I’m not dogging the guy or suggesting that he needs help, but a member of Digital Point Forums started a thread about an idea to make money. I, and a few others, obliged and asked for the idea. The response:

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A day doesn’t go by where I don’t get an email about PPP (Pay Per Play) advertising. Everyone’s blogging about it now and everyone is promoting it in one way or another.

PPP is not a new concept, yet the promotion is overwhelmingly new. Here’s the concept (from sellingppp.com):

“PPP is a way for advertisers (Like Harley Davidson or Taco Bell) to serve a 5 second audio advertisement to website visitors. It is a way for advertisers to target their 5 second audio ad to specific interests, demographics and geographic locations.

Big TV’s ad revenue is dwindling because PPP offers advertisers a more cost effective advertising solution that has been providing positive Return on Investment (ROI) for over 2 years. PPP offers advertisers a way to reach their target audience and is the only form of media whose impressions and ad placements are verified by an independent 3rd party.”

Yuck! I am not looking forward to the surge of “noisy” ads obstructing the peacefulness of reading my favorite blogs or online guides! Listen, I’m all about making money, but imo, this is a little too much! I cannot imagine having a 30 second spot playing on my page. Talk about losing visitors. Am I wrong here?

This is old news to some but new news to me.

With the recommendation of a few “top” bloggers and a couple of great salesmen, I purchased a page on the MillionDollarWiki site.  Ok, so the concept seemed like a good one at the time.  Although, similar sites have been up before (ie. pixel pages, cloud pages, etc.)  I’m hoping that it will still fly.  I wouldn’t be so mad if it wasn’t $100!

So, now this Graham guy has the site up for sale on SitePoint.  Last time I checked, the bid was a little over $10K.  He is selling the site to fund his entrecard.com project.  (Signed up for that one too!  Haven’t done anything with it yet).  Bastard!  Right now I see my MDW page as a glorified, yet limited, blogger.com page that I can use for SEO for another domain.

Point of this post:  None!

BTW, I purchased the “Business Card” page.  Anyone want it?

I’m currently working on an experiment with one of my sites with link building relative to anchor text.  I have seen many methods out there using different strategies.  One thing is for sure, you need to change up your text links in order for backlinks to be “highly” effective.

Normally, you would take your main keyword and spread it out among different sites, blogs, etc.  Then, you would find relevant terms or phrases and add those as anchors.  Mind you, my experiment may be nothing new or groundbreaking.  However, I haven’t seen results from this type of strategy so I decided to post in regards to the specific technique.  It will take a little time to actually track my progress but I will try to give updates.  Here goes:

Choose the keyword that you want to compete with.  Find a keyword tool that will give you actual traffic figures.  Check the average number of searches for your target keyword or phrase for any given month.   (Remember, this is only a test so I have no clue what kind of effect this will have).  If you can, start your link-building with PR6 pages:  Paid or unpaid, directories, blogs, social sites, etc.  Find the very highest searched keyword or phrase relative to the keyword with which you want to rank.  Now, use that top searched keyword as your anchor for these sites.  Next, drop to PR5 pages.  Now, use your chosen keyword as your anchor on the PR5 sites.  With the PR4 sites, you will take the next highest searched relative keyword/phrase and use as an anchor.  You get the idea.  I hope that you can make sense of this. 

Notes:  Add your keywords, in descending order, to your meta keywords in your header.  Be sure to add all keywords in somewhere in your page’s content (naturally).

If any of you have done this before, let me know!

We all started somewhere. Each of us were “newbies” or rookies at some point in our attempt to “make money online.” It was quite humorous looking back.  Here’s my rendition of how it went:

Ok, so you’ve actually been a user of the internet for years.  You play your online arcade games daily, check out some funny material on Ebaum’s World, and even look at a little porn now and then.  Oh, and don’t forget CNN.com or MSNBC.com (for when you needed a little structure in your web browsing habits).  You research topics online for your job or for school and get results that you thought were reputable, not knowing that it was rehashed content used to make money off of Adsense ads.

You check your email address everyday for funny videos, messages from your friends, or online bills.  One day, you visit a random site and sign up for their mailing list.  The next week, you are bombarded with JUNK!  However, one subject catches your eye: “Make money by doing what you do everyday.”   Huh? You read further.  Yes, you can actually get paid to surf websites!

