Since I completely dropped the ball on getting that post out the day after the uBot one, I figure I’ll do it now. Boom shakalaka. So let’s break this bitch down, we’re talkin’ bout… Link Farm Evolution So. Link Farm Evolution is software primarily being pitched by busin3ss. Upon looking at the software itself it’s [...]

Since I completely dropped the ball on getting that post out the day after the uBot one, I figure I’ll do it now. Boom shakalaka.

So let’s break this bitch down, we’re talkin’ bout…

Link Farm Evolution

So. Link Farm Evolution is software primarily being pitched by busin3ss. Upon looking at the software itself it’s priced into a simple sales page (see here). The entire suite itself is based on making longevity-based properties to upward link to your sites. In English, this means to have several properties running for a long time in a non-churn-and-burn methodology. These will create good properties that you can use long term to promote several niches if you wanted to. The whole point of having these is that within 3-6 months or faster, you could have 1500 PR3 properties where you can put whatever links that you want on them and turn it into cash.

Using this is probably one of the smartest things that you can do. With a little time every day put into this, after a month you could have a link farm network big enough to compare with some of the big boys. You won’t outrank them, but you’ll be within 10-15 spots – and that’s an accomplishment in itself. The bottom line is that LinkFarmEvolution is a low-hanging-fruit sex machine. It’ll help you conquer niches over 2-3 weeks that others don’t even see, pushing your sites to the top quickly. If used correctly, it’s one hell of a strong ass tool to have in your arsenal – if not THE strong ass tool in your arsenal, to which your other tools create power for.

In one of my other posts I put up this picture:

Now let me explain where LFE comes into play with this. If you’ll notice the level that says “WordPress’s, Bloggers, WPMU’s…” that’s pretty much is the description of Link Farm Evolution. I of course didn’t throw this in when I made the diagram itself because it wasn’t public at that time, but now I can actually say that. So the bottom line is that when it comes to the link networks I build, I trust on LFE to handle that tier for me. Thus far it hasn’t screwed anything up, and keeps producing great middle-tiers. Works great with XRumer under it, hint hint.

So let’s sum this up as much as we can. It’s great for middle tiers, produces great properties that usually won’t get penalized, works great with reinforcement, and is overall a vital part of all of the networks that I personally build – and probably yours as well if you purchase it.

So overall, I think it’s worth the $297. So again, this is a quick writeup of it just to give you an example of what it exactly is and how it works – hit me up in private if you need anything else regarding how to properly design and/or implement a link network using LinkFarmEvolution!

As for what other posts I need to throw out soon, and/or what I’ve been up to, more posts coming soon after I get a few more of these sites stable so I can use the information in posts. So don’t worry, I just don’t want to post shitty content to keep you on my blog doing this and that, I’d much rather only post when I have something good to post.

Kisses,
Contempt

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Here’s something that most people dream about doing, but most will never get there – and here’s part of the way that I -would- do it (yes, would – not am, because I don’t even have enough time to finish this up). This is the literal step by step plan on how to blanket an [...]

Here’s something that most people dream about doing, but most will never get there – and here’s part of the way that I -would- do it (yes, would – not am, because I don’t even have enough time to finish this up). This is the literal step by step plan on how to blanket an industry over several different traffic sources, both free and paid so that it all ties together. You can skip the paid if you want, especially since most of that being automated may mess it up – but the others can be taken care of via some scripts/programs, etc.

The Online Marketing Blanket

We Cover Everything Broski

The first step within this is obviously setup a landing page, site where people can order, hub page, money site, whatever you want to call it. This is where the majority of your cash will be coming from. This should definitely be handled manually to make sure that it’s done correctly. Monetization, content, etc.

Step two is simple – use LFE to create a smaller site network where you can begin to drop links to your mini-nets and site hubs. This is a way to smother your smaller links with broader ones which will reinforce in numbers and upward carry the juice to the top. If you haven’t purchased LFE yet, make me some money and order via this link -> LFE. Now once you have the site network for LFE built (probably over a week or two) and you have it, either buy XRUMER or just a blast and evenly distribute links to your LFE hubs. If you have a friend with xrumer it shouldn’t be too hard to actually give that a shot. Now you have xrumer links going to LFE links that are going to mini-hub/site/microsite links, which are going to your money site. Nice eh? Keep on building out this network while factoring in direct links via trackbacks, comments, etc and you’ll be sittin’ pretty.

