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Myself and another guy have been working on this new site at NinjaReports.com, which basically allows users to review clickbank products. Unlike most product review sites, the idea is to give objective reviews based on what people around the web are saying. I figure this will be much more useful over the average review site that just hypes up products and doesn’t provide any actual value …so if you have purchased a CB product feel free to submit a review (and of course any constructive feedback about the site is welcome )

To be honest, review sites that promote clickbank products are where I’ve made most of my money, and I still do really well with them. However, I’ve never made a site that allows the actual users to submit their own reviews. I’m half expecting this to fall flat on its face. But the idea of Ninja Reports isn’t just to make money - it’s also just kind of a fun project. Especially since up till now I’ve always promoted sites via SEO and software submissions and I’ll be marketing this site a little differently.

Other news…

The MSN Loophole Results Update

I’ve been following the MSN Loophole by Chris Rempel and Dave Kelly for about 6 weeks so far. You can read my last post for a background on this method which everyone is trying. So how is it going so far?

Well, I’ve noticed that MSN/Live as a search engine is NOWHERE NEAR as quick as google or even yahoo at crawling the web and indexing new pages. Whereas I can easily get indexed in google in just a few hours, it takes several weeks to get indexed in MSN (and even then they only show the homepage and not other pages on the site). Only a little over half of the blogs I’ve made have been indexed, and I’ve been building links to them for several weeks. Of course all my sites are indexed in google and yahoo but just not MSN.

Being that MSN is so slow to do much, none of my money sites have got top page rankings yet. Google is actually sending me traffic, an average of around 20-30 visitors a day per blog. So across all the blogs I’ve made for the MSN loophole I’m getting a couple thousand unique visitors a day from Google but that is NOT the point. I’m still waiting to get real results from MSN. From everything I’ve read, no-one has got any real results from this method yet. I still believe it will pick up as MSN finally spiders more pages, but this is definitely not an overnight type thing. I’m still interested to see what happens in a month or so from now.

A lot of people have been talking about the MSN Loophole by Chris Rempel and Dave Kelly, and since I’m always interested in SEO (it’s where 95% of my traffic normally comes from) I picked it up when it first launched on the 5th. I have also been a customer of Dave Kelly’s Linkvana system for several months and since that really delivers amazing results I figured this MSN Loophole thing had to be decent.

The Idea Behind MSN Loophole:

The theory behind this MSN Loophole thing is fairly simple - basically the idea is to game MSN/Live search by building a whole ton of blogs on different class C IP’s, having one page “money” sites, and randomizing links to your money sites on your blogs. When MSN’s spider crawls your blogs pages, each time they come back, they’ll see different links - and they count each link they find as a “new” link before they realize the old links are no longer present. Build enough blogs, and MSN’s spider will be all over your pages, and spidering all the “new” links pointing to your money sites. That means a LOT of inbound links and first page rankings for just about any keyword you want.

The actual product shows you exactly how to do all this, including how to automatically add content to your blogs and the script to randomize links. You will definitely need to buy the MSN Loophole guide before even thinking of doing this by yourself. And all of this might sound complicated, but it’s not hard at all once you get going with it, and the MSN Loophole guide explains it much better and in more detail. There’s also no specialized skills or anything you’ll need to put this in motion.

Does The MSN Loophole Work?

Evidence suggests, yes, it does. Go to MSN/Live search (live.com) now and do a search for the following keywords:

“walking shoes”
“reducing debt”
“get rid of debt”
“poor credit rating” etc…

Notice the #1 ranking site is just a one-pager site, all with the same template. These are test sites Dave Kelly has got to rank number one just to prove this system works. I also know Chris Rempel and Dave Kelly both have a reputation for putting out quality products, and this isn’t the typical kind of junk you see in the IM industry. They’re also adding a lot of video’s and new FAQ’s all the time (plus support is excellent as most people will tell you). And the fact that Dave has hit #1 rankings for ultra-competitive terms like “walking shoes” proves that this is VERY powerful stuff.

Problems with the MSN Loophole:

To do this properly and really make a lot of $$$ you’re going to need a couple hundred bucks for the MSN loophole guide, a couple more scripts the guide goes through, and a host that offers multiple class-C IP addresses (I recommend SEOhosting.com, a hostgator company). It will of course also take you several hours of work to set up a lot of blogs and money sites.

Also, don’t expect instant results. Dave Kelly himself states (and he is 100% right) how MSN has a 2-5 week cycle for indexing. So it can easily take you up to a month to get indexed in MSN right now, compared to Google where I can easily get indexed in under 24 hours. So the salesletter where it says “Imagine doing it next week for free” is a little misleading.

So is all this a walk in the park? Not exactly. But remember what you put in is what you get out of it. The more money you spend and the more dedicated you are, the more you’ll make - simple as that. So try to quit with the “I don’t want to spend much money” and “I don’t want to get out of my comfort zone” BS etc. You will NEVER get very far if you keep up that kind of attitude. Don’t be afraid to throw stuff out there and really make things happen for yourself.

Anyways - Bottom Line:

So far I’ve built 90+ blogs (some on old domains over a year old) and around 20 money sites to take advantage of this MSN loophole method. That’s more than what is recommended, but I am honestly really excited about the potential of this. We’re talking about thousands of dollars of PASSIVE income per month once more of my blogs and money sites get indexed. It’s really easy to scale this up and make way more, too. MSN’s spider is definitely slow, but from my experience with SEO, everything the MSN Loophole guide goes through makes a lot of sense. So I’m willing to really put a lot into this. I’ll keep you guys updated with rankings, income reports and all that.

