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Did you know that statistically speaking you have got more chance of becoming a millionaire by winning a large prize lottery game than you have by trying to make money online? Did you also know that 99% of all statistics are nonsense?

Anyway, a lot of the fuss surrounding DealDotCom related to the great affiliate scheme they were pushing, in fact it’s obvious from looking at John Chow’s stats that there are a lot more affiliates than people buying the products. The main excitement was about earning commissions for the life of your referral, not just 3, 6 or even 12 months. Well I’ve been a member of an affiliate program that offers exactly the same (in this case 10% of whatever your referral spends) for the life of that customer. Not only that but it’s promoting something that we can all use, whether we are internet marketers or not.

MyLotto Affiliate Program

I’m talking about the MyLotto Affiliate program. MyLotto is a very easy sell because it is to my knowledge the only website out there that allows people to play very large jackpot lottery games from all over the world, no matter where you live. Say for example you want to play next weeks £88 Million ($166 Million USD) Euromillions lottery draw but don’t live in Europe, MyLotto can get you a slice of the action. How about Mega Millions in the US but you like in the UK? Not a problem. This is great because some games have much better odds than others, it levels the playing field for people wanting to win their way to wealth no matter where they live. It’s a great service with a great affiliate program that provides a win-win situation. If you’re really good at promoting you’ll also have no trouble getting up to the 12% commission rate. For affiliates outside the US it’s also good that they have various payment options including a wire transfer, if there’s one thing I hate about Kontera and a few others it’s having to try and bank my USD cheques in a UK bank. Not only are the fees extortionate but half the time the bank staff are clueless.

I’ve been a member of the MyLotto affiliate program for a few years now, I wrote one of the top lottery prediction programs available from the net in 2003 and they were soon on my case asking me to sign up. To date I’ve made enough money with MyLotto to pay for a family holiday, they’ve always paid on time and provide enough banners and a good enough product to make promotion easy for any affiliate.

As you might have noticed I’ve been happy to big-up DealDotCom, as I stated earlier in the week they got of to a great start with a couple of quality products, one of which even I bought (And I’m a tough man to please). So it was with a sense of guttedness (is that even a word?) that I logged in this morning to find todays deal of the day being…………a dodgy e-book! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! You know the type, it’s an e-book that will make you mega rich, even better it comes with not just resale rights, but master resale rights. How am I supposed to contain this excitement? Quite easily as it turns out. I’ve been suckered into buying e-books in the past with the inevitable gimmick being that you can then sell the same book onto to any potential suckers customers. I really had high hopes for Deal Dot com but if they’re selling this sort of rubbish in the first week then good luck to them, i’ll still check in from time to time but this is the last time I’ll be mentioning them here unless then do come out with a really remarkable offer. Yes I am fickle.

Just in case you are wondering there is only one e-book I’ve ever bought that has been worth the money and that’s the SEO Book.

I’m getting a hell of a lot of link requests at the moment so I’d like to take this opportunity to state something.

Dear Owner Of Built For Adsense Software Directory,

I couldn’t give a flying monkeys ass that you’ve decided to rip-off my content to create a “no original content” page full of Adsense. Further more if you think for 1 minute that I’m going to link to your shit, no rank, no traffic website (that has ripped my content) all because you send me a pro-forma e-mail telling me how great I am then you’re either stupid or mental. If I wanted my software in your new “cutting edge with nobs on” directory then I would have submitted it, as I didn’t I don’t.

Thank you and have a nice day,

Paul

ps Have I mentioned how much I hate directories and the spam that goes with them????

You might have noticed that I’ve finally got around to adding the Blog Rush widget to The Make Money Online Dot Net. I wasn’t fussed at all by this idea, to be honest showing untargeted links on any page is never likely to get you any traffic. Google spent a lot of time getting their content targeting down to a fine art, if for one minute broad range categories provided the same sort of CTR do you really think they’d have bothered? Not only are you not very likely to get little or no traffic from other websites but there is also the chance that you’ll upset your own visitors by bombarding them with unrelated content.

But in the interests of jumping on board a band-wagon I thought I’d give it a go. I’ll keep it a little out of the way for now until I’m sure that the content it’s showing is relevant. If it starts to generate traffic I’ll keep it.

Cheating Blog Rush

Programs like this are really easy to cheat. Any system that relies on impressions for reward is easy to cheat. It looks like everybody is cheating Blog Rush because even keeping in mind what I said above the click through rates being seen are appalling. Out of the 400 impressions I’ve had not 1 click.

Cheat no1. – Install this Firefox plug-in for Firefox that allows you to refresh a page automatically. Open your blog, or a page with the widget on and let it refresh all day automatically building up credits.

Cheat no2. – Put your widget code in a hidden div or iFrame on every website you own. For people with popular websites it’s a very quick way of building up credits.