Step three – Make sure that you have ALL of the sites setup with an opt-in form so you can mail them with an autoresponder (I recommend Aweber to start). Example, “Free 10 day e-Course on how to lose 20 lbs!” with 10 days of 2 paragraphs + 1 affiliate link. Schwing! Passive income from linking networks is an utter win, especially since most people say you shouldn’t monetize them so they look legit. Let me ask you a question, when was the last time you saw a website that was only 5 pages in the weight loss niche without any form of monetization on it? Monetize the bitch with -something- that won’t necessarily link that site to your others. AdSense is alright, but don’t use it on all of them. The last thing you want someone to do is see “47 other sites with this AdSense ID” *click* and find your entire network.

Step four – Your network should auto scale itself. If you need help with automating the expansion, consult your local uBot guru and if you haven’t gotten it already and you’re not a programmer – get it. This is the only program out there that will allow you to do what I do without knowing how to program to a decently higher level of programming knowledge. In other words, use uBot to automate things such as LFE, wordpress.com, ArticlesBase, etc. YOU CAN DO IT! YAY!

Step five – You remember those autoresponders on the linking sites and opt-in forms? Make sure your affiliate links are using redirect scripts and/or prosper202 links. If the offer goes down or you find a better payout, redirect somewhere else instead of logging back into your email place (Aweber) and changing it.

Step six – If you’re feeling daring, try out some PPV. I’m just getting started in this myself but it’s decent for leadgen. Right now I’m using MediaTraffic (Ask for JIMMY – he’s straight to the point, call, tell him, he says ok, hang up, get it done) because I don’t feel comfortable enough in PPV yet to throw down a G for TV yet. Currently I’m just messing around with an opt-in page for Aweber on PPV, currently paying about 40-60 cents per double opt in. Not too shabby, that’s like 250% ROI on an email submit broski. It’s worth a shot, and if it doesn’t work out – it’s only 20 bucks for Aweber and like $200 for the initial deposit for MediaTraffic.

Step seven – Grab your copy of uBot and find some sites where you can just do the same iterations over and over to get your result. If that’s links, sales, whatever – find a site that is templated so you can write one bot for all of the sites. This will get you a lot more exposure and grow your opt-in list as well. Opt-in is key when it comes to things such as this, because it can turn one short-term click into a long-term revenue stream.

Step eight – PPC. Well, I’m not going to lie – if you want to know more about PPC go read this. Specifically point 6.

That’s all I can really think of right now but that should get you all thinking straight in regards to how to blanket a niche. Think of all of the different points and places where a person will go to read up on, check out, buy from etc a specific product or niche. Find those, and find a way to put yourself on there or in the way. Bank hard. Laugh. Grey Goose. Ryan Eagle. Bofu Their Wolfe. Stop. Bankin’time. Have a good one. And in all seriousness I really will try to post more often. Go buy something from one of my affiliate links so I can make monies online.

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One of the aspects of BHSEO with Affiliate Marketing in mind is data integration. This could be from RSS feeds to straight XML files, even just research on one product and finding offshoots yourself. I haven’t given away any “stunning” code lately (or any for that matter …) so I figured I’ll release a little [...]

One of the aspects of BHSEO with Affiliate Marketing in mind is data integration. This could be from RSS feeds to straight XML files, even just research on one product and finding offshoots yourself. I haven’t given away any “stunning” code lately (or any for that matter …) so I figured I’ll release a little source here to help you all along with automation. I’m going to keep the post here short and sweet, and let you all use your imagination with the code itself but I’ll give you a few unique uses for it.

Before I start telling you how to use it, here’s what you need – and what you may want to have.

