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Energy, con artists, and tookle
November 12th, 2006 by Jon Waraas


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Energy

This last week I have been taking Vitamin C pills and oh my god I have been feeling so much better physically and mentally. I have had so much more energy lately. Right now I have 3 test websites and I’m fixin on making another test site tonight. I have also had more of an erg to work out more. I have been taking 1 500 mg pill everyday. It seems to be helping a lot. So for all you other webmaster out there starting to get lazy I suggest taking more Vitamin C.

 

Con Artists

So I was all excited yesterday because I was speaking to someone in china (I haven’t spoke to anyone in china before). The guy posted on sitepoint that he wanted to buy advertising on my website and my buddies Bob’s site. Too good to be true I guess. The guy wanted to put a invisible iframe on my sites to a script that show the traffic going to his clients sites. So people sign up on his site, probably give him like $50 for 5,000 uniques or something. Then he just pays people with a lot of traffic to but 0 x 0 iframes on there sites. I’m not sure what the script does, but it sends the traffic randomly I think to his clients sites. Busted!!! His website is this one, you can see an example of a website with the iframe on it here, just view his source, then search for “iframe” and you will see the code. Looks like he has 2 of those codes there.

Well the guy couldn’t really understand that I turned down $300 because I didnt want to help him rip people off. Weird huh? I have done some pretty shitty stuff before, but I would never help someone do this to clients. The guy didnt even know what “ROI” was. LOL. Like he would need to know that…

So don’t trust valuelooking.net and don’t support rapidsafe.net!

 

Tookle

I have been able to work on this site that much. I apologies. There really isn’t that much to being a publisher. The hardest part is creating the site. After that site searches and advertisement takes over. I only spend about 3 hours a week doing all the advertising work. But with these video sites I should be working on this site daily, adding videos and games, etc. I am also going to add some images in front of the main ads to get the CTR rate higher. Its at almost 30% CTR (shhh), I would like it to be 40% or so. Im going to work on that. The site has a daily average of $6.00 even, I need to make more than $5.31 to make a profit. I am on day 17 with the ad campaign. If I stay on track I will make another $84. I have made $96.28 so far. So that equals $180, which gives me a really crappy profit of $30. But I will probably make more than that because I am basing that on the total daily average of the site. But whatever happens, I will have another $30 to reinvest back into the site. I should be making $20 a day very soon :)

Do you guys agree that this stuff is simple yet? If you have 10 of these websites making you a profit of only $5 per website, you would make $1500 a month. Where I’m from, people can live off of like $900 a month. LOL. I really hope that this blog motivates people at least… this stuff is easy. I barley pasted high school an I make $x,xxx a day. :/

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11 Comments

Comment by Vedran
2006-11-12 05:30:33

With 30% CTR you coud get ban from google :)
be careful!

 
Comment by jonwaraas
2006-11-12 05:33:55

How is that?

 
Comment by Dru
2006-11-12 13:21:27

Verdran, that is simply not true. Many of the webmasters doing ppc arbitrage get 60%+ CTR and do not get banned. Me included. You will only be banned for breaking TOS.

Keep up the good work Mr. Waraas. cool stuff. :D

 
Comment by brett
2006-11-12 14:15:56

It has been very intertesting up to this point with your tookle stuff. I think when you let us know more about the advertising end of it, it will be easier. Thats the part I am having problems with is getting my site out to people. The darn advertising.

 
Comment by anon
2006-11-12 14:26:33

LOL, Google does not ban for a high CTR%…..where do people get this from?

Google WANTS you to have a high CTR. They even give you advice on their website on ad placement for your adsense.

Anyone who gets banned from Google is because they are breaking the TOS.

 
Comment by P
2006-11-12 14:44:47

You make it sounds easier than it is :P I only average around 5 bucks a day. But your Blog does give lots on inspiration.

 
Comment by Vedran
2006-11-12 16:31:36

Yes, this is True, but if you have CTR like 30% or 40% something is not right..
People get this hight CTR only ih they have images near ads or something..

 
Comment by anon
2006-11-13 02:25:06

Verdan-

A 30-40% CTR is easily achieved without any images or “click incentives”…..all without breaking the TOS (btw, google does allow images near ads).

 
Comment by Farmer77
2006-11-13 08:50:36

I gotta take some vitamin C then. My first website for profit should be done in less than 2 weeks provided I don’t slack off.

 
Comment by nate
2006-11-27 16:04:21

The ideas behind Tookle have inspired me a ton! I’ve recently started working on my own PPC arbitrage sites. I’m hoping it’s as easy as everyone seems to make it sound. The original person who got me into it was Shoemoney though. So, props to him and to you for making it look so easy and motivating me to act on it.

 
Comment by jack ash
2007-11-30 18:26:06

You do make this look easy.. to tell you the truth I’d make 50 sites like tookle if I could even get 1$ a day from them…

 

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