Friday, August 18, 2017

How I farm FB accounts to run ads



Perhaps some of you could see my previous tip. Now I am going to share the next secret .

The most evident fact about Facebook is that you always get banned. It’s like your favorite video-game at a hardcore difficulty with the only limit – there is no right to make mistakes. Facebook is insane about account blocks, but it is considered to be one of the best traffic sources nowadays. When you do wrong – your account is marked and you lose everything. Today I’m going to reveal my personal method of creating legal trustful accounts for Facebook ads.

To win your enemy you should know your enemy. “He who controls the traffic controls the universe.” So you can’t leave this as it is, you always return and fight Facebook again and again, never breathing a word about accounts loss.


So I suppose, each of you knows, that the ad platform is crazy about accounts. It is famous for its regulations that leave no chance for the affiliate marketer to have his account alive for more than a month. So there are three actual reasons why things are going this way. You need to make them clear in order to be successful.

- First of all, Facebook ALWAYS takes care about what they call USER EXPERIENCE. If one does not want to see your ads anymore, then Facebook will do everything in order not to show your ads to the user anymore. FB’s income allows him to play his own game and do nothing with the advertisers.

- The second reason is terms and conditions for advertisers. The ad network provides its partners with direct rules of what is good and what is wrong. If you wish to run “suspicious” product then you go blackhat. There are always just two ways: you run safe whitehat ads and have the little profit or you do blackhat and follow a death path. A bad thing about it is that your account anyway got flagged by the user and account gets banned at last.

- The third thing is the result of Facebook’s global reach. Every affiliate all over the global provides the attempts to run ads on Facebook. The largest amount of cheaters, fraudsters, and scammers come from the 3-tier countries (and Russia as well). They do bad things like: CC fraud (carding), debts on the account that are never paid for and so on. I mean they never take care of the ecology of our business; they just need money to survive. Mostly because of their activity we have cases like the following: a person creates the account, submits his payment method and got banned even being unable to run his ads. FB is a big data monster. It collects every piece of data for analysis. And at the same time, some daredevil Russian guys trade their manuals “how not to pay for ads purchased”.



The main problem for the affiliate today is to make your account live and not being blocked, as everybody knows how to blackhat. When your account remains active for 7 days – it’s quite obvious. When it lives for two weeks – this is luck. When his life lasts a month – it is a treasure.

FB is suspicious about just everything. When it founds any sort of activity that fraudsters do – then you will be asked to send proofs you’re a real person and so on. In this case, FB uses a bad technique copied from PayPal – you will be asked to send the copies of your documents or paid bills.

No one knows the full list of information FB collects from you, but during numerous experiments, it was discovered that network has a reflection towards the following data:

1. Your current IP-address and installed DNS. For years FB gathered a database of IP-ranges of proxy providers, data centers, VPN-services and so on. Most of these services had already been used by the affiliates – thus located by Facebook;

2. User-agent of a browser;

3. Time and Date set in your device and account, correspondence of these settings with your IP address;

4. Languages installed in browser, OS and Facebook;

5. Cookies and cash of web browser;

6. Your system data like OS version, MAC and so on;

7. And of course your account history;

This is not clear, what formula FB uses ranging the account quality, but most users agree there is a rate of trust for every account. This rate determines the quality of the ad account and depends on the numerous parameters (it concerns both the account itself and ad cabinet). The higher trust rate you have – the more flags and complaints you may bear before being blocked. I developed my own plan that allows me to create numerous accounts that are trustful enough to run ads. For you to know – I run ads from Russia (this is one of the most difficult geos to run ads from) and my accounts remain alive for at least a month. I am not sure this will work the same in any other geo, but I hope it will be even better.



So what features increase the trust rate of your account?

1. Its age. Seriously, the older account is – the higher trust rate it will have. But you need to simulate some real human activity on it anyway (otherwise banned);

2. Its CURRENT social activity. The more friends, shares, likes and comments you have – the better for ad account it is.

3. Full correspondence of IPs, MACs, Timezones, Languages and so on;

4. The credit card you use. Virtual credit cards may not work at all. Debit cards are better than credit ones and so on. It depends mostly on the region. At the same time if PayPal doesn’t confirm your data – account will get banned.

5. A number of funds spent. It’s quite evident.

6. You need to submit a telephone number, email and other stuff if possible to your account.


To cut a long story short, it works like this: your account should look like the account of a real person. That is it. But when users start flagging your ads, the trust rate will be decreasing (until the account is blocked).



What features decrease the trust rate of your account?

- Any link or connection with a blocked/marked account (whatever: friends, shares, IP’s, proxies);

- Huge amounts of money spent at the very start of the account (you need to do it consequently);

- Password changing;

- Big number of campaigns ran from the beginning;

- The usage of CCs that are suspicious for facebook data;

- Suspicious behavior like non-corresponding info.


Let me add some words about the accounts for rent:

There are hundreds of agencies supplying you with ad accounts. Most of such accounts have no any trust rate indeed. They are just named as trusted. In fact, you are giving a clean account in most cases. If you rent an account and get banned – they will not return the money you deposited, so there is no any reason to risk at all.


There are also some markets that trade the accounts. You may easily purchase dozens or hundreds of accounts, but they do not have any increased trust rate. Just bear it in mind.


So now let us discuss the method itself. What do I do to create my own trustful accounts? For now, I will provide you with the light variant of a scheme. This scheme may be easily used by every affiliate. At the same time, the trust rate of the accounts will be high enough to make some dollars before the account is banned. Let’s go.


1. First and foremost I purchase GSM sim cards of any mobile carrier in my region;

2. Then I submit a Google account for every telephone number that I have. I link them between each other;

3. You need to purchase a pure VDS for every account to run. Seriously => One account is used at one VDS; this will be great if your VDS hadn’t been noticed by FB before. You need virgin hardware and virgin IP-address of your region (highly probable);

4. Then you need a proxy for every account (in case your VDS already been noticed by Facebook);

5. Now you need to use your VDS + IP(proxy) + SIM/Google data to create new accounts;

6. Now let them sleep for a while ( 2 – 4 weeks is perfect);

7. While the account is at holidays, imitate the activity of real persons. But never let them cross or be connected to each other.

8. After the period of holidays is over, you may start submitting the payment info. Some guys run ads from the beginning, but I prefer to let the account rest for a while.

9. Now you need to warm up your account. I do it in several steps. I run some whitehat ads and spend $20-$50 at low budgets. You may do it 2-3-4 times to increase the trust rate;

10. If nothing bad had happened until know, now you may switch to rage mode and start the party!




Ah! Some tips for the affiliates:

- Try not to link your accounts at all. The Big Data works like this: if one account is banned, all the others linked with a banned one lose some trust points. So take care of it.

- Don’t get upset if you are banned. You can never know when the user is angry about your ads. It may even happen immediately. At last, every blackhat account will be blocked one day. So don’t worry.

- You should run a whole cycle of production. Create 2-5 of the accounts every day, and you will be supplied with them 365 days in a year!

- Never let your colleagues see your scheme. Never give your accounts to them and do not even think about taking theirs. I think there is no need to explain this.

- At last, do not piss in the river you gonna drink from. The short term money is not a solution. Today you run post-pay ads and never pay, tomorrow this option will be closed to everyone because of you. You will never build a long term business on it.

- Facebook is profitable. Do not try to make ALL the money in one day. Be patient and consequent. Fortune favors the brave (and prepared ones).


That’s it for now, friends. Hope this material will be useful. And thanks for reading this.

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

How to get high CTR at Facebook Ads



As most of you know, the main value of Facebook ad network is that you may purchase traffic worldwide at low prices. It’s not a secret that the low cost of traffic is the result of high CTR of the ads on an eCPM basis. I mean: the higher your CTR is – the cheaper you get the traffic. It is quite obvious.

