Traffic Kahuna Review: Don’t Waste Your Money
When StomperNet was offering everyone in the world their Stomping the Search Engines 2.0 DVD for Free, they offered a ton of Free Bonuses with it from some of the Internet's Top Marketers. One of those Free Bonuses was a Free 60 Day Membership to Traffic Kahuna. I was really excited about this especially since Traffic Kahuna is ussually closed to new members and it is very expensive. Depending on when you visit the site, it has run at around $147 per month for the membership. So I have been saying to myself, this has got to really be something special. I want to try something which can generate masive traffic to some of my sites and I presumed that something with a $147 per month price tag would be that thing.
Wrong.
After going through the program after several days I found myself very disappointed. The main enticement, a 650 Blog network in which I believed I could submit posts to was actually a little different than advertised. You see, you can only submit each article to 10 of the 650 each time you post. Plus, the article spinner provided as part of the program, has you doing most of the spinning. I have used auto spinners that were free that had more features than this thing.
Then I came to what Traffic Kahuna calls it Web 2.0 Mayhem program. You know what this Traffic Mayhem is? It is a list of the most common Web 2.0 sites (EzineArticles, Squidoo, Weebly, Hubpages, etc.) with links to the sites, a directive to sign up and then the kicker for the program is that you use the article spinner to create articles and then submit each one to each Web 2.0 site on the list (about 20 sites total). I do this already. Using Web 2.0 sites like this is almost common knowledge anymore. Oh OK, so they also tell you to Ping all the sites using Ping.in. Are you kidding me?
Traffic Kahuna also has a CO-OP. Basically telling you to get into a Free Link Exchange Network. The last time I checked, there were about 5 million of those already on the web, for FREE. They also encourage you to start a Blog on their PR5 Blog Network. All you are really doing, is helping them push their Blog to a PR6 and doing nothing for your own. I have ot give them credit though, it is a great scam since they are making a ton of money from it.
The main problem is there is not any automation or anything to make building traffic for your website easier by using Traffic Kahuna. You can get more, and I mean a lot more, from submiting articles to hundreds of Article Directories and Blogs through the Unique Article Wizard (does 100 times more traffic building than the Blog Feeder at Traffic Kahuna) and using SENuke (which will auto create 125 Social Bookmarking and Web 2.0 sites and submit to them in just a few minutes, not to mention after using a great article spinner). Sound like Web 2.0 Mayhem?
Bottom line. Don't waste your money. I'm glad I didn't waste mine.
Double Affiliate Profits with StoreStacker, Ebay, and SaleHoo
You can litterally Double your Affiliate Commission Profits with a technique I have been using with my StoreStacker sites, the Ebay Affiliate Program, and wholesale dropshipping sources from SaleHoo.
Resources Used for this Money Making Technique:
- StoreStacker - Affiliate Product Site (SteelShades.com)
- SaleHoo - Wholesale Dropshipper
- Ebay Partner Network - Ebay Affiliate Program
- SENuke - Web 2.0 Marketing and SEO
First: Take a look at a very generic StoreStacker storefront here: Steel Shades Sunglasses (Storestacker creates Affiliate Stores filled with products from Amazon, Clickbank, Overstock, RegNow, HotelsPlus, and in this case we are focusing on the Ebay Affiliate Partner program. Every product is an Affiliate Link.)
This store is filled with Sunglasses. Certain Pages have been created with Products from Ebay based on Keywords. Very easy to setup. The entire site took about 20 minutes to make. While I have Sunglasses from Amazon and Overstock on the site (to increase my money making chances) I have focused my Social Bookmarking and Web 2.0 marketing (with SENuke) on just the pages which have specific Ebay Products I have selected.
Here is the gimmick to this money making technique. I use wholesale dropshipping sources from SaleHoo (undoubtedly the best wholesale source online) and post the products I find there on Ebay for sale. In this example, I am using Sunglasses.
