Objective: To build and promote a blog.
Target: Making 2K a month in a year time frame.

Approach:

I have picked up a niche of a specific city in USA. I have created a blog at blogger.com Reason I prefer a blog at blogger.com is because it is easier to get good traffic rank with a blogger blog. Besides blogger.com offers so many free goodies, it just solves all the headache of finding plug-ins and installing them.

For next one year I will write 2 articles a week for my blog consistently.

Every month I will spend $50 to get 25 articles written by other content writers. These all articles I will use to promote my site. Very first I will submit these articles to ezinearticles.com and once ezinearticles approves them, will re-write these articles using tools and re-submit same articles to 500+ article directories. I have subscription of uniquearticlewizard and in my opinion their article submission service is best.

For each and every single post in my blog, I will social bookmark the post to 50 social bookmarking sites.

Every week, I will submit my blog to all newly announced directories at digitalpoint forum.

With all this exercise, I intend to generate at least 5000 links a month for my blog.

Total cost to run this operation is a few hours of my personal time and $200 a month to my staff.

I will keep on updating you folks on this case study.

Till next post, peace.

My answer is yes it is very easy to make money online. However setting target as making 50$ tomorrow is ridiculous. Here is my step by step guide to make money online.

First off devide your strategy in two part. One should be your long term target and the other should be your short term target.  This specific post of mine talks just about short term target. However you must focus on a long term target as well. Now coming back to specific short term target. I will help you in making 50$ a day from 30 days from now. However it will require some great effort. Indeed there are the people who can make 1000$ an hour, this post focuses on the people who are in not that specific niche. Again I am not inventing the wheel. I am just summarizing some of the popular working techniques.

# 1:> Youtube marketing:
a)    Sign up with an affiliate program.
b)    Pick any excellent ringtone offer. Register a domain name. From domain name redirect to ringtone offer.
c)    Download popular videos from youtube. When you download from youtube, the downloaded file is in .FLV format.
d)    Using a converter, convert this .FLV to .MPEG
e)    Using a video watermark tool, watermark the whole video with something like “Get ringtones @http://ringtoneabc.com”
f)    Upload back watermarked video to youtube.
g)    In description first sentence you should use is your domain name. That is http://ringtoneabc.com When someone visits the video, they see a first few words of description in summary. If first sentence is URL, 20% of people will click on the URL.
h)    In Description, put lot of keywords. If it is a song put lyrics of song. If it’s a movie clip, put review of it (you can get free reviews/ free lyrics online).
i)    After uploading the video popularize the video.

So basically this is the summary of youtube marketing. After a week of doing it, you will know the ins and outs. And then will be the right time to get bulk tools. For all these activities, you can get tools which work in batch. So you can put 500 videos to be downloaded, and they will be done by 24 hours. Similarly for each of these activities you have batch tools. So after two weeks you should be uploading 500 video a day. With 500 video a day even if each video gets a petty 2 visitors and even 10% people really click on your link, you will get 100 clicks a day. Considering very poor conversion you will convert at least 3-4 sales and that is 50$ a day. Also you keep on uploading video and in due course of time you may have thousands of video at youtube and you will get thousands of clicks for sure.

#2: Paid Per Install (PPI):

It is nasty. Here is what you do. You sign up with a company that pays you on every installation happening using your affiliate code. There are lot many companies. If you need names, just buzz me.

So here is what you do. Sign up with an affiliate company for PPI. Then download some popular software applications from mininova or thepiratesbay. Using IEXPRESS combine your exe with downloaded applications. Now create torrents for these apps. Upload the torrents back at mininova and TPB. Now every time someone downloads and installs you exe you will make some money. Again the key is doing in bulk. So if you are uploading 100 apps a day and each application is installed by even 5 users, you will make 50$ a day.

There are lot many techniques currently popular, but these two have been tried and tested by a few of my acquaintances and they are making good money.

Finally I managed to close down my extreme loss making business of running the call center. It is not just money, but in all totality Call Center Business was a failure. To begin with I never really liked the concept of outsourced Call Centers. Running a global business, I myself keep on facing numerous difficulties because of outsourced call center. But anyway since every other guy in India with a bit of money was doing it, I also jumped into it. After losing a good chunk of money and peace, finally I am able to quit the CC business.

