How I made my income this year (so far) with no PPC and No Linkbuilding

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by czilbersher

This system sounds awesome (and for those who are considering checking it out further, I highly recommend checking out Greg's free videos...definitely good stuff there.) The one thing that's still confusing me, however (and I'm sure this is just ignorance on my part)... is that once Content Mage has pulled in a boatload of "new" posts and has backdated them randomly across your blog, doesn't this trigger some kind of red flag with Google? I mean, a week ago the site was indexed by Google via sitemap.xml with 20 posts and then the next week, there are 5,000 posts with posting dates going back 2 or 3 years? (I'm concerned that this would set off a bomb with Google resulting in immediate sandboxing or de-indexing, not to mention the ethical considerations of backdating thousands of posts.)

Again, I'm sure this is because I'm not fully understanding the process correctly. Any clarification would be greatly appreciated.

Its a good concern. We generally recommend to start with 500-1000 posts and wait till you get some indexing and ramp up..

though that being said, I have also slammed up domains and did 30k posts off the bat and got like 8k of them indexed and made a few bucks.
(though I am the first to admit this is risky due to points mentioned above)

There is no "definite" with Google. They really are half-blind. You just pull off what you can while it works.

[LilBlackDress]

What is the reasoning for not using analytics?

And why add overstock or ebay (which is hard to qualify for) when you can add free shops with all types of products from Commission junction, share a sale etc. through POP SHOPS and make higher commissions?

Thanks!

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by LilBlackDress

And why add overstock or ebay (which is hard to qualify for) when you can add free shops with all types of products from Commission junction, share a sale etc. through POP SHOPS and make higher commissions?

Thanks!

These are all good, but they dont have ready made RSS feeds. Meaning its alot more work to get their products into place with our methods of site generation.

Popshop can in theory integrate with a little hacking,as our system is modular and each component can work independently of one another . An experienced user could in theory hack Popshops Dynamic feed/API into our Posting Mage mass posting engine for a nice marriage.

[mrizos]

Originally Posted by bgmacaw

Sorry, but $500 is too much. That's considerably higher than competing autoblogging and product feed plugins. I'll have to pass on this and cancel the 'adept' membership too which is pretty useless without the automation tools for someone who's already familiar with the process.

I was under the impression from your sales page that the membership would cover the tools. I think your sales page is somewhat misleading and you should make this clearer.

Agreed. I wish they would just sell each plugin separately.

[ThomasTe]

If you do the English-French-English how unique will it typically be (%)?

Thanks.

Regards,
Thomas

[Jgregory]

Originally Posted by ThomasTe

If you do the English-French-English how unique will it typically be (%)?

Thomas,

I am a Mage user and my tests for translation are running about 35 to 44% difference and very readable with the option you chose. There are several different results depending on the language you select and the number of passes. Most readable is en|fr|en and en|es|en and that runs on average 35% difference and very readable.

Look for a new thread from me soon on duplicate content and how to deal with Google on that important issue. There's much more to duplicate content than all the rumor mills indicate. But if you know what to do, its not so hard to come out on top

regards
Jan

[Jgregory]

grab this freebie desktop software for fast checking on your test

http://www.dupefreepro.com/

just copy paste text into Left and Right side and get % plus highlighting of what remains a duplicate sentence or phrase

The Dupefree Pro does require an optin. Don't know these guys, but the tool is good and used a lot.

Regards,
Jan

[Greg Jacobs]

What Jan said above is correct (he is our Dupe content expert!)

also to do a quick manual spot check you can just use
Google Translate to do it manually and then paste into a online dupe checker
to get a good feel for what is going on

[Magy]

Hi Greg,
thanks for your tips.
One question : why google desindex your websites if the content is unique (with the translate en>fr>en) and the design is nice? It's the manual reviewers that think the sites are not good or what?

Thanks

[Steve Crooks]

Use autoblogging techniques like this with Adsense [b]only[b] if you don't mind risking losing your Adsense account.. Seriously, this is not the way to build sites with Adsense on.

Originally Posted by ThomasTe

Hi Greg,

Have you also tried using AdSense (I know that you wrote that you only do product marketing)?

Don't you infringe on copyrights when syndicating content from other sources and then rewrites it? Do you keep the Author box from these sources?

Is it correctly understood that you are focused on quantity here? How do you create a nice index for all your pages, so that your website looks nice, etc.?

Thanks.

Regards,
Thomas

[ThomasTe]

Hi Steve,

Could you expand a bit on that?

Thanks.

