Let me teach you a straight forward way to make some cash with Twitter and ClickBank. This method is a perfect side project because it is pretty automated. You probably won’t make millions but $60/day is very doable and requires little effort.

Step 1.

Go to Twitter and sign up. Think of a theme for your account. Lets say that you are going to be a female tennis player. The reason why I went for a female is because sex sells and a much higher % of people are going to follow you. Customize your profile and create a unique template using prettytweet.com

Step 2.

Make a few Tweets about the most random stuff. For example: “Just going out to play some tennis” and “Feeling tired and hungry” etc.

Step 3.

Grab yourself a Twitter friend adder. I personally use the one from livelybrowser.com because I’m sooo awesome I hang around with other marketeers, people give me their products either for free or with a discount. If you don’t feel like spending money I’ve seen tons of different friend adders out there.

Step 4.

Add around 400 friends interested in tennis, wait for a day and add another 400. Continue adding friends every day until you reach 2000 (maximum). Then delete the ones that don’t follow you and repeat the process. Once you reach 2000 followers you will be able to add as many as you like. I suggest you take it easy because you might get banned for aggressive following. The twitter adder I use does everything automatically so all I need to do is click and let it do the work over night. (Don’t forget to carry on posting random updates and responses)

Step 5.

Now when you have a bunch of followers you can go to ClickBank and search the marketplace for a product you can flog to your “friends”. But how do you know which products they might be interested in? Twitter products! There are over 60 various Twitter traffic systems and money making techniques being sold. Some will pay you over $40/sale. If you have 4000 followers on Twitter, making 3 or 4 sales should be straight forward.

Step 5.

Now remember your tennis theme? Well, some of your followers (Those that did not add you purely because you appeared to be a female) are also interested in tennis. Why not sell them some tennis rackets or training videos? Or maybe some sports drinks or other enhancers.

Step 6.

Run to the bank with your cheques.

Every day I bump into people complaining about not being accepted into affiliate networks. Most of them assume that they were rejected due to their country of residence. Being a curious person I actually spoke to a bunch of these guys and asked them to go through their application process with me. I was astonished at the lack of common sense. After fixing some of their obvious mistakes I was happy to see most of them get accepted. Here are a few common mistakes that people make when applying to an affiliate company.

Sound professional

Make sure you communicate in the formal manner. If English is not your first language make sure you get an English speaking friend to go through your application with you. I would not go into business with somebody who can’t string a sentence together, nor I would want to deal with anyone who sounds like an 8 year old kid. Use correct punctuation.

Its all about quality

Affiliate companies look for people that can generate them quality leads/sales. A free Blogger blog created on the day you apply is not going to get you accepted. Get your own domain and hosting. You can start from as low as $30/year. If you can afford internet access you should be able to afford hosting. This will make a whole load of difference. When setting up your website make sure it looks professional, original and has some quality content. I suggest you go for a tech/shopping niche. Most affiliate companies have tons of offers related to consumer electronics and therefore need more people to promote such offers.

Numbers

When asked for traffic stats most people assume that the more traffic they receive, the greater the chance of them being accepted. Most just end up making the number up. Affiliate companies don’t mind if you generate 300 daily uniques rather than 10.000, however they do mind when you start lying to them. Its is pretty easy to get a rough estimate of your traffic. When you say that your brand new blog with 0 backlinks and no internet presence generates 5.000 daily uniques you would get rejected just for your lack of honesty.

Have a plan

Have a plan ready. How exactly do you plan on promoting the offers? Go into reasonable amount of detail, use examples and be specific. With some affiliate companies this level of detail can actually save you from tons of questions later on.

The dreaded phone call

Some affiliate networks might want to speak to you on the phone before accepting your application. For some reason this is the part many people wish to avoid. In reality there is nothing to worry about. The whole conversation usually takes a few minutes. You will usually be asked a few simple questions about your websites and methods of promotion. If you are worried that you won’t be able to understand them, ask your English speaking friend to help you out.

PS: Looks like Google has now given ExposedSEO.com an authority status. Search for exposedseo and see for yourself. I also appear in Google search suggestions for various seo related keyphrases. This is quite funny considering that not that long ago I was spanked with PR:NA. Google obviously had a change of heart.

Hey guys! Sorry for not posting more frequently. I was simply out of interesting things to blog about. If you want me to blog about something please let me know. I am also more than happy to accept guest blog posts. So if you want to write an interesting article related to SEO or marketing do let me know. As a thank you I will link to your blog from your article.

Now the updates… Remember the 35mm slide scanner blog from my previous niche research post? You should now be able to find it on the front page of Google for related keywords, generating me $xx daily which is much more than I have expected. Some of you wondered why I did not develop that blog any further. If I was to take that blog seriously I would have never shared my niche in public. It was just an example to get you started with niche research/bloging and show you what my blogs actually look like. As it always happens some not so creative people went ahead and entered the same niche with their own clones. I really don’t understand why people do this. I clearly explained the niche research process but instead of finding their own, they simply copy. Do they not understand that if they decide to copy my blog then others will probably do the same…

CPAlead experiment was ruined by CPAlead taking 10 days to figure out that there was nothing wrong with my account after disabling it for no reason. I am back with CPAlead but because I am already making money I would not be able to clock $0 to $100, especially after touching that $100 mark.

It looks like Google has also de-spanked me for selling links and given me some PR. It only took them a year and a half. The funny thing is that my Google traffic actually dropped. So I have now proven the opposite. Google sent me more traffic when my PR was none existent (Not even 0 but NA). Now it gave me PR2 and cut the traffic. Yet again its proven that PR means nothing.