I am testing the goodness that is XSP 2.5 Beta. For limp mustaches that build money traps with WordPress, I understand your bewilderment at the sewer magic.  I sit along the banks of the web sewers sampling cheese and wine while you gag on the sludge of core updates, plugin downloads and theme modifications. I twirl the ends of my mustache with your tears.

Told you one of these fuckers would market products and courses for the mobile cell phone market. It was just a matter of time. Check it.

Let me just say that when I build an XSP site I make sure to build the mobile version of my site as well. For whatever it’s worth which is nada.

There may be more but this is the flotsam that I noticed floating through the sewers today. Probably want to hop to it if you’re interested as like most money making tactics, first come will be first served, with soon to be worthless U.S. dollars. Learn the ins and outs of mobile spam and how to lose all your money via paid advertising and other stringy shit. I’m not recommending this nor am I saying it is worthless. I’m a giver. Make up your own mind if this is something that brings a twist to your mustache.

True to form, I have added too much shit into my web sewer pipe. Not content with simply building tight and functional niche sites I inexplicably decided I wanted to be a purveyor of email lists and Google News sites. The former is something I have always fought against, obviously to my financial detriment. They say the money is in the list. If you can sign enough people up to receive your daily/weekly/monthly marketing offerings, then you are golden. The latter is the latest gambit in the quest to get to the number one spot in Google listings. It’s a fine technique, one in which will consume every moment of your existence.

I don’t like email lists. I’m not a fan of being on them and I don’t like creating extra shit to service them. Some of the best marketers have asked me time and again why I don’t run email lists. They say Lost Ball has massive potential if only I collected emails. The story goes I should email people that I have updated my blog. Or have something to sell. Basically the goal of every website should be to build an email list. The web site is simply a collection of words that gets in the way of a pop up or landing page or sign up form.

I get the idea. I subscribe to financial and political newsletters that sell the shit out of their offerings. To the point it is incredibly annoying. The value of the newsletters overcome the constant sales pitch, but I feel like I have to swim through a layer of slime to get to the content. Fair enough. They have to make money somehow to provide the information.

But does every 20 page web site need an auto responder series? The true salesman and professional marketer would say hell yes.

I remember the one training day I suffered through in MLM hearing that for every 100 people you come into contact with 5 might have an interest. Out of those 5 you might get to do a follow up pitch to 3. Out of those 3 you might make a sale to 1. I look at the odds as stacked against me. The salesman see the odds stacked in his favor thinking that out of 100 people, one is going to buy his shit. He’s going to find that fucker. There could not be two different people on this planet.

Building a site for Google News is a bitch. Like I have time. I am fairly adept at writing and can take news and spin it around in my own words. Having a website accepted into Google News can be extremely useful and lucrative. It takes a lot of work. You have to report on news in a variety of categories and have lots of reporters listed as working for your news site. Of course the idea is to make up 6-8 writers and go out and re-write other news stories. So I have a news site I am building out with categories on Sports, Travel, Features, Tech, Entertainment and Finance. I have 6 writers “working” for me. I re-write daily news items. At some point in the next month I should have built out the site enough to possibly get accepted to GN.

So what’s the point? Like I think I can compete with New York Times, AP, and Newsweek? Nope. But the idea is to report on stories that have high Adsense or CPM payouts with little competition. If you write a series of reports on 401(k) plans then maybe you will have few news sites to compete with but your listing will land on top of the Google search results no matter how badass those websites are. News trumps bullshit webpages. If you are writing about Obamacare with the other 1,000 news outlets then you won’t get listed or make much money. But reporting on news that are searched for and pay out could make you a bundle. At least that is the theory.

Yes, it’s rather bogus and GN will make getting accepted and staying accepted insanely hard. You can’t fake competence with GN. There are like 20,000 news sites accepted into GN. They can keep an eye on all of them. If you can write the news and provide real reporting then you are golden. But can you do it consistently? Or even want to?