Wow what a nightmare it was. Always complaining clients, hectic schedules, clients not paying the money, employee quitting once they make enough money to purchase a cell, data theft, back stabbing people. Gosh I wander why at the first place I even started it.

Now coming to think about it, here is why running a Call Center business is similar to being a Pimp and running an Escort Agency.

1. Both business typically work at night
2. In both businesses as an employee Girls are more in demand.
3. It is tough to find talent in both businesses.
4. Talents are typically very unreliable and they tend to switch places with even very little extra money.
5. In both businesses, in CC business Owner, and in pimping business Pimp is helpless without good talent.
6. Both businesses require young talent.
7. With both businesses you typically do not get any respect in society.
8. Government has tough regulations against both businesses.
9. Both businesses have moody talents.
10. In both businesses talents dream to be free of the pimp and start on their own.

Now here is why Pimping is better than Call Center

1. You will always make profit in pimping
2. In Pimping, end client is always satisfied. Whereas in Call Center business End client (person making call) is unsatisfied 95% of the time.
3. In Pimping, no one can steal your client list.
4. You do not own any obligation towards talent in pimping.
5. You do not require any infra structure in pimping
6. You  make cash money in pimping
7. Pimping is just a few hour night business as compared to CC which goes for whole night.
8. In pimping you just provide transportation to talents. In Call Center you provide Food, Transportation, Drink, Party, Movie Tickets … List is endless.
9. In pimping you can close the business any day without any obligation.
10. In Pimping talents quit and be freelancers. They never become pimp to others.

Cheers.

~Nitin

1. Go to google search for any long tail ringtone keyword. For example lets search for mp3 ringtones for sprint phones . Here is what I see.

All top SERPs are dominated by pages hosted at free web-sites. When you click on any of the links, it is either redirected through javascript to advertiser page or a page full of banner ad with keyword stuffed in comes.

I did some reverse engineering and here is step by step how people are doing it.

A> Create a free account at any of popular free hosting site (e.g. lycos.fr)
B> Select any niche. Let’s say Ringtones.
C> Grab million long tail keywords.
D> Get a tool to build million pages each dedicated to its own keyword. Page should have some random keyword, some random article and that’s all.
E> If you are really smartass, you may put NOARCHIVE tg in meta, so that google doesn’t keep a cache of your page.

<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOARCHIVE”>

F> In header do javascript cloaking to your advertiser. With javascript cloaking when a human will click on Search result, it goes direct to advertiser page, whereas when Search Robot comes in, it will see the original page.
G> Upload all million pages through FTP.
H> Now all you got to do is somehow get these pages indexed. There are million ways of doing it. Typically these Blackhaters will do blog spamming to get links or if you really want to play safe, all u need to do is somehow get ur page crawled. There are tools available at various blackhat forums, which will get ur million pages indexed in no time.
I> In 1-2 days, your pages will be in SERP. Since lycos.fr etc are authority domain + ur site has nothing but keywords, you will rank good for long tail keywords.
J> Indeed longevity of these sites is always big Question Mark. A typical site will last for 3-5 days before someone will report it to G or Lycos and they will shut this site out. But by then BH guy already has gotten thousands clicks and made $. Beside all the work is done by tool, so in a day he will come out with hundred of these sites.
K> Goes without saying, I don’t recommend you to do this or any of other BH trick. If you wanna try, try at your own risk. However If you are one of those million losers of the web who are not really doing anything other than just whining and complaining about the spam on the net thinking that they are doing something useful in life, I gave you guys enough feed for whole year. Go check Google 24 hour and you will find millions of pages to complaint about:)

~Nitin

With these words I am starting new phase of journey for our blog.

Nitin

Again as most of you by now know that we go by experiment and here is another experiment. We did write articles for many of out sites, but never tracked direct revenue generated by these articles. To us, writing a good article and submitting articles to 25 Article sites cost 10$ (we charge 25$ to our client for this service). So here goes the experiment.

