If you have not entered my Market Leverage contest to win a Nintendo Wii , feel free to check out the contest post. Some say it’s hard to enter but I say it’s as easy as subscribing via e-mail or posting about it on your blog.

If you’re looking to get more RSS Feed e-mail subscribers , you may want to give some sort of incentive for people. I mean, unless you have incredible unique content then it should be easier. But sometimes even incredible unique content just isn’t enough.

Before you guys jump to conclusion, when I say “give an incentive” I don’t mean holding a contest and giving away prizes. We should all know that’s only a temporary method of getting e-mail subscribers because a bunch will just unsubscribe soon after the contest ends.

But again, if you have incredible unique content that blows readers’ minds away then I’m sure a majority of them will stay subscribed for quite sometime. Or you can give them additional incentives to stay subscribed. Keep reading…

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Yes, you read it right. Make more money with ugly sites. It’s weird how things work, huh?

First of all, notice how I said “ugly site” rather than “ugly blog?” It seems that a lot of ugly looking sites seem to convert better and will possibly make people attracted to click on your ads. I’m not fully sure how well ugly blogs work because you’re building a readership.

But with that said, readership is sort of the same as membership, right? Well, have you ever checked out that dating site Plentyoffish.com? Looks plain and I think it’s basically a match.com type of site, except they don’t charge a subscription fee. Well, they make their money off of Adsense. Matter of fact, it’s reported they make a six-figure income each month off of Adsense alone!

So, do ugly sites actually make you more money? Ask any super affiliate marketer and they’ll tell you that some of their ugly sites or landing pages tend to convert pretty well. And I know a few landing pages that people own and I have seen them and I can tell you some are just hideous.

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A few of you guys expressed that you would be interested in unethical ways of building traffic or making money online so I figured I’d post a few here and there. Now, please advise that I do not encourage these methods so please use at your own risk.

I’m sure most of us own multiple websites and blogs so it takes quite sometime to write a blog post for every single blog. What if I told you that you could get free content for your blogs and it would only take about 30 seconds of your time?

Sounds pretty good, right?

First of all, I just want to reiterate that you should use this at your own risk. Also, I would suggest if you do use this method, you probably shouldn’t use it on your main blog. For instance, if you had a celebrity gossip blog or something and you just need to plug in some content and pictures, then you could use this method.

Well, I would use Google Translators to get your free content.

So, how does Google Translators help me? And how is this unethical?

As you guys know, Google Translator translate your text to different languages. What you will simply do is copy someone elses’ content and paste it to get translated.

Now, the key is to find the right patterns of translations to make the content come up unique (or somewhat unique). You guys can feel free to play around with it but the pattern below should work fine:

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Just like the title says, “would you guys be interested in unethical tactics to increase traffic and make money online?” I’m not one who really preaches blackhat methods of any sort but I’m not going to lie either, I have tried out a bunch of different methods. So, instead of just posting this, I figured I’d see if anyone was interested.

For instance, I wrote post “Should you set up a porn site to make money online?” and I got a lot of people who were definitely interested in it. A few contacted me directly asking me questions and a few people lashed out at me because I brought up that question.

I even wrote a post on how to make money online with porn in a step by step post which has not been published here . I’m still deciding if I should or not. But that’s just one example of something people may think is unethical.

Personally, I don’t but I’m just not sure if I wanted to publish the post or not.

Now, the actual unethical tactics would include some blackhat methods for SEO, certain ways to trick different systems to get traffic and various ways to make money online. But again, I want to emphasize that some are pretty shady, some are short term things and also all of these methods work.

I’m a curious minded person so I like to test things out even if it’s blackhat stuff or unethical but that doesn’t mean I will continue to do it. Matter of fact, there are a bunch of unethical tactics that I’ve read about, know about but I decided it’s just not for me. Either that or I was simply too busy at that moment and didn’t test it out personally.

I know a lot of people have high ethics and everything but on the other hand, tons of people could careless.

So, my question, would you guys be interested in unethical tactics to increase traffic to your site(s) or make some extra cash on the side?

I do not want to end up like John Chow or any other person who ends up turning their MMO, entrepreneur, blogging tips type of blog into one that ends up talking about what they ate for lunch and talk about random posts that doesn’t really help my readers at all. On top of that, I don’t want to forget my roots and how I got here in the first place; networking and socializing.

First of all, I stopped using social media and bookmarking sites to promote my blog because I wasn’t too happy with the end results. Don’t get me wrong, the traffic was great but I felt a majority of it wasn’t quality traffic. Instead, in the past months, I’ve been focusing more on SEO to get a large part of my traffic but my networking status has gone down a lot. And that’s going to change pretty soon as well.

I’m that type that feels if you give, you shall receive. And I haven’t been that great in giving so I’m sure my receiving on the networking end has gone down. Actually, that’s more like a fact. I haven’t been as good in commenting on other blogs, helping people out, just socializing even. And I know that is a turnoff for many bloggers.

I mean, who likes a blogger who never takes the opportunity to even check out their readers’ blog, converse with them and just network. And trust me, if you network, there are a lot of benefits from it. More than you think.

But I’ll talk about that in a later post.

I have to step up on the posts that I write on this blog because I like receiving comments, I like when the posts help my readers, I like socializing and helping people out. So, I’m hoping to work on the posts that come on here and hopefully that will attract other readers and possibly more commentators.

When it comes down to it, we can all get traffic but it’s the readers that we want. See, readers are the ones that will continue to come back, readers are the ones who will comment on your posts, readers are the ones that you will eventually network with and readers are the ones who make your blog the way it is.

With that said, I’m going to start off by changing a few things on my Market Leverage contest to win a Nintendo Wii such as making it a little easier to enter and give more options. I will make the updates tomorrow or the next day when I have a little more time.

But in the meantime, I’m going to start focusing on better and helpful content, getting more traffic and readers with various promotion tactics and trying to stop procrastinating on all these projects I’m currently working on.

So, have you guys lost focus on anything that you should work on?