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Jul 04

Today I made some phone calls, selling banner space to my site, to other businesses in the same niche.

And I made a realization: I am selling them, what was already theirs for a good solid 10 years now. 10 years in the internet life is like a millenia. These businesses owned the top 10 results for years, and I showed up out of nowhere, grabbed the top spot, and now I am selling them an overpriced banner slot. Its so shitty I love it.

Now, I am thinking of doing the same in other business niches. I am gonna forget about affiliate offers, the regular high volume niches etc for a while. These businesses cannot sell from affiliate networks, but they are paying big cash to show up on buyers monitors.

The key here, is experience. Weigh the niche, build it proper, spam the shit out of it. Link build it, make sure it gets to the top spot when google lifts the filters, and simply own the first place before google even indexes you.

A little tip is: Try to market to the businesses who already buy banners and adwords, but who don’t know shit about seo.

Quoting Sun Tzu, The Art of War:

A battle is won before the swords unsheath.  

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Jul 03

Making adult sites, is one of the easiest ways to make money online. Not easy to make a lot of money, easy to start making a little money.

And one of the easiest ways to make adult sites, are scraper blogs with adult content.

Most of the adult affiliate networks are kind enough to provide you with an RSS feed, complete will luscious women, calls to action, images, keywords, and all that is updated daily.

So, why not capitalize on that?

  • All you need is an adult domain, any keyword rich domain with adult keywords will do. Put in, sluts, fuck, tits, whatever.
  • Then, you need to signup with AdultFriendFinder, and DatingGold.
  • Set up a blog at your new domain, and as always put on analytics, akismet and wp-o-matic.
  • Do the permalinks and the expanded pinglist hack.
  • Go to your DatingGold login, and from the promotional tools, choose the wordpress templates.
  • Download the template, and upload it to your WP installation.
  • Set up wp-o-matic to scrape daily from both AFF and DatingGold. DatingGold might need you to ask for the RSS feeds to be activated first.

And you are done! Throw some links to help, and social bookmarking (make sure you tag it as adult).

Make sure everything works correctly, and forget about it! Go work on your other projects, or make more of those ssplogs (sex spam blogs. My word)

Every one of those ssplogs will make 2-3$ per day, once it ranks.

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Jun 24

A year ago, after a lot of research, I decided to go for a very competitive niche.

(I will not say what that niche is, but smart people will find out anyway)

The niche is a standard business avenue, unlike the classic affiliate marketing world.

The keyphrases I went for were 2, a main and a secondary one.

The main keyphrase had 80.000 results in Google, hardly a competetive number for other niches like poker or credit.

The secondary keyphrase had 220.000 results in Google, a better match.

Obviously, the secondary had more searches than the primary, so why did I choose it the other way around?

Well, the answer was that while the secondary had more searches (and competition), it was a wider interpretation of the business, whereas the primary is spot on the theme. Also, in the primary, the other sites where actually my competitors, where in the secondary, it was them and lots of relevant businesses, but not actually the competition. I hope that made sense.

Then, I researched many of the competitive sites, and I laughed a lot while doing so. The 90% of them was horrible, and the remaining 10% was too basic, and most of that 10% had seo from 1995.

Examining the top 20, and their backlinks, I saw something ugly. These guys had stuffed keywords in metatags, backlinks from every relevant directory out there, DMOZ links, Yahoo directory links, PR6 links from irrelevant sites that had not been updated since 1996 (yes, I am serious). The top 15 where on-site seo’d to shit, with almost every page indexed, in both yahoo and msn.

And the cherry on top was the domain age. Every domain was from 1997-2001 tops, and every site has been in the index with closely the same content ever since its registration.

Not a good landscape to dive into. Actually, for the past 3 months, the only thing keeping me from outranking them is domain age, and their backlinks age.

Right now, I am close to Google spot 26, and the site keeps on ranking as Google lifts the filters from my links. How did I do that? Simple:

  • Pure content. Many of the competitive sites where the classic brochure sites, saying a bit about the company, some pics, prices, and a few more pages. I found that they lacked in content, so I beat the shit out of my content part, and stuffed everything in. They have 200-2.000 pages, I put up 50.000.
  • Links. All their links where reciprocal (which worked in the old days, but now it nullifies the “vote” from one page to another). I put on one way links. Also, I put the directory on a different domain, so any reciprocals became 3-way-links.
  • Spam links. All their seo was white hat, and borderline gray hat. Don the black hat my friends, and your opposition is in deep trouble.
  • Dullness. Their sites, except a few, are dull, dull, DULL. Put some web 2.0 thingies up there, and your are good to go.
  • Sex. Or lack thereof. Let me say this softly: YOU CANNOT SELL ANYTHING WITHOUT SEX. I put on pictures of babes. They are going the family route. I win, they lose.
  • Static sites VS pinging blogs. You know who wins.
  • Adsense. Come on! Adsense on a business site? He has got a nice: “This site a scam? Find out here” ad that steals a third of his traffic. Amateurs…
  • Communication. If you dont communicate with your customers, you lose. Put in blogs, skype, email addresses everywhere, phone numbers, contact forms, forum, comment, etc.
  • Imagination. They lack imagination. I dont. Create anything you can think of that can give you a competitive advantage. Find what they dont have, and put it up first.

