You see, autoblogging is supposed to save you time. I just never could figure out how. No one in the game expects to make much more than a few dollars a day on average with a single blog. So what do you do? You buy hundreds of domains to make it worth your while. You build hundreds of Wordpress, database resource hogging, blogs. So the fresh off the turnip truck folks throw 10 blogs at a time onto their shared account and are surprised when the host shuts their blogs down after their 11th gets a couple of visitors. So now they are stuck with having to get other more expensive hosting. Instead of paying $10 a month you can dispose of a Benjamin for dedicated space glory.

And you can’t just stop with WP-Robot. You have to buy all the Amazon, TweetBomb, ReviewAZON plugins to create this franken-blog full of weird shit posts designed to *hopefully* fool Google into thinking you have created a unique masterpiece.

How is this a time saver? You still have do your keyword research. You still have to get backlinks. Which by the way will be from your own efforts because nobody is going to naturally link to your franken-blog. So you have to build Blogger blogs, Hubpages, Squidoo lens, Tumblr sites, Ezine articles, etc., to create bogus interest in your blog. You have to configure the blogs with all these damn plugins.

I have no doubt there are people with the stamina to create these things making fat stacks of cash. I also have no doubt these same dudes are working their asses off and not simply setting up a blog in 15 minutes and heading to the beach to have coffee and muffins.

And to that I say to what end? They are always afraid Google will fuck with them. They pay huge for domains and hosting. I don’t read anyone talking about that on the salespage by the way. They sweat the plugins working with each daily (it seems) update of Wordpress. They spend hours reviewing the latest plugins. Trying to find something lazier to use.

To all that I say, to hell with it. I continue to use and will forever be content to create static sites. I am beyond thrilled that nobody suggests creating anything but blogs in the IM sewers. Go ahead. Blog away. Keep them things filled with bullshit. Convince yourselves that dynamic sites never need updating. That spiders are somehow oblivious to the differences in dynamic sites and static sites.

My best performing sites are all static. They all have original content and serve up Adsense. They all have natural backlinks. Conversely I don’t think I can blog for shit. I create blogs and add original content. Reviews. Monetize with affiliate crap. Updates. And they still languish at the bottom of the sewer. Whatever.

I continually ride this annoying feedback loop of blog building. Everything revolves around blogs. You aren’t shit if you don’t create blogs. I somehow convince myself that I can create a blog that will be wildly popular and interesting. That I will find something that I care enough about to enjoy writing all day every day. It never happens. And I end up wasting time. Or better yet I should create niche blogs. Yea. Awesome.

I get why autoblogging is now the it thing. Blogging is mostly boring and/or people are lazy. Ironically my experience with autoblogging is that it takes a shitload of effort to make a dollar a day. That is not my typical experience with a static site. Building an XSitePro site is boring but I tend to make money with it. And it is easy. But then I read how cool blogging is or think romantically about being this gift to the blogosphere and veer off track. It’s just stupid man.

Time to zig while the masses zag.

Hoping you can do some stupid shit like video conferencing? Well, best have a pal with a version 4. Want to multi-task? You suckers with a 3G can forget about it apparently. That is my biggest gripe with the iPhone BTW. The propeller heads at Apple are supposed to be so fucking genius yet it took them to version 4 to get multi-tasking?And my 3G phone can never do more than one thing at a time. Pure shit man.

The iPhone 4 screen is supposed to be able to melt your iris in pleasure. Yahoo’s live blog said the resolution is better than the eye can see. So what’s the fucking point. Oh excuse me, it’s called a “retina display”.

They finally got a decent camera added to the damn thing. About time. 5 megapixels for anyone that is interested. Like every other phone hasn’t had 5 megapixels for 3 years already.

Netflix is preparing to deliver movies to your iPhone. Streaming. Um, first of all how is that going to square with AT&T’s new pricing structure. They have eliminated all you can eat for new subscribers. A couple of movies and you have burned through your web surfing allotment. But seriously, watching movies on a 2×3 screen? They are talking about a book reader too. The screen better be damn impressive.

