Thursday, January 6, 2011

TMC Method #3: Breaking News! Platinum method to earn huge huge money

4:44 PM  The Method Collector  No comments

This method was found on the MMD forums! It was written by DaveJug1




Right I'm bored, not much action here while everyone is dating the hell out of the world. So for you non-datings out there I'm going to share something amazing here. The concept is simple, the returns are amazing.

This is in fact one of the very same methods I still use (but with a little twist so I'm safe) and I have done for the last few years. You might not earn much money at the start, or you might, you are not really in control of the news (unless you publish some crazy outlandish stories which some blackhatters do) so it's a bit of an unknown quantity. But it's safe to say that you will earn big off it in time. This is very much a set and forget method, takes nothing more than an hour to set up, then (depending on the process) you either do a quick 5 minute job at some point in the future, or it's done automatically for you.

Remember when Michael Jackson died? At 14:26 he died - At 14:51 the LA Times reported the story and the whole world went crazy (reports of Twitter, Google and others experiencing almost a blackout). It was of course reported prior to LAT reporting it, it fact the story was broke by another website 7 minutes earlier. Now as soon as the LAT reported it, imagine if your site had already done so, you had a page set up and promoted, and you had set in motion, a viral news campaign dedicated to earning you some big money. How rich would you have been now?

Here's how to do it:

Ok there are two parts to this guide:

  • Getting the news
  • Reporting the news
Naturally they are two completely different things and need to be handled seperately. Getting the news is going to be easy, and we can do it once and never have to do it again. Reporting it though is going to be different and we need to be right at the front when the news happens.

Ok, get your own domain, don't think "Wordpress will be fine" It won't, what authority do you carry if you are on a WP hosted blog? Zero!

We are going to be targeting celebrity news so make your URL something of that nature. Get a basic news template (with room for advertising of course) and make it look realistic, make it look like what it should be (a news site rather than a cash-cow). Simply put, celebrity news has a huge following. Look here for the Google trends results on the day Jackson died:

Google Trends: michael jackson died, Jun 25, 2009

Know about RSS feeds? I'm sure you do! There are many free services out there that will set them up for you filled with news, don't use them, they will fill your site with irrelevant crap. Focus on 3 main news sites to get your feeds. The first one is normally the first to break the big stories (they were the ones who broke the MJ story)

And specifically you want to sign up to the Entertainment/Celebrity feeds:
Easy enough right? Right! Ok so to publish the feed on your site you could use a CMS like Drupal eg, or you could use one of countless web-based services:
This should, under ideal circumstances, be enough for you, but sometimes RSS feeds don't necessarily update as often as they should and that's why you should also sign up for alerts. In this type on thing, speed is of the essence and while your feed is updating, someone else is already monetizing the news, you gotta get there first and that's why you need to have an arsenal of information available to you. In that respect, hit these two:
Now what you want to do is get your email set up with a mail client (like Outlook) so that you get notified immediately on delivery of new mail. Once tht's done, head over to Google alerts and in the search terms box type "site:tmz.com" without the quotes. In type, choose web. How often? As-it-happens and pop in your email address for the mail client. Do the same for site:latimes.com/entertainment/news/ and site:reuters.com/news/entertainment/

Do exactly the same "Site:" thing for Yahoo and you are rocking!

Ok that should have you covered, you don't want to be reading email all day long, you just need to see the big stories when they happen and quickly fire up your site to see if it's been fed, if not, just copy/paste the story into it.

Of course your site should have relevant offers, CPA or affiliate links (or your own product ) and try to capture their email too. Have an RSS feeder in there as well so they can subscribe (for you to later "create" a news story (with links to your external sites) to place on their website "free backlinks"). You could also incorporate BHCB but in this case I wouldn't.

Now for the interesting part. News has just broken, your site has the scoop and people are going to want to read it (and click your ads) so what do you do? Just sit back and wait for the deluge of traffic that's sure to come? Erm ... Nope! If your site is active and you have broken news before (well not broken but second) you should have RSS subscribers who will be alerted by the feed, they will probably visit, but hell let's hit it hard in the next five minutes and you can go viral.

First thing - Get yourself two Propeller, Stumbleupon and Digg accounts. Have the buttons on your homepage (the one you can paste full page news stories into) and vote for some random sites, build yourself up a bit of history. Then when the news breaks, immediately promote it through these three sites. Title something like "***Breaking News*** Paris Hilton loses puppy" you get the idea. Make it big, make it bold, make it brash!

I say two accounts with each because you should use a different IP and promote it with the other account too. The sites are full of people trying to make their own (crap) news so in doing it with a few accounts, you are giving the impression that other people are backing the story too, making it more legit. After it has been Dugg, stumblem and propellered a few times people will start seeing it and it will gain more authority.

Couple of hundred Diggs in the first 10 minutes is not dis-proportionate given the amount of people who will be reading it.

Now you have the traffic, convert them, at least get them to optin to your newsletter or feed because you will have the opportunity to pitch to them at a later point, through either a promotional feed or an email.

So it was seven minutes from the MJ story breaking to the story actually taking off. In those seven minutes do you think you could have your story already doing the rounds? I have, loads of times. And now so can you.

Now get off your backside and go make some money, there is a boatload of it out there 

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