So, to gain profit you need to maintain your CTR high-level. There are two ways to get CTR => create aggressive promo (and get banned, lol) or target the audience that fit your product well.

The first way is a death path indeed. I mean, if you run aggressive ads – your ads will be flagged with complaints and abuses. At last, one day you will find your account blocked. The second method is much safer and easy-to-use.

To find the most suitable audience for an affiliate offer I use a tool “Audience Insight” in facebook ad account. You may easily find it.



For years this tool was not useful for most regions and geos. There had been data for the US only. Since now its database is huge enough to provide us with qualitative analyses about almost every geo.


This tool gives you the insight about peoples’ likes, demography, their preferences and behavior. Any SMM-ninja will find it extremely useful, but we mostly need the option “Activity”.



This metric performs the frequency and intensity of social signals of chosen audience towards the posts in the Social Network in general. I mean it shows how people react to posts.

We are interested in the latest parameter “Ads Clicked”. It denotes the average number of clicks made by a user (targeted audience is blue and people on Facebook is gray) in the term of 30 days.

So, the higher frequency of “Ads Clicked” is – the more loyal to ads your audience is, and the more click from your ads you will get. Got it?


How it works:

The screenshot above demonstrates the statistics for all the audience on Facebook in the USA. We can see that average US user clicks Ads up to 15 times per month. Now, by varying different targeting filters, we need to get this rate as high as we can.

For instance, we can easily discover that users in France have average frequency – 9; users in Italy – 16. So if you want to have better CTR for your ads – you’d better look for offers from Italy:




Furthermore, you can discover that women are more valuable than men (20 vs 16):



As well as young women (18-23 of age) are more preferable for us than the ones of age 30-45. 24 vs 20:



You can be setting almost every parameter you can use while making adsets on Facebook.

If you have active fanpages (with a total audience more than 1k of users) that are already in use – you may add them for analysis.

This very tool has one more good option that is called “Page Likes”. Here the pages which most likely will arise users’ interest according to Facebook’s experience are gathered. You may use the pages from this instrument to increase the frequency of “Ads Clicked”. For example, if I set up additional interests for my audience (Italy, female, 18-23) with pages like MTV Italia, MTV music (Italy) and so on, I will receive the highest frequency: 37 and the monthly reach will be high enough to run ads (of about 1M of users):



(Now we have the highest Ads Clicked frequency to start a campaign)

What is more, you can start creating a new campaign from this very tool. Just click a green button “Create Ad” – and all the targeting filters and parameters will go into Ads Manager or Power Editor.


By the way, by experimenting with targeting different geos you will recognize a lot of interesting facts. For example, Russia is like this, lol:



Does that mean Russians never click posts? Definitely, no. Does that mean Audience Insight is giving us shit? I don’t know. Nevertheless, I successfully use it to run ads at high CTR, so I purchase traffic at a lower price.


Just some sad words at the end. No matter how much experienced with tools you are, the first thing to pay attention to is your creative materials. If your ad looks like shit, then not even Zuckerberg himself will help you gain high CTR. So be sure to start with the creative materials.

That’s it for now. Hope it will help everyone here to make money on Facebook.

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

The Ultimate Shopify Guide to Making $100/Day!

Shopify is one of those platforms that I am sure most of you are familiar with and it can be massively profitable. In this guide, I am going to share all my tips and tricks to make a passive income with Shopify.

Like my Teespring thread I shared a while back, this thread is going to be pretty long as I will go through everything I possibly can so that anyone who wants to get started with Shopify or was sitting on the fence can jump in and start banking with Shopify. Heck, I will even go through how you can get started and profit even before you spend a penny from your pocket.

Okay, so let's get started.

Getting Started

In this guide we will be focusing on the dropship model because from my experience it's the easiest and least time consuming. First of all you will need to sign up on Shopify. If you head over to their website you will get an option to get started with a 14 days trial plan but like I said I want people reading this thread to actually apply this whole method so here is coupon code that I found online which will give you a trial for 21 days.

21 days trial - https://www.shopify.com/smart-marketer

In the beginning, I mentioned I will explain how you can be profitable even before you spend a penny. This is a part of that. And if anyone is wondering I am no way affiliated with the link above.

When you go for signing up Shopify will ask you for your email, password and store name. Use your email and pass and in the store name section choose a nice/catchy name which should be something like this, first an adjective like "amazing, awesome etc" then products/store. Hopefully you get the idea. Now one thing to remember is that if you are not gonna use a custom domain for your store, you will have to stick to this name meaning this StoreName.Shopify.com will be your permanent URL and you WON'T be able to change this so if you are going to be using a Shopify sub domain make sure you choose the store name you want when signing up. Then click on online store and on the next page fill up your info. Then you will be asked a series of questions. Answer them with the following -

1. I am already selling online using a different system

2. Amazon

3. $5k to $50k

And click Enter My Store and your store is up and running. You can choose any other option if you want but this is what I choose and I am just making things easier.


Setting Up Your Store

Then once you are on the home page Shopify will tell you everything you need to do in different tabs which will include setting up your shipping setting, tax info, adding products, choosing themes etc. I will go through each of the things you will need to do step by step.

First click on settings on the left and click General and choose your store name which will be the same as the URL and then the two email fields and then the store address. Just fill them up accordingly. Then click on the Payment. There are two payments that you have to include and that's Shopify payments by Stripe which will allow you accept credit cards which will ask you to a series of questions. Answer those questions randomly. They don't really matter but what I have seen a lot of people who live outside US struggle with here is Tax ID and SIN number. Let me tell you that you don't need to worry about these just use random numbers. For those who are wondering you add your Payoneer US payment service here as well. The next thing you will need to choose is Paypal Express Checkout and you are done. Then moving on to Checkout, this part is really a personal preference but I will tell you what I will use.

Customer accounts - optional

Full name - Require first and last name

Company - optional

Apt - optional

Phone number - optional

Keep the rest as it is except select automatically archive my order under after an order has been paid. Then you will see a box that says additional scripts, this is where you will be using your Fb retargeting/conversion pixels. I will explain in a later step. Once you are done with the above go the bottom of the page where you see three boxes (Refund policy, Privacy Policy and TOS) click on generate sample for all three and you are done here.

Now let's move on to Shipping. First you will have your shipping rate, leave it as it is and move on to shipping rates and add them based on weight and add these shipping rates -

0 - 0.9 = $9.99
1 - 1.9 = 14.99
2.0 - 2.9 = 17.99
3.0 - 3.9 = 19.99
4.0 - 4.9 = 21.99

And that should be enough for now. As we will be focusing on a dropship model shipping based on weight will be ideal.


Designing Your Store

Your store design will depend on what niche your products are in but what I would recommend is going for multiple products. Okay so first choose your theme. From my experience the best converting free themes are Classic theme and the Minimal theme. And once you choose the theme you want click on install them and it will get set up. These themes come with everything already set up including the menus, categories and products which you will be editing according to the products you will use. You can modify the theme any way you right but I will just recommend changing the logo and tagline and keep the coloring and stuff same as it is as they are made in a way which will have the highest conversion rate.

You can set up your own custom domain if you want which gives your store a more natural feel but I would say sticking with shopify works just fine but if you want to click on online store and then domains and choose a custom domain.

Now one thing that I would like to put emphasis on is branding and how important it is so you will want a really professional logo as the logo is the first thing someone will see when they come to your site so get a nice logo for your site.

Another important thing that you need to set up is your store navigation which you will find under online store. Page that you need to include About Us, Shipping Info, Contact Us.

Here is a sample of an About Us page. If you want you can use the exact this, just edit out the store name -

Welcome to "Store Name"!

We strive to provide our customer with the best customer service and support and the most convenient shopping experience online.

Whether you are at home at work or on the go you can rest assured that your orders are handled securely and with the utmost care.

All our products are specifically tailored for the customer looking for the BEST DEALS in the latest trinkets and gadgets!

