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This is going to be a ongoing series of posts from my ebook.  This eBook used to cost $25 and I have earned over $2000 from this eBook online.  You can earn money by using the methods in this book.  The initial cost of using the methods in this book is only $1.00 that is the cost for getting a domain, hosting of course will only cost you whatever you spend.  If you can’t find decent hosting I will host you for $5.00 a month.  Please subscribe to my feed if you wish to follow the method step by step.

Introduction:

First thing I will let all you readers know is that I am not some run of the mill ebook seller that you have never seen or heard about.  I am Mubin from MubinAhmed.com, while I’m not one of the big names on the Internet like John Chow or Shoemoney, I am a bit well known though so I will stand by what I sell.

One of the other things that you should know is that this will not be one of those ebooks that is 99 pages long with a bunch of filler.  You will get the down and dirty from start to finish, and that’s it.  No bullshit in between.

 I will tell you this; this is not one of those things that is automated.  You will have to spend about 25-30 minutes a day promoting this site before it will take off, but once it takes off you should be able to sit back and relax and let your site users take care of all the work for you.

 Now as most of you may know I used to make all my money from proxy sites.  I actually carved my niche in the proxy industry when no one else was touching it besides a few people.  I like to think the mini write up I did on my blog was the reason that proxies are so famous/saturated now.  The picture that made me famous:

Now if you go to shoemoney.com you can see a family friendly version of this picture, it is not actually a pic of me, but of my younger bro.  Anyway back to the reason why I started image hosts.  It was my original intention to just start proxies and relax with the residual income that would come in while I was just doing nothing.  Today though I have decided that I don’t want to be one the players that sits back and relaxes but would rather have something that I can put my brain into and hopefully get some rewards from it. 

One of the things that I noticed while everyone was using my proxy was that my proxies should have complimentary sites with them as well. What do people that use proxies usually use them for? Most of the kids from school that log in to MySpace use proxies so that they get around filters on the network. Now what do most people that go onto MySpace do? They post images and messages on their friend’s accounts. Now, since you can’t actually upload images directly to MySpace you have to use a online image host so that you can hotlink a image directly.  When my proxies started I didn’t have any time to invest in an image host. But since summer has started and the proxy business has slowed down I decided it was time to branch out.

Domains:

First thing you will obviously need is a domain name.  I use moniker.com for all my domain names and keep them in one place for tracking and selling.

We will break down how you should decide on which domain to get it will be broken down as follows: (I know some of these are obvious to you regulars but there might be newbs out there and I don’t want hundred’s of questions coming my way.)

1.      Catchy

2.      SEO

3.      Type-O’s

The first thing you should attempt to do is register a domain name that is catchy.  You need something that easy to remember and easy to pass on.  I remember a wise man (Shoemoney) once blogged that a domain name is good if you can say it to a friend over the phone and he can access the site without having to ask you how to spell it or if there are any abbriveations that you have to worry about.  Try to think of something small that is easy to pronounce and people can spread your site with word of mouth advertising.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a very important factor that should be taken into consideration.  You do not want a site that has nothing to do with images, uploading, hosting or whatever.  It’s great that you got a catchy domain name but if it has nothing to with iamge than you are going to have a HARDER time ranking for necessary keywords.  Sooner or later you will have to start ranking for the proper keywords so that the traffic to your site will remain sustainable.  The 2^nd image host I made was YourPictureOnline.com and it was ranking great in the search engines.  One of the things that I was not aware of was that this was actually a dropped domain and thus it was aged about 2 years as well.  Much like seasoned wine a seasoned domain name always tastes better.

The first image host that I opened was baayimg.com if you know about the piratebay, than you should also know that they opened their own image host called bayimg.com which when it was not even fully announced had crashed THEIR servers because they were not ready for it.  I took advantage of this and registered the domain baayimg.com an extra a is something that could happen to 1 out of 10 people easily.  And if what they are looking for is an image host, than that is what they will get, maybe not the original one but a image host nonetheless.  You have to be very careful though as some people do get PISSED off when they find out it is a type-o or a “copycat” site.  Luckily there are not that many loyal users of image hosts. (Having a typ-o that is good can also increase the value of your site).