One of the reason why I actually wanted to test it is because I am working with Xfactor style micronich sites, which are very targeted and extremely keyword focused. And the keywords are all buying ones related to physical products which can be easily found at Amazon. So what best way to add some extra money to my income than increasing my Amazon earnings, which were quite sparse so far when focusing solely on the Xfactor method (which really focuses on Adsense).

So after getting the ebook, which is quite big and indepth at full 74 pages, I read it twice and then got working.

While I have several Xfactor style sites up on page one, and even in top positions, not each of them is making me money. After trying several things, I realized that some of these sites will never make money from Adsense besides a few dollars each month simply because the ads are not targeted enough. If somebody wants to buy a clothes dryer vent and you have vents of other types of machinery as ads, noone will click through. I actually considered some of these sites ‘duds’. So I’ve decided to pick one of them and see where the Amazonian profit plan ebook will take it.

But what exactly is the Amazonian profit plan? It is a step by step way that shows you how to write the perfect product review that not only gives click-throughs to Amazon but also really makes you sales. Each part is explained in details, and when all is said and done, the Appendix section of the book actually gives you a completed review of a product randomly selected from Amazon (you can actually find the product at Amazon, and see that it’s a legit review indeed). I’ve seen so far Amazon reviews and also courses on how to write reviews, but this one, in all honestly, takes the cake.

It walks you through how to find the perfect products to focus on, what are the best criteria on it, then how to make the proper keyword research to get the best results, and then it walks you through the actual review. The appendix section has the actual review put together along with a couple of checkmarks and sheets that you can easily use to complete the tasks.

So I took one of my sites, the main page really, transformed it into an Amazon review in the exact layout given by Amazonian profit plan, then social bookmarked my article and went to sleep. The next day I didn’t get any clicks, but that was undertandable, since I’m living in Europe, so the time difference was at fault. Then the sales were like this:

2nd day -  1 sales

3rd day - 1 sales

4th day - 1 sales

5-6 days nothing (later on I realized why)

7 day -  3 sales (different products though) going through that site. I know it’s through that site as I have a separate tracking id for the site that I’m not using anywhere else.

If you’re wondering why I only have 1 sale per day, the reason is because it is quite a small site with less than 2000 monthly searches. I only used this site for testing and well, worse case I wouldn’t lose much since it was a no earner for Adsense anyway.

And here is the kicker, I have the site up for 3 months now, with less than $3 Adsense earnings ever since it’s on page 1 and with 3 product sales from Amazon in 3 months. That’s an average of 1 sale per month. Since I changed the layout of the site and completely revamped the page to include the Amazonian style review, in 7 days I got 6 sales. Oh and the reason why 2 days I had no sales is because I had a very brief google dance (saw that with Market Samurai), whereby the site went down to position 5 from pos 1, however it recovered within 2 days.

While this site by no means will make me rich, it did prove to me that this is one system that works without failing. I have a few more ‘dud’ sites that don’t earn me from Adsense much, so I’ll work through them and change them to the Amazonian style and I’ll scrap the Adsense altogether.

Oh and if you ever find yourself in the dreaded position of being kicked out of the Adsense program for any reason whatsoever, and you’re sitting on a heap of sites which have very focused and targeted keywords for physical products, you’re back in business again in no time! Well, as long as you have good rankings in Google for the sites, of course.

So if you are on the fence, I promise you that if you follow the plan to the letter, you will make money from it as I did to. Just make sure to follow the review style the ladies give you (but don’t copy the wording though, as that’s lame), put up the review, get a few backlinks to the site using article marketing, or forum profiles or whatever you fancy and start earning from Amazon!

And one last point, since I bet I will get a few comments on this one: while Amazon has only 24 hour cookies to their site (so after 24 hours, if the person visits Amazon you will not get credit for it), Amazon is the largest online shopping site and people truly trust it. Selling and promoting ebooks is so 2008-2009, while it still works, people are no longer trusting those sales letter put up by clever internet marketeers. But real, physical products are thing we all need, no matter what. You might not be interested in buying the latest Acne ebook that treats you naturally but you’ll definitely need a crib for your new born baby or those power tools for your garage. And the good thing about Amazon, something that I LOVE seeing, is that when people are on the site, they usually remember that they need to buy this, and that, and oh that as well, and everything they buy during the day, goes under your affiliate How cool is that!

