http://www.cringely.com/2009/03/parrot-secrets/

If you want to know more about how to make money with ebook, here is another posting which you should read:

http://blog.mixergy.com/sell-ebooks/

To sum up about how to sell ebook.

1. go one niche deeper
2. Target the news
3. recycle your content
4. court affiliates

How to sell online from Andrew Warner on Vimeo.

• You pay less than your bidding price if the website Quality Score is higher than the peer.
• If more people click on your ad, your position will be higher.

Following on from Mook-Jon’s excellent thread I thought I’d post something similar but with a different slant.

Above is a picture taken of 1 of the 5 pages from my business bank statement that relates to late December 2005, early January 2006. Obviously I’ve used Photoshop to key out some banking reference codes. I’ve only posted a picture of 1 page instead of all 5 as I don’t want to disclose exactly how much I earn in a month. (BTW the currency of my bank statement is £UK Pounds Sterling). As you can see the rough total on that 1 page alone is roughly £82,000 which works out at approx. $144,000.

For those of you in the US who aren’t familiar with the UK affiliate networks or merchants here is a brief breakdown of the ones listed in my bank statement.

Tradedoubler: Affiliate Network
ADS Europe: Merchant
Affiliate Window: Affiliate Network
Tiscali Network: Merchant
Webgains: Affiliate Network

The purpose of this post is to hopefully inspire people that they too can earn money online through Affiliate Marketing. I am not bragging but merely illustrating the type of money that can be earned. For example I have 1 particular merchant who regular earns me over £100k per month. But don’t get me wrong, my business hasn’t been instant. Back in 2001 when I started I almost gave up after about 6 months as I hadn’t earned a penny. It’s only with lots of hard work and research that you can fully realise the potential that is out there. I do remember though that back when I first started out I used to read posts about affiliates earning big money and that really did motivate me. After all I think everyone longs for financial freedom.

About me: I’ve been an affiliate since late 2001 and my main site is at www.ukoffer.com. I run maybe another 20 or so sites, some of which are bookmarked in my blog (see signature). As well as that I run many short term ppc campaigns via custom landing pages. These can be live for only a number of weeks then taken down.

My main focus is about 80% PPC and 20% SEO. I’m not very good at SEO but still do alright for some key terms. My Monthly ppc budget is around US $300,000 which equates to roughly UK £170,000. Although when I first started out my budget was approx. $50 a month

I’m happy to answer any kind of questions anyone may have as long as you don’t ask me what my best converting keywords are etc.

Almost forgot - sure the image above could be a big fat fake but what would be the point? I’ve been around long enough now that I’m well known in the AM community in the UK so am sure I can be “vouched” for.

source: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=345974

here’s how it’s done:

I start with keyword lists from adsenseheaven dot com which guesstimates the most expensive keywords to bid on in the PPC AdWords side of the Google ad world. I generally ignore the top 1000, as they are very competitive and saturated. I am not concerned with the top payouts.

I store this data every month in a mySQL database with the previous months data, and over time I am able to see which phrases are consistently in the lists and unlikely to disappear. I call them long term performers.

I cross check each phrase with the number of pages currently indexed in google, to see how much competition there is for a each key phrase. It’s usually easier to land a top 10 first page SERP position if there is less competition for the phrase.

I also cross check each phrase with google trends data which has an RSS feed which is also collected and stored in a seperate SQL database hourly. If an adsenseheaven keyphrase is found to appear in my Google trends history database, it’s flagged as hot. If there’s less than a million indexed pages it’s further flagged as a top candidate for a dedicated microsite armada.

Once a month after the new list is released I analyze the data after it’s been processed and I pick a shortlist of hot key phrases that I am going to ramp up over the next few weeks.

For this lesson the phrase I’ve selected is ‘Acai Berry‘.

The estimated cost for the top position according to the adsense heaven list is $19, and it also appears multiple times in my Google trends history data. That means I’m probably going to make at least $5 for each AdSense click, and there’s a lot of people searching for it.

I head over my favorite registrar and find a domain name which contains the keyword at the beginning of the domain. Contrary to popular belief, the gTLD is irrelevant. I find that .info works just as well as a .com with all things otherwise equal. Get the new domain’s DNS setup, and your webserver configured. Install your favorite Open Source CMS into the Docroot and pick a nice template which looks clean. Avoid dark colored themes. Make a nice graphic for your site logo position which contains your root keyword. (yes googlebots can read keywords with OCR in your site logo images).

