Yuri the Pig Farmer and the Sneaky Blog Trick
Ok, first things first. In my previous post, I mentioned the comment I got by some guy claiming to be one Aaron Abber. He was going to start a mentoring program, and was looking for mentorees (I doubt that’s a word, but I’ll use it anyway). The strange thing was, he was offering his program for free. I won’t go over the whole post again, you can read it just below if you want to. My question was, is this legit? Or was “Aaron” really the notorious Russian internet scam artist Yuri the pig farmer? (whose picture I have managed to get for this blog. I had to pull in a few favors from Interpol to do this. The bureaucrats at Interpol didn’t tell me WHICH guy was Yuri though. Damn bastard desk jockeys …)
Anyway, so far, this seems to be legit. The first meeting is going to be this Monday at 7pm eastern time. Aaron left a comment on the previous post. He seems to have a sense of humor, which is a good thing. This could be fun (or else old Yuri is a lot smarter than even I gave him credit for)
As far as the site I set up using niche inspector (to find the niche) and Xsite Pro (to actually build the thing), I signed up for an affiliate program today specializing in acne products. The only problem though is that I need to fill out a W-9 form to be accepted, which is a United States Tax form. I explained to the good people there that I’m a Canadian citizen, living in Canada, so is this really necessary? Apparently, it is. Speaking about bureaucrats, hello IRS.
As far as my sneaky trick to promote this site, well, it may not be that sneaky after all. My plan was to set up a wordpress blog on a subdomain of www.acne-solution-products.com at www.acneproducts.acne-solution-tips.com. I would then use the “10 day secret” wordpress plugin that Neil Shearing made to feed a merchants datafeed into this blog. The way this works is that the blog is updated every 5 minutes automatically with product posts. When this is done, search engine spiders absolutely swarm the site. I thought this might help get the main site indexed that much faster. However, although I have the blog up and running, I’m not sure how to set the cron job for the subdomain. We’ll have to see. I’m going to talk more about the 10 day secret in a future post (in fact, maybe I’ll do it tomorrow).
To our Success!
- Dave
