Howdy folks. Just thought I’d say a few words to the 4 people who follow this crapcake and maybe make a few coins by pimping a product I really dig. Not since the Nomad’s ebook have I really found anything worth reading. Granted I’m not really in the loop for products anymore as I have virtually blacklisted/deleted/destroyed/removed myself from guberu email lists. But I did happen to come across an ebook that has the right, er, plan. It’s called the Fat Cat Blueprint. Yep, it is a pretentious cheesy name especially given that the dude who penned it is more matter of fact than a dickhead poser type showing off his fine ride.
The book is 242 pages. About 230 is worthy of the left to right movement necessary to power your eyes for processing the data. There is not one single thing in there that you do not know about. You will learn to build sites. Promote said sites. Then scale your effort. Nothing you haven’t read before. But if you aren’t making more than $1K a month with Adsense then I reckon homeboy has a thing or two to teach you (I do and yet he still did). Particularly in regards to doing this crap right. If you are enamored with blogs then keep blogging. He, like me, digs static sites. If you don’t like to write or outsource, then keep Autoblogging or doing whatever blackhat bullshit that makes you fatstacks. There is nothing easy here. But if you want to put in the work, or outsource, then the little light will once again blink on alerting you to something that can increase your soon to be worthless U.S. dollar collection.
As a matter of fact I have been totally retooling what I do based on his Article Baiting method. It requires a shitload of article writing. I’ve written at least 4 articles a day for the last 45 days and used them to build sites and promote them exactly as he says in the Blueprint. The search engines are ravenous over my efforts. The articles are being syndicated all over bringing in tons of backlinks. Every single word is original. Every single thing I do is completely white hat. Pearly white. Used to be that I would build a site. Promote it with a few bullshit links from garbage article directories, blog commenting, lenses, Hubpages, Blogger blogs, etc., add nausea. Now I just hammer Article Baiting and a few other techniques that he suggests.
Nothing I’m doing is a change from when I said I’ve basically given up (hosted) blogging (Blogger is turning into something cool) for static sites. I build mini sites using keyword research with Micro Niche Finder and/or Market Samurai (which just so happens is the author’s go to tools as well), write articles and collect traffic. It’s just a bit more aggressive. It makes more sense. I’ve gotten myself (yet again) more organized.
Believe me when I say if you follow the Blueprint, and more so if you do it manually without the tools he suggests, you will be working your ass off. I’ve been working my ass off with the tools he suggests using. But if his experience is legit then I have no reason not to think I will be more successful chasing Adsense, which is what I hope to accomplish with this.
I will most likely burn the fuck out in a few more short weeks flogging this. Perhaps I will shamelessly pimp another product to this blog next month for something as dubious as autoblogging or worse. Who knows? What I do know today is that this ebook is a really good blueprint.
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Splork,
I know you zig when others zag, but Griz and friends say that because Adsense is shutting down MFA (what I have always thought of as mini sites) sites when they reach the $100 a day mark, they are abandoning that model for authority sites.
Do you disagree with them?
Thanks Splork. Going to give this a shot. I feel pretty confident in what I know, I just need more of a daily step by step plan of action. I’m too disorganized.
KC, as far as I can tell Google has no problem with websites that have original and informative articles which also serves up their ads. I create niche sites and place ads on them. Google is a finicky beast but if I do the best I can to create a website that is original and also serve their ads and still get canceled, then fuck them, I’ll do something else to make money, which is what I do anyway with affiliate product sites.
Anyway, if you read Griz’s last post he said he went back through and cleaned up his thin sites.
He said:
“If you are using Adsense then beware; if the sites only real purpose is to make money from Adsense and its obvious then you had best fix it. Your site had better be legit (and you know the difference) and watch out that your ads are not too aggressive above the fold. The days of using my system to build thin sites is over.”
So, some of my sites are built with the intention of getting paid by Adsense. They have an ad above the fold. I’m not sure if Google’s intent is for one to bury an ad somewhere on the page. They are in this business to make money too. My ads are flat out above the fold and in your face. Google’s heat map even suggests that this is where ads are most effective, so what the fuck, right?
So all I can tell you is that each and every single one of the articles that I have on my sites are wholly original and informative. If some Google engineer comes and reads my site they will not find scraped information or even PLR or re-written PLR. Yes I play their SEO game but I do not do anything that is not suggested by the Cutts guy or on their blog or on the webmaster page. I do not link from crap pages anymore either. I do this above the board and totally white hat. I have to believe that if they review my stable of sites they will see someone making an honest effort to build good sites and using their system to monetize it. I am not trying to rip anyone off whether I have an ad dead center above the fold or not.
