HugePedlar’s Blog

If you’ve read my ‘How to make money with Gumtree‘ guide you’ll know that I use Affiliate Future to generate cash with surveys and cashback sites.

However, Affiliate Future has changed their members area to display a range of new account tools (personally I don’t like it much, but whatever). This means the instructions in the guide are a little out of date.

So I’ve made a little video to walk you through how to sign up with a new merchant. I don’t have Camtasia or any other decent screencapture software, so you’ll have to put up with my shaky camerawork. Here it is:

I used Viddler because you can annotate your videos, which is really, really cool.

I’ve just created a ‘sprout‘.

A sprout is an embeddable flash object which can be created without using code - kind of like a Photoshop interface. Here’s an example of my sprout:


As you can see, it’s a feed of pink items for sale on eBay. All with my affiliate link of course. The nice thing is you can automatically publish your sprout to all the major social networks, like Myspace and Facebook.

If you can find something cool to make (cooler than pink things, I mean) and it goes viral, your money-making links could end up everywhere.

My word have I been busy. Well, no not really, but stuff has happened.

First of all I’ve got a snazzier theme, but that’s not really newsworthy so I’ll move on.

My autoblogs got deleted (all 20 of them). Probably because I was updating every two hours. If I can be bothered to restart them I’ll have to limit it to a couple of posts a day. Not that I was making any money, but they were good for linkjuice if nothing else.

BuySomethingPink.com is coming along reasonably well. It shows random pink stuff along with a list of categories, plus hilighted special offers. I have a separate db table for UK and US products, so my next task is to use IP geolocation to determine which set my visitors see.

The nice thing about the site is I’ve made it almost entirely modular. This means I can quickly replicate it for any type of product, for example screensavers.

Which brings me on to my next project: BitTorrent. I’ve previously released screensavers to the torrent community which change the user’s homepage to one of my own with google adsense search. This wasn’t terribly successful. My new variation is to carry on with the screensaver uploads but this time to pop up a window after installation with a page showing a list of more free screensavers, courtesy of screensavers.com - their affiliate program gives me $0.80 per install, so it should monetize much faster than my previous effort.

Of course, this all assumes I don’t end up watching TV or playing AOE III all week.

I can’t kick my Gumtree dependency.

Gumtree gave me the opportunity to stop working for someone else back in July. I’ve been posting CPA offers (surveys, cashback and so on) on various gumtree towns. In a good month it can bring in an easy £700.

Shortly before Christmas they installed a new set of spam filters, which caused a lot of people problems, including me. December earnings were pitiful.

Now I’ve worked around them, and the response is phenomenal. From half a dozen adverts posted last week I’ve made £100 in 5 days. Mind you, it helps that I’ve got a fantastic offer to promote. I’m earning 75p for email submits and my conversion rate is up to nearly 70%. It’s crazy.

I keep waiting for it to crash and burn. Until then…

Apparently everyone who makes money online needs to have a blog, so this is mine.

I vowed never to use Wordpress because it tends to die after about 12 diggs, but fortunately there’s little chance of any diggs coming my way so I should be safe. Plus I’m told there are a bunch of useful monetizing plugins for this platform.

Now I’ve just got to figure out how the damn thing works.