I’m having a hard time forcing myself to do email marketing. It seems like it is something I should do but I hate the idea and execution. Google News is something new. I like the challenge of getting a site accepted but to what end?

Servicing the web sewers bores me. I am guilty of constantly trying to discover something that will keep my interest and fill my PayPal account. The funny thing is that I always come back to building simple XSP niche sites. Fat Cat Blueprint man.

I also feel the need to diversify. If Google turns to crap at least you can flog the shit out of your email list and sell products. Why not build news sites to see if an opportunity exists? But as long as I have been at this I have the best luck with static sites. I can write 10 long pages and slap Adsense on there and make money. I can create a Squidoo page and make a little money. I can build a Hubpage and make a little money. I can build a niche site for a Shareasale or CJ product. As long as I keep it real I make real money. But when I fuck around with tools and tactics and bullshit I lose my way and I start losing money (or losing the opportunity for more money).

But to put a fine point on this sewage, you damn well almost have to outsource, if you are going to chase the latest and newest tactics. There is no way you can write 20 pages of web garbage, a bonus ebook and an autoresponder series in volume. Sure you can knock out one a month or so. And to write shit for your Google News sites will drive you insane. Sure you can rewrite some news stories. It doesn’t take me much times at all. But the juice of this operation is to find a news story that sticks around and that you can write about 10-20 news articles over a period of time that has big Adsense payouts. Of course the rest of the categories have to be serviced at some point too. And lets not forget that you have to do your keyword research. Crazy.

Seems the economy is bringing aboard new riders on the “make money online” express. Good fucking luck people. There are more clueless people diving into the sewers than I have ever seen. Sure everybody has to start somewhere but no one wants to start at the beginning, you know? They are having a hard time simply writing 20 articles and in lieu are having an even more difficult time finding some hut dweller to write for them. So now it seems there is almost desperation among the lumpen to find people to write shit for them. I even succumbed to outsourcing. Got back a nice pack of articles for the effort.

Outsourcing articles is the shit. There are millions of folks in the third world that are educated in English better than most in the United States and are just beginning to pull themselves out of poverty. They can write as well as an 8th grader in the States and that is apparently good enough for the web sewers. $5 an article in the States is nothing. If someone says they can write one for that then figure they are outsourcing your outsourcing to a hut somewhere in the Caribbean. The whole chain is rather humorous where ultimately some joker is writing 400 words for a couple of bucks. Crazy.

I’m not against outsourcing. If you have a lot of projects going on you need help. If you do email marketing you need folks to create auto responder series and bonus reports. If you want to do Google News then you need some folks to re-write your news.  Building niche sites require a lot of articles. Not to mention articles for directories, getting back links, etc. There is not enough time to do it all. But I try and burnout. And finding good people to economically do work for you that you would be happy with is a bitch.

As a web sewer magician I can create more articles in a week than some will create in a lifetime. But I can service only so much in the sewers. I have no business trying to create multiple shitpiles to send into the sewers. Email list building, Google News, Niche sites…it’s all a little much. And as you can tell driving me a bit loony.

I would do much better if I simply stuck with one idea. I get bored and can’t. Understand I have to go through this spastic exercise of discovery and burn out to realize what I need to focus on. I find it useful and interesting but I find I will come back to the same sewers I always serviced. You know, people make a lot of money selling cars, or insurance or vacuum cleaners. Doesn’t mean that I have an interest in doing it. To me the shitty means do not justify the lucrative ends. There are a lot of shitty means  in the web sewers.

So I headed down the wrong sewer pipe. Fuck it. Time to get back in the right sewer and do what I do and stop trying to do everything and shit I don’t like.

This post is ridiculous, long and rambling. I got a bit sidetracked. I feel better when I write about it. I’m going to re-focus my efforts on keyword research, articles writing, and promotion of XSP niche sites. Think FCB. It’s what I do.