What you NEED:

• PHP 5
• WordPress
• Desire to Learn and Think Abstractly

What you may want (and will help …)

• phpBay
• WFReview
• (these will be at the end of the post as well so you can decide AFTER you see why)

Here’s a few things to think about with the code …

• This uses XMLRPC so will work with Splog Ping Crawl
• Can be integrated with Google Blog Search for avoiding duplicate content penalties *hint hint*
• Can be used full steam, throttled back, etc.

Now I’m going to admit this right now. It’s 3:15 in the morning right now and I’m tired as hell – but I did want to get this out because I promised a few of you I would get it done. So please forgive me if the code itself isn’t so clean, but my goal is purely to prove it can be done – and it’s not too hard to do either. My goal here on Contempt is to help you re-think about Automation in general and help you create ways to make your online endeavours much easier. For some Automation in general is considered blackhat, and to those people I’d like to remind them to wake up. Everything in life is getting automated whether you like it or not. Personally in my opinion blackhat seo is nothing other than a label for “holy shit that’s automatic”. Usually this is by people that don’t know how to do it, or have a problem looking at their newfound power and ability and can’t control it enough to not go overboard. This usually results in “i can spam links, go buy viagra go!”. It’s true – the same methods that I use sometimes could be used as an attempt to rank for buy viagra – and you know what, I’m sure with some time I could – but why? I want long term residual income off my endeavours, and right now I’m doing enough research to plan the methods down to successful ones so I don’t make stupid mistakes over and over on sites I’ve invested money into.

Anyway – like I said – It’s 3:30 so I’m ranting. Let’s move on. Here’s my overall goal with this post. In the following code I’m going to show you very simple code to extract information from a CSV, and how to format it into a good post for a review or shopping site. Here’s how you do that using PHP5 ..

Code block

<?php
$row = 1;
$handle = fopen("datafeed.csv", "r");
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 5000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
$num = count($data);
echo "<p> $num fields in line $row: <br /></p>\n";
$row++;
for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {
echo "$c - ".$data[$c] . "<br />\n";
}
if($row > 5)
die();
}
fclose($handle);
?>

I wrote this up quick to view the first 5 rows in a datafeed file. This’ll allow me to look at (with most feeds) the names of the fields, and then the first 4 lines to see sample data. This is an easy way to sort out “oh #5 is the URL” and “#10 is the image”. Next we’ll work on a template file so that when we post it to wordpress it’ll at least look decent. I’m not going to say my HTML is stellar, but I’m doing this as I write this so it’s purely an example. Here’s an example with a quick table, 2 sections – image and purchase URL on the left, description on the right … and of course, phpbay under it haha – Contempt style!

Code block

<?php
$row = 1;
$handle = fopen("datafeed.csv", "r");
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 5000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
$num = count($data);
echo "<p> $num fields in line $row: <br /></p>\n";
$row++;
$purchase_url = $data[8];
$image = $data[25];
$desc = $data[12];
$title = $data[16];
$var = "<center><table width=\"50%\"><tr><td>
<a href=\"$purchase_url\"><img src=\"$image\">
</a></td><td>$desc</td></tr></table><br><br>
Used Items:<br><br>[phpbay]$title, 10[/phpbay]";
echo $var."<BR><BR><BR><BR>";
if($row > 5)
die();
}
fclose($handle);
?>

And just so you all have this, here’s the function that I use to post to WordPress blogs with XMLRPC. The external libs I’ll throw into a RAR (click here). Here’s the function:

Code block

<?php
function post_to_blog($url, $pass, $title, $posttext, $nick = null)
{
$xmlrpcurl = $url;
$client = new xmlrpc_client($xmlrpcurl);
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("n/a");
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("n/a");
if(isset($nick))
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("$nick");            //your wordpress login
else
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("Admin");            //your wordpress login
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("$pass");        //your wordpress password
$params[] = new xmlrpcval(
"<title>$title</title>".            //the title of your post
"<category>1</category>".    //the category
$posttext);                                 //the body
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("true");          //publish now = true
$msg    = new xmlrpcmsg("blogger.newPost",$params);
$response = $client->send($msg);
}
?>

