First it was the auto-follow that some of the largers twitter users were using, John Chow, Guy Kawasaki and a few others all followed you back if you followed them.

Than came the websites that let you submit your username and as long as you followed everyone that followed you, your name would stay on the list.  John Chow actually started one of these sites called twitterfollower you may be wondering how he plans to monetize this site, I imagine that once he gets enough people on the site he will be able to sell the top spots on the site, at the moment his username is at the top of the list though.

Than came the twitter games.  Companies like Spymaster and SNOD are filling up your twitter timeline like so much facebook quiz applications that I usually remove anyone that tries to "kidnap" or "hijack" me.

Now finally we come to the competitions.  Much like President Obama won the election using a grass-roots campaign strategy companies are now using twitter as a free source of advertising.  Its pretty simple, hold a competition that you give away a free kindle, iphone, or camera for following and retweeting a phrase and you are automatically entered into the comp.  It’s great because essentially the company is spenindg very little money to get a large amount of publicity.  One company called squarspace has actually gamed this quite well, rather than having you follow them, they would rather you use the hashtag #squarespace which helped them get to the top of twitter trends a few days ago.

How long before Twitter comes in with a bitch slap on sites/services like these?  It’s a shame that everyone is making dollar off of twitter except for the people that actually started the site?

What say you?

Have you started following me on twitter yet?

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Obviously this person thinks its his GoD given right to steal images from one source without credit.  If I was the owner of the website I would have replaced the hotlinked images with goatse or some other very disturbing pictures.

Reminds me of the time that a blog scraper got in touch with me asking why I wasn’t posting anymore as he loved to include my posts in his very informative "blog"

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What is Blog Profitz?  You could read one of the many many paid reviews and plugs that they are getting and spend a nice chunk of change finding out or you could just STEER CLEAR.

Essentialy what Blog Profitz is doing is holding you and your money ransom, and that is after lying to you.

There are a number of things wrong with this product not the least of which is the pricing structure.

Scam #1: The Price

$19 A month for 3 blogs

$49 A Month for 10 Blogs

$99 A Month for 25 Blogs

$149 A Month For 50 Blogs

$249 A Month for 100 Blogs

Let me tell you something right now.  Blogs are not the greatest money makers in the world.  John Chow did not start making $40,000 right off the bat.  In his first month he made $300 with adsense.  That was AFTER having about 5 front page digg stories, and getting featured on a top 100 blog for his secret toilets post.

Autoblogs CAN make money, but you have to take into consideration ECONOMIES OF SCALE. You need to pump out 100’s of blogs to make 10’s of dollars.  1 autoblog will not make you $10 a day.  3 Autoblogs is not enough money to cover your first month installment.

Scam #2 The Content:

They promise to help you pull:

• RSS Feeds
• Videos
• Artciles

What really makes you think that with your hastily put together autoblog you will start to out rank the original author, youtube, and sites like eZine?  The simple answer is YOU CANNOT!  It can also lead to a DMCA notification against your blog host.  Imagine you have 100 blogs hosted with wordpress.org (The suggested hosting provider by Blog Profitz) and they get a DMCA notification.  Do they take down one blog or just shut down your account altogether?  You figure it out.

Scam #3 Server Hosted:

You are going along making your site perfect adding RSS, youtube, and articles.  Perfecting it really, than lets say you forget to pay who wants to bet good money that all of a suffen your affiliate links are interchanged with company ones?

Scam #4 Affiliate Networks:

At this point in time the few affiliate networks that are partnering with Blog Profitz are companies like Clinkbank, and Amazon.  So really anyone that is willing to auto-approve is okay,  You will never see a reputable pay per performance company team up with these jokers.

/rant

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…In fact, if you do not learn 3 new things whilst reading this ebook I will pay you $50.

Sounds like a big claim, but I am sure he would follow up with his claim.  The thing is that this is a encyclopedia for newbies.  If you are just starting to want to make money online this is the ebook FREE OF CHARGE that will help you earn some monies on the internet.

Go back through this blog and take a look at the last time I have tried to get you download or buy someone elses product.  I don’t think I have ever done it, and again this is not a paid review.

Back to the book now.

The 115 page mega e-book covers about 13 chapters.  The first chapter is a breakdown/background of Gyutae, who he is, what he does, where he’s from.  The purpose of  chapter like that is to make you feel connected with the writer.  Selling doesn’t sell Emotions do.

After that it jumps straight into what you you need to get started with for making websites/blogging.

The last chapter focuses on Guerilla Marketing.  I am pretty sure one of the methods that he has listed is a federal crime, but other than there are 15-20 methods of Guerrila Marketing listed.  No publicity is bad publicity.  Do you know one of the people that made the most money from Acai Berry actually had his myspace ad featured on TMZ because he used a picture of Kim Kardashian (I don’t give a fuck if I spell some psedo-celeb name wrong) as a before/after picture?  Do you think he had to worry about adspend anymore?  TMZ gets over 1 million page views per article so that dumb fuck just got really really lucky.  Not really the best example of marketing but hey luck comes to those who strive.

