Here’s EPISODE 4 of Top Affiliate Challenge

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!

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!

It was created using the JibJab Movie Engine

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

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

But this web marketer and SEO has done that: Here’s the link on digg
See us on the front page of Digg’s political

This is obviously a screen capture of two days ago, but we’re still on the top page of Digg’s Political page (look for “US President”)
It’s truly a first for my and many of my friends that have been doing this for a while.

How well did we do. How’s 17,000 unique visitors the first page, and 41,000 on the next day. (the our stats)

Did we get rich because of it (well we did have ads on it)… Well… Let’s just say I can pay my cell phone bill with it, but not my car this month with it.

How did we do it?

• Well first it was a great idea.
• Great design (looks good, but more importantly was easy to see, everything important was above the fold)
• Advertisement is PART of the design (not an afterthough)
• Posted it on digg in the morning (although it didn’t really blow up until after 6pm)
• The Title on the Digg article had the word “DIGG”, and included the word “Ron Paul” and other keywords that are often searched on digg for.
• Blind luck (this may have been the best advice

Now let’s see if we can do this again!?!?!

Any great ideas?

The Original By Citron:

Yugo

And the parody from the old Citron:

And just a completely separate version completely made by college students (copying no one)

(Also I love how cheap video editing, youtube free hosting, and easy access to tv video can make a wonderful video.)

I love Jim Cramer but this video makes some good point!

Let’s bail out the people stuck with mortgages they can’t pay and let the rich people find other things to sell to get back their money.

Oh… don’t get me wrong. I completely understand the concept that if all your food, and housing cost you close to that amount you can make less and live.

And they sound like they’re pleased with their situation.

So should I feel good or bad that as an SEO Beginner I make the same amount of money with this website as these VERY hard working people in africa?

The Bad news: We’re the cause…