The Warrior Forum's Guru WSO Garbage

I'm not here to talk trash on the Warrior Forum, there is some excellent info out there and it's great place to start for beginners but there is the hilarious self proclaimed gurus over there that spout complete shit. Like any site there are some bad apples and the Warrior Forum is no exception. I tend to lurk nowadays over there but occasionally I will comment for those looking for help.

Gurus Lacking Wisdom
Here's my beef with some of the guru's over there, they claim to make thousands of dollars on numerous systems and every week they magically come up with a new system to sell as a special offer. You really think they are making bank every week on these systems? Anyone can fake an earnings screenshot and it happens all the time. If you head over to Warrior Plus's WSO Tracker you can look up some of these gurus and see their new special offers. Go ahead, click on one of their names and check out how many money making systems they come out with every week. It's hilarious the crap they come up with and it's typically the same regurgitated material that everyone has already heard or it's information that is readily available for free else where.

WSO's are the ONLY way these guys make money
It's true, they don't know how to make money outside of the warrior forum.  They have figured out how to get affiliates for their WSOs and they send paid traffic to their posts to make it look like their product is producing some buzz to get even more people to resell their rehashed product.  Some of these guys speak at IM conferences and what do they talk about 3/4 of the time?  Selling WSOs on the Warrior Forum!

These gurus make bank every month too, I'm talking between 10 to 30 grand a month for some of these guys.  Good for them, they found out that desperate buyers in the make money niche will buy up this stuff waiting for the push button answer to get rich quick.  I mean hey, I was one of them.  I bought a handful of WSOs a few years back before I knew anything about internet marketing. Did I learn anything from them?  Hell no, it was all garbage.  That's when I learned my lesson and realized everything I needed to learn about IM was already out there for free.

Quality WSOs
Again, I am pointing out some bad apples that reside on that forum.  There are some great WSOs out there, like Jan Roos's Amazon system or Erskine Meyers Adsense niche guide.  Look them up, they actually show you step by step on how to build successful online businesses.  I wouldn't be so critical of these guys if they were selling their customers quality content that is helpful, but they're not.  I'm more likely to trust a marketer who has been around for a while and only posts two to three WSO's a year because I believe he really is making money off these methods.  Compared to the guy who is trying to push a WSO out every week.

Usually well known marketers will give sterling reviews to these products and typically they just want to help the other guy out.  They will never post anything bad on the WSO thread so you may want to try messaging them directly for an honest review.  They may be more willing to tell you the truth.  Do your research and don't waste your money if you are really interested in a special offer.

Updated Ezine Article Spying

After the Google Panda update Ezine Articles made several changes not only to their submission rules but also to their page layouts.  If you read my previous post, Ezine Article Spying, you may have noticed that the code parameters you enter into Google no longer work.  This is directly due to how Ezine Articles labels each article now and it not longer uses the same wording at the bottom of each page.

What has changed?  Well lets look at the old code,
Dating site:ezinearticles.com "This article has been viewed 2000..199999" "Article Submitted On: * *, 2012"

Now compare that to the new code that does give results within Google,

Dating site:ezinearticles.com "viewed 2000..199999" "Submitted On: * *, 2011"

As you can see Ezine Articles has removed "This article has been" and "Article" from each phrase at the bottom of every article.  We can now even search for a specific word count threshold by using this code,

Dating site:ezinearticles.com "viewed 2000..199999" "Submitted On: * *, 2011" "Word Count: 500..1000"

When you enter this code it will only bring up articles that have at least 500 to 1000 words.  This is great for finding higher quality content.

So how can we really use this code to help us?

1. Hot Trends - We can begin doing searches for keywords of broad categories and easily see what recent articles are getting a lot of views.
2. Micro Niche Research - If you are into building micro niche blog sites then this type of research is invaluable.  Look at the article titles, are they ranking well for their keywords?  Could you easily rank for these keywords in Google SERPs?
3. Content is King - Let's be honest, if you're not outsourcing your article writing then you have to be writing it yourself.  We can't all be experts at everything so Ezine Articles can be great for inspiration and finding good content to write in your own words and add your own information too.

Why do all the hard work when others are already doing it for you?  Heck, if you find hot articles you can even setup some Google alerts for the main keywords and see what other people are posting on the web.  You might find some great places to get backlinks too!

