Dec 20

Acai affiliates, you suck

Blogs, Can of SPAM, Cardinal Sin, Internet Marketing, Mind over Pixels, Moniez, Techniques, Virtual War 21 Comments

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Yes, really, you do.

Why? Because you are doing it wrong. For those who are unfamiliar with the acai berry niche, 90% of affiliates do the following:

  1. Go to http://www.laurasweightloss.com/
  2. Register a girlsnameweightloss.com domain
  3. Set up a blog with the exact same pictures and exact same layout as laura’s
  4. Fire up a keyword tool, get approximately the same list as every other affiliate
  5. Set up prosper202 and,
  6. Fire up their adwords campaign
  7. Optimize the keyword list and bids.

What is wrong with that, one might ask. Well, if it happens 10, 12, 30, even 40 times its ok. When every single fucking acai berry affiliate does the exact same thing, then guess what? The niche gets saturated! And then all those affiliates whine about their profit loss, no sales days and google slaps. (update: as this post is written, there has been a report on wickedfire that an adwords account got deleted for promoting acai berries)

“Ok then you smartass, how would you do it?”

How would I dive in an oversaturated niche? Why, with a different angle of approach of course!

  • First of all, I would find a way to use Oprah’s name in my campaign. There is a guy who is already doing that, and the others call him an idiot. He is not, unless he gets caught. By using Russian dont-see-dont-care servers and fake whois (you dont need an amazing domain, even oprah-acai-berry-official.info will work) you can abuse this for a month or two, and then rotate everything to avoid getting caught. This is a downright scam, so newbies should not even attempt it (newbies in fraud, not IM). I did warn you.
  • Second idea. I would resurrect the whole damn history of weight loss supplements, and set up a blog with articles on why acai berry is better than each one. Why? Because I would create a keyword list for every old weight loss niche as if I were to promote it today. (it took me less than a minute to find 5 names http://www.philkaplan.com/thefitnesstruth/update.htm)

Why do that? Because, when you have the keyword lists of OLD weightloss niches, you can set your adgroups on each one, and write ads that say something like “Natural fat burners are a scam. Find out here”.

I would hire a good copywriter to make me articles debunking the INSERT OLD SCAMMY OFFER HERE, and gradually sell acai berry as the new “safe” offer. Rinse and repeat on every old niche. Cheap targetted clicks.

“People don’t look for old products!”

Yes they do.

  • Third idea. Hug and cuddle all the victims of the other acai berry affiliates. People got scammed, and the internet is full of scam reports and complaints and whatnot. Set up a site pointing out the scammy acai berry offers, and subtly suggest the “safe” acai offers. These visitors are interested in weightloss as well, they are just a bit more clever than the rest. If you can convince them, you can sell.

Visitors looking for acai scams can also get foraged for their emails by giving out free pdf reports. You can set up a forum on the site for repeat visits, you can tell them which phone numbers to call for credit cancellations, you can have instant non stop testimonials. You can also “rat out” the sites that are scammy from other affiliates, but of course you will not “rat out” the real ones. Simply ask for slapped abandoned acai blogs in #cakes and you got like a dozen to rat out every month. Make it look like a victory in your site “Another acai scammer taken down by ASR”.

Just play the good guy, find the least scammy acai berry offer, and point the visitors to it. “ASR approved” badge on the banner. (Acai Scam Revealed)

This is not just about acai berry niche, you should use your imagination on everything. This post will either rekindle the whole acai niche or rain a world of hatred on me. Maybe both.

The precious few will get the hint.

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Dec 13

Quick tip: Enable your Feedburner email subscriptions

Blogs, Mind over Pixels, Noobs, Web 2.0 Cutesy Bullshit 5 Comments

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Here is a quick tip I discovered recently, give the option of email subscriptions to your readers.

I became aware of email subscriptions while being on IM, linking to my blog, and getting a reply: “Nice blog! WTF no email subscription?”

