Easy $100 A Day - Perfect For Noobs
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nomercy12345
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Does it still work or is it outdated?
meathead1234
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This will never stop working. I don't build my business on "methods" that will die.
Oh, man. I was banned from the very first forum I joined for my first chosen niche blog. I had my review blog link in my signature. I didn't add it in there until Post #11. I thought I was under the radar. Didn't initially appear like there was a lot of moderation. Wasn't very busy. I was blending right in. Making my posts useful. 16 posts in a 3-day period. Joined May 6, banned on May 8.
I never even posted a link in any of the posts. I left it in my signature. Now I'm greatly discouraged from this. Getting banned on Forum #1 is really bad news. I thought I played it really safe.
I never even posted a link in any of the posts. I left it in my signature. Now I'm greatly discouraged from this. Getting banned on Forum #1 is really bad news. I thought I played it really safe.
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A website that can cover potentially 100s of different types of products/services and can have many ways of generating traffic, should, in theory always be around.
Never rely on a single product/niche and never rely on a single method of generating traffic. It'll take time, but you should be enjoying the journey and it's only a matter of time before it starts to work.
If you have a review on 3 products and it's not generating sales, you either test or leave. Who knows, in a months down the line, it may suddenly pick up a lot of targeted traffic, due to unbeknown reasons and the sales start picking up.
Whilst I run a website that doesn't yet do reviews (we may have a 'sister' site that does), it comes down to 1 thing...
Trust.
If your visitors trust you, you're half way there. They're much more likely to believe what you say and buy the product/service you're ultimately trying to market. If they don't trust you, you'll need a lot more numbers to get the sales you're looking for.
Trust = less targeted traffic needed, which means less effort needed in getting the traffic
Less Trust = a lot more traffic needed to make up for it.
Trust will come down to a few things, including the professional look of your site + how you put the content across to them.
Ultimately, you want it to go viral due to other people recommending your site to other people. Again, this comes down to Trust.
Never rely on a single product/niche and never rely on a single method of generating traffic. It'll take time, but you should be enjoying the journey and it's only a matter of time before it starts to work.
If you have a review on 3 products and it's not generating sales, you either test or leave. Who knows, in a months down the line, it may suddenly pick up a lot of targeted traffic, due to unbeknown reasons and the sales start picking up.
Whilst I run a website that doesn't yet do reviews (we may have a 'sister' site that does), it comes down to 1 thing...
Trust.
If your visitors trust you, you're half way there. They're much more likely to believe what you say and buy the product/service you're ultimately trying to market. If they don't trust you, you'll need a lot more numbers to get the sales you're looking for.
Trust = less targeted traffic needed, which means less effort needed in getting the traffic
Less Trust = a lot more traffic needed to make up for it.
Trust will come down to a few things, including the professional look of your site + how you put the content across to them.
Ultimately, you want it to go viral due to other people recommending your site to other people. Again, this comes down to Trust.
xtopzi
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Great wrap-up. Very true.
Strongly recommending the review site on a board > review pitches the product > comments build some more trust and finally the affiliate's own pitch.
It's good advice for people who want to go that route. But it seems to me you are suggesting a much different approach than what is in meathead's manuscript. You seem to be suggesting to build one website and then to CRUSH IT. Crush It! is the title of a book by online marketing legend Gary Vaynerhuk. In his book he recommends taking one idea and then promoting the hell out of it. And tells you exactly where to go. Everywhere from ustream, social bookmarking sites, facebook, etc. It requires you to make videos and all.
meathead's "Easy $100 A Day" mandate is far different from that. meathead suggests we can immediately start making $100 a day. The Vaynerchuk method takes a long time before you start seeing a return, and it's not guaranteed. I'm using Vaynerchuk only as an example here. But it seems to me you are talking about doing something completely different.
I'm beginning to feel like this method is not for me. Being banned at my first attempt at forum marketing is not a very good sign. I feel like I have followed the advice in this thread, done what meathead said to do, and I've taken action. I put a lot of hours into this.
meathead you dont know me but ive been reading alot and your name comes up alot here you seem like an awesome member. This guide is great and I will be implementing this starting tomorrow, I am still very new but this seems like a great plan. I will be posting my results in a few weeks
meathead1234
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You don't/shouldn't follow what I said exactly... it's not like that's the only way of doing it. It's just one method that works.