Make Money With Clickbank

So you wanna start making money with ClickBank? ClickBank.com is probably the easiest and most used product network on the web. You can sign up and have an account as quickly as today. There are thousands of products that you can resell in just about any niche you can think of.

Clickbank makes it easy to get an affiliate link for a product you would like to sell and they handle all the payments between you and the seller. So no worries about a seller shafting you on your fair share of commission. They send checks or direct deposits out twice a month. I've never had a late payment from ClickBank, they have always delivered!

Avoid Costly Mistakes

One of the big mistakes that beginners make is they try to sell a product with way to much competition. Sure these products may convert well and are very popular, but you are fighting with too many other affiliates for sales. If you are late to the show then you may end up fighting an uphill battle for traffic. I like to look at products that no one is selling, why? There is no competition and the product creator may have done poor job trying to recruit affiliates for their product. We can look at how many people are selling a product by looking at it's gravity. If the gravity is below 3o, then not that many people are selling the product. If it is at zero, then nobody is selling the product.

Testing

If the sales page looks good and I think that it will convert, I will invest a bit of time to see if I can get sales through that product. What you need to do is create a webpage or free blog talking about the article, this will act as your sales funnel to the product's sales page. Here you want to write a 400 to 500 word article discussing the product and how it can solve what ever problem it may be targeting. Put inline links in the article pointing to the product's page then have a call of action at the end of the article that also points back to the product.

Traffic

Now you will need to get traffic to your blog/website to see if you can get this product to convert. I typically have pre-written articles for various niches, if you don't you will need to invest some time writing some articles to submit to article directories.

Places to submit your articles to,

ezinearticles

goarticles

squidoo lense

hubpages

There are many article directories out there, so send to various ones and see if you get any traffic from them. After we have some articles submitted we can wait a few days and look at our clickbank analytics to determine how much traffic, or hops, we are sending to the product. If you send 100 people to the page and none of them convert, I recommend moving on to another product. If you get just a couple of sales then I recommend scaling up the traffic. Mass submit your articles to as many directories as possible to really boost the people you are sending.

The Lion's Den

If you find a product no one is promoting and it does convert well, typically I have found that you can OWN the product's keywords. The exact name of the product and hot keywords that would include review, reviews, scam, best, and etc. These are buyer keywords, they may even be people who have looked at the product in the past but now they are in a buyer mode. This is how you leap frog all the other affiliates.

It is definitively harder to make money with ClickBank with so much competition but we can help simplify it by testing products that no one is pushing. By making money with ClickBank we can create another income stream that is essentially passive income once you have made it profitable. You can set it and forget it while you move on to your next product.

The Warrior Forum Delima

I love the warrior forum, if you haven't been there make sure to check it out, warriorforum.com. But like any forum out there, they all have their own problems. The mods do a great job trying to keep it a clean and professional forum, although at times they do take things a bit too far.

For example, a user was trying to make a helpful post about about how he makes $200 per day with adsense and he wanted to have people ask him questions on his success. By doing so he wanted to share his methods so others would be successful just like him. You would think, hey this is a great post and someone is really trying to contribute to the community. Well here's the kicker, the post was deleted three times before this last one not being deleted by mods, where he had to beg for them not to delete it. If you want to see the post here it is, $200 a day from adsense, it's a great post in my opinion.

The other side of the coin is the bad products in the WSO, Warrior Special Offer, section of the forum. Don't get me wrong, there are some GREAT products and services here but there are also some very bad products. Rehashed content and e-books filled with fluff to make it look like your getting some big e-book that's 100+ pages long. Then on top of all that, these bad products get sterling reviews from well known marketers saying how great the product is. I think they would give dog crap a good review if asked. Even though they are selling information is either known already by everyone except people new to the IM world. Hey, that's fine but market it as a hand guide for newbies, don't try to lead people in thinking this is some secret method that few people know about. It's just a big lie. It really surprises me that these marketers are willing to throw their reputation out the door for the sake of a buck.

