Table of Contents Disclaimer....................................................................................................................................................... i About this eBook........................................................................................................................................... ii Acknowledgements...................................................................................................................................... iii Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 1 Top 10 Secret Weapons for Internet Success ............................................................................................... 5 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................... 15 Appendix A .................................................................................................................................................. 17 Market Research and Niche Targeting.................................................................................................... 17 Google Keyword Tool .......................................................................................................................... 17 Advanced Keyword Tool and Competition Minimization ................................................................... 20 Building Professional-Looking Websites Quickly (Baby Steps) ............................................................... 23 Domain Registration ........................................................................................................................... 23 Hosting Account Sign-Up and Domain Integration ............................................................................. 23 Installing WordPress ........................................................................................................................... 24 Installing the SEO Plugins .................................................................................................................... 25 Add Site to Google Webmaster Account ............................................................................................ 26 Google Analytics Tracking (Traffic Monitoring) .................................................................................. 26 Appendix B .................................................................................................................................................. 28 Monetization and Optimal Conversion Techniques ............................................................................... 28 AdSense............................................................................................................................................... 28 Affiliate Products................................................................................................................................. 30 Redirects and Link Cloaking ................................................................................................................ 31 Cost per Action (CPA) .......................................................................................................................... 32 Product Launches ................................................................................................................................ 33
SEO Consulting .................................................................................................................................... 33 Selling your Site ................................................................................................................................... 34 Appendix C .................................................................................................................................................. 36 Autopilot-Money-Machine Example Site ................................................................................................ 36 Appendix D .................................................................................................................................................. 40 Becoming an Online Vendor ................................................................................................................... 40 Write your own eBook ............................................................................................................................ 41 Selling Your Own Products ...................................................................................................................... 42 Appendix E .................................................................................................................................................. 43 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) ......................................................................................................... 43 About the Author ........................................................................................................................................ 53 Addendum .................................................................................................................................................. 55
Disclaimer Please note that due to FCC regulations: I, Jeroen Waning, DO NOT make any guarantees and should not be held accountable for any success or lack thereof in the efforts of making money online corresponding to the readers of this eBook. The sole purpose of this free (meaning no monetary value) eBook is to provide advice to those wanting to make money online. However, this document holds no contractual bond to the assumption that any such efforts will provide real, monetary results. I, Jeroen Waning, DO NOT own any of the tools or products recommended in this eBook, and any support regarding those tools or products should be requested from the owners or their customer support staff. Apply these techniques at your own risk (however minimal), and be aware they require time and effort. NOTE: This eBook is public domain and may be freely distributed. You may use this eBook as an opt-in bonus to build your email13 list or share it with your friends, family, acquaintances, or anyone else. If you are new to internet marketing or building a website, please refer to the appendices to get started. This guide is meant for those who are struggling to make money online, but if you are a novice, you will find this eBook very helpful if you start with Appendix A. This eBook is a compilation of years’ worth of research gathered from various internet marketing programs for which you normally pay thousands of dollars collectively, and it has been translated into an easy, step-by-step guide that includes useful info for novices as well as professionals.
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Acknowledgements I’d like to thank Mike Long and Kelly Felix for teaching me everything I know about how to make money online. Through their great support forum and internet marketing community, I’ve remained inspired, determined, and passionate, but more importantly, I’ve become knowledgeable and successful.
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Introduction Hello and welcome to some powerful information! It is time to spread the word of how we can all do our part and work together to re-invigorate this crippled global economy. I want to make sure we do this in the manner you and I experience solid personal success and limitless financial capacity with minimal effort. If you’re currently making an autopilot income online, but need the secrets from the millionaire gurus, go ahead and start with the Top 10 Secret Weapons for Internet Success5. It is the arsenal of SEO weapons necessary for potentially jacking up your annual income into the top tax bracket. NOTE: the numbered references and hyperlinks in this eBook are there to help you navigate through it with ease. This eBook should serve as a reference manual for novice and veteran internet marketers alike. Internet commerce is a $200 BILLION per year industry and rapidly growing. Wouldn’t you want even just a teeny tiny slice of that pie? What if you could put a few simple implementations in place on the web that would guarantee your financial freedom with a limitless and ever-expanding income? Think of this as investing in mutual funds. The difference is, with the techniques in this eBook, there is minimal to no risk involved, you have incredibly reinforced stability and security, and you have a major influence over your ROI (return on investment). And… you ultimately decide how rich you want to become! Q: “Sure… So how does this work?” A: Well that’s what this entire eBook is all about, but I’ll sum it up in short for you to decide if it peaks your interest before you jump to conclusions and decide it is a waste of your time. This is not a get-rich-quick scam. This eBook was free… remember? This eBook will teach you, regardless of your knowledge or financial position, how to set up an autopilotmoney-machine. This autopilot-money-machine consists of either a small, niche-focused website or a comparable YouTube video. A vast amount of templates are in place that makes this possible with surprising facility. With just a few clicks and no programming or technical experience, you’ll be able to setup a professional micro-niche website or utilize existing YouTube videos to monetize for yourself. This eBook will then teach you how to drive massive volumes of traffic to it daily and how to maximize the profit from each potential customer without needing any product or service of your own and without ever providing any sort of customer support. Once setup, it will run on complete autopilot 100% of the time. When you’ve made your first successful autopilot-money-machine, you will then just replicate this success with limitless, hands-off profit potential! With each autopilot-money-machine you create, you are not only beefing up your revenue stream, you are diversifying your portfolio to guarantee long-term success with next-to-zero risk!
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IF you are: the dummy and aren’t afraid to admit it ready to get started from the beginning convinced this is something of interest to you Then go ahead and jump to Appendix A. My name is Jeroen Waning, and I have had great success in internet marketing and making money online. However, I have not yet made millions online and I haven’t been an internet marketer all that long (as of when this eBook was written). So why would you listen to me? Well, I have figured out the formula for an autopilot income with proven success. And… This information is free It is exactly how I make money online (thousands per month and growing) 100% on autopilot Millionaire gurus don’t share this information for free The top 10 list is concise, but extremely powerful You are likely to experience a ‘eureka’ moment (or several) when reading it These are the same tools I use to rank my sites really fast!
Example: 555timercircuits.org (“555 timer circuits” = 1,900 exact searches per month)
Do I really own it? I do as of the time this eBook was written. Use whois.com and find out for yourself, and see Appendix C for proof and details
Yes! You may analyze and dissect this site to learn how I rank and get solid traffic and an autopilot income
It contains everything needed for success (newbies please check the appendices first) Additional bonus tools/methods are included in the appendices See Appendix E for more details and FAQ (you will also find many tips and tricks there) Use this eBook as a reference guide to return to when building your internet empire
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I would like to congratulate you on making a smart move by even finding this free guide. You need to stop paying gurus for their so-called “money-getting tactics”. Don’t waste another dime on outsourcing SEO or paying for traffic. Easier said than done, no? No. Everything you need is right here, free! Instead of abstract business models or get-rich-quick schemes, you need insider access to the top secret weapons and tools used by the millionaire internet marketers. Why am I going to share these top secret tools with you for free? Simple! I have links to my own websites clearly present in this document. This PDF document is public domain and may be dispersed freely. You may even use this free guide as an opt-in bonus9 to start building your email list! That is my first “thank you” gift for reading this document and potentially spreading it around the web with embedded links to some of my sites. Those links should bring free visitors to my sites as this eBook is freely dispersed. Make sense? Fair enough? Read on to learn more. This is also my very first eBook, and I hope to gain exposure to the right kind of people in the industry. My next eBook may not be free, so please enjoy this one now! Those who are new to internet marketing may find this eBook to be written in reverse, but the purpose of this is to aid readers from all stages of internet marketing success. The focus of this eBook is the top tools used by some of the most successful masters of online marketing, and that is the reason why this book starts with those powerful tools. If you’re new to this, we’ll get you up to speed in Appendix A, but it is also recommended that you read this eBook in its entirety before you get started on your own. NOTE: If you do not know how to setup a niche website with good on-page SEO, please see Appendix A SEO = Search Engine Optimization free web traffic = $$$ See Appendix B for monetization/conversion tips, tricks, and best practices on how to make the most money online from your organic (free) web traffic
If you know SEO, the next section, “Top 10 Tools and How to Use Them”5, is where you should start, otherwise, once again, start with Appendix A (just go ahead and go there now)
If you choose to purchase any of the recommended tools that aren’t free, please do so through the links provided in this eBook because I am tracking the success of this eBook. It would be greatly appreciated because it would help me incredibly and inspire me to write another free eBook to help you with your success (contact me)
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“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley (Consider this eBook one of those bricks!)
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Top 10 Secret Weapons for Internet Success 1. Article Submission on Autopilot – Google loves article directories. Article directories allow you to place backlinks in your articles. Backlinks are links to your site(s) that Google counts as votes to increase your search engine visibility. Better search engine visibility means more web traffic. More traffic equals more money of course. Writing articles is fun for some, sure. Writing hundreds of articles and manually submitting them is never fun (especially when that’s just for ONE site). That’s what it takes to even begin to rank on the first page of Google for competitive keywords. With this autopilot article submission service, you will get 100’s or even 1000’s of high-quality backlinks after just writing three unique articles!* They also bring loads of human traffic. You get to write the articles to promote your site or your business (or have these articles written for you). You get to choose your anchor text43 (keyword or key phrase attached to your link). The three unique articles are combined and spun (rearranged) to create hundreds or thousands of unique versions. The paragraphs of the three articles are spun together to form a huge quantity of unique articles. They are then submitted on autopilot at random intervals on a daily basis. You get to choose the number of submissions per day. It is like you have an army of writers dispersing articles around the net about your site. Click here to learn more from their easy-to-follow instructional videos and interactive training. Bonus – This service also gives you free access to their autopilot social signals service. Google now looks at social media more than ever to determine which sites deserve to get the most traffic. This freebie provides you with an easy, hands-off way to get real people to Facebook like, tweet, and Google +1 your site. You can also get real viewers to watch your YouTube videos. Click here to find out how, and get started within minutes. This all-inclusive service is the way the top gurus and internet millionaires use to get their sites ranked at the top of Google for free laser-targeted traffic. This is how you get your starving crowd to your site by the hundreds or thousands per day so you can earn cash on autopilot. Q: “A service like this must cost hundreds of dollars per month, if not more, right?” A: Of course, it is not free, but I am amazed at how affordable this service is. The value I get is worth 10x what I pay because of the autopilot social signals. You can even get paid for promoting the service on autopilot with each article that is submitted. *You can certainly have quality articles written for you to submit to this autopilot submission and spinning service. This allows you to spend minimal amounts of time on getting your sites ranked and starting new ones. Some of us just aren’t great or fast at writing ourselves.
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2. Backlinks Super Juice – Yes, article backlinks are awesome, but how do you tell Google that you have them? Sure, you can just wait for Google to find them eventually, but… we want to make money now. I don’t have the time to wait weeks for Google to find my backlinks. This indexing service is, by light years, the absolute best at juicing up your backlinks. It makes sure that Google finds the submitted backlinks immediately, and you even get more quality and diversified backlinks built on autopilot. Q: “What do you mean ‘juicing up your backlinks’?” A: This amazingly powerful service builds more backlinks to your backlinks, it pings them, puts them in multiple RSS feeds with relevant anchor texts, adds them to social bookmarking sites, puts them on micro blogs, integrates web 2.0 properties, and does all of it on autopilot with unique C-class IPs. Q: “What the heck does all that mean?” A: This eBook needs to be as concise as possible. Feel free to research these topics on the web, but do not worry about them because it’s all done for you on autopilot* once again. Are you starting to see a pattern here? A powerful network of backlinks is what will boost your online success. Click here to learn more about the #1 backlinks boosting service. Compare it to Lindexed or Linklicious and you’ll see why I recommend tool #2 instead. If you’re starting out and don’t have many sites (or any at all) yet, sign up for the basic package because it is very affordable. There is no reason to get the higher packages yet if you’re just starting out. You can always upgrade later when you’re earning a profit. *Making money on autopilot is all about using the powerful tools that do it for you on autopilot. Don’t feel pressured to purchase this tool if you are on a budget. It’s not necessary to make money online, but it will make it go MUCH faster. Without it, expect a minimum of a few weeks for your website rankings to kick in from tool #15. However, it can take upwards of a few months without tool #2. Balance your time vs. your money, and work out of determination – not desperation.