And if you don’t fancy selling Amazon products, you can easily use the very same reviews with no changes whatsoever to any other affiliate site such as Commission Junction or Google Ad Network or anything else that deals with actual, physical products. It doesn’t HAVE to be Amazon.

Click on the link to go to the Amazonian Profit Plan, see what all is about and if it’s something you think you can do, get it and start earning money from Amazon, the new money maker of 2010.

http://flippa.com/auctions/99082

SOLD

And that was last November. So in just half a year I managed to increase my earnings by quite a lot when you look at it % wise. Which dayjob you can think of that will increase your salary with at least $100 a month, and that every month? Because don’t forget that 511 Euros are $630, so it is a steady increase of around $100 (more or less) per month. And this only from Adsense. You usually have to wait one year (and in some cases 2 at some companies) to get a measly 5-7% increase in your salary. Not fun! I’ve been there, done that, even waited 3-4 months after the time to get my increase, and when I finally got it, the boss made me feel like he did me a favor *groan*. So yeah, when I see that my earnings do increase - albeit slowly - every single month, I do feel darn proud that I am achieving something. And all this doing pure white hat marketing, with things that work all the time, without having to be afraid that some of the methods might not work later on.

Also my Amazon sales started to increase as I am creating a few Amazon product review sites which are now ranking and start to make me sales.

And with the sites that I am flipping for quick cash, I can get by. Not yet at the level of my previous job’s earnings, but I’m getting there, and that only after half a year of starting my life free of any day job headaches, problems and annoyances. And this is why I am working every day harder and harder to bring my sites to page 1 and position 1 at times (it can’t be achieved every single time due to the competition, but I can do it more often than not), so my next month’s earnings will surpass this one’s and I’m hoping that by the end of the year I can safely say that I’m earning around the level of money I was around at my last day job.

And don’t forget, online marketing IS a business and every startup business is difficult. When you start an offline business, the first few years are usually a bust until you can really start to see some profits. With IM you can see this that much faster and the startup costs are so much lower too. All you need is a few months go out less, tighten your budget a bit and work hard. That’s all it takes, really…

P.S. And now for a shameless plug to something that I dearly love: If you were on the fence about joining Link Dozer but were not sure, now is the time to do it. Kristina has started a new FREE SEO course for the LD members and she just posted yesterday the first 4 preliminary videos. They are awesome, I’ve got to tell you! And darn motivating.

She will cover many different aspects of making money online and knowing Kristina and her genius in SEO (she truly is!), only this course will be worth the monthly fees. If you want a serious SEO education from one of the top SEO consultants in the IM world, join LD and start learning. Oh and don’t forget, if you join through my link, you can still get the $50 discount! If you want to see how all this works out for you, check out this post where I described the entire discount process.

The listing starts at $1 with NO RESERVE, and it’s only 3 days long. So if you want to get a money making site that is perfect for passive income, now’s your chance to grab it. Check it out at http://flippa.com/auctions/98799

Without giving too much away, the Xfactor video course will be something unique which has not been done before. I’m quite excited about it as it really brings up tons of possibilities here to learn by really seeing the master at work and copying exactly what he’ll be doing to reach a full time income in only a few weeks.

So what does this mean for you?

If you are a member of the Xfactor forum, go ahead and pay the $97 as it will be truly worth it.

If you are currently a member of his course but you’re not on the forum, you have two options. Either wait until the course is done (which is after end of June) and get it at $297 only as a customer of his Xfactor Adsense course, or join the forum (which is I think only a one off of $29.95 and go grab BEFORE END OF JUNE his video course at only $97. He will close the $97 offer the last day of June. This puts your total spending at around $130 or so.

