How I made over 100k this year (so far) with no PPC and No Linkbuilding

[Greg Jacobs]

Those warriors that know me, will know that I am not joking.

Year to Date (2009) am well over 100k in pure profit income. and I want to show you how I do it. What I have NOT done is

SEO
Linkbuilding
Article stuff
PPC
Adsense
CPA (though I do make $$ from CPA, though not from this method)

So what is it then?

I am a product affiliate.

I work with eBay, Amazon and Overstock and put up websites to display their products.

Ok you have probably heard that before and even tried it and didnt get anywhere. Me too, then I discovered the trick...

1 - I would buy domains that already have authority. Meaning instead of getting fresh domains and spending all day linking them up, I just buy domains for cheap that already have all the backlinks. See http://www.tdnam.com

2 - I use Wordpress and Common Themes so my sites are not footprinted

3 - I put up some filler content on each page so google gives love to my sites

4 - After the filler content I use a plugin to blast up to 100 affiliate products from a feed so the content of the feeds actually becomes more content to be indexed

5 - I do LOTS (sometimes thousands) of posts per sites

6 - I automate and put up LOTS (dozens) of sites per day.

7 - Some sites make it, some dont' - but at the end of the day I profit.

And it works. Really Really works.

Happy to answer any questions you have regarding my system in this thread, Or can check my Sig Link (yeah the one that says not to click) too.

-Greg

[ThomasTe]

Hi Greg,

Glad for your success. How do you get the content for the posts? Do you scrabe them from other sites (is that the correct term?)?

Thanks.

Regards,
Thomas

[logodesigner]

Congrats that you achieved the 100K this year with no PPC and SEO but how it is? What techniques did you do as to earn this big money?

[AJD101]

Greg

Your story is eerily familair, I was a business development in Asia up until 3 months ago. All the traveling was breaking up my marriage, so i quit and having been trying IM for the last 3 months. Learned a lot but not making any money. Your system looks OK. Can you tell me what your average customer is making using this?

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by ThomasTe

Hi Greg,

Glad for your success. How do you get the content for the posts? Do you scrabe them from other sites (is that the correct term?)?

Thanks.

Regards,
Thomas

I prefer the term "syndicate"
but then I do something that make it unique. One of those techniques is to put it thorough a translator (either automated or manually) so you got english-french-english

and when it gets back to english it is still readable, but slightly different wording is used.

Originally Posted by logodesigner

Congrats that you achieved the 100K this year with no PPC and SEO but how it is? What techniques did you do as to earn this big money?

The right formula + automation

Originally Posted by AJD101

Greg

Your story is eerily familair, I was a business development in Asia up until 3 months ago. All the traveling was breaking up my marriage, so i quit and having been trying IM for the last 3 months. Learned a lot but not making any money. Your system looks OK. Can you tell me what your average customer is making using this?

me too, and I ended up kicking my old job to the curb and just staying here. Make more like this anyways...

Maybe some of my clients will pop in here shortly as I know we have a few warriors who are earning in our midst. But from what I have seen, after 1 1/2 months we have many people on track to earn about 1-2k in October just by following the system.

Its all residue income and it just builds on itself. (meaning the income will keep compounding and increasing )

[js112]

hey man, i want to know the details of your seo if you are so kind to tell us

[MarketingMind]

Great advice and very true!

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by js112

hey man, i want to know the details of your seo if you are so kind to tell us

The details of my SEO is that there is no details.

I win through quantity on the long tail. meaning I do NOT target keywords, but rather target entire niches.. (like Garden supply) and then generate a bunch of keywords that are the right combination of specific/broad in order to pull bunches of product listings with my plugins.

So each keyword becomes a post - and instead of spending my time optimizing and backlink building/seo - I just do more and more and more posts (and even automate this)

and eventually some of my pages catch in the long tail search results just by the sheer quantity of it.

And it earns well.

[bgmacaw]

Your sales page/copy is great.

Your tool set looks interesting. I already do a lot of what you described in your ebook using tools of my own design, freshdrop.net and some manual processes. I may have to give your tool set a spin to see how it performs, especially since you're offering a free trial and your monthly cost after that seems to be quite reasonable.

[JL Melvin]

Great job - may I ask what plugin's you're using?

