Bait and Switch on Steroids
By Vic on Dec 17, 2007 in Marketing
This Bait and Switch is a full blog Bait and Switch. You will start a blog on a niche that has high traffic. You will chose topics you know are high searched that day. What ever you see or hear to be that days hot story you will write about it. You will stuff that post with keywords like there is no tomorrow. But still try to be a legit post.
Now this is the Bait and Switch, you will not put any ads except one. You will make a banner for your primary site the one you want to push traffic to. Now I am going to tell you right now. You make shit ass banner this will not work. You will need to make either a real come and click me banner or you will need a deceptive ad that takes people to your site. Now before Frank comes and crawls all over my ass let me say it. Yes Frank most of the traffic will be shit. But again we are looking massive traffic we are looking with this site to get the hot searches of the day.
Now this type of site I would promote a bit different also than my primary site. In tonights feed I will explain how I promote this type of site and BANS sites.
Popularity: 9% [?]
Nice one. I clicked the ad before i finished the paragraph … eyes just drift to pretty women with a big play video button.
LMAO Yeah I have like a hundred ads like this and they always worked I used this ad for this post because right now it is about 90% guys coming to the site. So the odds where that I would catch you guys easier.
The funny thing is there have been already 6 clicks but only one has accepted he clicked LMAO so Shamim even though you are the only one with the guts to admit it you are not alone.
Vic, is this what you were referring to when you mentioned doing a post that might help me? I jjust want to get it straight…LOL.
Mike yeah LMAO. Instead of trying to built another site that deals with the niche or similar niche I would build a site straight for traffic. Something you can divert traffic from. I do this for another really hard niche where there tons of traffic but it takes for ever to build enough authority to rank for the keywords. I own a really serious financial niche blog. What I do is I have a site that I just post relavent stuff from the day. I get instant indexing because it is a hot search and I keyword the post. Now I bring to the non related site 5k unique hits and with the girl video ad I get about 80% CTR and it never fails out of that I get about 1.5% CTR on Adsense and usually make 40-70 bucks that day from one post. I do not do it everyday because I do not want to be reported to adsense this is not a practice that Adsense peeps like very much. But in your case it would be perfect because you have videos on your site. So I would make and AD from a printscreen of your video adn I would use that as the ad. Now the important thing is not to feed your ads from the primary site. Make sure you feed the ad from the traffic site. So if some one feels like you just baited him they will blame the site owner who had the ad. Of course they will not think it was you they would blame the guy who is selling the affiliate
Now if you feel this is way to extreme for you the next post is another way to get an easy between 600 to 800 unique hits for $5.00
wo! that was a good one! Fell flat for it.
But I have only one struggling site.
Costa that is the whole thing go and buy a pre-owned domain you can get a PR-3 for less then $20.00 get a generic name something that has news ion it. And just post daily hot topics these are the post that most people search everyday. And use this technique but hey if you still feel this is to complicated I will give you another one jsut like Mike. In the next post
Vic, I want to thank you very much for taking your time to do this. I have 14 total sites in this niche, with several being top-ranked in google. All combined are not bringing in near what the rankings and niche I thought when I first got into it 7 years ago.
The search volume is okay for a niche, but figuring out how to monetize AND get more traffic has always been a hurdle.
I’m not too bright and kind of slow…LOL, so with that being said, I’m not quite following you. Hmmmmm?????
So your problem is not really traffic but monetization? You own your product right?
Oh…I can always get much, much more traffic, as I would love to improve rankings for all pages and keyword phrases, but monetizing is a big hurdle. Yes…the products are mine, as well as marketing affiliate products, using adsense and playing around with CBProAds.
I don’t care how I get it, I just want to bring in WAY MORE revenue from this 14 site mini-empire (hopefully).
Now when it comes to the bait, does the bait (video image in this case) or the bait article (the article that has the video) related to the niche or ad you’re driving traffic to? I would think not, but I’m working to get my head around this.
I’m thinking that I have the perfect site to write almost anything about, business-wise, so all I’d have to do is target keywords towards whatever and throw the bait in there.
Desty the best bait and switch is in the primary site making a blog for strictly bait and switch should be for those that have a hugely serious site and really do not want or just can not write about anything but what there niche is. SO if you feel you are open to be flexible on your blog to write about a bit off topic stuff I would do it on your site.
Good one. I’ve seen this idea in some affiliate marketing forums as a way to get zip and email submits. Advertisers don’t like it much so, like with Adsense, it can get you in trouble eventually.
The real trick is pulling this off where you haven’t spent $480 on Adwords to make $500 (or less) on zip/email submits. If you can nab that traffic off of pure organic search results rather than PPC you could be talking some money.