So yeah, when we put them together we have this…

Code block

<?php
$row = 1;
$handle = fopen("datafeed.csv", "r");
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 5000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
$num = count($data);
echo "<p> $num fields in line $row: <br /></p>\n";
$row++;
$purchase_url = $data[8];
$image = $data[25];
$desc = $data[12];
$title = $data[16];
$var = "<center><table width=\"50%\"><tr><td>
<a href=\"$purchase_url\"><img src=\"$image\">
</a></td><td>$desc</td></tr></table><br><br>
Used Items:<br><br>[phpbay]$title, 10[/phpbay]";
post_to_blog("http://myblog.com/xmlrpc.php", "password", $title, $var);
if($row > 5)
die();
}
fclose($handle);
function post_to_blog($url, $pass, $title, $posttext, $nick = null)
{
$xmlrpcurl = $url;
$client = new xmlrpc_client($xmlrpcurl);
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("n/a");
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("n/a");
if(isset($nick))
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("$nick");            //your wordpress login
else
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("Admin");            //your wordpress login
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("$pass");        //your wordpress password
$params[] = new xmlrpcval(
"<title>$title</title>".            //the title of your post
"<category>1</category>".    //the category
$posttext);                                 //the body
$params[] = new xmlrpcval("true");          //publish now = true
$msg    = new xmlrpcmsg("blogger.newPost",$params);
$response = $client->send($msg);
}
?>

So there you have it. Loading a CSV file into wordpress with a template, to start up your own affiliate-based eStore. Once again I thank you for joining me on this Code-Enriched version of Contempt Can’t Sleep. I figured keeping this short and sweet would be more beneficial than posting with fluff and other dumb crap to try to impress you.

The reason I recommended phpBay is because of the fact that it’ll allow you to post direct links from PJN (PepperjamNetwork) or EPN (eBay Partner Network) with the new items. New & Used. The WFReview will actually allow people to rate the items, comment on them with star ratings, and post random generated ratings on them to make the site look like a good well traffic’d site. A must have for larger scale op’s and just fun in general! This also is an easier way to automate the CSV to WordPress operation. So once again, those links are in this paragraph if you wanted to try those out.

I hope you enjoyed the read as well as the Contempt experience, and I hope it’s worthy enough to have you pull the trigger on subscribing to the feed!

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I know one thing that I deal with all the time is duplicate content penalties. If you do even basic forms of blackhat you’re heard of automation of blogs, scraping content, RSS feed’s and the like. Everyone with half a brain cell knows that there are duplicate content penalties in Goog’s algorithm that prevent scraper [...]

I know one thing that I deal with all the time is duplicate content penalties. If you do even basic forms of blackhat you’re heard of automation of blogs, scraping content, RSS feed’s and the like. Everyone with half a brain cell knows that there are duplicate content penalties in Goog’s algorithm that prevent scraper sites from gaining too well of ranks. But the real question is, to what severity does Google evaluate your content as “duplicate”?

A while ago (we’re talking about 2 years out) when I was just getting started in Blackhat SEO, Brad101 from WF introduced me to something that I like to call the 30% rule. He taught me that if 30% of the content on the page is unique, that you should pass most of the duplicate content penalties. At first this made a little sense but not enough to try, then I started to dig a little deeper. How exactly do news sites get away with it? Most of news sites is duplicate content anyway. Is it a per-domain uniqueness factor? If so, the 30% rule would make it work great! What if it was a per-page factor (which there’s enough proof already that this is most likely the case) – in which the 30% would work great as well again!

Once again, if duplicate content was so harsh that it was per paragraph or something – then news sites would be penalized all over. A lot of people would read that and say “but usually the backlink back to the author clears penalties” – ta-da! Think about that. Could that possibly be why autoblogs work so well *gasp*? If you post duplicate content and link back to the author, most of the time it’s a win/win. The author is -usually- happy due to a backlink, you’re happy because you may actually rank with your authority over the original site, and you can do this on mass quantities.