We love hearing from our customers and would love your feedback!

Invite friends/family and loved ones to shop with us at "Store Name"!

And here is a sample for your shipping page -

Shipping depends on the product ordered. For promotional "FREE" items it may take 3-5 weeks to arrive since our items are coming overseas and from different warehouse. For non-promotional items, the shipping can take up to 14 to 30 days. Please allow 14 days before contacting us. No email correspondence will be entered into on the subject of delivery until after this period. This is to allow for any delays in the postal system and to keep email administration down to a manageable level.

And there you have it your store is all done. Next thing you need to do is get products in your store.


Niche Product Research

I could let you spend hours figuring out what products you should put in your store but I am just going to go ahead and provide the niches that worked for me and all you have to do is just copy me. Before I go into it let me mention that you will be targeting keychains, plush toys, lamps, chains, earrings, rings and basically anything in the $1 - $3 mark in Aliexpress. And yes you will be sourcing your products from Aliexpress. Okay so what works best are movie products ( avengers,batman, superman, harry potter etc), anime (my neighbor Totoro, Pokemon) and Tv shows - Game of Thrones (my best selling niche). Now the way you will be finding products is head over to aliexpress and search up the niche for example pokemon then click on the most number of orders. The top products are what others are reselling. I am sure you heard phrase the money lies with the competition. Next you will be adding products to your store.


Adding A Product

Click on Product then add a product. First the title and then the description. Here is an example plush toy listing and how it would look on your site.

Title -

Frozen Sven's Plush Toy

Description -

Take home a limited edition Sven Plush Doll FOR FREE

Normally priced at 14.99. We want you to have it for free!

Order 2 or more to save on shipping.

Only 200 available. **Limit 10 order per person**
Limited time only! Allow 4-6 weeks shipping

Here is how it should look -



Notice that green button? Looks familiar right. That's because Teespring uses the same color and trust me it plays a major part in conversions so set it up similarly. Pricing will be something like $14.99 and discount it to zero. Now head over to aliexpress and add a variety of items to your site. And once you have around 30 products on your site you are done. To make your site look generic you want to add products with different price ranges. Now we get the traffic.

Getting Traffic And Sales

Now remember when I said I will show you how to do this without spending a penny, well this is the 2nd part of that. We will be using Facebook to bring in the traffic. Now Facebook allows you a credit of a certain amount which is more than enough to start getting sales and start banking. Whenever you add a card to your account Facebook lets you advertise right away and bills you once you reach that credit appointed to you by Facebook. So let's up the ad.

First you will need to create a Facebook fanpage under brand/product then sub category website and fill up the about and add a profile picture and add your website URL. Now the aim here is to make a passive income from this so you have to make everything look generic so make sure you put emphasis on the details so everything looks natural.

Now lets create the ad. Go on your page and go to post like this -

Hey Totoro lovers! This is for you!
FREE for a LIMITED TIME ONLY! Just help us with shipping.
Get yours here ➩➩ *link to product*

Not when you make this post Facebook will auto generate images from your site but what I found to be more converting is images like this -



So remove the auto genarated images and switch em up with an image like this.

There is one more step before we finish up your ad setup and that it your target audience. I want everyone reading this thread to actually apply this and scale accordingly so you will need to how to find the right audience for your ads. Login to your ad manager then go to tools and then audience insights. Once it loads click on everyone on Facebook. So let's assume our ad is going to be for the plush toy above so what we will be doing is on the interest tab include everything that related to this product in this case my neighbour totoro and any related pages and as soon as you include them you can see the demographics you will be targeting for your ads. Look for the ones with the highest bar for example lets say female and age 19 - 34 and change it up on the left.

After demographics click on Page likes and then you will see the pages that these people are most interested in and that's by looking at the affinity score which determines how relevant the page is to the audience. The higher the score the more relevant it is. Add those pages on the interest tab on the left. Then save the audience. We will use this audience for our ad. Now create a conversion pixel and paste it in the store where I showed earlier.

Since our post is ready. Go to create ad and click on Increase Conversions On Your Website and name the campaign and then and click on Use a Saved Audience and choose the audience from earlier and choose your pixel. Then for placement choose all platforms and in platforms choose only facebook and feeds. Cross out everything else and Set ad budget to $20/day on the first day (after 12pm set budget to $10 to gain edge rank, then $20 the next day).

After that you will be going to the ad section and here select your page and and the post you made earlier and then click on place order and you are done.

Now since your product is free you will start getting orders in no time and you will get $9.99 for shipping. Assuming your product is $0.99 you will make $9 on each sale! Once you start getting a few sales then follow the scale up section and upsell your buyers with higher priced products. You will need to get 11 sales a day to get 100+ per day which is really easy once you get the hang of it. You can actually make a lot more if you do the upsell correctly. I have had buyers who got the first product for free and went on to purchase $200+ worth of products in upsells.

Scaling Up

Now to scale up add more products and keep testing. Also create different ad sets with different target audiences. Kill the ones that don't convert and keep your top converting ads. You can do this for multiple products. And make sure to milk your top converting ad by increasing you budget. Once $ starts coming in there are few other things you can do to really kick it up a notch and it add apps on your shopify store. The only one you really need is "Yo - display recent sales in real time" which will show recent sales on the left side of your store like this -


This app really boosts sales like crazy. Other things you need to do is add an upsell by adding an upsell app which will allow you to upsell clients on items from the same niche. Also keep in mind you will be making a buyers list from this as well so don't hesitate to pitch other products in the same niche to your buyers.

Once you start to really kill it with this business model you will want to start creating your own products.


Conclusion

Okay that's all. You will be suprised how much you can make with this method. Once people come into your store 70% of these people will buy other things too if you set up everything properly and that is why I said to make your site look as professional as possible and add as many products as you can. I have explained everything in details so everyone can apply this method. If you need any help and have any questions feel free to ask below. Now go and TAKE ACTION!

Monday, August 14, 2017

How I made 1600$ with Facebook comments last month as a newbie

Whatsup my brothers,

So I started my journey in the world of internet marketing in May this year. In the beginning I read as much information as I could on this forum to learn about the trade. I played around with some of the methods here and had some success, but nothing that was really sustainable.

Then I read the great advice that for real success you should use the older methods as inspiration and take the best ideas and tricks from them and create your own new working method. So that is what I did; I took the best parts of the methods and combined them in a strategy that works for me!

Because I feel that I own this success to you guys, I decided to share this method with you!

What I learned:
-How to quickly make good looking scalable landing pages
-How to host them for free
-What doesn't work anymore on Facebook (Like groupspamming etc.)

The Facebook method

- Pick a CPA offer you want to advertize on Facebook
- Generate a static landing page with https://purelander.com/signup and download the page as a .zip
- Upload the .zip on https://pages.github.com/ to host the landing page for free
- Post the link with an account with a custom hashtag (something like #FreeiPhone)
- With another account spam this hashtag everywhere!

People will click on the hashtag and see the post with the link to the landing page you have hosted on Github. Since you aren't spamming any links, it's very hard for Facebook to recognize this as spam.

The limits of making money with this method are based on your ability to post the hashtags on as many places as you can and it's based on the number of parallel landing pages/offers you are running.
Since the hosting is free, it's very easy to rapidly make new landing pages and scale your work.
If you can automate posting the hashtags, you can make even more money. Or maybe find a way to make the hashtag go viral, that means that other people will essentially advertize for you!


I hope this method will help you all and I hope that by posting this I can give something back to this great community!

Have a great day    

Sunday, August 13, 2017

Making $5.5k a month from Movie Streaming website

Hi everyone. On dec 2015 I came around a post in here by greyjoker, about how he made 10K by movie streaming website. It changed my life. I deployed a website on dec 2015 itself and now I'm making about 6K from that website alone. I'm not going to disclose my website, but here's my ad center snapshot.