And that’s another thing. I love to read. Love it. But I’d sooner buy a used book or check one out at the library than pay for an online version of it. It’s too damn expensive.

I hate Apple. I cannot wait until I can sling this iPhone into the recycle barrel and get another phone. I will sooner strap a mainframe on my back before I buy an iPad. You all can gee whiz at the excitement of tilting your head downward and tapping on some fucking screen from the likes of a greedy and arrogant outfit like Apple. They will get no more of my money. I don’t care if the iPad develops booster rockets so you can plant your ass on the screen while it jets you to the Apple store for retina replacements. I will delight in being the only human on this planet who has no use for an Apple product.

I wonder how Apple is figuring out how to fuck you all for their next release? You early adapters will be cycling through iPhones every 6 months to keep up with all the shit they should add to the iOS in the first place. You’re telling me those propellar heads at Apple can’t figure out how to make a 3G  multi-task while making sure the 3GS has that capability? They are just trying to force people to cycle through these phones each year. Think of all the iPads that are headed to the recycle bin by Christmas because they will release some new version before then that will have a dual screen built in or a pop up camera or HDMI inputs or some shit that they didn’t put in the version that you stood in line 7 hours for. I refuse to play Apple’s game.

And it’s not all about Apple and all their gee-whiz toys. It’s about this industry. Two-year contracts. Screw. That. No more. It’s about horrible network service. Crap reliability. Life has become nothing but a bunch of zombies peering down at some 2×3 screen tapping away. Now they’ve made it bigger. Oh joy. I don’t think I’ve ever seen my 16 year old daughter pick up the phone and have a normal telephone conversation with a friend. Ever. Everywhere you go someone is making sweet love to their handheld device. Tap, tap, tap. It’s like you have vast numbers of people disconnecting from reality and entering their own virtual world of music, games, tweets, email, GPS, text messages, etc (he says as he types away at his blog).

Granted I like the capability of using the device when I’m waiting on the marital unit to finish shopping. I can check email or read tweets or check the Drudge Report or something similar. I can stream talk shows at work since they block streaming audio. That’s all fine. It can be good. But I will find a different phone to provide those options. And I’d like to jettison AT&T as well.

We went to New Orleans for a quick trip a few months ago. Shitty over-rated town in my opinion but I did like the WW2 museum. When I was in school I enjoyed heading down with friends for Mardi Gras, but going down with the family and hanging out made me realize how gross the town is. Anyway, I took the iPhone on its first big trip since getting it as a gift from the marital unit for Christmas. There were a lot of deadzones as we made out way through Alabama going down and back up Mississippi coming home. ATT’s coverage sucks ass. I could have barely made a phone call if I needed to.

Everything the iPhone/iPad can do I have been able to do for over 5 years at home. Phone calls. Video. Multi-task. Surf the web sewers. I have an outstanding DSLR for taking photos. It even does HD video. I had a dinky but great working cell phone that cost $20 on eBay, before the iPhone purchase, that sounded way better , that died after crashing my mountain bike in a creek and it got wet.

Apple didn’t invent these capabilities. They squeezed them into an impossible sized gizmo. Whoopee. Apple zombies of the world unite.

In closing, note that Android has a fast closing 10% worldwide market share versus iPhone’s 15%. I’m no fan of Google but at least their product is open. And I believe that the iPad’s competitors are going to be badass. That market is not going to be as far behind as it was with the iPhone versus the rest of the smartphone makers. The limitations of the iPad are going to soon be very apparent.

At what point does Google or the other search engines finally determine that these systems are creating article landfills? Tomorrow? Next year? 5 years from now? Never?

There is basically one directory that has content that is remotely worthwhile. That is EzineArticles. You can actually get people to follow the dinky link you put in the resource box. Hell I backlink TO my Ezine Articles from OTHER articles.

Unless you are on the PPC side you are being told to write. Write. And write some more. “They” are saying you should be writing 150 to 250 articles a month. Or getting them outsourced. You should be spinning them. Putting them on Squidoo. Blogs. Directories. That is just the way it works in this stupid ass business we are in.