If you are thinking of getting the course, join the forum and want to grab the video as well, it is still the cheapest to do so before end of June. You’ll pay the Xfactor course at $77 and join the forum at $29.95 and finally pay the $97 for the course, which puts your total spending at less than $200. Or if you don’t care about the forum at all, but you do want to get the videos and the course, you’ll pay the $77 for the Xfactor course and $297 after June for the set of videos, which is close to $300. Hm, did I get all this calculation right? Math was never my forte

So right now the way I see it, your cheapest option - and truly the one that gives you most for your buck - is to be a member of his course, a member of his forum and pre-pay before end of June the $97.

Oh btw, John said that he will not release his videos outside of the group of people who bought his Xfactor course, so you won’t find it later on at Clickbank (so you won’t be able to get it under your own affiliate at half price or whatever), and you won’t find it sold anywhere else but through his course.

Personally I think it’s well worth it, if you’re going the route of micro niches. Don’t forget that’s how I also managed to quit my job  and start out on my own - maybe the best decision I’ve ever made when it comes to working and getting paid for it. (Trust me, even my gastritis that I developed the last 3 years due to the extreme stress and lack of enough time for eating lunch properly has started to recede. It will still take a good while, but I’m healing and that’s all that counts. But that’s a story for another time)

If you have the course but want to join his forum, go to his website and at the top click on Member Login and from there you will be joining the forum through amember. If you don’t have the course yet, seriously, what are you waiting for? Click here and get started on your path of self-employement. If I could do it, you can do it too!

I’ll be using mostly article marketing to promote my sites. I have already cancelled my membership at Blog Blueprint and while I originally thought to jump on the bandwagon with Linvana, I’ll also stay away from it. The reason? In part one of John’s audio posts on the Xfactor forum that opened my eyes to ethical marketing, which sadly very few internet marketeers have (John Xfactor is one of the few people that I consider personally ethical marketeers), and in part just knowing that I’m doing the right thing, without trying to trick Google. Knowing that you’ll rank well in the SERPS purely the whitehat way with proper SEO and backlinking strategies is something really to boast about

So basically I will be using 90% article marketing (posting at Eza and other places) to get high quality backlinks, I will post a few press releases (I have already outsourced my first one, I hope the quality will be good), will continue to blog comment, manually as I did before. Basically I will try to be as transparent in what I do as I can. And just as before, I will avoid using profile links ala Angela  & gang. I just find them too spammy in nature. If I had a forum and I had to take care of all the spammers that join just to have a backlink, most probably I’d have closed the forum and run it by invitation by now. Just sayin…

We all know that Senuke is the king when it comes to everything creator and submitter. Many have tried to achieve what Senuke did, including Evo II (which personally I have a major beef with ever since I tried it and that twice - I had to actually reformat my hard drive because of it, but on that later), but so far none have come close enough to it to warrant a second, or third look.

magic submitter

So far. And here comes Magic Submitter by Alex (I have both of his previous programs, and I use them quite often, so I know the quality of his stuff), with something that is about to rock the entire IM world: a software that can actually compete with Senuke and even beat it in some areas. Granted, not everywhere, but it comes darn close.

I had a few days time to actually test this software and simply put, I’m impressed. Let’s see first what makes it compare with Senuke, and then what makes it different from Senuke.

Comparison between Magic Submitter And Senuke

• With Magic Submitter you can create accounts to video sites, web 2 sites, article directories, social bookmarking sites and RSS feed sites. I think that’s all that is readily available in his software.

• You can create many profiles, just like with Senuke, so if you’re working for multiple companies doing their SEO work, it’s easy to keep these profiles separate from each other. If you’re bored to think up some alias information for your  new profile, just click on Fill Profile, and it populates every single field needed for registration to a site - just like Senuke.

• You can easily create emails (currently Yahoo and Gmail) and MS uses popmail to actually go to your mail, read the mails and click on the confirmation links for the sites - just like Senuke.

• You can use either a decapcha service or you enter manually your own capchas if you need. Here Senuke has an advantage that they offer their own capcha service for free. Personally, I could never get that working, as it was always busy, so I choose to beat my own capchas.