Regards,
Thomas

[ThomasTe]

The thing I'm thinking about is violating copyrights. If someone created an article they own the copyrights.
If they say I can use it if I keep the author box intact that is it. How do you deal with this?

Regards,
Thomas

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by Magy

Hi Greg,
thanks for your tips.
One question : why google desindex your websites if the content is unique (with the translate en>fr>en) and the design is nice? It's the manual reviewers that think the sites are not good or what?

Thanks

lol, because life cant be THAT easy now can it? They figure it out somehow, maybe look at the other pages for whatever reason. . I dont really worry about it to much. My business model is built on quantity.

Originally Posted by Steve Crooks

Use autoblogging techniques like this with Adsense [b]only[b] if you don't mind risking losing your Adsense account.. Seriously, this is not the way to build sites with Adsense on.

possible, like I said, I have not had much experience with Adsense. I probably do just under $50 a day from my Mage sites with Adsense and no troubles yet (2 years later) , but I havent really pushed it either and only have it on a relativly small amount of sites.

So go get your expert opinions on the Adsense subject. I am sure people have lots to say on this subject The tools are just there to use as you please.

I hear people are also cleaning up by putting in CPA or Clickbank offers around mass generation of themed topics.

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by ThomasTe

The thing I'm thinking about is violating copyrights. If someone created an article they own the copyrights.
If they say I can use it if I keep the author box intact that is it. How do you deal with this?

Regards,
Thomas

You can grab the content with the author box intact.

[Magy]

Originally Posted by Greg Jacobs

lol, because life cant be THAT easy now can it? They figure it out somehow, maybe look at the other pages for whatever reason. . I dont really worry about it to much. My business model is built on quantity.

Yeah, life is hard . With a model like that, you must have some advance on the reviewers. If you stop to create sites, your empire start to decline no? Yeah i am too pessimist, and i think too much, i know

[Steve Crooks]

Sure.. When using Adsense these days you need to be very aware of the content on your pages to ensure you are meeting the Adsense TOS. By creating a truckload of pages automatically you have no easy way of knowing whether what you are doing is within the rules. People do it and get away with it but lots of people don't as well. You need to ask yourself whether it is a risk you are willing to take.

Originally Posted by ThomasTe

Hi Steve,

Could you expand a bit on that?

Thanks.

Regards,
Thomas

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by Magy

Yeah, life is hard . With a model like that, you must have some advance on the reviewers. If you stop to create sites, your empire start to decline no?

Not necessarily. Actually people know that once sites get settled into the good graces of the googles, then they generally will stick unless something drastic changes (this aside from regular google dances which effect all types of sites regardless.) Its more for increasing and compounding

Originally Posted by Magy

Yeah i am too pessimist, and i think too much, i know

lol... no thinking allowed. .

but really, I dont have all the pieces of the puzzle, but have learned enough to make my way so far. I just know how to spend my time. There are 1000 different directions to do or things to think about or consider.

My method is to just laser focus on the things that I deem to be important to my success, and basically just ignore other things. Its how I keep myself focused and successful without the time drains that kill so many endeavors.

For instance we can take linkbuilding for example. I *know* linkbuilding is a great thing to do, but I just have never bothered and really don't even know much about it.

Does that make linkbuilding a bad strategy? No way. I hear its great. Its just not something I focus on because in my method, I have calculated that I get highest ROI when my time and resources are spent putting up more quantity and just focusing on the automation and sheer numbers

It is definitley not the only way and not for everybody, but it has worked for me and other who have adopted the system.

Hope that helps/

[mrtrance]

Originally Posted by Greg Jacobs

I will then spend a few minutes sculpting the front page (because google frequently manually reviews homepages, but not inner pages) and making sure that everything is in order before moving on to the next.

-Greg

What sort of things are you doing to the homepage to make it so that it will pass a manual review by Google? I noticed in your videos when you ran some of the articles through the translator the wording was off or had a some wrong grammer. For the homepage post (which I believe you make it static) do you go through the content and make sure it reads well and fine tune it compared to the internal posts?

So ultimately with your system you are getting traffic for all those long tail keyword combinations that are either in the content of your article in the post or from the product listings embedded in those posts? So pretty much for any of these long tail keyword combinations you are either ranked on the first page of Google or near the top of the SERPs correct?

Have you considered backlinking to any of the keywords that you notice you get decent traffic even though you might be at say at position #6 on the first page? Just pointing a few backlinks could move you up to the top 3 or even the top spot to really boost your traffic.