As little as  a couple of years ago it was enough to promote your latest masterpiece by posting an article on GoArticles and EzineArticles. Maybe ping the services that something is happening and put your site on some directories. How times have changed.

I think niche marketing is dysfunctional. Yet this is our normal. We now manufacture bogus interest in our sites via article distribution. No one would ever dream of naturally linking to your niche site. NO-freakin-BODY. Your content is boring, useless, if not completely suckass. (It’s the model we chase. Money making sites are boring and useless by design with profitable click-outs, you know. Otherwise you’re stuck with a “social” site) So you have to buy interest. Enter AMA. PostRunner. Article Blueprint. MAS, et al.

Those blogs and directories within those systems are mostly crap. They are not personal. They have no soul. No life. Just a jumble of well placed words (sort of like, in my opinion, most niche blogs slung on the web). When have you actually seen an article you’ve written be ranked (high) on a search engine from an blog article collection point or article directory? Not often I contend with exception to EzineArticle, of course. But the consensus is that you have to have thousands of backlinks to your site to rank in Google. So you spin your articles and pay $97 $67/month to get backlinks using mediocre articles to blogs and directories nobody will ever visit. Except, you hope, the interweb robots.

I have blogs in the AMA system collecting articles from folks. I used to participate in TKA’s article distribution system. The articles that come through are sterile. Boring. Non-educational. I expect nothing less. But when do these offerings mean little to the Google god? Maybe never. But blog commenting is now considered mostly worthless. Will article distribution find the same fate? I don’t know. I’m not smart enough to know, or care, about the Google algorithms. I just know crap when I see it and article distribution is your basic crap. But then again fertilizer is crap yet useful so what do I know.

I will continue to play the game. I will build simple XSP micro niche sites filled with eBay offerings. I will build Squidoo sites and Hubpages and promote them via the article distribution sites. AMA and MAS are my chosen tools for spamming my backlink articles. The model is flimsy in my opinion, the work gets harder by the day, but as long as I can continue to make a little money I’ll stick with it.

I can tell you that I would rather have a single outstanding authority site link to my site naturally than all the backlinks I could collect from all the article directory and blog distribution centers put together. To do that requires remarkable content. Would you ever put remarkable content through the article distribution systems? I would argue no, because you know the systems are your basic landfills. You save the good stuff for Squidoo, Hubpages and Ezine Articles (Well, at least I do because I hope to make money with those platforms). You cannibalize the good stuff to send to the landfills.  Funny, we pay to get crap articles syndicated for mediocre niche sites but the good stuff distributes for free organically. It’s a crazy business.

I have no problem with either method. Screw Google. If I can make a buck before they shut me down then I will. I am thrilled people continue to click on shitty Google ads. Actually I still have a couple Niche Portal Builder sites still raking in daily coin from Google. I built them in ‘05 and still get clicks.

I get more offers for auto blog software than anything else these days. Some are plugins. Some are full blown site builders. And yea, I use(d) some. Hell I even tried out the mack daddy of them all, WP Mage. All these tools scraping feeds and videos and Amazon crap and Ebay junk and Yahoo Answers and Crapbank garbage all in a pathetic attempt at fooling Google engineers that the last post is “fresh” and “unique”. Whatever. It’s still simply a scrape of somebody else’s content. Just because you mix 137 modules together doesn’t make the resulting content unique. It’s like eating a hamburger, fries, pickle and cake and calling the resulting vomit fresh and unique.

No doubt it works. People are getting rich selling software to build this crap and there are dudes spraying hundreds of sites onto the web a day. If you have the time and motivation, why not? Thousands of crap blogs averaging a dollar per spam load is some real money. A fucking nightmare to manage and maintain but the money flows.

As I have mentioned I am pretty much done with self hosted blogs. I am reverting back to XSP static sites. I am sick and tired of managing blogs. Too much to go wrong. Every day there is a new version to install on Wordpress. All those plugins need updating. Yea there are tools that you can use to manage your fleet of blogs from one console, but at what point did this become normal? And I despise the problems involved with databases at the hosting company.