We just launched a mortgage site. I have setup my content writer to write five articles a day specific to Mortgage. Then our link team will submit these articles to 25 article sites. This activity will go on for 2 weeks that is fifty articles. Overall cost to us is 500$. It will be interesting to observe how much money is made in direct revenues. I will keep you all posted about it. Also here goes list of article sites.

http://www.1888articles.com
http://www.articlegeek.com
http://www.articlewise.com
http://www.articleblotter.com
http://www.articleselections.com
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.article-hut.com
http://www.articlecity.com
http://www.webpronews.com/submit
http://www.articlehub.net
http://www.articlepile.com
http://www.submityourarticle.com
http://www.articlegear.com
http://www.articleshowroom.com
http://www.articlenetworks.com
http://www.articless.net
http://www.promotearticles.com
http://www.articlerich.com
http://www.articleblender.com
http://www.article-hangout.com
http://www.article99.com
http://www.articles4free.com
http://www.articlewiz.com
http://www.articleuniversity.com
http://www.ezinesarticle.com

Nitin Tripathi

PHP is the most popular open source programming language used to build web-sites that rely upon dynamic content. PHP is free and so are almost all of its supporting tools, platforms, databases and even OS. Being Open Source it got good support, code snippets and helps at various on-line open source forums. It even got Zend optimizer which compiles the code and makes code much faster and hence making it almost equivalent to other compiled web programming options. It is fairly easy to get a PHP programmer and many of the times if you have budget constraints, you can get freelancers with excellent skills in PHP.

.NET is really a framework, that consist of a framework with support of various programming languages e.g. C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET etc. Like many good things except air, water, sun nothing is free in the world and so is .NET However it does come up with excellent support from Microsoft, provides excellent help documentation, has excellent professionals (though none of them are cheap - Sure you know one of the resource is outsourcing it to us:)) to sort out any issues. Also since it is a complete framework it is used for things way above than building simple web-sites.

So, in summary if you have limited IT budget and your requirement is to build a site or some other similar web based applications, then PHP may be a better choice. However if you have some budget and your requirement goes further beyond a simple web-site, and you are looking for some great dedicated support and dependency upon more solid programmers, .NET is the way to go.

Nitin Tripathi

During second year of our existence we relied too heavily on our content sites and cut down almost all the programming business that we used to do for our clients. Wrong move. One day we woke up to see our entire business collapsed to ground zero.

We restarted from scratch, started diversifying the company and currently we are more or less stable at least in terms of operations. Currently we have three major divisions in our company.
1)    Programming for client as well as for our own sites, products and tools (PHP, PERL, MYSQL, .NET etc)
2)    Call Center Services (Mostly used to generate Mortgage, Debt and other financial Leads)
3)    Low Tech Services for our clients as well as for our own products (e.g. Content writing, Link Building etc).

We started with just me and my wife and now we have employee strength of forty (including non technical staff e.g. security, clerks etc). Not too bad. The year 2008 is going to be a very crucial year for us. I actually have made a presentation ( Om Solutions plan for 5th year ) that I gave to all employees on our annual day. Attached is a copy of presentation for those of you keen enough to look into our future vision. We intend to cross 1 M revenue this fiscal year.

We had a wild party at a resort. I will upload a few pics and may be a video at youtube shortly (excuse me for my laziness).

Nitin Tripathi (http://blog.omsolutions.net)

Now is the time to really move on to adding content in all fifty sites of alpha-1. Also for initial ten sites, the coming weeks will see lot of back links and lot of direct traffic through Web 2.0 link strategies. As said earlier the mission is to make $50 a day by end of October.

One thing that I would like to clear at this point of time, all the link building will be as ethical as it is possible. I understand a school of thought where in all type of link building is spam and all type of link request is considered spam; I can’t argue with those people. For them whole web is spam. Other than that all our sites are going to get links through link requests, article submissions, blog writing etc.

So far in initial 2 weeks, we got close to twenty links for our initial pool of ten sites. For now all traffic that we get is direct traffic from links as most of the sites have very less content (may be 5-10 page each) and they don’t have lot many back links to rank for each and every term. Right now traffic from Search Engines is zero. Overall the top traffic site is getting fifteen visitors a day. Please don’t preach about good content sites getting tens thousands of visitors a day. We have a few sites that get traffic in thousands, however specifically for this project, we are focusing on building 5000 content niche sites.

Indeed one of the biggest problems we are facing is erasing the footprints.  To erase the footprints, you can never have one fixed strategy. If you have a fixed strategy, then you are leaving footprints again. I will write a separate blog on erasing footprints once we have 500 plus successful running sites.

Nitin Tripathi (http://blog.omsolutions.net)

 In closing, Palo Alto is a programmer’s Haven as it sitting dead red in the silicon valley where a programmer can have it all his/her way with a 6 figure income, fine dinning and shopping and ofcourse the homes………:).

Barry.