I toyed with whether I should talk about this… it’s made me around $1,000 in the past with little to no work and I have not seen it discussed (this exact way) on any other blogs before. However, I have nothing to gain by keeping the idea a secret (I don’t use it anymore – bigger fish to fry) and you guys have plenty to gain by learning about it.

I promised that I’d talk a little bit about making money online for newbies, that is people with not a lot of money to invest. How are you going to start a affiliate website, pay for Adwords and content creation when you only have $50 in your bank account? This is a way that anyone can make money, and best of all it doesn’t cost you a dime.

A few days ago I recommended forum posting as one of the ways to make money for newbies, which didn’t need any investment – once you read this post, and if you carry it out successfully, you’ll never need to post in forums again. In forum posting, you get maybe $0.15/post maximum (using an established company like Forums First) and then you have other requirements – your posts have to be at least x words in length, your posts have to be spread out appropriately throughout the forum, you have to make x threads for x posts… bah. Thinking = work and when you’re getting paid so little, you don’t want to have to work a lot. :)

Here’s how you can make money, and easy money by providing a blog commenting service. Yes, you can do this from the comfort of your home, yes, you don’t need any investment, and yes I’m going to tell you the exact steps to follow. :razz:

First off, let me explain why this works. Now me personally – I don’t care about PR; it is only a number, and after I’ve made certain posts on here I am not going to make much money off it. For some webmasters though… they start developing mini-orgasms every time the term is mentioned, and it is them that will make you money.

People pay for links, and sometimes quite a bit too – a standard PR6 link can easily go for $100/month and if you go upwards of that well – you’re in business. What if I told you that you could get such links free, and what if I told you that you could make money off this?

I’m talking about commenting on dofollow blogs. As you know, dofollow blogs do pass PR, and the links are permanent. The problem with dofollow blogs is that it is hard to find them – not many people like displaying that ugly badge in the sidebar (I don’t) and even if you find a dofollow blog whose homepage has PR, commenting on it is useless as the specific page you comment on needs to have PR for it to be passed on to your blog (in this case, the specific post).

Now, how do you get around to finding these blogs, and then how do you get around to finding these posts?

Luckily for us, one of the blogs I read regularly compiled a Do follow list of blogs, and you can find that at Courtney Tuttle’s D-List.

So you have five pages of dofollow blogs. Now the problem is, which blogs should we comment on and which blogs are worthless? You can be dofollow, but if you have a PR0 blog, you’re not passing any link juice on.

What you need to do is use iWebTool’s Visual PR checker, and run it through the D-List. What iWebTool does is show you the PR of links on the page, and whether they are dofollow / nofollow. Use this and run it through all five pages of the D-List, and then copy and paste the URLs that are PR2 or more into a notepad file. I think you are only allowed to run 100 – 200 queries per IP per day so if it shorts out (and stops working) use a proxy or wait a day.

Now you have a list of blogs that do pass link juice and do have a decent Pagerank. However, you need to find the internal pages that have PR, for us that is the blog posts that have PR.

There are two ways to do this:

The first is LivePR’s internal checking tool, which will take a URL that you enter into its box, deliver you a list of pages with their Pagerank and then allow you to sort.

The second is SEO Junkie’s PR Checker program (download here), which you can download. It does the same thing, and provides you a file with pages and their respective pagerank :)

Both of these tools have limitations – the first only allows you to check once every hour (and has a habit of shorting out every so often) and the second works in the same way that iWebTool does – x amount of searches per IP per day, and then you have to wait. However, if you are patient you can use the combination of these tools to compile a list of blog posts that have PR and pass link juice.

Another thing you can use to find such posts is Comment Kahuna (which unlike its sister Traffic Kahuna, is actually useful & free). This works on the keywords you enter into it – choose “money”, “blogging” etc and it will give you a list of posts that are dofollow. The numbers it returns are less than the other two but it works as long as you want to use it. :)

So you have a list of blog posts with PR, ranging from PR2 to PR6 (and sometimes more :) ). If you want to use this for your own gain, leave comments on all of them with a link pointing back to your website – you will see a nice increase in the next update (you can see what amount of links to get to where in this chart). Make sure you leave relevant comments and add value – they don’t have to be long, but it does have to be non-spammy.

How do you make money?

Simple. Provide a “link building” service where you build links for webmasters and make money. I’ve done this in the past and charged $1/PR2 link, $3/PR3 link, $7/PR4 link, $10/PR5 link and $15/Anything above that. As these links are permanent, people will be happy to pay.

Why earn a cent a word forum posting when you can earn a dollar a word building links?

You can provide a link building service at the various larger forums.

If you are a lazy bastard like yours truly, you can hire the same people that do forum posting, pay them $0.2/comment and you keep the rest. Everyone wins ;)

Is this unethical?

To me, it isn’t. Blogs are dofollow because they want comments, and if you add useful comments then there is nothing wrong with that. I have no problem if people spam the hell out of my dofollow pages, as long as they add to them – if you are not adding to the discussion, expect to be IP-blacklisted.

Good luck, and let me know if you have a lot of success with this. :)

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