Unique Advertising Method Discovered
Hey you.
Thanks for stopping by.
I want to share something with you which I think you will find pretty interesting.
Yesterday I got something in the mail (postal mail).
It was tissues.
You know…the tissues you blow your nose with?
But it had a twist. The tissues were not actually mailed to me for the purpose of me needing to blow my nose lol.
It was a media company offering advertising space on pocket tissues! The tissue packet had the advertisement on it and even a catchy phraze "don’t let you message end up in the bin".
This is so unique.
You have a offline advertising model that will expose your product or service to people multiple times.
And people WILL look at their tissues when they see print on them.
I am definitely going to try this out. I don’t know the pricing scheme, but I’m going to find out asap.
Regards,
Mr Review
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From Affiliate Failure to Stardom - Part 2
Hello you all.
In my first post on this 3 part series "How I failed at Affiliate Marketing " I just left off where my site has completely vanished from Google, because I was stupid enough to rebuild my entire site with a NEW structure. So whenever somebody clicked on a existing OLD reference in the search engines, they were taken to a 404 error page.
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The story continues…
I was stunned into complete numbness for a solid 2 weeks. I mean my website was gone. My baby…completely doomed.
I immediately thought screw this I’m uploading my old site again!
Guess what…I somehow during the whole process of redesigning my site, copied and messed around with my previous site’s files which included pictures and audio. So it was basically beyond repair.
If it wasn’t for my hard head and stubborn personality I would have cried like a baby.
I took a week off to get my head straight. It was probably the best thing I could ever do.
I think stress really plays a big part in ones success and failure. The right amount of stress can provide you with the drive you need to succeed, but too much stress can easily break down your focus and creative thinking.
After the initial "resting" period it was back to the drawing board.
I realised that I couldn’t let Google or any of the other bastard search engines control my future! There HAD to be a way that I could somehow, if at least to a minor extent, fade them into the background.
I was introduced to the world of social bookmarking and blogging:
This changed everything. I started with a simple blogger blog, made a informative post with a link pointing to my website. Sometimes I linked straight to an affiliate offer. I used social bookmarking sites like technorati and many others.
Back then I immediately got results. I instantly got traffic and backlinks to my site. I also started to see some income again. So there was hope. My quest was to cancel Google out completely and it started to work. BUT sales were NOT as good as they were from Google traffic.
The traffic from social sites were not at all targeted:
This was a damn big problem. The people over at the social sites and bookmarking sites were all very untargeted traffic. They are all "information seekers" or "gossip readers". Using social bookmarking for commercial purposes are more difficult. So my income was stuck on a low level. I thought…well…I AM making money from untargeted traffic. All I need to do is increase the amount of untargeted traffic to increase my income. My search went on as I tried to find a way to increase my traffic from social bookmarking sites.
I entered the realm of blackhat marketing:
Yeah I know. Yours truly have been in the blackhat industry for quite some time. Let me tell you this before I go into detail about what I did. It was one hell of a roller coaster ride and I met some guys making more money from blackhat than most gurus do. This is the honest truth.
I cannot really remember how I came to learn about blackhat marketing. I just somehow read somewhere about blackhat seo and then I discovered some of the forums. It was a WHOLE different vibe inside the blackhat forums then your normal seo whitehat forums. The people all sounded shady. Like those bastards were swimming in cash, eating pizza and swearing each other’s heads off all day long. They were all like kids playing with dangerous toys. Blackhat toys.
One of these toys I discovered was a mass blog generator. It was a POTENT tool that after 2 years after I stopped using it, I still couldn’t seem to get it out of my head because the results were THAT good. I’m not going to reveal what it was because it’s not actually commercialized. So there’s no buying it.
It generated a incredible amount of blogs from massive keyword lists. I used social bookmarking, pinging, rss submissions etc. Every conceivable trick in the book to get thousands of pages indexed by Google. It worked and it worked GOOD. I made a lot of money quickly from adsense as well as affiliate links. Hell…I did a lot of shady stuff.
Life was good as a blackhatter.
But there was a very big drawback….
I WORKED my ass of for the money. That’s right…back then being a blackhat marketer did bring shocking results, but you had to put in a incredible amount of work. Not to mention the ever ongoing purchases of new domains for new projects.
That was not the only drawback…
A moment ago I said that I still couldn’t forget about the tool after 2 years after I stopped using it. Well about 2 years ago if I remember correctly Google came down really hard on spam blogs. It was bloody intense…they started banning your domains quicker and quicker. Now it’s more difficult than ever to stay indexed, but these blackhat dudes come up with the new ways to outsmart Google every day.
So the problem was that I was working my ass off PLUS I soon came to realise that the blackhat business model had NO stability. It just wasn’t worth it in the long run since I spoke to many whitehat seo-ers and there were guys making very good revenue from doing things the right slooowww way. Google loved them and they were being rewarded day after day while my bloody domains were being penalized week after week or if I were lucky, month after month.