While greyjoker has composed a perfect tutorial on this thread (I can't link to it since you I'm new here), for a beginner I found getting a VPS, and setting it up and uploading movies way too overwhelming. Needless to say, thank you grey joker for your method, it changed my life.

Not only that, I'm poor. I did not have the money to buy a VPS or even a domain to be honest.

I was adding movie links manually from other websites which itself took at really lot of work, but every time any of those streaming links went down I had to start all over. So i eventually got tired of it and gave up until I came across a stackoverflow. So today I'm just going to tell you how to start small. Your very first streaming website. So lets get to it -

Things that you don't need:
1. Money
2. Coding skills
3. Server or domain

Things that you'll need:
1. Time - First for the initial setup, then just to add movies that you please.

Setting up website: Since we don't wanna spend on hosting, we'll set up our
website using wordpress, blogspot, weebly, wix.
Don't use tumblr as it recently started banning blogs as soons as they see movie streaming embed link on their page.
1. I used blogspot because I was familier with it. But go with wordpress. It's much better.
2. Go to wordpress (com) and sign up there. Use a simple dark theme. Fill in the blanks like site name,url and everything. I won't go into detail about this since there's already so many articles out
there.

How that we have a basic blank wordpress website set up, now we will add movies one by one.
Keep in mind we are only going to add top 50 movies of each year from 2012-16. There's no point going for old movies since it won't get you much traffic.



3. Now add a new post on wordpress. Google <movie name> imdb, ex: batman v superman imdb Go to the first result of google and copy the entire data as shown in the picture above and try to achieve something like this:



To get the image url from imdb just right click on the movie poster on imdb and click "Copy Image address" on the pop up menu. (For chrome)

Now, under Categories & Tags, Add genre names one by one, and also the year for example, add these for tags: Action, Adventure, 2016

Go to youtube search <movie name> trailer, embed that link on your page.

4. Changing the description of the movie: Since the imdb description is widely scraped and used, it'd be better for you to not use that for SEO reasons, just google <movie name> review and skip a few pages of google results to find a less used review and copy it and paste it under on your blog post.

5. Adding stream links:
Google Vidsource API, go to the first result, sign up. On the top menu click documentation, and it'll give you all the details you need to use it.



Example: if you want to add deadpool on your website go to that movies imdb page and check out the url which will have tt1431045 at the end of it.
take a note of the numbers after title/tt in the url, here which is 1431045.

Now as it says in the vidsource api documentation add an iframe
which the url being like at the end

apikey={your api key}&imdbid={movie imdb id}&redirecton=true

and just replace the api key with your key and movie imdb id, which the imdb id that we got before hand. For example to stream deadpool on your page the iframe url would be at the end

apikey=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&imdbid=1431045&redirecton=true

6. A little bit of SEO: I've came a long way from basic on page SEO to 3 Tier backlinking but to keep it simple, you should be doing a decent on page SEO. Otherwise it'll be hard to get any traffic from google. Already a lot of guides on this. But here's some essentials -

a. Go to keywordtool (dot ) io and enter free <movie name> ex: free batman v superman. It'll give you a bunch of keywords. Copy them one by one and use them for the following elements.

i) Post title
ii) Post Url
iii)3 on tags
iv) Anywhere else you can think of. But don't over do it.

7. Monetizing
For this you will need a ad center account. Google it get an account.
Talk to your account manager for this, he'll help you out through out. But to start with this is what you wanna do under the trailer and the actual stream player



To do this google "button png" click on images tab, save the button images you like. Add those on your post. Add links to them (your account manager on ad center will give you these links).

8. Repeat and add movies
Repeat this process and add at least 100 movies within 10 days. If possible more.

9. Getting Traffic
This is the most important and challenging part, but as long as you have patience and will to work, you'll be fine. Here's what you can do -

0. Google "Submit Url" and click on the first result, and submit your url to google (need a google account).
1. Add your links on BestOfStreamingVideo and MovieStreamsites sub reddits on reddit.
2. Make a pinterest, twitter, facebook, google plus (get creative with this list of social networks) page and put your link there. The more pages you have the better.
3. Interlink these social pages. For example, share your facebook fan page over google plus page and so on. Also go to other facebook, google plus fan pages and comment your website links.
4. Google "where to watch free movies" or "sites to watch free movies" (get creative with this keyword) and go on the article pages and ask if they can add your website on their article. Most of the pages will show you that your comment is stuck at moderation, some of them will allow it and some of them will not. Comment on at least 30 pages every day when you wake up (or any other time, just don't skip it)
5. Go on various movie discussion forums (or other forums, get creative) and put a thoughtful comment or post like 'if you liked dead pool you are gonna love the new captain america civil war movie <your link>".

With all this google should index your website (you can check by googling "site:mywebsitedomain.com"). There are a ton of ways to create bank links. Google it, keep doing it. It'll take AT LEAST 2 WEEKS before you get one single visitor from google. Also google "how to get indexed by google" if you find out it's not indexed within the first 4 days of doing this.

Eventually you will get visitors and you will make sales. If you make 4 days a month, that's $2/day which is great for a n00b, at least that's what i earned on my first months.

The whole point of this tutorial is simplicity, to get someone to take action for themselves. Hope you like it. Thank you. Best of luck.

Disclaimer: I did eventually earn money and bought a VPS and started uploading my own movies since last month.

Saturday, August 12, 2017

Facebook Groups, Dating: Still alive, earn 20-30$ a day

So let's start 😉



1. You will need a lot of browsers
http://www.freeadvice.ru/browsers.php

Avoid the stuff of Yandex and mail.ru, as the browsers of these "companies" will cram your computer with all sorts of dubious shit, therefore, it will start slowing down. After all, removing all these useless components is another bane.

Get another browser for this project and never use it for logging in to fake accounts.

Use fake accounts in incognito mode only. There is a function in a browser “Open private window”, so you will be blocked less, and, what is more, it does not store cookies. It’s not quite convenient as it doesn’t keep logins and passwords. Therefore, make a txt file for fake accounts where you will store data: username, password, email password: date of birth. You will log in by copying and pasting data in the browser so make the passwords complex, anyway, you don’t need remembering them.

One more thing, you’d better avoid logging in to more than 5 accounts within 1 browser.

2. Accounts:

2.1. Sign up no more than 4-5 accounts per day with different browsers.

2.2. Create accounts of beautiful girls.

If you can get documents for accounts, so make sure that name, date of birth, gender and city of birth of an account match the document’s data to undergo further verification. You can choose any picture, nobody looks at it. You can choose any city of residence or even skip it. The same goes for city of birth, or choose one in accordance with the documents. BUT it is necessary to make the date of birth private by choosing "only me" in privacy settings.

If a document belongs to a golden ager, that's okay. You hid the date of birth, and there is a beautiful photo of a young girl on the profile picture.

3. How to get traffic?

3.1. The first way is the easiest: on Facebook search for groups called “add”, “add me”, “add me friends”, “add me fast” - well, you understand - any variations of these words.

Join these groups (make no more than 10 requests per day with new accounts). When joined publish simple posts:

Add photo of a girl and type “add me”.

Then wait for friend requests. You will start getting them gradually: the more you add the more requests you get. In 4-5 days you will have 500 requests per day, no less. 5000 is the limit on Facebook.

3.2. Complex way: make friends by-hand or using scripts/programs.

3.2.1. Install the free “https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/intelligence-search/dipfggodcibdmflidbceoaanadclgomm?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog” extension for Google Chrome browser - it can be installed on any browser based on Google Chrome. The same goes for any Google extension for Google based browsers. For example: Coowon, Vivaldi, Uran, Chromium etc.

Facebook does not welcome adding strangers, so now the local network search is a true shit. This extension will perfectly replace the local search to a good one.

How to use it? Click on the extension icon and set the target



There are a lot of settings but for all intents and purposes you need only three of them: city of residence, age (I have more than 25 but less than 60) and gender (male).