EDIT: I got asked what I mean by keyphrase.

When you say keyphrase instead of keywords, you mean like a long english sentence that has the keyword in it? can you give some examples?

A keyphrase is a phrase that contains a few keywords you want to rank for. Something like the longtail, but not exactly. An example : “Glowleaf affiliate marketing blog, out of the box thinking for making money online

You spoke in the last post about beating the competition with, among others, pure content.
They put 2000 pages, you put up 50,000. How did you put those up? I mean it must be generated, but then the content quality isn’t there so much? Or did I miss something?

About content, you can autogenerate pages, interlink them, and put up links. Check this out:
http://www.cashquests.com/google-pag…eat-the-system

Also, eli at blue hat seo says that internal linking to the upper pages push up rankings as well. I could not find the article on a quick glance. You should read his whole blog anyway!

So, I just combined the two ideas.

Once you put up those pages, all you have to do is try and index them. Then your ranks will go up. Also, always monetize the autogenerated pages with ppc (not adsense, try adbrite, or better yet, peakclick).

What I have been wondering about is how to facilitate the most time consuming part of the work: content.

Could you tell me more about generating those pages. I mean generated pages that are, i guess, good enough in terms of english to get people to go on them and click on ads.

I heard of some generators using dictionaries, but it’s most for bots, not so much for humans.

I like rssevolution. You have to buy it, but you can use a demo for a few days to see what it does. A free alternative is yacg.

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Jun 24

I recently started a forum, dedicated to Greek affiliates. If you are one of them, or want to become one, hop over to Glowleaf Greek affiliate marketing forum and signup there.

 Please do not post comments in Greek in this blog, as some of you have. Glowleaf.net is purely English. I do not want to delete comments. Anything you want to ask me in Greek, post it at the forum, or email me at glowleaf@gmail.com

I am also reposting here an offer I made at the forum as well:

I am willing to teach to 5 people, the basics of affiliate marketing. The applicants will have to dedicate some time and money into it (I am not making any money out of this venture), so only determined people please. I am willing to hold their hand until they make 100 euro. Then, you are on your own.

More details can be found at the forum 

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Jun 20

The forum I set up for Greek affiliates, Glowleaf.gr, had no registrations until today. And that is because I realized that a visitor trying to register, cannot see the captcha image, thus being unable to complete the registration.

How stupid is that? Very, I know. Always test your sites. Something will always be broken.

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Jun 16

I recently browsed through all the ebooks I have read about SEO 2 years ago. Looking back, I laugh at them now, but they sure did teach me a lot.

My experience has showed me that SEO has changed a lot, and for a reason.

Google cannot rely on the information the webuilder gives, simply because the webuilder can manipulate that information.

Meta tags are a thing of the past. So is alt text in images. So are h2, h3 tags.

Here is my SEO summary:

  • You need your main keyphrase, and a secondary key phrase.
  • Put that phrase in the title tag, the h1 tag, and in the first 20 words of your content.
  • Make variations of your keyphrase, and make sure all incoming links you control have it as anchor text.
  • All engines you use must have url rewrite for seo purposes, “?” in urls kill rankings.
  • You need to get into DMOZ, at least for your big projects.
  • Have internal links with anchor text, not “Home” and “Click Here”.
  • Your domain must be brandable, but buy keyword rich domains also and point them to your site.
  • Your incoming links need not only anchor text, but surrounding relevant text as well, like this:

Affiliate marketing is a web-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts.

Affiliate marketing is also the name of the industry where a number of different types of companies and individuals are performing this form of internet marketing, including affiliate networks, affiliate management companies and in-house affiliate managers, specialized 3rd party vendors, and various types of affiliates/publishers who promote the products and services of their partners.

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Jun 14

Here is a way to create backlinks:

Browse Youtube and find high PR videos relevant to your site. Copy the embed code, and embed it!

Like this:

This will create a backlink on youtube, at the statistics & data tab beneath each video. Like this one
This is an easy way to get indexed fast, and give some linkjuice, as the link is no follow. I believe that no follow simply reduces the linkjuice significantly, but does not nullify it.

