Archive for: November 2007

We have mentioned affiliate marketing several times in this blog. Have you tried affiliate marketing? Done any good? Why not?

Do you have a clue as to why you aren’t making money with affiliate marketing? Here is a list of 99 reasons why you will fail at affiliate marketing. The article is over at affearners.com.

I like #35 “You think affiliate marketing will get you rich quick”. Yeah. Right. That’s what a lot of folks think. Put up a snarky site and wait until the checks start rolling in.

The list is worth reading through. There are some that I recognize from my early days. Even some that I’m guilty of yet.

Drop on over and see how many of the reasons apply to you.

~dink

The glory days of MFA sites are long gone. You know, the days when you could register 100 dot info’s and make 10, 000 subdomain sites each with 10,000 keyword pages, and get them indexed and producing adcents pennies.

The engines (especially Google) have refined their algos to the point that if you could get that many pages crawled, they wouldn’t last two days.

On top of that crapola G has seen fit to completely disable your adsense account for no apparent reason.

Now I’m not saying MFA’s are dead. They still have a place in a well rounded business plan. Black hat business, that is. If you still have an adsense account you should be making a bit of cash. It’s just somewhat more difficult to grow exponentially any more.

Many/most of the big-time bh guys have gone to affiliate marketing instead of adsense. There are several reasons for the move. More money is probably the biggest one.

So, the question was asked a while back. I think it was Nick, but not sure, who asked “how do you get a fresh site indexed without tripping all the filters?”.

Here’s my suggested method.

1. Do not use dot info domains.
2. Do use com, org, us, biz, etc.
3. Build the site. If you intend to use redirects, don’t do it yet.
4. Find some free blogs. Register a bunch of them. The type you chose isn’t as important as whether they have an auto pinger. WordPress is my favorite because of all the wonderful plugins that are available.
5. Make you some blog content. Here is where you can get creative. Try the markov plugin for YACG 2. Matter of fact you could use the entire YACG app to make the posts automagically. Or, if KaptainKrayola has released his K5 content generation program, that would work well too.
6. Make a couple of posts to your blogs. Don’t put up any links yet. Just some posts that contain your main and two or three related keywords per post. The more content per post, the better. If you can do between 500 and 1k words per post you’ll be in great shape.
7. After two or three days of posting content to the blogs, put your target site in the blogroll. No links in the content of your posts. Just the blogroll. On each blog, use different anchor text pointing to your target. Remember that about half of your links should be to the index page. The other half should be pointed to interior pages of your target site.
8. Continue posting to the blogs. Use different combinations of keywords/phrases in the content. All should be relevant to your target, of course.
9. If you have about ten blogs, posted content daily to each, at the end of ten days or so you should have some nice positions for some of the phrases.
10. Expand your blog network. Work them the same way as the others. Use auto posting software to help free up your time.
11. When you have about thirty blogs working, it’s time to expand your target horizons. If you have other sites that share similar keywords/phrases, add them to the blog roll now.
12. Rinse and repeat as necessary.

To stay low you must not call undue attention to your site. That means: if you are promoting affiliate stuff, you should concentrate on the ultra long keyphrases. The tightie whitie aff marketers will nark you in a heartbeat if you try to go for their keywords.

The beauty of the system I outlined above is that you don’t have to rely on someone else’s site for backlinks. That means no more pissed off webmasters out after your head. It also means that you control the anchor text and title for all of your links. That’s golden.

Stay low by playing your blackhat tune soft and slow. Softly by having your own backlink control. Slowly by posting content instead of links.

Try it out the next time. I think you’ll love it as much as I do.

~dink

Our ongoing attempts at gaming the engines sometimes work well, sometimes fall flat. I’ve found a couple of tools that will make the work easier and the results better.

If you remember our discussion on the future of blackhat marketing (Blackhat 3.0 or what) , Nick commented that the need for good content was one thing that we need to concentrate on.

The mighty G has supposedly been working on a deal that they label LSI. MS is said to be doing something like that already. Y? Who knows.

So we need unique content. Content that is semantically correct. The very best that my Markov generator can do is make nice reading content that is spammy as all getout and not semantically correct.

So where are we to get a content generator that will spit out correct sentence structure? Heh. Thought you’d never ask.

Kaptain Krayola has written a unique content generator. He says on his blog that it will be unique every time, and pass the semantics test. He has tested it a lot and I’ve seen results that made a believer out of me.

The Kaptain indicates that he will have his API ready soon and plans to put up a site just for the application. Give him a visit and check out K5.

There comes a time in every Blackhat career where you need a shed load of G-mail accounts. Most of the time I need several at one go. Now, G makes it fairly easy to get them, but if I need eight of them right now, well that’s a different deal.

Along comes my favorite Black Hat coder with the answer. Esrun has made a Gmail account creator that’s free and easy. If you do need lots of Gmail accounts, check his tool out.

That’s it for this issue. Keep those cards and letters coming. Santa will be reving up his reindeer before we know it. LoL

~dink