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by mrtrance

What sort of things are you doing to the homepage to make it so that it will pass a manual review by Google? I noticed in your videos when you ran some of the articles through the translator the wording was off or had a some wrong grammar. For the homepage post (which I believe you make it static) do you go through the content and make sure it reads well and fine tune it compared to the internal posts?

So ultimately with your system you are getting traffic for all those long tail keyword combination that are either in the content of your article in the post or from the product listings embedded in those posts? So pretty much for any of these long tail keyword combination you are either ranked on the first page of Google or near the top of the SERPs correct?

Have you considered backlinking to any of the keywords that you notice you get decent traffic even though you might be at say at position #6 on the first page? Just pointing a few backlinks could move you up to the top 3 or even the top spot to really boost your traffic.

The Homepage Post, I will usually write myself or get a PLR. So it is %100 readable.

I just do the post and a picture and leave it as-is. I make this actually a "Page" and set it as static within the WP Dashboard.

The other posts I really dont pay attention to much. They gleam long tail traffic, lots of it for the actual product titles. I almost NEVER rank 1st for a term, or even near the top. Most of my results are somewhere between 6-40 in the rankings. but have such sheer quantity, that it works out. Also by the time the people get to my listings, they are usually a determined buyer, so the conversions are pretty good

I forgot what settings i used in the video. But if you use en|es|en should be pretty good.

re: backlinking. Its a great idea and would probably help out alot. I have never done it and do well, so I suppose that it can only improve your results.

[mrtrance]

Originally Posted by Greg Jacobs

The Homepage Post, I will usually write myself or get a PLR. So it is %100 readable.

I just do the post and a picture and leave it as-is. I make this actually a "Page" and set it as static within the WP Dashboard.

Thanks for the answers.

So the homepage has no affiliate links from ebay, AZ, etc.? Just a unique article with one of your keywords and an image. Do you determine which keyword to use for the homepage or it doesn't matter? Is it better to use a broad term (i.e. laptops, camping, etc..) that encompasses the whole niche to write for the homepage or a long tail keyword (i.e. hp laptops, camping tents, etc.)? For the rest of your posts do you always have an article posted (with image) followed by links to Ebay, AZ, and Youtube video?

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by mrtrance

Thanks for the answers.

So the homepage has no affiliate links from ebay, AZ, etc.? Just a unique article with one of your keywords and an image. Do you determine which keyword to use for the homepage or it doesn't matter? Is it better to use a broad term (i.e. laptops, camping, etc..) that encompasses the whole niche to write for the homepage or a long tail keyword (i.e. hp laptops, camping tents, etc.)? For the rest of your posts do you always have an article posted (with image) followed by links to Ebay, AZ, and Youtube video?

No affiliate links on the homepage. I just make sure the article on there 'looks good' and would fit in.

Regarding the layout of the content/links, we actually have template on the dashboard that can edit to do custom placements of the various sources of content

[solesuppliers]

Ive heard of this before. This way inst a new method. Its pretty much common sense. Alot of people forget to renew there domain names and they pretty much fall off but the backlinks dont. My question was how do you know which domains have a hight backlink count.

[AmyKay]

Agreed. Greg simply uses the expired domains to give his sites a "jumpstart." I've been using his system on new domains, as well.

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by solesuppliers

Ive heard of this before. This way inst a new method. Its pretty much common sense. Alot of people forget to renew there domain names and they pretty much fall off but the backlinks dont. My question was how do you know which domains have a hight backlink count.

We have an Internal Tool called Domain Mage which tracks, filters and displays them for our users.

[Wayne Davis]

Can these sites be flipped or is that a separate course or license? Please elaborate if you have a moment.

Also, I want to add that I just joined the Adept Mage Membership and find the layout and training very impressive.

Thanks

Wayne

[Spencer Chun]

Hi Greg,

Before I sign up to your membership, do we have to pay for the mage tools separately? I was reading one of the posts and said the tools will cost almost 500 dollars. Also, how much would it cost me to get my first mage site up. Please let me know as I'm interested.

Thanks,

Spencer

[AmyKay]

WPMage IS the automation tool. That's the beauty of it.

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by wtd1010

Can these sites be flipped or is that a separate course or license? Please elaborate if you have a moment.

That will be a separate license, that is not available just yet as it entails a whole different approach and modification of the software (right now you will have to give them the plugins with the flip and that wont work due to licenseing restrictions)

After we get this launch cycle finished this is top on our list to look at.

Originally Posted by Spencer Chun

Hi Greg,

Before I sign up to your membership, do we have to pay for the mage tools separately? I was reading one of the posts and said the tools will cost almost 500 dollars. Also, how much would it cost me to get my first mage site up. Please let me know as I'm interested.