You now have the framework for your microsite, and a place to put your articles.

Now we’re going to mine long tail keywords for the selected phrase to use as subjects of my microsite subpages based on the root keyphrase. I use a couple different places for this, a good one for noobs is freekeywords.wordtracker.com. I input the root phrase ‘Acai Berry’ and save the top 50 results into a text file. For this example I’ll limit to the top 5 after the root.

You can use however many you want. The more you have, the bigger your site will be, and the more expensive it will be to ramp up.

I outsource most of my article writing to Justin at No Doubt Marketing. I pay them around $8 for each original article, and they are not scraped together garbage. I order 1 article for each long tail keyphrase. In 12-24 hours they’ll begin arriving in a steady stream to my inbox. It’s not uncommon to have 25-50 articles for your project. Your goal is to build a site which contains everything someone would ever want to know about your root keyword. It’s also not uncommon for me to have $500-$1000 into each microsite by the time it’s done. But, I make that back in two days.

There are lots of other article writing services out there, and there is a lot of grey area. Some are more readable than others, and the general rule is you get what you pay for. I spent a few months testing all the top ghostwriters who advertised their services on digitalpoint, and some are very bad. I do not use scraped articles or spun articles from aggregation sites like ezinearticles.

Now you have some original high quality meat for your microsite which is truly original content and is highly targetted for each long tail keyphrase. Create a content item on your CMS for each one, putting the longtail phrase in a H1 tag, the Title, and the Meta description. Do not make the title and meta description identical or the latter will be ignored. Insert the article, and do your html markup to split it into paragraphs, and add floating divs for your google adsense and CPA offers.

Over the course of the next few weeks, repeat this process as your longtail articles arrive. By the third week you will have a pretty large site which is very useful and informative. It doesn’t read like it was written by robots.

At the same time, you work on link building. I will look at who is already ranking for the keyphrases I am looking to rank for, and I will attempt to contact each of the webmasters. It’s easy to do a whois lookup on a domain (firefox has a plugin to do it from serp pages) and fire off an email to them. If they have a working phone number listed (they are required to) give them a call. I have a vonage account so I get unlimited long distance. I also have a telemarketing background so I am good at cold calling webmasters and socially engineering them into adding links.

You will mostly get voicemails, so leave a nice message which is very brief and explains you have a relevant website which wants to become link partners. When you get the webmaster on the phone live, tell him how great their website is, how you added a link to it on your blogroll, and how it would help their rankings to link to your related site which is full of good content.

Some people will tell you to go fuck yourself, so you just move on. There are going to be hundreds of thousands of other sites to contact, so don’t spend too much time with each one. I will ask them for their AIM handles so I can keep track of them. (did I mention I create a new AIM/Gmail for each new microsite?)

There are lots of other ways to get links. I’ve tried most of them, and they all work. You can donate money to open source organizations which have a ‘thank you’ page. Most of them will include a link if your donation is over a certain threshhold. Check for nofollows and disallows in the robots.txt first.

You can do a google blog search for your keyword and post an on topic comment which contains a single link to your homepage. Most places will leave your comment in the moderation cue forever, but others will publish it. You have a better chance of your comment getting published if your comment contains the keywords they are trying to rank for. Blog owners don’t want comments that throw their keyword density off.

You can search for forum posts using google which contain your keyword in the title tags and post a useful something into the thread. Don’t just spam your URL or clearly it’s going to get removed. It’s also a good idea to make a few posts in other threads before you do any link dropping so you don’t have 1 post when you do it

There is roughly 260 million websites which will give you a free blog. Create a new one everyday somewhere new and make a couple posts about your keyphrases. You can take snippits out of your articles and rewrite them into blog posts, or even purchase some of that ‘low quality’ filler articles I spoke of earlier and use that for your free blogs. Be sure to choose good anchors when linking to your main moneysite.

The bottom line is get as many links as you can, and spread them out as far apart as you can. You don’t want to get too many links in a day or it will appear unnatural. So take your time, and work a little bit on each microsite every day. Try to make sure every microsite gets at least one quality inlink every single day from somewhere.

One final observation: The longer a Google AdSense unit has been deployed, the more it’s worth. Some of my top performing units are several years old. I think after a certain time they’re internally flagged and start to show the top paying ads.