• You can add any proxies as you like. Senuke has here an advantage as you can use their proxy services. However it is easy to find free proxies to use from various places on the net, just Google them. Also MS allows you to add multiple proxies and rotate them randomy. I like this feature.

• Submitting anything anywhere is a breeze, I’ve tried them and submission was really fast. Just as fast as Senuke actually. Senuke has an advantage that you can have several screens open while submitting for faster processing. MS has up to 3 at the same time. I never really used more than 3-4 in Senuke anyway because depending on your monitor everything might get just too small anyway to see what’s going on. Not forgetting about the RAM that all this parallel processing takes from your computer.

• Senuke has a set of get started videos - not very professionally done, but Senuke being quite a difficult software to learn for many, they do get the job done. MS has as well as set of videos and - thank god for small favors - they are superbly done in full screen so you actually get to really see what’s going on. These videos went into some quite advanced stuff, I didn’t find something that was left out, to be honest.

• Senuke has spinned syntax to post to social networking sites (web2) and social bookmarking sites. MS has it too. It should since Alex has developed Magic Article Submitter, one of the premier spinning software along with The Best Spinner (I actually use both).

• Something that Senuke has and MS doesn’t - the keyword research section. Personally I use Micro Niche Finder and Market Samurai for all my keyword research (since you can also find domains with them easily), so I never bothered with this feature. But it might be important to some.

So where does MS fall flat?

Senuke has all the many (heavily spammed) forum profiles that you can create quite easily. MS doesn’t have that. Personally, and I know I’m in a minority here, this is a plus for MS, as there are less chances to be considered a black hat tool and spam the heck of the web.

While I haven’t come across many so far, MS has a couple of bugs. Sometimes a simple restart helps, others are actually passed on to Alex, the developer, for fixing it in next versions. But let’s be honest, if you’ve worked with Senuke for a while now, you have to remember how buggy this software was just about a year ago. Personally I haven’t found one software so far that has no bugs, and the mother of all is Microsoft, the biggest software company around. MS being such a baby as it is right now, I think we can cut Alex some slack on this. I know he’s constantly on the ball with the software and he’s ironing out all the bugs as people find them and report them.

Finally, what sets MS apart from Senuke?

3 things:

• Senuke is not the easiest software to learn. I’ve struggled with it when I first started out and I most internet marketeers did the same too. Even Areeb, the Senuke designer, says that Senuke is not for newbies. Well, guess what, Magic Submitter is! It is extremely easy and everything is quite logical. Everything is pretty much pre-populated for you, and all you need is to create your accounts and start submitting your data. As simple as that.

• Its price. Currently at only $67, it’s a steal compared to $127 that Senuke is charging considering that both do pretty much the same thing. I’ve seen on the sales page (just scroll to the bottom) that Alex will shortly also raise the price to $127, just like Senuke, but for now you can still get it at $67 as the first few to get it. Pretty cool, eh?

• The third point, and maybe the most important of all, the possibility of adding ANY SITE THAT YOU WANT into the software. Yes, I mean any site where you can leave your content, it can be added into MS. So let’s say you find some cool new social bookmarking site.
• Just imagine the possibilities for a moment here. You can not only add sites, but also new categories. For example you might want to submit your press releases to the most common PR sites. All you need is set them up and you’re ready to go. Btw, I think press releases will be added as a separate category in MS in a later version anyway, so you might want to wait with adding too many right now, just to avoid duplicate work. But to get yourself started, you can alread add a few like prweb and similar.

While Areeb is quite fast in bringing out his updates, you’ll never be sure whether he will add the very same site you want added into the software. And there’s no way you can add it yourself. Well, with Magic Submitter,  you can. You simply add it with the relevant URL, add the fields that this site uses for signup and content creation (like the URL of the bookmark you want to add), and you’re done.

To be honest this last feature makes MS a very powerful software, setting it apart from anything else on the market today. And I mean it. Currently there is nothing else out there that will allow you to add your own bookmarking sites (pligg sites, or whatever else you want to add), your new found article directories, video sites, press release sites, maybe niche blogs that you’re posting to on a regular basis.

