If you haven’t started using Myspace’s new PPC platform yet, check it out here. I heard about it a couple days ago from Ads 4 Dough. I’ve barely even looked at A4D’s offers yet but the fact that they stay on top of shit and tell their affiliates about stuff like this already makes it worth it to sign up with them, so I’d definitely recommend doing that too.

Myspace > Facebook. Why?

• More users. That means more people seeing your ads. It also means better targeting and more niches to market to.
• More relaxed. If you’ve ever ran ads on Facebook you know that it’s run by a bunch of dipshits who have no idea what they’re doing. News flash: if you deny 90% of people trying to buy ads (and legit ads at that), you make 90% less money than you would have if you had approved them. Somehow Facebook doesn’t seem to understand this and they deny everyone for everything. Myspace lets you do whatever the fuuuuuuck you want.
• Better usability. The interface is amazing, very easy to use and very user-friendly. It took me about 10 seconds to learn everything there is to know about it.
• Better ads. You can design your own 300×250 and/or 768×90 (something like that) ad images. No stupid 110×80 little squares where you can’t see shit.
• Everything. Everything is just better. The only downside is it takes a VERY LONG TIME to get ads approved. Also Myspace users are a lot more likely to sign up for stupid shit, and a lot more likely to buy stupid shit, so conversions should be a lot higher. If you’ve tried some things that weren’t profitable on Facebook on Adwords, try them on Myspace and they might be.

Keep in mind that while Myspace is mainly kids, you don’t need to pick offers that are only targeted at kids. You can target any demographic you want, there’s so many people on Myspace it really doesn’t matter. In fact I’d recommend doing that, since it’s a social network you can target more specific demographics and niches than with something like Adwords. Try it out and see what you think, I’m interested to hear what you all think about it.

So it’s been awhile since I last updated, if you read my last post with all my new site ideas, I decided to go with the Facebook Babes thing and I’ve been planning it out, getting it designed and everything and talking to lawyers about how legal it actually is. The bottom line is it’s pretty borderline but all my stuff is pretty borderline because that’s usually where the money’s at so I just said fuck it let’s do it. That’s what I’ve been working on, hopefully it’ll be up within a week and I’ll post a link so ya’ll can check it out. I’m having a simple design made now, kinda similar to http://www.pallian.com/ because I didn’t think it really needed something extravagant to post pictures of hot girls, although I’m contemplating getting my boy Umar (the guy who did my Lambo Sweepstakes site) to design something insane for this one, but I’m not sure if it really needs something like that - let me know what you think, I definitely want some opinions on this.

I also said I was thinking about doing a dating advice blog because I consider myself a muthafukkin ballaaa wit da hoez. In fact I’ve been trying to pull off a foursome, yes you read that right, I tried it with two different groups of girls, the first didn’t work at all because one of the girls decided to get back with her queer ass boyfriend and she was the hottest of the three so I didn’t wanna do it anymore. The other ones are somewhat good to go, two of em seem like they are but the last girl (it’s like a group of three girls who are all “bff’s” and shit) is kinda cold. Anyone have any advice on how to pull this off? I could make a post about it later if ya’ll want lol. Actually I’m still thinking about doing the dating blog, I definitely have time to write a post a day but I don’t know if I’d have time to advertise it. any ideas?

So let’s get to the real stuff. How to make awesome landing pages. Search for your keywords to see what your competitors’ landing pages look like, and do that continuously until it’s fairly obvious which ones have stayed up for awhile. Obviously if someone is running the same ad for a decent time period, it must be successful, so all you have to do is copy it verbatim (the landing page, the ad copy, you name it). “But OMG’Z copying is bad!!!” Let’s be serious … Coke is the exact same thing as Pepsi, Gatorade is the exact same thing as Powerade, etc etc. If someone else is successful and you’re not, copy them until you are. The easiest way to copy a landing page is to click “File > Save Page As” - it’ll mess up some of the images but if you know how to cut and paste in Photoshop you can take a screenshot of the actual landing page on the net and replace the images in your saved HTML with the correct ones.

I’m back! I haven’t posted in awhile because I’ve been researching a few new ideas and trying to decide what to do next. I started peddling ringtones a little while ago, something that most people don’t want to get into because it’s ultra competitive and there’s literally no way to rank for it unless you have a million dollar budget, which makes all your SEO knowledge useless and leaves you to just PPC and social networks. But at the same time, a lot of advertisers don’t like social network traffic (read: “Myspace”) so that leaves you with just PPC. And with millions of other people PPC’ing the same ringtone offers as you, it doesn’t seem very appealing. So I knew I didn’t want to drop six figures into a PPC campaign for something I had no experience with, but I wanted to try it anyway and see how I’d fair.

I picked a couple offers from different networks and started running basic ads, including a few different artist and song names and targeting those keywords rather than just “ringtones” or “hiphop ringtones” in general, which would have been way too expensive. That’s about it really, I redirected them through a domain I had sitting around, didn’t even buy a new one or create a landing page or anything. And while I’m not gonna be able to buy a new Benz after doing this, it’s surprisingly easy to pull in an extra $50-100 a day for literally ten minutes of work. I’d say that’s definitely worth it.