3. Autopilot Phantom Links – Okay so the top 2 tools are certainly enough to start with until your sites are crankin’ out enough cash on autopilot to expand your network of moneygetting micro sites. However, if you want to start ranking in Google faster, higher, and for more keywords, or you want to rank for ultra-competitive keywords, you’ll need backlinks from
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websites that have high authority and page rank. You’ll also need a TON of them and on relevant sites, but you do not want a whole bunch of spammy links. Q: “Can backlinks hurt my rankings too?” A: Absolutely! You do not want spammy links aimed directly at your money site or promo videos8. Google will penalize you for this. That is why I recommend you only stick to the tools recommended in this eBook. Q: “What are considered spammy links?” A: Google does not like tons of auto-approve blog comments, ugly and unreadable spun43 articles (which is why I recommend tool #15), or links on sites with delayed redirects or flashy ads for Viagra for example – you get the idea? Stick to the proven methods used by the pros. Let the losers get their sites slapped while you zoom by the competition. Tool #3 is an autopilot link building tool that is as easy as installing a WordPress plugin. This advanced WordPress plugin makes you install a widget in your sidebar. That widget displays a list of random links. Each time you refresh your web browser, new links appear. Why would you want this widget with other people’s links on your site? You want this because you are also allowed to input your backlinks. You can put in the URL of your money site and all of the inner pages, and you can also put in all of your backlinks (or backlinks’ backlinks, etc) for even more ranking power. This simple WordPress plugin is SO powerful, it can generate up to 12,000 backlinks. They never leave a footprint for Google to follow because they are real links (with varied anchor text43) on real websites of all different kinds. You get backlinks on high authority sites and low authority sites. Most are ‘dofollow’ and some are ‘nofollow’*, and this combination makes it look very natural. Each time the browser is refreshed, a new set of links appear. Your links will be on sites with a PageRank and some without, and most of your links will be on other relevant sites. I can go on and on about this amazingly potent ranking service, but all the details you need to know can be found if you click here. They also have an excellent video course on how to rank for ultra competitive keywords. Most of the time, these types of phantom links will have your Google rankings updated within hours, and it is the fastest ranking method I know of today. *’Dofollow’ and ‘nofollow’ are properties of hyperlinks set by the webmaster. Links are set to ‘dofollow’ automatically unless otherwise specified by either the webmaster or another SEO plugin. ‘Dofollow’ means that the webmaster gives credibility (and link juice) towards that link. ‘Nofollow’ means that the webmaster claims no responsibility for that link and the web crawlers do not follow through that link. Contrary to popular belief, nofollow links do help with SEO.
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4. Video
Marketing
– Yes! This is an EXTREMELY fast
way to get started with making money online. YouTube videos rank super fast in Google because Google owns YouTube. You will also get a ton of hits from YouTube users when applying these techniques. You don’t even need to setup a website! Follow these steps to start with video marketing:
Sign up for a free YouTube account (or your favorite video sharing site)
Find an affiliate product28 you want to promote (ClickBank.com, Amazon.com, etc)
Search YouTube for promotional videos (or any other relevant videos) regarding your affiliate product (or add value to the web by making your own videos)
Use keepvid.com to rip existing videos to your computer (mp4 format is recommended)
Add your own unique spin to the video(s) using your favorite video editing software
Windows users – Windows Movie Maker is free and should come standard on your computer Mac users – iMovie is part of iLife which should come free on your Apple computer
Upload your unique version of the video(s) to YouTube (or you can use vimeo.com, etc)
Use simple SEO techniques to give the video a relevant description, title, and tags (including your keywords of course), and select the appropriate category
Grab your affiliate link and go to tinyurl.com to make it nice and neat (you can even give it a custom alias to describe your URL)
Example: http://6cc8f39zxax80l6x1fw4pepfot.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=MAKEMONEYONLINE is changed to http://tinyurl.com/make-money-online-btf - much better right?
Put the new cloaked affiliate link at the top of your video’s description (see Appendix E for other/better link cloaking techniques)
Use the tools here to skyrocket your video’s rankings to the top! The top 2 tools will save you months of manual writing, backlinking, and waiting… and waiting…
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I recommend using YouTube because it is owned by Google. Google loves to include YouTube videos on their organic SERPs (search engine results pages). However, you can try this technique with other video sharing sites, but you may need to build more and better backlinks. It is also a great idea to post your videos in your autopilot article submissions. This is made extremely easy with tool #15. Using video marketing and tool #15 almost guarantees rapid success for most people. Success depends on your unique grasp and execution of the methods in this eBook. Instead of putting your affiliate link in the video’s description, you can also use this powerful method of viral marketing to build backlinks to your money site. Having a link to your money site in the description of your video will not only provide you with a high quality backlink in the eyes of Google, it will open a huge doorway for human traffic to that site. The key is to refer to your link in the video. If you did not make the video, you can edit it in video editing software to add captions. If you are not comfortable using the free video editing software included with your Windows or Mac computer, you can use YouTube’s built-in editing tools. Just by adding a speech bubble or other annotations, you can add whatever text you want at whatever desired time instance in the video (see an example). Let’s say you are completely new to internet marketing and web development, and you’ve gone through the appendices. You want to start earning a real, significant autopilot income in as little as a few days. Well, the absolute best way to get started would be with the combination of Video Marketing and Launch Jacking33.
5. Auto Blog Commenting and Social Bookmarking – Now you must have had a bit of success with the top three tools if you’re looking for more ways to outrank higher competition? Perhaps you just want to dive right in, and diversify your SEO portfolio for even better SERPs positions and more traffic. Remember even with just the first tool5, you’ll be on the road to success with exponentially growing search engine visibility and web traffic. The second tool6 just amps it up to make it go lightning fast. However, I’m always looking for newer tools in which to re-invest to jack up my profits even higher and faster. Blog comments and social bookmarking are a great way to diversify your SEO portfolio and add stability to your rankings. Manual blog commenting and social bookmarking are always the safest way to go, but not always the fastest.
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If you’re really at the point where you have enough sites making you money (or too many to do this by hand), I would definitely say this auto blog commenting and social bookmarking software is the next best investment for you. If you are having great success without it, or you’re not having any success at all yet, I would definitely wait to invest in this tool. Blog commenting and social bookmarking shows Google that you are an active participant in your niche. The more you do it, the more you appear as an authority in that niche. When Google sees you as an authority in a niche, they won’t hesitate to help you get free traffic. This seems like a lot of work for one website, but the trick is, once you find a niche you are passionate about, you create many satellite sites that point back to your main money site. First, you want to focus on building your money site in a niche you are knowledgeable about or want to know more about. Second, you concentrate on getting traffic to your main site to see if it converts well (or makes you any money). Decide whether that site was worth the time and effort. If your main site is a raging success, you want to get even more free traffic to it right? That’s when you start to build other sites in a relevant or supplemental niche that link back to your main site. These are called satellite sites.
This method provides your main site with even more highquality and highly relevant backlinks that jack up your rankings, but it also gives you more human traffic which is ultimately what you want anyways. You can also make money directly off of these satellite sites with affiliate offers, Google AdSense*, etc
*See Appendix B for conversion and monetization methods and tips. Once you have multiple successful sites in a niche, you need to become the authority. This is best done on autopilot, of course, just like your money-getting tactics. That’s where tool #5 comes into play. Click here to find out more on becoming an authority in your niche on autopilot.
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6. Autopilot Tweets – So we’re coming down the list of tools here, and you just can’t get enough right? I know how it is, and sometimes you’re just desperate for a rapid boost in rankings that doesn’t break the bank. This tool is very effective at having your website(s) hop many spots in the SERPs overnight. Yes, literally overnight. And it’s extremely cheap*. As mentioned before, Google monitors social signals very closely (maybe even more closely than backlinks). Remember, if you use tool #15, another tool that lets you get those desired social signals is included. However, there’s an even faster way to get guaranteed, REAL retweets from REAL users. Retweets are tweets from users that sent another original tweet to their own twitter followers. You want this. You want people to retweets the tweet that contains a link to your site. First, you need to get a free twitter account at twitter.com. If you decide you’re ready for some retweets, you may find it difficult to get them manually. Well, that’s why you get real retweets to your site(s) on autopilot. Again, to make money on autopilot, you need autopilot tools. Your arsenal of autopilot tools should grow correspondingly to your growth in autopilot profit. Click here if you are ready for this. I think you’ll quickly find out what I mean by taking giant leaps up the SERPs overnight. *If you’re strapped for cash, stick to using tool #15 for autopilot backlinks and social signals.
7. High PageRank Homepage Backlinks – This service is expensive for good reason. This is not a must have unless you are trying to compete for EXTREMELY competitive keywords (such as “free movies online” – 1.5 million global exact searches per month, etc). If you’re an experience internet marketer scanning over this document and you’ve landed your eyes on this gem, this may be the time you decide this document was actually worth reading for you. The name of this tool says it all, but I’ll give a brief explanation of it for newbies: Recently (since this document was written) with the Google Panda and Penguin update, Google places much more emphasis on the need for real, authority backlinks in how to compete for monster keywords and key phrases.
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Google’s web crawlers analyze websites every nanosecond, but it’s just a few times per year that Google really examines a site in depth to determine its trustworthiness and authority. When this time comes, Google provides websites with a PageRank (named after Larry Page, founder at Google). A PageRank is anywhere between 0 and 10 (or n/a when not yet established). The higher the PR, the more authority that site has. If you have links on sites with a high PR, this will dramatically increase your authority and Google rank of course. You can easily and quickly determine a site’s PR using this free tool. The free SEO Quake Toolbar even shows PR (plus a lot more SEO info) in the SERPs. Getting a PR is not easy because Google is very smart, and they also take their time with this process. This is why high PR backlinks are highly coveted and thus expensive. Click here, if you are at the point where you are looking for real and high PR permanent homepage backlinks.
8. Document Sharing Sites – This completely free technique is one of the best when you want to rank fast but don’t have a whole lot of SEO tools. It also works great with tip #4 (Video Marketing8). This technique requires writing articles manually or using spinning software. However, it works well for those who are just starting out without a lot of money ready to be invested into tools that have a monthly fee associated with them. Document sharing sites are sort of like article directories, but instead, you upload your documents (or slides) in PDF, DOC, PPT, or other popular document/presentation formats. They also let you put backlinks in those documents that can be crawled by GoogleBot and other web crawlers. This eBook was also submitted to document sharing sites because it was quick and painless, and it provides me with some backlinks to my site. This eBook is over 50 pages of unique content for which Google should give me quite a bit of credit. However, you can simple submit 300-500 word articles to document sharing sites with 2 or 3 links to greatly help with your backlinking and human traffic. Likewise, I should see human traffic because of this eBook.
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Here are the top 5 document sharing sites that are great for SEO, and to upload to them is free:
DocStoc.com
Issuu.com
Scribd.com
Slideshare.net
CrocDoc.com Even though some of these document sharing sites (mainly DocStoc.com) display the documents in a manner where the embedded links are not clickable, the links are clickable if the documents are downloaded. The web crawlers do crawl these links, and they do it very quickly.
