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I am a newbie. How do I make money?

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

That’s the typical question I face every day on various forums. Putting it realistically, here is how typically people ask. I am a newbie and I have to make 100$ per day by tomorrow. How should I do that?

My answer is yes it is very easy to make money online. However setting target as making 50$ tomorrow is ridiculous. Here is my step by step guide to make money online.

First off devide your strategy in two part. One should be your long term target and the other should be your short term target.  This specific post of mine talks just about short term target. However you must focus on a long term target as well. Now coming back to specific short term target. I will help you in making 50$ a day from 30 days from now. However it will require some great effort. Indeed there are the people who can make 1000$ an hour, this post focuses on the people who are in not that specific niche. Again I am not inventing the wheel. I am just summarizing some of the popular working techniques.

# 1:> Youtube marketing:
a)    Sign up with an affiliate program.
b)    Pick any excellent ringtone offer. Register a domain name. From domain name redirect to ringtone offer.
c)    Download popular videos from youtube. When you download from youtube, the downloaded file is in .FLV format.
d)    Using a converter, convert this .FLV to .MPEG
e)    Using a video watermark tool, watermark the whole video with something like “Get ringtones @http://ringtoneabc.com”
f)    Upload back watermarked video to youtube.
g)    In description first sentence you should use is your domain name. That is http://ringtoneabc.com When someone visits the video, they see a first few words of description in summary. If first sentence is URL, 20% of people will click on the URL.
h)    In Description, put lot of keywords. If it is a song put lyrics of song. If it’s a movie clip, put review of it (you can get free reviews/ free lyrics online).
i)    After uploading the video popularize the video.

So basically this is the summary of youtube marketing. After a week of doing it, you will know the ins and outs. And then will be the right time to get bulk tools. For all these activities, you can get tools which work in batch. So you can put 500 videos to be downloaded, and they will be done by 24 hours. Similarly for each of these activities you have batch tools. So after two weeks you should be uploading 500 video a day. With 500 video a day even if each video gets a petty 2 visitors and even 10% people really click on your link, you will get 100 clicks a day. Considering very poor conversion you will convert at least 3-4 sales and that is 50$ a day. Also you keep on uploading video and in due course of time you may have thousands of video at youtube and you will get thousands of clicks for sure.

#2: Paid Per Install (PPI):

It is nasty. Here is what you do. You sign up with a company that pays you on every installation happening using your affiliate code. There are lot many companies. If you need names, just buzz me.

So here is what you do. Sign up with an affiliate company for PPI. Then download some popular software applications from mininova or thepiratesbay. Using IEXPRESS combine your exe with downloaded applications. Now create torrents for these apps. Upload the torrents back at mininova and TPB. Now every time someone downloads and installs you exe you will make some money. Again the key is doing in bulk. So if you are uploading 100 apps a day and each application is installed by even 5 users, you will make 50$ a day.

There are lot many techniques currently popular, but these two have been tried and tested by a few of my acquaintances and they are making good money.

Getting traffic from lycos.fr etc.

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Life always comes back to full circle. I well remember during early 2005 all serps were dominated by crapy doorway pages. Sure taking a lesson now a days Google manually polices all high traffic keywords. But even Big G can’t monitor 100% web results manually. Here is how its happening right now.

1. Go to google search for any long tail ringtone keyword. For example lets search for mp3 ringtones for sprint phones . Here is what I see.

Ringtone Mafia of SERP

All top SERPs are dominated by pages hosted at free web-sites. When you click on any of the links, it is either redirected through javascript to advertiser page or a page full of banner ad with keyword stuffed in comes.

I did some reverse engineering and here is step by step how people are doing it.

A> Create a free account at any of popular free hosting site (e.g. lycos.fr)
B> Select any niche. Let’s say Ringtones.
C> Grab million long tail keywords.
D> Get a tool to build million pages each dedicated to its own keyword. Page should have some random keyword, some random article and that’s all.
E> If you are really smartass, you may put NOARCHIVE tg in meta, so that google doesn’t keep a cache of your page.

<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOARCHIVE”>

F> In header do javascript cloaking to your advertiser. With javascript cloaking when a human will click on Search result, it goes direct to advertiser page, whereas when Search Robot comes in, it will see the original page.
G> Upload all million pages through FTP.
H> Now all you got to do is somehow get these pages indexed. There are million ways of doing it. Typically these Blackhaters will do blog spamming to get links or if you really want to play safe, all u need to do is somehow get ur page crawled. There are tools available at various blackhat forums, which will get ur million pages indexed in no time.
I> In 1-2 days, your pages will be in SERP. Since lycos.fr etc are authority domain + ur site has nothing but keywords, you will rank good for long tail keywords.
J> Indeed longevity of these sites is always big Question Mark. A typical site will last for 3-5 days before someone will report it to G or Lycos and they will shut this site out. But by then BH guy already has gotten thousands clicks and made $. Beside all the work is done by tool, so in a day he will come out with hundred of these sites.
K> Goes without saying, I don’t recommend you to do this or any of other BH trick. If you wanna try, try at your own risk. However If you are one of those million losers of the web who are not really doing anything other than just whining and complaining about the spam on the net thinking that they are doing something useful in life, I gave you guys enough feed for whole year. Go check Google 24 hour and you will find millions of pages to complaint about:)

~Nitin