Dec 20

Acai affiliates, you suck

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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 03

Affiliate mini site example

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Many newbie affiliates are swamped in the sheer amount of information when they first come in this industry. It is understandable, without a background in some sort of entrepreneurship, or at least marketing, it is too much to grasp. So, for my newbie readers, I will talk about a fine example of a minisite, and we will also learn at last what I mean when I say “SEO’d to shit”.

The student credit card niche is one that is quite competitive, and that is because there is money in it. I found this site, http://www.studentcreditcards.com which is the textbook example of how a niche affiliate site should be like. Open the site in a new tab so you can see it as we discuss about it.

First of all, the layout is simple and nice, nothing to say here other than that it works. Sometimes clean is good. The lady on the laptop is a no-copyright image, free to use. The header has links with anchor text “student cards, credit school, consolidate, credit reports and blog”. Obviously, these are the targeted keywords for this guy’s SEO campaign. All is good, but I would whore it out even more, writing the link as “credit card blog” and “credit home”.

The domain itself is amazing, studentcreditcards.com, and a newbie affiliate is unlikely to get his hands on something similar, but the important thing here is to understand the power in keyword domains for this technique. Please note that this is a special case, and the keywords in the domain are 2, yes two, “student” and “creditcard”. We have to consider it as two, although it might be in reality 3. It just goes together, you cannot say “hard” and “drive”. Again, special case, in other niches, we go for 2 (two) keyword domain names. Always. But, if you happen to fall on a 3 word domain that the phrase has a lot of traffic, by all means register it. I have a longtail keyword domain that ranks (for its own phrase)  with only a page and a title.

Ok, onto the pages now. A simple glance and you can see that there is a lot of text, that means plenty of spider food, springled with seo keywords like “fico score, negative credit profile, credit line” and a bunch of others. Please note that the page is very light, fast loading and plain html. Now, I personally would not go for plain html, I would make it a blog. Studentcreditcards.com has a blog, so that saves the problem a bit.

When we click the blog, we basically see a lot of articles, about credit report and credit cards and debt consolidation, all the classic keywords, slapped on a simple template, with a blog, used for its pinging utility. They update with a post every once in a while, which are basically more “credit report” articles, and that keeps the freshness factor at satisfying levels with minimal effort.

So, this is a good example of a niche affiliate site, please take note on the points I suggest to change, and simply make one for yourself. This site is ridiculously easy to rank for “student credit cards”. Throw a few dozen incoming links with the above anchor text, a few quality ones from nice sites, and you are done. Onto the next project.

What you need to make a site like this is:

  • A keyword domain
  • A clean theme
  • 20-30 articles
  • 50 backlinks with the keyword domain in them

The bare minimum for a site like this is 10$, if you plan to do all the writing and linkbuilding of course. A more modest price with quality work would be +50$ for the articles, and another 50$ for modest linkbuilding. There is no cap of course… A 110$ investment on a procedure that you are familiar with can allow you to pump one of these every month easily. A credit card signup is about 30$, so you will get the initial cost back very fast. Learn, adapt, and replicate.


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Dec 02

Give linkjuice to those who link to you

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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 21

Clickbooth Webinars

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Clickbooth, one of the biggest CPA networks, has launched a new “edu” part of their site, called Clickbooth Webinars.

This move is quite interesting, because search marketing is not an easy thing to master. Every bit helps, and the webinars offered up there are completely free. They even have a ball of string, and “NO STRINGS ATTACHED” :)

Clickbooth offers a new webinar every two weeks, about one hour long, in which top internet marketers are interviewed on their ideas and techniques for search marketing. The information provided is not “insider” or anything like that of course, but the mere fact that experts discuss real working examples of landing pages and search campaigns has a lot to offer. Simply listening to how these guys approach different problems and situations can educate you beyond anything else. And, if you are like me, seeing how an expert works and thinks is priceless.

There are currently 3 video clips available, all of them quite interesting. I personally enjoyed the third one, which is Traffic Geyser’s method of generating traffic from videos. Very forward thinking, very interesting, and coming from someone who generates so much traffic, the vid is golden.

Clickbooth claims that their top marketers reveal their “secrets”, which is of course an overstatement. The videos are indeed informational, and I am anticipating to see the upcoming ones.

Definately worth a look, definately useful, newbies will find a lot of info in there, and more experienced marketers will see a new trick or two. It’s free, so check it out. Stop watching silly youtubes and educate yourself a bit.

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Nov 14

Make monies online using your boobs

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Here is a little trick I just found out for Google Webmaster Tools. Ok, I’ve known it for long, but people seem to be unaware of it.

GWT has a great feature, where it shows you the top search queries your site has appeared. Not the clicks, the positioning. So, simply by checking out that page, you can see for example that you rank No 11 for a longtail like “make monies online using your boobs”. 

A quick Adwords keyword search shows that the phrase has no searches at all! What a shock. Nevermind, lets assume that it does. You want to do some optimization to your site, so you create a new page/post with the title “Make monies online using your boobs”.

A quick Google search shows that 20.400 results appear in the index, a measly number. But we rank No 11, that means at the second page. With a slight push, we can get our site to the first page. It is much easier than it sounds.

What we need, is to create an SEO optimized page to rank for the term “Make monies online using your boobs”. Url rewrites are a must, so, like this post, the permalink is something like glowleaf.net/make-monies-online-using-your-boobs

Then we need to write the keyphrase “make monies online using your boobs” plenty of times inside the post. That is called keyword stuffing. Keyword percentages are a thing of the past, forget that stuff. Just don’t make it spammy, make it readable. Also, you need to get the keyphrase in every nook and cranny, so put it in the alt image tag as well.

Next thing we need to do, is do some inside linking with our preferred anchor text, meaning we do something like this: make monies online using your boobs

Internal linking anchor text is mostly ignored by Google, but works for MSN. Since we are trying to rank for the phrase “make monies online using your boobs”, we also need to include the phrase to the post tags. And a category with the keyphrase would be ideal.

The next step is to build some backlinks for our post, with our anchor text “make monies online using your boobs”. The easiest way is to social bookmark the post, and also add the link to your splog farm. You do have a splog farm, right?

Why are we doing this whole deal with the post? Because, it is much easier to rank a page dedicated to a particular keyphrase, than to try and rank the homepage for a whole keyword list. I see that mistake all the time. People build and buy links to their site’s homepage. You can only put so many stuff on a homepage, you cannot possibly optimize one page for everything. Fire up GWT, check the top search queries, see what rankings you got that are decent, and make some pages to rank for those like I wrote here.

Check out the Google SERP’s for “make monies online using your boobs” and try to spot this page.

EDIT: And now that the tags are live, here is the second tip from this post. If you go to the dashboard of Google Webmaster tools, you can add not only e.g. www.glowleaf.net but also www.glowleaf.net/tag and www.glowleaf.net/category, even www.glowleaf.net/tag/affiliate

Go to your new “site” and click top search queries again. Yes, you see the ranking of that folder and below. Priceless.

What this gives you is even more ranking data, straight from Google. You can see which tags make you rank, and give you an even better edge over the competition. Now who is gonna write us a script to pull all that data and dump it into a csv?

Go. Rank. Dominate.

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