Facelift!
Yep, just switched themes for this blog… if you’re new here you probably didn’t notice, lol.
But if you’ve been here before you should notice the change… it’s narrower now, and it feels more like the “underground” type blog. Less commercial… no banners or adsense… I don’t know if they belong here.
I like it better anyway, and if you don’t… well, screw you then, hah.
Also spent some time in photoshop making the header, as you might have figured out…
Eh, just a random update today. Figured I had to say SOMETHING about the theme…
Thank You Google!
It’s about time, isn’t it?
The one thing missing from the Google Keyword Tool has finally arrived. And this makes the Big G Keyword tool beat out Wordtracker by faaaaaar.
Actual search count.
Yep, that’s right. The confusing green bars are gone. Now it’s got an approximate monthly search count.
Like, how much is “average” search volume anyway?
Well, now we now!
So yeah, thanks Google 
The Double Paragraph Resource Box
You got it…
This has been one of my “secrets” for a long time…it’ll literally double your CTR. I promise.
The secret is, as cleverly implied by the title of this article, making your resource boxes in two paragraphs. OK, maybe not full blown paragraphs but a sentence or three in each.
Basically, the idea is that if your reader doesn’t want to click through on your “first” resource box, you throw in a second one. Makes sense, doesn’t it?
So here’s an example:
Find out exactly how I XYZ and read my complete review of Product Name here:
–> http://yourpresell.com <–
Actually, in product name they teach you step by step how to do exactly what I told you about in this article, so it’s really cool. Again, here’s my review of the product:
–> Product Name Review <–
Not word for word of course, the idea is that you have a “double” resource box, and to further increase CTR make it weave in with the article itself, so it actually appears to be a part of the article.
End your actual article abruptly, and don’t use a conclusion, so instead of:
“Introduction
Article Body
Conclusion
Resource Box”
You have
“Introduction
Article Body
Resource Box”
Get it?
In a way, you could say that your resource box is your conclusion, but your reader should feel like something is missing, and they want to read more, and that’s the actual reason they would actually click any link in the first place.
There’s a rule on Ezine Articles that prevents you from doing this too aggressively, and I’ve gotten quite a few articles rejected because of this. They tell you:
“We do not accept teaser links or phrases that require a reader to click away or reference another source in order to receive the full benefit of the article.”
So keep that in mind.
I hope this further improved you CTR, I haven’t told anyone about this before, but after further “investigation” I found that it was one of the reasons I can get my 50% CTRs. You should be able to find my other article on how to further increase your CTR as a related post below.
See ya,
Linus
Bookmark Generation - Easily the hottest thing in 2008
Okay, I gotta be quick here… you’ll find out exactly why later down the post…
…and you’re gonna WANT to read EVERY word I say in this post, I’m serious.
First, here’s a FREE TUTORIAL that’s so easy a monkey could do it, to make some serious instant cash for free, which by the way can be done over and over. I think I picked it up on a blog somewhere, it MIGHT have been EarnersBlog but I’m not sure.
It’s literally copy & paste easy, and it’s at least 500% More effective using this
tool I’m being so sneaky about, well anyway let’s get started.
So what you’re gonna do is you go to Blogger.com using a proxy site so they can’t track
you… yeah I said it’s sort of blackhat lol.
You pick one of the most popular products on Clickbank, and you name your blogger
blog something like product-review.blogspot.com.
Okay got that?
Then you’re gonna go, in your dashboard, to Layout and then Edit HTML.
There you just paste this is there:
*****
<style type=”text/css”>
#navbar-iframe {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none
}
</style>
<html>
<head>
<title><$BlogPageTitle$></title>
<iframe style=”border: 0px none ; overflow: auto; width: 100%; height: 100%” src=”YOUR AFFILIATE LINK HERE“> </iframe>
</body>
</html>
******
Make sure to put your affiliate link there too.
Now essentially this will put the merchants sales page on your blog, and this is why
you want to do it through a proxy so Google can’t track you, lol.
Now all that is left is the promotion, and that will be done through social
bookmarking.
If you do this right – a couple hundred bucks in a day is NOT hard at ALL.
Now you could use onlywire or some lame bullshit like that, or even worse submit
it by hand and having to register like 20 different accounts to do it…
Okay here’s the kicker.
Howie Schwartz has just released what is in my opinion the BEST TOOL IN 2008!
(stay with me here, don’t exit out just yet)
Especially for lazy marketers like us.
What does it do?
It submits to all the social bookmarking places in ONE click… and it creates UNLIMITED
amounts of accounts everywhere for you… IN ONE CLICK.
Do you understand the power of that?
You could create 10,000 accounts LIKE THAT and just bookmark the SHIT out of your
blogger blog. Actually they’ve created over 80,000 accounts so far…
Can you imagine the INSANE traffic that’s gonna get you?
Or the SALES that is gonna get you?
Okay, this tool is BRAND new, and while it does cost a little money, I can assure you
that you will make that back x100 in NO TIME FLAT.
I’m serious… just using the blackhat blogger method you could make that back in a
day easily.
No, it’s not gonna cost you 500 bucks either, WAY LESS than that.