There’s a few tricks and tips you’ll find out as you mess more and more with these. One of the things that I’ve found quite interesting is that links themselves count as content, yet don’t have duplicate content penalties. I’m not obviously 100% sure on that one, but my sites wouldn’t be doing so well otherwise. If you read my EPN experiment I was able to send around 55,000 total users from Google to Ebay Partner Network via my splogs. This was actually click thru’s to EPN, not just to my sites. Probably on my sites alone I pulled a little over 100,000 uniques/month which equates to almost 3500 uniques/day. Not bad for a total setup time of a little under an hour, huh?

Don’t always assume that Google is going to fuck you. You shouldn’t be afraid of the Algorithm, you should be afraid of the manual reviews. This is just my opinion, of course – Google is getting smarter by the day. Have fun, and try to stay ahead of the curve!

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First off, I apologize for not posting recently. That’s 100% my bad. So here’s a few updates and onto today’s tips and concepts. Here’s the update for my EPN experiment. First I’m going to say this, I made a stupid move and got them de-index’d (GOOGLE ONLY!!!). What does this mean? I’ll tell you what [...]

First off, I apologize for not posting recently. That’s 100% my bad. So here’s a few updates and onto today’s tips and concepts.

Here’s the update for my EPN experiment. First I’m going to say this, I made a stupid move and got them de-index’d (GOOGLE ONLY!!!). What does this mean? I’ll tell you what I did wrong so I don’t do it again.

People sent to eBay: 35068
…in the last day: 1586

Total Posts: 278495
Total Posts: 333839
Total Posts: 385137
Total Posts: 283437
Total Posts: 347109

Not too shabby, eh? The reason that they got deindex’d was I didn’t throw any backlinks to the subdomains what-so-ever. I’m starting to now to see if they’ll get re-included (which is possible), especially since a manual review of these sites will pass.

Now for the concept of black hat skillz on white hat buildz. One of the biggest tools in a BHSEO’s is his or her tools. Everyone knows that. Let’s start using these same tools and concepts in a whitehat way to benefit the sites legitly. Let’s take a SERP scraper for example.

Using the right footprint for wordpress blogs, you can easily get a list of 1000 comment-ready pages from blogs. This can be used easily for comment and/or trackback spam. However it can also be used for whitehat use as well.

Or another example would be the trackback spam. Yes, this is still blackhat, but it simulates reinforcing link growth. Example: drop 5 links per day to a new domain, on day 10 drop 50, 11 drop 150, 12 drop 300, etc. Exponential growth from blogs (and yes, Google is Footprinting) will simulate a viral release. Natural ranking bonus? Possibly.

Use this as a base to look at the tools you have and figure out a way to use them on legit sites. Scrapers can be used for whitehat, blackhat and everything between. Make smart decissions and find multiple uses for your tools; after all its all about the ROI isn’t it?

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Looks like the EPN is in full swing. Maybe it’s the liquor I just chugged, or my stats page really does look good .. Here’s the stats, enjoy. Total Posts: 133621 Total Posts: 173975 Total Posts: 166715 Total Posts: 113024 Total Posts: 147097 I’ll give a big shoutout to my woot-o-riffic splogs running that dedi [...]

Looks like the EPN is in full swing. Maybe it’s the liquor I just chugged, or my stats page really does look good ..

Here’s the stats, enjoy.

Total Posts: 133621
Total Posts: 173975
Total Posts: 166715
Total Posts: 113024
Total Posts: 147097

I’ll give a big shoutout to my woot-o-riffic splogs running that dedi into the ground. Woohoo!

On the real side of progress, here’s the main points …

People sent to eBay: 1867
…in the last day: 493

Have a good Friday night everyone, I know I will. I’ll post a few more things most likely in the next day or two. Just been a tad busy.

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Well I just received an e-mail from the Affiliate Summit crew. I’ve been approved for a press pass to cover the event. This means I’ll be writing about how uber leet Nickycakes and Tobsn are when they present (which last I heard they are presenting). You can read more about the information at http://www.nickycakes.com/nickycakes-speaking-at-asw-08/ I [...]

Well I just received an e-mail from the Affiliate Summit crew. I’ve been approved for a press pass to cover the event. This means I’ll be writing about how uber leet Nickycakes and Tobsn are when they present (which last I heard they are presenting).