9. Email Marketing – Once you have established some successful sites, and you’re getting a decent volume of traffic, you can ask people to opt-in to be on your mailing list. Q: “Why would I want a mailing list?” A: Having a list of people’s email addresses is extremely lucrative. You can send them affiliate offers of course! Q: “Why would people sign up for my mailing list?” A: That’s the tricky part, and that’s where I come in. Newsletters are old school and ineffective. You need to entice people to sign up to your mailing list with an irresistible, free offer. Q: “I have nothing free to offer. What can I do?” A: You’re reading it right now. That’s right; you may freely disperse this eBook as you wish. Use this “Top 10 Secret Weapons for Internet Success” eBook as a free bonus for your visitors to entice them to opt-in. Here is an example of how to do an opt-in offer: http://www.affiliateoverthrowreviews.com/ (also an example of Launch Jacking33) See the opt-in offer on the right in the sidebar? Also, notice how I just linked to my site? You can do the same thing when you upload your documents to document sharing sites12.
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Q: “Yeah, but that seems really complicated right? I don’t know any code or graphic design…” A: Well, you need none of that. If you use this automated mailing service, everything is done for you. You just pick out the form you want to use on your website. It’s literally that simple! Use this very document you’re reading to get people to sign up free. After a few weeks or months when your list starts getting juicy enough, you send them an email with some good SEO info without any affiliate offers (or other relevant info about your niche). Maybe send a few more of those a week for a few weeks. Once you’ve established an attentive email audience, and trust, sneak in a few affiliate offers every month! That’s super simple, free money every month! With this tool, you get the best email marketing course available. Click here to learn more about email marketing with auto-responders and automated emails.
10. Fiverr.com – This is a site where you can buy and/or sell any online service for $5. You can have people make birthday YouTube videos for your family or friends, logos for your business, videos to promote your sites or products, songs to cheer you up, press releases, etc More importantly, you can have people build links to your sites for you. NOTE: This can be dangerous because Google looks for this sort of thing. Most of these link pyramids, link wheels, and other link building schemes are seen as spam by Google. That is why this tool is at the bottom of my list of top 10 tools. However, you can find a trusted Fiverr seller that will make quality links for you; this can save you a lot of time and money. It can work extremely well because it works like outsourcing labor to developing countries. You can get some really nice, high-quality link profiles for only $5 from people in India, Indonesia, Israel, etc .The dollar is not worth much in the U.S. these days, but it does much better in certain countries. However, most of the time, these gigs are completed using cheap automation software that leaves a HUGE footprint for Google. That’s the danger! If you are going to look for links on Fiverr, don’t fall for the gigs that offer thousands of links unless you plan to point them to supplementary linking tiers (i.e. your backlinks or your backlinks’ backlinks). I personally look for things like “30 dofollow EDU links” or something that Google should see as natural and not spammy. Fiverr.com can be very useful, but use it at your own risk for link building!
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Conclusion The top 10 weapons/tools are the way successful internet marketers embark on the road to financial freedom. Once they’ve started earning six or seven figures annually, they hire their own private software and web developers to make highly automated software that combines everything into one. This type of software practically spits out autopilot-money-machines with just a few clicks. It does the market research, keyword research, domain registration, WordPress installation, backlinking, social media exposure, content creation, and everything necessary for success. That cookie-cutter software is kept a highly guarded secret and is almost never released to the public. At rare times, some internet marketers do share their private autopilot-money-machine generating software, but it comes with an extreme and exorbitant price tag. NEVER fall for claims of software such as this offered at a low, or toogood-to-be-true, price because it will be nothing like their claims. It will be buggy, invite viruses into your computer, and it will just cause more work than they claim it saves. Million-dollar marketers can make crappy products seem like gold mines. These self-proclaimed gurus are greedy and unethical, and they’ve made their millions by ripping people off by presenting these irresistible offers. They’re even trained like ninjas on how to prevent you from requesting a refund. They present themselves as goodwilled, warm-hearted people that are just out to help you. There are people out there that are genuinely concerned with your success (but only if it benefits them as well). Always look for mutually symbiotic relationships. If a product or service in question is hyped up to seemingly only benefit you, it’s most likely going to do quite the opposite. When you’re at the point where you want to spit out sites with rapid efficiency, I recommend investing in WordPress cloning software. This is a tool that clones a WordPress site with ease. It only requires you to install the plugin on the original site, click a few check marks, and then install it on your brand new WordPress site. All you do then is modify some of the content for the new site to gear it towards your new niche and keywords. It even copies all of your other WordPress plugins and their configurations. It makes setting up new autopilot-money-machines a matter of minutes (not counting the copyrighting and backlinking), but more important to some, it allows you to backup your entire site with point-andclick facility. You never have to worry about the server’s hard drive crashes or losing all of your time, hard work, and money. Delving into the world of internet marketing requires some critical decision making. You’ll need to decide how much time and effort you want to allocate towards it. More importantly, you need to make a financial choice. Do you want to make the minimal monetary investment and start it as a side project while you work a regular job? Or, do you want to quit your job and do it full-time? Keep in mind that 95% of people who start in internet marketing never really make any money. With that being said, they probably determined very quickly that it’s not something they are passionate about. If you are planning to employ yourself in internet marketing, be aware that you will have to make some monetary investments, and you will need a financial safety net before you get started. With the help from this guide (if followed step-by-step), the average person can begin to see a real profit within a few months. However, some internet marketers have been doing it for years without ever seeing any real money. You’ll have to be the judge of your own creativity, intelligence, work ethic, and how much time you can force yourself to spend on it every single day.
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Personally, I started out working a regular part-time job, but every moment of my spare time was consumed by learning internet marketing and implementing techniques. I worked many 18 hour days, I worked (and still work) every single weekend, and I didn’t have much of a life before I started becoming successful. I was very poor when I started out, but I made a clear-cut executive decision to invest whatever little money I had into the tools I needed to succeed. It certainly paid off. It took me about three months to see some real autopilot success, and once you get a little taste, it is one of the most rewarding things in the world (in my opinion). With a little success, you just need to duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, and your autopilot income will grow exponentially (with some possible hiccups along the way). Hopefully this free eBook will save you the time and frustration of figuring out all the dirty work for yourself. The gurus are not so ready to share the tools and services they personally use; they are just happy to recommend junk products that just make them a commission. If you are serious about becoming successful online, the most important thing is to take action. Yes, researching and reading about it online is very important and should be an ongoing endeavor, but the majority of the time, you just need to get out there and do something. Honestly, your first attempt will most likely fail, but don’t get discouraged for too long. Just stand up, brush yourself off, and charge back into battle with an iron gaze upon the finish line of success because… you are now officially an internet marketing warrior! Remember to cross-reference the appendices to ensure you have the proper knowledge of the technical details and on-page SEO of setting up a WordPress site and how to monetize it appropriately. Afterwards, start with the top two tools for maximum traffic generation and acquire the rest of the tools as your empire begins to thrive. I genuinely wish you the very best of success; partly because I hope you will spread this free eBook that contains links to my sites, and partly because I truly hope you recognize this as the key to your financial freedom. Remember that, like any self-employed venture, this will take hard work, determination, passion, and a significant investment of time. Internet marketing is certainly not for everybody, and it is by no means a get-rich-quick scheme. Best wishes,
Jeroen Waning
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Appendix A So you’re ready to learn how to build professional websites with ease? Great, because this is the same way internet marketers have been setting them up for many years. There is no programming or knowledge of web development software required whatsoever! The techniques here are literally what those internet marketing membership programs teach you for hundreds of dollars, and I’m going to teach you how to do it for free! Everything you learn here in all of the appendices is worth more than what you’d learn in a university semester’s worth of web development classes! I say more because here we’re focused on maximizing traffic and money-getting tactics instead of just making a nice and pretty professional website. Knowing how to setup a good website is the foundation for success. Before you can setup your autopilot-money-machine website, you are going to need to do your market and keyword research. Your keyword and market research is absolutely vital to the success of your autopilot-money-machine, and if you do it wrong, or don’t do it at all, your website will fail and you won’t make any money! So, first things first…
Market Research and Niche Targeting This section explains everything you need to know about how to find profitable keywords for which many hungry consumers search every day. Learn about the free tools available online, or what professional tools help determine the potential profitability of keywords (and relevant keywords), to determine lucrative niche markets with low competition. NOTE: 99% of people using search engines only click through sites that are on the first page (top 10) and the large majority of those people only click on the top 3. Ranking #1 is always best, but you can set yourself apart in the SERPs by using catchy titles and meta descriptions (covered in the next section).
Google Keyword Tool The Google Keyword Tool is free and works quickly to determine how many searches certain keywords or key phrases get monthly. It displays local and global search volumes and can be filtered and sorted by different parameters, such as relevance or number of searches. Global searches refers the searches from the entire world, and local searches are determined by default by the area you are currently in or the location you set under the ‘Advanced Options and Filters’. The Google Keyword Tool is free because Google offers it to potential AdWords clients. AdWords campaigns are used for paid traffic. They are the ads that show up next to their organic (free) search engine results. AdWords campaigns are also placed on relevant sites that have placed AdSense ads on their sites. In this eBook, we are not concerned with paid traffic, but we do like getting paid by Google from using AdSense (covered in Appendix B). Q: “What are the best practices for using the Google Keyword Tool to make money online?” A: This is a critical step to making a successful autopilot-money-machine. This is where your keyword research takes place, and it is probably the single most important step in being successful.
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First, you will want to find a niche in which you are interested. We’ll choose ‘acne’ as an example. Any health niche is very lucrative because people turn to the web for help with their health issues, and they do not put a price tag on their health. Keywords relevant to the health niche are extremely profitable. Using Google Keyword Tool to Target Profitable Keywords In the left sidebar, set ‘Match Types’ to ‘[exact]’
This ensures you get the accurate data you need to decide whether it’s worth it
Do not worry about the other ‘Match Types’ – they are for AdWords users
Make sure you select [exact]!
Click on the ‘Keyword Ideas’ tab on the bottom Type in any keyword relevant to your niche in the ‘Word or phrase’ field at the top Leave everything else in the default settings unless you want to specify a location or other advanced search filters Click ‘Search’ Click on either the ‘Global Monthly Searches’ or ‘Local Monthly Searches’ to sort them from highest to lowest Next, you will need to do some additional research and make a decision
When starting out, stick to ‘Low Competition’ keywords/key phrases
Pick keywords/key phrases with only 1,000 or more exact matches
Personally, I only choose keywords/key phrases higher than 2,900 exact matches (2,900 searches / 30 days = approx. 90 – 100 visitors per day IF you rank #1 for that term)
For example, ‘Best Acne Treatment’ = 14.8K global and 9.9K local spm (searches per month)
This is a very lucrative keyword phrase, but it has very ‘high’ competition
Keyword phrases such as these are not for beginners
Stick to ‘low’ competition and around 3K exact spm unless you have a vast arsenal of SEO tools5 (like all of the ones recommended here – not just the first 2 or 3)
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Pick one main keyword for your site and a handful of relevant keywords
You will use this keyword to attempt to get an EMD (exact match domain – covered in the next section)
When starting out, stick with keyword phrases consisting of 2 to 4 words
You will use your secondary keywords to target additional traffic through the SERPs
Type these keywords, along with the additional correlating data, in a text file to refer back to later
The Google Keyword Tool is free and great for more experienced users. Sure, because it is free, it is great for those who don’t have a lot of money. The truth is however, it does not provide enough data about competition.
If using this free tool, you will need to do plenty of additional research to determine whether you’ll ever be able to rank for that term because of the competition for it and the selection of SEO tools you have. If you’re up against websites that have a PR5 (or higher) and their domains are 5 years old (or older) and they have all their meta tags optimized for your keyword, you are most likely not going to outrank them (unless you have crazy volumes high quality backlinks11 and all of your on-page SEO is done correctly). You also need to have a steady velocity of backlinks, and that is why it is important to use the autopilot tools5, but for new sites (less than a month old), Google will penalize you if you have too many artificial backlinks showing up too quickly. You can recover from this penalty, but it requires more work than it is
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worth, and usually, all of your hard work is lost. However, you can just start building new quality backlinks on autopilot slowly, and recover from being penalized by Google (see FAQ43).