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Jun 12

 greed

A photo site of mine, got some stumbles from people who liked it. And it got 300 uniques per day from stumble alone.

Then I got greedy, and put up an ad. The traffic plummeted to 5 stumble visits. Then I removed the ad, and it is now slowly growing back.

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Jun 04

I have discussed this concept in a previous post, but I want to re-examine it.

This is for all the people who really try to succeed in internet marketing, and for some reason, they do not see results.

This guide uses the most complete tools for this job. Administration of this technique is a breeze.

What you need:

  • Adwords account, for access to Adwords keyword tool
  • Parked.com account (for parking your domains obviously)
  • Moniker account (domain registration and administration)
  • Excel file for organizing your portfolio
  • Paypal account for paying and receiving funds
  • a small budget, 50-100$

That is all.  You can try other services, but those are the ones I recommend.

After you have setup all the accounts, you should start researching keywords. The adwords keyword tool is all you really need, since google has the most precise data than anyone else.

Start noting down keywords for high traffic searches, and use your adwords account to see the average bids for those terms. Do not be afraid to go for the high payout ones, you just need a keyword, not the single word domain.

As soon as you have a list of preferred keywords, put them in moniker’s mass domain registration and see what is available. I suggest you go for the .com if your budget permits it. Take .info if your available funds are small, and you want as many domains as possible.

Now, see what domains are already registered, and start changing the keyword, by putting plural (e.g. cars), or by adding numbers at the end (car101.com). Use up all your budget, and register them. Moniker allows you to get a discount if you buy prepaid funds, in increments of 50$. The discount will allow you to register one or two more cheap domains.

Use the bulk dns to change the dns settings to parked.com, they are:

ns1.parked.com

ns2.parked.com

Then go to your parked account, and add the domains to your portfolio.

That is all! The domains will start generating traffic and revenue, and you will get paid for every click directly at your paypal account.

The concept to doing this right, is to find high traffic keywords through research, get a domain that contains those keywords (e.g. cheap-domain-registration.com) and monetize on the traffic. You can use parked.com’s tools to optimize your parked page, by adding more keywords, excluding irrelevant or low paying ones.

A 100$ budget will let you register about 20 cheap domains. Your first goal, is to make those 20 domains, generate revenue of 9$ per month. That way, every month, you will be able register one more from the domains on your preferred list. As months pass, you will accumulate more traffic and more revenue. It is not difficult to get 50$-$200 in monthly revenues, with luck and correct research. In the course of 6 months, you will gain the experience to register domains that work, and discover more opportunities. Your portfolio will become larger and larger, and the accumulated revenue will allow you to buy domains with high traffic from places like moniker marketplace or other domain selling places.

If you can afford it, you can speed up the process by investing a small amount of money on top of revenues each month, registering a few more domains. Have in mind the large cost in updating the registration of the domains after a year. Save some for that time.

To sum up, you just need a small capital to invest, some research to take good traffic domains, a way to generate recurring revenue, and to reinvest that revenue in more small investments. Rinse and repeat.

Tricks:

  • A good way to get high traffic domains is by finding misstypes of known domains. Go to alexa, and see the top 100 domains by country. Note all the ones that are not trademarks, there are so many of them. See what you can grab.
  • As soon as you have some stats from your parked domains, try to optimize them using the tools parked.com gives you. Switch keywords, templates, colors and see what works and what not. A simple keyword change can increase your revenue tenfold.
  • A cheap and dirty way to register, is to find a simple, one high traffic keyword, and get a large number of variations in .info with a number attached to it (poker1.info, poker2.info, poker3.info etc)
  • Parked.com gives you two more options. One is to set up an alternate link to redirect visitors in the rare case that they cannot find anything relevant in their feed. Try adultfriendfinder or pkr. The second, is to have all your domains show that they are available for sale. With a portfolio large enough, it is almost certain that buyers will show up at some point. If their offer is good, sell it.

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May 31

Usually, in a ppc campaign, you research for the keywords you want, and then create the ad and the landing page. There is a special situation I noticed, and it might help some of you.

In websites that are usually in competitive markets, where normal SEO does not give you a top 10 place, you usually rely on a parallel ppc campaign to boost your traffic. In that campaign, the goals are to target relevant keywords, and to pay as little as possible on every click. Well, what you can do is this: after you have let the campaign run for a few weeks, your QS is good, and you have filled the landing site with most of the keywords required, you can take it backwards.

Have the adwords keyword tool scrape the keywords from your website. Look at both keyword lists, and see which are common. Put the most expensive keywords, that the tool did not find, in your titles and your content. This will help you optimize the campaign.

In an extreme case, bid only on the keywords the tool scraped, so you can get as high a QS as possible. Careful though not to leave out the converting keywords.

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