Making money from Myspace is quite easy. It used to be easier but they have cracked down on spam.

If you want to make sure they (probably) don’t remove your profile, make it look as crap as you can. Search for myspace layouts, put everything, glitter graphics, songs, the works. Upload a picture of an attractive girl, get a few friends, get some comments etc.

Now you have a few methods to make some money:

• Use the groups thing to make a group in your niche. Collect people who have a similar interest to what you are promoting/selling into a group. Use their search function to find people. Only bother adding people who are actually interested or at least your target market in/for your product.
• Get lots and lots of friends. Use auto adders (Google for them, most you have to pay for). Don’t do too many at once. If I were you, I would set up 5-10 accounts now, occasionally login add 5-10 people. After a couple of months after it looks like you’re a regular user (not a spammer) then start mass adding. Don’t do too many, they do remove profiles that spam friend requests. Once you have all these friends, then send bullitens or send messages/comments saying something such as “Hey, talk to me on here”, here being a webcam site such as IMLive (affiliated link, through their company Pussy Cash. You can even get around $2 per free sign up there – it is easy money) etc.
• Leave lots of comments with affiliated links. Ringtones etc. Make it seem you are not a spammer.

A good way to get people who are interested in your product, is to do a google search like site:myspace.com “your keyword”

You can also get a load of backlinks, by spamming links on comments.

Let me know in the comments for your thoughts etc on spamming myspace.

This isn’t quite what link baiting is meant to be about, but what the hell.

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For whatever reason you might not want rel=nofollow in all links in your blog that commenters leave. I certainly don’t. I only approve comments that are useful/no spammy sites. So why be harsh and put a link condom on?

Making all links in your word press blog (esp links in comments) not have a rel=no-follow is quite simple. Just edit a couple of files:
Warning: Editing files can **** up your Wordpress install. Only continue if you know what you are doing. Make backups!

• Open wp-includes/functions-formatting.php, search for “rel” and find all “nofollow”’s and remove them. There are quite a few. Don’t just search and replace though, check them all one by one (About 5/6 in total)
• wp-includes\comment-functions.php – line 366 (for me, anyway). Remove the “nofollow” bit :)

This doesn’t mean you can just now spam away on this blog and get free backlinks… (they’re all moderated anyway).

This also removes rel=no-follow from trackbacks. Be carefull! Rel=no-follow was introduced for a reason…

Note: Like the previous post, this is only a short post – sorry!

Link baiting is the latest craze. Well, everyone is talking about it at the moment anyway.

What is Link bait or link baiting?

It is basically making some form of content on a site that is made just for other sites to link to. It must be:

• Interesting
• Informative
• And easy to link back to

What are some popular recent link bait techniques?

• Make a “web 2.0″ application that is handy – this takes a lot of time normally though.
• Make something fun, such as the Ronald McHummer site (see Seth’s post about it).
• Make a list. They work.
• Get some exclusive news and get it on Digg, del.icio.us, slashdot etc.
• Controversial views about something
• Something funny or an original, fun game

Benifits of Link baiting

• People link to your site
• You get a lot of natural backlinks (well, generally they are natural backlinks anyway)
• You (generally) will in the end get higher search engine results (note the “generally”)
• Visitors visit your site via all those links on other sites to your sites
• It can be very cheap
• You can easily get links from sites with lots of trust – thus giving some of that “trust” to your site

Disadvantages of link baiting

• If you get Dugg (ie on the front page of digg) and a poor server, it can crash/run out of bandwidth
• If you are a new site and get hundreds and hundreds of new links within a very short time it may look like spam
• Time. It can take a lot of time…