Advanced Keyword Tool and Competition Minimization As mentioned before, the free Google tool for finding good keywords is decent, but it’s not going to be great for determining competition. Google did a great job with it, but we have to understand that they made this for their AdWords users that pay Google for traffic. There are much more advanced market research and niche-finder tools available to us, and it is recommended for beginners. The best one I’ve found actually has a long free trial so you can start earning money before you pay the one-time fee (or get a full refund). This advanced keyword tool is one of the most critical tools you can have, and I saved it for this section as a bonus tool. This tool does things Google’s keyword tool does not do, or it does it a thousand times better: Hunts down laser-targeted traffic Provides detailed completion info and lets you create custom filters to minimize it with just a few clicks Find hundreds more and better supplementary keywords Displays in-depth commerciality details and statistics based on multiple intelligent online databases Helps you find an EMD (exact match domain) or other relevant domains Lets you save your projects for future reference or customization Generates better traffic statistics and potential commercial value of that traffic Identifies yearly traffic trends more accurately Allows for traffic data to be calculated per day and per month (instead of just per month) Takes traffic from other search engines into account Locates relevant content for your sites Offers high ROI monetization tips and techniques Determines competition based on meta tags, PageRank, competing pages, and more Contains complex and accurate algorithms to determine SEO value and commercial value of sites that would rank #1 And much more…
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Because of its superiority, I highly recommend taking advantage of the advanced keyword tool free trial. Even with the free trial, you will be able to watch a vast amount of training videos on how to use it most effectively for whatever your position is on the stepping stones to an autopilot income success. I will have to reiterate once more how vital this step is to the success of your first few sites. Keyword research (apart from product selection) is quite possibly the absolute most critical phase of the development of an autopilot-money-machine. Since the trial is free and it is such an essential step, I would suggest starting out by watching the free videos on how to optimize your market research. In the following screenshot, I show an example of it in action. However, this example illustrates how the keyword of choice (“make money online”) should not be used by beginners because of the ridiculous amount of competition. Here is a screenshot of how the setting should be if you’re just starting out:
NOTE: The competition is just too high for our keyword here of “make money online”. For the best practices of this tool, watch the free videos. Q: “What do these things mean?”
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A: Don’t worry too much about most of the things in this interface, but mainly focus on: Total Searches = Number of daily search volume (Period: Daily) SEOT = SEO Traffic (potential visitors to visit your site if you rank at the top for that keyword) SEOC = Search Engine Optimization Competition (total competition) SEOTC = SEO Title Competition (sites with keyword in title – stronger competition) SEOUC = SEO URL Competition (sites with keyword in URL – stronger competition) SEOV = SEO Value (algorithm that fetches and computes commercial value based on past and present market trends of international online commerce) When we see that a certain keyword/key phrase is just not worth our time, we go back and check other relevant keywords generated automatically (or start with a completely new one):
You can use many of the advanced built-in filtering and sorting features to do all of the dirty work for you! Click here to start you free trial. Now that you have found a niche and a good, profitable keyword that will receive a decent daily search volume and has manageable competition, let’s set up that autopilot-money-machine site!
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Building Professional-Looking Websites Quickly (Baby Steps) Once you’ve determined a niche and a main keyword, it’s time to setup a professional-looking website in just minutes (to an hour). Here, I’ll teach you exactly how to register a domain, setup a hosting account, set your nameservers (to tie your new domain to your hosting account), how to point that domain to the folder that will contain your website, and how to setup your free WordPress installation. I’ll even teach you what free plugins you need, how to install them, and how to configure your simple and professional website for maximum search engine optimization (SEO)! This is the easiest way to setup an autopilot-money-machine site. If any of it still seems out of your league or too difficult to grasp, I’ll include plenty of reference sites that include all possible details about each individual step.
Domain Registration 1. With your main keyword ready, head over to Godaddy (or another domain registrar, but Godaddy offers .com domains for as little as $5.99 and has great discount offers) 2. Type your keyword in the search field and click ‘Go’ to attempt to register an EMD (exact match domain) 3. Only register a .com, .net, or .org domain (other extensions require a lot more work for ranking) Don’t use hyphens You can add a letter or number if the EMD is not available (for example: beatmaker1.com) Any additional letters, numbers, or words will make it a bit more difficult to rank, but single letters and numbers do not seem to make much of a difference in my experience 4. If you still cannot find an acceptable/available domain: Start over with the keyword/market research - recommended Buy a domain with another extension (.info, .mobi, .tv, .co, etc) - not recommended for SEO 5. Once you’ve found an available and acceptable domain, continue with the purchase Select 1 year (it auto renews anyways unless changed) You don’t need to purchase anything extra here 6. Keep the Godaddy website open and proceed to sign up for a hosting account
Hosting Account Sign-Up and Domain Integration 7. Get the cheapest hosting account with all the tools required for unlimited domains and 24/7 live chat support, click here 8. Click on the best offer they are flashing in your face when you get there
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9. Click the radio button that’s labeled: ‘I plan to use a domain I already own’ (or its current equivalent) 10. Fill in your payment details and continue 11. The optional add-ons they present can be useful, but you don’t need them to make money online if you follow everything exactly as to what is outlined in this guide (purchase extras at your own will) 12. Complete payment 13. Login in to your cPanel (control panel) with the details sent to your email account 14. Locate the ‘Nameservers’ in the right sidebar (usually ns1.ipage.com and ns2.ipage.com) 15. Go back to Godaddy and click on ‘My Account’ 16. Click on ‘+ Domains’ to expand and click to ‘Launch’ the domain you’ve just purchased 17. Click on the small, blue ‘Nameservers’ link towards the bottom left 18. Enter in the nameservers (usually ns1.ipage.com and ns2.ipage.com) 19. It usually takes only a few minutes to tie your domain to your hosting account, but it is possible that it can take longer (if you proceed to install WordPress to soon, your website will not exist when you attempt to visit it or login to your WordPress account – if this happens, just install WordPress again after waiting a while) 20. Before you can install WordPress, click on the ‘Domain’ tab at the top right of your cPanel 21. Click ‘DomainCentral’ and type in your newly registered domain with ‘Add Existing Domain’ selected 22. Click on the ‘+’ next to your domain in the list to expand it 23. Click on ‘Pointers’ and set the ‘Subdirectory’ to be something like ‘www.yourdomain.com’ or ‘yourdomain.com’ 24. Now you are ready to install WordPress
Installing WordPress 25. Stay in your hosting account’s cPanel 26. Under the ‘Website’ tab at the top right, click on ‘WordPress’ 27. Click ‘Install’ (at the bottom) 28. Install the recommended version of WordPress, and click the dropdown menu to select your new domain (if it is your first domain, it should already be selected) 29. Leave the next field after the ‘/’ blank
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30. Uncheck the promotional offers, and check the ‘I have read…’, and click ‘Complete’ 31. Allow time for the installation 32. Once the installation is complete, use the provided details to login to your new WordPress account 33. You can always access your admin WordPress through ‘http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/’ 34. Once logged in, at the very top right in your WP account, you should see ‘Howdy, admin’ – click on it 35. Click ‘Edit My Profile’ 36. Change your password to something you can remember (if desired) 37. Do not be intimidated with your new WP interface and allow yourself some time to get used to it by checking out some of its features before moving on to the next section 38. Once you understand it, go ahead and delete all of the default WP posts, pages, links, and comments and add your own when you’re ready (all SEO optimized with your keywords)
Installing the SEO Plugins 39. Let’s go ahead and install all of the free WP plugins to make your site visible to Google by clicking on the ‘Plugins’ tab/button on the left of your WP dashboard 40. Click ‘Add New’ at the top 41. Search for ‘Google XML Sitemaps’ 42. Install the Google XML Sitemaps (or the one with v3 for qTranslate) and activate it 43. Repeat steps 39 – 42 by searching for ‘Platinum SEO’ and install ‘Platinum SEO Pack’ 44. If you’re using other plugins, like tool #3 or the SEO optimization plugin (optimizes your content for ranking high in Google), follow their individual instructions for registration, uploading, and installing 45. After having completed installation of plugins, click on ‘Settings’ -> ‘XML-Sitemap’ on the left of your WP dashboard 46. Check to make sure you sitemap was built, or click on ‘rebuild the sitemap’ 47. Now, click on ‘Platinum SEO’ on the left in your WP dashboard 48. Fill in the appropriate SEO details (if you’re not sure about proper SEO, watch this video), but make sure you use your keyword in your title and description
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Add Site to Google Webmaster Account 49. Now it is time to make sure Google can actually find your site and that you get feedback from them about your site, so create a new Google Webmaster Account 50. Once signed in, click ‘Add Site’ and follow Google’s instructions 51. When prompted to verify your site, utilize this free FTP program to upload the verification file (utilize your iPage FTP account information accessed under the FTP section in your cPanel to log in) 52. Once verified, go back to your Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) account to add your sitemap 53. In your GWT account, click on ‘Optimization’ in the menu on the left and choose ‘Sitemaps’ 54. Click ‘ADD/TEST SITEMAP’ at the top right 55. Provide both ‘sitemap.xml’ and ‘sitemap.xml.gz’ by typing them into the field and adding them Now, your site is setup and ready to be found by Google. This obviously doesn’t mean that your website is going to be found in Google for your keyword(s) because you’re going to need to add SEO optimized content, add backlinks using some (or all) of the top 10 tools5, and monetize it to start earning a profit. Before you start adding content and ways to make money, you may want to pick a WordPress theme that will look much nicer and sets your site apart from other WP blogs. There are many free WP themes to choose from (under the ‘Themes’ tab in the left menu in your WP dashboard), but using a premium theme will offer many advanced features that will help with SEO and conversions (click here to check out my personal favorite). It is proven to boost rankings, keep bounce rate* down, and entice people to buy through your site or click on ads that make you money. It also has a free trial for you to give it a test drive. *Bounce rate is a formula used by Google that takes into account the time your visitors spend on your site and the number of pages they visit. Lower bounce rates are better and help with rankings. You can check your bounce rate in your Google Analytics account (explained below).
Google Analytics Tracking (Traffic Monitoring) Now that you’ve set up your site, and implemented appropriate techniques for acquiring top rankings, you’re going to want to track the visitors that come to your site on a daily basis. When using the recommended tools5, you’re going to notice that traffic is not only coming from the search engines, but a significant amount of it will be coming from the articles you’ve dispersed on autopilot5. As you will learn from using tool #15, each article allows you to put links in your resource boxes that will bring targeted human traffic as well as credit from Google by providing you free search engine traffic. The best web traffic monitoring tool is also provided by Google. It also lets you monitor traffic in real time as visitors come to your site even by the minute and how they got there. It will provide statistics
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data about the traffic as a whole, but it will even provide details in regards to what search term or referring site they used. Google Analytics tracking is as simple as signing up for a Google Webmaster Tools account. Once you’ve signed up, take these steps to start tracking the traffic coming to your site: 1. Head over to Google Analytics, and sign in 2. Click on the ‘Admin’ button at the top right 3. Click ‘+ New Account’ 4. Fill in the required info about your site, and click ‘Create Account’ 5. On the next page, leave all of the default settings, and copy the code presented to you 6. Click ‘Save’, and head back over to your WP dashboard for your site 7. Hover your mouse over the ‘Appearance’ tab in the left WP menu, and click ‘Editor’ 8. On the right, click ‘Header’ to edit the ‘header.php’ file 9. Scroll through the code in the editor window, and look for the ‘</head>’ html tag 10. Paste your Google Analytics tracking code ABOVE the ‘</head>’ html tag The most important part is done, but you may want to stay in the editor to add your Bing Webmaster Tools information here as well. Bing and Yahoo share their resources for their search engines, so you won’t need to worry about doing this for Yahoo too. 11. Sign up for a Bing Webmaster Tools account, and follow their instructions 12. The easiest way to verify ownership of your website here is to grab Bing’s verification code that looks like this: <meta name="msvalidate.01" content="58B86CEB54007BEE62A75FA21BBED586" /> 13. Go back to edit your header.php file in your WP account, and also paste that code ABOVE the ‘</head>’ html tag but below your Google Analytics tracking code (make sure you do not place the Bing Verification code inside the Google Analytics code) You will become more familiar with these interfaces over time, but here is how to monitor your web traffic: 14. Go back to Google Analytics, sign in, and click on your website to expand it until you click the final link to take you to your ‘Visitors Overview’ page
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You won’t see any data here until the day after site submission and only if you are actually getting traffic. To see if any visitors are on your site now: 15. Click on ‘Home’ at the top right 16. Click on ‘Real-TimeBETA’, and click on ‘Overview’ Ok, if you’ve: Set up your website Started to use the recommended tools5 to rank at the top of Google Started seeing real traffic to your site (at least about 50-100 visitors per day) Then… You are ready to start making money from your autopilot-money-machine, but how? Let’s get started with the reason for which you have come this far - implementing the techniques to earn you the money!