You can read more about the information at http://www.nickycakes.com/nickycakes-speaking-at-asw-08/

I leave for the airport in about 6-7 hours to get on my way to Scary SEO – I’ll update you all when I get some more information … or you know … get bored in the airport. Hell, maybe that’ll give me a reason to write a few more posts!

Any requests? Anyone?

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As you do research into the realm of BlackHat SEO you’ll often read a lot of articles and/or content about spam blogs. Here’s the skinny on exactly how that works (at least for my empire). Each of my projects will change on a day to day basis on how it works. One day I may [...]

As you do research into the realm of BlackHat SEO you’ll often read a lot of articles and/or content about spam blogs. Here’s the skinny on exactly how that works (at least for my empire). Each of my projects will change on a day to day basis on how it works. One day I may be massively spamming WPMU blogs with XMLRPC, and the next uploading post content with a delay for the next 5 years. It all depends on the mood I’m currently in. This is one of my bread and butter ideas that not a lot of people will use, but should.

With this technique you’ll be able to blast out backlinks for whatever you want on a hourly basis, and make sure to distribute it across multiple Class C IP’s for your use later on. I’m assuming that if you’re reading this you’re at least somewhat familiar with what a spam blog is, and you’re decently familiar with what an RSS feed is. These will be the basis for this technique that I’m about to explain. The best feature about this technique is that people running these blog networks should have no idea that you’re doing anything bad at all. The CPU load won’t spike, ram usage won’t increase, nothing. And on top of that, you have 100% control without releasing any source code.

So what exactly am I talking about? I’m talking about instead of using a plugin such as FeedWordPress with some Markov in it, you use just straight FeedWordPress and skip the middleman – you modify the feed itself. This way whenever the feed gets a hit you can Markov a few articles up and serve them out. Yes, this would use your resources a little more – however with this you can put this into the first article for a day or two: “I really like <LINK>RC cars</LINK>” and then you have backlinks across an entire blog farm. Or even down the ratio, every other link you do it. If you base it on referrer and/or IP address you can make sure one blog doesn’t post more than one link, or sublet it out to certain farms within your control.

The whole point to using your own feed as the source is the fact that to the administrator of these free blog hosts, you’ll appear to be a normal user. Doing your normal calls here and there for importing feed items. You’ll get unique content. You’ll drive traffic. They’ll love you! All the meanwhile you’ll really also be making your own money inserting links and link strength across thousands of sites.

Anyway, that’s my little tip of the night. Wanted to test out my new iMac with a little type-o-thon. Hope you all enjoyed the read.

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The EPN Redundancy Experiment is a half case study, half test of the “scraper sites” method. I’ll be launching roughly 70,000 blogs which are each completely automated to see what kind of results I can bring in via EPN. All of these blogs are 100% link-spam free, no cloaking/cookie stuffing, and points the visitor directly [...]

The EPN Redundancy Experiment is a half case study, half test of the “scraper sites” method. I’ll be launching roughly 70,000 blogs which are each completely automated to see what kind of results I can bring in via EPN. All of these blogs are 100% link-spam free, no cloaking/cookie stuffing, and points the visitor directly to the product they were looking for. In other words, these are an A+ on the scale for “user experience”.

The goal for this will be I want other domains to pick up the slack when the earlier ones go down. The main achievement I’m going to attempt to achieve will be “rolling commissions”. This means when the sites are penalized (if they do get penalized) and go from 300-400 uniques/day to <100, I want another domain to step up index wise and take over. For this redundancy experiment I’ve chosen to use a number of domains under 10, but each will contain roughly 1000 sub domains that all have automatic content updates & product pushes.

This will be an experiment to see how much in commission I can receive by the 30th of next month. Let the fun begin!

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I know on a daily basis I talk to individuals that are interested in getting into the industry. They all usually have the same expectations which is they want to make more money. Hell, who doesn’t? The problem is some will come in and hear about mister so and so or misses so and so [...]