Jeff

[metafever]

I think at the end of the day you said it all.

YOU WORK!

Most people don't and thats why they fail.

I just can't keep from thinking how much more you would do if you segmented the winners and beefed up their SEO.

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by bgmacaw

Your sales page/copy is great.

Your tool set looks interesting. I already do a lot of what you described in your ebook using tools of my own design, freshdrop.net and some manual processes. I may have to give your tool set a spin to see how it performs, especially since you're offering a free trial and your monthly cost after that seems to be quite reasonable.

Glad you like the sales page. Our team will be very happy to hear that.

For the Adept Mage toolkit, you can in theory do everything manually and on your own. Though we are gunning for automation so it may help to spend time more efficiently.

Originally Posted by JL Melvin

Great job - may I ask what plugin's you're using?

Jeff

For getting my affiliate listings I use something called Affiliate Mage, which pulls products based on a seed keyword from amazon, ebay or overstock. though there are a few others that do similar things with varying prices and features.

I also use content mage to generate content (so I dont have to grab manually) and posting mage to do bunches of posts at once.

Other simple yet useful plugins are XML Sitemaps and the Random Sidebar Posts Plugins. Both give the search spiders lots of food for grabbing all your content.

Originally Posted by metafever

I just can't keep from thinking how much more you would do if you segmented the winners and beefed up their SEO.

me too, but SEO and backlink building just gives me a blaring migraine. Thats how I figured out this system in the first place, I basicly kept banging at the CPU until I figured a way to earn without ever having to touch that stuff.

Incidently my best earning sites are actually on domains that already had alot of these "important things" done for them when I bought them.

[Jeff Scott]

I've just started to pick up existing PR domains but more for creating a link building network for SEO. Any good tips for preserving PR (I keep same registrar, use Archive.org to mimic old title tags on some existing pages, put up wordpress with common template, use wp-o-matic for filler content).

Sounds like you are doing something similar, except keyword in domain is probably more important for your approach, along with PR/backlinks/traffic, yeah?

Do you focus on PR1-3's? If you're paying say $15 for GoDaddy Auction, plus $10 for domain registration, you have to have a good success rate to compensate for all the $35 strike outs?

I look forward to your feedback.

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by Jeff Scott

I've just started to pick up existing PR domains but more for creating a link building network for SEO. Any good tips for preserving PR (I keep same registrar, use Archive.org to mimic old title tags on some existing pages, put up wordpress with common template, use wp-o-matic for filler content).

Sounds like you are doing something similar, except keyword in domain is probably more important for your approach, along with PR/backlinks/traffic, yeah?

Do you focus on PR1-3's? If you're paying say $15 for GoDaddy Auction, plus $10 for domain registration, you have to have a good success rate to compensate for all the $35 strike outs?

I look forward to your feedback.

Keyword is not important in my approach It is the domain.
I look at PR as a starting point, but moreso look for age and REAL looking backlinks. Not ones that are the obvious result of a linkbuilder (because if I can tell, they can tell)

Recreating Content is good, the actual SAME content is better. Can use Archive or Warrick.

I also look for sites that have NEVER been owned by an affiliate. Because if an affiliate owned them and dropped em, then there is probably a good reason.

Re: good success rate. My winners net me anywhere from $5-$1000 per month. So its almost always a win no matter what even if there are a few duds that slip in there.

I also generally buy the $5 ones- unless I see a gem in the $10 auctions. (i just generally dislike auctions)

[clickbump]

Originally Posted by Greg Jacobs

... One of those techniques is to put it thorough a translator (either automated or manually) so you got english-french-english... and when it gets back to english it is still readable, but slightly different wording is used.

WOW!

That one tip just opened my eyes. I had not thought of using something like a double translation routine to spin an article.

I just took one of my ezinearticles and went over to G language tools and did just what you said...english to french, then french to english and guess what...

A completely new article, says the same thing, just reworded! This is the best free tip I've picked up in a while, and you sir deserve a big THANKS!

[wordgeist]

WOW, what I say....I want to be like you

[imageman]

Congrats man!! The year i make 100K in pure profit, I will dance from N.carolina to Washington DC.I will study you good so, I can replicate your success!! Good for ya man!!!

