Search Engine Traffic

Spammers have always been able to exploit new ways to generate profits. The increasingly popular Twitter is not immune to spammers either.

If you are using Twitter, you may have already noticed that people out of nowhere mysteriously started to follow you. They usually have a pretty girl’s picture as their profile photo, and their twitter username usually ends with 3 digits, a sign that they are using some sort of automated twitter tools to generate these fake accounts.

It usually works like this: the spammer get an affiliate link through Clickbank or other affiliate networks; she or he then shortens the link by using bit.ly; they then create a lot of twitter accounts and start following people automatically; these links are posted to their twitter stream - usually as the first and only tweets these fake account will post.

So why do spammers target twitter now? It turns out it is quite profitable for the spammers.

I recently noticed that I have been spammed with all sorts of links related to online forex trading. I don’t know much about the forex trading market but it must be highly lucrative for the spammer affiliates promoting forex trading ebooks through clickbank.

Let’s do a quick back of envelope calculation on this type of spams. The url shortener service bit.ly has a nifty feature that gives you the statistics of clicks on a particular link. Here is a screenshot of a spam link that promoted a forex trading how-to type of ebook.

As you can see, this guy generated 14,571 clicks to his landing page in just one week. Let’s conservatively estimate that only 1% of clicks generates a sales for him. That’s almost 145 sales in one week. For an ebook on Clickbank that sells for $47 a copy and pays out 50% to affiliates, 145 sales would amounts to $3,407 in profits for this spammer in one week. Of course this is just an estimate, but you got the idea.

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Mediawiki installation has been covered by quite a number of guides and tutorials, including the help section on mediawiki.org’s own website. I am not going to repeat what has already been said. But instead, I want to outline quickly what your options are when you want to install and run your own Mediawiki server.

Option No. 1 - Hosting Script Installer

If you have a shared-hosting account with cpanel, chances are Mediawiki can be installed with one click of the mouse, because cpanel allows you to install many php based scripts from a central web console. I don’t have experience with other hosting configuration and management software. But a script installer is pretty much standard feature these days.

If you have your own dedicated web server, you can get a free hosting management software such as ServerCP etc.

Option No. 2 - Install Mediawiki from Scratch

If you have relatively good knowledge of Linux, Apache, MySQL and Php, you could do your own installation of Mediawiki pretty easily. It does not matter whether you have a shared-hosting server or a dedicated server, as long as it matches the system requirements of mediawiki.

Generally, if you want to install newer versions of mediawiki, such as mediawiki v1.6 and above, you will need to have php5 and MySQL 4.x or 5.x installed on your server. These are usually pre-installed on most more recent Linux OS.

Misc - Installing Mediawiki on Windows

A lot of people does not know this, but you can actually install Mediawiki on Microsoft Windows. The following description is based on my experience installing Mediawiki on Windows XP Pro.

If you have a relatively clean machine, you just need to download the latest Apache, MySQL 4.x or 5.0 and PHP 5.0 setup programs from their respective download sites. After you install Apache, MySQL and PHP, you need to download Mediawiki and unzip the files to a directory on your c drive. In your Apache configuration file, httpd2.conf or apached2.conf, you add a virtual directory entry to point to your Mediawiki source directory. After restart the Apache service, you should be good to go.

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The big three search engines are so-called general search engines. They make money by selling mostly text advertising inventory. If you have a website that gets search engine traffic, you can profit from the traffic by using either PPC such as AdSense or affiliate program. [Read more →]

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Pay Per Click or so-called PPC search engine marketing is a must-have tool for any webmaster who owns money-making websites. Here are some tips for you to pick up search traffic on the cheap if you are thinking about ppc marketing.
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AuctionAds has had tremendous growth in the first 3 months of existence. Its early success may be giving them some growing pain: we have noticed on a couple of ‘connection reset error’ page on their publishers’ sites.
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High search engine ranking tip: running a PPC (per per click) campaign to drive traffic to your website can help increase your ranking in search engines.
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MediaWiki site out of box can be easily configured to have search engine friendly URLs. The main MediaWiki site has detailed instructions to do so. However, search engine friendly URL for your wiki site is not nearly enough. For example, you can have on your hand a lot of ’supplemental index’ page because Google does not like a lot of dynamically generated wiki pages. Here are some simple steps you can immediately implement to avoid duplicate content penalty and ’supplemental index’ page for your MediaWiki site.
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If you run your own Wordpress blog with its default site structure configuration and installation, your blog will more than likely be penalized by Google as having duplicate content without you knowing, which will seriously affect your search engine traffic. To avoid Google’s so-called supplemental result penalty on your original content, you need to implement a few simple steps on your wordpress blog installation to get rid of duplicate content problem.
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We are glad to report that the last Google PageRank update has given our site an PR4, which is pretty good in a short 2 months.

There are literally millions of making money online blogs out there. Hence the competition for page ranking, link building etc are pretty high. A new blog like ours is very lucky to have achieved PageRank4 this quickly.
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All with just a free report? Is that possible?

Mike Filsaime, one of the most successful internet marketers, owner of numerous online properties, did exactly that.

In his free 37 page long report, Mike details all the tools he uses for his internet business, including, of course, tools that his team created and that are available for sale to anyone who aspire to making money on the internet.

But before you can get your hand on this report, you are going to see two OTO (one-time offers). The first one is a little expensive. If you decline it, a second OTO pops out screaming for your attention. At this point, I imagine most of you would have been sold. His offers are just too good to pass by. Don’t believe it, check it out yourself.

When you proceed , you will be asked to opt-in an email list AND to generate an account on the membership site, in order to get the report, although the sales page mentions that ‘Email Me the report’. To me, this is a little misleading.

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