This is a long comment to justify what I do but I simply believe that there is a shitload of paranoia involved in this business. Mostly because people try to do the least amount of work and profit from it. Those sites do not work anymore. Griz made his changes. I have too. He may not even bother with Adsense anymore. I dunno. But I like using it and will continue to try to build sites to take advantage of making money with it.
From what I’ve read from many followers of Griz and the like, they are now shying away from Adsense. I truly zig when others zag. It was then that I really started working hard at building better websites for the express purpose of using Adsense. I guess you could call them MFA sites. But really they are MFM sites. Made for money. If I wasn’t getting paid I wouldn’t provide the information to the sewers. Hell if Google wasn’t making money they wouldn’t be servicing the sewers either.
In closing I have not heard from Griz or any of his minions. They may in fact be totally off the grid. They may only be serving Ebay ads. Or building for affiliate products. But somehow I believe that these guys making $10-15K a month with Adsense, like that dough and simply cleaned their shit up. what that means to me is to make an effort to write good stuff. I make articles personal, informative and as well written as possible, because I want to be able to make as much money with Adsense as I can and I want those sites to have longevity in the search engines.
Joe, thanks for reading. Hope this helps.
Hi Splork. I decided to zag along with you this time and bought FatCat. My 26 pound kitty told me it was a good idea. So I spent most of the day reading through it, and you’re right, there’s really good stuff in there. I also finally gave in and picked up Micro Niche finder (both from your links btw). I ran a couple of my existing niches through it and was totally shocked to find out how much it differed from the Google keyword tool! For example, I recently built a site on a keyword that MNF shows 170 results for when I type in the exact phrase, whereas Google says there’s 3600 searches per month. Which one should I believe??
Another question, if you don’t mind. Does that Article Baiting actually work?
Splork,
Thank you for taking so much time with that reply. I really appreciate your thought and opinions.
Heh, I got this ebook about an hour ago, popped over here and found this as your latest post.
Just coincidence, or something more…meaningful?
No, it’s just coincidence.
I’ve always avoided Adsense due to the impression that most people earning a living from it are working much harder than they would simply getting a real job, but more recently I’ve spoken to a few people doing alright from it, so I figure it’s worth giving it a shot.
Nice blog by the way. A refreshing island in the vast sea of IM bullshit.
Thanks Kim. I hope you find them useful. I use MNF almost exclusively for finding keywords. I like MS but it’s just not as…elegant as MS. It’s a little cumbersome. I’ve compared them together and they are pretty close with the results. At least as far as I can tell. Personally I simply look for green SOC. I hope that the keyword gets searched 2,000 times a month and I only want to compete against 30-50,000 other sites. I don’t think much more than that and have done OK with that for as long as I’ve been using MNF.
As far as Baiting goes, honestly I can’t say that, yes, it is making me rich. In the book he mentioned that you should try the method and then after a few months you should be seeing an increase in Adsense. Well I’ve been at it in earnest for about 45 days and while I have definitely seen an increase in the distribution of my articles I haven’t seen a huge increase in Adsense.
Perhaps that is disheartening to some where you put in all this work and should be making huge stacks of worthless U.S. dollars in a week or so. It just doesn’t work that way.
Of course you don’t have to do the Baiting method. He outlines a 7 step program for promoting your webpages. It may work better for you. I use a couple of them as well.
Unfortunately most people give up on a plan/program/method/blueprint far too soon. They want riches right now. If you keep at it with virtually any blueprint out there you will most likely find success at some point.
Splork,
Do you use Article Marketing as your main method for building backlinks? I hear so many different opinions on this topic, some say it works wonders, other people say it’s not worth your time. I truly appreciate your video post about backlinks more and more as I try to build them myself.
I read that post by Griz too but I got the impression that the big G didn’t like what he was preaching to the minions which was the MFA thingy and gave him a bit of a spanking. I do recall him saying that Google quite succinctly said “stop teaching people to do that”.
I agree that Google isn’t the only way to make money but the problem I think, is that if Google screw you the adsense way they may just delist your sites as well, which would be a big kick in the nether regions until you can rank more new sites. You can’t monetize a site that don’t get traffic. Well.. you can but it’s not very productive.
Hello Splork,
I know that you use AMA. Given that “Article Baiting” is just to get as many backlinks as possible what advantage does it offer you over AMA?
Are you manually submitting to Ezine Articles etc. and then pumping your article into AMA as well?