Thanks,

Spencer

Aside from the cost of the tools, each site requires a domain, usually a $5 domain which is $5+ reg fees and some shared hosting (but hosts can handle lots of domains)

Originally Posted by Hijynx427

Greg,

Congratulations on your success! That's awesome to hear - Hey, I was wondering - you said you put up TONS of posts on the sites, (sometimes up to 1,000+) - I was wondering if you do this with an automation tool or if you do them all manually.

Thanks,

Jason

Like Amy said, the Mage is the Automation tool.

[Magy]

Originally Posted by Greg Jacobs

Not necessarily. Actually people know that once sites get settled into the good graces of the googles, then they generally will stick unless something drastic changes (this aside from regular google dances which effect all types of sites regardless.) Its more for increasing and compounding

ho, i see. I understand better now with your post when you say that you write yourself your first-page content and stuck it as a static page. The goal is to say, "hey google guy, my homepage is cool and useful no? Dont look more .

I will try your method, with an outsourced article for homepage (you see clearly my low skills in english writing )

Originally Posted by Greg Jacobs

lol... no thinking allowed. .

but really, I dont have all the pieces of the puzzle, but have learned enough to make my way so far. I just know how to spend my time. There are 1000 different directions to do or things to think about or consider.

My method is to just laser focus on the things that I deem to be important to my success, and basically just ignore other things. Its how I keep myself focused and successful without the time drains that kill so many endeavors.

For instance we can take linkbuilding for example. I *know* linkbuilding is a great thing to do, but I just have never bothered and really don't even know much about it.

Does that make linkbuilding a bad strategy? No way. I hear its great. Its just not something I focus on because in my method, I have calculated that I get highest ROI when my time and resources are spent putting up more quantity and just focusing on the automation and sheer numbers

It is definitley not the only way and not for everybody, but it has worked for me and other who have adopted the system.

Hope that helps/

Yeah, my biggest problem, i have learned too much things, i know too much methods that works. I dont know on what to focus now.

It's the biggest problem when you dont have your step by step plan to apply everyday, you look at every course and see so much contradictions and you dont know what to do.

You just do what i want to do and like others people say, it's better to do something even if it's not perfectly done than just do nothing.

[solesuppliers]

Originally Posted by Greg Jacobs

We have an Internal Tool called Domain Mage which tracks, filters and displays them for our users.

Users? Tell me more about your Internal Tool. PM if you like.

[Greg Jacobs]

Now on WSO for 1 day before the price hike.

Be Fast and Enjoy

[LIndaB]

Steve, I really doubt that Adsense is going to be displeased with these pages. They basically consist of articles, YouTube videos, and Yahoo Answers - just like thousands of other Adsense sites. I see nothing in them that would go against Google's terms of service. They are not like the autogenerated sites of a few years ago that scraped search engine listings or created nonsense pages. They are real articles and they keep the author's resource box. If you think about it, they are no different than what you would find on an article directory. I can't see why Google would be concerned about them.

[AmyKay]

I agree with Linda. But if you're leary of using adsense, then don't. This works perfectly with CPA offers, too.

[Video Rob]

Volume is the key. I have around 60 websites, at the moment i'm putting out about 2 new ones a week. This year so far i've made over 50k

Theres so many people here trying to make money from one or two websites, its silly when domains only cost $8 and you can make a new site in hours.

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by Video Rob

Volume is the key. I have around 60 websites, at the moment i'm putting out about 2 new ones a week. This year so far i've made over 50k

Theres so many people here trying to make money from one or two websites, its silly when domains only cost $8 and you can make a new site in hours.

This is very true/

Now there may be *other ways to earn on the net. However I never figured them out.

Winning Formula + Automation/Replication = Payday

That is about it.
People need to first decide why they are in the IM game? Are they putting up these sites to earn and pay their mortgage and feed their family? Or are they trying to "create meaning in the world"

I have "Created meaning" lots of time in the world. I have even wrote two unpublished fictional books am part of the town council and like to play the guitar. But when you have a family to support and simply putting up the same website over and over makes you more money than your day job could ever hope, then its just a no-brainer... at least for me.

[AmyKay]

My goal is to make enough money with this to hire a housekeeper! LOL

[jspmedia]

Originally Posted by AmyKay

My goal is to make enough money with this to hire a housekeeper! LOL

LOL..that's nice goal you have..My goal is travel around the world about 2 years then start new venture..

[edhan]

Can i see a demo site that has been designed using your system?

Thanks!