And this brings me to the final point. While with other software you have to wait until the developer fixes any broken links or registration or submission forms (these sites are well known for changing their forms in order to avoid spamming of their sites), with Magic Submitter there is nothing stopping you from doing it yourself. And you don’t have to have PHD in coding to learn to do it. It is very easy and there are about 3 different videos in the members section that describe just how to do it. Personally I found it very intuitive and easy to do. In about 5 minutes you can be off and bookmarking to that site that the rest of the ‘automated’ world is stucks from. For me this is was really the clincher that made me join the monthly program. At this price (which will remain even when for the rest of the world it will go up to $127), it was a no brainer.

Check out the sales page, watch the videos and decide for yourself whether you want to invest in Magic Submitter. But if you’ve ever spent money on any other of Alex’s software, I know you will

I’m just reading a book on organizing your space. It is ‘The Art Of Organizing Anything‘ by Rosalie Maggio. It’s a great book, btw, if you are like me, cluttered beyond help and need some external guidance of doing better with the available space.

This is the paragraph that really triggered my negative memory of long forgotten times.

When you’re given an office, a cubicle or a desk, it doesn’t have to stay in its original state. Think about how you work, and take a little time in the beginning to arrange things to your satisfaction… The more you can think of your office as being composed of zones, the more efficient you’ll be…

This little phrase reminded me of the following story…

I have been working in a small office on my own for almost 3 years now. Just about half a year before finally leaving from there, the boss announced that I would be getting a new colleague in the room. Fine with me since there was already another desk in place and I could use a friend and colleague to work with.

The problem was that the two desks were facing completely away from each other. Mine was facing the entrance wall (made of glass) and the other desk was behind me, facing the window. I was talking to a few colleagues and we discussed that it’s better to move both desks halfways in their position so they are facing each other. Afterall it’s so much easier to work together when you don’t have to turn every time 180 degrees just to see the person you’re talking to, particularly when I was to teach her some of the stuff I was doing. A couple of guys in the office helped me rearrange the desks so they no longer faced away from each other in the room. This was just the day before the new colleague arrived.

Just before ending the day, the boss storms in the room shouting at me as to how dare I move the desks from their original position and how can I go above his head for something so important as this decision. Honestly, I was not showing it, but I was close to crying in humiliation. I asked him why it’s a big problem to change the direction of the desks, and he replied almost word by work ‘because we are here to work, not to chat with each other’.

With my tail behind my back, so to speak, I went over to the guys (who already heard it anyway from the boss shouting across the hallway), and asked them nicely and ashamed to please help me put back the desk the way it was originally, back to back, so they no longer face each other. I felt so humiliated because after 3 years of loyal work there, I didn’t even have the pathetic right to turn my desks around. I guess creating a pleasant working environment for his employees was not on top of the list of priorities for this particular employer…

Well I found a solution recently and I’ve been silently implementing it on all my static sites and I have to say this: I’m extatic about it!

First of all, the bad news: the software called XCommentPro it is a software that at $97 is not very cheap. I am the first to admit this. And the second ‘bad’ news is that you have to set it up on each of your sites separately. However that only takes about 5 minutes per site, all depending on your customization needs (colors, etc).

The software is called XCommentPro and this is where you can get your 30 days fully working trial: http://www.xcommentpro.com/comment-system-trial.php (no aff.link)

But that’s all about the bad news. And here are the good news and benefits over Wordpress:

