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[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

Does anybody make money using squidoo or ezinearticles? I haven't heard of anyone actually making money from these....but that doesn't mean anything bc I don't know much at all! :-) Please do tell!

Prior the updates in ratings on Squidoo, there was a massive flaw in their rating/ranking system. Basically your lense's rankings depend on a few factors, one of which that paid a large role was your number of votes and your overall rating. Squidoo has ZERO IP PROTECTION. Also your accounts require no email authorization. You could signup for an account with a bullshit email address and rate a lense. Over, and over, and over again. So I put together a simple bot that automated this process. Another debatable metric used in ranking squidoo lenses is page views, so I was firing tons of junk traffic at my lenses for a while too.

Essentially I could put any lense I wanted into the top 100 for it's category in a couple of days by blasting it with 400-600 4-5 star ratings. After a while Squidoo would find them and devalue the lense, but you could make a new and have it in the top 100 again in no time. I have a few hundred lenses, at any one time while this worked I regularly had 40-50 lenses sitting in the top 100 for various categories, and I was making some good money doing it for a short period.

If you can build a good lenses and promote as you would a regular site, you can get some ok traffic to it internally via Squidoo, and you can make sales. With a little effort, Squidoo lenses can rank really well on low-mid level competitive terms too. I don't hear of many people making huge money strictly on Squidoo, but there's monet kicking around there.

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

JC, are you still using your xrumer? They've had some new awesome updates. Also check your CP.

I had purchased my xrumer license from another user, which is against botmaster's rules, so eventually my license got terminated sometime over the last year. Tried firing it up a while back and realized I took the hit. There is a new lightweight forum posting software on it's way shortly, that could or could not be a game changer for forum backlinking. Ther issue is that it is probably going to be dirt cheap, and put forum spamming in the hands of thousands of newbs. There's a uproar with a lot of Xrumer users bitching that this could kill the value of forum links when the ievitable flood of new forum spam comes about. I'm going to hold out and see what happes with this new app before I bother picking up a new Xrumer license. Might eve give that app a try to see how it operates for me. I have read a little about the new Xrumer options though, seems pretty slick. I can't see the new program being an Xrumer killer, but theoretically it could cause Google to take a second look at forum spammers. This app is coming from the same person partly responsible for the gigantic boom in blog comment spamming.

[dirtymind]

As i see here people are really looking to discuss this and get more information about the subject.

So every one up for a new forum.

[Agent 488]

post url.

[CaptainHowdy]

Ban him! Ban him! Ahahahahahahahaha...

[scouser]

http://www.wickedfire.com/ is alrite.

[dirtymind]

i don't think i can post any url of the forum. Also i am still working on the forum. but will be open soon.

[Paul Markham]

Is this to obvious?

[dirtymind]

well not sure if you can do that. i am not going to mess with the rules here.

[Agent 488]

post the url in secret code.

[dirtymind]

well i will see but still have to finish the forum first. but you can check this page for info www.webmastersbuzz.net

[dirtymind]

any more thoughts on the matter?

[dirtymind]

lets get back to top to see what others thinks about the subject.

[PastorSinAlot]

sitepoint is a good mainstream forum