Episode 3 How I made $189,000 from a single page web site. This week I bring you some real world experience in how I made money using the Internet. You will learn the techniques I used and you can use them too. Let's start with how I learned about Internet affiliate marketing. I worked for a well known Internet Mortgage company based here in Charlotte, North Carolina. That company offered an Internet affiliate program. I had no idea what an Internet affiliate marketing program was. But one month we had an affiliate who we owed $100,000 for one month. We had the marketing people come to me and ask how is this guy doing this. I investigated this and what I found was amazing. I found that this particular person was getting all his traffic from MSN at the time. At that time all Internet Explorer browsers defaulted their home page to MSN as the default search engine. So this person had alot of web pages in MSN that pointed to his 5 page web site for loans. He was getting lots of traffic from MSN and sending that traffic to this affiliate program. I thought this was amazing, I never thought that a person could earn this much money so easily. For those of you that don't know, Internet affiliate programs are great for all parties involved. It's good for the manufacturer because they get lots of exposure through web sites that they would not otherwise get, it's good for the affiliate because it allows them to make money, it's good for consumers because it does not cost them any more to buy the product through an affiliate that it would if they purchased the product through the manufacturer. So the first thing I set out to do was create my own web site that did the same technique, but in a more automated fashion. I created a one page web site that had all the content about the program and had my affiliate link to the affiliate program. I first added code to the web page to allow the page to be unique each time it loads, every time the page loads it generates a random string of keywords that it uses as the TITLE, DESCRIPTION, H1, etc... for the web page. So when this page is indexed, it will rank highly for this random set of keywords. The second thing I did was set my default 404 page to be this page. So each time my several receives ANY url, it will return this page and will return this page with a HTTP 200 ok. Which means 200 OK. Or the page is normal. All web pages on the Internet generally return HTTP 200 OK to a valid web request. So by doing this, any URL you type in on my server will return the same web page and it will always be a HTTP 200 OK. It will not return a 301 redirect, 302 redirect or 404 file not found. It will appear as if this page is real and exists on my server. The third thing that I did was add code to this page that created 10 random links. These links use a random string of keywords from my list of keywords that I am targeting. By having keywords in your domain name, path and file name, your page will rank higher. So every time a page loads on my server, it will have 10 pages that it links to, but these pages don't exist on my server, or do they. Since I changed my 404 page to be valid content, any URL is valid content. So you can imagine what this does for the search engine spiders, it generates page after page of unique high ranking content. When the search engine spider comes to your web site, it will act like a pyramid. It will load the first page that points to 10 other pages, those 10 pages know about 10 other pages and those 10 pages know about 10 other pages, to infinity. So eventually the search engine spider will give up. But before it does, it will have indexed lots of on topic keywords related to your product or service. It's important to remain on topic, don't just use any keywords. Make sure that you are in a very vertical space and that all the keywords you are promoting are related to your product or service. As always, use a domain that you don't care about for this method as it probably will be frowned upon by the search engines.
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