No S@&%!!!  Damn, you’re going to be rich!

The next minute, you sign up and start surfing! 30 seconds later.  Look!  There’s $0.005 in your account!  Woohoo!!  Time passes and you realize that you need referrals to actually make this thing work.  (You’ve hit a milestone though - you are now up to $0.22.) Oh, but look, there is a place on this site where you can actually purchase referrals.  Show me the money!  So, you’re down $10 for x amount of referrals and none of them have any activity.  You go back to surfing for pennies and see a site that is even better.  Get paid to read emails.  What were you thinking…this one is the real winner!

You sign up as quick as you can, hoping to get your first batch of emails.  Day 1: 10 emails!  And these pay you more than the surfing or the ptc sites.  Day 2: 5 more emails. Day 3: 1 email.  Day 4, 5, 6: 0 emails.  Man, this is BS.  Day 7 rolls around with another email: This one email tells you how you can have a Ferrari and get lots of girls and have a huge home!  You’ve hit the jackpot bitches!

How can you possibly lose!  Look at the guy on the web page: he is probably your age, looks stupid, and he has made millions.  He has even shown proof of his Paypal account. Weird, the image kind of looks blurry, but you believe him.  This time, there is a little investment involved.  But, it is only a one time fee of $25 and then you can be a millionaire.  You pay your money and enter the site.  Looks good, has a lot of words, and some good testimonials (including photos).  You could have swore you saw that same couple pictured in a JCPenny catalog.   Maybe models are making money too!  Now, you need a downline.  Oh, you just remembered that you can place your site on the paid to click or surf pages that you started with.  Those fools!

A week passes by and your downline is empty.  Your page is only shown a few times on the ptc sites because you haven’t earned enough credits.  You go back to your “Making Millions if You Buy This Crappy Course” web page to regroup.  You find out that you are doing it completely wrong!  You don’t have the right tools.  But, for $19.99 a month, you can make some money using this “secret” information.  Alright, you are pissed!

You take a two week hiatus.   You are still stuck in your 9 to 5 and you know that people are making money online.  You browse some more, yet more cautiously.  Somehow, you find a pre-made, original content, affiliate website for sell on Ebay.  The seller tells you that you can make money from Amazon, from Adsense, and from the sell of an ebook.  He will even give you 8 bonus ebooks worth over $499.  Here comes your big break!

You get some decent information from 1 of the 8 free e-books that you receive and begin promoting your site.  You begin searching for your site through Google.  You search on page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7…23, 24, 25, 26…this blows!  Hmm, what is this advertisement about? Google Adwords…I’ll check it out!  Long story short?  Two weeks later you have spent $87 and sold 1 ebook and a commission from Amazon for $0.65.

F—, Sh–, Damn, Sh–!

You are done.  You can’t take it anymore.  You search and search for more information, more insider material.  You click on a page where someone is giving some pretty valuable tips on internet marketing.  (Warning:  Plug ahead!) Digital Point Forums.  The rest is history.

I’m currently running a campaign for a specific Clickbank product (that I won’t mention) that I’m doing pretty well with! As far as commissions go, I believe that I’m doing quite well with this one! This campaign is actually an experiment from a technical standpoint using what has and has not worked for me in the past. I’m going to give this information to you for free!

Domain Name

Now, you will need to do some research for this to be effective. I would suggest that you purchase the product first so you may familiarize yourself with the ins and outs of it. If you can find a product that is either very popular or has keywords that are often searched, go with it. The popularity factor can be based on the name of the product or the author of the product. Let’s take Google Assassin for example. According to Clickbank, this product has a pretty high gravity, meaning it is popular among marketers. Now, here is where your research comes in. You need to find yourself a good keyword tool. I use SEO Book’s Keyword Suggestion tool. Typically, you can find other keywords or phrases related to your program. Make sure that people are actually searching using these terms. Let’s say (I didn’t look) that Google Assassin comes back with the following results: Google Assassin reviews, Dayjob Killer Google Assassin, Google Assassin make money. Normally, people will tell you that long domain names are no good, but in this case, we will be using our domain name for long-tail keywords. Find out if any of those phrases are available and register one of them(i.e. GoogleAsassinMakeMoney.com). Now you are one up on SEO. Secondly, be sure to register a .com because it carries more weight.

