“When I grow up I want to have my ass kissed by every media rep on the face of the earth”

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Tired of waiting for Top Affiliate Challenge to put up the episode that you’re looking for? So am I.
So I’ve copied the code from www.Speedppcplus.com/top that put all the episodes up.

Here’s EPISODE 4 of Top Affiliate Challenge

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Oh sure… I started Democracy Calls.com and Who Would The World Elect.com, so it was easy to progress to the next step:

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I am not a man that needs the latest and greatest…Well…not the latest and greatest car anyways. My laptop is a top of the line HP and my phone is an unlocked iphone, but until this weekend my ride of choice was my Kia Rio but I’ve always felt bad helping people spend monthly budgets equal to the cost of my car, so I was FORCED to get a new car (really…I was…)
Hey…If you’re being forced to get a new car, might as well choose one that looks great.
NOW let my customer’s try to spend THIS much a month!

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I am a humble man, but when google clearly sees that I’m worth a darn, then it’s time to celebrate and let everyone know that I am a Qualified Google Advertising Professional.

That’s right boys and girls. I am qualified officially by google to take care of all your advertising needs (I guess my check cleared )

So here you Go…Click and weep!

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I’ve been a programmer and then SEO Consultant for a while now (Professionally for like 8 years now)

Well it’s time to move onto another segment of the industry. The Web Marketing Consultant.

I’m found that I had more than enough knowledge and connections to become a Google Adwords Certified Professional so I registered and I’m in the process of applying for the Test which will make it official.

I find marketing to be a very interesting field. And Online Advertising involves everything I know in the internet field with a personal love of mine, group psychology.

I’ve gotten sites on top of google for generic keywords that others are paying up to $3 for. And to the top of generic words like “who would” (try typing it on your URL bar)

I’ve also ran successful PPC Campaigns for Web Design customers where their click-rate is above 50% and their conversion rate is in the double digits.

So I’ve decided I’m going to be doing this for a living.

Adwords world: Here comes your next Top Consultant!

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To get everyone ready for the next Adwords Meeting I’ve got together with a couple of friends over in washington to make a little music videos to get you guys in the mood…

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We’ll soon be adding “funny Political Videos” to our best performing (as in profitable) website www.Who Would The World Elect.com so I present to you our first video (which of course includes yours truely)

It was created using the JibJab Movie Engine

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I’m not talking about this blog (I’d love to have that kind of traffic) but I am talking about one of my other properties over at Area755.com

It was suppose to be an experiment that actually ended up being a very profitable site (made almost $500 in a month from what was suppose to be a test that made a couple of pennies, but was a “learning experience”)

What I did was programmed some algorithms that find some specific types of images and videos based on different content from different pages. (see our Cute Kittens and Cute Puppies Videos)

That was the easy part (let’s be fair, Even a 14 year old in india can make a functional website). The hard part with making money on the internet always is getting the traffic you need to really monetize what you’ve done.

My plan was to hit all the social network sites and make sure that the page are very google friendly (to get the SEO work eventually)

Well SEO work can take weeks or even months, but Social networks get you traffic at an instant, but not for long. (or so I thought.)

The experiment was a complete success. We did what we where suppose to. We got on digg’s front page, and we were very popular on StumbleUpon (most people on reddit yawned a little for it, but nothing from them)

But what happened, and whever did the traffic come from.

Digg sent some 120,000 unique visitors but after about a day it truly dropped to close to zero. (It alone made me almost $200 so no one is complaining, and on top of that it helps a LOT on my SEO work) But then came the StumbleUpon traffic, and you can’t beat that traffic because it’s constant and they seem to come and stay. StumbleUpon views should be quick and brief (after all they came to your page by no choice of their own, unlike digg users that WANTED to see what your page is) But the StumbleUpon traffic brings MORE traffic (each “I like it” click seems to bring 50 more users which obviously could bring 50 more each, and so on and so on. StumbleUpon traffic can be paid but the free traffic can’t be beat, And is worth every penny

Now to talk about how I made sure my blind luck in getting to the front page, and getting a lot of clicks on StumbleUpon multiply and continue bringing me 6000 unique users a day (on average)

We build all the pages on Area755 to link to each other (this is important because it keeps the viewers from leaving the site the moment they finish your one page. )
EACH page has a DIGG, and REDDIT button to submit each page individually to digg and reddit respectively.

As everyone knows your chances to get on digg’s front page is directly connected with how long you’ve been on digg and how often you’ve gotten one of your submissions on the front page. All it took is a very kind Digg user to submit a very Geeky page to digg, and for a couple of people to submit back to digg stating they liked his submission.

But I have to say we were slowly getting up to 75 diggs, and I noticed the traffic and went to the site and notice that the digg button was at zero. I had a mistake in my digg button code and the moment I fixed it it quickly went from 75 to 300 in a matter of 3-5 minutes. Then when it hit the front page it quickly (in an hour) reached the 1000 diggs.

What I’ve learned.

• Let other submit your articles to DIGG (unless you have a user that often gets on the front page with their articles, or get’s more than 30 diggs on a fairly regular basis)
• Make sure you have a DIGG button on your page so that DIGG users can agree that your link is good and digg back (most won’t click back and digg for you, plus they may have come from another site that shows links from digg’s front page so there’s no BACK to the page where they can digg)
• Make sure you digg button works.(If the digg button is created for dynamic content you might have some incorrect code that you won’t have to worry about if you do this manually)
• Don’t worry about that you are having 3000 diggs but only 13 reddit votes (reddit sucks!) and they’ll usually won’t vote. Want proof? Look at Reddit’s front page. Everything won’t get past the 500 points, look at diggs and on the front page things will get to 2000 - 3000 diggs.
• DON’T steal other people’s images (well if you do, don’t hotlink to them, download them and host them) I lost a LOT of traffic once ImageShack deleted several of the images that I was showing (HUGE DUhhh..moment for me!)
• SEND it to StumbleUpon yourself. (the first time requires you to fill in a form, and that should be you, cause most people won’t want to.

P.S. Did you notice that this blog front page of google when you search for “Damian“…
Now if I could only get on the front page for VIAGRA… Then those ads on the right woud REALLY pay well

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I was reading my normal list of Blogs talking about “How to make money on the internet” and I ran into this great Article on ShoeMoney’s Blog about How this “uber-Affiliate” made $10,000 in one day with the new Facebook Flyers Pro which is like Adwords for Facebook.

Well on a related issue I’ve put together over a couple of hours a new site called Area755.com (using an old domain I wasn’t doing anything with)

It simple is a collection of a bunch of different funny pictures on the internet. And of course has ads clearly shown on the right, with what should be my patented Trick where the ads always remain in the same place of the page, and pre-made links to StumbleUpon, Digg, and Reddit.

This means that even if I get a couple of interested users THEY may submit it to all the traffic Sites that may (in some small way) help as it’s not always ME submitting my sites to all these sites.

So How good have I been doing? well in the last 20 days I’ve made $180 from it.

Is that enough to buy a iPhone? No, but keeping this up will continue to increase my monthly passive income.

We started with “can it pay by water bill” to “can it pay for my phone bill” to now “can it CONTINUE paying for my car with this”

Next is “Can it pay my mortgage”…I’ll let you know when that happens

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