May 17, 2012

Media Breakaway ordered to pay MySpace 6 Million

MySpace has won another lawsuit against a spammer Scott Richter and his Web marketing company, Media Breakaway LLC of Westminster, Colorado. MySpace has been aggressively targeting people who spam their website. This is just an example of how a good thing gets abused by Internet Marketers. It was not too long ago that eBooks on how to market to MySpace and even software that helped you do this was sold throughout Internet Marketing forums all over the web. As a result you have MySpace fighting back and winning.

A lot of marketers do not think about these types of things when they post how to do something to generate traffic and then others start abusing the methods until they are worthless to everyone. That is one reason I don’t sell eBooks on the techniques I use to generate traffic. I publish posts at times that give some insight into methods I use, but i don’t publish my best secrets. Well I might once a lot of people start to figure it out and then I’m on to something else while others are spamming an otherwise effective method to the point that it does not work any longer. Wake up people and keep some secrets to yourself. You can make more money long term from the traffic than you can short term from an eBook.

 

Amazon Mechanical Turk

I’m always looking for other methods to earn money on the web and Amazon Mechanical Turk has some capability to earn a little bit or cash, but a better use for it is to get low cost workers to help you with your web promotion. Basically it works like this you sign up for an account and either request to be assigned an Amazon Mechanical Turk for you to perform a hit on. A Hit is basically an action. It can be as simple as providing feedback or it could be a blog review. The reviews are where it gets useful as you can us it to help build up your backlinks to a blog or other website. This is an interesting concept and it works similar to other lancing sites such as the many free lancing sites, except you could have a hundred people performing hits for you all at once. The terms are a little tough, but as long as you stick to the rules you could gain a lot of backlinks in a short amount of time, with just a little investment on your part. You can take a look for yourself at http://www.mturk.com

 

Using FARK to gain visitors

FARK is a website like Digg where users submit stories of interest throughout the web. The main difference between FARK and Digg is FARK is more democratic in nature. This is because while a DIGG story can become buried by just one power user.FARK is different while its the same. I’m not sure of exactly how the stories make it to the front page, but what I do know on certain topics if one does make it to the top, then you are getting a shitload of traffic in a short amount of time. The site is growing and while not as big as Digg, the traffic you gain is a lot better about converting into revenue generating actions. I should keep this to myself, but I figured I might as well share in a No Nonsense manner. The FARK users are not as picky about stories as the Digg kids are and they are nto as picky or get their feelings hurt. Give it a try with the right topic and I won’t divulge that as I would be divulging a niche that is doing very well for me lately and I’m not planning on sharing this niche as it will be short lived, but is generating some green.

What I will divulge is that I’ve been playing with a new traffic generation technique that was just staring me in the face for months and I did not realize what I was looking at. I’m not going to let it out of the bag at the moment, but will after I spend a little more time developing the techniques, but what I will tell is it is so easy to generate thousands of real visitors to a brand new website which will convert to revenue for no investment on your part. Some of the Gurus are using this, but for the most part these techniques are getting overlooked. I will show a screen shot and will be divulging exactly how I obtained these numbers on a brand new site later on so you may want to subscribe if you are not already subscribed.

TrafficScreenshot

This is a domain that I registered about a year ago, but never did anything with. In January I put up a wordpress blog and made a couple of posts, but did not actively promote it as I was working on other sites. You should be able to tell by the graphic that I found my little technique in the last part of May. At first it was not monetized at all so the May traffic did not produce desired results, but I quickly fixed that and the June traffic is going to net me a little money. I’m still working on the best methods to get the most conversion out of the traffic and I have some ideas which will increase the conversion rate. Its not bad, but its also not where I would like it to be. I’m looking at some other methods and using the same techniques to push traffic to my other sites which is really starting to pay off.