Do you use
blackhat tactics for fun and profit?
There is a story around this,
so be prepared
While I was at an event in
Austin this past weekend, I called up a buddy of mine who is
pretty close to the top of the food chain in the internet
marketing industry, and since he lives very near Austin he
agreed to come over to the hotel I was at and sit out on the
patio with me and have a couple of drinks and 'talk shop' with
me for a couple of hours.
While we were talking, we
ended up having a discussion that most marketers end up having
often... Blackhat methods and tactics and how we are directly
affected by it.
Before I continue with this
story, let me take a quick break to clarify something for you...
There are two types of blackhat.
1] Actual true blackhat, which
is the art of exploiting weaknesses on the web and using them to
generate traffic or income.
2] Wannabe blackhat, which is
actually newbie dufus/idiots who are actually just thiefs.
Get it?... there is the real
thing, and then there is the f-tards who just steal and proclaim
themselves as blackhats.
Ok, now back to my story....
None of us really concern
ourselves with true blackhatters... They do their thing and
really do not affect any of us in any way.
We do however tend to get
pretty fired up and aggravated over the dolts who steal our
products. Most of us understand and accept that people are going
to steal the things that we pour our hearts and souls into
through our businesses.
So anyway, as we were talking
about this, I mentioned to him that I love those goof-balls
because I feel that turn-about if fair play, and I grace them
with the opportunity to pay me for their thievery
.
He of course nearly spewed his
drink out of his nose when I told him what/how I turned things
around and let those boneheads pay me.
And although the
'drink-spewing-from-nose' aspect was certainly funny, it paled
in comparison to how animated this guy got! I mean, this is a
fellow who is very conservative and rarely shows any degree of
blatant emotion.
As I described what I do
occasionally, and showed him the account I use to do it with so
that he could see with his own eyes that I make several thousand
dollars per month off of these guys, he started almost yelling
at me 'Bishop - You gotta let me tell my list about this!'.
His list is more centered
around making money online, and my initial reaction was to say
'No Way!!!' .. lol!
I wasn't saying 'no' because I
didn't want to share, I was saying it because my initial thought
was that if they find out how much money I make off of them
every month, they will stop falling for it.
And then I realized that it's
just not going to happen. They are thief's and they will
continue to steal no matter what... So, I told him 'ok, go for
it'.
So, now that I told him and he
will be telling his list, I knew that I had to get this
information to you first... after all, you are an Elite A-List
member and I promised you that I would always give you the scoop
first in all cases... so here it is::
1.] This is not a tactic
designed to be comfortable for everyone, and in fact, most
people should never ever do this... I do it because they are
ripping me off directly and I feel somewhat justified in my
actions (this may just be self delusions).
2.] This tactic can be used
for basically any product being sold online (and highly promoted
new product launches) could create crazy results because these
guys are always on top of the new releases and are standing in
line for someone to give it to them for free.
3.] Here is the breakdown -
but I am not going to give an ultra-detailed tutorial.
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1a.] Create yourself a new
gmail account (it's going to be a throw-away account) you'll
only use this for turning the tables on the scammers and getting
them to pay you.
1b.] Do a google search for
blackhat forums and register at those forums using your new
gmail account.
1c.] Browse around the forums
a bit and quickly find what new product people are advertising
that they want to steal.
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2a.] Once you have chosen a
product, go setup a free blog or free webhosting account.
2b.] Now title the page as
something along the lines of "Thank You! Your purchase of
'Product-Name' was successful.
2c.] Next, make the page look
like a pretty standard thank-you page.
2d.] Put an iframe into the
page, no borders, no scrolling... don't set the destination url
yet.
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3a.] Go register (using your
real information) as a publisher for a few cpa affiliate
companies... some accept anyone, others want to check your site
first... just do what you need to do to get accepted.
3b.] Once accepted, look for
cpa offers that pay on zip submit or email submit.
3c.] choose the highest paying
offer and copy/paste your affiliate url/id somewhere so that you
can easily find it in a minute.
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4a.] Now go and put your
affiliate id/url as the destination url into the iframe you
created earlier on your fake thank-you page.
4b.] Tweak your thankyou page
so that the iframe contents flow smoothly into the thank-you
page, and right above the iframe, in BIG BOLD LETTERS give the
person instructions... for example, if you are using an email
submit offer, then you'll say something like "Enter your email
address into the form below and confirm your email and the
'product-name' will be delivered to your in-box."
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5a.] Remember, they are trying
to steal something, so they aren't really going to think twice
about entering the required information in order to receive the
product for free.
5b.] You are going to end up
getting paid by the cpa company when they submit their data, and
of course you aren't going to be sending them any product.
5c.] The end result is that
they caused you to get paid because they wanted to steal someone
else's product.
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NOTE:: The payout on those
types of cpa offers are very low (a few cents up to about $3 on
average).
The payout is so low because
the company paying for the email regs are fully aware that
people are pulling every tactic under the sun in order to make
that little payout, and their own goal is to build beyond
massive email lists, so it all works out ok for everyone (excpet
the guy trying to steal the product in the first place.
I have also noticed some odd
but expected behavior from the would-be thiefs...
After a few minutes, when they
do not receive the product they were trying to steal, they will
go back to your form and (often using proxies so that they can
re-submit) they will make a few attempts using fake email
addresses, until their greed finally gets the best of them and
they eventually enter their real email address... BINGO!!!...
the cpa company just reached their objective, and even though
the same guy ended up getting you paid several times while he
was trying to make his theft successful, the overall amount is
still within the acceptable guidelines set by the company who is
basically buying a huge email list.
So, the would-be-stealer does
not get what he wants, but you end up with a minimum of a few
cents with a maximum of a few dollars per theft attempt, and the
company collecting the emails eventually got his real email
address and still ultimately paid less for it than by buying
leads the conventional way.
There is a question of ethics
on this... Are you lowering yourself to the stealers level by
tricking him into putting money into your hands?... Or, is it ok
since you and the email vender both get what you want, and the
stealer deserves nothing anyway?
What makes this such a huge
money-maker is that those wanna-be stealers (think - worlds
dumbest criminals) will spread your 'faked' thankyou page in all
sorts of other places, and there are thousands and thousands and
thousands of these people trying to steal hot new products at
absolutely all times.
So be prepared.. if you get
this right, you can blast several thousand dollars into your
account over the course of just a few days, and can pretty much
do it any time you want.
Another thing to realize is
that now that I have made this public, it wont be long until the
dolts are on to us and will start looking for tell-tale signs of
the 'er-punch' we are delivering.
So, if you decide to use this
method, I suggest that you customize and tweak your approach so
that it is unique, so that you can sit there and bank large off
of their greed for years to come.
That’s it - have a great day!
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