I’ve just done my post month checks for February and noticed that I’d jumped way up the rankings for a keyword I set out to target in early January. I thought it would be interesting to see if the jump in ranking coincided with a jump in income. Boy did it. Here are the screen shots for the 1 full day I was at number 1 for my target search phrase (please keep in mind that these screen shots ONLY relate to that 1 page where possible):-
Chances are if you’ve found my blog it’s because you are interested in making some money online? It’s what I target for and if that’s not why you’re here then I’ve screwed up somewhere along the line. If you are here to learn about making money online then I have a confession to make. As much as I may mention Rowse, Chow, Shoemoney, Johnson etc etc in the odd post it’s not their blogs that have influenced me. Not at all. The foundations for making money online are simply getting enough search traffic and giving people what they are looking for. Big name bloggers don’t teach that. Gimmick this, build a community that. Social traffic is shit for 99% of people. The only way to create money from a community is to play on your trust – tell them something is good and hope that they believe you. Targeted search traffic makes money 100% of the time. I have skirted around the subject myself but never to the extent of the blogs I am about to tell you about. I like irony so in a true Darren Rowse “Problogger” List Post stylee here are the only 3 blogs you must read to make money online:-
**Update**
I’ve just watched the first video of month 2 and it looks like we’re going to get in to a lot of the social media stuff this month. Even the first video had some nice tips that provide useful insight in how to take advantage of various services. The second month looks much better than the first in the Shoemoney System, which I guess is what you’d expect from a 12 month course 
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I’m going to write this post straight from the top of my head. I’ll apologise in advance if it starts to wander but I find that when I just write things down this way without too much extra thought the result is a much more honest opinion. So I’ll write down what I’ve thought of the first month of the Shoemoney System and then try to judge if it’s positive or not at the end.
You know what, Video Boss is live?! How can you not know that? If you’re anything like me you’ve had in the region of 20 e-mails today from different people all letting you know about Video Boss. You want to know something else, I couldn’t give a flying fuck!
I’m signed up to so many things at the moment that have ALL promised to make me rich beyond my wildest dreams that it wouldn’t be fair of me to take up a place on another one. Yes you guessed it, Video Boss has strictly limited places available. Especially not when the people promoting this latest course are the same people offering their OWN services/courses that are promising to make you rich. Doesn’t make sense does it?
Or perhaps they’re just saying how great this is in order to get another recurring Clickbank commission for what is essentially bugger all work. Sign up for the Video Boss affiliate program, send out link to mailing list telling everybody how good it is (even though they’ve never even seen the course) and also promise the best bonus ever in the history of bonuses, if you can be arsed. Frankly I’m sick to death of the lot of it, spamming, bullshitting bastards the lot of em. You’d have to be a fool to trust anybody marketing “make money online” products and services. If they promise “killer”, “secret” and mention the “industry” over and over then run for the hills. Fact.
Google aren’t stupid, they have access to more internet marketing information that anybody ever in the history of the internet (source: I made it up). When Google launch a new product that they see real value in it pays to have a close look at what they’re doing to market it. If they are doing it then perhaps you should to? It’s all about Buzz at the moment, here are 2 things I picked up almost instantly that I’ll be playing around with:-
I’ve done absolutely no promotion at all in pushing the Shoemoney System as an affiliate. To be honest I can’t imagine that there is anybody out there who hasn’t heard about it already from any of 50 different sources. But just in case anybody isn’t aware, Jeremy will be launching the Shoemoney System tomorrow, it promises to up-the-bar for these types of “make money online” courses. The fact I’m interested in this after wasting hundreds of dollars on other courses says something (Yeah, that I’m a sucker!) The system itself is essentially a huge number of videos drip fed to you every few days that go in to massive detail about how Shoemoney makes money. This sort of “this is my screen” material is in my opinion far and away the best way of learning how to do this type of thing. On top of the videos I understand there will be access to Shoemoney Tools, an exclusive members only forum and $2500 worth of advertising credit (I’m not sure of this advertising credit is only if you open a new account with the system or if you can get it if you already have an Adwords, Facebook Advertising account etc) I’m not really that interested in the advertising credit, I’ve got money to burn on PPC if I’m feeling confident.
What has got me hooked on this is the chance to learn how Shoemoney is profiting from Facebook. My experiments with Facebook have been little more than a catalog of disasters, if I can get some insight on how to get things converting with Facebook it will be money well spent. The Shoemoney System isn’t going to be cheap, $197 a month is a fair chunk of cash that may see it appealing mainly to those who are already making some money online. On the other hand if it only gives a small insight into exactly what Shoemoney is doing on a day to day basis (it promises much more than that) then it’s got to be worth it.
If you’re interested in giving the Shoemoney System a go then you can find out more information here:-
Check Out The Shoemoney System – Now how’s that for an affiliate link? No cloaking, no disguise, no domain redirect, just a plain old link with my affiliate ID in it Obviously if you follow that link and do sign up then I’ll profit from it. However, that makes no real difference to me, as long as I can get one of the places available I will be signing up for the Shoemoney System and more than likely writing on here how I’m finding it.
I registered carsforagrand.co.uk back in May. I have a large number of BANS based websites, a number of which are based on the format of “Something For Not Much”. Surely the only reason people use eBay is to look for something that is dirt cheap? If you’re looking for a profitable way of using BANS then you could do much worse than use this tactic
Just to let my RSS subscribers know that I’m still alive, well sort off! So much has been happening in the last month that I’ve found it impossible to concentrate on one thing long enough to put a post together. I know I don’t post much these days but I’m sure I could manage at least one good post every few weeks. So in classic ProBlogger stylee here is a brief “list post” of things I definitely will write about soon:-