I've launched two products there, one that sold for a $1 that was a combination of my story plus some blogging advice and another that had a couple great videos on some little known techniques and I included some bonuses. I felt I offered something of real value at a low price to the forum. I will always stick to those values of offering quality. I would have to ask myself, "Would I buy this and be satisfied?" If yes, then you know you have created a quality product.

If you plan on launching a WSO here are some tips. Think of products that either solve a common problem that is going around on the forum or offer something with proof. Here are some ideas you could create products with that will offer real value.

1. PLR - (Private Label Rights) In my opinion this is the hottest product you could create. Fellow marketers love new content. You could take a lot of your personal articles and package them up for sale, 30 to 50 articles for a specific niche.
2. Web Graphic Packages - these are hot sellers because anyone who builds their own websites and sales pages need graphics.
3. Case Study - Test out a method for 30 days or longer and show your results. It can be a new technique you've discovered or even something common. Showing that common methods still and can provide serious results, can be very motivating to share.
4. Wordpress - Any type of tips or plugins for wordpress are very hot sellers. Any thing to help simplify a process for a blog or website. Selling pre-built templates for niches are big sellers as well.
5. Traffic Generation - This is a very hot topic to create a product on. If you have found method to generate traffic that no one really knows about, this can be a huge seller.
6. Offline Business - Methods on building your own SEO/Marketing company, lead generation, and other business models. These type of products sell very well.

If you do create a product just remember, provide real quality and value. Make a product people are gonna love. This will keep them hungry for more content from you plus give a real boost to your reputation. Hey, this guy knows a lot about IM and how to make money. You don't want to look like a used car salesman.

Building Niche Sites

Building your first niche website is your first step to building a passive income. There are too many niches, sub niches, and micro niches out there to name them all so there are many opportunities for you to make money online.

Finding A Niche

First step is to find a niche that you can start building a website in. Is there a niche that you are passionate about already? Consider yourself an expert at something? Maybe it's car repair, home remodeling, brewing your own beer, etc.. Find something that you enjoy writing and talking about so that way you don't find yourself burned out down the road. If you want to be successful at making money online you have to start out enjoying what you're writing about. You wouldn't want to write about cooking food when you hate cooking.

Finding A Domain

Once you have found the niche you want to build a website about, you will need to do some proper keyword research. You will need to find a keyword that receives some good traffic in the niche that you are targeting. I would recommend using SEO Book's keyword tool or Google Keyword tool to find keywords that receive good traffic every month. The reason why you are looking for a good keyword in your niche is so you can find a keyword that you can match up with your domain name. If you want to rank in Google for a keyword that receives a ton of traffic then you need to target that keyword by buying a website domain name that has the keyword in it.

Exact match keyword domains are the best for search engine optimization and are easy to rank for. If you want to write about the dating niche and a high traffic keyword might be "Pickup Lines for Women" then you would want to buy a website domain like, pickuplinesforwomen.com or bestpickuplinesforwomen.com. This will give you an easier time ranking in Google for that keyword compared to websites that do not have the keyword in their domain name.

I buy my domains through Godaddy.com, I recommend searching for an online coupon if possible, then I transfer the domain to my bluehost web hosting account. Blue Host is a great hosting site that is fast and is super easy to install WordPress from. Install WordPress then start writing up some useful content on your site. After you are finished with the content you will need to get your site indexed by Google, I recommend Bulk Ping's fast index tool. This tool will get your website indexed within 30 minutes.

Monetization

Once you have the site built you will need to monetize it. The easiest monetization method is signing up for Google Adsense. For the quickest adsense approval method I recommend creating a blogger account and setting up a fake blog with some content. Then apply for adsense from within that account. You can typically get your account approved within a couple days. It's much easier to use a blogger site to get approved compared to a private domain. Once approved put some ads on your site so you can start having some income coming in.

Also, look for affiliate offers you can promote. Head over to clickbank.com and sign up for an account. Look at the marketplace for products that are in your niche that you can promote. Post clickbank ads or write reviews for these products.

Ranking in the SERPs

Next is ranking in Google to build some organic traffic to your website. Remember that keyword you were targeting? We want to build backlinks to your site using that keyword. We can target that keyword by creating hyperlinks with the anchor text of our keyword on other websites. This gives your site credit within Google when it calculates keyword rankings for a given keyword. You can do this by writing articles and submitting them to article directories or by commenting on blogs in your niche.

