Mega Champ

If you have been to sitepoint or digital point market place, there is a trend going on where people are mostly bidding or buying websites which are having some sorts of auto pilot business. Means you buy it and forget it and the money will keep coming in.

But in this age of SEO and people fighting for search engine rankings, does that make sense. I mean its good you are on first page of google for something but if that’s site is an autopilot and you competitor wants to take your ranking, it will be pretty easy for him/her to do it. To be honest, he/she can even throw you out of the first page with some good link building and SEO.

So, if you are buying an auto pilot website then please keep a plan on what to do when your site rankings starts going down the drain. Google is not much fond of static websites, if you get my drift.

Yup you heard it right, if you go to register a new email account at gmail, you will have to give your phone number as well. Which will be verified by google and then only you will be getting a new email account.

Gmail claims that this policy is part of their spam curbing process. Well this technique should work to some extent on bringing down spam email accounts.

I haven’t tried it so far, so I dont know whether you can register more than one account using the same phone number. Have to find it out

Applied for AzoogleAds last week and got the following mail today :

Dear,

Thank you for your interest in the AzoogleAds network! Unfortunately, we are no longer accepting new candidates from this country and cannot work with you at this time.

In the event we move forward with future international business a member of the Publisher Support Team will contact you directly.

Please feel free to address any additional questions by contacting me by telephone at 1-866-891-0300, or via email at internationalpublisher@azoogleads.com.

Sincerely,

Azoogle Publisher Support

Well I heard lots of good things about them, so wanted to try them out. But it seems like I have to wait for “some” time before it can happen.

Have a blog or website and struggling to drive traffic to it, well watch the excellent video from Yaro Starak.

In my opinion there no stupid job then a critic, what low lives. What kind of life is that when only you can do to earn money is by criticising the work of people on which they put their life out.

And as one happen to be a famous critic, his or her opinion will make or break some person’s years of work. What injustice, and the problem is these people being critic, they mostly can criticise the things. The day stop they doing that, its over right?. That’s what they are being paid for . So, once again in full voice “Up Yours @#$@#$ Critics”

I am not against constructive criticism but that is a rarely found these days.

If you lurk around in the webmaster forums, you must have came across some posts like :

“Here is video database containing 1000’s of videos, download it free”

“Giving out 10000’s post database for free, download now”

“Free warez db download now, start your forum for free”

etc etc.

If you are a total noob in the making sites for profit niche, there is high percentage of chances that you will jump of your couch and say “wow I got a free db, i am off to start my new website now” and never even look much into what’s inside.

But I have always, whenever I see someone giving out free db in digital point, i always download it and look inside the code. And believe me when i say, 99% of times, these db as infested with their affiliate links or 1000’s of links pointing to the websites of the owner. So, if you happen to use the database, all you will be doing is benefiting them in terms of links or driving traffic to their websites.

You didn’t think that someone is handing out free databases just like that right? So, always check what’s inside that huge sql file you just downloaded and act accordingly. My advice will be to still download the database but do some parsing and scripting to turn the “benefit” tide towards yourself.

PS : I would like to add there are some people who are genuinely giving out good databases as public service, but there count is very very less.

Having trouble finding link directories for you new website/blog. Just use the following command in google and get going :

php link directory” inurl:”(nl|be|net|biz|info|com|org)/submit.php

As mentioned earlier its my first stint of affiliate marketing and I have been reading a lot and I mean a “LOT”. And believe me when i say, people are doing all kinds of crazy stuff to get more sales, more clicks, traffic.

The line between black hat,white hat, grey hat is kind of thin here. I won’t be naming anyone but one thing is sure, it is little difficult to compete with these guys. Its not like you won’t be successful even after doing all your hard work, you certainly will but it will take “TIME” cos seriously, as you are going by the book of rules.

Book of rules will stand for the usual stuff like if you want to promote a offer then :
1. Choose a niche you want to work on.
2. Prepare Landing pages
3.Write articles,submit to article directories and wait for them to get accepted.
4. Do some PPC marketing
5. Find some long tail keywords for your niche and try to capitalize on that.
6. Wait for results to pour in.

The dark side

1.Choose around 100 niche
2. Buy a vps server.
3. Scrape everything related to your niche from websites, feeds and what not, store it in database.
4. Modify the content here and there with a script obviously like replacing some common used words with their synonyms.
5. Put the offers in the content you are promoting.
6. Run a script and set up 100’s of wordpress blogs for eah keyword in your niche with the content stored in database you earlier scraped.
7. And let the money flow

So, what do we understand from this is that, results will be instant in the “dark side” steps and probably you will have to wait for results in the white hat techniques.

Well which side to choose??? In my personal opinion, you should do a mix of both, some white some dark and see what works for you. And also it depends on upto which extent you are ready to go to have success in affiliate marketing.

Well its my strategy, might not appeal to all. If you are into affiliate marketing and specially a newbie in that like me, you will notice that each n every niche your pick up is already filled to its core. Which “SHOULD” make you think how will I earn money in between all these super affiliates who are churning out thousands dollar sales in one day and completely taken over affiliate marketing.

To be honest I myself have to figure it out YET. The only way I came up with is rather difficult to figure that out. I took 2 of the most difficult niche to work on.  Both niches are extremely saturated and utterly competitive.

So, I am putting all my efforts into both to make money. The learning from here is that, if I am able to make “some” monye in these 2 niches, I will be able to compete better in other niches which are not that crowded.

Its all part of learning the Affiliate marketing world and my way of dealing with it .

One thing i have learned from my almost 3 weeks of affiliate marketing experience is that you can win in this game if you automate your stuff as much as possible. Manual work in affiliate marketing means loss of profits. So automate or outsource you can and concentrate only on getting some good niches for your self.

I will be glad to share all I did in automation, when it actually starts working for me as well, otherwise I will look like a douche bag about sharing stuff which I didn’t even test.