1. You buy the software once and you can use it on any domains you want. There is no limit as to number of domains or pages on a site to use it
2. One license works on 2 computers, so you can have it on your laptop or regular pc and work wherever you are at the moment
3. It is fully customizable, including the color of the comment header, font, size and so on to fully match the layout of your own site
4. If you have Xsitepro (and I strongly urge you to get it, you’ll thank me for it once you got your hands on it!), integrating the code within Xsitepro is a breeze. You don’t have to do anything really, Xsitepro adds all the code.
5. If you don’t have Xsitepro, you can very easily customize and upload it to any regular static html or php site in just a few basic steps (full details given in the 200 page manual).
6. It comes with a full 30 days guarantee and best of all, there is a free download that works fully for 30 days. If you don’t register the software after that, all the existing comments remain on the site, except that you can’t setup new ones.
7. My favorite: static sites are SO MUCH EASIER to handle when it comes to transferring to another hosting or simply just working with it. Wordpress has various databases to work with which can easily corrupt (and if you don’t have a backup of your site on your pc - and trust me, 90% of folks out there never think of backing up their site!), you’re basically screwed (pardon my French).
8. If your static site goes corrupted or deleted by mistake from your hosting, you have all the files on your pc and a simply reupload will solve the problem pronto. If you have Xsitepro, things are even easier than that!

I’m sure there are more benefits but these came to me immediately without thinking too much. For me this was one of the best business related investments of this year. Forget about crappy ebooks and WSOs that every John, Dick and Harry is offering. This, however, is something that can bring one’s site to a really better interaction with its readers and customers, which previously was only possible with Wordpress. Also not to forget that there are people out there with static sites that simply need this feature badly. Now they can get it with ease. Much easier to pay a one off of $97 than trying to convert all their sites to Wordpress blogs *shudder*.

Personally, while I am extremely familiar working both with Xsitepro and with Wordpress (about a year ago I was heavily flipping Wordpress based sites, so I had to know all the ins and outs of it), my favorite choice is working with Xsitepro. It is simply amazing how easy it is to create beautiful websites that your visitors will simply love.

Btw, as a sidenote, just to see a few examples of sites done in Xsitepro, check out this short Youtube video.

Everybody is at a different level of income when it comes to making money online and that is ok. For some money is no longer an issue, yet others are still at the beginning of their roads in their internet marketing adventures. This is when money is rather tight and whether to outsource various aspects of the business or not is one thing that you might be heavily pondering.

I am sort of in the middle. There are months when I don’t have to worry about it, however other times, yes, I also count my pennies. I found a good source for my article writing and I am really happy with their work, they do offer quality articles so when I can, I try to outsource my articles that will be posted to Ezinearticles or other high PR article directories for my sites.

Most outsourcers will work for a given amount for every 100 words. From what I’ve been talking to various people, most outsource to the exact number that they need. For example I found many people outsourcing articles of 500 words each only to be submitted to Ezinearticles. While that is a good thing to have for your own website, there is no reason to fatten the content of other sites that you don’t own when you can as well submit articles from 250 words onwards for them to be accepted.

So what I’ve been doing with success as of recently is outsource articles of 300 words, which are perfectly acceptable for Ezinearticles. The only problems is when it comes to keywords you want to use in your resource box that have 4 words each instead of 3. In order for Ezinearticles to accept 4 or 5 keywords anchor texts, your article needs to be at least 400 words each. So why don’t you just get that 300 words article and fill it up with 100 words nicely? It will cost you the same and in terms of time I take no longer than 2 minutes to flesh out my article.

When you receive the articles back, you need to read them for any editing, etc. When you do that, simply inject here and there a few filler words that don’t damage your content but increase your count words. Just think of everyday words that you would add to a phrase anyway.  For example if you have a text ‘if doing homework is to be done at a table’, you could easily add ‘if doing any reading or homework is to be done at a desk or table’. You’ve just added 3 new words that are already increasing the count. (Note that some words are not counted by Ezinearticles, such as ‘if’, ‘on’, or’, etc)

Finish reading and editing the article and simply add a last paragraph to get your count up to over 400 words. It’s very easy to do that when you’re actually reading your article from top to bottom without interruption as your thoughts simply continue from there on, it’s human nature. So just add your last thought on the subject as a last paragraph.

You’ve just saved yourself money and got yourself a nice long article that will now accept 4-5 words keywords in the author resource box as well. With the high prices of today, even saving $10 for the batch of articles of 300 words instead of 400 means that you can get squeezed in 1-2 articles more to be researched and written for you.