If you want to read up more on article marketing and other methods of traffic generation check out two of my previous posts on the subject,

Make Money with Article Marketing

8 Tips To Generate Massive Sticky Blog Traffic

Profit?

Once the traffic comes rolling in then that when you make your profits. Once a niche site is profitable you can either sell it or let it build passive income. If you go the passive income route you will want to quit working on the site when it becomes profitable then move on to building another site in another niche. This is a rinse and repeat method that can create multiple streams of income over and over again.

Ezine Article Spying

Short post today but I wanted to show everyone how you can spy on ezinearticles.com and see all the articles with top views. You can either do a general search or be keyword specific. This can help you determine what keywords to target when writing articles for your niche. We want to maximize the amount of traffic we can pull from our articles so we might as well see some of the top producing articles in action.

This is the code that we will be using,

site:ezinearticles.com "This article has been viewed 2000..199999" "Article Submitted On: * *, 2011"

Enter this search string into Google and this will pull up all the articles on ezine that have over 2000 article views. If you want to be more specific by targeting a specific keyword you will need to enter the keyword first then a space, then the search string. Like this,

Dating site:ezinearticles.com "This article has been viewed 2000..199999" "Article Submitted On: * *, 2011"

This will bring up all the top producing articles in the dating niche. We can also modify this search string where you can narrow down the search results by article views. Change the 2000 number to a higher number, say 10000 views or more. This way you will only see articles that have some serious traffic. You can also change the date if you want to expand beyond the current year.

This method of spying can show you which long tail articles to target in your niche plus how you can write eye catching titles that will get visitors to click on your article. We all want as many visitors as possible and this is one of the best ways of boosting the production out of our articles.

5 Types of Online Passive Income

Today I want to discuss the 5 types of online passive income that you can build for your websites. Passive income is the best type of income that you can build, in my opinion. Who wouldn't want want to make money while you sleep!

Initially there is some hard work involved but the reward is a huge payoff. I think most of us would gladly work hard for a month or two only to be paid for that work every month afterwards. I highly recommend building multiple income streams from different sources. If you start making money from one source, then start working on another. The advantage of having multiple income sources is the ability to absorb a hit financially. If one stream dries up or does poorly, you have many other income streams to keep you afloat. This is why it is crucial to build multiple streams of income to secure your financial future. There are a few different types of passive income that we can target so let's take a look at them.

1. Affiliate Marketing - This is probably the most used typed of passive income out there. Affiliate marketing is where you sell other people's products for them and for every sale you receive a commission. This is where you would build an e-mail list or website that targets a specific niche then begin selling products to your targeted visitors. This typically includes reviews of these products to help assist your visitors with their buying decisions. The biggest affiliate networks you can sign up for are clickbank.com, amazon affiliates, or cj.com.
2. Selling Ad Space or Adsense - Online advertising is one of the most used revenue generators out on the web. Similar to affiliate marketing but you build websites for specific niches that have the potential to generate a large amount of traffic to. The hope is your visitors will click on your advertisements making you some nice cash each day. Google Adsense is one of the biggest ad networks you could join.
3. Product Creation - This is what I consider a step up in the internet marketing world. This method is when someone wants to build their own informational product and sell it through their website or another medium. Product creation is as simple as someone building a product that they consider themselves an expert at, which can be in any niche. We are all good at something, think about something you may be good at that you could create and sell.
4. Referrals - How about that product you just created? Wouldn't it be nice if other people started selling your product for you? You could just sit back while an army of affiliates run around the web promoting your product. If you can recruit the affiliates and possibly super affiliates, you could see a major win fall.
5. Membership sites - Create your own membership site in a niche you're passionate about. Build a private portal with secret information about your niche that people would be hungry to see. The key is to release new information each month that will retain your clients. There is an overwhelming amount of people who completely forget about some of their memberships and will pay the subscriptions for months before ever visiting again. It's definitely not something to be overlooked.

Building multiple streams of income is the biggest thing you can do for your financial future. Even if you stick to one of these 5 methods you can still diversify between income sources. Say you were only going to target affiliate marketing, you could sign up for three separate affiliate networks so you would have multiple sources of income. The most important thing is not to put all your eggs in one basket.