Well, almost But the principle of the current mission is clear: To bring as many profitable websites into production as possible and to maximise profity by the sheer mass of sites.  The typical arbitrage game it is.

I kind of like it, as it gives me quite some insight into how the mechanisms work together: AdWords punishes me for selecting too many keywords at too low bids for too irrelevant sites. AdSense punishes me for displaying too many ads with a too low CTR on a site with too much duplicate content (clicl-through-rate). So, punishment from all sides, but that is what the whole game is about

This is probably the lowest you can get while making money on the internet.

But who cares, as long as there is a chance to get some decent figures going I got three sites to almost make the ultimate target of a dollar a day. Others will probably stay at 10-cents but that is ok for the moment being. 300 sites times 10 cents make $900 a month as well.

But don’t get wrong impressions here. This is no easy path to glory, by far not. I worked solid 14 hours today to bring another 16 sites online and that is without optimization for the keywords. There was some work on optimization of the workflow involved including reprogramming some scripts I stole paid-for and re-use

Basically, these are scripts that someone sells as adsense empowered minisites. The trick is, that these are basically mini-content management systems and as I am more intelligent than 90% of my fellow adsense-site-buyers, I quickly decided to make a generic version in order to be able to produce these mini-sites myself so that I would not have to buy them. This speeds up the deployment process as I would not have to deal with the design of the pages but only with providing three graphics (background, header and some buttons) and the articles.

As I was analyzing the scripts to “neutralize” them, my suspicious eyes caught plenty of fishhooks that had been left by the programmers. Button graphics for the rss-feed would be loaded from their site, some “clickfraud protection” script would transmit every click to their site as well and on top of that, the admin interfaces buttons were all hosted on their site as well. Very nice source of information, as these guys would know exactly which of their released sites is really performing and which niche is profitable.

BUT they have not counted in viscous S. I tracked  the developers down and am now copying their 300 sites which they did setup without securing them to be safe from leecher scripts. This way, I get content for 300 AdSense sites delivered for free and have worked on that material to produce the 16 sites of today. As H. is playing dead and not responsive I have to do all the work myself for the moment being but that is allright as I will keep the profits then myself as well

So, once this is done, i feel like I should write my own “how to get rich THE REAL WAY” ebook. Honestly. I could even provide the scripts for building your own killer adsense sites BUT before that, one killer category in arbitrage waits to be mastered first. The hunt for the high priced any paying keywords. As I have now figured out  how to attract trafiic with pying not more than 5 cents a click to convert into 100% profit, I would like to get the 12$-clicks by setting up a site or even only a page, that does exactly serve only one purpose: To lure the high paying adcopies to appear on my site.

That’s a quite different discipline than what I am playing right now, but I feel that in a weeks time I might have learned enough to tackle the next step. I need to finish now, as 4  more sites wait to get ready. Cheers.

This is a really short update, although i have missed my duties for two days straight already.

However, this is good news, as there are reasons for this as always

First of all, we are working very, very hard. Well, it is mainly knowledge work, but as some of you might know, that can just be as hard as real physical work

So, what is it, that we are working on so hard? Simple: Becoming professional internet marketeers.

I have no idea, why I have not dealt with that topic for such a long time as this is somehow, what business on the internet is really about. At least you should know all about the applicable mechanisms and methodologies: SEO, SERP, Affiliate Marketing to name just a few but the more important.

Of course, this market is just filled to the brim with the most ridiculous offers and claims coming from self-proclaimed marketing guru’s who just want to sell you their latest, overpriced book. But then again, if you take a close look at some of those books (which you can get on usenet for a bit less than the usual $47.77 ;)) you see despite the stupid sales-letter rubbish, that some of those guys actually seem to have a bit of a clue of what they are talking about.

Well, they o not teach you for sure how to get rich in 30 days in a step-by-step manner.

But I have to admit, that they at least reveal anything you should know about what to do in order to be that successful. The reason that most people still fail then is imho pure social-darwinism. they either lack the motivation, the money or the intellectual capabilities.

Analyzing markets for sales opportunities, designing well-formed ads and building targeted keyword-lists is hard and honest work. Furthermore it is work, that requires some skills and some analytical capabilities. That alone however is still not a guarantee for instant success but it is very helpful along the way.

So, what do we have to do with all of this all of the sudden?

Still on our mission: To make money. We will take some of our hard earned cash and start investing it in little chunks into AdWord-Campaigns to promote products and to cash in the affiliate commission paid.
This will for sure be something that will keep us busy throughout December, so let’s stick to this topic a bit.

Now, as there are some 1.000 pages waiting for me to be read, I will go to bed. Have a good night

Well, I know that the stock markets have something very similar to playing the lottery. With regards to this, I made a nice fortune yesterday. Unfortunately it was all paper trades and totally unintentionally as well.

Pimping MySpace Profiles

It all happened while pimping the profile of our investment banking stud, Mark. Remember: Mark is our fake profile we use for testing the marketing on myspace.com. Anyway, while playing with badder adder (the tool to add friends automated and on the fly) I focused on getting other investment bankers. So, I “befriended” this guy, called “Wallstreet #1 Trader”. Right, he sure is. Yesterday, he wrote me a mail. ” so what is it that you guys are buying and feel real bullish on “.

Right. What is it, we guys at Merril Lynch (where Mark works) are bullish on. As always, Google is your friend. “bullish stock pick”. This led to “GROW”. The first hit, was the chart for GROW. U.S. Global Investors Inc.

So, I gave him GROW.

Today thoguh, I got a reply. “nice pic on GROW”. I am sure, he meant nice pick, so I checked GROW. And guess what? Right. GROW grew 11.31%. Nice pic(k) indeed. Unfortunately, I wasn’t in.
Making eBay progress

It was anyhow a successfull day, as we finally resolved our eBay issues. We are cleared for cross birder trades. This morning, I contacted eBay Singapore via live help and finally got to a competent person. They quickly checked for my credentials and as they were correct, she cleared me. So, this is done. Finally, I feel so relieved.

As I will be out for 2 days, the first trade will not start before Saturday evening.

Technical Hickups

The script we need to get to work for our viral marketing story has some hickups due to the mail functions used. They use sendmail, which is as usual, not allowed on our webservers. So, I have to modify the script to run with MailFactory. i am successfull so far, have rewritten the mail routines and am testing right now. I will become a great php programmer one day

As I am tired as hell and have a hell of a day tomorrow as well, I will hit bed now and jumpstart into business on the weekend. See you all, no posts tomorrow, so stay tuned for the weekend show