I just helped someone make their first sale

By Linus Rylander | May 23, 2008

And darn, does that feel good?

A while ago, a member on the DigitalPoint forums asked me for help in making money online. I PM’d him back and gave him a condensed version of a “formula” that I had been working on. It’s all free and it’s all bum marketing.

This is what I told him:

What you wanna do is to dominate the search engines for the product name.

Basically, you find your product. Not too high Gravity, and stuff like that. Just find a good product with a good sales page.

Get your hoplink.

Put up two free blogger or wordpress.com blogs (or both) and optimize one for the keyword phrase “product name + review” and the other blog for “product name + scam” to attract sceptics from the search engines.

Put up a squidoo lens and a hubpages hub on the same subjects as above. Point them to your reviews.

Make a LOT of articles and submit to EzineArticles and like, 4 other directories. Make the resource box include a link to one of the blogs.

Link the blogs to each other.

Use stumbleupon to stumble everything and Digg and Reddit and Propeller too. Then use a service like Onlywire.com to social bookmark everything.

Watch the money roll in…

Repeat. Link the old blogs to the new ones.

What’s cool is, that the more you do this, the more google juice you’ll get to your blogs, because you keep interlinking everything for every project you do. Actually, you could work on JUST the blog networking and still be fairly successful.

Anyway, now, less than a month later of me sending him that, he replied to me with this

lemonarian, thank you for that info you gave me. I followed you advice to the tee. I bought a domain similar to the publisher’s and it is redirected to their site (note: you don’t have to do this, but I guess it helps). I have 2 Blogger blogs and 3 Wordpress, a Hub and Squidoo all for nameofvenderscam or review. I am on the 1st page of Google, Yahoo and MSN. I have published 4 articles on EA, GO, Dashboard, Base and a couple of others. I got the USFree Ads account and published 3 ads so far. I’ve been busy. But the good news is I made my first sale today. It feels good to see money in my new account. I can’t wait until I can make $x,xxx’s per month. Thats my goal.

Anyway, thanks again. Just wanted to give you the update.