Click “Search” and get the results. There's no point adding friends here, as FB shows the most popular profiles. It is more practical to scroll down the results, find some victims, go to their profiles, open their friends section and choose people from there.

3.2.2. Doing it by-hand is easy. Just send friend requests to some people from USA, for example, then open one more browser tab from the friends section of your profile -> Recommendations "You might know these people". If you still do not have it, just send a couple more requests and check again – keep on doing it until you get Recommendations. But don’t send 20 requests at one blow (the fewer you send the better). Ignore all sorts of FB warnings.

3.2.3. Add friends with https://yadi.sk/d/F0exRQfV33xCYJ
carefully read the txt file into the archive, the program itself is full capacity with no cutbacks)

When the program starts off, first Internet Explorer opens. Don’t shut it down until the Blaster is activated. When the Blaster runs, shut Internet Explorer down. Sometimes when starting, the Blaster slows down, and even doesn’t run after Internet Explorer, although it hangs in task manager. There is no one to blame but original programmer. If it happens, I just shut the Blaster down in task manager and start it again - one way or another it will run (it was tried in different Windows).
Set up:



 The button on the screen parses ID's of people offered by Facebook. Of course, 10 are not enough, so we click on “Show more friends” in the Blaster browser and parse page after page. You can’t open all at once and click on the parser just once. When the offers are over and there will be nothing to parse, click “Import”, mark the tick and click start.



When the Blaster sent all friend requests, the list of people you might know will be replenished, so don't waste time and do the whole procedure again - get new ID, send requests, etc. You just need to send about 1000-1500 requests, and, concurrently, switch periodically to the browser where the account is opened and accept all friend requests you get. Don’t do it by-hands, it’s too sad. Just run the script by tab and click “Confirm”.



The script shows 5 requests at the max, but in real life it confirms all. If there are too many requests, and soon you will get friend requests from strangers in vast numbers, just keep in mind to reload the page after each 50 requests accepted and wait about half a minute. Then run it again, make 50, reload and so on. All we need is to get 500-600 friends (no more).
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After 300 accepted requests, Facebook will doubt if you are a robot, so you will be asked to confirm the account by SMS.

Here is the website which will help you to do it for 0.02$ : http://www.smspva.com/

After confirming go to the account settings and remove the number of confirmation, you don't need someone else's phone number in your accounts.

Keep on parsing, sending requests and accepting all the counter requests until you get 500-600 friends.
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Such friending is faster, but every second account is banned – the same for by-hand method.

3.2.4. The method of making traffic in groups, where accounts are friended, is a high-risk group. Such accounts will be banned, so after you gained friends, do the following:

Install this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/invite-all-for-facebook/eopekjehpibhfpjjcokfmhcaeiclddih?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog for Google Chrome and other similar browsers:

Create new account. Send friend request from the account which has a lot of friends to the new one. Accept it.

Then, from the account which has friends (donor) - click “Recommend a friend” on the profile of the new account.





and that button

The script will click it for you very quickly
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Depending on the number of recommendations, after 5 min - 2-3 hours the friends of your account will get recommendations as well, and will begin to click on them thus sending a friend requests. The new account will start getting these requests, so your task is to accept them every 5 min.

Note that the new account will also receive recommendations, so do not confuse them with friend requests, otherwise you get ban.



The more you accept the more traffic offered, so those friends you accepted will bring you many new friends as well.
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3.2.5. When the number of requests grows, it’s getting hard to accept them by-hand.

For this purpose use the following https://yadi.sk/i/DMX83m5b33xAni

This script is a txt file with the code. It is not necessary to install it, but it is necessary to make a bookmark which is any website, click the right mouse button, choose Edit, paste the whole text of that file instead of url, give the bookmark any name (I just write “Script”) and save it.



Now, you just need to click on this tab for making it work on Facebook.



When you launched it, click “Confirm”, so the script accepts 5 by 5 profiles. Sometimes it works very fast, in any case, after each 50 requests accepted, reload the page and wait for 30 seconds. Otherwise you will get ban. Facebook bans for 5 hours, so you won’t be able to accept any friend request.

3.2.6. This method I call “traffic reproduction” - it is very easy to get it this way, and virtually you won’t be banned by Facebook, so I recommend you this method.

3.2.7. This method will give you a lot of traffic very quickly, appearing out of nowhere. An important point is that the traffic collected by the Blaster is of average quality, but the traffic collected by reproduction of friends collected by Blaster is worse than average. Here you can gain quantity, but quality. It all depends on your laziness.

If you're looking for HQ traffic, you need to do the stuff that Blaster does yourself: get 600 friends by sending requests to people from Europe, USA, etc., removing Arabs, Indians and others. Copy friends, but now the traffic made by-hand will be HQ, and copies are of average quality.

3.2.8. An alternative method (freebie)

Go to browser extensions chrome://extensions/
Note the tick “Developer mode”
Download this extension https://yadi.sk/d/UyWNTiJ633P5DQ:
- unpack the archive

In developer mode click on "Load Unpacked Extension" and specify the path to the folder with the extension - Installed - Ok!
The sense of method is to join groups of up to 100,000 participants. Optimally, join 10 groups 3 times a day.

When the account gets a pretty significant number of groups, run this app every day and click the button "Claim as group admin" - it can make you an admin of the group where admins were deleted for violations, or they might deleted themselves for various reasons.





One cannot gain such large groups, but why not getting free traffic? Pay attention! Before you start, it is necessary to switch Facebook language to English (US).

3.2.9. Exchanges. There are many groups on Facebook. Contact owners, offer them traffic. Most of them keep up with it.

Friday, August 11, 2017

Easy $100 A Day - Perfect For Noobs

The thought of starting an online business and turning it into a profitable company that provides you with both financial freedom and independence, is appealing to many. Some want to be able to be their own boss, others want to be able to spend more time with their family, and many want to be able to travel the world while they run their online business.

When I started out, I had no money to invest, so quickly had to learn how to make money from nothing. This was one of the first methods that worked for me, and I've been using it ever since as my various online businesses have grown. I started with around 100 bucks. Here's a screenshot of one of the websites I sold last year where this method had been used in part to build it up to the stage where it was largely hands off at time of sale (disclaimer: this was not an overnight success!)




A lot of people assume that they can't make money online because they don't know how to build websites or rank websites. Well, if you have always wanted to test the online marketing waters but didn't know where to start, you are in luck. This is something that can be done by someone with:

- Little to no technical knowledge (me when I started)
- No coding or SEO knowledge (me when I started)
- No experience with running a website before (me when I started)
- Around $100 in start up cash (you could invest more or less but this is what I recommend)

Often times the simplest ideas will produce the biggest returns, and this is a prime example of how you can take a simple idea and grow it into a profitable online business. No tricks, just hard work.

Here is what you need to do:

1) Identify an evergreen niche

The first thing you need to do is identify a niche, and you want to take three things into consideration when doing this. First, ask yourself if is this a niche that is very popular with a large selection of products or services that will always have a high demand. You don't want to target a niche that has a small demand or is just a fad. Think long-term potential here. Some examples of strong niches with endless opportunity include weight loss products and dating offers. People are always going to want to lose weight and people are always going to be interested in dating. There will never be a shortage of consumers actively seeking these products and services online. Pick the wider niche and not something very specific that could be short-term (e.g. such as the latest celebrity diet).

Second, you will need to make sure that your niche is one that has a lot of high paying offers. You don't want to go through all of this hard work to only make a few dollars per conversion. There are two websites that you can use to help you prospect for niche ideas and also see what offers are available, how popular they are, and finally, how much they pay.

Start with Clickbank or Amazon.

2) Build your website

- Choose a domain name (free with hosting here)

- Here is a simple guide to make your first website.

