Since introducing Blogger Unleashed to my readers I have been inundated with several emails regarding Vic's methods and what my view is about them and why I do things differently. The email below best sums up most of the questions asked;
Hey Grizz,
I have been reading your blog for a while now and read Vic's blog like you suggested and I have a few questions. His little trick to get indexed instantly is really cool but it only works for terms that no one will ever search for. How does this help make money online? I notice your system involves getting a link from a PR site to get indexed right away - why do you do it that way? And finally how do we use this info to our advantage meaning making money? Also sorry so many questions Vic's Adsense site is a lot different than the way you do it - which is better? Thanks so much for your help and sorry to keep bugging you.
Adam
In regards to doing things differently keep in mind that there is no one way to do anything - we use different methods depending on our targeted audience and what our niche is and what we are monetizing.
Adam is right - Vic's trick to get indexed instantly works for terms that no one searches for - so how does this help? The point he was making wasn't for getting traffic it was to show you how to just get indexed. Once you are indexed then you can start adding keyword targeted content that will then be crawled and indexed as well. This simply allows you to start building indexed content right away and having the chance to start getting traffic without fear of being sandboxed by Google.
Now I said this gives you a chance at getting traffic sooner. If you add competitive keywords to your site you will get indexed for those terms but most likely you'll be listed deep in the serp bowels. This is why I have said to go and submit your link on a high ranking PR site like Squidoo, Yahoo Answers, Propeller etc. If you add this extra step then you can skip the never searched for keyword that Vic uses and insert your main keyword in your anchor text thereby getting a high PR link to your site which in effect states that you are an authority for your main keyword. This will get you listed higher up in the serp's and for a term that is actually searched for. It will also get a brand new site indexed in short order - maybe not in minutes like Vic's example but usually within a few hours. High PR sites are crawled several times a day by the Google bot and your link will be found on the next crawl. Sometimes you will get lucky and get indexed in a few minutes.
If you are targeting niche traffic and you do not have a lot of competition using a high PR third party will often land you on page 1 of the serp's for your keyword and you are in business - targeted traffic will start showing up on the same day that you started a brand new blog. If you don't hit page 1 then competition is rated by how far back in the serp's your PR5 link landed you. If you are on page 2 you will only need a couple of more high PR links to get to page 1. If you are on page 10 then you are going to need a lot more links and more importantly a lot more keyword rich content.
I use this method for starting new white hat blogs that I intend to nurture into long term money makers.
Adam mentioned Vic's Adsense Blog was different than mine. I assume he means Vic's Bu.bulicio.us site compared to this blog.
There are several methods for making money with Adsense and this is 1 of them. Vic's site is what I call a full out assault - produce tons of keyword rich content and get tons of traffic. This method is probably the surest way to make a lot of money with Adsense and I'll explain why.
Vic is trading off CPC for CTR, in other words he knows that every 1000 visitors he gets he will make a steady income. If he makes $10 per 1000 visitors then increase your visitors to 20,000 a day and you will earn a good income. And - I can hear you thinking - how the heck do you get 20,000 people a day to your site?
You do what Vic does - he writes tons of new, unique, and keyword specific content and here is the secret, he writes about current events - new stuff that has little to no competition and is being actively searched for by thousands of people.
Go make some money now.
Maybe the best way to learn this is to just do it.
Vic uses one site to generate a lot of content on a lot of different topics. I use lots of blogs centered on one topic each. Both systems work but I do things my way as I am a lot lazier than Vic. I really admire Vic - he posts a lot - huge amounts actually and I wish I had the drive he does. I don't though so I look for ways of making money with the least amount of work. I am going to show you a blog of mine that exemplifies crap - it is ugly, devoid of any meaningful content, amateurish and looks like I spent a good 2 minutes designing it which I did. It also makes me a daily income and nobody anywhere could have done less work or designed a poorer looking site than this.
Do any of you remember Antonella Barba? She was the bombshell who had all sorts of racy photos leaked last year as she was competing for American Idol. Do you know how popular American idol is? Do you realize how many teenage boys spend their days looking for n*de pictures of female celebrities?
Lie and lie some more.
I hate showing you a seedier side of making money online but it's out there and it works.
Here is a blog I put together last March called celebrityn*dephotos.blogspot.com. Don't worry there are no n*de photos - Google will ban your Adsense account if you post n*dity so never do it - just lie and say you have the photos. I built the blog along with others to post stories about whoever was hot in Technorati Tags at the time.
Check the stats on the bottom of the blog. Over 31,000 hits since March. The blog only has 14 posts - all crap and scraped with a little editing. Must have spent a good minute on each post.
Here are some of yesterdays stats for the keywords used on Google to find this site.
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If you search for "Kelly Pickler N*de" this is what Google will return;
On any given day 100-200 people search for "Kelly Pickler N*de".
