Read this ebook section... is this crap?

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I get bored and read ebooks sometimes. Most are mediocre and redundant, but for some reason, this article from an ebook called '20 Ways to Make $100 per Day on the Internet' or some such shit got me thinking. Its about what the author (who apparently was in the running for some reality show about millionaires on the internet) calls "Trend Affiliate Marketing". Its a loosely defined term from what I can tell. It seems like a pretty good idea in most ways, and I wanted to throw it out there to see what everyone thought.

I just extracted pages from the mentioned section to spare you from the other parts. Party.

Drop.io trendmarketingebook
 


I read the whole thing top to bottom, it's not new but having said that it does work. For everyone who can't be bothered to read the doc, it's basically an explanation of how to use recent trends and news stories to drive traffic to a poll-style landing page and then onto an email/zip submit offer.

The only thing in there that I hadn't heard of before was how he managed to get $0.01 clicks - I'm looking into that because if it's not BS then it sounds very lucrative.
 
I think the reason the clicks are so cheap are because the stories that he's getting using PPC keywords for are brand new and totally unique. So if some previously unknown dude named Jerry Schmitzer (haha) makes huge headline news for whatever reason... you rush to your Google Adwords account real quick and bid $.01 (for top ad positions) for the keyphrase "Jerry Schmitzer" (and whatever else related to the story), then depend on a sudden spike in Google searches to bring your traffic.

He mentions a small time frame for such a low bid, (an hour) ..but shit, seems like you'd have to be on crack all day everyday, sweating, and churning out 25 websites every few hours while you have 6 RSS feeds on your screen at all times. The low PPC bid/high (but short lived) public interest nature of the approach is what makes me curious about trying this for a while.

I mean you figure... if you're paying .02/click for two hours, getting a 3% CTR, and you get 200 clicks = $4.00

1% conversion (you could get this higher)... at $5.00 each = $10.00

= 150% profit... then, scale... scale...

Shit, I always do this... go ahead and over-idealize stuff.
 
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