Golly gosh that was a post from
wayback
I know it was always considered to be sort of a silly guide ("lol adsense farms") but it's honestly the biggest thing that really helped me get oriented and figure out what I was doing in the beginning.
I mean, this was posted like 12 days after I registered here, and registering here was the first thing I did after I first learned about IM from a thread on BB Misc (which I was linked to from 4chan), so this was way back when I had literally 0 fucking clue about anything at all. The concept of the "EMD" was absolutely groundbreaking for me back then, lol.
And even when I learned about EMDs I was still doing it wrong - I remember two of my first EMDs were "iswheyproteingoodforyou.net" and "whatdoescreatinedo.org". Fucking garbage lol, although I'm pretty sure that first one made me my first 25 cents, which proved to me that this was real and possible, so that's something.
Then someone on here was giving away free EMDs and they gave me purecoconutoil.org, and so that's what lead to me finally "getting it" as far as EMDs/keywords were concerned.
It's just funny looking back, all the knowledge we take for granted, the things that seem so obvious, to someone on the outside aren't even close to being obvious.