You'll notice I don't have Adsense on the site. This is because the ads generated by this niche are all low paying $.01 - $.03 per click ads. Using Adsense I only earned $2-$3 a day but I was smart priced which meant that all my Adsense sites became smart priced.
Important: If any of your Adsense pages becomes smart priced it effects all your Adsense pages - even those on different sites. This means that your best Adsense sites will suffer lower CPC as a result of 1 poorly optimized site. Only use Adsense when you can provide highly optimized content which initiates highly optimized Adsense ads. If you ever get public service ads or the "blogging" ads then you are being smart priced and my advice is to pull Adsense off the blog immediately or all your other sites will suffer lower earnings.
I have used ROI rocket ads for the site as well as fake ads which lead to affiliate pages and outright affiliate links. The types of visitors to the blog don't give a damn about affiliate links and will never substitute their own - they don't know what an affiliate link is. They just want nude pictures and when they can't find any on my site they start clicking ads. I have found that teenage boys are easily hooked on the idea of making money online.
Are you ready for the best part?
This crappy stupid blog that took maybe an entire hour of my life to create and then totally ignore (only 1 post since May) makes about $30 a day in affiliate sales and /or lead generation fees. Everyday one or two visitors buy something... everyday... day in day out... I do nothing. This is how I like making money online.
I have over 100 of these types of blogs. All Blogger blogs that cost nothing and were set up in minutes. All the content is scraped but re-edited to be original. The only other work I do is muster up a few links to get top spot in the indexes and with most topics that get hot there isn't a lot of competition.
If you want to try this just pay attention to what is happening around you - here is a small list of some of my best producing blog subjects this year.
Virginia Tech Massacre, Antonella Barba, Kelly Pickler, Mel Gibson, Britney, Paris, OJ, iPhone, Eva Mendez, Joost, Sanjiya Malakar, Stephen Colbert and the list goes on...
Now here is the reason Blogger kicks ass - if you are fast you can usually create a brand new blog with your subject or keyword in your url. On any given day someone gets the media spotlight and people will search for info about the person or event. There is little competition on a new story so if you are quick and manage to get a blog setup fast then you will see traffic. Once you have the traffc you have to figure out how best to monetize it. Sometimes Adsense works best, sometimes affiliate links and sometimes you use the blog to redirect people to a different site (bait and switch).
When Antonella Barba hit the scene I was getting about 20,000 hits a day to each blog I had created about her. (I had 6 blogs - you don't need to just create 1). For the first week each blog made between $50-$90 a day in Adsense - not bad but I was dissapointed because I was getting over 100,000 visitors daily and only making $300 bucks. That really isn't very good for 100,000 people. The second week I dropped the Adsense and created a bunch of fake ads - "Click here for a free Antonella nude Calender". One link took the visitor to a sales page for Free Music Downloads. Another link directed people to an affiliate page for Acne remedies. Remember who my visitors were - teenage boys.
I made over $15,000 in commissions over the next two weeks until Antonella was booted off American Idol and people forgot about her. Kelly Pickler hasn't been forgotten it seems and unlike most of these blog blitzes she still makes me money.
Note: Antonella was a goldmine and I don't want you thinking you will get the same results - that was the best two weeks of my entire online career - her popularity was an oddity that hasn't been matched since. If I can get 1000 visitors a day I'm happy. These blogs are usually only short term and die when interest drops off. Some prove to be more long term like the Pickler blog - 100-200 people a day. You make small amounts multiplied by the number of blogs you set up. Over time it all starts to add up but don't expect unrealistic numbers from any one blog. The more you experiment though, the more chance you have of finding the next "hot" subject.
Yes this is deceptive, scummy, deceitful and exploitative but it is what marketing is all about. I have said this before - if you want to make money online you will have to examine your own ethics at some point. I'm not proud of these tactics but I am online to make money and I will do what it takes short of hurting someone. You will have to make your own decision on how far you want to go.
Oh... I just checked the stats on Kelly for the past hour as I wrote this post.
Sex, Celebs and misery always has an audience folks.
One last thing and I have said this countless times before - quit creating "make money online" or "how to blog" blogs. I have this site for only one reason - to see if my SEO is good enough to take top position for the term "make money online" and not because I thought there was lots of money to be made in this niche - there really isn't. Think about this - I made $47 yesterday with this blog which takes up a lot of my time and the throw away Kelly Pickler blog made 2 affiliate sales for $40 and I don't do a damn thing with it.
Spend your time wisely and stop and think like a marketer. What are people interested in right this second, how do I attract them and what are they likely to buy. I have discussed how to target and rank well for keywords at length previously and now use that knowledge to start targeting the "Right" keywords. When you combine these two lessons you will start seeing the money.
Till next time,
Griz
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