANT your free ebook, so get into their shoes, and write a catchy line!
Again, I use a custom tool, which is in the private section, but you can find free auto-responders with a google search.
Don’t forget to get all the emails you gather through the auto-responder and put them in your mailing-list so people are sure to receive your newsletter.
And don’t forget to put some explicit warning that if someone wants your ebook, he will get subscribed to your newsletter. Of course he will be able to unsubscribe when he wants.

c) Check your blog before the race starts
Put some ads on your blog, a bit of extra cash is always good : Subscribe to a CPM (I use http://advertisin365.com).
And double-check that the RSS feed of your blog is working!!!

d) Follow your POST routine
When you find a good story, put it on your blog, and do a post on some of the forums like : “hey I have seen this post, what do you think? Quote an extract and put the link to your blog article.
Rotate your posts on different forums, and track your changes – after a while, when you see which forums are bringing most of the traffic, stick to them, and don’t waste your time on the others. Remember the 80/20 rule : 80% of the traffic comes from 20% of the forums.

VII – Send your newsletter

a) Subscribe to a CPA sponsor.
I can’t tell you yet the one I am using, but I will update you on this, anyway this is a step you will do much later in the process

b) Start sending your newsletter
Same as your free ebook, during your POST routine, gather the most interesting articles, create an interesting digest, but NOT TOO LONG, just keep the best of the best!!! Alternate, one week, you send your newsletter, the other week, you send a CPA offer!
See how much your mailing-list is growing. You should get new users every week. If your mailing-list user base is decreasing instead of increasing, there’s something you are doing wrong. Likely, you are sending too much ads and/or not enough quality content.

c) Count your money
See how effective your newsletter is.
It depends on all the programs, but calculate how much you are making, and compare if it is good. There are many CPA affiliates forums to compare your results with others.
The point is, if it doesn’t work, try another sponsor, try another day to send the newsletter, try try try, and when it works, keep note of it, and do it MORE

VIII – Go on, expand

a) Get reliable hosting
When your newsletter works well, pay for a host (Hostgator costs $7 a month), buy a domain. Install your blog on your hosting. Put a post on your old free blog “we let the content here but the new blog is moved to www.yournewblog….”. Go on with the same operations, but on your new blog.
The idea here is that you are going to create a “brand”, your blog, and you don’t want to rely on some free hosting, even if they are good. You want to have the property of your assets: Your domain name, your hosting.

b) Start a new blog about a new subject
At this point, with your experience, it should go faster, and when it is relevant, don’t create a new user in a new forum, but re-use one that you have already created. You already put some effort to build trust for it, but again keep it relevant!!!

c) Put effort in the most profitable
After a while, look at which of your sites is bringing the most money. Try to scale it (which means start to get backlinks – write original articles – and post more).
On the long run, you don’t want to create a thousand sites, it is more profitable if you have 10 websites which are doing well, and if you work on getting more backlinks, and also better quality content.

d) What else?
The next best improvement : Automation. This will be another story. The point of this article is to get you started, as I said, that’s the biggest difficulty most people encounter.

When you will have come to this point, you will have gained A LOT of experience.
- You’ll know (almost) everything about blogging
- You’ll be a master of RSS
- You’ll smile when you will read marketers success stories about newsletter and autoresponders – because you will know it all
- You won’t be afraid of investing money to make more money
- You’ll have enough domain names and hosting to say to your family that your job is in “the internet business”.
- You will consider writing and selling your own ebook “How anyone can make $1000 a day”

Ok, so end of the story, hope it helps you, and don’t hesitate to leave comments if something is unclear.

Happy new year!

Tags: online marketing, make money, monetization, SEO, blackhat, grayhat

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?

Tags: SEO, monetization, make money, blackhat, online marketing, grayhat