For some reason I have cursed alot in this post for that I would like to apologise to all the virgins out there.

To Download your copy of Gyutae’s Free Ebook Click Here

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No longer are they sending gym bags with swag in them, they have pulled out all the stops and are trying to get your traffic by any means neccessary.  (BTW when was the last time you saw a blogger in the gym?)

Shoemoney and Motive Interactive are holding what can only be seen as throwing down the gauntlet to all other affiliate networks.  The prize package that they have put together is amazing, and whilst the highest prizes are quite high (you have to push over $500k in revenue to the company) there are two other great ways to win.

Here is what you need to do to win

2.) Follow @Motive and Tweet this contest on Twitter. Just “tweet” the following from your Twitter account and you are automatically entered to win a new iPod Shuffle each week.

“Follow @motive and  @mubinahmed join Top Rated CPA Affiliate Network Motive Interactive to make money and win big prizes! http://xr.com/s1g RT 2 WIN! “

3.) Blog about this contest promotion. If you have a blog, simply link back to ShoeMoney’s contest blog page and talk about this contest. Then you will be entered to win a new Xbox 360 Elite plus two games.

I’ve already tweeted about the contest and I thought since I’m already doing it why not do it right and make sure I get some people signed up and try to win the xbox.

Are you following Mubin on Twitter ?

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There are 2 methods to automate posting to twitter.

The first method is quite simple, alls you have to do is download the Twitter updater Plugin. Once you have downloaded and uploaded the plugin to your plugins folder alls you need to do is enter your twitter user name and password and than everytime you update your blog it will be posted to your.

Benefits: It will post your blog post to twitter automatically as soon as your blog is updated using tinyurl.

Drawback: It uses tinyurl and instead of posting to the actual blog title it just says: Wrote a new blog post: tinyurl link.  This is no good as no one knows what you have posted, it will lead to some people clicking out of pure curiosty but you want people to actually be interested in your blog.

The second method to automatically update twitter with your blog posts is to use a service called TwitterFeed . It is a free external service that does not require you to make any changes to your blog or download any plugins.  You have to use a openID to use the service but it should take you only 2 minutes to sign up for that.

Benefits: Unlike the Twitter Updater plugin you do not need to worry about the blog post not being in the actual twitter post.  This is great as the people that actually click on your link will be coming to your site because they were interested in something that they read in your twitter feed.  Rather than clicking blindly on a link.

Drawbacks:

• OpenID, I was really annoyed with signing up with this service as you have to do some crazy image verification everytime you sign in.  Who the hell can take the time to remember 3 images.
• It does not post as you post.  Unlike Twitter Update which posts automatically, with Twitterfeed you have to specify at what intervals you want it to such as every 3 hrs, 2 hrs, or 30 mins.  And you can only limit the amount to 5 posts at a time.  Not the greatest if you have an autoblog.

I am personally using Twitterfeed for one of my other blogs.

* I know you can use twitthis to post to twitter but it is NOT AUTOMATED.  And Im all about the automation.

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This is a very simple method that will earn you an easy $25-50 a day.

Now please do understand that this is a blackhat method. Don’t be a fool and push all your traffic to one network because you will get banned and if you are converting anything else on that network you will most probably lose all your earnings. What you want to do is be signed up under 3-4 networks and push your traffic to each network appropriately.

Now let me tell you that this method is about making money on Craigslist. But please don’t for a second think that this is about getting poor guys to sign up to cam sites to get to pictures of you. We don’t roll like that.

We will be posting in a section of Craigslist that is:

a) Not heavily monitored for spam

b) Receptive to these type of offers

c) 1 posting = Numerous responses

Step 1

As you can see we have highlighted the areas of where you will be advertising.

You are an employer looking for freelance writers/reviewers to review some websites in the near future but before you do that you need to take a look at some sample of their work.

Your posting will be worded as such:

Our organisation is seeking web editors/writers/bloggers to write reviews for some of the internets most popular dating/singles/adult websites.

As a reviewer/editor you will be given access to several dating and adult niche sites. You will be required to write in-depth reviews on the experience/site structure/interatction between users/quality of responses etc etc. We are looking for people that not only enjoy writing but are very detailed and articulate in what they do.

Compensation per project varies.

If you are interested in this opportunity please do not hesitate to get in touch with us. Please allow 24-48 hours lead time for responses.

Don’t be lazy and copy that word for word because a lot of other people are reading this ebook and will try the exact same thing.

Step 2

Now comes the part where you start to receive messages saying they are interested in applying for the position of web reviewer/editor. I wait at least 24-48 hours before responding to anyone as I do not want the post to get flagged right away. Needless to say the posts do not necessarily get flagged every single time, but better safe than sorry.

Now before you get to the next part I must remind you that you should be doing this on more than one network. If you are trying to push all these people to one network you will get booted!

Once you have waited about 48 hours it is time to start replying to messages. Do not reply to messages at 3 in the morning because no business is open at that time!!

Here is how you should word your response to the people that have enquired asking for more information:

Dear Prospective Employee/Jobseeker (If they put their name in the email make sure you put that here),

Thank you for taking the time to reply to our advertisement. We are building an adult entertainment portal that will provide personal in-depth reviews of adult products/sites to potential customers.