Yeah, embarrasing I know, but hey, I never said I am a good blogger!

So, in order to expand your reach at subscribers on your blog, and to avoid embarassment, enable the option on Feedburner. You are signed up on Feedburner, right? No? Go burn your feed right now! FFS.

Click on your feed name, click “Publicize” (yeah, that word seems wrong to me as well, but it is spelled correctly, I checked). Then on the services column click “email subscriptions” and the enable button at the bottom. That is it, you are done. Couldn’t be easier, yet easily neglected because the default is “off”. Now a link shows up if you click the rss button, that says something like “Get Glowleaf delivered by email“.

It’s free, its easy, and it’s dumb not to provide that option to your readers.

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Dec 02

Give linkjuice to those who link to you

Blogs, Doodling, Inorganic agriculture, Noobs, Techniques 1 Comment

If you are creating sites that have something more useful than rss scrapes, it is inevitable that someone will eventually link to you.

Following the same concept as parasite linkbuilding, give them link juice!

I just went through the referrer logs on glowleaf.net, and noticed that quite a few blogs are referencing some of my posts. After the warm and fuzzy feeling I had inside, thank god it lasted only a few seconds, I put all the incoming links to an excel file, and social bookmarked them all.

I separated the links from sites that are juicy, like PR 5 blogs or those totally relative to my niche, and also threw in some backlinks from my other resources. Not too much, just a few.

These guys took the time, not only to read my posts, but also use them to make their point, and also paraphrase them on some occassions, to twist them to their own mindframe, like I have done with Bluehatseo’s SEO empire post for example.

They deserve some linkjuice for that, and while doing it, I also help myself, because those are clean, original posts that actually send linkjuice and traffic to my own sites.

A funny thing is that a lot of Russians seem to like me. Я тебя люблю слишком

Put that concept in your SEO schedule. Once in a while, go through all your logs, and see who is linking to you. Beef up those pages, and forget about it. It is simple, hardly time consuming, and it fits the “do onto others what you want them to do to you” mantra.

You are already spending hours creating doorway pages to give juice to your sites, why not utilize the ones already there?

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Nov 25

Real mommies get it

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The WebWriMo challenge is near its end, only 5 days left. We all slacked. I know. Also, I was the leader up until a week ago, when a real mom joined the fray. Rebecca, is a fucking writing machine, a mom that “gets it”, has peachy cheeks, a hyperactive son and a great smile. She is also your professional internet author, ready to boldly go where no mom has gone before.

And because I like her style, here is her signature:

Quit Buying Shitty Content.
www.internetauthor.net
Rebecca Garland – Freelance Writer and Copywriter

She joined the WebWriMo challenge, took the lead, embarassed us all, kicked my ass and wrote 51000 words in a month, while taking care of her son as well. And she does that all the time. Damn!

So, practically the challenge is over, we all learned a few things about content creation, a few mustaches got bigger, I pumped out a lot of content for 4 sites including this blog, and we all go back to our normal slow content generating lives, except Rebecca. The challenge was ironically for epeen purposes, and to get a motive to generate the much needed content for our online assets. There was no real prize, but this post is both a tiny prize and a show of respect for people who manage to juggle work, raising kids and real life problems while maintaining a smile.

Are you serious about your online success? Do you really want to makemoniesonline? Then

Quit Buying Shitty Content.

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Nov 24

How to fool Akismet

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Internet is serious business

Since redditors call me a spammer, I might as well become one.

I discovered a stupidly easy way to bypass Akismet. If for example, I had glowleaf.net blacklisted (which it is), every comment I post to other blogs will get deleted.

I just buy glowleaf.info, redirect it to my blog, and use it in the url box.

I just tested it, it bypasses akismet. Of course, if you are still posting spam nothing prevents the blogger from hiting the report spam link and nullifying your 2nd domain. But it works as a second chance. Or a third, a fourth, a fifth…

Now go spread some havoc and chaos.

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