[mattlloyd]

really good advice, I do this too

[perswealth]

Originally Posted by Greg Jacobs

We will setup your first Mage site if you like. So really the only technical thing you have to do is buy a domain name and then use Word Wizard to research keywords (you just input a starting keyword and click a button)

and then of course paste the keywords and click. then you are done.

You can then repeat this for dozens of domain names if you want lots of sites.

Of course this is the simple method. If you wanted to get more advanced, you can fully look under the hood and get crazy.

But we give you both options.




All the Advanced Master Mage Tools will be a single one time investment and then you can use them on unlimited domains that you own for life

(site flippers will be a seperate license)

Hello Greg,

Just curious as to what you mean by your last sentence,(site flippers will be a seperate license). Thanks,

[perswealth]

Actually, nevermind. I read some more of this post and it looks like you are working on a way where site flippers can have this system and flip there sites. That would be real cool.

[Magy]

Hi Greg,

Thanks for information.
When you say Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, Contact Information on site. Terms and Conditions are only necessary for websites that provides services or sell a product? Or it's necessary too for a simple blog with content and nothing more?

Originally Posted by Greg Jacobs

I mentioned this in another thread, but this PDF may help. Its not a cure-all but maybe will give you some points to get started.


http://www.wpmage.com/EPNApproval.pdf

And the Checklist for your reference.

• Applying from US/Canada/Western Europe/OZ/NZ - If you are outside these countries, It may be difficult unless you have a really compelling site to show them. And don't bother with proxies. Ebay knows them all
• Your IP address matches your Stated Address. (you can't give a US Address, but apply with a Brazilian IP)
• Domain has Quality Content that would be relevant to products that eBay sells
• Domain is NOT a Review type site.
• NO EBAY Ads or other Ads on the Site
• Site is registered with PUBLIC Registration for at least 2 years
• Public Domain Registration Information and email matches your eBay application information.
• Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, Contact Information on site.
• Your site is aesthetically pleasing and looks like a place the eBay would be proud to have association. (don't forget this one!)

[LadyTazzLa]

Hi Greg!

I must give you a HUGE...."Thank You" for your free advice and blueprint to making over $100K with no PPC & no linkbuilding techniques.

More importantly, I am super-enthusiastic about the "content mixer/translator" idea (English-French-English).
This tidbit was a real gem & It truly works like a charm!

Many Thanks and please.....keep us informed of your future endeavours.
I love learning from successful people.

[rajuthan]

How many domains in total generated the $100k?

[DanLong]

Thanks for sharing your affiliate tips

One bit of advice to folks, don't try to get in ebay affiliates via hubpages, she denied me for that years ago.

There are a lot of good names that come up for sale via tdnam if you can get lucky to get it for cheap before someone else does.

[GeorgR.]

Very interesting twist!! What on avg do you pay for such sites?

And what do you use to create the blogs? And do you use autoblog plugins or how do get the thousand of pages on the blogs?

I am doing *basically* the same thing, but not on old domains...i spend a lot time SEO and ranking them, some with GOOD success. There's nothing better than wordpress and nice themes, IMHO. The idea with getting established domains is really great!!

(hint NEVER use Google Analytics - those buggers)

hu? I have been deindexed twice, but it was because of stupid things i did and not because of analytics. (Hint: NEVER autoblog to twitter from your WP blog )

By the way...i am especially interested in your methods and criteria to check for backlinks and authority to select a domain to purchase. What makes a "good" domain in your opinion? Where do you purchase?

The other stuff is relatively clear to me. VERY interesting thread...how could i miss that...

In t

[GeorgR.]

Originally Posted by ThomasTe

The thing I'm thinking about is violating copyrights. If someone created an article they own the copyrights.
If they say I can use it if I keep the author box intact that is it. How do you deal with this?

Regards,
Thomas

Do me a favor and go to EZA, GA or articlesbase.

With the SUBMISSION an author gives permission that his content is re-published! (As long as his resource boxes and links stay intact!)

Talking about autoblogging and scraped content from EZA, Goarticles and at the same time talking about "copyright violation" is absurd!

Please read the TOS of those article directories....re-publishing is one MAJOR purpose of article directories, it is to be expected and always implicated if you submit an article.

If you, as a writer are worried about your copyright and dont want your article to appear anyhwere else: An article directory would be the LAST PLACE ON EARTH where you should put your writings!

[ThomasTe]

Hi GeorgR,

Thanks for your reply. The thing is not about re-publishing but editing existing articles. That's another alley.
Copyright is always there, you can just have permission to republish, but not necesarrily edit, which is why I asked.

Regards,
Thomas