As I set out to ‘generate’ content in the stealing sense of the word, I started working with tools that are available. These tools work with RSS feeds from the web to form web content. Unfortunately I found out that these tools mostly suck.
For my purpose I used Wordpress and some of it’s plug-ins, like WP-O-Matic to consume RSS feeds and show them on the WP page. This turned out not to be so straightforward.
Update (16 october): the automated test blog traffic is growing very fast: 2000 spider visits/250 uniques/1300 pageviews yesterday. Seems the experiment is working.
As I wrote in my mission statement in this blog, I was going to launch some concept sites. This post is about the first one I’ve launched. Read about the ups and downs of it.
In many forums, one of the most often recurring questions is; what is my site worth? This is not an easy question to answer, especially if you don’t know the site in question and it is totally impossible if you don’t know or don’t get the business model behind it.
There is at least one type of site of which it is quite possible to estimate the value within reasonable bounds and that is a site which derives income from CPM (get paid per 1000 impressions) ads. These kind of sites run completely on traffic and traffic alone. More traffic is more money for that kind of site.
I have been working on a project to get as close as possible to the value of a CPM as I possibly could and I think we have succeeded in doing that. But we also created some interesting side effects.
Because I am searching for making money online, I was hoping to find some easy guides to get to my goals. Unfortunately there are very little of them, at least very little that really tell it like it is. And the ones that are very good cost a lot of money.
Fortunately it doesn’t have to be like that. Everything that is needed for making online money and starting online businesses can be had for free. It is just not a step-by-step plan that works. And we all need a step by step plan that works ofcourse.
So ofcourse I decided to make one and offer it for free. All knowledge I pick up and all knowledge I use to make my monthly income offline and online I will give to you over the coming 12 months including all links, ebooks, videos and so on. There already is a lot and that will grow very fast as I continue my quest.
Check out this site for getting into my radical moneymaking system 
I have over 200 sign ups currently; most of the things I will tell do not expire nor get saturated, but just keep it a tight bunch, i’m quiting the sign up process on 300 subscribers.
It seems that most people still do not know that you have to protect your affiliate links from your users. Most users are quite focused on the kind of links that are typical for affiliate codes; for instance, links with ?aff=johndoe in them. In forums and on websites it seems as if people actually do not realize that their prospects cut off these kind of references before going to the site of the product or service they are looking to buy.
While it is not exactly clear (it is not as if they are paying more or anything…) why people cut off these links, it is very common for sites with affiliate programs to get questions like; ‘I am sure I sent 10 people your way, yet I have no one in my downline, your system must be broken’. Of course the system isn’t broken but they all simply cut off the link.
On the internet it is still all about going as fast as you can. Think of something, set a site up the same day, start a blog about it the same week. Start marketing immediately. Get the software done, at least a first version ASAP and prelaunch or launch an alpha version.
The problem is ofcourse that you really cannot rush programmers into doing that kind of thing. Some programmers can do it, but most will require more and more (and more and more…) time getting it done and then it is usually not as you want it.
Is this feeling of ; why can’t he just get it done? And is the accompanying feeling of powerlessness familiar to you? It is to me…
In the first part of this series I told how I go about finding partners on the internet. Although this is not always easy, it turned out that all my partners are trustworthy, hardworking and solid. And I have never seen or even talked to them. I contacted them only via chat or mail; no voice, video or facetime.
How is this possible? I am quite convinced this has a lot to do with taking the time to learning what makes them tick. It seems that everyone on the web is in a rush which is quite a bad thing. As I said in one of my previous posts; I believe you need 3 years to get a business anywhere. Why then all the hurry?
The concept of automating content on sites has always fascinated me. As an ex artificial intelligence student, the prospect of generating content, putting it on a page and actually getting people to read it is very compelling to me.
In the fast paced world of web development, automated content means a lot of things, but it almost never means actual generating of original, high quality content by a computer. What it usually means is ‘generating’ content by mixing some existing sources, which is, of course, not really generating anything but more copying.
Still; it seems interesting to investigate if this really works and if there is any merit to it.
As my readers know, I have been making money online for a long time. Well, online usually meant mixing offline with online. Visiting (boring) clients, talking to people in person (which I hate), giving presentations (which I hate even more). And then the work usually would move to online; getting outsourcing for the project set up, talking to the client via mail from then on (if I could help it) etc.
But that is not really making money online. For me making money online is a total process of making every cent you earn in a ‘project’ or company online; no offline things involved. This means;
- getting the client online
- having the ‘product’ created online (by outsourcing or otherwise)
- transferring the cash online (Paypal or that kind of thing)
- doing all specs online
For me personally it actually means zero facetime, not even that horrible invention called Skype.
One of the favorite sites of marketeers seems to be clickbank.com. There are thousands of ‘interesting ‘products with shiny pages shouting about how exactly you can train your dog or your child. Or of course; how to be a rich person very fast. Of course I would like to be a rich person very fast, so I occasionally try this stuff out, even only for kicks to see what crap someone writes and the psychology of why someone would buy that actually.
One of these books is the getgoogladsfree ’system’. This system promises you that you can, quite easily have your Google adwords ads running for free! Sounds amazing doesn’t it? Well it is quite amazing and that’s why it very probably does not work. Seems many people are desperate enough to buy systems that cannot work, probably because they have money trouble, enough of their jobs etc.
As a newcomer in the online moneymaking business, you soon will discover that almost all ebooks you can buy online are centered around the same subject; getting referrals, and getting them to 5 or 6 or 7 levels deep. This is simply the kind of business this is.
Unlike traffic businesses and so on, this kind of system depends on you building a very active downline. When you have that in the system, you’ll be making a lot. But how do you get such a downline?
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