But ringtones aren’t the only thing I’ve been doing. I was checking out DN Scoop a couple weeks ago and saw a Myspace layout site going for $600,000. Yeah, you read that right. If I had been drinking milk it would have shot out of my nose, so I decided to do a little research and see exactly how the fuck this site was worth the price of a new house. Apparently the guy who owns it is an 18 year old CS addict making $30k a month because of the sheer volume of traffic he receives and the huge number of ads slapped up in the most blatantly ridiculous places. So I thought, “Hey, I’m the motherfucking king of Myspace marketing, maybe I should look into starting a Myspace layout site … LOL!” I started talking to a few people who ran layout sites and learned a lot about how to start one and how they generate traffic, and THAT’S when I decided I wanted to do it. Why? Because the huge majority of these guys have no idea what SEO is. They barely understand link building. And shit, I know my SEO, I know my social network marketing, I should be able to rape these fuckers and rank in no time.

Most of these sites buy a script that basically generates the site for them and all they have to do is upload layouts into a folder on their server and it displays them on the site (like uploading themes to Wordpress). My first idea was to scrap that idea and customize a Wordpress theme to look like a layout site, since we all know Wordpress is the king of SEO’ing itself (grammar? lol). I could also have an RSS feed where people can subscribe to be notified of new layouts. It would also be pretty easy to buy some bullshit links on DP as well as network with other Myspace layout sites, since there are just SO MANY of them. Most of them don’t understand the concept of anchor text and they just link to each other using whatever the fuck they feel like, such as “Joe Blow’s Site!” And yeah that helps if you have a shitload of links but if he had just added the word “layout” in there it would have taken an extra half a second to type and generated a lot more traffic. It actually seems pretty easy, and the costs are extremely low (I could set up the entire thing and have thousands of layouts on there for less than $1000), so I’m pretty sure I’m gonna go ahead and do it. If anyone has any ideas (or sites somewhat related to Myspace / layouts and you want to trade links), let me know!

A lot of Facebook groups related to making money, affiliate marketing, network building, etc have been popping up lately, and judging by the number of group invitations I get, every time someone creates a new group they go through the member list of every other group and invite every single person they see. Facebook is a great tool for networking as well as keeping in touch with people, but it’s getting harder and harder to filter through all the bullshit. Every other Facebook group looks like a copy and paste of a poorly written landing page offering something like “join my group and I’ll teach you how to make $100k a month!” Hopefully no one here has been sucked into any of these ridiculous scams.

Facebook groups are actually a very good way to build a network because people are a lot more prone to accept a group invitation than they are to join a mailing list, and groups work in essentially the same way as lists because they give you the ability to post updates and message all of the members whenever you want. If anyone here has or is planning on starting a Facebook group (I’m talking about something for the purposes of networking or making money, not a “class of 08 rocks!” group), here’s a couple tips for maximizing your ROI:

• Don’t send millions of messages a day. I joined about 15 groups and left all but 3 of them because a lot of them were sending out multiple messages every single day, and they were all spam messages reiterating the same information and sending me to poorly designed landing pages for shitty products. Send mass messages 2 or 3 times a week at the most, or people will get fed up with them and leave, and you’ve just turned away a potential lead. If you have small updates you’d like to share, just update your page to add the new information, and save the mass messaging for really important news.
• Make it believable. I’ve talked about this before and now I’m talking about it again. If you want people to believe you actually know what you’re talking about, you need to show some credentials. A good example of what NOT to do is 100k Dream Team. I saw someone advertising this on Facebook and since the girl posting it looked pretty hot, I clicked it to see what it was, and I was greeted with the most ridiculous bullshit I’d ever seen in my life. She makes $100k a month, yet for some reason she decided not to hire a professional designer and instead to design the entire site herself in Microsoft Paint. And I’m sure that yellow Lambo actually belongs to her and she didn’t just steal the picture from Google Images. Let’s be serious - if you want people to believe you’re making money, at least make yourself reasonably believable.
• Don’t steal. At least half of the groups that I left due to spam messaging were actually copying each other’s messages and sending them to their own groups. I received the exact same message multiple times, just from different people. Even if I were interested in their bullshit, there would have been no point staying in more than one of the groups if they’re just going to repeat the same information. That’s another problem I see with a lot of these “make money online” blogs - all their topics have already been discussed hundreds of times and they don’t have any fresh info or even an original take on old info. Come on now.

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I’m looking for a new host to use for a couple landing pages, they’ll be getting pretty decent traffic but they’re just 1-2 page sites with a few pictures so nothing really intensive, and I’d like to go with a shared host because it doesn’t seem like there’s any reason to get a VPS. I’ve tried Hostgator (hated it with a passion) as well as 1&1 that was pretty good but I’ve heard there is a lot better. Any suggestions?