But here’s KICKER #2.
I have a bonus 
And no, you can’t buy through your own link because you have to be a member to
get an affiliate link.
But I’ll tell you this, if you order through MY affiliate link, I will give you a bonus
that most marketers will charge you $5000 or MORE for. (as I said, read every word
now, even if you don’t buy through me you may wanna know some stuff down there)
How about that?
What I’m talking about is of course PERSONAL coaching. If you buy through my
affiliate link, I will give you my MSN instant messager address, so you can ask me
ANYTHING and ANY time.
(and by the way, if you just get 2 easy affiliate sales later, you get it free anyway…
and it shouldn’t be hard considering the obvious value of this tool)
And don’t worry, I know what I’m talking about, and I can no doubt answer your question.
Okay, maybe not PPC, but pretty much anything SEO, web 2.0, article marketing,
bum marketing etc.
If you DO have questions about PPC or anything that I don’t know, I’ll just forward
your question to some Guru on my contact list, and yes I do know the big boys (remember the msn convo I posted from one of my chats with Alex Goad?).
This is probably worth more than everything you’ve bought in the past up until now.
So is that cool with you? Would you like personal free coaching for life, or just someone
who knows his stuff to say hi to? I’ll even give you my phone number if you ask me.
I wanna be nice to you.
I didn’t realize that Howie is TAKING DOWN the bonuses and RAISING the
PRICE in 22 Hours and 10 minutes!
You have less than a day to decide, and I didn’t realize this earlier, I’m sorry.
Even if you get it after that it’s still one of the best things you could do.
But I’m telling you, if you give this time or anything, YOU’RE MISSING OUT!
This is the one tool that could skyrocket whatever you’re doing, especially
if you’re doing BUM marketing, if you BOOKMARK your content, you can…
…well I’ll leave it up to you to realize that insane power.
So if you want to get in on the most valuable asset in 2008, here’s what you do.
CLEAR your cookies!
Just go to TOOLS in your browser, and then CLEAR PRIVATE DATA if you’re using
Firefox or Flock.
Anyhow just clear your cookies.
Order through my link on this quite ugly sales page, here’s my link to order from:
http://www.bookmarkgeneration.com/member/?r=689&i=1
Okay?
Actually it’s really pretty and green and fluffy on the inside. It actually looks very
web 2.0 from here…
So in case you missed that, here’s the most important link in 2008, again:
—> http://www.bookmarkgeneration.com/member/?r=689&i=1 <—
If you don’t take this up I’ll just be frank and and call you an idiot, and I KNOW you’ll
regret it in about 22 hours when the price go up and the bonuses dissapear.
Well that’s it. To claim your bonus (me!) send your name and receipt to:
linus[at]lemonarian.com
if it gives you some weird cannot deliver message send the mail to:
linus[at]lemonarian.net
WITH the subject line: “Claiming my BMG Bonus”
Oh yeah, BMG stands for Bookmark Generation, which is what it’s called.
Again, DO THIS!
You can’t go wrong. And even if you don’t like it you can just request a
refund and get your money back, and still keep the accounts and bookmarks you made, but seriously you’re not gonna wanna do that.
That is all for now, I really do hope you take advantage of this. I’m sorry if I sounded
like way too much hype here, but seriously it’s that good.
That is all.
Happy Bookmarking! Can’t wait to see you pull in like $1000 in a day with this method
John Yeo’s Blogger’s Paycheck Review
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In a hurry? —> Blogger’s Paycheck
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Hey fellas…
If you’ve been this blog for at least a little while you should know that I never endorse anything at all unless I really think it will be of value to my readers and my subscribers.
I used to jump on every big launch and try to rank well in the search engines for product name related terms… and I did really well. But now, this is something else.
On to the meat of the matter…
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The website in question –> Blogger’s Paycheck
—
John Yeo, a pretty much unheard of guy has just released this product called Blogger’s Paycheck, and I managed snatch a review copy from him, because I never endorse things I haven’t personally looked over.
Being a blogger myself and has been since the beginning of this year, I was thrilled. I have seen a lot of these products about making money blogging before, but honestly most of them were junk.
I was glad to find that Blogger’s Paycheck is 112 pages of pure action packed content, really.
He goes over everything you need to know about blogging, and then making money from it. He shows you how to set up your blog, how to get a domain and all that stuff you might already know, but if not that’s OK too, because he shows you.
THEN comes the good stuff.
How to make money from this stuff. The guy literally pulls in thousands of dollars every month from a single blog, something I haven’t even accomplished yet… but I’m slowly but surely getting there.
I actually learned some really cool stuff in this, for example some killer methods for generating traffic, I love traffic 
Now John Yeo’s Blogger’s Paycheck also has endorsements from people like Reed Floren, so that alone should tell you that it’s good stuff, in case you got the crazy idea of not trusting me 
–> Blogger’s Paycheck <–
So people, this is a fantastic opportunity for you to add yet another revenue stream to your current income. And once you get past the setting up part, blogging is really as simple as writing a short article a couple times a week in like 10 minutes and just hitting “publish”.
If you follow through, you’ll make money, no doubt.
