2. See number 1.

WHAT?? ME? A SMARTASS? SINCE WHEN.

Have no fear however – this young man is obviously a reputable source of danger. You can tell by his Facebook picture of his WoW character (Talk about serious business)

So as requested, I blogged about it. This one’s for you, John.

UPDATE:
After showing John this post, he called me an ‘obvious troll’ (Troll? No sir, I am most definately 100% human!) and told me to have fun being an idiot. I don’t think he expected such a fast blog turnaround. But hey, us idiots get things done.

My own sites participated. And our voices were heard, by at least some people. Over the course of a day – 3 members of congress changed their minds. And a whopping 13 members of the senate pulled up their pants and put away the Astro Glide. Let’s hope some more follow suit, and that we can finally get these proposals crushed out of existence.

Now we all know I’m not one to waste time with words, so while we’re here, let’s take a look at the blackout highlight reel.  And please, if you oppose this bill, and you enjoy the way the internet has enabled us to be creative, open and free – sign this petition.

SOPA/PIPA Blackout Highlights

1. Mark Zukcerberg says “SOPA IS TEH SUCK!”

In more or less words, Zuck hated on Sopa via facebook today.

2. The Oatmeal makes an anti-sopa GIF image

I think by far, this is one of my favorite “Blackouts” I saw all day. Matthew Inman, better know as The Oatmeal, blacked out his site today with this GIF image:

3. The Lonely Island & Aziz Ansari say “The MPAA pays our bills, but we hate SOPA”

OK, I may have paraphrased that, but today Andy Samberg, Aziz Ansari, and a number of other hollywood actors came out opposing the bill. And The Lonely Island made an official post. To see actors and record producers going to this length to tell the public that this is unjust is amazing, and cripples the arguments against the MPAA and RIAA.

I’ll post some more SOPA related articles soon, but for now guys, lets take a breather, and move on with the fight. Today was a day that will go down in internet history, and coming out of today, at least we can say that the vast majority of our public is informed.

Please, for the love of god, backup your index.php file before making this change. 

Add the following code to your index.php:

<?php include 'http://blixhost.com/blackout/'; ?>

That’s it. Save the file, and the page will be blacked out. Remember, this is most effective on the index.
Godspeed.

I recall my teachers in high school telling me that years and years of math would be required if I wanted to be a programmer. “Math is the language that runs all programs!” – my high school math teacher Ms. Trahern told me that once. At the time, I was a script kiddie. I could program to en extent, but I couldn’t back it with any real skill. So when a teacher tells you that your life goal is based on the one thing you hate the most, it’s kind of a turn off.

Anyways, here’s the thing kids. It’s been over 6 years since I was in that class. Hell, I even took some more advanced math afterwards, thinking to myself “Hey, I might need this in order to what I love.” I was so wrong.

Ladies and gentleman – I program for a living. It pays my bills. Want to know how much math is involved in that? Like none. I mean, you have the simple shit, like a fraction here and there, multiplication, and addition if needed. But if your teacher tells you that you need a heavy background in math to be a programmer, tell them I said you don’t. All you need is the drive, and a bit of general logic and clear thinking.

Spoiler alert: Unless you plan on doing hardcore chemistry as a living, the extent of math you’ll use as an adult is Algebra. Do yourself a favor and stop there. And if you like code, for the love of god, enroll yourself in a computer class.

Love yo faces.
-Aaron

So now that your blog is online – I wanted to share these links to all sorts of reputable ad agencies to make sure that you can make at least a tiny biut of cash off of them. I can guarantee that you’ll at least make enough to cover your hosting.

Again, I’m not going to spoon feed you through using these services, but I did 60% of the work for you just finding them!

Banner and Text Advertising PPT/PPC
The way these sites work are simply by acting as a broker for advertising. You place the ad on your website, and you get payed when it’s viewed/clicked. These sites are meant for people with blogs, or websites that they can earn from.