I make some decent money in this racket. But honestly I feel like I am drowning. I see what I am fighting against. WP Mage. WP Robot.  EZ Empire Builder. WP Tweet Bomb. ReviewAZON. The list seems endless. People are using these tools to builds thousands of spam blogs every day/minute/second. Believe it.And think about all the traffic pulling tools used to drag some dipshit to your spam site. SEnuke. Brute Force SEO. And holy shit look at all the Twitter tools to advertise to all the other fake profiles that follow you.

This means to an end is madness.

My contribution to web spam is via free hosted blogs. For whatever they are worth. Blogger is basically useless unless you wring every ounce out of SEO as you can. But they are easily built. You might get lucky with Bing visitors. Maybe it’s worthwhile to build 5 on an account and figure you might make a dollar a day. Monitor the stats and see what keywords are worthwhile. I use MAR to post PLR on these. I use MAS to get them indexed. Easy and boring. Worthwhile? I dunno. Doesn’t seem like it is much anymore. But you gotta play the game.

I’ve spent the last few posts whining about the effort required to make money online. Keyword research is enough to make you want to poke your eyes out. Throw in backlink building and you might just find the white coats circling your position. Now you have content delivered by ingenious systems creating your basic pile of crap.

It’s really sad. There is no doubt you can make money online with a great idea. You can even do it for free. But you have to understand that you are going to be smothered by a mountain of shit that you are going to have a hard time digging out of.

I can appreciate you folks that have a money site that is making $3K a month with 500 visitors a day. I’m glad that your site selling butterfly poop has discovered it’s niche and is making money. Unfortunately until I find a niche that I can flog to greatness the “easy” money is to spray and pray. The problem is that it isn’t really easy. It’s time consuming. It’s a house of cards. I would never quit my full-time  job on the back of spam blogs, Hubpages and Squidoo lens.

I wouldn’t recommend half-assing auto blogging. You either go big or not at all. Assuming you want more than play money out of this deal, of course. And of course you can utilize auto blogs for satellite sites to support your money site. It can be worthwhile.

Auto blogging is the latest tool to wring out a few coins from the Google teet. It’s amazing to me that our normal is to build and build and build and build… I just don’t really know a way out of it. It works. The tools do help you make money. The tactic of spamming does make money. But it’s at the expense of your sanity.

You may be a fresh spammer ready to make the easy money.  But you’ll burn out soon enough. Your charred remains will be blowing across the scorched surface of the web while some tool builds a new tool to further the exploits of the next eager spam generation. Old hands that have survived the portals, Bum Marketing, PPC-X-Factor ShitStorm, Blogging to the Wank, etc. are simply addicted to the IM crack. Chasing a bigger and better high. Now it’s this auto blogging nonsense.

Auto blogging works right now. Guberus are loving that they can cash in on this trend. From WP Mage to support products like MAR, it’s all to build more, faster.  There are so many auto blog systems and plugins. Ask yourself how long this lasts? Google will render all these bullshit blogs inert one day. You can pretend that mishing and mashing all this content together makes it a better pile. But it’s still just a pile of shit. Google and Microsoft spends countless dollars and hours in shitty meetings with fat head engineers figuring out ways to make search better. Do you really think creating a franken-blog with plugins and shit makes for a better visitor experience? Stacking stolen content on top of an Amazon ad and review on top of a stupid video on top of Ebay products on top of a Crapbank offer on top of an RSS feed does not make an authority site. It makes a pile of shit. Even if you put it on top of a crystal plate with whipped cream. It’s still shit. And yes I KNOW it makes money. It doesn’t make it any less smelly.