If you’re an aspiring blogger, I couldn’t recommend this enough.
Actually I’d even recommend it higher than Rob Benwell’s Blogging To The Bank, even though Rob makes more I didn’t find his book as informative and I think this stuff is better in the long run.
I couldn’t recommend this enough.
Okay I won’t blabber on now, here’s the link one final time.
–> Blogger’s Paycheck <–
Thanks,
Linus
Facelift coming up.
Gaahhh… I’m sick of the look of this place lol.
No actually I love the way it looks, I just don’t like the triple column thing. So, I’m trying to find an awesomely awesome TWO Column Wordpress theme. So look out for a facelift coming up soon…
I think the three columns makes it a bit more messy looking and harder to navigate too. I think it looks a lot cleaner with just 2 columns… thing is that I want a WIDE sidebar, not one of those teeny little sidebars, I’m talking the kind of thing that John Chow’s got on his John Chow dot Com blog, I like the look of his blog…
Eventually I’m probably gonna get a custom theme, branding yourself gets you far in the blogosphere, Shawn Collins does fine with his blog though, haha.
Well, does anyone have any suggestions for awesome 2 column, wide sidebar themes? I know I ain’t got a ton of readers, but if you’ve got something to say please don’t be afraid to leave a comment!
I’ll see ya, hopefully with a new look next time.
Linus
Secrets of a 50% CTR
I wrote a short post on DigitalPoint about how I get my 50% CTRs on the articles I write, and I shall use my wondrous copy & paste skills right on the blog…
(the thread was previously talking about what a “quality” article is, so I put up MY definition of it, from the perspective of a bum marketer)
When I say quality I don’t mean providing useful content…
Lol.My tips would be to keep ‘em short, most of mine are closer to 250 words than 300, though some are over 400 but don’t perform nearly as well.
First I do KW research and find long tails with at least 10-20 searches a day. You can usually mutliply that number by 4-5 and it’s more accurate in my experience.
Write an article with the KW as, or in the title.
Scatter the KW out in the article.
Make it short, and then comes the almighty resource box.
I like to make it blend in with the article, so it’s not like “Hey in this article I’m gonna tell you how to …. do this, do that… BOOM, Buy this product and you’ll be infinitely awesome!”…
Just try to keep it smooth…
I like to keep that short too, and make it something like “You can get a free report on XYZ and read my complete review of ABC (”abc” is hyperlinked anchor text) on my website. To check it out just click this link www.URL.com (hyperlinked)”.
Boom, there’s your 40%+ CTR. I’ve gotten over 50% too.
The actual content in the article is most often pretty useless lol. I usually spin it off one fact I found on the first result in google. Doesn’t matter what you say really. Just make it a bitching long introduction to the article, tell the fact, boom, resource box.
Hope you liked it!
Linus
Michael Jones is on a roll! Total Traffic Banner Madness…
Seriously, have you seen this guy? Michael Jones is launching product after product after product, and when one is over it’s like he’s in pre-launch the next day. Unless he’s outsourcing 90% of the workload he must be exhausted… I’d guess that’s what he does though.
The latest launch, I just got the email about it, is called The Total Traffic, and the first pre-launch video is about “Banner Ads on Steroids” and apparently banner advertising isn’t dead.
I first heard of him when he launched Torrential Traffic Tactics, which sounded cool and I got on his list then, though I never bought it.
Then came his toolbar, The EverProfits Toolbar, and then the Ebay Code, and then something else and now The Total Traffic. I probably missed something.
Well, this guy must be working his butt off anyway. The Total Traffic is currently in pre-launch, so feel free to check out the first video, it’s got some good stuff.
Virtual Excitement
Yeah, it’s kind of funny. I have two things right now where the clock is ticking down, in a good way, for two different things, both aimed at building my list… yes, the “Definition Of A Bum” list, you can join it on the right here.
One of those two things is The IM Gifts, the giveaway event I mentioned a couple of posts ago. It’s my first participation in a giveaway event, so I really hope the $17 will pay off.
On the site he mentioned a person who was in on the last giveawaym and he got an extra 4000 subscribers overnight, so that’s pretty cool. I do expect my list to go past 1000, but what do I know? Maybe more, maybe less. If I only get 100 that’s fine too.
I’m not going to tell you what the other thing is… I’ve heard that it can be really really powerful though, and there are very few marketers knowing about this, and I’m not in the mood for giving this source away ;P
It’s pretty exciting knowing that your list could grow that much in such a short timeframe…
Well, Friday is not too far away now, that’s when the even launches. You can sign up as a contibutor here: Click.
Or you can be in on the list that announces when the event goes off and be the first person to get there… remember, a lot of gifts will be taken down on Day 2-7 so you might wanna be there first. You can sign up here: Click.
I’ll see ya,
Linus
Blackhat Content Generation
I read an interesting post on Exposed SEO where this guy came up with something very interesting to do to generate your content…
Basically… you use Google’s own tools to get in their search results… ah, the irony.
It even passes the CopyScape most of the time.
Read his post here: http://www.exposedseo.com/2008/06/22/generating-unique-content-for-free/