- If you do not already have hosting, my friends at MonetizePros (who provided the make a website guide) have an exclusive coupon to get a discount on hosting (yes, it's likely an affiliate link, but as it's an exclusive discount and they put the guide together it's nice to help them out!). The first year + domain works out to under 100 bucks.

- Pick a review theme for Wordpress. If you read the full post I have suggested a few in there but feel free to choose your own.

- Create 3-5 review posts. Ideally make these unique and based on real experience using the product for best results. If you're lazy just rewrite from other similar sites.

- Insert affiliate links for the products you are reviewing

3) Promote your website

There are lots of ideas in this thread but a simple way to get started is using a simple Google search (thanks to Freddyjames for the tip):

Google Search Tools (100% Free)

When I first started this method I was using Google Alerts as a semi-automated (and free) solution, but there is a more efficient method to utilize in 2015 (thanks to Gordon for the tip!). Here's how to do this with Google search alone.

Go to Google and search for your keyword. If your keyword is a phrase, put it in quotation marks.
Click on "Search Tools" under the search box.
Change "Any Time" to "Past 24 Hours"
Change "Sorted by relevance" to "Sorted by date" to get the most recent results first.

If you want to search Facebook posts, or any other site, you can also do this on Google by entering the following and changing the time and sort as above:

Searching for: "your keyword" site:facebook.com

Find relevant places that are talking about the product/niche you are in and add valuable comments. If you are adding value, link to your review posts directly.

4) Stay consistent

Popular niches will generate a lot of Google results and a lot of activity through BuzzBundle. A lot of your results are going to come from press releases, new blog posts and forum posts. Keep track of all the URL's on a daily basis -- if you are not finding at least 50 targets a day then you should consider adding some more products and searches. Whenever you receive a new alert immediately visit the URL and leave a response. Act fast, because you can potentially be the first individual to respond, which will attract more clicks.

Not all of your searches will present you with an opportunity to post, but the majority of blogs and forums will have a window of opportunity for you to leave some feedback that directs readers to your website. Now, when you are creating your posts don't just say, "Hey, visit wwwyoursite.com" because that will look like pure spam. Not only will you not receive any clicks, but the website will probably delete your post quickly assuming it is spam.

Put some thought into each reply you make, and try to customize it to directly relate to the post you are responding to. This not only helps you get a better response, but it allows you to fly under the radar of website owners and moderators. So, if you were promoting a diet pill product and responding to a question posted on a blog asking about quick ways to lose weight your reply would want to be crafted this way:

"I was in the same boat as you about six months ago. I had no idea what to believe online because everything seemed to be an advertisement. I actually read a personal review about [your product] and it seemed like the person had great success using the product so I gave it a try. I couldn't have been more excited about the results, as I am now 50 pounds lighter than when I first started using it. The article was very helpful to me -- if you want to check it out yourself you can read it here" [link to your review article]."

Remember, the more products you review, the more traffic you can generate. When you get rolling this directly translates into more sales and profit for your business.

5) Continue to build other traffic sources and you will start to rank in Google

The beauty of this method is that it doesn't rely on SEO but just by setting up a website and creating content, your review posts (and even forum threads/blog posts you've commented on) will start to rank in Google and receive organic search traffic. Not only can you rank the individual review posts, but you can also create additional posts based on long tail keywords and then direct that traffic to the specific review page. Learning SEO is just one of many ways to attract your first website visitors for free. Using Google and BuzzBundle is the easiest way to start producing highly qualified traffic as well as sales. You can then scale up by outsourcing that work and focusing on creating additional organic traffic sources through search engine optimization later on.

To conclude:

Creating a website and scaling it to a six figure per year online business is a very achievable task as long as you know the proper steps to take and don't give up. This method allows you to build a business that produces residual income and starts to produce revenue almost instantly. You don't have to wait months for expensive search engine optimization to kick in -- and you don't have to worry about Google rankings and avoiding penalties and algorithm changes. In fact, you don't have to rely on ranking in Google at all to be successful with this method!

FAQs

Q) How long until I start to make money?
A) Usually within a week of consistent posting and commenting you should start seeing traffic and hopefully sales
Q) I can't afford a domain!
A) It's free with hosting here
Q) How much can I make?
A) Many people in this thread have been making $10-100/day. Others have scaled and some have even sold their websites (like I did).
Q) I have never made a website before, how do I do it?
A) Follow this guide
Q) Which host should I use? Are there discounts?
A) Try this coupon for 60% off
Q) I keep getting banned, what should I do?
A) Keep trying and move onto other sites. Make sure to add value and not just spam your link with your first comment
Q) Can you mentor me?
A) No, but feel free to ask questions here

Thursday, August 10, 2017

250-500/day Step by Step YouTube Method

Ive been a lurker around this forum for a very long time. I've personally have had a few 600+ days with this method alone. But i bet some of you can beat my record. This method sparked my interest today after a saw a post here on BHW about the kind of links i was promoting back then on DJKhalid's channel. I've noticed a huge surge of people using this method these days so definitely this is one of the few rising newbie-friendly methods.

Alright, lets get into it.
I wont be posting this tutorial with a lot of images. But i feel like the ones who really need this method don't need to be completely spoonfed.

Requirements:
-CPA/CPI network account
-A general LP such as "Free gift cards"
-Patience
-Comment like bot/Panel such as this panel this is the only part where you will have to spend any money. Or you can try to mass like your comments manually but you will turn 90 by the time you send 1k likes to a single account that way. blackhatworld.com/seo/youtube-upvote-panel-unlimited-usage.886163/ (I can't direct link because of post count)
-Few Youtube accounts (You can make multiple channels out of them)

1) Register to a cpi/cpa network. If you are lazy or just want to get started quick join OGads they provide you with free LPs.

2) Grab the "GiftCardRebel" landing page. It will look like this. Or you can get your own LP and have a even better conversion ratio. Either way will work. Lets just start with this one to get you started.



3) Now, start searching for videos that get crazy amounts of views within a few hours. Don't target old videos. Fresh videos is where the money is at.

4) You can be smart about it and make a list of few large uploaders and keep a track of their upload schedule. Or just go with some sites that show stats. Anything that floats your boat.

5) Test different ways of promoting. Look around for different large channels. Your goal is to not have your comment ghosted. Check back and forth between an incognito window whether your comment is ghosted.
The key here is to try different ways of commenting till you find the one that bypasses youtube filters.

6) Here are some examples of bypassing the youtube filters:




There are tons of more just look around. Most usually stick around for a few hours after the upload because that's when the video gets the most views. Which means more views to your comments and as a result more conversions. Its a simple concept. You just got to be creative with how to avoid getting ghosted.

FAQ:
How do i get the comment's url!?
-Rightclick on the timestamp.

Can you help me personally in inbox?
-No, comment here.

I tried multiple times but didn't make much profit.
-Here's a hint. Select your targets properly and don't bother posting on a video once its been 24 hours since upload.

Enjoy.

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Make $1000 a Month With Amazon - Newbie Friendly

Onto the method...

Following the success of some previous methods I have written, I decided to spend some time putting a new one together that has a higher chance of success. There are no "tricks" in this guide and no silver bullets. This is for people serious about making money who are fed up trying "methods" that work for a week and then stop. You will not make a million dollars overnight, but it is certainly possible if you're willing to work hard. The guide also helps you build up a small website business with REAL value that can eventually be sold.

Yeah, yeah! You run a business, no-one works for free!

This method is ideally suited to people who have not started making consistent money online (or want to add a new revenue stream) and would be happy reaching $1000/month within 6 months (with 1 site). It is possible to scale this method and make more but the initial guide is aimed at those getting started without much to invest. We'll be using the Amazon.com affiliate program.

- You have at least $100 to start
- You are willing to work at least 20 hours to start (not all at once) and then 3 hours per week
- You have the ability to write content (or buy it)

I will be writing more advanced guides for those with more cash to invest upfront ($1000+) but this is a great way to get started and can easily be scaled once you've got something making money consistently. Followed correctly, you should make around $30,000 in the first year (assuming you decide to sell the site).

