I have a few things on my mind that I thought I’d share. I made a comment about cubicle surfers on the post yesterday and how I thought you shouldn’t dismiss the hours wasted by corporate desk jockeys clicking on your website as a source of your income. Turns out NPR was reporting this morning that the average worker wastes 2 hours at work flipping through websites. Seriously, if small to medium sized businesses bought Websense (or something they could actually afford) and blocked all but necessary web traffic, we web page spammers would be hurting and I suspect Y/M/G as well. Just a thought as I spend some quality time in my cube, wasting my employers time, writing this post.
I spin through the Warrior Forum Special Offers from time to time to see what’s cooking. I’ve been known to purchase a report here or some PLR there. Well of late there have been a few reports on how to game Squidoo. Now I am not about to waste my money on these reports and I don’t think you should either. The reports apparently teach how to build a lens and get ranked high. How to make money, blah, blah, blah. Here’s a tip: build a lens. My 12 year built one in 15 minutes so you can pretty much handle that on your own. Want your lens to go up in the rankings? Add content everyday. Have people click to your lens. Have people rate your lens. Want to make money? Link to your affiliate programs from your lens. That pretty much sums it up. Honestly there is nothing else to it. Go see for yourself and have a bit of fun while you’re at it.
Guberus are having their little fun. Apparently the Rich Jerk is insulting an eBay master and she retaliates by dropping a video. The Stompers, namely Andy Jenkins (or is it Jenins, I get both in the spam they send out) find it funny and link to it. John Reese thinks it humorous and links to it as well. Joel Comm takes issue with The Death of Adsense and sends out his promotion called Adsense is Alive. I like to see it. I hope we get more. These guys are just the best.
And what’s up with this StomperNet? Now the Stompers are concerned about getting the right quality involved so they are going to shelve the offer for a few more weeks (months). Apparently they want to keep the “riff-raff” out. Delaying will give us consumers more time to get edumacated on the offering. Whatever. More like time to increase the hype, send out more newsletters, blog a while longer in a veiled attempt at making you feel good about spending huge sums of money. Oh, ’scuse me, they did say that was not their intent. Better get serious folks. They are keeping out the riff-raff.
And despite all this blather from everyone’s favorite guberus I came across a nice link to a site that shows you how to make money in a very simple way. And it will cost you nothing. The web site is free. The method is free. It takes work, no doubt. Let the gurus and the guruconsumers churn and spend all they want. I’m keeping it simple by publishing. It’s called BumMarketing.
8 responses so far ↓
Andrew Peacock // Sep 27, 2006 at 11:20 am
Thanks for the BumMarketing link. Great, great idea. And finally, a way for me to use Adwords Analyzer, which I bought yonks ago in a fit of spending, and haven’t touched since
Andy
Andrew Peacock // Sep 27, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Also, can I make a suggestion? Don’t link to the specific page you have, but link to the homepage. The guy’s trying to build a list and offering this report free - give him a break
Unless of course it’s your site???
Andy
Splork // Sep 27, 2006 at 12:25 pm
D’oh. Yea you’re right Andrew. My bad. Thanks for letting me know. It’s worth giving an email for the info. Most reports I’ve paid for wasn’t this good so it’s worth it IMO. I’ve already used the info and have written a few articles and have splashed them across those directories like he mentioned plus one more. I set up a nice redirect page to get to the affiliate program. I think I’m going to write a page a day and see if anything comes of it.
April Kerr // Sep 27, 2006 at 6:20 pm
Hi
I’m having fun typing into http://www.nichebot.com thing like:
how to buy
where to find
Anyone fancy creating an article based around..
… where to find hippie costumes in las vegas nevada …?
Actually it would be kinda interesting to see who could come up with the oddest search term and if any money could be made from it.
This one has me curious…
… where can i find plans to build a trap for …
A trap for what?!
April
Splork // Sep 27, 2006 at 10:24 pm
It’s certainly a great way to find things to write about. One of the zillion newsletters I used to get suggested to use action words like “help” or “how to” or “can I” in the keyword tools to find things to solve people’s problems.
Odd is great as long as someone is searching for it.
“100 costumes for your pet iguana” would qualify I just don’t know who would stop by to read and you also have the problem of how many ads being available from Y/G or finding anything decent to affiliate market.
Franck Silvestre // Sep 28, 2006 at 8:57 am
This method is really working.
When I came on the net on December 2005, The first Info Product I bought was Affiliate Cash Vault from Travis Link!
He send me a mail to explain his bum marketing method then.
Ps: It was better than affiliate Cash Vault (I didn’t make any money in 15 mn HA Ha…)
Charles Heflin // Sep 29, 2006 at 12:17 pm
Hey Splork,
I have grown to value your opinions and peek my head in every now and again to see if you found any new “hype free” goodies.
I will check out bummarketing based on your suggestion and let you know what I think.
Charles
Splork // Sep 29, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Charles, yea man let me know what you think about it. It’s not an earth shattering technique or anything but it sure does make some sense. I’ve written an article a day this week and posted it on the sites he mentioned plus one or two others. I did some keyword phrase research, and found an affiliate program to market. Unless I’m missing something it seems to be a good idea. We’ll see if anything comes of it.
The article I wrote on Monday is already indexed on Google and from the looks of it two other sites have scraped and are posting it on their sites. Y and M haven’t indexed it yet.
Hype free goodies. Those don’t come around very often in IM.
Thanks for reading
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