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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Sep 01

Reaching the right audience

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Seth Godin, an amazing out of the box thinker and experienced marketer, wrote an idea for selling your stuff to the right people. For those who don’t know, he is the founder of Squidoo. (Yes, he needs some SEO tips, I know. But he is awesome at marketing)

His focus is more on traditional business marketing, but I will give you the Glowleaf twist soon.

He simply suggests that you personally buy an established product on your niche, and bundle inside auctions your shitty unknown product as a freebie. Its direct advertising to the right demographic. Its even better than ppc marketing, because you reach people in the niche, who bought a similar product, not simply interested in it.

It’s the whole buying mode concept all over again. Why do you think companies put in leaflets in the products you buy, showing you similar things? Because they think like that, they already know that you bought a sci-fi novel, so they shove another bunch of sci-fi novels in their list, right at your face.

Emailers are already doing the same, by collecting emails from their clients and sending them other similar offers periodically.

Seth’s idea is good, but we affiliates have become spoilt, not having to handle orders, packaging, payments etc and leaving it all to the faeries, while still getting paid selling real 3D stuff. Also, someone might not want to spend money buying products. Thats cool. We live in the information age.

My twist is this:

  • I have successfully used this technique in the past. You find popular stuff on torrents, and rebundle them including some files inside. Those files can be other torrent files you have created, internet shortcuts to your landing page (you can make shortcut files with a url as a target), or text files with your message and the link.
  • If you are creative, you can find many offers that fit this idea. I used to bundle free software trial links with other popular software. Or CPA’s. Freebies will definitely work, but some times you can sell real stuff. HINT anime fans + anime toys.
  • Use your brain. (yes, this is an actual step in the process)
  • Then you need to submit your torrent to some torrent sites, the more the better, and seed it. Submitting is a real pain in the ass, because you need accounts, and the various sites have their own guidelines for the torrent files, some wanting pictures, or detailed descriptions etc.

I can promise you, that if you follow those simple steps, do it right, and experiment a lot, I can honestly guarantee you that

YOU WILL FAIL MISERABLY

Why? Because everyone forgets that the torrent communities are a social crowd. You can trick torrent communities the same way you can trick social bookmarking sites. The same rules apply, catchy title, engaging description, disturbing content.

So, we need to add a last step:

  • Create your torrent like you would create an article to get to Digg’s frontpage. If you dont know how, go learn that first.

Now, I can guarantee that you will not fail.

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