[mrtrance]

Originally Posted by clickbump

WOW!

That one tip just opened my eyes. I had not thought of using something like a double translation routine to spin an article.

I just took one of my ezinearticles and went over to G language tools and did just what you said...english to french, then french to english and guess what...

A completely new article, says the same thing, just reworded! This is the best free tip I've picked up in a while, and you sir deserve a big THANKS!

I just tried that with my ezinearticle and it did not change at all except for maybe a few words. So it didn't work for my article.

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by mrtrance

I just tried that with my ezinearticle and it did not change at all except for maybe a few words. So it didn't work for my article.

try doing english -> thai -> english

or other combos (even 3 way)

though you have to take care to maintain readability if you start using more obscure languages.

[sandmn]

Nice Work, good luck

[jspmedia]

looks interesting..so how many sites you have now to produce current income?

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by jspmedia

looks interesting..so how many sites you have now to produce current income?

somewhere in the hundreds, however about %70 of my income comes from my top 10 sites

with the hundreds others producing the other %30

but to find those top performers I of course had to put up lots of sites and somehow, the winners came forth.

So using this strategy, you cannot limit yourself to 10 or 20 sites.. you really got to go for it to sift the diamonds.

Now after some experience I get better at picking winners, but still its an ongoing process.

[7_8_shortcuts]

Originally Posted by Greg Jacobs

I prefer the term "syndicate"

The right formula + automation

Its all residue income and it just builds on itself.

Great point!

I think that's KEY here...

"automation"

and

"right formula"

because...

I believe most people are struggling to make even small amount of money online is because whatever they are doing is not easily repeatable, scalable and systematic.

Truth is... many-many things actually *work* online and can be profitable.

But it's about picking one plan (that is systematic, can be repeated and automated as much as possible) and just keep repeating it over and over again.

The beauty of this is

Once things start to work... you just outsource the stuff that can be repeated and leave it on auto-pilot from here onwards.

This is what successful rich internet marketers have in common..

Their systems are different

but

they are repeatable, scalable and consistent...

[John Dales]

Greg,

You are a genius! Congratulations on your success. This thread really opened my eyes especially to the article spinning idea using the Google language tools. Where do you usually get the content? How many sites do you make in a week's time?

You really inspired me!!! Thanks a lot..

John

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by John Dales

Greg,

You are a genius! Congratulations on your success. This thread really opened my eyes especially to the article spinning idea using the Google language tools. Where do you usually get the content? How many sites do you make in a week's time?

You really inspired me!!! Thanks a lot..

John

John

Thanks for your reply.

Content can come from many sources
however I believe the Terms of Service of most Article Directories allow you to copy and paste their content.

If I put my mind to it, I can put up 10 leisurely in a day (though I normally get distracted lol). I use automation now, so most of my time per site is actually spent picking the domains and arranging the keywords.

The actual act of putting up the site and all the posts only takes a few minutes with automation.

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

[mrtrance]

Originally Posted by Greg Jacobs

John

Thanks for your reply.

Content can come from many sources
however I believe the Terms of Service of most Article Directories allow you to copy and paste their content.

If I put my mind to it, I can put up 10 leisurely in a day (though I normally get distracted lol). I use automation now, so most of my time per site is actually spent picking the domains and arranging the keywords.

The actual act of putting up the site and all the posts only takes a few minutes with automation.

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

Is Content Mage and Posting Mage plugins included in your toolkit? So what does content mage actually do? Will it populate our sites with the content we need to build our sites and pass any sort of Google review?

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by mrtrance

Is Content Mage and Posting Mage plugins included in your toolkit? So what does content mage actually do? Will it populate our sites with the content we need to build our sites and pass any sort of Google review?

Content Mage and Posting MAge are part of the Master Membership which is opening again on Nov 5th

There are some video demos on the Adept inside to see it in action.

but what Content Mage does is takes a Seed keyword from within your post and turns it into content.

Posting Mage then puts up XXXX posts with a click

They are seeded so 1 keyword = 1 post

It will make better sense after watching the videos.


re: google review. What I normally do is set as static and manually sculpt the front page as %90 of the time, the reviewer only looks at the home page. So if that looks good, then the rest of the site gets a passing grade.