Appendix B Monetization and Optimal Conversion Techniques Here you will learn exactly what will make the cash start streaming into your bank account. I will teach you some of the most popular tools available for monetizing your site (and YouTube videos) and how to use them for the fastest and highest ROI (return on investment). Once you’ve grasped these primary methods of conversion, I’ll refer you to where you can learn more about monetizing your site, but the methods here are more than enough, free, and the simplest of which I am currently aware.
AdSense Placing clickable ads on your site is made very simple with Google’s AdSense program. They have practically designed everything for you, and all you have to do is copy and paste some code into your site. This process is made even easier when you download a simple WordPress plugin that just allows you to choose the placement of these ads with a few simple clicks. This WP plugin is called ‘Insert AdSense’ and can be found (free) by searching for it in your WP plugin menu. Click here to sign up for the Google AdSense program. Once you’ve selected where to place the Google Adsense ads on your site, you will notice it will take a few minutes (sometimes up to 15 minutes or a bit longer) until they become active. Until then, there will be a blank space there. If you’ve violated Google AdSense policy by placing too many ads on your site, placing them in inappropriate locations, or in any other way, the ads in violation will never show up until the violation has been resolved. Google withholds the right to remove AdSense from your site at any
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time for whatever reason, and if violations persist, they will ban your AdSense account. Please adhere to Google AdSense Program Policies to ensure Google continues to pay you! Google AdSense works by displaying ads relevant to the content on your site. The higher the competition for the prominent keywords on your site the more ads with a higher payout are displayed. Google AdWords users bid and compete for certain keywords and the more popular the keyword the more expensive it is for them but the more money it makes you. There are many theories on what types of ads to use and where to place them, but you may want to research this topic more for yourself. However, from my experience, text ads attract more clicks. I have also had great success with placing the 728 x 90 Leaderboard text ads in my site’s headers. In my experience with placing ads in your posts, you shouldn’t always place them directly at the top of every post. It is best to subtly integrate them with the content of your posts, and align them neatly with the text. Use the ‘Insert Adsense’ plugin to do this for you with a few simple clicks, but you can manually use this HTML code to surround your AdSense code to align it with the text: <div style="margin: 5px; float: right;"> Adsense code goes here </div> You can use ‘float: right;’ and ‘float: left’. Click here for an example site on my best AdSense practices (others may have different preferences or better techniques – please research/test this yourself). Use Google’s recommended ad types, but stick with only text ads (in my opinion) for more clicks. You are also going to want to make the text ads look like a part of your site to make them look less like ads. To do this, you will need to customize the colors of the text ad. When creating a new ad: 1. Click the ‘Use custom settings’ button 2. Where you see the fields with a ‘#’ followed by six characters, you will need to enter the html code for the color you want to use for that field (i.e. title, border, background, etc) 3. The trick is to match the colors on your site, so ‘Print Screen’ your site for a screenshot 4. Paste the screenshot in Microsoft Paint (which comes free with your Windows computer – Mac or Photoshop users probably have an easier way to do this) 5. Use the ‘Color Picker’ tool to ‘suck’ the color from the corresponding part of the screenshot of your site (i.e. title, background, etc) 6. Click ‘Edit Colors’ at the top right 7. Take note of the ‘Red, Green, Blue’ (RGB) values on the right for the corresponding color 8. Convert RGB to hex to use in your AdSense ad customization 9. Take the new hex color code and put it into your corresponding AdSense customization field 10. Repeat these steps until all of your fields match up with the colors on your site 11. Click ‘Create a new ad style from these custom settings’ and save it for when creating other ads for that site (or sites with the same WP theme)
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Affiliate Products Affiliate offers might just be even easier to implement than Google AdSense, and they can make you a lot more money with less traffic if your marketing and conversion methods are done appropriately. As you become more experienced in internet marketing, you will notice the limitless potential with affiliate marketing. You may not yet realize how many online businesses offer an affiliate program, but it is one of the most intelligent marketing avenues for vendors to take to attract clients and customers. Let’s start with the affiliate programs that are the biggest, most trusted, and possibly the simplest. ClickBank & Other Info Product Marketplaces ClickBank is a very well-known online digital marketplace for information products. Here, you can buy, sell, and promote many different types of information products, but the most popular consist of software, eBooks, and membership programs. If you have purchased information products (like eBooks or software) online before, you may have made the payment through ClickBank before and not even realized it. This means some internet marketer made a commissions off of that sale (which didn’t cost you anything extra), and now it’s time you learn how to do the same! 1. Sign up for a ClickBank account 2. Search their marketplace for a product relevant to your keyword or the content on your site You will become better at this process over time. Pick something with an attractive ‘Avg $/ sale’, and check out their sales page to see if it would actually sell. The ‘Gravity’ of an item is computed using a formula that takes several different factors into account. It takes into account the number of affiliates who have successfully sold that corresponding product over the past twelve weeks. More recent sales will increase the ‘Gravity’ even more, indicating which products are creating a hype right now. The higher the ‘Gravity’ the better a product is selling but also, the more competition there will be for that product. If you are creating a review site with the product name in your domain, do not pick something that has too high ‘Gravity’ unless your advanced keyword tool indicates otherwise. If you are unable to find a decent product on the ClickBank marketplace, you can try these other info product marketplaces: Commission Junction (CJ) ClickBooth ClickSure Amazon Search for ‘<product name> affiliates’, or search for ‘CPA networks’
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Redirects and Link Cloaking Once you’ve found a product you’d like to promote, you’re going to want to create an affiliate link to get credit for each sale from your site 3. If using ClickBank, click ‘Promote’ for that product 4. Type in your ClickBank nickname (account name) 5. Type in any tracking ID you like so that you can track where the sale came from (just make up something you’ll remember) and copy the URL/affiliate link they give you (the top one) Next, you’re going to want to clean up that ugly ‘hop’ (or affiliate) link with an HTML redirect 6. Go to your hosting account cPanel, and click on ‘FileManger’ 7. Click on the icon that looks like a document with a green plus to create a ‘New File’ 8. For the name, type in the product name, and for the extension, choose ‘.html’ 9. Edit the new file by inputting the following code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Your Page Title</title> <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.yoursite.com"></HEAD> <BODY> Optional page text here. </BODY> </HTML>
10. Fill in your site’s URL instead of ‘http://www.yoursite.com’, and save the file Now every time you link to your affiliate product in your blog posts or the content on your site, refer your visitors to a link that looks like this: ‘http://www.yoursite.com/productname.html’. Fill in your sites URL for ‘yoursite.com’ and fill in the redirect file name for ‘productname’. You can also replace/remove ‘Your Page Title’ and/or ‘Optional page text here.’ with whatever you like. This makes the link look nice and pretty when the user moves the cursor over it. You can also use the other method for cloaking links that is explained in the Video Marketing4 section. However, I’d recommend the advanced link cloaking tool to make sure you don’t lose any of your affiliate commissions (see FAQ43), and you can cloak all of your affiliate links on your entire website with just a few clicks. Using the advanced link cloaking tool will make sure that if the person that clicks on it doesn’t purchase the product the first time, they are more likely to use your affiliate link when they do decide to purchase it. This is because the URL is now also cloaked in the URL address bar of their web browser. This ensures you will get the commissions you have worked so hard for, and you also won’t lose it to other internet marketers that want to buy the product. If you’ve referred a product
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to someone that knows about affiliate links, they can just put in their own affiliate ID to purchase it to get credit (unless you cloak it with the advanced link cloaking tool). It’s only fair that you get the commissions because you were the person to refer them to the product, and this only helps maximize your chances of getting credit for the sale. You can use these same techniques for any affiliate product you decide to promote. A word of advice when promoting your affiliate products on your site is that you don’t want to sound overly promotional. Remember, you’re not the vendor. Let the vendor take care of the high-pressure marketing campaign. You just want to sound like an arbitrary reviewer or a happy customer providing a testimonial, and you want to subtly recommend they click on your affiliate link (see my example site). Many vendors also offer their affiliates discount links. You can use these discount links to entice visitors to purchase through your site instead of another. When starting out, look for these vendors. By selling information products online, you are looking at making a potential commission of as high as 70% (and even higher)! However, you can also become an Amazon.com affiliate and sell tangible products online. They don’t provide nearly as high a commission, but people are more likely to buy tangible products so your sales volume is usually higher. Selling Amazon.com products works well with AdSense sites, but generally, you will want to focus on one call to action. Don’t clutter your site with too many ads or product recommendations. In my example site, you will see that I do have a bunch of offers, but this is a unique example that has been subjected to many instances of split testing. Split testing means that I changed one thing at a time for a period of time to see if my sales went up or down. Again, generally you just want to have one call to action for your visitors. Promoting Amazon.com products works great year round, but as a tip, start getting your sites ready for the holidays a few months in advance! Try ranking for individual model numbers of new products coming out, and by the time the holidays come around, you should have your review sites on top of Google ready to earn you a nice holiday bonus!
Cost per Action (CPA) Aside from click ads and affiliate products, you can also get paid in other ways. CPA (or cost per action) refers to a whole range of methods for affiliates to get paid – not just for making a sale. You can get paid for leads, order form impressions, etc and one great network that lists many vendor participants where you can go to monetize your site is found if you click here. If you’ve built a site that gets a decent amount of traffic, there is always a way to monetize it somehow. If your current affiliate product is not selling or your AdSense ads aren’t paying your bills yet, not to worry. Of course you can start a new site, and that’s a great idea, but you’ll most likely run into a great opportunity for monetization of your old sites. Don’t ever delete a site if it didn’t work out the first time! Remember that a domain name only costs a few bucks per year, and you can always use your old sites for linking to your new ones. Aged domains can be worth a lot to you (or even to someone else).
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Product Launches New products are always being released. What if you knew about them before they were released? How easy would it be to have a review site ranked for a product that’s not even out on the market yet? Creating review sites for product launches is one of the easiest and fastest ways to start making an autopilot income online. It works even better when combined with Video Marketing4. Q: “So how do I found out about these product launches?” A: There are several different launch boards for which you can sign up, and most of them have a free membership. The main one I personally use for free is this one. There’s also something called Launch Jacking. Launch jacking is like doing product launch affiliate sales on steroids. Rick Rivera, a 21 year old kid from Costa Rica raked in close to $200K with launch jacking. Launch Jacking is a method designed for completely clueless newbies to start raking in vast amounts of cash on autopilot in as little as two days. Even for experienced internet marketers looking to make an autopilot income online with minimal effort, Launch Jacking is the best way to do it. It’s not a get-richquick scheme, because it does require an honest effort and results vary between individuals, but with Rick Rivera’s course, it is highly unlikely you will not make any money. Success is practically given to you with Rick’s Launch Jacking course, but you do have to make an effort and spend some time on it. It is nothing like the push-button get-rich-quick scams many of us have fallen victim to numerous times. All of the proof and credibility can be found in this video. If you are new to internet marketing, and you want to make as much money as possible as fast as possible, I would recommend checking out this video.