If you're thinking of giving up after being banned from one forum, you should probably quit IM altogether. It's not a big deal and there are 1000s of forums out there.
Hi meathead. Thanks for the encouragement. It's not the fact of being banned from one single forum, it's because it happened on the very first forum. I asked myself, "is this is what to come then?" If I had already been posting on 5 forums, then maybe I would've looked at it same as you. I'm not giving up just yet. You can understand that some of us may get a little frustrated at first. Perhaps it was just bad luck. I do appreciate everything you've shared with us. I'm just venting my frustrations about my early beginnings with this. It's a hurdle to get over.
Darkrocker
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That's normal, it's pretty hard to pass off as a regular forum member when you have anything to do with an affiliate link. And 9 times out of 10 the
forum mods will be able to spot your affiliate link, whether it's cloaked or not.
I usually avoid forums for this very reason. If you wan't some encouragement know that I did this heavily for 2 weeks but haven't done much in the
last month. And in the last week I made 2 sales off of the residual traffic that I still get.
On a side note I'm still messing with PCC traffic. Tried different ads different niches etc with no luck. Anyone know a good ratio to shoot for as far as hits
per conversion when using ppc traffic? I've only been doing small campaigns (50 or so clicks) since I'm kinda skittish about investing money that might
just get thrown away.
forum mods will be able to spot your affiliate link, whether it's cloaked or not.
I usually avoid forums for this very reason. If you wan't some encouragement know that I did this heavily for 2 weeks but haven't done much in the
last month. And in the last week I made 2 sales off of the residual traffic that I still get.
On a side note I'm still messing with PCC traffic. Tried different ads different niches etc with no luck. Anyone know a good ratio to shoot for as far as hits
per conversion when using ppc traffic? I've only been doing small campaigns (50 or so clicks) since I'm kinda skittish about investing money that might
just get thrown away.
Hey meathead. Thanks, man. I'm honored to get a second reply from you. You're like a celebrity here. I'm not being sarcastic either. I hafta say, I'm very surprised about your comment about forums. Would you recommend that we stick to mostly blogs then? As far as the Google Alerts go (Discussions, Blogs, News). Out of those three. I realize we can utilize other areas like Twitter or Facebook... but not sure as of yet how to go about it just yet. I don't want to be banned from Twitter or Facebook.
BTW, I never left an affiliate link on a forum. Link was to main page of my niche blog. Signature was like this:
"- Spinach
Spinach And Muscle
http|spinachmuscle| (hyperlinked of course)."
Ginger_Ale
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- Feb 5, 2012
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Hey, Spinach. The person you were quoting and who said that about the forums wasn't meathead
Darkrocker
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Yeah that confused me for a minute. But that explains the PM I got, and oddly enough it wasn't the first time I've been PM'd in relation
to this thread because I was somehow mistaken for meathead. I'm not sure why it happened, but I'm just gonna take it as a compliment.
to this thread because I was somehow mistaken for meathead. I'm not sure why it happened, but I'm just gonna take it as a compliment.
Hey, Spinach. The person you were quoting and who said that about the forums wasn't meathead
LoL! Oh man. I feel embarrassed now. I don't know if that's ever happened before. How odd.. especially since darkrocker says this isn't the first time.
Hey Darkrocker. LoL. I figured I was too lucky to get two replies from meathead. Sorry about that. So you're doing strictly blogs now? No wonder that didn't make sense coming out of meathead's mouth. I was like "wow that's a complete 180." Because he's a big propenent for forums over blogs. At least earlier in the thread he was. Since News sites are pretty bad... I'm guessing you stick to the blogs.
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You pretty much have to stick to blogs if you want follow the plan as laid out in the original post. Forum owners aren't stupid. If your first post contains a link to another site that everyone knows is selling something no matter how well you think you've disguised it, they're going to delete the post, and most likely your account.
Now, if you want to spend time in these forums building up a reputation and then sending them to your stuff, that's a different strategy that CAN work. But that's not the strategy outlined in the original post. Forums are pretty much a dead end for that strategy.
ilovestacks
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- Apr 27, 2012
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how do i get google alerts for worldwide? i only get alerts from my own country somebody know?