[seoessex]

Hi Greg

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

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by seoessex

Hi Greg

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

Sent you a PM

[my_addict_mind]

Is this a BlueFart type of thing. You provide a keyword list and the system churns out pages and pages containing those keywords? Have you been banned using this method?

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by my_addict_mind

Is this a BlueFart type of thing. You provide a keyword list and the system churns out pages and pages containing those keywords? Have you been banned using this method?

not at all. It pulls content from legit sources. Actual real valuable content - not MFA keyword stuffing junk.

Never banned, though sometimes sites lose indexing, its just the nature of the google dance - I maybe lose 1 in 8 sites to the google monster, however these sites can still catch and earn well in Yahoo and Bing who dont seem to be as picky. I even have one site that had been deindexed by google for over a year, but pulls almost 1k a month just from Yahoo and Bing traffic. so go figure.

It is a system that works via targeting the long tail in quantity and providing valuable content and profit generating affiliate links.

Does that properly answer your question?

-Greg

[my_addict_mind]

Hi Greg,

Thanks for your reply. I would like to believe your method is on the gray/greyhat side of things. With the precautions you mentioned in your ebook, it should minimize the deindexing or banning from Google. Anyway, I found your ebook very useful and I have subscribed to your membership to view the videos and try out the tools. If this turns out profitable, then I will even continue even after 60 days.

BTW, can you also PM me the demo site?

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by my_addict_mind

Hi Greg,

Thanks for your reply. I would like to believe your method is on the gray/greyhat side of things.

I actually like to think of it as GreenHat. Meaning it makes me lots of money!

-Salamat

[michael_nguyen]

Hello Greg how many sites do you have in your portfolio and how long did that take to build?

Michael

[Johnny12345]

Greg,

Nice out-of-the-box thinking.

Can you show us one of your sites? Perhaps one of your "losers" just so we can get an idea of what you're doing. If not, can you PM me a link?

Johnny

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by michael_nguyen

Hello Greg how many sites do you have in your portfolio and how long did that take to build?

Michael

All I can say is I have Quite ALOT of sites. My top 10+ sites earn me about %70 of my income. Where as the countless others add up to the other %30.

The trick is that you don't know which sites are going to be winners and which are not. So you need to have the gumption and tools to put up lots. If you handicap yourself with tools that have limits or caps, you limit your income and most likely will not succeed.


So I started doing this about 2 years ago. At the end of my first year I was making enough to support myself in a basic lifestyle, so I quit that and went at the Mage full timeish and started really developing the Mage and applied massive automation and well... the last year has sorta been like a dream!

[michael_nguyen]

thank you for the reply. I guess it's a numbers games as with most IM ventures. Saying that...I built 22 Amazon sites on a .info extension using a wordpress plugin that scrapes content depending on the keyword.

I built that in August without much effort. Each site probably had about 12 post as I was intending to flip.

I just checked my Amazon account and it has made me $16.68 and only half of those sites had my Tracking ID. Again this is with NO promotion except the initial site submissions, rss, all in one seo etc Literally set and forget.

I didn't put much effort into those site yet it made money on autopilot.

I can definately say autoblogging works. Has kidna reignited my interest in set and forget sites.

Thanks

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by michael_nguyen

I just checked my Amazon account and it has made me $16.68 and only half of those sites had my Tracking ID. Again this is with NO promotion except the initial site submissions, rss, all in one seo etc Literally set and forget.

Thanks

If you made that much on Amazon, I bet you could have made 10x as much with EPN.

Seriously. eBay pays.

[michael_nguyen]

Originally Posted by Greg Jacobs

If you made that much on Amazon, I bet you could have made 10x as much with EPN.

Seriously. eBay pays.

If only it was easy to get in and accepted

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by michael_nguyen

If only it was easy to get in and accepted

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!)

[derekwong28]

Greg, thanks very much for posting this. I This is very similar to what I am doing although it is not as sophisticated. The results I achieved per site were very similar to yours. I did put up sites built from product feeds on hundreds of domains. I am not sure though that the built-in SEO effects of expired domains are really that great but it certainly saves a lot of time in terms of website promotion. However, I found it very labor intensive. At its peak in 2006, I was able generate more than 5K income but have let it slip since then. This is because I no longer have full time staff working for me.

