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Jack Duncan’s Google Traffic Loophole trick

August 9, 2009 By Paul (Founder, WorkAtHomeTruth) 1 Comment

Jack Duncan just posted a very cool tip over at the Warrior forum that shows how to use some of Google’s advanced query syntax to pull out some keyword gems that can drive a lot of traffic.

Be sure to read further down into the post as well as he gives another great tip for finding potential breakout topics from the article directories.

You should be able to work out other iterations of these techniques, but if you’re stuck on that you can take a look at a post by Shawn that does that.

Click here to see the full discussion of Jack Duncan’s Google Traffic Loophole trick.

There’s also a helpful link that I’ll repeat here that goes to a page called Unofficial Google Advanced Search

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StatBrain – LOL

January 4, 2009 By Paul (Founder, WorkAtHomeTruth) 27 Comments

Somehow I stumbled across StatBrain recently which at one time in history maybe, possibly had some point, but currently it seems completely useless. So what is StatBrain? Here’s what the site says:

“Statbrain uses different resources on the web combined with mathematical and statistical methods to estimate how many visits a website has.”

OK, StatBrain…let’s see how you do.

The way StatBrain works is you enter a website into their box and it returns an estimate of how many visitors per day the website gets based on “offsite factors like backlinks, Alexa Rank etc. Statbrain does not have access to log files or any counter information. The number of visits that Statbrain estimates gives you an idea of the number of visits that a website has, but not the exact visitor number.”

OK, let’s see how it does with WorkAtHomeTruth which gets anywhere from 1,500 to 3,000 unique visitors per day:

Estimated number of visits for www.workathometruth.com
Less than 10 visits per day

FAIL!

(Ironically I got an ad for BradsMoney in my results. LOL).

How about a big site like myspace?

Estimated number of visits for www.myspace.com
23,653,442 visits per day

OK. That would be 709,603,260 visits per month.

Now, StatBrain does remind us that “The number that Statbrain estimates is visits. It is also known as visitor sessions and indicates the number of visits that a website has. The number is not the same as unique visitors which usually is a bit lower.”

So, let’s see what a “bit lower” would be. Quantcast and Compete tend to be the more accurate sites for measuring unique visitors. So how does myspace.com fair with those website measurement services?

Quantcast shows myspace at 68.4 Million U.S. people per month. I’d say that’s “a bit” lower than 709,603,260 visis per month – unless the majority of their visitors are coming from other countries, planets, and galaxies (I don’t see how else StatBrain could even come close to 709,603,260.

The graph for myspace.com from Compete.com is shown below:

So we have one word for StatBrain’s myspace results:

FAIL!

How about if I just make up some website that doesn’t even exist and put it into StatBrain?

Let’s try globmonkeybeergrabberflapjack.com:

Estimated number of visits for www.globmonkeybeergrabberflapjack.com
Less than 10 visits per day

Success!

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Strange BlackHatFest bonuses…

January 3, 2009 By Paul (Founder, WorkAtHomeTruth) Leave a Comment

I came across what must be the most bizarre set of bonuses I’ve ever seen on a site called BlackHatFest.com which purports to teach people “Black Hat Marketing” and offers the following set of bonuses:

  • “Data Entry Jobs Online”
  • “Get Paid to Blog”
  • “Get Paid Completing Surveys”
  • “Mystery Shopping Companies”
  • “Get Paid Completing Emails”
  • “Drive Cars and Get Paid”

Now I’m sure every BlackHat Marketer really wants to make some extra income “completing emails”. LOL. Honestly, I’ve never seen anything so bizarre in all my life. I guess maybe the site is counting on people to use the questionable BlackHat techniques to promote products in typically questionable markets – since the site IS offering resale rights.

I’m also wondering why if the training is worth $3,036.00 why it’s seems to be being sold for $10 in this WSO (Warrior Special Offer) and if the guy is making $25,000/week why he seemed so desperate to get his thread bumped here. Of course it’s completely possible that the product offered in the WSO is completely different than the actual BlackHatFest product.

I’m not saying that there AREN’T legitimate reasons for all of that. Maybe he’s just “giving back” by offering his WSO at $10.00. After all he did post 60 “Thanks” and was only “Thanked” 6 times. So he seems to have A LOT to be thankful for. ;-)

Anyhow, BlackHatFest is a new product so we’ll just have to wait to see what type of feedback it gets as I have ZERO interest in that type of product other than for learning about efficiency, because there is actually a lot to be learned about automation and process optimization from the BlackHatters.

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