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Try searching on Google for “30 minute backlinks” or “seo elite” or any other popular product. Look at the sponsored search ads. What do you see? “Don’t buy seo elite”, “seo elite is a scam”, “30 minute backlinks scam”, “30 minute backlinks a waste of money” etc. Try visiting one of these sites. Can you see it now? They are not trying to stop you from buying the product. In fact they are trying to sell you the product… by telling you it’s a scam? Believe it or not some of these people make $30.000/month+ on pretty much auto pilot.

Here is how they do it:

You go on clickbank (Or any other affiliate website for that matter) and pick a raising product. With Clickbank you can use gravity as in indicator. 50 and bellow will do. The trick is to spot the right product at the right time. It needs to be popular enough but not too popular because you will end up with a whole bunch of competitors.

You then set up a PPC campaign for the products name eg. “something is a scam”. Set up a “squeeze” page for your traffic to land on with a sole purpose sell that particular product. I suggest you buy the product yourself and have a play with it so that you could write a good looking review. Sit back and get rich.

How it works:

You hear about a great product and you decide to buy it. You go on and search for it on Google. Suddenly, as you are about to buy that product you see an ad that says: “The product you are looking to buy is a scam!”. I can guarantee you almost every single person will click to investigate further. Then it turns out that the product does actually work and it is not a scam. Most people will get pissed off and leave. Around 15% of those who stay will follow through to buy the product. Do the maths. You spend $500 on 1000 $0.50 clicks. You will get around 150 conversions. 150 x $20 = $3000. You have just made $2500.

PS: There is no such thing as easy money. Yes, people make a living using this method but these people know what they are doing. They have experience with PPC and marketing. They spend a lot of time finding the right product, writing a spotless landing page and setting up their PPC campaigns. Don’t just expect to get rich. Experiment! Good luck!

PPS: Think about other products. “Nokia n95 sucks?”. I have made just under $400 with my first, a few hour long test campaign.

The other day I was doing a bit of arbitrage which involved driving traffic I bought with Adwords onto a landing page selling a particular product. This can be quite tricky but if you get your maths + niche right, you can make some nice cash. So I targeted a bunch of related sites running Adsense. Paid for a bunch of clicks and sold a few products. I have made a little profit so I was happy. Now why would not the websites I advertised on cut out the middle man (Google) and sell the products themselves, directly?

Have you ever thought about this? Why do people advertise with Adwords? Why do they pay you 50c for every click? Or even $5/click! (Considering that Google also keep certain % of the money) How can they afford to do this? Its quite simple really. They are able to generate more money from that visitor than 50c. These companies either sell their own service/product or simply do what I do and redirect people to their affiliates page. So why would you want to your incredibly profitable visitor to go somewhere else for a few cents even though you could have converted them yourself?

Have a look at your Adsense ads. (Don’t click on them. Manually enter the urls) What are these companies selling? Try and see if you can sell their product/service directly to your visitors via an affiliate program. I myself need to sit down and come up with something for this blog when I get a bit of time off from my main projects.

Have a look what Shoemoney has to say about Adsense on blogs:


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