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Some time ago Jason made a post about making instant niche money by checking out the current events from Yahoo Buzz and Google Trends.

This reminded me of a method I tried in the past. It’s about taking advantage on new hot product launches and social networking sites like Squidoo and Hubpages.

To do this method, you need to know about a new, hot product launch as fast as possible. You should subscribe all the possible mailing lists of the biggest names in internet marketing. It’s better to create a new email account for this and check it daily. You can also look for forums like Warrior forum for posts talking about upcoming and current product launches, or you could just spy on new Clickbank products you think might become big.

All the product launches of the big names are hyped up like hell before the official launch so they are that not hard to find.

Last time I did this with a product by Harris Fellman. I didn’t do very well that time because of the few mistakes I made, but I will try to correct those in this post.

So what we are going to do now, we will go to sites like Squidoo.com, Hubpages.com and Wordpress.com. Use all the free, high authority sites you know.

We will create these pages with the services:

product-name.xxx.com

product-name-review.xxx.com

product-name-scam.xxx.com

(With Wordpress you could just take ProductName.wordpress.com)

Create those pages on all of the sites you know, but Squidoo, Hubpages and Wordpress.com are pretty much the best ones.

You can also use other phrases, but scam and review are usually the most searched ones.

As you might know, sites like Squidoo and Hubpages rank very high in search engines. If you have ever searched for “ProductName review” on Google, you have probably found a Squidoo page with that name.

I believe that Squidoo is the best one as they also give you commission for ad clicks and in my experience it ranks the highest, but still create the pages to all the high authority sites you can (or at least those main three.) Last time I thought that Squidoo is enough and I saw good rankings for the first few days, but then my Hubpages one grabbed first place on Google and my other page slowly started to fall down.

What should you write on those pages?

You could write your own review and paste the same one to all of the pages or even create a unique review for each of your pages (BETTER).

Or if you are feeling really lazy, you could just copy some sentences from the official sales page and add some of your own. Just make sure that people want to buy the product after reading the post. Make it sound like a real, honest review. Would you be more likely to buy the product after reading your review?

Of course, don’t forget to use your affiliate link!

Now when you own the Squidoo, Hubpages, Wordpress etc. pages for the main keywords of the product, you have great chances of ranking well on search engines for the searches related to the product. However, you can still optimize the pages a bit…

Link those pages with each other!

I’m not any SEO guru, but there are two ways of linking that might work:

Either just link all of the pages to each other or select some page (I prefer Squidoo) and link from all of the other pages to that.

So there you go! A completely free way to start affiliate marketing. You can use this for pretty much any new product.

Feel free to ask any questions. I will try to answer them here at TUK. Also check out my other posts over at http://www.BlackhatWay.com!

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A few of you guys asked about what happened to the post I promised - I promised to write one on here guaranteeing a $500+ site flip.

This post will show you how to create a niche website that you can flip for $500 or more, however that actually wasn’t the post I was talking about.

I had a different idea for this one… instead of telling you, why not show you?

Now for past posts I’ve written on here, I couldn’t show you exact examples of successes I’ve had for a few reasons - fear of competition in profitable niches, buyer protection (when you start selling larger websites, buyers want things signed, like a non-disclosure or non-compete form for example) or other reasons.

However now I’ve specifcally setup a website for flipping - I’m going to work on it, spending no more than 30 minutes a day; and after one month, I’ll list it on Sitepoint.

Unlike other similar flipping case studies (which have been done before, like for example the CowPetition) I’m not going to list the URL here, or even mention it to you guys until the sale - I don’t want things like the readership behind this blog distorting the statistics. And I will not laze myself out of doing this project, mainly because it’s already been started.

Around 3-4 days ago, I started this, and as of now around 10 people know about it (just so that they can keep an eye and follow it, to see that I’m not pulling stuff out of thin air). Here’s the statistics for the last 3-4 days, since I acquired it:

- Nearly 50 RSS subscribers

- More than 1,000 uniques

- $20 revenue

I’m aiming for around 100 RSS subscribers and around $500 revenue - I’m going to use marketing strategies that I’ll reveal to you guys when I’m done.