I’ve come to refer to this kind of traffic not as “junk traffic” but as “dumbass traffic” because who else but a dumbass thinks they’re going to get an iPhone for free if they just enter their zip code?
Frank I just used this for traffic redirection this is why I am really careful cause like with my Financial blog I really do not want to lose my income from becoming greedy. But there is another really cool way I used this when I just feel like bringing in new traffic to my site and it never fails. I can usually bring 600-800 unique fresh readers with this one.
I clicked since I wanted to see if she was actually naked or not…haha Smart thinking picking a chick that looks to be naked. I see this trick used on myspace comments all the time.
Stan the crazy thing it works over and over again. They key to these tactics is volume the more people you get to click the better chance you have to have an ad clicker on the other site.
Say you start a blog on sports to use as a bait and switch. Every day you write about the hot topic of the day. How would you get ranked ahead of all the big sports sites writing about the same thing?
It seems like anything with high traffic (sports, celebs, stocks) will be hard to rank for even hot new searches since the established sites will take the main spots.
I feel like I left my manhood in bed this morning, because I was totally focused on the article, ignored the ad and was absolutely confused on WTF the bait and switch was talking about
Mike I can not believe you did not fall for it, that sucks.
That’s brilliant. I too click it even before I finished the paragraph.
I usually pride myself in distinguish ads from the real thing, but your “youtube ad” really got me.
It always works. lol
Hey Vic,
I also clicked on the chick after I read all the post and comments (I guess cause I’m a chick myself) maybe a hot bod would have worked for me. LOL.
I think I get what you are saying and after our talk yesterday many things have become a LOT clearer. One question I have when searching for those domains, does it also take you hours to find the ones with PR, or do you have a faster way?
BTW, I scored a PR 4 domain today for $25. And it does contain a decent searched keyword (5,400 per day). I guess if I can manage to get up the ranks on Google, then I should be able to nab some income too. (For my BANS)
What do you think Vic, does this sound feasible?
Hell yeah, buy it. Just promote it like no tomorrow. Remember BANS does not have ping. AS for the time shoot Monika I to spend hours I can not find a better way. But they payoff is huge.
Vic, I’m anxiously awaiting your wisdom:).
Mike I decided I will be sending you an email. Your needs are quite specific and I need to ask some questions about your stats that I do not want people to be looking at.
Oh oh! I’m horrible on stats, but I’m game for anything. Thanks for all your time Vic!
No prob Mike just keep an eye on your inbox sometime tonight.
shoot I fell for it even after Mike O told me about it. I guess my manhood is here with me. lmao.
Great post again Vic. Quick question, and anyone could answer this one, I feel stupid asking, but how do I find out what a sites PR number is? I’ve seen some on godaddy auctions, but don’t want to buy the wrong one.
Scotty install the Google toolbar you will have right in the center the PageRank meter. I hope this helps if not ask away.
Sounds good. If you knew my situation I think you’d be surprised why I’m not making a ton of money.
Vic, I never got the email…bummer.
Mike I apologize I have been trying all day to catch up. The lost of time yesterday was horrible.
No worries or apologies. I will however still wait with baited-breath for your wisdom as I think I might be a good challenge for you. Meaning I’m not a newbie, and I have had several (and still do) top-ranked sites in BIG G. I would be a great protoge for you (hint,hint).
Well Mike my wife says I have “Gregory House Rubik’s complex” so I am very very intrigue to see what is happening, and look forward to the challenge of figuring out how I may help.
I can’t wait. But as I do I’ll sniff around some more, and of course create some more content for my sites.
I click it after reading but I did click
Question: How to you hide the link on the video banner?
Revsense It is quite good. Especially for this technique.
Thanks Vic,
Google to see that I’m finally on the right track.
I found myself back on the auctions page again. I blame you for making me addicted.
Hehehe….just kidding. I only want one more with the “news” in it so I can get started with the other task. Now that we all know about this it will be a shuffling for best price I guess.
It’s a bit like spotting the needle in a haystack but with enough bite we should all be able to nab some great domains anyway.
It just takes time and patience. An there is no doubt that it is time consuming. But it is way worth it.
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Vic,
I am trying really hard to get through all the posts in the archive so I get all the references you make to your previous posts.
In the comments here I see references to a naked woman/video graphic but I don’t see such a graphic. Is that because this is such an old post that it has been removed or am I really blind?
Rhonda
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!! Actually she was not naked and I am glad you caught this BU and BZ where hacked about 2 months ago and our adserver was replaced so I need to re upload ll the graphics but important she was not naked!!! LMAO!!!