I got an email today from The Keyword Academy. Apparently folks are trying to run spun or duplicate content through their traffic system. That doesn’t make Mark and Court happy. They call it laziness. I say they couldn’t be more right. I’m no longer sending TKA monthly dues so it affects me not. But it is like the canary in the coal mine. At some point using that content will not make anyone happy. But for now you can bet I’m going to contribute my load of spun spam to wherever I can fling it. I would also argue that because I start out spinning my articles with very good content, you wouldn’t know that my submission was spun. I mention this because I’m not done rambling and because it’s just something else to deal with for your shitty niche and auto blogged sites. I laugh at the thought of TKA clamping down on spam submissions while the links distributed in the allowed prose is to spam generated sites. The irony…

I remain on the same path. I gather keywords from MNF. I analyze them with MS. If I think I found something with great potential I will create an XSP site with as many pages as I can create. All manual. All original. All unique. If I don’t feel like buying a domain or I’m dubious about the potential I will build Hubpage, Squidoo lens or Blogger blog. I’ll write a long initial post. With any site I’ll spin content with MAR and submit it to directories using MAS and AMA. I’ll do a few BMD runs. Pure laziness. NOT! Just time efficient. If my keyword selection was good I should start to see traffic. I’ll analyze the stats and see what I need to write about on subsequent posts. If Squidoo or Hubpages are doing good then I may buy a domain and use the keywords that people are using to find those to write fun and exciting content.

I’m not auto blogging. I don’t want to buy thousands of domains. I don’t want numerous hosting accounts. If that is what it takes to stand beside a Porche or blog from my boat then I’m cool doing without. I’m annoyed at the sheer number of offers for this tactic. I wonder how long it will continue to last. We are already seeing a ton of courses being offered to learn how to auto blog. Usually when that occurs, my experience is that we are seeing the end of the wave. Nobody is going to teach a tactic that is working for them. Who wants the competition and added attention from Daddy G?

I begrudge nobody from flogging this method. The competent marketers will roll a lot of coin. The concept would make it seem like a real time saver. Autoblogging allows you to go to the beach everyday and make easy money. It’s on auto, right? Funny thing is, the method is so low rate that you have to spew hundreds if not thousands of blogs to make it worthwhile. So you need an auto blog system for your auto blogs. Otherwise you will be sitting in front of the LCD creating  auto blog after auto blog. Seems like the hassle is a continuation of the pain you are trying to escape. You are trying to make things easier only to find yourself trapped in another circlejerk. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe there are magic marketers that got these tools online, set up 20 blogs and are living it up in Tahiti. Auto blogging away.

It’s funny to me that nothing has really changed. Keyword generated mass sites. Auto blog. The dung beetles simply moved from one shit pile to another.

It’s utterly insane.

You can’t simply build a website anymore and expect anything to come of it without building massive amounts of backlinks. Actually that is wholly untrue but I don’t know if I can wait 12-18 months to be discovered naturally.

Think about how absurd it is that in order to succeed you have to basically manufacture interest in your own sites. Sorry, I am not going to bookmark your PLR content rubber kayak site. It’s crap. You know it and I know it. But the amazing thing is you will build 100 backlinks to it every day and that dinky little site will rank #1 in Google and provide you with a tidy $3 a day in Adsense. All the while nobody on this planet will backlink naturally to that site. Nobody. You will have Squidoo and Hubpages pointing to it. You’ll have outsourced slave labor building links to it. You’ll have non-native English writers crapping outsource content to splash across the article directories. It’s a sham. Astroturf linking.

I hate that I have to compete on every site with the stupid as shit game of who can build the most backlinks.

I can’t imagine how much time I have spent (wasted) building satellite sites to support my main sites. And the shit doesn’t stop there. Oh no. Build a Squidoo page and you have to get backlinks to that as well. Build up that authority through your network, man. Tier 1 linking to Tier 2 linking to Tier 3. Make sure Tier 3 doesn’t link to Tier 1. Is Blogger part of my Tier 1 or will it be Tier 2? And hey is that a Do-Follow or No-Follow site? You mean they want you to add your links to their service but only they get to benefit from it? Huh. You can’t even have a normal fucking browser anymore because you have to have SEO and traffic toolbars 5 levels deep hanging off the top of the damn thing.

