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Posted October 26, 2007 
Comments(1) SEO Blackhat brought some joy to me this week, with this post:
‘Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.’ - TS Eliot.
Spoken like a true SEO Black Hat.
So true.
(And don’t forget to look at the post to see the picture.)
Posted October 26, 2007 Comments(2) Did you notice how GoDaddy recently raised their prices to $9.99 for a .com domain name?
I didn’t. You know why?
Because I use the coupon code HASH3 on all my orders, which gives me a .com for $6.95!
P.S. In hopes to get affiliate commissions from Godaddy, I’m adding another link to Godaddy, this time in bold 
Posted October 25, 2007 Comments(8) The other day I read a great post over at DoshDosh about why it was stupid to start a “make money online” blog. Actually, the blog post was titled Four Reasons Why the Entertainment Niche is Great for Making Money, but the idea is the same.
It’s a great post and doing a blog outside of internet marketing is great (I’ll admit, it’s even better than doing a blog making fun of internet marketing!)
The thing is, there are already too many “make money online” blogs. I can only handle reading a few, like DoshDosh, John Chow, BlogStorm, Zac Johnson, and CDF Networks. And that’s pushing it. Add in all the blogs from people that have no experience making money online and it’s just pathetic.
So if your “make money online” blog sucks, why not do us all a favor and delete it?
Posted October 24, 2007 Comments(41) 
So by now everyone must know that Text-Link-Ads (TLA) has all but disappeared from Google. Does that mean that text link selling services should quit and give up, or does it mean that there is an open spot for market leader?
TNX.net is hoping for the latter!
This new text link marketplace seemed to appear out of thin air but now boasts a link inventory of over 30 million! That’s pretty serious, especially when you think about the 10,000 or so odd links being added each hour.
I couldn’t help but sign-up after reading this detailed review plus a tip from Blogstorm.
This is the point that stood out:
The great thing about buying links at the moment is PR hasn’t updated for months so links are really cheap. You can log into TNX and buy up thousands of links on PR0 pages that have lots of Yahoo backlinks for ultra low prices.
Plus, link inventory is hidden for security, the points system makes buying links pretty cheap, and they’re nice enough to give out a bunch of free bonuses.
Did I mention their system tries to set-up your campaign legitimately so it doesn’t look like link spam? That’s pretty sweet, and shows how smart the people behind TNX are. (Granted you can still screw things up if you’re stupid, but they try to help out.)
They really make link buying awesome. The more I buy, the more I like it. 
I figured I’d test the ‘link selling’ part too. (That’s on one of my smaller sites, not here, of course.) It’s pretty simple to add the code to your page, but it’s still over 100 lines of PHP code… I’m worried there’s some sort of “footprint” in there making it easy to spot. I’ll get back to you on that part after some testing.
[*Update* I'm pretty sure TNX does leave a footprint that makes it obvious you are selling links.]
But overall it looks good on both sides. I could see myself using this a little bit and possibly recommending it.
Get your links (and sell your links) at TNX.net.
Bonus hint: Remember the tip about getting good links from PR0 sites with lots of backlinks? Well, those are the only sites I bought links from. Don’t fall in the trap of “well I’m not sure about PR0, so I’ll get the PR1 links.” The PR1 sites probably aren’t that great, I mean, they only got a 1. But the PR0 pages could be on their way to a PR5 once the PR update finally hits.
And like I said, get your links (and sell your links) at TNX.net. At the very least, it’s cheaper than Text Link Ads.
Posted October 23, 2007 Comments(2) 
Earlier this year I wrote about stumbleXchange and how it was pretty cool if you used it properly. Unfortunately, the site seems to have moved, and now it must be on a really slow server, because it’s way too slow to bother with.
But fortunately, another crop of stumble exchange websites has popped up, just waiting to aid your unscrupulous social media spamming efforts!
Take a look at them:
A weird idea for exchanging stumbles, this is a Pligg-based site (i.e. it looks like Digg) where your submissions are links you want stumbled. You start by signing-up and posting a link. Then people stumble it and send you a message telling you they stumbled it, so that you can go stumble their page in return.
At first glance, it seems like a ton of work for each stumble, and there’s not much privacy. So if some sucker wanted to go “thumbs down” a bunch of sites, they could easily find a list right there on the home page.
Not to mention the site isn’t very active…
2. SU Exchange
More interesting is this site called SU Exchange, which is actually a points-based system designed for exchanging stumbles. The site boasts “926 users” and “22,381″ stumbles; that’s enough to make it worth joining.
3. Stumble Swap
But the best of the breed comes in the form of Stumble Swap. This is a new take on the stumble exchange concept that requires very little work - you don’t even need an account!
All you do is put in your URL and your SU username, and then you click a link and stumble that site. Once you’re done, just click submit and the system records your stumble and gives your URL to someone new to stumble.
It’s a genius system.
And of course, since we can’t get enough scamming and spamming, here’s a bonus site:
This is a directory of sites that are or would be popular on StumbleUpon. In other words, sites that are “funny, good-hearted, well-motivated, weird or interesting” are included.
It’s probably hard to get in (because they actually review submissions,) but submitting your site is worth a shot if it fits the requirements.
What is not worth it, though, is paying for advertising there. It’s a whopping $10,000 per month! Supposedly they get 100,000 visitors a day, but that seems a little exaggerated if you ask me. And even if they do, do those 100,000 see your listing on the homepage?
Actually, they could, because the actual directory consists of a mere 5 categories with maybe a handful of sites in each one.
Now that I look into it, that site could be a total scam worthy of its own blog post! More research shows that the domain is from 1999, but the site wasn’t live until April of this year! That’s probably why it has very few directory listings.
But the question remains, would anyone get suckered into paying $10,000 a month to advertise on that site?!
Posted October 22, 2007 Comments(4) Have you seen the latest publicity campaign for BlogRush?
Apparently the huge initial buzz wore off thanks to the tremendous amount of “Blogrush Sucks” posts on almost every blog out there.
So what did the marketing genious Reese do to counteract that?
He decided to ban popular blogs from BlogRush!
He knew if he did this, then all those popular blogs would create posts about getting banned… and what would that lead to? Yep, a ton of links, press, and other publicity for BlogRush.
Of course, pissed off bloggers would be one of the side effects
Posted October 20, 2007 Comments(0) One of the more lucrative markets of the past year was the free web hosting market. These webmasters pulled in tons of customers with virtually no advertising, then made thousands of dollars per month… then sold the sites for a healthy profit.
Thinking about jumping in yourself? It’s easy, right?
Yes, it’s a very simple formula. But the word is out and the gold has been mined.
This illustrates a very important lesson: Be at the right place at the right time! (i.e. before everyone else)
Here’s a summary of how everyone was making money with these sites:
Pretty simple, huh?
But here’s another very important lesson: If multiple money-making blogs start talking about how to make money with free hosting sites, chances are the market is getting saturated.
And what did you expect with it being so easy?
All you can do now is look at all the successful sales and wish that you were one of them.
But if you’re sad, make yourself feel better by laughing at the people even dumber than you! (They are the ones that still plan to enter this saturated market thinking they can make easy money.)
Why exactly is it too late?
Because HostGator said so. They used to allow these free hosting sites into their affiliate program… until they got fraudulent sign-ups.
Now they have adjusted the commission rates:
If you are referring clients to HostGator from a free hosting service that you run, you are not eligible for the standard commission rate listed at http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates.html. Instead, you must contact our affiliate department to work out a special commission rate.
In other words, the big commissions are gone!
And everyone is screwed now! (And it’s not like other hosting affiliate programs will welcome these sites with open arms…)
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