You Can Pick Up The MSN Loophole Here >>>

PS: If you are familiar with SEO and have thoughts on this method, or you have purchased the MSN Loophole guide, I would like to hear from you - just comment below. I read every comment that gets posted here and welcome any discussion.

Put simply, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the art of getting your page ranked well in search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. I regularly read internet marketing forums like the warrior forum and digital point, and I have to say …there is a LOT of bad advice out there. Most people really have no clue. So what would I recommend when it comes to doing well in SEO and getting your site ranked high?

Well, it basically comes down to on page optimization (doing things on your site to get it ranked higher, like having a relevant title tag, meta tags and so on) and off page optimization (getting links to your site from other sites). Off page optimization is far more important than on page optimization. The most important thing for ranking highly in Google is links, and lots of them. So here are a few free ways to get links to your site…

Forum posting: Posting on forums is not just good for direct traffic; it also gives you SEO benefits. What you’ll be doing is linking back to your website in your forum signature. Most forums let you do this, so that every time you post on the forum, there is a link back to your website at the bottom of your post.

Article writing: I’m not a fan of this since it takes a lot of work, but it’s popular on places like the warrior forum. This involves writing articles, and submitting them to article directories with a link back to your site. The main article directory BY FAR is EzineArticles.com. Like with forum posting, article writing is mainly used to generate direct traffic, but the links your get back to your site will boost it higher in the search engines. By the way, with article marketing, only submit to 2 or 3 article directories — mass submitting articles pretty much never works.

Directory submission: There are hundreds of directories that let you get a free link to your site. The traffic you get from these is going to be very low, if any. It’s also fairly time consuming. However, it’s good to get your site indexed initially. You’ll need a good piece of software to help you with this - the best one being Directory Submitter by Brad Callen.

Social bookmarking: If you have a site with great content, social bookmarking can (potentially) give you tons of traffic. This basically involves submitting your site to major social sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, MySpace, Delicious etc. NetStrife in fact already gets a decent amount of traffic from StumbleUpon. But anyways, social bookmarking will get you a lot of links back to your site, and it is well known to have good SEO benefits. Submitting your site manually rather sucks, so you will need a tool to help you. I strongly recommend Bookmarking Demon (non affiliate link).

Blog commenting: When you comment on people’s blogs, you can enter your URL, and this gives you a link back to your site when your comment shows up. Some blogs use nofollow (which makes the link useless in Google’s eyes) but there are still many blogs that do not use the nofollow tag. There is actually software out there to allow you to automatically scan for blogs to comment on, such as Real Link Finder ( a free tool) and Fast Blog Finder.

These are all fairly well known tips, just in case you are not familiar with SEO. In the next couple of days I’m going to go over some really REALLY powerful ways to build links, that are not really well known, and have worked well for me. Stay tuned.

This is a guest post by Rob from Iron Blogger.

I have talked numerous times on using keywords on blogs to get better search engine traffic; however, I have not talked about using forum signatures as a tool for getting better keyword results. This method is very quick and easy to implement and best of all, it is free. All it will take is a few moments of your time and a little bit of patience on your part.

The Value of Forums

The reason why this method is so effective is because forums are usually sites that have a high PR value, get lots of traffic, and rank very well in search engines. By using keywords in your signatures, you are getting free high valued links back to your blog with the keywords of your choice.

Many online marketers fail to see the value of using forums to promote their blogs. If you use your blog to promote your product, then why not use forums to promote you blog? Makes sense, doesn’t it?

If you happen to find a few popular forums in your niche, or that are just blogging related, you could begin to rank your blog higher in Google just by putting links in your signature. Use this method with many of the other link building methods and you are on your way to getting some pretty decent SEO results.

One thing that you should take note of: The forums must not have the nofollow tag attached to signature links. Otherwise your efforts would be rendered useless.

Here is an example:

Let’s say you have a blog that is about making money online. Ideally, you may want to target a keyword that is along the lines of “Make Money Blogging” or something similar to that. Once you get your keyword that you want to target, search for popular forums that are ether blogging related or that are about making money online. If you need a few examples, I use Bloggeries, Blog Premiere, and Digital Point.

Once you find a few forums that you wish to use, you can then use them to promote your keywords of your choice. You may want to put the anchor text to something like “Make Money by Blogging” in your signature and put the link pointing back towards your blog.

The Long Term Effect

Although this may not affect your SEO ranking right away, over time you will notice that these high valued links will start to add up, especially if you sign up to many forums and contribute a lot. You just need to make sure you use similar keywords. So, if your blog is about dog food, don’t try to use keywords that are about tennis. I’m pretty sure that is just common sense, but I’ll include it in there anyway.

If you follow this technique pattern, you would definitely rank higher in the search engines for the keywords of your choice. If you manage to get a higher SEO ranking then that would mean more traffic for you. If you manage to get more traffic then that would give you more opportunities to grow your blog. If you are trying to make any kind of money off of blogging, then you would be needing a lot of traffic!

This is a neat little method that I recently discovered. I hope that this was something new to you, and you learned something today.