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ALRIGHT, LETS DO THIS!!

Oh, and Mike... GREAT idea. I know you will follow through with this.
I'll check this thread regularly and try to help where I can.

Undecided noobs, join now!!
You have the attention of at least 2 WF mods trying their best to help you.

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Snapcount - read this thread if you haven't already:

Lot's of good stuff there, if your campaign is just a slow bleed and you're losing money, shut it off. Try something else. I've had good luck with an auto warranty campaign. Not an email / zip submit. Personally, I was never good with email / zips and PPC, but that's just me.

# 2. Remember that the blackhole SEO is more about links and less about traffic. Don't expect to get rich from it in the short run, it more about the marathon.

# 3. DB sites are another thing that are great for inbound links, some money, but more about the links they can garner.

Take a look at his post again and pay attention to the Cycle Sites. I missed that the first 6 times I read it, so don't feel bad. Eli is even nice enough - nice enough, hell Eli's my hero - to provide you with a copy of his modified WP script.

I just set one of these sites up tonight on a different domain that I had lying around. Within 10 minutes there were 1700+ posts, now there are 2500+. Crazy shit.

Here's the site (told you I'd keep this transparent):
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http://arizonamlslistings.com
 
emp said:
Oh, and Mike... GREAT idea. I know you will follow through with this.
I'll check this thread regularly and try to help where I can.

Undecided noobs, join now!!
You have the attention of at least 2 WF mods trying their best to help you.

::emp::
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Awesome Emp! Glad to have you here!
 
Mike, I set up one cycle site so far (have to do it manually for now, don't have a script to auto-configure) but I spent a ton of time gathering related feeds for it. Am I missing something? So far I've seen very little traffic (but some) so I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong here?
 
I'm fucking down. However I've had a bad start so far. Oh by the way is this starting now?
 
egonitron said:
Mike, I set up one cycle site so far (have to do it manually for now, don't have a script to auto-configure) but I spent a ton of time gathering related feeds for it. Am I missing something? So far I've seen very little traffic (but some) so I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong here?
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Me too, Mike. I feel like there was a huge jump in the thread that I missed. I'm sure it has something to do with the methods in bluehat that you are implementing but you went from your wordpressmu Welcome to X7G.net site which I was totally following along with. And this morning I read this thread and you're saying you did Arizona Real Estate Blog "Within 10 minutes there were 1700+ posts, now there are 2500+" ( AWESOME, btw) But keeping within n00b fashion, I got lost somewhere along the way.:confused:

I'm going to spend the morning studying back through all the wordpress threads and look back at Bluehat (yet once again. Maybe this time I'll get it all ;) )
 
Sorry about that. I tend to do many things at once. I'm still setting up the blogs in the WPMU, and actually that was what led me to the Cycle Sites that Eli describes. I was drawing a complete blank last night and IM'd Eli to ask if he knew of a WP plugin for autoblogging. He replied that I should go back to his SEO Empire post and there was one there.

Soooo...like a good little n00b. I did. Found the script, installed it, plugged in about 1000 feeds and let 'er rip.

Now that I have his WP install, I'm going to see if I can adapt part of it to work with WPMU and automate my those blogs.

For some of you this may be too advanced. That's okay. You don't have to do things exactly like I'm doing it. Trying to keep up with my crazy mind is a challenge anyhow.

So, lets slow it down a bit. Yeah, we all want to make a ton of money in the time frame of this challenge. That would be a blast. Realistically, you probably won't make a ton of money, but you will lay down the foundation of hard work, site-building knowledge, how to monetize a site, etc. Plus, you'll have a small (maybe bigger) network of sites slowly pulling in some cash for you to expand on.

Try not to get too caught up with what I'm doing with my sites. Get your sites going.

If you are comfortable with Eli's WP install, use it. I think its a great way to get started. Don't worry about setting it up like a Cycle Site. Just use it as an autoblog for now. The difference being scale. Cycle Sites are big and burn themselves out within a month or so. A simple autoblog could go on forever (in theory). I've got one that makes about $0.50 per day, but it just chugs along. Should probably check to see what kind of backlinks it has.