SEO Consulting If you’ve been in the game of SEO for a while, and you’ve gotten quite a few of your own sites ranked, why not make tons of cash doing it for local businesses? Many businesses in your area would love the exposure Google can provide them – if they were to rank at the top. These businesses might not even know how much more clientele they would receive if they ranked at the top of Google in their area. For example, suppose you met a divorce attorney in Pensacola, Florida, you take his business card, search Google for ‘Pensacola divorce attorney’, and notice that the site on his business card is nowhere to be found in the Google SERPs. Why not take that business card, call him up or email him, and ask him how he’d like to exponentially augment his client base. You may want to explain how before he hangs up or ‘junks’ your email, but after you’ve explained your techniques and shown him proof, he’ll be glad to pay you thousands of dollars to do it.
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That’s just one example but imagine how many local businesses there are in your area. Better yet, imagine if you already had a generic site ranked #1 in Google for a relevant term (such as ‘divorce lawyer Pensacola’ or what have you) and offered it up for sale. You could even auction it off between all the local divorce attorneys in Pensacola. Now, I’m sure you get the point and you can expand on the idea of SEO consulting yourself, but do you see how profitable this could be for you? All you need are the tools and methods in this free document to do it! If you are looking for a thorough course on how to effectively start your own SEO Consulting endeavor, click here. Learn about effective approach letters and attracting clients, and make sure you don’t undersell your services. Most of the time, you can charge more than you think, but it depends on the demographic of your clients. Doctors and lawyers are obviously more readily willing to pay you more than your local plumber, for example.
Selling your Site Sometimes you’ve created a great site, and it gets a decent amount of traffic volume. Hypothetically, after multiple attempts of implementing various monetization strategies, you decide it’s just not making enough money to bother with it anymore regardless of what you have tried. Sure you live and learn and mistakes can be annoying, but why not take advantage of it? Q: “Why would anyone possibly want to buy a site that’s not really making any money?” A: There is an enormous audience out there that would love not to have to spend weeks or months trying to rank a site in Google. Whether you were able to make that site convert or not, it doesn’t matter. There are always going to be plenty of people out there with a fresh perspective and unique knowledge regarding the niche of that site. Or whatever their reason, there is always going to be a fair price you can charge for any site and successfully turn it over to someone else. Again, here is where I would recommend using the WordPress cloning software to ensure a smooth transition. You can use websites like flippa.com to buy, sell, and auction websites. Q: “What if my website is making me a sufficient autopilot income? Should I still sell it if I need money now?” A: This is of course completely up to you, but I can tell you that sites with over 1,000 visitors per day that rank for profitable terms (like “best acne treatment”) in Google have easily sold for over $10,000. Nice payday right? Not if that site could have made you $50,000 in only 90 days (and yes that happens often). Buying and selling websites can make or break people, and just like the game of SEO, it can be heartwrenching, or it can give you the most rewarding feeling you have ever experienced. If you’d like to learn how to sell your site for maximum value and do it safely, securely, and without any hassle, please refer to this course. You can also become a website broker and earn significant commissions on selling other people’s websites, but you’ll need to learn all the details first.
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Q: “What about my YouTube videos?” A: The same basic principles apply for selling a YouTube account, but it’s a bit easier than selling a whole site. If you have a YouTube video that’s had 200,000 hits (for example) and it could be used to promote products or sites, you may get comments or emails from people that would like to purchase your YouTube account or pay you to put a link in the description. I would thus recommend with Video Marketing8, create a new account (and thus a new channel) for each group of relevant products that you are promoting in your videos.
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Appendix C Autopilot-Money-Machine Example Site The best way to learn is by example, right? Maybe you can figure everything out with the rest of this eBook, but most of the time, it is very helpful to have a completed and successful example site that’s proven to work. I don’t promise that this is one of my best sites because people don’t just gives those out for free, but you’ll see that by copying this very simple example, you will earn a significant autopilot income with that site for years to come. I will also include proof of this site’s decent success. Think of this example site like a template for your own success. Just use the same approach to make sites about something that you are passionate or knowledgeable. If you don’t think you have enough information, you can always Google anything you need to know. You can also have quality articles written for you where the research and writing is done for you. All you have to do then is post the articles to your WP blog and incorporate your affiliate links. One site that I have currently been working on (since months before writing this eBook) is http://www.555timercircuits.org. It ranks for many different keywords, but mainly “555 timer circuits”. I use this simple site for AdSense clicks, Amazon affiliate products, and one ClickBank affiliate product. It is certainly not one of my best sites at all, but it is a successful example of an autopilot-money-machine that makes me a significant monthly income with ZERO effort now. It will stay where it is for years to come. With a bit more effort, I can easily have it rank #1 and also rank higher for more keywords, but I will ensure this over time. However, it’s earning me a decent income the way it is, and I have been working on other sites as well as this eBook. I am passionate about engineering and robotics, but you can make simple sites like this about anything you want even if you know nothing about the niche yet. Here is some visitor information from my Google Analytics account:
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On August 8th, 2012, there were 228 visitors (which may be illegible from this screenshot), and you can see that traffic has been pretty steady. Even though it jumps up and down the rankings, and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet rank #1 for my main keyword, I am still getting steady traffic because of the tools I use in this eBook. I get a lot of traffic from Google, but also from the articles that were spun and distributed on autopilot5. Remember that I am not trying to impress you with my best sites and huge earnings like the gurus. I am trying to show you sites that arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even that great still make an autopilot income that is nothing to sneeze at. Imagine if you had hundreds of these little sites going? They would also get better and better as you learn, and they will last for years to come! Here is a screenshot from my Google Webmaster account:
Because of the tools I used that are in this eBook, I have thousands of backlinks to this site. Google has already found 952 of them. I have earned close to $300 from this site in one month with Amazon.com alone:
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I also made a total of $137.62 with AdSense alone:
I have also made a significant daily income with ClickBank and this site. ClickBank is perhaps where the majority of my income comes from, and that is evident from this site’s ClickBank account screenshot. All of the multiples of “$20.02” are for a product that teaches DIY electronics. That electronics design information product is highly relevant to my site 555timercircuits.org, and the product’s sales page is organized, immersive, and effective. Picking the right products is almost as important as the keyword research. You only need to have one ClickBank account for all of your sites and videos, but I made one to show you the income from this site. The ClickBank screenshots from the gurus that show them making “$5,000-$10,000” aren’t going to really help you understand how autopilot-money-machines work if you’re new to the game. However, most of those ‘big money’ ClickBank screenshots are usually real (although some people do fake them). It is certainly possible to have $10,000 days on average in ClickBank from your autopilot-money-machines collectively, but it usually just takes a while to get there (maybe longer than a while, but that’s up to you)! You can also track your ‘hops’ (click on your affiliate links) in ClickBank to see how many people are actually taking your recommendation on checking out the product. To view your ClickBank analytics data: 1. Login into your ClickBank account 2. Click on the ‘Reporting’ tab 3. Click on ‘Analytics’ 4. Below the graph, you can click on individual products to see the ‘hops’
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Notice that 123solved is the vendor for the DIY electronics product I recommend on my site:
This simple autopilot-money-machine site goes to show that you can earn a real autopilot income without any (or very little) continuing effort. While it is evident that this simple little site is making me a very decent monthly income, I have just duplicated the basic principles for other sites over and over again, and I will just continue to do this process in different niches. If you just stick to the recommendations in this eBook, you are likely to experience this success and probably do much better! However, I cannot make such guarantees because of the FCC, and I do not want to be held accountable for making such guarantees.
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Appendix D Becoming an Online Vendor The most stable way to make a six, seven, or even eight figure income online is to sell your own information products online. These products can be eBooks, software, membership programs, etc. An information product is a digital product or service, and once developed and finalized, it has no per-unit cost associated with each additional sale. If you ever wondered how ClickBank vendors, or vendors on any digital marketplace, can offer humongous commissions to their affiliates (such as 70% or even 100%), it is because these information products don’t cost anything per unit once all initial product development and marketing costs are covered. Yes, some vendors offer their affiliates 100% commission for certain products because of the “hot lead”, or clients’ information, that is provided to the vendor by the affiliate. This means the vendor has already broken even on that product, and instead of continuing to profit from that particular product, they simple use it as bait to obtain new leads to offer their new product(s). This is a phenomenally effective marketing technique for online vendors of information products because this is how you continue to benefit from products that have peaked in the product life cycle and are in the decline. Now, utilizing Amazon.com or eBay.com as avenues for commercial gain through promoting your own products is likewise extremely powerful. However, that is not the focus of this eBook because that requires you to have developed and produced an inventory of physical products which don’t produce an autopilot income. Utilizing Amazon.com (among other web stores) to make an income without selling your own products is definitely a much faster and easier way to make money online through affiliate income. Although the commissions are much smaller (generally 3%-15%), promoting physical products as an affiliate (such as computers, tablets, TVs, etc) is quite a bit easier because people are more likely to purchase tangible items, and they trust a brand name like Amazon or BestBuy (which handles the sale, processing, shipping, returns, etc). Please refer to Appendix B for details on becoming an affiliate with Amazon.com, eBay.com, BestBuy.com, etc.
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So, rather than scrambling around trying to figure out what physical products you could sell online, I’m going to recommend you write an eBook (like this one). If you are a software developer, you have a major advantage because software can be sold online with great facility and huge profit potential (again – no per-unit cost). Most people do not have the luxury of being able to design software, but almost anyone can write an eBook. You don’t even have to type it yourself (you can hire a scribe online, just Google it). You just have to organize your thoughts. Everyone has some sort of skill set they can teach others through an eBook. If not, you can even write a fiction novel.
Write your own eBook To compile an eBook, you just need to find something about which you are passionate. If you are passionate about something, but you believe you are not knowledgeable enough, you can always research this topic for free online! Jot down ideas to form an outline or structure for your eBook. Once you have a general idea for an eBook, the best way to start out is to write out the titles for each chapter or section. When you have this ‘roadmap’ in place, begin to write each chapter like you would an essay. Write one per day or even one per week. Remember, an eBook doesn’t have to be 400 pages (this one certainly isn’t). When you’ve finished writing your eBook, you can sell it online. However, if it is your first eBook and you do not have enough exposure in the industry, offer it for free (like this one). It may seem like a lot of work for something to just give it away for free, but there are plenty of ways you can get great benefit out of your free eBook. Aside from mass exposure in your industry/market and getting your name out there, you can use it as an opt-in bonus13 for your relevant niche sites. A free eBook can also contain links to your money sites, and when it is submitted to document sharing sites12, your money sites will get credit from Google. Google loves any unique and original content. On top of that, document sharing sites get massive amounts of daily search traffic, and if you market your eBook there effectively, you will get massive quantities of human traffic to your money sites through those embedded links. If you’re going to write an eBook and offer it for free, just make 20 pages or less if you aren’t as adept at writing as you’d like to be. You can write it in Microsoft Word, and save it as a Published Document File (PDF) so no one can edit it and steal your intellectual property (in MS Word [top right] -> ‘File/Office Button’ -> ‘save as’ -> PDF). Now you’re ready to upload it to document sharing sites12 and/or start using it as your opt-in bonus13. I recommend, like this eBook, you should offer your first eBook online for free to get things moving in the right direction. However, if you compile a masterpiece your first time, sell the heck out of it by all means!
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Selling Your Own Products Once you’ve finalized your own information product, whether it is an eBook, software, etc, it’s time to get that ROI. If you decide that your finalized product is better sold than distributed for free, the best way (in my opinion) to sell your eBook is through the ClickBank vendor program. There are many reasons I personally prefer the ClickBank vendor program, but the big one is that you get exposure to master affiliates and internet marketers that may choose to promote your product. Offer them the biggest commission possible (along with other incentives – bonuses, etc) because it’s not about the revenue per sale but the sheer volume of copies you sell. Click here to for more details about this avenue of making money online. If you’re selling an eBook, your customers will get it in the PDF format (if using the technique I recommended), and PDFs can be viewed on many different electronic devices, including e-readers (Kindle, Nook, etc), computers, smart phones, tablets, and even certain MP3 players. You can also choose to sell your eBook through a variety of other channels. Another big one is the iBookstore from Apple, Inc. I am not familiar with this avenue (yet, although I’m checking it out for this eBook), or how it would be beneficial for authors, but you can find more information on that if you click here.