And by the way, Wired magazine says the web is dead. That apps is where it’s at. I told you that and pondered what we were going to do to make sales in the age of screen tappers. I’ll yap more about this later.

Holy shit. Dig the popups. No fewer than three as you keep spurning the offer. But be quick if you’re feeling generous with your money. He’s only offering 234. Click here to be entertained. I almost missed this goodness from Craig Kaye. It got lost in the 27 other offers the pimpmaster emailed this week. That smell is the additional shit load working it’s way through the web sewers.

I have become more and more aware of a marketing tactic that has been dropped into the waste water over the last year or so. Seems the hunters are feeding the chum with low cost memberships or software products. They may in fact be decent enough but that is only to capture the prey and feast upon it while keeping it alive.

See, your guberu might be telling you how great their (initial) product is. The 78-page long sales page tells you that you can make tens of thousands of (soon to be worthless) dollar bills using their method or product. And in some cases you just might do OK with the product. But the next thing you know, after about a month, you start getting emails from these fuckers pimping other people’s shit. So if your shit was so good then why do I need someone else’s shit?

The lastest guberu email recommending someone else’s product hit my spam box this morning.   Seems they are promising an AVALANCHE of traffic. Like most goodness apparently you don’t need a product, experience, web site, PPC, no tech expertise, no SEO training, no social bookmarking…nothing. Why it seems in a few clicks you can make hundreds of dollars a day, if not thousands. It’s so easy. Automated. Only a few hundred get to play. Don’t want too many folks in the pipe to clog things up you see.

Apparently they are exploiting a “glitch”. Folks, why the fuck would you risk your livelihood of making thousands a day? Seriously. If I am making thousands of dollars a day on a “glitch” the rest of the fucking Internet would be the last to hear about it. If  you’re feeling altruistic and need to share your discovery with someone how about going down to the local computer training job shop and help people out of work? You say you don’t need experience or a webpage. Give those lucky few a hand up. And what the hell are you going to do when the “glitch”, if there is such a thing, gets fixed? Glitches gets fixed unless it benefits that which you are exploiting. Then it’s not really a glitch now is it?

So anyway, the critters scamper over and start slobbering over the comment stream on the dude’s blog. There are some desperate people swimming the sewage. I read a lot of “hope”. Everyone with plenty of cynicism yet cannot wait to open their wallet for just. one. more. purchase. I fucking hate reading dorks commenting on IM pre-sale product blogs. “I can’t wait to get my hands on this.” Or “Great video. This is just what I need.” Really? Many of these people are desperate. They don’t have a clue what they are doing. All they read/heard was that they don’t have to do the traditional hard work. It’s sad, man.

The only reason those people are excited is because some opportunist promised riches without having to do any work. This may in fact be the murky discharge onto the white sandy beaches people have hoped to find. I hope each and every one of these desperate critters find riches beyond their wildest dream with this bullshit or others like it. But my guess is if it’s this dubious you better scoop that shit while you can because whatever shit this dude is manipulating is bound to collapse in a putrid pile.

I despise these marketing tactics. Why the secrecy? The dude only wants a couple hundred to play. He has a couple of hundred slobbering on the blog. Just sell the crap already. Why does the web sewers need more self-serving videos over the next few days until go time? I will get an email from my spammer every day until launch letting me know I should get in line. All the while I’m wondering why the fuck isn’t this pencil neck not telling me to get busy using his glorious make money online technique that I originally purchased. Alas, that isn’t the way it works. It’s all about the next easy sell.

Don’t you love the reverse psychology these jokers use now? They spin it around and tell you that they know what they’re selling sounds too good to be true. That they wouldn’t trust them either. So you think, hell, yea, he is one of us. He can be trusted because he wouldn’t trust himself. Say what?

