How the world's most hated blogger makes money...

Great information Dien.

I hadn't heard of this blog, but one look at it and you can see that it is completely focused on money-producing keywords and cash generation.

The buzz is most definitely manufactured.

The keywords pairs are big money-makers in Google Adsense.

Affiliate products links are properly focused.

Every comment is a spidered by Google and it gives him more juice.

This dude is a goldblogger.

Aloha,

Jason Cain

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by Goldblogger

Great information Dien.

I hadn't heard of this blog, but one look at it and you can see that it is completely focused on money-producing keywords and cash generation.

The buzz is most definitely manufactured.

The keywords pairs are big money-makers in Google Adsense.

Affiliate products links are properly focused.

Every comment is a spidered by Google and it gives him more juice.

This dude is a goldblogger.

Hi Jason,

I agree with you... I think some parts of IAmFacingForeclosure are "manufactured" - something just doesn't seem right...

For example, the "statement from the publisher" (a June 10th blog entry) just doesn't sound "right" to me... (For one thing, as some comments point out, they misspell the word "Foreword". Many books have a "Foreword". Would a real publisher really misspell that word - something which is in so many books?)

Also, the book cover of the supposed book he's writing, "The Foreclosure Code" (June 19th entry), is a design copied from the "Da Vinci Code"...



Also, it says "Volume One". Is a publisher really that confident of sales - that they're already planning a sequel?

Hmmm...

Part of me thinks these "mistakes" are intentional. So people have something to criticize him for - to keep the "controversy" going!

Still interesting though. There's no denying his traffic or publicity!

- Dien

The inbound links of people criticizing and hating on him are just as important as the links from people that love him. Links are links. Every single one is more juice.

Aloha,

Jason Cain

You said it Jason.

This is such an obvious Link Getting Ploy I refuse to visit the site. And Dien fell for it by posting a link. Gotcha.

Michael Ross

Originally Posted by MichaelRoss

You said it Jason.

This is such an obvious Link Getting Ploy I refuse to visit the site.

I can see how you would think that but it's totally untrue.

Truth is, The blog is all true and he is clueless about how to make money with it.

The blog has been up for almost a year and he's made next to nothing with it.

As soon as he started to make a few bucks with adsense, all of his haterz reported him for click fraud and Google canceled his account.

His best adsense month was $2000 but he didn't see that money. I think he got a $60 check and $400 check for his first two months of adsense but that was it.

All the paid links on his site right now have only been there for a month and there's a bit of crazyness behind those too.

He made a deal with his wife a couple of months ago (details on his site) where he had to start making $1000 a week or shut down his blog and get a job.

He sold over $2000 in ads and then shut the blog down anyway and returned the money.

Then his "publisher" forced him to put the blog back up.

So, in almost a year of blogging and getting all the traffic he does, I don't think he's actually made ever 2K from the thing.

Jim K

[Dien Rice]

Hi Michael,

Originally Posted by MichaelRoss

This is such an obvious Link Getting Ploy I refuse to visit the site. And Dien fell for it by posting a link. Gotcha.

It's a fascinating "case study"...

While I wouldn't really want to be the "world's most hated blogger", it sure shows how "controversy" can bring traffic, bring in free news publicity (Phil back in Nov. posted an article about him from USA Today, I posted an article about him from the Sydney Morning Herald - these are hardly "small time" news sources!) - and even bring in dollars...

As well as being interesting, there could be something useful there...

According to the book "Buzzmarketing" by Mark Hughes (former marketing dude for Half.com, before they were acquired by eBay) says that the 5 most frequently written stories in the news are...

• the David-and-Goliath story
• the unusual or outrageous story
• the controversy story
• the celebrity story
• what's already hot in the media

I guess his story is "unusual" and "controversial" - who would want to be the "world's most hated blogger"? But he realizes he has a good thing going... So perhaps he tries to keep the "controversy" going...

This list explains too why Paris Hilton going to jail is "BIG News"... That combines THREE things - "outrageous", "controversial", and it's happening to a "celebrity" too (thanks to the "Hilton" name)!

Cheers,

Dien

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

While I wouldn't really want to be the "world's most hated blogger", it sure shows how "controversy" can bring traffic, bring in free news publicity... and even bring in dollars...

In 2003, I was the most hated blogger. The fact that I was using the words "making money" and "blogging" in the same sentence was considered a sin. But it pulled in the traffic, just the same.

I call it The "O Factor" named after conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly.

Why?

Because at the end of each episode he reads his hate mail along with his fan mail. No one turns off the show till they watch that segment. And what does it do? It cements the love of his fans -- and cements the viewing of those that hate him.

Another case in point is this controversy that made it to The Drudge Report this morning. It seems that the listeners of Michael Savage's radio show have been writing into CSPAN with some lively emails.

And what does CSPAN do?

They fall into Michael's trap and discuss the emails live on the air instead of just ignoring them. And of course that just fires up Michael's listeners! They want to know that they are being listened to! They want the attention.

The psychology of cults and crowds in fascinating stuff.

Aloha,

Jason Cain