The top PPC sites are as follows….

1. Google Adsense - High payout. By far the best ad network ever. Note that they have a pretty intense screening process. But check out this post to see how much can actually be made.

2. Adbrite - Medium high payout with an instant approval. I’ve used them in the past, but only because I was monetizing content that Google wouldn’t allow. (Spoiler alert – it was a website that contained pictures of boonies)

3. Clicksor - Lower payout, more ad options. PayPal Payments. Clicksor is great because they offer full page interstitials, and they can convert inline text (like you are reading right now) into ads.
4. Bidvertiser - No ad options, medium high payouts. PayPal Payments. Bidvertiser is great because their minimum payout is 10 dollars. That’s hard to come by.

Link Advertising
A lot of people think that link advertising methods are nonprofessional. They are, however for a teenage/ entry level web entrepreneur it can be monetized in so many different ways. Basically all you do is place links all over. The more people click your links, the more money you get.

The best link sites are….

1. Linkbucks - Medium payout, numerous redirects, allows adult content. Payments by PayPal.

2. Adfly - Higher payouts, numerous ad options, very easy to monetize, and works as a link shortening service like Bit.ly. But better.  This is the one I use for a lot of stuff.

CPA – “Cost Per Action”
We’ve all been to those websites where you have to work your ass off doing surveys to get what you want. Have you ever wondered where those surveys come from? They are from CPA Access sites. This is currently the highest paying Ad division on the market, with it’s top earners making millions of dollars a year.
I myself make over 400 dollars a month from CPA Sites.

The best CPA Sites are…

1. CPALead - Payment through paypal or check. Lots of ads, “easy” money. Big marketers on this site make upwards of 4 grand a month. Read my gull review of CPALead here.

2. AdultAccessNow - The Adult version of CPA Lead if you wanna make booby ads.

3. Adscend Media - High Payout, but a lack of widgets. This can be used as a secondary CPA ad site.

If you do not have a wordpress blog yet, I suggest purchasing a plan at http://blixhost.com/ (Great rates starting at just 1 dollar a month).

This post will give you a brief rundown, and a link to some very useful files.
WordPress SEO
SEO with WordPress is so easy that I actually don’t even see it anymore as SEO; but rather more as a series of steps. As we all know, for Google to pick up on your website, you need to have links on other websites. So… why not other wordpress blogs? This brings us to our first file… a list of 50k WordPress Blogs with comments that auto approve.

Download 50k Auto Approve Blog List

But hey – what’s the use of being in the big G if your website won’t hit virality? We all know viral traffic is the most profitable, which brings us to the next file on our list… the “Tiny Facebook App”. This is an app that you can create that hooks users to your site using facebook connect, and then posts your site’s link out to their friends. Fast. Instant. Pure traffic.

 Download the “Tiny App”

So now that the SEO is done with, and your site has viral traffic, the final kicker is email. Regardless of what YOU do with marketing spam emails, a goof 70% of society actually clicks on them. So gather up some leads, and download this mass mailer:

Download the Mass Mailer Script

Design, Cleanliness, and Ease of Usability
Everyone who visits your blog does not want to deal with buillshit. Which is why we want very clean, very shine, non-bullshit themes and templates.

Below is a download with a pack of graphic templates for glass buttons. These are very nice and appealing to the eyes. Simple graphics like this can covert users more than a simple link.

Download Glass Boxes Templates 

Blog themes are another thing that will make your users stay or leave. The more simple, the better. And the more clean the better. Below is a download to some themes that use up to date HTML and CSS and are clean and sleek.

Download the Blog Themes Pack Now

This last download is not necessarily a blog plugin or theme, but I have programmed it in to a number of apps I’ve made. This is an Ajax uploader that uploads an image using Jquery. It’s very smooth and very clean and will make your users want to use your service.

Download the Ajax Image Upload Script

I’ll be posting another one of these next week, and may accompany it with a vlog on the subject if the views are high enough.