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Perhaps you are already a member of the Warrior Forum or have been to their website.  What we are going to do with this blog post is demystify some of the overwhelming amount of material you will find there.

After checking it out a dozen or so times over the past couple of years and each time going away bedazzled and bewildered, I finally decided to try to learn some of the ways to capitalize on all of this material.

Like any forum, you should read the posts at the top of each category page that are called “Stickies”.  A sticky is one of those little note pads that you write a reminder on and stick on the fridge, your monitor, or write in reverse and stick on your forehead.  These will define the rules of the board and you need to follow the instructions “exactly”.

In my first few ventures to the Warrior Forum it was apparent at first that these people knew a LOT about website publishing and internet marketing, but like all tight knit groups they were very protective of their forum and “its my way or the highway” was pretty obvious.

Well after now a couple of months into using the forum every day and learning the ropes it is a place that will benefit everyone who blogs and in particular if you are into blogging to make money.

From the main home page you will see several categories; Main Internet Marketing Discussions, Warrior Special Offers Forum (WSO’s), Warrior Products and Services, Ad Networks – CPA, CPM, CPL – Millionaire Makers, Mind Warriors, The Copywriting Forum, Adsense / PPC / SEO Discussion Forum, Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings.

There are several more but you will have enough to learn with just those described.  By all means register, fill out your signature where you may include hyperlinks to your own sites or products, the sig box may be no more than five lines, but people will click on your links to see what you are about.

The WSO’s are my favorite.  These Warrior Special Offers (WSO) are updated constantly.  Every day there are dozens of new offers from fellow warriors that have an ebook to hump, or outsource service to offer, backlink program offers, copywriting offers, graphics design, and the list is endless.

Normally a WSO is offered at a very low price to the first few members, then the price goes up gradually through the life of the deal, so first to jump in usually get a really good bargain.  Sometimes when a WSO is first offered the vendor offers “Review Copies” for free or a reduced rate, and in return you must use the WSO and then post a product review of your fair and honest opinion of the vendor and product.  Oh, and most important, never, NEVER, ask for a review copy!

You can tell at a glance if the person making the offer has a good rep by looking at their profile in the offer.  It will tell you how many times that have posted to WF and what class of member they are.  You can rest assured that if they have been around a long time and made several offers that they are on the up and up.  I say that because if someone is a scammer the warriors are vicious and they will not be around long.

You can use the forum for free, or you can become a member of the War Room with a twenty dollar twenty year membership, I call it a life membership, but hopefully you will have to renew.

There is a way that you can send private messages however you must have made at least 50 regular message posts to the boards to be able to PM.  If you are the type of person that gets offended easily, this forum is not for you.  If you say something stupid you will be set upon by demons.

Something that I just noticed is a full set of free videos that were made by Adeel Chowdhry that will cover each and every thing you need to know about becoming a good warrior and how to use the forum.  You will see them right at the top of the forum.

I have included what you would think is an affiliate link for you to use.  This has no cash value, and is only helpful to me by letting the people that run the Warrior Forum know that I was the one that referred you.  It helps to build a sort of ’street creds’.  Your reputation is everything on the WF, do not do anything to tarnish it.

Hope to see you as a member
http://www.warriorforum.com/index.php?referrerid=173773

Give it up for Google, the do no evil company has become bigger than everything.  This brilliant little team of mathematicians created something that is now beyond human control.  They have won you know…

Man I could not wait to get my Gmail account back when they first started up.  People were selling invites on ebay and literally the day I was going to buy one, I got the invite.  Oh Happy Days!

I had already achieved superiority by having discovered the fantastic features of Alta Vista moving on beyond the old stalwart search engine, Yahoo.  Soon it was obvious that Google was very fast and seemed to return things that you were actually searching for, not just pages and pages of totally unrelated nonsense that occasionally would have a gem in it.

I had also mastered Excite and the metacrawlers, but now Google, well they just were the best, hands down.  I had a genealogy website that had been working since the mid or late 1980’s and when I heard about Blogger by Google, well it was just no question.  Build a blog on Blogger.  It’s free after all.

Soon it was obvious that when you searched for something, anything, on Google that along with your search topic returns there were also some advertisements that seemed to be targeted to just exactly what you were searching for.  My isn’t that clever, how they do that?

So fast forward to about 2007 and I learned about WordPress and started to build websites.  Boy did I build em.  I would just put up a site about anything, anything at all and stick some Adsense code on it and sit back and light up a Lucky.  Soon the cash would be rolling in.  Not.

I did not know anything about keywords or Adwords or prices of words that advertisers would pay Google for to have their ads placed in the best positions.  After a year or more it was obvious that this was a bad business model and had to learn more, a lot more.

I looked at my pitiful AdSense reports and it dawned on me that the payout structure was based on how many people visited your site and how many clicked on the ads.  So on sites where the word prices were low, or sites that people were just looking for free information, those page views counted against me.  They were basing the final payout on the total views as part of the equation of payment.  Not fair.  Not fair at all, but it is the Golden rule.  He who has the gold makes the rules.