Now that my core business has been repeatedly attacked by Google, I have started to concentrate on it again. I am interested in whether

1. You hire staff or VA
2. Do you use dedicated servers, it so what are their configurations.
3. Do any of your sites get de-indexed completely by Google.


Derek

[my_addict_mind]

Hi Greg,

You talked about some launch in Nov. 5. What is that? How do I get in? Is there a trial period too.

Salamat too. Hope you are enjoying your internet lifestyle in Thailand. I too am dreaming to automate things in this business. But unfortunately, most of the efforts to execute my plans are too time consuming even with outsourcing as I still have to manage people and check their outputs.

But if your system promises to be a one-click operation or several clicks and you get a money system in place, then I am sold.

[my_addict_mind]

EPN approval is next to impossible here in the Philippines.

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!)

[ed41143]

Hey Greg! Autoblogging really does work. I use it all the time for several different niches.

Great job, will take a look at your system too.

[Linda Van Fleet]

Hey folks,

I was one of Greg's beta testers for his system and I am more than pleased with the results. I created a review here: (WP Mage Review Thread) that gives my take on it. I didn't know this thread was here until just now.

Some have talked about "off-color" marketing. I am NOT a black hat or grey hat marketer - white hat all the way. Since I don't use off-color marketing techniques, I was a little concerned at first. BUT, I have discovered that with this system you can be completely white hat and still earn a top notch living. As you will see when you visit my review post I am set to make over $1000 this month with the mage system and it is ALL white hat.

I do not use the translation technique that Greg uses ... and I am still making money. I honestly believe I will be making 5k per month by the end of my full year with using this system.

That's when I'm going to retire because that's all I need with what I already have. Oh happy day!

Linda

[Greg Jacobs]

Originally Posted by derekwong28

I have started to concentrate on it again. I am interested in whether

1. You hire staff or VA
2. Do you use dedicated servers, it so what are their configurations.
3. Do any of your sites get de-indexed completely by Google.


Derek

1 - I have NEVER EVER let anybody touch my sites. I do have a content writer that I use to experiment with a few alternative methods, but the bulk of my sites (%95) are all just me. The fact is that the Mage is your VA.

2 - I have LOTS of servers actually. Lots of different cPanel shared hosts. And a few dedicated. I use cPanel x3 and this configuration
Though I did start it all and get to a fair income with just a $5 month shared host.

3 - yeah de-indexing happens. I am probably one of the worlds foremost authority on sites getting de-indexed and I have cut down my de-indexing rate drastically over the last year by applying a few tricks. (hint NEVER use Google Analytics - those buggers) But the fact of the matter is that its part of the game. Even if your site gets deindexed by G, then Yahoo and Bing will still send it traffic after they kick in (takes them a couple months normally) I have one sites that is deindexed by Google for over a year, but still earns around 1k a month just from Yahoo/Bing Traffic.

Originally Posted by my_addict_mind

Hi Greg,

You talked about some launch in Nov. 5. What is that? How do I get in? Is there a trial period too.

If you are on the mailing list we will let you know
We do offer a Guarantee, unconditional refund if you are not satisfied.

Originally Posted by my_addict_mind

EPN approval is next to impossible here in the Philippines.

This is true. I know that some people are using the tools in question to do Adsene sites, or even put up Theme related CPA/Clickbank sites in bulk as well and monetizing with banners and links.

This will have to be investigated further as I have not had a chance to fully investigate these tactics.

[mrtrance]

Greg,

Can you also PM the demo site?

[John W.G.]

will be interesting to see how this turns out.

Looking at your post in the war room now.

[7_8_shortcuts]

Originally Posted by Greg Jacobs

3 - yeah de-indexing happens. I am probably one of the worlds foremost authority on sites getting de-indexed and I have cut down my de-indexing rate drastically over the last year by applying a few tricks. (hint NEVER use Google Analytics - those buggers)

I knew it all along...

Now I don't use Google Analytics anymore too, because I have noticed that my sites kept dancing up and down depending on some visitor factors or whatever... I now use a different tracking system and have noticed more consistency in traffic and rankings!

I have heard the same from some SEO veterans too and they basically are pretty sure that Google will use that data coming from your stats in their favor (although they might not admit it)

[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