How to Make Money The Honest Way

I can’t believe Christmas just came and went and now its almost New Years eve and I haven’t posted anything in The Honest Way blog since the 24th!

My profoundest apologies but there has been so much going on lately that I have had to spread myself pretty thinly between established blogs, new blogs and websites and my new hobby of buying pre-owned domains and setting them up into working websites.

That last is what has really kept me busy as it is very time consuming setting up new sites and playing around with them to get them into a semblance of order so that people will actually want to visit them!

They’re all slotting into different niches, as far away from the crazy overloaded competition of the make money niche as I can possible get them. That’s to give myself a fighting chance to make money from the niche affiliate side of things – trust me there is more money to be made in the niches than in make money! If that doesn’t sound like a contradiction in terms!

So for now, there will be slightly fewer posts in here, unless of course I trip over some ground breaking news or great money making technique that you’ll benefit from hearing about honestly in the place that tells it as it is!

Happy New Year to everyone and may 2008 be the year that you hit your first million!

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

          

I’d like to say a very happy Christmas to all the people who stop by here and read my ramblings, brain storms and ideas. I hope you all have a great holiday and enjoy yourself wherever you are.

Remember, if you don’t get what you want, then you’d better hope you want what you get!

Merry Christmas!

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

          

Aha, thought that’d get your attention!

As my last “experiment” into the world of hot product affiliate marketing bombed as you’ll read in my last post (Canned Article on Get Google Ads Free!), my attention was diverted into a potentially much more lucrative opportunity.

I found out how to get my hands on some decent PR without having to wait a couple of years and work my backside off writing a guzillion articles and begging, borrowing or stealing back-links from all and sundry.

How?

Now you may think I just found the holy grail of Internet Marketing when I tell you that I just tripped over this nugget of solid gold, but the actuality of it is much more mundane. I’m being quite honest in that I know how to get fast PR on a site, but I’m being a little coy here in order to get your saliva glands dripping in anticipation first!

Ok, I’ll spill the beans. It’s not as if I just invented some back door way of circumventing the system or anything. In fact there are already several marketers that I know already doing this right now and because this knowledge has exploded into the domain of public knowledge, competition is suddenly making this more difficult to achieve, but I have done it. Where did this information first spring from? Vic’s place at Blogger Unleashed! If you haven’t already heard about it, check it out.

I’ve got my hands on a PR6 site and it only cost me a years registration fee and an extra $5 to buy the domain. Ah, I can see you’re catching my drift. That’s right, I found out that you can buy ready made domains that the owners no longer want – thousands of them are available at an given time. If you head over to GoDaddy you’ll see them listed for sale in their domain auctions section.

You can bid on expired domains (or soon to be expired) and they start at $5. Of course the really good, useful and keyword relevant domain names go for much more as niche marketers bid against each other and push the price right up into the thousands of dollars. But if you have the patience to sift through all the $5 domains and research the ones that you think might be useful to you, then you can come away with the odd bargain in a well aged domain that already has some PR.

There are lots with PR1, PR2 and a good smattering of PR3s if you look hard enough. These domains in themselves are valuable in that they can be developed into higher PR sites over a 3-4 month period without the worry of being sandboxed by Google, because of their age.

If you’re wondering about that, Google will often send a new site to the sandbox if they think it is growing too fast and may be a spammer site. That doesn’t tend to happen with domains that are over 2 years old, so buying an expired domain gives you the chance to develop a site quickly and start making money from it.

All sounds good, doesn’t it? And it is there for the taking. The only snag is that it takes a huge amount of time and patience sifting through the thousands of domains for one that has some age and PR, because GoDaddy doesn’t tell you any of that – you have to research each domain yourself with whois info to ascertain age and that the domain isn’t blacklisted or anything nasty and the Google toolbar to find out if it has any PR.

So what about this PR6 site?

Yep, I found a PR6 domain that is set to expire in a couple of days and have paid the princely sum of $5 plus another $9.95 to register it for a year, so assuming the current owner doesn’t suddenly pop up at the eleventh hour and decide he want to keep it, it will transfer into my safekeeping on the 22nd.

Just think of all the things you could do with a PR6 site!

Linking to your existing sites to boost their own PR is one for starters. Developing a wordpress blog on there in an affiliate niche to ram it up onto the first page in Google and make some serious money is another.

Or I could squander it for a fast return on my meagre investment and write a brace of high paid reviews and make a couple of fast $grand before the big G finds out and slaps it down. Mm, that actually appeals to me but I think I’ll keep looking to find some more PR6 domains first so I’ve got some for the long term as well.

Interesting?

You bet!

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

          

Get Google Ads Free? Well this is another fine mess you’ve gotten me into Stanley!

So much for the clever marketing ploy and the push for traffic to start selling this affiliate product I just spent all that time reviewing and promoting and writing about in my last posts here:
Affiliate Promotion: Get Google Ads Free – My Review.

Ezine Articles are a great site and I’m not putting them down in any way, but they stopped my review article dead in its tracks because they don’t like the fact that it reviews a book that claims to get Google ads free!

Never mind that the article is actually a review, they won’t approve it because they think it suggests that you can get Google ads free, which of course is nonsense and the review even says as much! I’ve told them what it is all about, but they don’t seem to want to budge, so it looks like that side of the promotion has stalled.

Oh well, every silver lining has a cloud!

Now to turn it around. I’ll have to box a little clever here to get some blog posts up onto page one of the search engine results for the keyword get Google ads free. To do that will need some keyword heavy posts in a couple of PR3 blogs to get up there and hopefully attract the traffic that way. So apologies in advance for the frequency of bolded phrases like get Google ads free. It’s just that is the only way to get this post up past all the other sites vying for the first page.

So what have I to report on so far with my Get Google Ads Free affiliate campaign? Well, GoArticles have been kinder to me and the article: The Amazing Truth About Get Google Ads Free, has been published up there. If you want to have a look at it, just click the link and you’ll open a new page or tab and you can even vote for it (if you like it, that is!)

So the bottom line, have I made any sales of Get Google Ads Free?

Nope. So far the traffic simply hasn’t turned up probably due to the ezine articles submission not getting approved yet, which was the hinge for all of this happening. They are probably the only top ezine that are strict about duplicate content, so while the GoArticles version was spun to be different, my plan was to then submit that version unchanged around some more less discerning article databases, but was waiting on approval.

What the heck, I’ll do that anyway now as I can’t waste time arguing with the editors at ezine articles – I’ll just have to pull the article off there and put it up somewhere else.

As for the other promotional methods, well I learned a clever trick for getting a blog post indexed in about six minutes AND up onto the top page of a low competition results page at Google, so that’s what this post is actually doing right now! Thanks to Vic at Blogger Unleashed for the tip.

See you on Page 1…

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way