They say that in todays internet you cannot make money without spamming, of course there are many who have done so, but this is my personal opinion, you cannot gain traffic without submitting your own links, you’ll have to place your links in comments and this is just for the sake of blogging, but in fields like affiliate marketing, spamming reaches its heights. But today internet surfers have got used to it and its no longer considered unethical, unless you steal money or trouble someone, which comes under the section scamming.
I have always been getting spam mails in large numbers, and links to spammy sites from the time I started to use the internet, but it was just a few months ago that I started to deeply research on such activities and I have found out a lot, silly stuff like send us your email and get a chance to win a million dollars doesn’t work these days, your approach must be sensible and trust able, and the most important thing is where your planning to do so.
Facebook is becoming prey to plenty of spammy marketing stunts these days and few which would also result in the lack of privacy of its users, I’m still shocked to see that no tech major or Facebook itself was concerned about such things. I saw two three of these in the past few weeks and my curiosity starts jumping uncontrollably during such times and I usually dare to venture into those sites, exploring their monetization and marketing plan and for these ones I was also lucky enough to get their traffic stats. So here begins my fantastic adventures which lasted a little more than 15 minutes,
Firstly while surfing on Facebook, I saw a link posted by one of my friends which read Discover the hidden message which lies behind the Google Logo, ofcourse this attracted everyones attention and it was sure to get a hell lot of clicks, I too clicked on it immediately, but as soon as the page started to load I was sure that this was my next case study,
The above image shows the landing page of the site, as soon a visitor lands there is a Facebook style theme which reads the same message and tells the step one would be to like that particular page, and soon as you do so it would redirect to the next page containing step 2. While I made my visit the page had 15,000 likes, so you would have the idea on how popular this was. Soon after seeing this it was confirmed that this is some sort of spam page.
After completing the first step, the page automatically redirects to the second page which is exactly similar to the first one, with the same text, but the only difference is that this had a Facebook share button rather than the like button. The Facebook share is quiet powerful than that of the like button, and thats why they made use of both, so there traffic is driven by others curiosity, you cannot access it without bribing them with a share.
There marketing may have been clear to all of you by now, but now the question arises that what are they doing to monetize on this traffic, with such traffic adsense or any other advertising network wouldn’t result in more than a few pennies, so I did expect some sort of CPA program and I guess I was right, after making the Facebook share you’ll redirected to a page blocked with CPAlead which asks you to fill out a survey in order to view the page.
CPAleads is one of the most profitable affiliate programs ever, but still very few people use it mainly because its highly annoying to readers and most visitors will quit as soon as they see it, but this program pays you between $4 to $200 for a lead, so for such sites the owner wouldn’t really care if his visitors return or not, he doesn’t even care how annoyed they’d get. Let me remind you that this widget blocks entry to an entire page which makes it impossible to navigate, so if the visitor wants to see the page he has to generate a lead.
After seeing and exploring the site I saw a link to Sitemeter which was below the page, so I went to it to view the site’s traffic and not surprisingly, it had over 7000 visitors a day, so we can be sure that this site earns more than a thousand dollars everyday. The only promotion they have done is on Facebook, and SEO and stuff are simply a waste as no search engine would want to index a site with just 3 pages.
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I bet most of you will agree that this is a fantastic case study, not only is it a blending of innovation but also pure technical intelligence. All of spend most of our time pleasing readers and praying that someone would share that post you made, but this is something which demands readers to share it, this does require a few codes of programming and I don’t think you could do it with WordPress, but there is a private labeled software for StumbleUpon bribing.
The CPAleads too is a wonderful idea, most of us may close a page as soon as we see it, but there are a few who really make a lead either due to lack of knowledge or due to high curiosity. This webpage which s not more than three pages is sure to earn thousands of dollars each month. Some may regard this as unethical, but in my eyes there is nothing wrong with it, and if possible I’ll search for more on this and start on my own.
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Hi Sanjay
I would also love to make money but not by irritating my own or other web readers. You cannot think of making big money with such websites in long run as sooner of later this kind of spam will be caught
Hey Anil, one thing my name is Vishal
Well yes dude same here, but this isn't anything I feel as irritating, I guess you've heard of April Fools pranks they too are the same, but nobody feels irritated. I agree that this is completely short term, but it will result in a initial few bucks.
Great post Vishal! I know well about the cpalead programs, and I was tempted to use them, but I think that by making too spam I will risk to lose my credibility and people trust like affiliate marketer. However if is did well it is a strong method to increase you monthly revenue stream.
Yes bro, I think I had used it for a day on my blog, but removed it later. You'll surely loose readers, but you can make a lot of money if you have a huge source of traffic such as inevitable search traffic, but its sites like these which make good money.
Sorry Thats not an ethical way….. I just hate these types of scams
Sudip these aren't scams they can be spams, I don't think unethical, its just a smarter way to earn money.
6000 page visits a day and u say it's more than a thousand dollars everyday. How?
Awesome post Vishal
never used such programs as trust for readers is important along with making money.
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I was tempted to use them, but I think that by making too spam I will risk to lose my credibility and people trust like affiliate marketer. However if is did well it is a strong method to increase you monthly revenue stream.
ofcourse this attracted everyones attention and it was sure to get a hell lot of clicks, I too clicked on it immediately
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