Before releasing this method, to prove anyone can do it, I have been working with a friend on this to ensure the instructions were easy to follow. He had:

- No cash beyond the initial $100 to start
- Never made $1 online
- Never made a website before
- A full-time job
- A few hours per week spare

His site launched in December and his earnings since (following this method and no cheating by doing extra work - he really is very lazy!):




The aim of this guide is as follows:

- Teach you how to choose a niche
- Teach you how to create your first website
- Teach you how to research keywords and write the initial content
- Teach you best practises for setting up the website
- Teach you to drive traffic to the website
- Teach you to get to $1000/month within 6 months
- Teach you how asset value works so you can eventually sell the website after 12 months for $XX,XXX.

It is important to follow the steps in order - don't just jump ahead if you're feeling lazy or it will not work.

Phase 1 - Choosing a Niche

To keep things simple, this guide does not focus on SEO or keyword research which are whole skills in themselves. For beginners, I do not believe it is necessary to do this to start making initial sales and it keeps costs down as you don't need to buy fancy keyword research tools. If you do have experience with keyword research, feel free to apply this here. Most people waste months trying to find a niche - my advice is just to get started. The person who started 6 months ago will always beat the guy who has just found the "perfect" niche.

Here's what to look for in a niche:

- Something evergreen and not seasonal. Not a product that will be going out of fashion any time soon. If you are not sure, use Google Trends - ideally the niche you choose will have a stable/steadily growing line and consistent all year.
- Products in the $50-1000 range on Amazon. Ideally your niche will have products at various price levels so you can target various visitor demographics. Don't just choose expensive products and don't just choose cheap products or you will struggle to make the money I discussed at the beginning of this method.
- Don't pick a niche that is categorised as "electronics" on Amazon. Check out this page to ensure the products you choose are not in a fixed fee structure below 8%. The vast majority of products/niches on Amazon will be subject to the "General Products" commission tiers (table 2 on that page) - they are the ones you want.
- Something you are interested in. When starting out, it helps if you are interested in the niche - this will help with content and promoting the site. Don't just pick a niche you know nothing about when you don't have cash for outsourcing.
- Pick a niche that is big enough to have at least 20 products with more than 50 reviews. If in doubt, just find something from the best sellers section: http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers/zgbs
- Pick a relevant domain name (do not register it yet). Again, don't spend too long on this. Just pick something that is available, simple and ideally a .com/.org/.net. You can even pick something quite brandable for your niche.
- Pick a reasonably broad category. We are not building a micro-niche site so no need to worry about finding something with zero competition.

Example niche (I have not tested this niche, nor should you use it):

Mattresses.

Consistent in Google Trends:




Products in the $50-1000 range on Amazon. Many have more than 50 reviews:




I like to sleep, so this would be a good niche to start with. SEO gurus might say "oh but this niche is too competitive" - but that doesn't matter. We're not trying to rank #1 for every keyword in the industry and it is not required to make $1000 a month. We just need to sell a few mattresses a day to hit our target!

Domain wise, most people will hear you need an exact match domain and just look for "bestmattressreviewsin2016.com" or something boring like that. I would go with something less spammy looking and that feels more personal and authoritative. I can see "sleepwellexpert.com" is free - so that could be an option. Again, don't waste too much time on this! Time is money.

Once you have chosen your niche, move onto Phase 2!

Phase 2 - Building Your Website

Unfortunately, I am not the most technical person in the world so I asked a friend of mine to write up a detailed guide instead.

Click here to read the guide.

To complete phase 2 you need to:

- Register your domain name you identified in Phase 1 above.
- Buy your web hosting
- Install Wordpress (do not worry about choosing a theme at this stage!)
- That's it!

Do not use free hosting at this stage and with the deal my friend negotiated you do not need to settle for a .info domain like many do as they are cheap.

By the end of Phase 2, you should not have spent much more than $100 unless you decided to go for a more powerful hosting package or pay a few years in advance to get a better deal.

Once you've done all that you're ready for Phase 3. Congratulations!

Phase 3 - Keyword Research and Content

By this stage, you should have chosen a niche and setup a website following the instructions in Phase 2. If you've not done this, go back to Phase 1 and 2.

The first thing to do is some basic keyword research for the niche you have chosen. For the purposes of this method, we are not worried about competition, although if you do have more advanced keyword research knowledge, feel free to look for lower hanging fruit.

By this stage you will have niche with hopefully some different types of products and brands within.

Setup a spreadsheet using Excel or Google Sheets to keep track of ideas.

"Brand name" - is a brand in your niche.
"Product type" - is a different type of product in your niche.

Here are some keyword ideas you can work with:

Best [product type] [niche]
Best [product type] for [relevant task]

In the mattress niche I used earlier, this could mean I have (look at best sellers in your category):

Best memory foam mattress
Best mattress for back pain

And so on. I use SEMrush to come up with keyword ideas:




At this stage, find 5-10 main keywords to target. It's easiest to go with the keywords with highest searches first, but if you're good at keyword research you might want to look at competition, too.

On my friend's site, the keyword with the most searches was the focus of the site (homepage). The other keywords will be used to make extra pages.

At this stage, you need to either write the content yourself or outsource it.

Here's what you will need:

1x 2000-5000 word article on the "main keyword" (usually most searches). This should be a "buyer's guide" or similar about the niche. Keep it informative with everything they need to know about the niche. For example, for the mattress buyer's guide:

How to Choose a Mattress
Mattress Types
Posture/Back Pain Considerations
Mattress Sizes
Mattress Care
Mattress Toppers and Protectors

This article should mainly be informative but should include a few products throughout, including one (I use the best seller on Amazon) for this that will be recommended above the fold. With mattresses, the best seller is here - this can always be changed later so don't worry too much at this stage.
4-9x 1000-2000 word "best" articles.

These articles should follow a simple layout:

200-500 words introduction
200-500 words about 3-8 products in that category
200-500 words conclusion & final recommendation

Using the example of "best memory foam mattress" would write an introduction about memory foam mattresses, recommend 3-8 different mattresses with a description on each (make sure these are sold on Amazon, if in doubt, filter by best-sellers) and then a recommendation at the end.

At minimum, you'll end up with 6000 words with 23,000 on the high end. For beginners, starting with 6000-10,000 is fine.

Keep the articles saved in Word/Google Docs and then move to Phase 4.

Phase 4 - Website and Persona Setup

By this stage, you should have chosen a niche, bought your hosting/domain and have the initial round of content written.

There are lots of different strategies for setting up a site at this stage but to keep things simple I will focus on one. If you're a more advanced reader, feel free to tweak as you want. This is the method my friend has been using and I have brokered the sale of millions of dollars in value of Amazon affiliate sites following something similar.

The main principles of setting up the site are:

- The site should look like a blog setup by an individual or couple (not commercial)
- The site does not have to have an award winning design. Simple is great
- The site should be "run" in a personal way
- The content does not all have to be something you can make money on. On my friend's site, he's written various random posts about the topic that don't have ads/affiliate links in

The first step is to create a person (or people) who run the blog. Ideally it should be amateur but still an authority. For example, if your chosen niche is mattresses, you could choose someone who talks about having back pain. Use a stock photo (that looks like a real person!) and write up a bio. You *can* use yourself as the expert/blogger but this would make it much harder to sell the site so I would not recommend this, even if you know about the subject you've written about.

At this stage you should also create an email account (I would use a gmail account - [nameofyoursite}@gmail.com or similar is fine. If you have time, also create a Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest account for your "blogger". The more time you spend making the accounts look legitimate, the better.