If you choose to use a product with a popular author, do the same thing. Let’s assume that “John Smith” is a successful internet marketer and has put out some good products. First of all, place his name in a keyword tool just to make sure that he is being searched for. Next, repeat the steps listed above for the popular product. You could also add the name of the product to the author’s name (i.e. JohnSmithFastMoney.com) I just made that up, but you get the idea. The methods used above work well but you could also dig deeper and use keyword phrases only. If you can find some long-tail keywords with decent results related to what you are selling, register the .com (i.e. howtomakemoneyonlinequickly.com). Once again, make sure that enough people are actually searching for that phrase.

Landing Page

I’m not going to go into a lot of detail on this subject, but you need to make sure that you can sell to the potential buyer as quickly as possible. You don’t want the page to be to long, because they are going to be redirected to your hop page where they will have to read even more. Check some of your competitors pages and see what you are up against. Content is king, so you need to fill your page with your domain name keywords and any other keywords you may be targeting. Make it look natural and do not just stuff the page with keywords. I would also recommend placing an subscriber signup form on your page.

Marketing

This could turn out to be a long, drawn-out paragraph here, but I’ll spare you the details. This is what works for me:

Submit an original article to EzineArticles.com. Change the article up a bit using Jetspinner.com or similar, and then submit to other popular article sites. Digg your articles as they become available.

Create a Squidoo Lens (keyword rich) on your subject and link back to your landing page. StumbleUpon your Lens. Get others to do the same.

Create a blogger page (keyword rich) and create a brand new article about the product you are selling. Digg the article. Link back to your landing page.

(Optional) You can use adwords, but only use long-tail keywords that cost you pennies to run (assuming little competiton).

Let me know if anyone tries this method. I can’t guarantee results, but as I said, it has worked for me!

Ok, so this has nothing to do with affiliate marketing, seo, or otherwise, but I want to share nonetheless.

I was watching the local news last night, and low an behold, there was another sexual predator captured after having sexual relations with a minor. I catch the news quite often and see this type of story just as often. After the story aired, the anchor went to the streets to show people how to use the internet to find sexual offenders (with a minor or a sexual offender in general). The looks on these people’s faces! They had no clue that an offender either lived in their neighborhood or lived near their child’s school. With that being said, I just wanted to give you te link to this site for your reference:

Family Watchdog

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Interesting thread over at webpronews regarding this. There’s really no credibility to it but found it quite amusing. So what happens to all of those “Official” Google blogs? BS

First of all, StumbleUpon does bring traffic.  Is it targeted traffic?  No.  The debate will always linger about the quality and usefulness of SU traffic.  If you are new to internet marketing or just need an extra traffic boost, try it!  Hell, it’s free!  For those of you unfamiliar with SU, I’m, not going to give you detailed instructions on how to use the service.  However, if you need some help, leave a comment and I will respond.

I have found that there are some underlying factors that will affect the usefulness of SU traffic:

Your site’s subject matter
An arcade or funny video site will definitely outperform a Wheelchair Sales site any day as far as conversions are concerned. The comparison is extreme, but use your head when submitting your pages. Otherwise, you are wasting your time.

Keywords, Tags
In order to receive a decent amount of traffic, you will need to research your keywords and titles, otherwise, no one will see your page. Whether you use relevant terms or not is up to you. I use the word “porn” for one of my sites even though it has nothing to do with the subject. But, hey, it works.

Reviews, Reviews, Reviews
If your site has no reviews, it does no good! Make sure that if you are exchanging Stumbles with someone, that they review and tag your page. When you Stumble your own site, do the same.

Your Friends, Your Profile
If you have established PageRank on your StumbleUpon page and are considered to be a PowerStumbler, you will receive traffic to your pages. My suggestion, team up with a PowerStumbler and make more SU friends. Also, ask people to Stumble and review your profile as well as your web pages. Here is a good utility: My Stumble Friends

Deep Links
If your index page is the only page that is Stumbled, your audience will loose interest. Always Stumble deep links within your site. It will help with backlinks also.

This is the short list folks. I am experimenting with timing of Stumbles and cross-bookmarking as well. Here is another useful resource for you: SU Exchange