We believe that the user experience is the most important and as such we want our reviewers and web editors to be the people that actually use these sites.

As a member of our reviewing team you will be given unrestricted access to several sites. For the less adventurous reviewers we will only ask that you review a singles dating site. These are sites that charge for their membership access and as such if it is found that a password has been shared your account will be immediately terminated.

We would like our reviews to be written by people with easy to understand writing abilities, not too professional but just being able to describe the experience within 500 words to a prospective site visitor as you would to a friend or acquaintance.

As response to the advert has been tremendous we ask that you submit a short sample review 50-100 words. Please visit the link below and go through the signup process.

http:/ / yoursite.com/redirect.html

After you have completed the registration go through the site check the functionality, user base, ease of use etc etc.

Please make sure to send your review to us with the subject line “Review for xxx Position”

If your review has been successful we will contact you within 2 working days to send you your materials and membership details needed to perform your reviews.

Step 3:

Profit

Step 4

You want to pushing the membership sites that only require a free sign-up for the conversion to count. You do not want to be sending all your emails to the same offer!

Always remember to redirect from your own site or use tinyurl.

Posting this 1 ad to 1 city will easily bank you 30-50 dollars a day. Simple as that. Multiply by the number of cities and you are looking at some serious cah.

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Most of my excuses are lame though.  Also if anyone has had experince with fixing the image bug in wp please leave a comment, I can’t automatically add images to posts for some reason i have to upload and the add the html as wp wont let me just add the image directly to the blog post.

Where the hell have I been?  Lots of things:

1) Health: I was extremely overweight, the tipping point came when I no longer wanted to associate with friends or buy new clothes to the fact that I thought I was just too fat to look good in anything, and this leads to a downwad spiral of depression and increased eating for some reason.  I had let myself go for about 3 years and it was showing.  Around the time my last post on this blog was published I decided to change all that.  I joined a gym and changed my diet immediatly.  It has been about 3 months now, and after spending 6 days a week in the gym, I can finally say I starting to feel better and more positive about myself.  I have lost over 45 pounds and gained some muscle, this was not easy and I chalk it up to one of the harder things I have done, but it needed to be done.  So between the gym and other off-line commitments you can see why it would be hard to update my blog and keep my other on-line properties running.

2) Facebook: I have actually devoloped/bought two facebook apps just to see if I can make anything viral out of them.  It aint as easy as it looks.  Another thing whilst I have dealt with so many people online almost all my experiences have been great, I am an idiot when it comes to html/php/css and all that other garbage but I have found when buying or selling a site/theme/code the devoloper or buyer is usually willing to hold my hand and walk me through everything one step at a time repeating things if neccessary.  Hell if you go to "Nickycakes " blog and a question in one of his posts he is more than happy to answer it and other questions and he is "supposed" to be mean and arrogant, but he’s not.  But facebook app devolopers?  I have never met a more ruder non-responsive bunch of assholes in my whole life, no wonder they are flogging their wares to anyone and everyone, they haven’t heard the term customer service used in a context that does not involve one of their cousins working in a call centre.  Needless to say if something is wrong with their code you can expect to fix it yourself.

3) Recession: The word sucks, but its happening.  I personally think that we are at the bottom of the barrel right now, and there is no where to go but up from here.  Because of that i have taken all the cash I had invested in sites and projects and invested it in the stock market.  I can understand your thinking right now.  But I implore you, go take a look at the FTSE 100 or the DJI in March, and look at it now.  Imagine if you had invested say $1000 in Citigroup, Bank of America, Barclays or RBS at that point in time and calculate where your money would be today.  With Citi you are looking at a 400% ROI and this was a stock trading at above $50 at one time!  Don’t read this post and go out buying stocks now without your due diligence, this is at the end of the day just a blog on the internet and all investment choices should be made wisely.

4) Splogs/Flogs: If you know what these words mean that means you probably made a nice chunk of change in the past few months.  This happened with my by accident, I have a number of autoblogs and I wanted to test out a campaign so instead of registering a new domain I just added a landing page to a current blog, good conversions rate ensued.  It ended up with me learning alot and making some nice change as well.  gold rush = over.

5) Affiliate Marketing: It is the futre, I have seen Atlantis and her bosom is plentiful.  If you are still trying to make a living off of adsense I suggest you stop now and read everything you can on affiliate marketing, because I have spending endless nights trying to learn everything I possibly can about it.

No more excuses, I’m back and I am going to try to make this a resourceful site once again.

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To get in on this offer just enter the coupon love99 when you checkout.  That’s probably something all you bidding internet marketers can use to get in on the game.

It is only 1 domain per account, and I am not sure when this will expire.

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3 days later and I have successfuly crossed $200.  Not just that but last night superbowl Sunday I crossed the $250 mark with an impressive $264.00.

All these earnings are coming from one content site that I have not updated in about 3 months but still gets a very regulary stream of traffic.  And all this money is being made from Email submits.

So besided the intial $8 I spent on the domain I am not paying a single penny.

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