So I took all my AdSense ads down and started from square one.  I decided to only put AdSense on websites that had high payouts for the keywords and worked on driving traffic to those sites.  That is not an easy task either because for every scheme that someone comes up with to “help” the search engines find your site, guess who figures it out?

Some other real brainy things I did was to create multiple accounts with several hosting companies.  I did not want the Big G to know that I owned all of these many sites.  Ha!

There is nothing that you can do to get around it.  If you use AdSense you have the same ID number.  If you use WordPress you have the same Akismet API and the Yahoo API and other identifiers that are internal in each of your sites.  Believe me they know who you are and where your kids go to school.

Just today Google came out with their own version of BUZZ.  Cripes!  I do not want all of my email list automatically added to any mass social media thing.  I have many different personas and pen names that I write under.  I certainly do not want people from my classic car business, knowing about my lefty green business, or the fact that I sell ladies brassieres!  True, but its a long story.

At the bottom of any Gmail page there is a tab that you can use to TURN BUZZ OFF!  By the way another tab can turn Google Chat off too if that annoys you.  Any way to get to the reason for this post as from the start.

If the government ever wanted to collect any small percentage of what we freely and openly give to Google every minute of the day, there would be screams to high Heaven.  Well 1984 is here forever.

Surely you heard about the gutsy move Google made in China.  They are now partnering up with the NSA to take that problem to the next level.  Ha!  That should make it easier for the govt to just nationalize Google during the next crisis and guess what?  It’s too late.

This will go right along with the 2010 census data.  Did you know that when the census taker visits your home, and they will, that when they are at your doorway they click a little button on a little devise that sends a signal up to  a GPS satellite that will pinpoint your doorway?

Now you take every single search that you have ever made on Google, they do still have it in their memory banks, and you couple that with exactly where you are at any moment, and do you see where I am going with this?…

Oh by the way, did you know that Google only indexes about 10% of the world wide web?  The other 90% does not cause any advertising to be generated.  Do a few searches about “The Deep Web.”

Well I for one no longer care.  At times I feel like just running into Google’s headquarters, stripping off all my clothes, throwing myself down on the receptionists desk on my back, and shouting “C’mon Google!  Have your way with me!

Are you an “A” blogger or just an average kinda blogger?  It is a possibility that it makes a very BIG difference as to whether or not you can make money on Twitter with tweets that are sponsored by advertisers.

You have heard several A bloggers proclaim the virtues of this fabulous method of making serious money online.  You sign up with an advertising company as an affiliate Twitter advertiser and you input your Twitter name and real quick they will tell you how much advertisers will be willing to pay for you just tweeting their ads.

Of course the program explains that your number of Twitter followers makes a difference in the payment per tweet amount.  So I signed up, after all I have about 10,000 followers and that’s nothing to sneeze at.  Holy smokes they say that advertisers will be willing to pay about twenty bucks per tweet, do I want to activate my account?  Hell yes!

So I gave them my name, address, contacts and social security number, after all I will have to report my hundreds of thousands of dollars of income from this new program right?  All I would have to do is sit back, relax and wait for the advertising offers to come rolling in.

Chirp, chirp, chirp, not even a peep to tweet.  So I’m thinking maybe $20 is too much, lets lower it to $18, silence, lower to $15, nothing, lower to $9 per tweet.
The pins dropping around here are deafening.

Okay, so lower it right down to five bucks and lets get this sucker moving, right?
Nothing, no offers.  I could become a lot more famous by putting my hat on sideways and pants on the floor.

So I took the banner ads down.  I never promote anything that I do not believe in, and then I notice that this big time advertising company is running a massive campaign to sign up more affiliate publishers and they seem to be giving away just about every major computer toy that anyone would ever want, for just signing up with them as a Twitter advertiser.

Now this got me to thinking.  Who told me about this in the first place?  Well as I recall it was John Chow, certainly an A blogger, and I signed up under his affiliate link.   I believe John when he tells how much money he is making with this program.  After all he and the other A bloggers are the very best word of mouth promoters aren’t they?

Looking back, I have some thoughts that came to mind, lets see what you think.
Suppose an advertising company could sign up millions of affiliate tweeters, and suppose that company could build a gigantic database of names, contacts, and “Social Security Numbers”!  Would that database have value?

I seem to recall once on one of the credit card company affiliate programs I looked in to, but did not sign up for, that they considered the full name, address, contact and SS numbers as being worth $35.00 each.  Now I am not saying that this is an ulterior motive for this particular advertising company, but it does come to mind.

Lets hear it from all of you satisfied tweeters out there.  All of you average Joes, and mommy bloggers, and hobbyists, that tweet for sponsored ads.  Please share with our readers as to whether or not you have made a ton of money with this program, or if in fact you have made “any” money with this program.

I have a feeling that it will be primarily the big names in the blogging world that are seeing any cash flow.  I know that advertising on Twitter does work and that people do make money with Twitter ads.  For instance, Leo LaPorte, the tech guy, told on a recent podcast that just before he left for the CES show in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago that Ford offered him $10,000 for just one retweet of a Ford ad.  Leo being the most ethical guy that I know of on the internet turned the offer down.

Please let us know your thoughts.