The eventual goal is to flip this one for four figures, but as I’m only spending 30 minutes a day or less I’ll be happy enough with anything over $500.

If you really want to know what the website is, contact me privaely and I’ll tell you - however, I’m not going to mention it on here. Can’t do this anymore because I got around 30 - 50 IMs within the last hour asking for the URL, which obviously won’t work. All will be revealed at the end of the month!

If you have any ideas for what you’d like to see with regards to this site flip, let me know as I’ve still got the full month left.

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Another day, another way to make money for you guys. I’ve been using this method to take advantage and make a few pretty decent website sales.. I’m talking low four figure sales for about an hour of work.

You see, the problem with niche marketing is that well… it’s difficult to get a foothold in the established niches. Forex, diet pills, make money online even - there are thousands, if not millions of competitors out there, most of which have a budget that will blow yours out of the water.

What if those competitors… weren’t a problem?

What if your competition was so weak… you could rank first page for a 500+ daily search term… in a day or less?

I have, and now you can do.

I’m talking about current event annilhilation.

By taking advantage of current events, we can make sure that most of our competition isn’t established… everyone starts out on an even foothold. No more having to compete with sites that are years older, have thousands more backlinks etc.

One of the comments yesterday spoke about wanting to know how to find and act on untapped niches… about setting trends and the like.

The websites we’ll be setting up will be small, 5-10 page niche websites. Nothing too complicated. Here’s how to find our niches though.

The two best places to find what people are interested in is a) Yahoo Buzz and b) Google Trends.

Yahoo Buzz has a little chart on the right showing top ten searches (updated hourly) while Google has 10 on their homepage and up to 100 if you click through.

This is a goldmine, because we can see what exactly people are searching for at this moment. Hot search terms = profit.

Let’s take a direct example, so you guys can understand better… at the moment, one of the hot search terms in Yahoo is Miley Cyrus.

Right now, people are pretty interested to see what she’s up to. At the moment there are more than 100,000 searches daily just for her name… that’s not even including other keywords.

As soon as you see a search term that you like, what you do is enter it into SEOBook’s tool.

From SEOBook’s tool, we can see variations of the hot keyword that other people are searching for. Now the direct keyword - in this case Miley Cyrus - will usually be too hard, but there are plenty of others.

You’re looking for anything with more than 500 searches daily.

The easiest way to rank first page… is by snagging the relevant domain. If the domain is still available for a term, it’s likely that there’s less competition, and thus it’s easier to rank.

Now for the above keyword, there are around… 20 terms that get more than 500 searches daily. That’s a potential 15,000 visitors monthly (if you snag top place - this is not difficult with the exact keyword in your domain).

Use Instant Domain Search to make searching fast, and just take keywords from the SEOBook tool and enter them directly in.

A lot of the direct keywords were taken, but in this case the keywords miley cyrus shower and miley cyrus bra were both available (in .COM). Both are near the 1,000/day search range, one slightly above, one slightly below.

Now the former keyword had around 2,000,000 competing pages. The latter however, had only around 750,000 pages - ripe for domination.

Pick a simple template from OSWD and setup a 5 page website. Make sure you do simple SEO (meta tags, page titles, bolded keywords, h1 / h2) and create 3-4 articles, one picture page. Make sure you download any pictures you find and reupload them with the keyword as its title (to benefit from Google Images traffic).

Now… pages need links to get them indexed. So submit them to the top few Social Networks, using the keyword as your title when allowed (Digg, for example). You don’t care about promoting it, just the high power backlink. After you submit it, ping the Digg entry to get your site indexed within 24 - 48 hours.

You can also leave comments on dofollow blogs or build links in other ways. All you need is around 25 links total with your keyword as anchor text (if you have an account on forums with a few hundred posts, this is good enough). Use the search term as your anchor text.