I know on a daily basis I talk to individuals that are interested in getting into the industry. They all usually have the same expectations which is they want to make more money. Hell, who doesn’t? The problem is some will come in and hear about mister so and so or misses so and so making xx,xxx or even xxx,xxx a month that tells them how easy it is to get started and get it going. After a while, it all seems simple to the person operating the system – however beginners will be faced with a very harsh reality once they actually look for results. The problem is not only on one side however, but both sides set the expectations so high.

From the Users Perspective

• High talk of “MAD MONEY!” (xx,xxx – xxx,xxx/month.
• Almost never a mention of the work it took to get there
• There is almost never any “step by step” on how to get to the top. DUH!
• Most will get sucked into make money online ebooks and get pissed, and quit.

From the Industry Perspective

• Newbies are usually annoying and want the world for a dollar.
• They want you to give away your keyword lists, instantly turning them into a millionaire.
• They don’t consider the fact that time spent on them, means less time on your work.
• Newbies want to make millions by tomorrow, which is the bottom line.

Don’t get me wrong – I got into the game thinking the same things. I wanted to make millions upon millions of dollars, drive lambos or corvetts (you know, depending on the day) and fly across the country “just because” whenever I feel like it. What peple need to really realize is that every dollar counts when it comes to Affiliate Marketing. Some people try AM and spend $500 on PPC and only make $600 back, which results in $100 profit. That’s not enough and they think they wasted their time, which causes them to halt persuing affiliate marketing.

Guess what boys and girls, that $100 is still a phone bill. Maybe it’s an insurance payment, or part of your utilities. My goal for starting out was simple: pay off one bill per 3 months and move my way up carefully. If you talk to Slightly Shady at any point and ask him about my “careful growth method” he’ll probably laugh his ass off. That’s because I live by the “go hard or go home” theory on a project-by-project basis which I was stupidly talking about dropping 30,000 links to a site “just so I can see what it would do”. He helped me work on throttling my want to “go hard” and focus more on safe and more life expectancy per site.

Now I understand completely. A few of my EPN sites are penalized in the Google SERPs but are still bringing me some money. This of course gets me interested because it’s long term revenue. Long term in the realm of blackhat SEO isn’t years but merely months, but that’s plenty of more time to get more sites up to roll over the revenue stream and pick up the pieces.

The whole goal of Affiliate Marketing (in my opinion) is to be able to help you lighten your bills up until you have enough consistently coming in to stop a Full Time Job (a 9 to 5). Heck, even downing your 9 to 5 to a part time or contractual basis is a whole other ball game. To be honest, I would do AM just to be able to sleep in until 10 AM every day instead of waking up at 6 AM to go see my boss and put on a fake smile.

The point is that don’t be weary of a slow first month, or even year. Most normal people won’t catch on the make decent coin until after the first year and a half to two years. That’s just how it works to learn your way around and do your deed. Let’s really think about how many dollars you’d have to earn to make a difference in your life – I bet you don’t even realise how small of an amount it really is (especially with all of these “I MADE xxx,xxx WITH THIS EBOOK” types out there):

• 10 Dollars: A few meals at McDonalds
• 20 Dollars: 1 or even 2 pairs of jeans
• 50 Dollars: That’s a cell phone bill *MILESTONE*
• 100 Dollars: That’s an insurance payment
• 300 Dollars: Most monthly car payments *MILESTONE*
• 500 Dollars: All of the above. Talk about a massive load off your shoulders.
• 1500 Dollars: Most mortgage payments *MILESTONE*
• 4000 Dollars: Consider quitting your 9 to 5. This is what I call, the *PAYOFF*

Most people won’t really see it in that perspective. The stupid “make money online” ebook kiddies keep spamming useless tag lines to create buzz such as “I made xxx,xxx in 34 minutes using these 3 techniques” which I will give to you for just $77.77! Hey, just FYI, if they could make xxx,xxx in 34 minutes why would they need your $77.77? I can’t believe some people don’t just put two and two together when it comes to this.

I hope that this helps some people re-think how they’re doing in the industry. You dont have to have life changing numbers to change your life with Affiliate Marketing. Good luck guys, it’s a liquid industry!

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