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I spent the day watching videos on http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com. These guys are being trained by the internet gurus. Guys that are already millionaires, due to the internet.

Everyone in the contest is native English speaking and well educated. But I was a little disappointed in the amount of traffic they were able to get to a website in an eight hour period. I really felt that they should have been able to get more traffic to the site than they did.

I might be wrong but I honestly feel I can get more than 100 unique visitors to a site in an eight hour period.

In the contest they were split up into groups of 2, they have been taught by the internet gurus and they were all native English speakers.

I am solo, non-English speaking and self-taught. But I can do better than that.

1. I get 100′s of emails everyday from people wanting to do link exchanges, some of them are rather rude.

2. A lot of times people will remove your link after a week or so.

3. It is believed that the major search engines discount reciprocal links.

4. There are a lot better ways to get one way links without doing link exchanges.

5. If the site you have link exchanged with goes out of business you end up with a site full of dead links.

6. Most link exchanges will never send you any traffic.

7. A lot of link exchanges end up on small islands with no incoming traffic.

8. Link exchanges can end up on a page with thousands of outgoing links.

9. Link exchanges create a neighborhood and the people your neighbors exchange links with become associated with you. If they don’t do good it can affect you.

10. People will use nofollow tags in your link exchange.

11. Link exchanges are very time consuming.

12. A lot of people feel that link exchange emails are equal to spam. By sending link request emails people associate your company with spammers.

13. Maybe it is just me but I see sites that are listed on link exchange pages as being struggling small business and the ones sending me emails in even worst shape.

14. Link exchange software leaves a foot print and can get you banned.

15. There are a million ways to get both better and faster links than doing link exchanges.

I use to do link exchanges when I first started my business but have since learned to hate them.

I try not to get into debates with people but sometimes I just can not help myself. This guy is posting on forums and has a link back to his, “become a millionaire and never work book”. I am tired of these people that do not have a clue in the world how to make money but want to sell their full proof plans to everyone else.

If the plan is so full proof, than why waste time writing a book about it?

Why sell the book, you have already made your millions, why not help out the little guy for free?

There are no full proof plans and there is no one size fits all for every business online. But this guy is trying to sell to the really stupid and he posted on a thread I started, he must think I’m really stupid. I figure once you try and bull shit me, I have every right to out you, for what I think you are.

He has an ebook with only two copies left. I wonder if he realizes that an ebook does not run out, it is like The Energizer Bunny it keeps going and going.

He claims to have been in a top secret meeting with the top gurus from Myspace. I did not even know that such a group existed. But he says the group gave him permission to create this ebook but later says they are upset and want the ebook done away with so it will only last for a limited time. These secret Myspace gurus do not sound very smart. Why have a meeting and tell everyone about how you are making millions if you do not want anyone to know?

Here is a guy that spent 3 months of late nights and early mornings writing this ebook just to help me out. He did say “we” so I have to figure it was him and his team writing the ebook. They added in another $200.00 worth of bonuses and sell the whole thing for $17.00.

He and his team are not trying to help me out because they are selling it to me, which causes me to have to wonder who the book is for?

If he can make this money without having to do anything, than why spend 3 months of working almost 20 hours a day to write this book and to include his whole team means he has to split the money with them and once the book is written you still have to market it.

It does not make sense to me.

How about this.

Here is a guy that does not have a clue how to make money online but wants to pretend like he does. He spends a couple days writing an ebook and claims he went to a secret meeting and got the information. Maybe they all had to dress in black and were black hoods to hide their true identities. But he most likely found all or most of the information online.

He figures if he can make $17.00 a day it will be better than nothing. He claims that there is a rush because the Myspace gurus are hunting him down. He then guarantees that if you are not happy with the book after 90 days he will return your $17.00. In 90 days he will have a new user name and a new book to sell, so it is no big deal.

My theory makes a lot more sense for several reasons.
1. The top Myspace gurus had a secret black hood meeting that they let you in on.

Why upset these people by exposing all their secrets?

Maybe there is another meeting next month and I’m sure you want be invited back.

2. Why spend 3 months working 20 hour days to write a book, when you can do nothing and make thousands per day.

3. Why has no one else heard of the secret Myspace gurus society?
4. How did they find this nobody and why did they invite him to their secret meeting?

5. Will the guy that invited him be kicked out of the secret black hood Myspace gurus behind closed door club?

I stared a blog a long time ago for a client and he never did anything with it. The blog topic was on lawnmowers, something I know very little about and have a hard time getting interested in. We did make a couple blog post but that was about it. This blog is getting a good bit of traffic each and everyday and is not doing anything.

Some sites you have to work you but of to get to do anything and this one takes off all by itself. I’m not sure rather I should start writing post for a topic I care nothing about or not.

I’ve been working with a wristband company and watching their stats and trying to make the site grow a little everyday. At first I focused on the search engines and trying to get the site ranked but found that a lot of the keywords did not bring in the amount of traffic I wanted.

I moved into the social network communities and started working with them. While I’ve been trying to get our number of unique visitors per day up, Donny (the website owner) has been looking at places they have been advertising with, that have not been converting and removing advertising dollars from them. Causing our numbers to go down.

I just wanted to say that between the social network sites and the new rankings on the search engines our unique visitors per day are increasing. And I’m about to bump it up a notch to see if I can get us a new record day for unique visitors.