This may be the one. It really might be. It could be the exception that disproves the rule. Though the chances are better that it will be the latest pile of shit. At some point you have to just decide that you are done chasing the latest and grooviest. It’s like crack. An addiction. And it gets worse because these fuckers are getting really good at presentations and the economy and desperation people feel are getting worse by the day in our fucked up world. You may miss out on the biggest thing ever, but man, the chances are damn good that you won’t. Dig?

If you are plugged into the wonderful greasy world of affiliate marketing you are sure to have received spam email from your favorite guberu extolling the virtues of Affiliate Annihilation. My email directed me to a landing page with a photo of a Ferrari and promises of life altering goodness if I bought this product and put in 30 minutes of work a day. Folks, it’s bullshit. These Annihilation X Squeeze Bomb Affiliate Clickcrapper products are utter garbage. Do you really think for a minute that an ebook selling for $39 is going to be your ladder out of the web sewers and onto the boulevards of gold and rain clouds of money? Do a Google search on (wait for the clouds to part as you say it) —- Affiliate Annihilation. Look at all those fuckers trying to make a buck off this release. Typical stinky web sewage. Bogus reviews.  New Crapbank IM ebook equals bullshit landing pages and dispersal of garbage bonus items.

Let me ask you: Do you really think it would be necessary to collect 50-75% off a $39 ebook if the tactics in the ebook were worth a shit. My email guberu showed me Crapbank numbers of thousands of dollars a day. Seven of them to be exact. If I was making $7K a day (from the ebook) the last thing I’d be thinking about is selling a $39 affiliate book (which is how they make $7k-natch). And let’s be clear. The sales(garbage)page said over 7K people would be “invited” to grab a copy of AA. But only 375 would be accepted. So why the fuck does there need to be at least 10 pages of results in Google for selling it? By my calculations these goobers are going to be fighting it out to split commissions on just around $14K in sales. And that assumes people do not do the SMART thing and click away from the offer to get their $10 discount (I HATE this dishonest shit). Because as big as this release appears to be there is no way only 375 people are being sold a copy. Unless there are only 375 dipshits who open their wallets. Every affiliate marketing training tells you to create scarcity. It’s fake. Just wait. In 3 months another ebook called Affiliate Annihilation X-treme will be released and they will talk about how thousands of people had their life altered by Version One and how it was the biggest seller in Crapbank for weeks. And how did that happen when only 375 books were dispersed to the desperate?

The only thing this offer does is annihilate your dignity. Take the money and see a movie. Buy yourself 3 new domains. Donate it to the Wounded Warrior Project. Blow your nose with it. Just stop buying these moronic products.

I’m going to see if I can find my groove while Tweeting from the weeds. Follow if you want. I understand if you don’t. I can’t promise any goodness will come of it. I am mostly cynical and assume I will use the platform to rail against the machine. But every once in a while something magical will appear and I might just have something nice to say about it. So click the little follow button and watch as I add more useless content to the web sewers.

Fuck Twitter. I don’t have time for it. I’ll relieve you folks of one more useless Twithead to follow. It was a bad idea. I do better with long rambling whines.

Since the doors for getting access to AffiloJetpack has now closed I thought I would mention that the folks at Affilorama have created yet another great product. I have been a member of it since day one. I paid the original $200, or whatever the amount was, for access to the paid site that was Affilorama. It turned into a free site, then branched into a separate premium site. Being an original member I was given access to the Premium site for no charge. Over the last few years they have introduced many excellent tools that are professional and useful. Did you know that they quietly snuck in a very competent article spin tool? They have a groovy tool that will scan government and educational websites that you can comment on. Every time I write a new article on a blog I use their ping tool. Etc., etc., blah, blah, blah. I like the tools and find them useful. Just a nice perk of being a long term supporter of a great IM site. They are the folks that created Traffic Travis which is an extremely under-rated keyword tool. I use it more than Market Samurai but not as much as Micro Niche Finder. It provides basically the same SEO data as MS only much less cumbersome. I also enjoy having access to another product in the Affilorama stable called AffiloBlueprint. It is a great training series for making money from affiliate programs.