Ok I’m tired of writing now, and you’re certainly tired of reading. I’ll check back for questions later and try to follow up.

Go get em, Ninjas!

Source: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/adsense/42980-how-i-make-15k-month-adsense.html

Reply to: gigs-xrfqc-1068285965@craigslist.org
Date: 2009-03-10, 7:59AM PDT

I have a very high traffic site that crashed. I thought it was backed up but the backup drive died. I’m looking for someone that can post blogs of girl models on a daily basis. We cater to mostly import models, asian girls etc.

I’m willing to do some adsense profit sharing. I once made $150 on one day from adsense. This will take a little while to build up the blog because i’m starting over but think about it, in 3-6 months you’ll be hitting the residuals. My site gets indexed by google within a a few hours..

Here is a sample site, but be warned this has nudity. http://www.badgirlsblog.com/

In fact, clause 6 of the AdSense for Content Terms and Conditions does not allow Google to terminate accounts for “no” reason–only “any” reason. Much to my amusement, the judge interrupted her to make a point that sounded familiar.

“But you couldn’t terminate my account because of the color of my eyes, could you? I have brown eyes. You couldn’t terminate my account because of that.”

Ms. Milani reiterated her previous arguments, but the judge didn’t buy them. “I don’t think I have the power here in Palo Alto small claims court to make you reinstate his account, but I think you owe this young man $721,” he said finally. “I think there might be money in Google’s treasury for that.”

At the end, he won and get back his money from Google. I think a lot of people can do exactlly the same. May be even a class action lawsuit will be justified.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-i-sued-google-and-won_b_172403.html

If you look at all the free wordpress templates site, the function is very simple. Most of them are running using wordpress itself. A lot of them are just collection of themes. However, for some wordpress template sites, they are building for SEO purpose. The website will allow people to download the free wordpress template so people can install the theme. At the bottom of the theme it will hard code a link with the SEO purpose to point back to their sites. Sometime the theme will even call back to the server to get the latest links. So, the SEO company will be able to update the backlinks dynamically.

Think of it, if there is 10 people download your wordpress themes and use it. It is 10 free backlinks for you.

To build the website is easy.

1. Pick a domain name like freetemplate123.com
2. Install wordpress on the domain
3. Install the wordpress theme preview plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-preview/
4. try to find a lot of free wordpress templates or you can create some of the theme yourself.
5. for each theme, unzip it, modified the footer.php file to have your backlink
6. zip it up and post it to your wordpress website.

Then you just sit there and wait for your PR go up.

Th profit margin is 50% or so but a lot of work…

200% profit isn’t very common though. 50% profit is probably a realistic average. I may end up getting rid of Billy Joel/Elton John tickets soon at just a little over cost

I’ve got into ticket scalping lately. It’s not legal in many states but it is completely legal in my state as long as you do it online and conduct business using your real name. Check your local laws.It is really, really easy. All you do is check http://ticketstumbler.com/blog/ for upcoming sales and refresh ticketmaster at 10AM when they’re on sale. I don’t use a script, though a simple one to get you direct to the CAPTCHA would save 2 seconds which definitely makes a difference in quality of seats.

Some intuition about what will be instant sellouts is needed. This is the best one going on soon: a legendary performer known for rarely touring and he is playing tiny venues. http://www.ticketmaster.com/Leonard-Cohen-tickets/artist/733…

Don’t buy seats at the back of large amphitheaters unless it is for Phish.

It’s easiest to sell on Stubhub but using Craiglist can add 8-10% to your margins. It’s annoying to have to email/call back and forth with the people though.

There may be a way to break the whole .com naming game. May be a better directory service or may be something which is good enough for deployment so we don’t need to type in the URL anymore…

ToysRUs Buys Toys.com At Auction For $5.1 Million

Here is something interesting from the article:

At 16, Zucker started a business enticing people to pay $1 to take a swing at a golf ball. The prize for a hole in one from 150 yards: $1 million. He rented space from a driving range and persuaded an insurance company to allow him to pay a premium for a million-dollar policy. No one made it, but Zucker made some extra cash.

In college, at Miami University in Ohio, Zucker started a discount card company, pitching local businesses to give students bargains. He collected revenue from advertisers that paid for space on his discount cards, and from college bookstores that bought the cards and gave them as loyalty gifts to customers.

Link to the article: “They’re drinking it up in New York“. A guy is selling purified New York Tap water.