Nov 07

Testing out the waters, the Pikachu way

Doodling, Feed the Spiders, Fishbait, Heavy construction, Inorganic agriculture, Internet Marketing, Milking horny guys, Mind over Pixels, Moniez, Noobs, RGBhat, Social abuse, Techniques, Web 2.0 Cutesy Bullshit, WebWriMo challenge No Comments »

All affiliates, at least the advanced ones, test out many micro niches at any given time. If I, for example were to consider the pokemon niche, I would do some keyword research, and come up with a good keyword list, that includes both competitive and untapped keywords.

Then, I would buy a few domains, preferrably with those keywords in them. Pokemon have lots of products, so I would go the tangible product way, setting up 10-20 Mcjiffy ebay stores. If one of the domains got some traffic, I would switch it to ppc ads just to get an idea of the bids, as well as the advertised websites.

I would also set up around 10 splogs, to test out the keyword list. And a picture gallery, as well as a video gallery filled with youtubes.

I would social bookmark all of those sites, and see which social bookmarking site performs better for the niche.

After a timeframe that gives me significant statistical data, I would print out every bit of info I had gathered, lay them all out on a table, and start brainstorming on possible utilization avenues.

Maybe the video blog performed well? Maybe I got 2 keywords that brought in lots of traffic, something like “pokemon teddy bear”? Maybe the niche needs more boobs? Or less boobs?

Simple questions really. Then I would use my experience to see what I could make on each category, with which engine, and which tools.

I have made for example, a successful anime pic gallery in the past. I used the Gallery2 engine. I already have a folder with the engine, templates and useful plugins. Cool, that is one project on the list.

I have also made a successful anime adwords campaign in the past, with deceptive ad copy. Kids are much easier to deceive… Great, that means I can do the same and get lots of cheap traffic.

Where to send it though… Hmm. I scour the CPA networks, and find 2 lead offers related to pokemon or kids. Cool. So the second project has the title “Adwords campaign, with deceitful ad copy sending traffic to a thin pokemon site, filled with the CPA I found”.

I saw that Adsense performed poorly, so I decide to leave it out of the deal.

Then I do some different kind of thinking. I have never done it before, but I know that avatar sites work well. Why not niche avatar sites then? That is my 3rd new project. Will need some research, checking out the other sites, and finding the script for the job. I will also think about bundling the avatars on torrents and uploading them, putting the site info in the torrent file. The latter is a technique that I know it works.

This process, gives me:

  • A keyword list to focus on.
  • Keyword rich domains to play with.
  • Indexed domains to play with.
  • Domains with relevant traffic.
  • 2 tried and tested methods to make money.
  • A brand new project to keep me from falling asleep from boredom.
  • About a month’s worth of data to extrapolate information.
  • Worthless sites, that can be splogged for linkjuice poured into the performing ones.

Cool. We have work to do. Pika?

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Nov 02

Why you always need a splog

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What is a splog?

A spam blog, an auto updating blog, setup to scrape feeds at regular intervals and post them.

Why do you need one?

Because if you don’t have one, you are an idiot.

Even for completely whitehat sites, you cannot possibly expect to cover every product in your niche, and every keyword, and every misstype, and every new small thingie that pops up.

Having a splog, that slowly updates, lets say 2 feeds every 1.5 or 2.5 days, makes a secondary site relevant to your niche, filling up with content, linking to you with your preferred anchor text.

I have been using splogs everywhere for 2 years, and I have seen crappy 20 page 5 hours old splogs rank for great terms. Its not only the keyword itself that allows it to rank, its also the relevant keywords and news in the niche that get pulled with every feed.

If you want to keep it completely whitehat, name it NEWS and set it to scrape niche related news with permalinks pointed to the original articles, and keep it clean and similar to your site’s theme.

Or, you can buy a secondary keyword rich domain, and simply splog it, linking back to your main site. If you remove footprints and make it pass casual inspection, it will actually help your rankings and stay up there for a long time.

How to make that splog? It is so easy it hurts.

  • Download the feedwordpress plugin.
  • Install a new Wordpress engine.
  • Name it, remove the silly blogroll etc…
  • Put up a nice theme, do the permalinks hack.
  • Expand the pinglist.
  • Hand pick your feeds.
  • Set up feedwordpress to scrape every 1.5 days from 2 feeds max.
  • Put your links on the blogroll. 

And you are done. Another fire and forget method that works.

I usually add about 5 articles and 10 youtube’s as well. The broad keyword coverage from an aged splog can get you a lot of visitors, from untapped keywords.

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