Anyway, that’s the background of Affilorama. Affilojetpack came about because I believe people using the AffiloBlueprint program was having a hard time with creating lists, ebooks, building squeeze pages and newsletters. I know I did. AJP solves that problem nicely. It gives you a stack of articles to build a site on. A newsletter series that last the whole year that pimps out various products and ebooks you can use to collect emails. They provide hosting and they have their own branded email responder from Aweber that you can use. Not to mention a groovy WordPress theme that is SEO/affiliate marketing specific.

I’m not saying any of you seven readers should join AJP. That is specifically why I wrote this post when I did so you can’t join from my overt recommendation. I put up a banner a while back but nobody clicks those damn things anyway so it was your basic sidebar decoration. Makes the weeds look pretty. Anyway, I am just mentioning this because I journal what the hell I am doing for whatever its worth.

I wrote about the Fat Cat Blueprint. I use the technique to make money with Adsense. I’ve always tried to make money with Adsense but it was a blueprint to do things better. But I have no desire to only sling Adsense sites. I’m not paranoid like many are about having Google delete my Adsense account, but if they do, I sure would like to have a backup so I can continue to fund retirement accounts, college funds and vacations.

I have never been one to collect emails (or create products for that matter). But the reality is these are money making opportunities that you control. You can’t really control Adsense. There are things you can do to be more successful but you are really at the mercy of Google. That’s why I build affiliate product sites.  But I am really half-assing these sites.  I’m lazy about wanting to do it but, dammit, the money is in the list.

The beautiful thing about AJP is that only a few are actually going to use the product that are “members”. You know how that goes. And many of those that do are going to half-ass it. Plus they will get bored or disheartened after working through their first pack. And they won’t re-write the articles.  I’ve written 10 original articles so far for my first pack. I did my keyword research with MNF then re-wrote the given articles 100% using the keywords I’m targeting. The articles weren’t so much re-written but used as research as they are now simply original works of well-written crap. And they are all being trained to use WordPress. I am using XSP. I am using my own header. Just doing a little zagging while the herd zigs for whatever its worth.

Remember FCB and the Article Baiting technique? Yea, I have written another 10 articles already in support of that method.  I haven’t yet gone live with the site as I want to get the newsletter tweaked and all the articles posted, which will be about 20 initially. Then I will start Article Baiting to get Google interested along with other traffic strategies we all know and love.

The newsletter series has to be tweaked with my affiliate IDs. And no, the newsletter series do not have to be re-written. It has zero to do with SEO. It’s a freebie and will never be seen by Google. Plus it’s about 365 email letters. Screw that. Somebody may get a duplicate of the newsletter across the web sewage but that is a risk I’ll take. I’m simply trying to collect emails.

Haven’t decide what I want to do with the ebooks. My motivation apparently only goes so far.

Tip: Each AJP can be tweaked to target sub-niches which I will be making use of as time allows. One pack can be used for 10s  of various sub niches. It’s all about the keywords.  Let’s say there is a pack on ID theft. You can use the pack for credit card ID theft. Then use the pack for online ID theft. Etc., etc. Nobody will do that but given enough time I will. That is why I have to consider outsourcing. Luckily no one in the forum will read this blog so I have no problem divulging my plans to the lucky seven.

As depressing as collecting emails is I feel the need to diversify. This gives me that chance via training and products that I am comfortable with. I know Mark Ling, the owner of Affilorama. He has always been straight with me and helpful. Affilorama is professional and frankly under-rated in my opinion. At least in the states.

Anyway, just letting you know what’s going on. Diversification is on my mind. Some days I’ll work on sites monetized with Adsense. Other days I’ll work on affiliate product sites. But it all comes down to finding the right keywords, writing a shitload of original articles and getting backlinks.