As for monetization… use Adsense, or similar (PPC). For some keywords (like miley cyrus bra) Adsense may not work, so use something like Adbrite. However you can stick to ’safe’ keywords if you prefer, as Adsense pays better than any similar kind of program. The great thing is that it’ll pick up the keywords in your article and link to similar websites, and especially celebrity related topics - these kinds of users are click-whores.

You can also try out affiliate programs - no offense meant, but in this case - the people that search for celebrities tend to be not that bright and believe they can win things like a free iPod by just entering their email address. Email / zip submits are king on celebrity kind of websites. However, most of them only allow USA traffic, while Adsense allows you to monetize everyone.

Within a few days, use Shoemoney’s SERP tool to see where you’re ranking for your keyword. Depending where you are, build links - you should be first page or close to it, but if you’re not just keep on building

Once you hit the first page, keep working (won’t take long) until you’re top five. At the top five positions, it’s fairly easy to make around $20/day. As long as you have 2-4 weeks of consistant revenue, you can flip the website for $1,000 or more (just list it at the various webmaster forums).

You’ll make anywhere between $100 - $500+ of revenue and net a thousand or so for the website sale.

Don’t think. Act. All you need to spend on is the domain name and some time (hosting is available at $0.01 first month at HG) so you have nothing to lose.

Good luck, and if you have any questions let me know

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People aim to make money online for many different reasons - I started out because I was bored and had little else to do; others do it because they need a way to generate some income to pay for expenses like rent; others just for fun.

For me today, I do this whole internet marketing thing just for fun - I started out with the wrong mindset and made pennies, working hours for a few bucks… I relax a lot more now, work a lot less, make far more money than I used to.

If you work too hard, you’re going to be less productive than if you work smart.

You see, everyone has that ability to make money. You, me, X and Y - you can all do it. But few do.

It’s not just starting out - everyone can make more money, but few do.

If I wanted to make $1,000 today, I could. So could you.

If it was really wanted, and both of us were prepared to work for it…that number would be an easy figure to reach. I don’t reach it because I’m a lazy schmuck, and those of you that don’t reach it probably don’t because you’re lazy, or even if you’re not - because you’re working hard, not smart.

Here’s how you make $1,000 today, if you’re willing to put in the work - flip simple content websites.

1. Buy ten .COM domains

2. Find ten simple templates from somewhere like OSWD (or you could download some Adsense ready Wordpress themes if you prefer using them)

3. Pick ten niches. 5-10 articles per niche, 250 words each. Optimize them for Adsense (one block, above the fold or in the post).

4. Make your website look good. Obviously I can’t give you exact steps to follow as each website is different, but remember that in the quick flip, 85% of doing so if how your website looks. If you want to add some glamour, throw together a quick logo in two minutes by combining a picture from SXC.hu and Logo Pixy.

5. List your website(s) at the various webmaster forums. Create a shit hot listing talking about the benefits (this deserves its own post, so I’ll put up one soon).

You need each website to sell for an average of $100 to make your $1,000 a day. Even if they sell for half that (which is more than likely… look at content site flippers on webmaster forums and you’ll see unique content sells) you’re making $500 a day. Once you get used to it, you can knock out a website in less than an hour (takes me thirty minutes). Ten hours daily x $100 = your $500 - $1,000. And sometimes you’ll find websites sell for more than $100.

I’m as honest as I can be with you guys - no, I do not do this (I do flip websites, and have flipped more than a hundred or so, but not so many daily) - for no other reason than I’m lazy.

I’d rather do something interesting for $250 than something boring for $500. And although this will make you money, it’s definitely boring. Unless you outsource.

You see, for me - if I walk away now, I lose nothing. So I treat this as a hobby as well as a business - rather than solely the latter.

The purpose of this post was to remind people that taking breaks - even if it’s just 15 minute ones - will leave you accomplishing far more than if you work straight through the day. So relax if you want to make money!

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