I haven’t cracked the code of owning 3-5 authority blogs that make $10K per month. So I am reduced to this shit. I  slung (slinged? slanged?) over 1000 links with BMD, I built a lens, a Blogger blog. I wrote an article for inclusion in  AMA. This is how I spent a couple of hours after work. Insane.

How many fucking accounts do you have for all your Squidoo lenses, Hubpages, Blogger blogs and various crap? I have to use Google Docs to keep up with all my accounts and websites. It’s ridiculous. You aren’t supposed to build more  than 5 blogs per Blogger account because they may delete the whole account on a whim. Or at least that is what “they” tell us. I’ve had blogs suspended but never accounts. Anyway, the number of  Yahoo and Gmail accounts I have is  stupid. All for diffent profiles on Squidoo, Hubpages, Blogger and bookmarking sites. I’m not even sure who the hell I am online anymore.

It cracks me up, in that cuckoo nest kind of way, that this is our normal. Nobody thinks twice about it. Got a website idea? Great. You’ll also need 5 lenses, 5 hubpages, 10 Blogger blogs, 100 comments, 25 articles spun into 3,000  additional articles, 20 profiles to use on 97 bookmarking sites, $100-200 for sustained outsourcing of links to web directories. You’ll need to figure out how to get your Hubpages and lenses indexed as well. They’ll need juice so they can provide juice. Yea, and let’s not forget what you built last week chump.

What am I doing to combat this misery?

1. Autoblogging with WP Robot for product blogs. I refuse to blog niche sites. There are some good niches that sell well that I have no interest in blogging. Saves time.

2. Information niches are built using XSP for Adsense clicks.

3. I love Squidoo. For making money. Testing. Backlinks.

4. I use BMD for indexing.

5. I use Article Marketing Automation for backlinks.

6. There are a few RSS directories I submit to.

7. Do the best I can to find really good keywords to rally around.

Just trying to keep things as simple as possible. Nothing I do has changed that much except using some different tools to help my time management. Adjustments on how I approach long term viability of sites. Traffic considerations. I still do keyword research, build sites and promote them. The basics. I’m just trying to figure out how to best utilize my time and energy without having to duplicate an effort 10 times over past the initial site. Backlinks are the bitch.

If something turns out to be a hit I’ll make a bigger effort to get more traffic. I’m kind of done building a site then immediately creating a network around it. Maybe after it proves viable after a few months or longer I’ll build a network backlink of sorts. But for now I’ll do some rudimentary work to see what the interest looks like. Of course you risk being a chump; if you could have done more it would have been successful. But then again if you spent precious time and energy building up something that was not to be you still end up a chump. I don’t see how these dudes handle building a network across numerous dedicated servers and shit. It would blow my mind. I get that they are raking in huge sums of dough, but the effort is crazy.

I don’t have any great answers. Just have to shrug it off and deal with it. But it makes me feel better to point out the utter stupidity of this shit.

Problogger, Copyblogger, Matt Cutts, Entrpeneurs Journey, SEOmoz, Daily Blog Tips, Serarch Engine Land, John Chow, Shoemoney, Search Engine Watch were the top 10 on Winning the Web.

What a load of boring shit. I’m feeling my curmudgeon leanings after wasting my time looking over those sites. Have you ever visited one? What exactly are you supposed to get from all the highbrow blather? The Problogger dude turns over most of his writing to folks writing lightweight shit like “What does treating your blog ‘Like a Business’ really mean?”. Every d-bag in this business talks about making sure you treat IM/blogging as a business. Copyblogger ponders whether SEO copywriting matters. Has anyone in IM ever disregarded SEO? He provides a piechart and fancy research stats to come to the conclusion that backlinks matter. Gasp! I had no idea. Good that they can still get mileage out of the 5 year old knowledge that backlinks matter to Google. Entrepreneur’s Journey has embraced video to tell you how to grow your blog traffic. Oh wait. It was a shill for his video series. SEOmoz publishes useless posts to keep their site fresh in the hopes you will stumble into all their pay for services and products. Smart marketing on their part if you have an interest in all their dubious SEO tools.