The second step is to get the blog setup. By this stage you should already have installed Wordpress. Next step is choosing a template. You do not need to choose a premium template! I like simple templates that seem like they would be used by a random person setting up a blog - and these convert really well for me. If you went with SiteGround any of their free themes would be fine:
https://www.siteground.com/wordpress-hosting/wordpress-themes.htm or from https://wordpress.org/themes/ - just make sure it fits the style of your persona and is clean and simple.

Once you've installed the WP theme you've chosen create the following pages:

- About us/me (this should have your blogger's bio and picture)
- Contact me/us (contact form to your gmail account)
- Disclaimer page stating you are an Amazon affiliate (here's a useful article on this)

There are a number of plugins you can use, depending how you want to set your site up (don't always copy everyone else, you want your site to look unique!) but I would suggest:

- Yoast SEO
- SumoMe
- WP External Links
- Pretty Link Lite
- Google Analytics
- Askimet
- 404 to 301
- WP Super Cache
- All In One WP Security

Once you have done this, you're ready to add your articles! Your chosen theme might require some tweaking at this stage but don't worry about exactly copying the layout I suggest - as long as you don't completely change the approach.

Your homepage should have your "pillar" article. I don't show any other articles on the homepage at all. If you prefer your homepage to be a navigation (newspaper style) this is up to you and you can put the pillar article somewhere else.

Once you've got the pillar article set as the homepage (you may need to Google how to do this depending on the theme you've used) use the Yoast SEO plugin to optimise it for your chosen "best" keyword. Yoast is not perfect but it easy to follow. You should aim to get an overall "green" result - but don't worry about getting green with every section.
Your main keyword (the one with the most searches, or least competition if you have done more advanced keyword research) should also be the title of your site. So in Google it will look like [site name] - [best keyword].

Your homepage should look something like the below (please excuse the MS Paint skills!)




Once you have the pillar setup, it's time to add the other blog posts. If you've followed the rest of the guide properly you should have 4-9 at this stage. You can either put them in a category or just have them as sitename.com/[post-name].

When adding a title/URL for the blog post, I like to go with something personal sounding. "What is the best mattress for back pain? I found it!" is better than "best mattress for back pain".
Your article should start with an introduction, then have mini reviews/descriptions of 3-8 products and then a conclusion. At the end of the first paragraph, link out to Amazon (use Pretty Links or a raw Amazon affiliate link) and say something like "spoiler alert - check out the best mattress here". This is for lazy people who don't want to read the whole article and will increase your CTR.

When you're describing products further down, try to use an image each time and link out to Amazon at least once per product. Do not mention the price as this is against Amazon TOS. At the end of the article you should also link out to your favourite product in that category and WHY! Don't just end the article without telling people what to buy. A list of "top 10 mattresses" will not convert as well as an article where Brian (with back pain) has written about various mattresses and spoken about the one he found best from his own experience! Once you're done, make sure to get it green with Yoast, too! Whilst we're not expecting any organic traffic early on, it helps to have it well optimised from day one.

Once you have all the posts written, link out from the pillar article to each page using the target keyword as anchor text. So if your pillar is "The Ultimate Guide To Finding The Best Mattress" and you have a sub-article on "best mattress for back pain" you would link out to that post.

If you've written any other posts - now is a good time to add them. On my friend's site, he wrote a "welcome to my blog" post with an introduction from his "blogger" - makes it sound personal and looks like a real site to the average visitor/Amazon/competitors rather than a site built purely for the purposes of making money.

Congratulations, you've just finished Phase 4! At this stage you should have a functional website, content, a "blogger" persona and all the initial plugins installed. Make sure you have Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools configured at this stage. Do not worry about making the site perfect - it can be improved with time. It's much better to get it launched and start driving traffic than worrying about how to improve conversions on a site that gets no traffic!

Phase 5a - Driving Traffic - Forums

In my experience working with people looking to start new sites (whether they are beginners or more experienced) one of the most important aspects is seeing revenue early on.

One of the reasons this method has not been focused on SEO is that it is a long-term strategy that if done properly (not using PBNs etc.) will take 6+ months to start seeing results. Whilst following this method will also help your site attract organic traffic - it is not the main purpose. Organic traffic is a by-product of doing everything else well.

There is no single traffic source that you should use at this stage - it will really depend on your niche and target audience. I've seen some niches that work well with Facebook, others that don't. Some that work well on Twitter, others that don't etc. The key is to test!

What we are going to be focusing on is answering questions that people are asking about our niche. Simple but effective. I always like to start with forums as there are usually so many out there so it doesn't matter if you aren't effective (or even get banned) on some of them.

At this stage, find 10 forums relevant to your niche and register accounts at each. Ideally, you should spend a few minutes on each forum checking if people are asking questions/there are threads about products you have reviewed. Going back to the earlier mattress example this could be:

"I am not sleeping well. Any ideas to help??"
"Just moved house. Looking for a new bed and mattress. Suggestions?"
"What is the best memory foam mattress?"

If it looks like there are relevant threads, register an account. Don't spend ages on each at this stage. 5 of your forum accounts should also relate to your blog. Don't use the name of your site as your username, use the name of your "blogger". Maybe add some numbers in there if necessary. Fill out your profile properly on each forum. The other 5 accounts you setup should be completely random usernames so there's no way of people knowing you are related to your blog/site.

Most forums have an introduction forum - so go post over there. DO NOT LINK from your first post (or on your first day) as this is likely to get you banned. Once you've done all of this, wait!

While you wait, I would recommend starting a Google Sheet/Excel document to track your Q&A. On this you should have a column for:

- Date/Time
- Site name
- Type (e.g. forum)
- Live? (i.e. is the link live?)
- Target page (on your blog)
- Site URL

If you are doing this method properly, you should end up with lots of different sites with varying results. Most will not work at all. You do not have to worry about this. On my friend's site, he only has 3 answers that have done well and continue to bring in traffic today.

These pages have also naturally begun to pick up organic traffic which only helps earnings. This is why it is important to track using a sheet.

At this stage, you should have 10 different forum accounts, all with a nice complete profile and an introduction post. Each forum will have different rules (if you have time, read them!). Some will let you link in your first post, some won't let you add a link for 30 days. Some will be easy going on new members, others will be very sceptical and unlikely to let you link at all.

Go back to each forum and start answering questions about your niche. I would recommend replying to 1-3 random threads first (no linking to your site, only authority sites if it's relevant like Wikipedia). This will mean when a moderator looks at your account, they don't immediately think you are just spamming your site.

When you do find a thread/post about your niche, test answering in different ways. If answering as your blogger:

- Long responses with a link within the post.
- Short responses with a link to your relevant blog post as further reading. E.g. "Great question. Hard to answer this on a forum so I put together a blog post for you here..."
- Answers where you disagree with the original question. E.g. "no you don't need to spend $1000 on a mattress, here are some you can buy for less than $200"
- Answers where you agree with the question and post a link to your best post. E.g. "Choosing a good mattress is really important, I get much more sleep since choosing mine. I personally have a [brand name here] but have written about some other options here: [your link]

When answering as your blogger, keep it casual but act like an expert in your niche/topic and refer back to personal experience.

If answering with the anonymous accounts you setup use answers like:

- I was looking for [niche name] recently. I bought a [product name] thanks to a recommendation from [your blog post about this]
- Great question. I did a lot of research on this. Here are some useful posts I found [link to your site and an authority site like Wikipedia/news sites]
- I've done a lot of research on this. Here's what I found: [copy part of your article] and then link to your article at the end
- Start a new thread entirely and say you are researching a product and what do people think of [your buying guide]

Within your first week of doing this, you should have 10 forum accounts with 3-5 posts on each. You can do more if you like (especially replying to your threads). Now just wait and update your tracker sheet to see which links are still live (expect some to be removed). After your first week of posting you should have made at least 1 sale with Amazon.

Next will look at some other traffic sources, but forums should be a good place to start and get your first sale.

Do not move onto other traffic sources until you have sold at least 1 product on Amazon!