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Appendix E Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Q: “Why is this eBook free?” A: It is my first eBook, and I am trying to gain proper exposure in the internet marketing industry. I am looking to work with other, experienced internet marketers in this field. I am interested in potential joint ventures and directly working with the creators of product launches. I also share some of my websites that should see an increase in web traffic (just because you like internet marketing doesn’t mean you aren’t interested in engineering or my other niches). By offering it for free, this eBook will hopefully take on a life of its own through viral marketing techniques. Your success will also indirectly impact my success, and you will come to learn this as you begin to thrive as in internet marketing warrior. Q: “How can I make sure I get your next eBook for free?” You can sign up to my no-spam email list for free at http://www.projectprofitsreviews.org. You can unsubscribe at any time, but occasionally, I would be emailing you more free tips on how to increase your autopilot income and how to do it faster. Q: “If I wanted to write my own professional eBook and sell it effectively, what would you recommend?” If you wanted to write an eBook and distribute it for an autopilot income rather than for free, I would suggest taking a course on how to make it look professional and how to market it effectively using viral marketing. If you are ready to write your own eBook, click here. Q: “What is an autopilot-money-machine?” An autopilot-money-machine is any website, blog, or video that earns you a real income 100% on autopilot after you have built it with the tools and techniques in this eBook. Q: “What are backlinks?” Backlinks are any links that point back to your site. The more quality backlinks you have the more search engine visibility you will have. Creating backlinks to your sites is largely the focus of this eBook because this is how we get the much needed traffic to our money sites. Google counts backlinks as votes for your site(s). If your site(s) had good, up-to-date, relevant information, other sites would naturally link to yours, or those sites would be more likely to accept (and thus not remove) the links you have placed on those sites. The more sites that link back to your site(s) the more Google will recognize your site(s) as popular and will want to place it high in their search engine where people can easily find it when searching for relevant keywords.
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Backlinks can come from many different places, and getting them is the main focus of this eBook. You can create backlinks in blog comments, article directories, web 2.0 properties, social media, forum profiles, video sharing sites, document sharing sites, and anywhere else a hyperlink can be placed. Creating backlinks manually is extremely time-consuming. Since backlinks are critical to the traffic volume of our site(s) (and thus the amount of autopilot income we make), we want to automate this process as much as possible in order to build as many successful autopilot-money-machines. Once you’ve successfully setup your site(s)23, you will want to use the Top 10 Secret Weapons for Internet Success5 to create these powerful and quality backlinks. Quality backlinks are not only there to help you rank higher in Google; they’re also for getting human traffic. Google’s GoogleBot (web crawler algorithm) is getting smarter by the day, and it attempts to emulate a human being that is surfing the web (it just does it a billion times faster - literally). GoogleBot is so smart that it actually recognizes when humans use these backlinks, and when humans actually use the backlinks to your site, they must be quality backlinks. Google will give your site(s) even more credit when real human beings use your backlinks to get to your site(s). This is why it is important to start out with creating quality article backlinks so that people will read your articles, become interested in what you have to say, and then click on your article links to visit your site for more information. For each quality article you’ve written, you’re going to want to take advantage of it by submitting hundreds or thousands of unique versions of it on autopilot5 to many different article directories for maximum exposure… and traffic… and money! Q: “What is the fastest way to become successful online with an autopilot income?” A: Again, because of the FCC, I cannot guarantee any success. However, with the combination of Video Marketing8 and Launch Jacking, you could potentially see thousands of dollars in just your first week. Q: “Where can I go to get even more information about SEO and engage in a popular support forum to have all of my questions answered?” A: If the information in this eBook is not enough, I would recommend taking the same IM course I did. Click here to check it out. Q: “If I needed to contact you about a potential JV prospect, how could I go about doing this?” A: You can contact me through Facebook. Q: “Where can I go if I want to focus on YouTube marketing and maximize my video profits? A: If you are going to focus more on YouTube videos for fast profits, then I would recommend this product because of what it does for me, and how cheap it is. Q: “If I want to be able to submit my articles to an even greater amount of directories on autopilot for even higher rankings and for even more competitive keywords, what would you recommend?”
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A: Sometimes you want even greater exposure for your online businesses and, in combination with tool #15, I would also highly recommend this tool. This is not necessary for beginners or to start making an autopilot income online. It just helps your website reach an even greater audience and much faster for even higher autopilot profits. Q: “There has to be another secret tool you know about that you haven’t shared with us. Isn’t that right?” A: Okay, you got me. I told you there would be some bonus tools in the appendices. If you want an incredible Panda and Penguin proof rankings boost, you are going to want profile links. They don’t provide you with any human traffic, but these PR6-PR8 profile links and link wheels are extremely affordable and work absolute magic for your sites, videos, and backlinks. Because of how cheap and how powerful these profile links are, I am very reluctant to share this closely guarded secret. However, as a bonus for actually reading my FAQ, I am willing to share them. All I ask is that you please purchase them by clicking here because I will get credit for it without it affecting you in anyway. This service is owned by my friend Tabish Sajwani, and he is a master of SEO. He will take care of everything for you. Tell him Jeroen Waning sent you so he will get them done very quickly for you. He makes all of these high PageRank profile links and link wheels by hand, and Google absolutely loves them. They stick for a very long time. Personally, I use this for all of my high-competition sites. Q: “If I have followed your advice in this eBook, how long can I expect my autopilot-money-machines to stay working on autopilot?” A: Great question. If you did everything properly, your sites should last in Google’s rankings for years and years. All you need to do to keep it going is to write a blog post once every six months to a year and maybe build a few links to it again. It is simple enough. Q: “What do you recommend for good on-page SEO?” A: With your micro-niche sites of about 4-5 blog posts and one “money post” (the homepage or post that visitors will see first when coming to your site), you are going to want to use a keyword density of about 2-3%. When you add more and more posts, this keyword density will go down. You also want to have your keyword included in your titles, headings (h1, h2, h3, etc), tags, categories, and content. You also want to use your keywords for the alternate text or titles of your images. Embed relevant YouTube videos in your blogs to help with rankings, but also to help with your bounce rate which will help with rankings and conversions. If you want a plugin that makes sure you have all of this spot on for the best chance to rank #1 (with proper backlinking), you will want to take advantage of this SEO optimizing plugin. Q: “What is anchor text?” A: Anchor text is the text that is hyperlinked to a URL. You can use this HTML code to vary your anchor text: <a title=”title of link” href=”http://www.url-of-link.com”>your anchor text</a>
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You will want to include your keywords in your anchor text for your backlinks, but you want to vary it and make it look natural to Google. Make sure the anchor text is relevant to what describes the link. If the link goes to your homepage, for example http://www.google.com, you could use the anchor text “Google” or “Google homepage”. However, don’t overdo it. It is recommended that with the recent Google Panda and Penguin updates that you shouldn’t use your keywords more than 20% for your anchor text. You should also use junk keywords like “click here”, “visit this site”, “check this out”, etc about 10-15% of the time (or have the anchor text be the URL to your site). Q: “What are the Google Panda and Penguin Updates?” They are updates in an ongoing sequence of search engine algorithm updates to weed out irrelevant, unnatural junk websites. It is possible for your sites to be affected by Google updates. If you follow the techniques in this eBook correctly, they will affect you positively by giving you higher rankings. If you don’t and violate Google’s best practices, your site(s)/video(s) will drop in the SERPs. Q: “How many visitors per day do I need to start making money from my site or videos?” A: In this case, more is always better obviously, but on average 50-150 visitors is a solid stream of traffic. It also all depends on the profitability of your keyword. Remember that AdSense is the easiest way to start seeing money, but it’s anywhere from a 1 cent per click to a few dollars per click. Selling affiliate products can make you a lot more money more quickly, but you will need to try and test different conversion and word-of-mouth marketing techniques. You can use both AdSense and affiliate offers, but the more variety of ‘calls-to-action’ you put on your site the messier it gets and the more likely people will leave with doing nothing that makes you money. Q: “How long will it take for my site to be on the first page?” This all depends on many factors, and Google will always remain somewhat unpredictable. However, using tool #2 to index all of your backlinks will greatly speed up the process. Depending on your velocity of backlinks and how well you implement the tools and methods in the eBook, it can take anywhere from a few days to a few months. On average, it takes about 1-2 weeks with the tools recommended here (especially the advanced keyword tool for minimizing competition). If you haven’t made a site yet, but want to make one that ranks at the top very fast, start with Launch Jacking because of minimal competition. Q: “What is ‘spinning’ and ‘spintax’?” Spinning an article (or multiple articles) means that individual words, sentences, or even paragraphs will be rewritten with substitutions. This allows you to get many different versions out of a single article, and each one is considered unique. You can use manual spinning software to create unique versions of articles yourself to manually submit them to article directories across the web, or you can just use tool #15 to have it done for you 100% on autopilot. For example, spinning a sentence may look like this: Sentence (version 1): I am making money online.
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Sentence (version 2): I earn an income on the internet. Sentence (version 3): I make cash on the web. Sentence (version 4): I get paid from my websites. When using tool #15, your three articles will be spun into thousands of different versions, and they will also be submitted automatically to high-quality article directories on the web. You will be able to use spintax such as {keyword} or {titlekey} to alternate between substitution keywords that you choose for your article body, resources boxes, and titles. If you are using manual spinning software, your spintax will also take advantage of the curly brackets ‘{‘ to enclose a segment that you want to spin. The individual instances (words, sentences, paragraphs) you want to spin will be divided by a pipe character ‘|’. Let’s say you had a sentence with the following manual spintax: “I {am making money|earn an income|make cash|get paid} {online|on the internet|on the web|from my websites}.“ You would have many possible combinations, including the same four versions of the sentences above, plus: Sentence (version 5): I am making money from my websites. Sentence (version 6): I am making money on the internet. Sentence (version 7): I make cash online. Sentence (version 8): I get paid online. Sentence (version 9): I earn an income on the web. Sentence (version 10): I make cash from my websites. Sure there are many more combinations possible even for just that single sentence, but imagine if you did this with every word, every sentence, and every paragraph. You can even have nested spintax where, for example, you spin words within sentences, spin those sentences within paragraphs, and spin those paragraphs within your article. An example of nested spintax would be: “{I {{make|earn}|am making|get paid} {money|cash} {online|{on the internet|on the web}}.|I’m rich!}”. See the potential? Q: “Is there a way to make a free website?” Yes. However, I don’t recommend this to make money online, except to build satellite sites (or web 2.0 properties) to link back to your money site. You can use blogger.com, wordpress.com, squidoo.com, and other blogging/web 2.0 sites to make a site/blog for free, but it’s much harder to get traffic to them through Google!