Here's how to get started, Step by Step:
  1. FTP the script to your server, don't forget to setup a database and the wp-config.php file
  2. Go through and adjust everything just like you would a normal wp install
  3. Turn on Autoblog and Adsense Deluxe
  4. Goto options and choose the AdsenseDeluxe tab. Create an Adsense block. I used 250x250, but 468x60 or another one of the squares would work as well.
  5. Go to Google, Yahoo!, whatever and find feeds that match your niche. Copy and paste the feed URLs to a note somewhere
  6. Back to your Wordpress, click on Plugins, then WP Autoblog Configuration. Add the list of feeds you found to the box, and click Save Settings
  7. Now, Run the script. This will populate your blog with all the posts from those feeds and ping the aggregators.
  8. Rinse, repeat with another niche.
 
SEO_Mike said:
  1. Goto options and choose the AdsenseDeluxe tab. Create an Adsense block. I used 250x250, but 468x60 or another one of the squares would work as well.
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Sorry for another post here, but with AdsenseDeluxe you have to put in the adsense code wherever you want it every time. How do you use this?
 
Mike, thanks for the great posts. A few questions for you:

1. You say that the difference between Cycle Sites and what you're doing is scale. So a true Cycle Site would have more pages and scrape more RSS feeds than what you're doing?

2. Do you anticipate getting any complaints sent to your host or to adsense regarding your cycle site/autoblog? Or do you think that you won't get any due to the smaller scale?

3. How did you create your autoblog that makes 50 cents a day? Is it a simple RSS scraper or does it follow the cycle site idea of using trackbacks? Have you been able to avoid getting labeled as duplicate content?

Okay that was more than a few questions. I got carried away. I'm going to try out Eli's cycle site idea in addition to the autoblogs I'm already setting up.
 
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You manually found and inserted 1000 feeds? how long did that take?
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Not long. I used a script to pull them. About 30 seconds.

Sorry for another post here, but with AdsenseDeluxe you have to put in the adsense code wherever you want it every time. How do you use this?
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Eli, being the stud that he is, already has it set in the themes included in that script. So, nothing to worry about there.

1. You say that the difference between Cycle Sites and what you're doing is scale. So a true Cycle Site would have more pages and scrape more RSS feeds than what you're doing?

2. Do you anticipate getting any complaints sent to your host or to adsense regarding your cycle site/autoblog? Or do you think that you won't get any due to the smaller scale?

3. How did you create your autoblog that makes 50 cents a day? Is it a simple RSS scraper or does it follow the cycle site idea of using trackbacks? Have you been able to avoid getting labeled as duplicate content?
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1. The difference between a Cycle Site and an Autoblog is scale. That ArizonaMLS site is a Cycle Site. From what I gathered most people are running 250 - 4000 feeds for their cycle sites.

2. Yep. Already got an email from a pissed of realtor. Guess I should have set my Whois info to private :rolleyes: Oh well.

3. I don't worry about dupe content, it won't be up long enough to garner any search engine traffic, so I don't care about rankings.

/edit/ Starting over on the ArizonaMLS site. Need to find different feeds to use. Shit.
 
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Ok, so you wrote a script for it, I don't really know how to do that yet, haha. looks like I'll just have to hold off on the cycle sites, I don't have the time to manually harvest all those RSS feeds, unless there's a script hovering around somewhere.
 
Guys don't forget to check out Eli's follow up Blue Hat SEO-Advanced SEO Tactics » Followup: SEO Empire Part 1

Also he mentioned to " be sure to put up a fake hosting provider in your name servers. That’ll give them someone to complain to and will make them happy. "

I'm a little confused about this. My hosting is with hostgator, how do I do a fake name?

I'm not really sure if this matters yet because I would like to just work on a few autoblogs instead of mass producing cyle sites so hopefully , I wouldn't get too many complaints.

Ok back to studying...
 
mkrongel,

What would you suggest? A ringtone offer? Or a voting page with a zip/email submit? Or maybe I need to think out of the box more than that?
 
Nomara said:
mkrongel,

What would you suggest? A ringtone offer? Or a voting page with a zip/email submit? Or maybe I need to think out of the box more than that?
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Either ... its all how you present it.

if you did ringtones i would say don't be the last to get the soulja boy ringtone

Or if email submits i would say, do you think the soulja boy dance is better than the macarena
 
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