Best Regards,
Leigh, if you build original and informative sites I cannot see any reason why Google would d-list you. If you are building junk then you have something to worry about. Folks are so worried about getting d-listed or Adsense canceled that they don’t do anything.
I have built my share of crap. It used to work. It still does in many cases. But that is just not how I do stuff now. I build sites on free sites like Blogger, Hubpages and Squidoo. But whereas some, if not most, of those sites were crap, they are now good sites. Some work. Some do not. But mostly I am building niche sites and promoting products or monetizing with Adsense or Ebay. I don’t try to hide the ads. I don’t hide my intent to make money with their ads. If Google wants to shut me down then fine, I’ll re-double my Ebay efforts. If Ebay deletes me then I’ll keep building for products. Or I’ll sign up with new accounts on Ebay and Adsense. I’m not worried. I can always cut grass and make extra money if it comes to it.
Hi Hamish. I think they are both useful. I use AMA. Particularly for getting links to Hubpages, Squidoo and Blogger. I manually submit to EZA and Go Articles. I don’t use the same articles for AMA. At all. Not even spun.
Joe, it’s my main method for backlinks.
Fatcat blueprint author is a woman, isn´t she?
Splork,
Have you joined Bertils secret group yet?
Nah, I don’t generally sign up for groups, forums and stuff. Time waster. Got work to do.
fatcatblueprint is a great plan. He is on Warrior forum. very responsive guy as well. he actually answers email..the plan is very detailed and is not for lazy marketers.
I found that it is better to just do the keyword research and then hand over the article writing. I upload the site and wait for the articles and then move on to the next. I feel that if you concentrate on products and write general articles then your efforts will be multiplied..
example: keyword-” digital slr camera lenses”. use storestacker or the new kewordstowebsites script to add the differentproducts makes and models…
btw, i forgot to ask, did you join super apprentice. He flogs it A LOT in the blueprint/plan.
Hey Jocelyn. I am at the point where I am going to have to give up some writing. I like to control what I write but it’s getting too much. And I’m not sure it will matter anyway as long as the quality is decent.
I haven’t built a storestacker store in a while. If I build a store I’ve pretty much been using Ebay solely.
Hey Ryan. Nah, like I mentioned before I haven’t joined it. It looks like it might be OK but I stopped participating in monthly payment membership sites. I stayed with PLRPro and Affilorama. I’ve been with those since the first day and being a long term member has had it’s advantages and perks.
Hi Splork, not sure if you received my previous comment since there is no “your comment is waiting in moderation” thing.
I was just saying thanks for replying to me and I was wondering how you find your LSI keywords if you didn’t join SA. (Super Apprentice)
Thanks in advance.
Hey Ryan. There are a couple of manual ideas that FCB goes over that I use plus I review top 10 websites to see what the “themes” of those pages are and add in some phrases they use.
Cool, thanks for the reply. But in light of the recent ban on thin adsense sites, won’t following the FCB be riskier? I know you zag when ppl zig but do you plan to do a TON (as in more than 100) of FCB sites?
Hi Splork,
If I clickon the Fat Cat link and buy, will you get a commish? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but stranger things have happened and since you brought it to my attention, you deserve the money.
Cheers,
Barry
Thanks Barry. Yea, the link should go to the site. I appreciate it. Hope you find it useful.
Interested to hear any progress with your FCB endeavor.
How’s it going?
Hey HZ. I’ve gotten four FCB-type sites up since getting the product. I did all the writing from sites posts to promotion articles. It is exhausting. One of the sites is starting to pull in visitors and a few clicks to Adsense. The other three are still sunning on Google Beach I guess. The dude who wrote the guide said to expect money flows in a few months. It’s only been a little over a month since they’ve all been online so I’m hopeful that by Thankgiving they will be doing pretty well. Yea, I don’t hold out hope that Adsense sites will do great immediately. My experience, and more so these days, is it can take months to get sites going if you aren’t doing PPC.
This month of August I have put my effort into AffiloJetPack sites. I actually outsourced my first batch of articles which turned out pretty damn good. I am using FCB’s Article Baiting method to promote these sites as well.
I would like to build numerous of these FCB sites now that I have a better feel for outsourcing. There is just too much writing involved and I simply can’t service everything that I want to do anymore.
Hey Splork,
OMG, you got me hooked on this! Is this tactic applicable on hubpages? I wanna do those freebie stuff first before moving on to the more advanced stuff…
His traffic tactics and keyword selection methods should be applicable for any type of sites. You could build his type of sites on Blogger but in my opinion you won’t be as successful than if you owned the domain.