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When using these free services, you cannot install any plugins, and you will have an ugly domain name that doesn’t look professional. Remember, domain names and hosting accounts are really cheap. Once you have a hosting account, you can add unlimited domain names (also meaning unlimited websites and email addresses) if you use the techniques recommended in Appendix A. Q: “Is there something that will make it easier for my visitors to share my site through social media?” Absolutely! There is the free “Slick Social Buttons” WP plugin you can place on your site. This little slider widget will move with the user as they scroll on your site. It will allow your visitors to share your site, with the single click of a mouse, through Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Reddit, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, and even a few more. However, if you’ve looking to drive massive amounts of traffic to your sites through social media (which you most definitely should be), I recommend the advanced social plugin (yet another bonus tool). It literally helps you grow your traffic exponentially, as you will see in their video. With a few clicks, it allows for some pretty sweet widgets to be added to your site to dramatically increase opt-ins, social sharing, and traffic. You can even do split testing with ease to see what styles, positions, formats, etc. work best. The advanced social plugin is the best way to get your site to go viral and optimize it for social media, list building, and traffic generation. It’s a pretty sweet WP plugin if you’ve outgrown your existing arsenal of SEO tools. Remember, just like “there’s an app for that”, there is also a plugin for that! There are WP plugins for almost everything to make your site building and SEO as seamless and simple as possible. Q: “Is there a better way to cloak my affiliate links?” Of course! You don’t want to lose any commissions you’ve earned from your hard work in internet marketing. You also don’t want to pay an arm and a leg for just cloaking your affiliate links. The best advanced link cloaking tool I’ve tried allows you to convert all of your affiliate links on your website or blog with the click of your mouse. Q: “If my site is de-indexed or penalized by Google, what should I do?” It is important not to be discouraged and lose hope! There is a very simple technique you can use to save your site. First, you are going to want to register a new domain name (preferably something close to the first one, but not a must). Next, you are going to want to recreate your site on the new domain by just copying and pasting over all of your content. I’d recommend using the WordPress cloning software to make this super fast and easy. Then, with your old site’s domain, you are going to want to use 301 redirects31 to redirect every single page, page for page. All of the bad links that caused you to be deindexed, or get some sort of penalty from Google, are not pointing directly to your money site now! Your good links aren’t either, but with just creating a few new good backlinks to your new domain, Google will recognize the new domain and give you your credit and traffic back! Google seems to
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recognize this as a legitimate technique because they know removing backlinks is hard, time consuming, and sometimes even impossible. Q: “What is a link wheel/link pyramid?” Link wheels and link pyramids are a very effective way to create backlinks to your site that doesn’t raise a flag to Google. You will want to use an autopilot article submission service to create some high-quality articles that point directly to your site. Then, you’ll want to create more articles to those articles, and keep it going (like a pyramid). Just link from articles to other articles in a manner that wouldn’t alert the GoogleBot. You would also do some autopilot blog commenting and social bookmarking to those article backlinks, and you can even create some high-quality profile links to those tiers as well. Q: “Is there a tool to quickly find expired and aged domains that already have a PR, backlinks, and social signals?” Of course there is a super fast and easy way to find aged domains. You can use this powerful tool to quickly snatch up domains that have just recently expired. These expired domains can be up to 15 years old and already have a PageRank, backlinks, and even social signals. These domains would be extremely useful for either building your money sites or creating authority backlinks. You can even use the ‘find aged domains’ tool to build a high-authority blog network or article directory. With this tool, all the work and waiting of many years has already been done for you. It’s sort of like cheating except it is ethical, legitimate, and very intelligent. Use it to dominate your competition in any niche. Q: “What is an RSS feed, and how do I make one?” RSS feeds are very useful for creating more backlinks for your backlinks, getting your backlinks found by Google faster, and it’s free to create a feed. An RSS (Rich Site Summary) feed is sort of like little news updates about a certain topic or niche. To create an RSS feed, follow these steps: 1. Click here to turn your backlinks into an RSS feed 2. Put your backlinks in the first field 3. Input between 20 to 50 for ‘Max number of links per RSS feed’ 4. For ‘RSS Feed Title’, just input a simple relevant name for it 5. Input your homepage URL for ‘RSS Feed Link’ 6. For ‘Link Title(s)’, use spintax (p43) to create many possible title combinations 7. Do the same thing for ‘Link Description(s)’ to create many possible unique description combinations that provide a 2-3 sentence description about the links 8. Click ‘Convert!’
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9. Right click on your feed and click ‘Copy link address’ 10. Head over to FeedBurner 11. Paste the feed URL to ‘Burn a feed right this instant’, and you’re done! 12. If you want to submit your RSS feed to 100’s of directories on autopilot for maximum search engine indexing and visibility, click here. Q: “Why can’t I just submit one article to tons of article directories?” If you do this, Google will penalize you very quickly, and you will get no search engine traffic. Google hates duplicate content on the web, and they don’t like cheaters. Search engine traffic will make up close to 95% of your web traffic, and without it, you pretty much have nothing. Q: “I know you said that gurus don’t share their all-in-one advanced software, but do you know of one that actually works and is bug-free?” There is trusted software out there that does it all. It does the keyword research for you, domain registration, site building, and traffic generation. This is the only all-in-one push-button software that I recommend, but it is not cheap (because it actually works). This is only for those who are serious about making money online. Click here to learn more. Q: “Is there a tool you recommend that allows me to quickly analyze the competition?” Sure, the SEO Quake Toolbar is free, and it allows you to quickly see things like a site’s age, PageRank, Alexa rank, internal/external linking structure, and many other customizable features. It’s a toolbar that shows a site’s info at the top of every site you visit, but more conveniently, it shows all of this information in the SERPs for easy competition comparison. Q: “What is the best way to setup a free forum on my site?” Setting up a forum on your site is an excellent way to drive tons of long-tail keyword traffic to your site. When you get your visitors engaged in your forum, each topic or question they post will eventually show up in the SERPs. When a forum topic is hot, and you have a handful of visitors posting in that thread, it can (and usually will) rank high in Google. Many times when people post a question in a forum, a lot of other people will have the same question and search for it in Google (or other search engines), and longtail keywords, like questions, obviously don’t have a lot of competition. A great place to get a free and professional forum that is completely customizable is found if you click here. Q: “Is there a tool that will scrape quality content, spin it, and submit it to document sharing sites?” Of course, and this autopilot document submitter submits to 20+ document sharing sites. It makes sure your content is unique, and you never have to write articles yourself (unless you want to). You don’t
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need to have any third party software to use this (not even spinning software), and it works very well to bring traffic to your sites (not just search engine traffic). Q: “Why does Google care so much about quality backlinks and social media?” With their search engine, Google offers two types of results to people. You have the organic SERPs, and you have the paid ads. The paid ads are from their AdWords users that pay Google, and the very top listings in the (light orange box) pay Google as much as $15 per click! Google is the number one information provider and organizer in the world, and they are a company that touches more people’s lives than any other. You could say they have a big responsibility, right? They want to make sure that their organic listings (the free results with which we are concerned) provide as relevant and as up-to-date information to their search engine users as possible. Google’s algorithm is highly intelligent, and it has to sort through and weed out millions of junk. Instead of taking on the colossal task of indexing every single webpage each time it has changed to check the validity and context of the content, Google has trained GoogleBot to look for other indicators that don’t require as much computer resources. Like we discussed before, backlinks are like votes for your site. If your site had a bunch of great, unique, relevant, and accurate content, many other websites are going to link to yours naturally. That makes sense, right? Visitors will also be likely to share it using social media and other sharing methods. Look at it this way, before you go and see a movie, you’re going to ask people that have seen it how it was right? Or, possibly you’re going to go online and read reviews about it. The more people and reviews that genuinely rave about that movie the more likely you’re going to see it rather than taking your chances of wasting your resources (time and money) to blindly find out for yourself. Google uses these same principles (with backlinks and social media) to quickly indicate whether your site is worthy of getting traffic for certain keywords. Q: “So if Google changes something, and my site gets slapped, I should just forget about it, right?” Absolutely not! This is what most people do, and they get really frustrated and angry with Google. It’s not Google’s fault if a website isn’t as good as the others above it in the SERPs. I don’t mean your site has to have three million indexed pages and a PR6 like the ones above you (for example). If you have a nice four-or-five-post blog with good content, some nice images and videos, and a good amount of backlinks, you have a really nice site. If it gets slapped around a bit by Google because you got some artificial backlinks, it doesn’t mean that that site it doomed. Google is providing a HUGE amount of profit potential for many people for free. When they change/update the “laws for getting rich online”, you have three choices. You can continue to break the laws (and keep your site de-indexed), you can stop working all together, or… you can adapt and become a law-abiding citizen that gets re-invited to the giant profit party! So, your hard work is never wasted. Just let your competition stay de-indexed while you adapt and overcome. Google isn’t working against
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you, but they do have to look out for their source of income by providing the best and most relevant search results. Q: “Are there ways to make money online other than making a website or video?” Yes. There are other jobs online that provide a very steady income. If you’d rather make a steady paycheck (and work for someone else) instead of an autopilot-money-machine, you have several different options:
Sell gigs on Fiverr.com (sell any kind of online service for $5) Take paid surveys (big companies pay big money for market research by offering paid surveys) Write articles for magazines, websites, blogs, etc. Provide customer support (get paid for live chat support for many different online businesses) Secretarial & transcription jobs (just put your typing skills to work) And many more…
Q: “Are those ClickBank screenshots that you see advertised online of $10,000 days real?” Many of those are real, but some people do fake them. It is very easy to Photoshop them (heck, you could do it in Microsoft Paint in seconds). Many people get ripped off daily by signing up for scams and fake “make money online” programs. If you stick to what you learn in this free guide, you won’t have to ever worry about getting ripped off. Q: “What is FTP, and do I really need it?” FTP means ‘File Transfer Protocol’, and it is used to upload files to your hosting account23. You can also use it to backup your website to your computer or download any files. I recommend you use this free FTP program for any such tasks, but you can successfully run an autopilot-money-machine without using FTP at all. For site verification in your webmaster accounts, you can simply use the recommended meta tags.
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About the Author My name is Jeroen Waning, and I was born in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in 1985. In 1994, my immediate family and I moved to Acworth, GA, USA. For a large part of my life, I have been curious and interested in nearly anything technical. Since 1997, I have been passionate about web development and programming. For a significant part of my childhood, I have always been interested in video game design, robotics, and computer programming. I took advantage of many of the great resources at Carl Harrison High School (in Kennesaw, Georgia) during my enrollment there to further my knowledge and passion for computer programming and web development. In 2003 after graduating high school, I enrolled at Kennesaw State University with my major focused in computer science. After being exposed to the college atmosphere, my interests were greatly influenced by different mentors in my life, and I graduated Kennesaw State University in 2008 with a BBA in management. Not being satisfied with my broad business degree, I enrolled at Southern Polytechnic State University to study mechatronics engineering. Mechatronics engineering was the multidisciplinary technical curriculum I had coveted since childhood. It is a curriculum that integrates mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, and control systems engineering. It was the automation and robotics engineering curriculum ideal for someone like me. While in college, I had become familiar with internet marketing through AdSense monetization of my YouTube videos I had uploaded about my school projects. As my passion and dedication for internet marketing thrived (by means of everything discussed in this eBook), I quit my job of over-four-and-a-half years at Best Buy to engage in the automated profits of internet marketing full-time. Internet marketing is now a major passion of mine and currently comprises 100% of my annual income. It is a means for me to raise the capital I need to embark on my true lifelong passion of starting my own robotics and engineering business. With my knowledge of internet marketing, I plan to start my robotics business online by selling parts, kits, and homemade inventions. My interest in robotics and engineering is thus the reason I chose to share the example site in Appendix C. I hope this site, along with others, will gain the appropriate exposure through this eBook and help inspire young aspiring minds to follow suit in becoming passionate about design, innovation, and creativity in the areas of science, mathematics, technology, and engineering. You can contact me through Facebook with any questions, and I will try to answer them as much as I can. Please understand, with this free eBook, I cannot provide individualized support and personal
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coaching and training. If you would like to learn your internet marketing skills from the exact same place I learned everything, please check this out. However, most of you will find absolutely everything you need here in this eBook and learn from experience as you go. If you wish to share your success with me, or provide me with a testimonial on how this eBook may have helped in your success, please contact me through Facebook. Thank you for reading, and I wish you the best of success in any endeavor you choose to pursue. To our success,
Jeroen Waning
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Addendum Please use these powerful tools and methods to add value to the web and not to diminish it. Like any effective tools, these autopilot software programs can be abused. With them, you have the power to influence and affect many peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives daily on a global scale as they turn to Google (and the rest of the web) for answers. Propagating spam, plagiarism, and copyright infringement are serious issues that should not be exploited for oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own personal gain (or at all). Consistent abuse of these tools in the aforementioned manner will ultimately lead to your own digital downfall, and even your legitimate hard work may be irreparably tarnished and forgotten with it.
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“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other.” – Abraham Lincoln
Once you’ve got the hang of things and built up momentum for success, don’t forget to refer back to this manual to uncover those hidden gems you missed the first time! Please pass this eBook on to anyone you like. The end.
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