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 was talking to someone last night who was telling me about an awesome site she joined where she would visit a bunch of sites and click on their ads a bunch of times and then get paid a bunch of money. I was like, “Uhhh yeah, that’s illegal,” to which she replied, “Nah I’m pretty sure it’s not,” to which I replied, “Uhhh yeah it is, fuckin noob.” I’m sure a lot of you already know that this is what we like to refer to as “click fraud,” which basically consists of telling people to click on your ads or (in the uber noob case) clicking on your own ads in an attempt to artificially inflate your CTR. This is illegal because you’re getting paid for fraudulent clicks and wasting the advertiser’s money. This is a totally stupid way to get banned from all of your ad networks because it’s extremely easy for them to figure out you’re doing it.

There are lots of ways to commit click fraud, the simplest is by clicking on your own ads. The next step up is to tell your friends to click on your ads. The next step up involves joining forums where you click on someone else’s ads and they click on yours, paying people to click on your ads, etc. You always get caught, banned, and they take the money back anyway. But hey, let’s assume you do find a way to do this without your ad network finding out. You’re getting tens of thousands of fake clicks a day, they have no proof that you’re doing it, and you’re raking in the cash. You do that for a day or two and then you get banned anyway. But how???

Let’s take Adsense for example. They keep data on every keyword’s average CTR, determined by the average of every publisher’s CTR who is displaying ads for that keyword. So for example if there are three publishers displaying ads for “asdfasdfasdf,” one of them gets a 1% CTR, one gets a 3% CTR, and the other gets a 5% CTR, Adsense knows that the average CTR for “asdfasdfasdf” is 3%. So let’s say you’re running a site and “asdfasdfasdf” ads are displayed on your site, you generate huge amounts of fraudulent clicks and receive a 30% CTR. Google sees that your CTR is 10 times as much as the average, and even though they have no proof or evidence that you are cheating them, they say, “Well we’re just gonna assume he’s cheating, count those extra clicks as invalid clicks, and then ban him, just to be on the safe side.” And they’ll do that. So even if you “get away” with cheating, as soon as they even THINK you’re cheating, they’ll take the money back and you won’t get shit.

So as I was explaining this, she says “well you’re one to talk, you do all these blackhat things and scam people all the time.” Actually, I don’t. Blackhat marketing and scamming are totally separate things. Blackhat means “unethical but not illegal” and scamming means “unethical and illegal.” Even the “unethical” part of blackhat can be debated, and one person could think a certain method is unethical while another could think it perfectly ethical. And if you’re reading this site, you probably don’t care anyway. The point is that SCAMMING is bad, if you SCAM people you are a deuschebag and if you’re making any significant amount of money you’ll eventually get caught. BLACKHAT is not bad, and you can do it all you want.

I’ve been an active member of DP (a blogging / affiliate marketing / marketing / etc) forum for awhile, and I’ve noticed that people love buying ebooks, especially blackhat “step by step guides to make money” ebooks, so a couple days ago I decided to write one and see how it would sell. It was called “Blackhat Social Marketing: Twitter, Stumbleupon, Digg, Myspace, and Facebook” and it took me just over thirty minutes to write because it was stuff I already knew how to do, so I didn’t have to do any research. The beauty of selling this book is that it’s information I’ve already touched on in this blog and stuff that I’ll be expanding on in the future, so if I’m going to be writing it anyway, why not make some extra money in return for the five extra minutes it takes to save it as a PDF and upload it?

I started a new thread on the forum with a brief description and told people they could easily bring in tens of thousands of additional visitors if they implemented all the methods in the book (which is actually true). Within ten minutes I had given out three review copies (you ALWAYS want to give away review copies of products to get some good testimonials) and within thirty minutes of those reviews being posted, I had sold five copies of the book for a total of $75. I asked each person who purchased it to review it and let me know if they liked it, and they all posted good reviews in the thread which led to a lot more sales. So far I’ve pulled in a couple hundred bucks, which is great considering I didn’t really do any extra work.

If you’d like to buy “Blackhat Social Marketing,” click [BUY LINK REMOVED, IF YOU'D LIKE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT ON THE LATEST BLOG ENTRY AND I'LL EMAIL YOU THE INFORMATION]. It is split up into five chapters and each one covers a different social network and how to exploit it to generate massive amounts of traffic to your site. It also outlines how to be “sneaky” about it to avoid getting caught. I’ve already described some of the book’s tactics in previous posts and I’ll be covering more in future posts, but if you want to get a head start, you should definitely give it a read. Hit the “continue reading” link to see some customer reviews. Continue Reading »

Hopefully my affiliate networks don’t see this and ban me for it (just kidding Clickbank, I haven’t done this with you, I’ve only done it with random sites that offer affiliate programs, LOL). There is a really easy way to trick people into signing up for PPL (pay per lead) offers and it involves very little work. If you’re unfamiliar with PPL, it means you get paid by referring people to sign up for free things, such as registering for a forum, a mailing list, or entering their zip code for shit like ringtones and scholarships. It’s very similar to CPA except it’s always free simple bullshit, which makes it very easy to game. The basic idea is you refer someone to a site, they sign up for free, and you get paid. So how would we exploit this system?

PPL offers can be as low converting as selling products if done from a purely whitehat standpoint, as people still need to be interested enough to click the link, read the sales page, and want to sign up. This is why you need to be a little evil with your marketing. I’ve actually seen some jerkoffs selling this as “The Craigslist Method,” but it’s really just common sense when you think about it, so I’ll give it to you for free. Let’s say you’re promoting a web design forum that pays you $1 for every user you refer. You go to Craigslist and post from an unregistered account (it’s very important that you don’t register an account because if they catch one of your ads from a registered account, they’ll delete all of them) a job listing that you are looking for either (a) forum posters, or (b) forum moderators (you can post ads for each, or combine them into a single ad, it doesn’t matter). If people are interested, tell them to email you their information and you’ll be in touch. A sample ad would look something like this:

I am starting a web design forum and am in need of a few moderators. Web design knowledge is preferred but not required. You will be paid $15 a day. If you are interested, please email me at ilike@sex.com

You now need to set up an email to receive all the inquiries, and trust me, there will be a lot. DP is always flooded with threads asking how to make a hundred dollars a month with Adsense, so $15 a day sounds very lucrative to a lot of people Continue Reading »

If you have a blog, you’ve heard of Stumbleupon. Users “stumble” sites they like and if your site gets enough stumbles you’ll see a massive spike in traffic. The Stumbleupon crowd, like the Digg crowd, is very selective about what they stumble and it’s hard to beat the system. That is, until NOW [insert drumroll]!

If you’ve been having no luck with Stumbleupon and don’t mind venturing into the realm of the blackhat, there is a tool called Auto Stumble that runs in the background and stumbles other users’ sites while they stumble yours. It’s only £10 (about $18) and you should easily be able to make that back after using it. Here’s a sneak peek at it in action:

If you’re a cheap bastard and don’t want to spend the money Continue Reading »