It’s hard work and it made me tired as hell.
It just wasn’t good business sense.
So I was left in the dark again…with no idea where to go.
Stay tuned for Part 3 where I will cover how I went from failure to success!
I’ll even throw in my current earnings so you can see what it’s all about!
Best regards,
Mr Review
P.S - Not that I recommend that you go for blackhat as a business model or full time job, BUT if you were interested in any way by the nature of this money making method then click here.
From Affiliate Failure to Stardom - Part 1
This post goes out to all struggling affiliates.
It’s about my enduring story as a young affiliate just starting out and how I struggled to be where I am today.
I take you through my failures up until my successes. Feel free to comment about your failures in the past as well. It’s learning out of your mistakes that bring success.
Let’s quickly go back a few years into the time when making money online was soooo easy. For me that was around 1999.
Do you still remember it?
If you were online back then trying to make it you surely remember!
I still remember when I set up my very first affiliate site. It was on a free webhosting service known as Yahoo! Geocities. I was SO enthusiastic about cashing in the millions. I signed up at Commission Junction after reading about affiliate programs and affiliate marketing. The product was a wrinkle reducer treatment for women.
Just keep in mind this was like more than 6 years back or so. I didn’t no ANYTHING and it took me weeks just to learn the basics.
I built my little website and I added the product images. I also wrote one stenchy sales pitch about the product.
Back then in my virgin years as an affiliate marketer I didn’t really know what pre-selling was.
Once my free webpage was completed I was ecstatic and soon disappointed after finding out that there is something known as SEO that I need to implement in order to get visitors.
So I then went on my quest to become the next SEO expert.
I got smashed hard by information overload so I just implemented the basics. Title tags, keywords meta tag etc.
I submitted my website to Google and then to get backlinks I started to chat in forums in the anti aging niche. I added a backlink in my signature.
About 20 days after my submission my website was indexed! I was ecstatic yet again. I kept starring at the Google results throughout the day to see if my webpage would go up in rankings. To my dissapointed it never did. Another 2 weeks passed and I almost gave up.
Hanging on a thread…
Then by some miracle, one evening I logged into my Commission Junction account and saw a commission of $34.
I completely freaked out. I’m serious…I basically lost it then for a few minutes.
I couldn’t believe that I actually made money.
If it wasn’t for that commission I would probably have gave up.
I then decided I was going to get more money and build my own website around this niche. I still remember borrowing money from my mother to pay for the hosting and the domain name.
I spent a full month working on my website, adding information pages, review pages etc.
While working on my website I spent countless hours scouring the web in search for new ways to make money online and also better tactics for driving traffic.
2 Months go by, my website has been indexed by Google and I had articles driving traffic to my site.
I was signed up with various affiliate programs and promoted quite a few products.
I started seeing sales come in and I realised that my future was set.
That’s when things started to go from tasty to sour:
A month past and during that time my sales started to climb. I was averaging about $30 - $60 a day. That came to round about $1000 a month if you take the average. That wasn’t bad considering I was only 18 and still in school.
I then suddenly stopped getting more backlinks for my website; I stopped writing articles for traffic; I stopped basically everything.
During the 2 months following my laziness I even stopped checking my Google rankings.
Just after that 2 months I suddenly got a wake up call. I realised that my income has drastically dropped. I checked my stats and saw that I wasn’t making any sales! I checked my rankings in Google and saw I didn’t rank well anymore!
I thought to myself "what did I do to deserve this"??
I then went crazy and purchased the latest craze ebooks about SEO and affiliate marketing. I can’t remember what the books names were, but I tried to implement every strategy in those ebooks.
One of the books talked about designing a site in a specific manner so you get great results in the search engines.
I figured that the search engines was my biggest traffic source and that I needed to concentrate on getting my site back to where it was prior.
I completely re-designed my website in the way the person explained. I increased my keyword density out of desperation to rank better and even re-designed my entire site structure.
After that I went out and got a few backlinks to help increase the rankings of my newly designed power site.
I monitored the Google results again.
…again…I just monitored.
I stopped getting backlinks, I stopped promoting my site, I stopped tweaking.
I just stopped completely. The only thing working was my eyes on the Google search listing.
Yeah, you can say it…"what a dumb ass".
My site’s rankings shifted. One day it was on the first page and the next it was nowhere. It constantly shifted and I didn’t know what it was. Later I found out on a forum it was the Google dance (Google’s update period).
Then the doom approached.
My site was gone. Nowhere to be found.
My income dropped to a stunning ZERO.
I thought I was destined for failure. I thought I did everything wrong and was desperately looking for that magic bullet, but I just couldn’t find it.
Part 3 will cover how I went from failure to success!
I’ll even throw in my current earnings so you can see what it’s all about!