Pete has a new WSO. OK, I’m not surprised either. His newest spam tool is to try and game knol.google.com. sigh. This is Google’s new knowledge article database. Pete compares it to EzineArticles. I don’t see the similarity at all based on some of the articles I’ve seen written. EzineArticles is full of bullshit niche articles. Knol seems to be full of serious notation…for now. I wouldn’t waste my dollars each month on this tool. From the looks of it knol is going to take some serious writing. And you thought Hubpages was hard to write for. I gotta give the guy props though. Taking the spam game right at Google. I doubt the nerds at Google will put up with the spam his tool is set to generate, but what exactly do I know? BTW, the red flag was lifted when he stated that he was going to let you in for a paltry $10/month. But he wants you to know that it is worth $47/month and he is sure it could sell out for that much too. I doubt very seriously he sells anything from the goodness of his heart. If he could make $47/month from it, I’m pretty sure he’d tell you it was worth $97/month. Jus’ sayin’.

As a couple of you may remember I mentioned that I built 5 Wordpress blogs. I built them to create a tiny blog network. None are linked to the other. For 2 months I have posted text, photos and videos each day.

During this time I have noticed that each post is indexed in Google within 30 minutes or so. I also noted that when I posted a little text link, that link would also get indexed rather quickly as well. I found it to be a very good way at getting new sites indexed.

I also found that I enjoyed maintaining these blogs. I would post no more than 100 words and maybe a photo or a video. They are on topics that I like. I feel no pressure to maintain them as they are free.

I posted up a screen shot a few weeks of one of them and I was excited about it getting, what 300 visitors a day? That blog has been getting over 2,500 page views a day this past week.

I also noted I’m generating a massive amount of interesting keywords and keyword phrases that were being used to find those blogs. I’ve now started using the best of them to build Blogger blogs. On one keyword phrase that gets about 100 hits a day I am listed in Google #1 with two listings for the Blogger site, #2 for the Wordpress tag page, and #3 with two listings for my Wordpress.com site. I’m also converting a couple of underutilized domains with generic names to see if I can capture some of the traffic these Wordpress.com blogs get. I’ll use the top keyword phrases from the Wordpress.com blogs to post on my self-hosted Wordpress blogs.

I have been using the Wordpress.com logins to be a “member” of the community. I troll around and make comments on other Wordpress.com blogs. There is no back links that I can determine but I think Wordpress.com likes it and rewards the blog with “featured” listings maybe. I’m simply guessing. I also promote these WP.com blogs with BMD, commenting and blog directories.

Google has apparently updated the PR data. After two months I have three PR3 and one PR4 Wordpress blog. Want to know how stupid this game is? The blog that I have promoted the least has the PR4. The fifth Wordpress blog was actually started a month ago in earnest. It has a PR0. BTW-None of the subsequent Blogger blogs I have built as a result of the Wordpress.com blogs have pagerank either. But they are really only a month old. The Wordpress.com blogs didn’t have PR after a month either. We’ll see if that improves. (All is not happy in Google PR-land. One of my PR4 “money” blogs dropped to a PR2. Tragic.)

I have been reluctant to talk about this. I don’t want using Wordpress.com to become abused but frankly I don’t have thousands of readers here I don’t think. Plus over the last couple of months I have been impressed with Wordpress.com’s ability to control spam. I report spam vigorously in the categories I target and they always email me to say thanks and say they have removed the blog. Thousand of blogs get built everyday over there so it would be arrogant of me to think that my blogosphere reach could have anything to do with Google losing interest with Wordpress.

If you come in to Wordpress.com to provide content you will be rewarded with viewers and interest from Google. And honestly I have yet to figure out how to fully maximize the monetary potential. I’m trying a few things and unfortunately Adsense is the only thing working right now. But I am continuing to seek out affiliate programs that will work better for the topics that I am targeting. They aren’t easy to monetize but they get tons of traffic. I know some of you will ask what’s the point of traffic if you can’t monetize it? Well 3-PR3 and 1-PR4 for one. I can send traffic elsewhere. You just have to be smart about it. I’m trying to get smart about it.

Understand that you can’t monetize WP directly. I send traffic quietly to my “money sites”. I don’t plaster the Wordpress blogs with links either. Every 5 or so posts I might add a small text link. I’ve only got a couple of text links in the sidebar too, but it seems to be enough to get people to click to the money sites where they have Adsense or eBay widget links to click (another screw you to BANS, thank you very much).

For now I’m glad that I have 4 WP blogs that have decent PR, that takes nothing to maintain. You would honestly be amazed if you saw how little effort I put in for the gains that I am apparently getting for now.

I received an email from Pete for another of his miracle products. I made the mistake of buying a suite of his products like Brainstorm Generator which has never worked, Extreme Live blog generator, Yahoo 360 generator, Geocities page generator, GooglePages generator and Blogger blog generator. They have never consistently worked and they were never consistently updated. Now he is creating a BADASS Brute Force SEO Software that apparently incorporates all the above into one cute little GUI interface.

Eff if I’m going to buy the thing.

I figure I’ve already bought it. I’ve got most of the programs that are built into the damn thing. They don’t work. I’m not forking out more money to buy some POS that won’t work and he won’t support after a few months.

The dude releases more product than any body else in marketing. He sure has his supporters. His testimonials are page after page of “I made my first $1000 today”. Whatever. I’ve read some of those reports he writes. They are confusing and horribly written. Who cares you say. It’s the content that is important. The content ain’t that great either IMO. He writes a half ass report for $9 then follows it up with an advanced report for $17 then software and memberships to automate everything. And around and around you go.

He has this fantastic new offering for RSS feed submissions. Like most of his advertisements I can’t figure out what the hell he is talking about, but his testimonials brag about their sites getting indexed in minutes. And they pay a monthly fee for the privilege. I do the same thing for free writing a blog post on Wordpress.com. It amounts to only one backlink unlike his system which promises more. But damn if I’d trust using his submitter thing. You might get indexed but you might get banned. I know. Not likely. But isn’t Google proving to be pretty damn smart? If you read through one of his testimonials someone wrote about how great his software was but how do you keep Squidoo, Wordpress and Blogger from banning all those new sites? Um, yea.

I wouldn’t be so hard on the guy’s stuff if the shit that I’ve bought from him previously was worth a crap. But it isn’t. It is junk. I can’t for the life of me understand why no one takes him to task for it. I guess it’s because he keeps things so damn cheap and makes promises that people are desperate to hear. He’s the best marketer I’ve ever read.

Hell maybe his latest BADASS shit is the bomb. Maybe it really is good. From the beginner (sucker) report on up to the software and memberships. I really couldn’t care less and I’m not taking a chance on the BADASS stuff. His previous stuff is crap and he doesn’t support what he makes. Much less improve it. Why think any of this is going to be any different?

I swore after he had his Brainstorm Generator special (that I bought) and it never worked, ever, then all that other POS software started breaking down, that I’d never buy from him again. I’d send an email for help and it would be, “well, it works fine on my computer.” And if you’ve used those programs you’ll know how aggravating it is to load them up with articles only to have the software not be able to create the sites. Time consuming waste of time.

I guess I am the moron because it seems as though a ton of people believe otherwise and keep sending him money. I’ve bitched about Pete’s WSOs before but decided to go ahead and post a cautionary note about this stuff again. I’ll keep doing what I’m doing and continue to ignore all this WSO noise. But I sure would like to make $1K a day. Sure is tempting isn’t it?