I am going to sell the sunglasses on Ebay regardless, but I want to make even more money than just the sale differntial between the dropshipping price and the sale price. I want to bump that up a bit, so what I do next is what you see above. I use StoreStacker to create a website filled with the same products I have just put on Ebay.
Now I promote those pages as I stated above and when I make a sale through my StoreStacker Ebay Affiliate Links, I not only get the sale on my product through Ebay, but a get an Ebay Affiliate commission. Is this the most ethical thing in the world, mabe not, but it is very easy to do. Can you make sites strictly with Products you are selling on Ebay without StoreStacker. Certianly. Any number of different sites can be setup this way and you can also use your own products to sell on Ebay as well. The concept is easy and the technique can be used any number of ways.
The Key thing to remember is: You want the links from outside Ebay to drive Traffic straight to your Product and those links will increase your Affiliate site's (StoreStacker or not) SEO and ranking in the SERPs, which will just continue to drive sales and higher affiliate profits.
SENuke Review: Answers to Common Questions
I initially wrote a review on SENuke right after I had done their 7-day trial of the Pro version. I had intended to cancel my membership and move on to reviewing other programs, but I forgot to cancel my membership before the 7 days ended. Who hasn't done this right? Anyway, I figured that since I still had the membership and was paying for it, I might as well use it.
Now, after almost a month of using the program and a hundred emails from my "other" SEO website, I thought it was time to give an updated review of this one of a kind program and answer some of the common questions I had received from comments and emails.
First off; my website traffic has nearly doubled for the three (3) main websites that I have been promoting. I initially wasn't going to promote this site at all, but I did and yesterday this website, Black Hat Software, crashed from traffic overload. I have limited bandwidth set on this site and yesterday it was exceeded and "BAM", my site was down for several hours. This is a problem everyone wants right? Black Hat sites are in a very small Niche and to litterally double my website traffic to this blog was a great surprise to me since I already own a top 3 position in numerous Black Hat keywords in Google and other Search Engines. What using the methods and tools of SENuke does for you is that you find you can get quality website traffic from sources other than a search engine like Google.
Second; over the last month the guys at SENuke have added numerous features to the program and after talking to one of them, I found that even more are on the horizon. His point was that if SENuke shows its users that they don't need any other tools for promoting their sites, they will stay with the program for the long haul. I have to say, this appears to be the case since I am going to continue my membership with the site.
SE Nuke has added a free and human assisted article spinning service to their program and another Submitter for getting your articles out to multiple article directories after they have been spun. Very similar to the Unique Article Wizard, except with the UAW, you are the human spinner. I had actually thought to myself that this was one of the shortcomings to the software package, but with its addition, it really makes article submissions to the Web 2.0 sites in SENuke easier to submit to and substantially faster for you to get your backlinks built through the system. Content generation is always the biggest hurdle for any webmaster, white hat or black hat.
SE Nuke is also adding a Wordpress MU module to allow you to build up to 200 blogs on Wordpress MU sites across the web and then auto post to these sites. This is a great addition to the software and it reminds me of the limited edition Blog Farm Generator put out by Joseph Tierney.
One question I have been asked a lot is whether there is a SENuke Affiliate Program. The answer is yes and all you have to do is join SENuke. Most people think that you have to pay to be a member or sign up for the 7-day Trial, but you don't. You can sign up and be a free member, use the promo tools and videos and promote the SE Nuke Affiliate Program. Plus, you will get email updates on the updates to the software package. This is a 2-Tier Affiliate Program which pays nicely for referrals.
There have been several other updates to the program either through bug fixes or Web 2.0 site additions and SE Nuke continues to impress me. I know $97 is a lot for a monthly subscription, but the lite version to me isn't worth the price and they make it that way for a reason. If I can recommend anything, try the 7-day Free Trial, but make sure you have a plan on what websites you want to promote and what kind of promotional message you want for each. I suggest starting with 2 or 3 sites and see what results you get, but if you don't promote a site with your keywords already in mind, you will not be successful.
If anyone has anymore questions on SENuke, let me know.