Cheat no3. – Refer yourself several accounts. You can even stick the widget from different accounts on the same blog.

I don’t know why anybody would want to cheat the system, lets face it if everybody does it then all of our credits are being used on some hidden iFrame or only being viewed by an auto reloading browser, hence no click through rate. If Blog Rush is to grow then they’ve got to stop these tactics (and the many other cheats) being effective.

So we all know that Google’s latest page rank export is taking forever and a day to complete, fortunately there are a few page rank prediction tools out there that can help. Obviously the accuracy isn’t going to be 100% but from my previous experience I’ve found that on average they tend to be right 9 times out of 10. When you have a brand new website (like this blog) even the prediction tools don’t always work and that is what I was experiencing up until today. Finally I’ve got my predicted page rank and it’s a…….FIVE. Not just a 5 but quite a strong one at a 5.3

If this is true then that’s great news for a blog that has only been around for 2 months. PR is not the be all and end all but straight away this will allow me to monetise in many more ways, reviews, sponsors and links can all come into play. I’m even more excited about Google’s next PR export now!

DealDotCom is still very new, in fact they are only 3 products into their life. In saying that early impressions count for a lot so let’s have a quick look at what they’ve done so far

EasyMember Pro – A good solid launch product which is widely regarding as being one of the very best in the range of “membership management” software suites that are out there. They managed to bring this to joe public at half price. I’m not really that bothered about running a member’s only website so gave it a miss but I believe they sold out!

WP Affiliate Pro – A little plug-in for WordPress blogs that allows you to quickly install affiliate links throughout your WordPress posts. It’s not entirely automated (for example you have to source your own affiliate links and create a record for each word you want changing to a link). Once it’s setup it will then turn each instance of that word into an affiliate link. I could see this working really well with Amazons affiliate program so bought in, my very first DealDotCom purchase. The checkout process was relatively simple, I paid with Paypal but the major credit cards are also an option. Overall I was happy with my buy, I’ll be happier still when it pays for itself.

Nicheology Members Site – Full access to a members only website about niche marketing for only $1, well that’s not going to do much for us DealDotCom affiliates is it! I know the ins and outs of niche marketing having being involved for several years. There might be some good stuff in there, but if you think you’re going to make any real money from the same content that thousands of other people have access to then you’re dreaming. First rule of SEO, unique content. I’ll give this one a miss (even at $1) but I’ll be back tomorrow to see what’s on offer.

I’ve been with TrialPay for just under 1 month now. For those of you not in the know it’s an online payment system that allows people to get something from you for free by accepting an offer from somebody else. The somebody else tends to be one of the major online retailers (ebay, Real, Blockbuster etc etc), some of the offers are completely free others require the customer to buy something. When I first found this I thought it would be a great way of earning a little extra money for not much work. I had software that I was already giving away for free all that was required was a slight change in the download process. 1 month down the line and I’m delighted at how great that little change has been.

Some Trends

It went of like a rocket ship and I couldn’t believe how much money I was earning with TrialPay, I was checking stats 2,3 even 4 times a day just to make sure it was real. Of course after about a week things settled down to a more realistic level, realistic being a couple of transactions a day. What has made no sense to me at all is the distribution of customers. I know for a fact that before TrialPay it was about a 50/50 split between the US and Europe of people who downloaded. After TrialPay the split changed to about 90/10 in favour of the US! The biggest loss was in UK visitors, they just weren’t and aren’t prepared to go through a TrialPay checkout process. I’d love for somebody to be able to explain it to me, some American friends have suggested that maybe it’s down to coupons. Americans are well into using their coupons from one thing to get something discounted or for free. In the UK we don’t have much of that so maybe that can explain the difference. Either way I’ve had happy visitors from Spain, France, and Israel all the way to Australia it’s just the Brits that don’t like it!

So in less than a month I’ve made more than $1000 for no extra work and very little inconvenience. Will be interesting to see what the second month brings but in the meantime if you’ve got a product that you currently give away for free then TrialPay is really worth considering.

I’m faced with a bit of a dilemma this morning. Commission Junction have contacted me regarding the rather short “shove it up your ass” e-mail which I sent after they threatened to close my account. Well I say contacted, it’s far more of a sorry we didn’t mean it and we really do value our publishers because that’s where we make all our money sorry sorry sorry type of e-mail. They also explained that they were only acting on the instructions of the advertiser had no idea about the relationship between the advertiser and me and that they’d be more than happy to leave my account (and commission) exactly where it was.

The problem I have is do I back track? Do I say all is well with the world and just carry on as if nothing has happened or do I close the account? My heart says close it, my head says keep it, if only for the e-bay affiliation?

It would also help if I had a way of contacting them, the e-mail was sent from a no-reply address that bounces and none of their messages show in my CJ inbox. I have a feeling that apathy could be the winner here.