The only one that I had any interest in before I dozed off was Dosh Dash…and then I realized the site is hardly ever updated and has php errors, so I disgustedly logged into this piece of shit blog and started bitching.

These top blogs, except Matt Cutts love letter to Google, all apparently make crazy money. They either sell some service or product that their cult can’t stand not to have or they sell ads in their 100×100 sidebar space. They are smart marketers. People are desperate for help making money online. The lemmings are eager buyers. The circle jerk continues to feed itself.

These bloggers circle around the same watering hole when updating their blogs. Like anything has changed in 5 years. It’s the same as it ever was for blogging and niche sites. Keywords, writing and backlinks. I think it’s why folksy bloggers like Griz haven’t blogged in a year. What else is there to say? How many ways can you talk about keywords, writing and backlinks? Not many. So you get fluff pieces on keeping your blog lively. Or how to get visitors to comment on your blog. Or should you Adsense or not Adsense.

New make money bloggers amble over to the same hole for a drink. And around and around we go.

The Alpha bloggers have herded the sheep. It’s amazing how much (apparent) money and visitors these people get for their offerings. I contend there is no magic ebook to help you. No need to open the membership door. No fancy video that will tell you different. I’ve spent money on it all. I’ve been there. And I have done that. It all comes back to keywords, writing and backlinks. All activities you can do yourself or outsource. All boring as shit activities. Why do people continue to go to these sites thinking they have some magic elixir for riches? Well, I know why. I just wish people would get a clue and stop. It took me 2 years or so to get it so I feel their ensuing pain.

Top IM bloggers make a living talking about IM. They invest heavily in their website to make it appear modern and professional. They create videos and write articles using well-funded research. Some are smart guys and have the ability to dig into the guts of this shit and describe things scientifically. Doesn’t mean it is worthwhile.

It reminds me of those flashy TV ads for junk like the Perfect Pushups or something. They spend millions of dollars on the set (website). They have professional scripts drafted (content). People are interviewed and rave about the product (testimonials). They incentive you to buy it (bonuses). The personalities are cheesy pitchmen (guberus). People buy the thing and it sits in the corner after 2 weeks (memberships and software).

Then again you have folks out there simply getting on the floor (keywords), lifting their body in a plank position (writing) and pushing it up and down letting gravity kick their ass (backlinks). Nothing fancy. Do a few sets every other day and the results are the same as if you bought a goofy product to do the same damn thing.

I don’t get the whole IM thing. Why are people drawn into their cult? Why so gullible? These people are making a shitload of money from convincing people this shit is harder than it is. Making money online is hard work. But it is not difficult. At least how I see it. Correction, I submit that PPC is hard and difficult. There are a lot of variables to making money off your paid advertising. But that is not what we do typically.

Somehow these sites have convinced people there is some grand scheme that has to be applied to make money. It is all self serving BS if you ask me. But what do I know? They are successful and I’m not as much. They are successful salesmen and I am just a tool with a negative blog. But I don’t want to be like them. I’ll gladly stand outside the gates and fling rocks in like a bored 13-year old.

RESTON, VA, October 1, 2009 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world today released the results of an update to its highly publicized “Natural Born Clickers” research, originally conducted two years ago in conjunction with media agency Starcom USA and Tacoda. The collaborative studies focus on an understanding of how U.S. Internet users click on display ads. The updated results based on March 2009 comScore data…indicated that the number of people who click on display ads in a month has fallen from 32 percent of Internet users in July 2007 to only 16 percent in March 2009, with an even smaller core of people (representing 8 percent of the Internet user base) accounting for the vast majority (85 percent) of all clicks

“The act of clicking on a display ad is experiencing rapid attrition in the current digital marketplace,” said Linda Anderson, comScore VP of marketing solutions and author of the study.

The point of the article was to assist those marketers in finding value in the 85 percent that do not click shit. The result is that people like us affiliate marketers might potentially have a hard time collecting money online. The upside is affiliate programs and revenue sharing programs like Adsense are going to have to improve their game to help us sell their shit, thereby helping us.

Times are changing.