Scorpiono’s 1 question interview with Collis from Envato
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
The previous post was a video from Envato with Collis and Cyan which I salute again.
I had one BIG question for them which was never asked in the interview, so I emailed Collis (yes, he’s a nice guy and he replied).
Scorpiono:
I have watched the interview, fantastic, one question buzzes in my mind, I’d love to post it to my blog:
Where do you usually spot the content writers for new sites (which forums/HR sites) ?
Collis:
Hey Sergiu,
Thanks for the email! In answer to your question, I typically find them via the FreelanceSwitch job board or sometimes we just have an open contributor email address or form (e.g. on Tuts+ anyone can submit a tutorial) and sometimes these people go on to be regular contributors,
Hope that helps!
Thanks
Collis
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Interview with Envato Collis & Cyan
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
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Interview with Alex Jeffreys
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
I got this on twitter from Michael (incomediary.com) and I really enjoyed it, actually I enjoyed it so much I’m blogging about it right now:
Alex Jeffreys Interview How he made half a million dollars
http://www.incomediary.com/alex-jeffreys-interview-how-he-made-half-a-million-dollars-last-year-online/
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Interview with Ashish – Clickbank guru
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Ashish: 25 year old from India that makes tousands each month with clickbank!
Interviewed by Scorpiono
Today’s interview is about a fantastic guy from India I had the oportunity to take an interview thanks to digitalpoint forums where most of the big guys still hang out.
Ashish is a 25 year old male from India which started clickbank in early 2008, so not that far away, but has risen up very high in such a short period. He now makes an easy $x,xxx USD per month and his profits are growing each month. We’ll have the standard questions about Ashish and then we go into the non-formal questions about clickbank and clickbank success.
Nickname: Ashish
Twitter: XpertAdvice
Real name: Ashish, just as the name says..
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Location: India
Describe a bit about your usual activity: I can not wake up without a cup of tea, off course i take bed tea. Usually check Clickbank earning while taking tea. I Check my clickbank earning 20-25 times a day. Checking mails and maintaining blogs, Keyword research and writing articles are daily activities.
His description is that of a hard worker which can describe his hobby easily as a “clickbank daily love”
The interview with Ashish starts over here
Hi
Ashish says:
Hello Scorp…
$corpiono says:
In a mood for an interview
$corpiono says:
Do you?
Ashish says:
yes…let’s start off! 
$corpiono says:
The interview will appear on Scorpiono.com in a couple of days, at the “Interviews with webmasters” category post.
$corpiono says:
What websites do you own (Ordered by traffic):
Ashish says:
theexpertadvice.info, getreviewed.org, fix-xbox360.info, healthnbeautytips.info
Ashish says:
I own around 30 blogs
$corpiono says:
Okay, so mainly blog industry
Ashish says:
Yes…
$corpiono says:
and how many hours per day you devote to your work?
Ashish says:
10-12 hours a day
$corpiono says:
Do you work by yourself with CB or you involve any other guys?
Ashish says:
I deal with CB and link building work, SEO related tasks are done usually by others.
Ashish says:
I even hired an article writer for the writing work
$corpiono says:
Can you describe some SEO tasks
Ashish says:
Yes… right from On Page Optimization, Directory Submission, Social Bookmarking, RSS Feed Sumission
Ashish says:
Article sumission etc..
$corpiono says:
I have a question that might thrill you out
$corpiono says:
You have to remember your first CB sale
Ashish says:
Yes..i do remember.
$corpiono says:
Can you talk a bit about it?
Ashish says:
I clearly remember, I joined clickbank on 14th June, 2008 and got my first sale after around 1 month on 21st July 2008
Ashish says:
It was a client visit in our office and we were busy with him… When i came home after client left , I checked my CB account and saw the first sale of $29.73
$corpiono says:
Haha, a good amount for a first sale if you’d ask me
Ashish says:
I called up my partner and told him about the first sale.. It was really an amazing moment for me… as before that i was fully involved with SEO Projects and i used to think that i will move into Affiliate Marketing whole heartedly after the first sale
$corpiono says:
What was the product ?
Ashish says:
It was some blogging Guide
Ashish says:
I have got only 3 sales of that product so far
$corpiono says:
So basically how would you describe a CB work, from picking the product to method of driving traffic you most like, talk a bit about this in big lines.
Ashish says:
I think If you want to move into CB, you can be successful into any niche. First thing that involves is Extensive Keyword research, If you manage to find good keywords that has less competition and decent hits. By targeting those keywords, One can surely get good earning
$corpiono says:
Tried the shoemoney’s tools yet ?
$corpiono says:
He has started to promote his affiliate products
$corpiono says:
It’s a subscription based tool access
Ashish says:
ok… i have not tried.. will check surely..
$corpiono says:
Google Adwords seems to be a good option to promote the products directly on their home page, or you have a landing page which eventually lands on the product?
Ashish says:
Yes i use landing pages only… but before starting to promote the product, i try direct linking, Just to give a try. how well the product converts
$corpiono says:
Can you show us a landing page?
Ashish says:
I use wordpress blogs as landing page, though i have some simple design sites also
Ashish says:
but mostly wordpress blogs
$corpiono says:
URL for example purpose for our visitors
$corpiono says:
They are how-to savy
Ashish says:
Here it is earth4energy-review.info
$corpiono says:
Lovely, thanks
Ashish says:
Its mine… I am not using this page as it was nuked by google but this is good example of my landing page
$corpiono says:
So you usually go into arbitrage adwords and SEO
Ashish says:
Mostly SEO, I started PPC last month only…
$corpiono says:
What’s the biggest profit you have earned, in one month
Ashish says:
Though i have other sources of earning also but from CB alone It is $5800 for the month of Jan
$corpiono says:
Huge if you’d ask me. Congrats
Ashish says:
Thanks
$corpiono says:
I definetly picked the right guy for the interview our visitors will be thrilled
$corpiono says:
What do you think it caused the highest month in earning?
Ashish says:
Thanks Scorp
$corpiono says:
More money into traffic? better landing pages? good product?
Ashish says:
actually every month is getting better as i am putting more efforts each day
Ashish says:
yes offcourse the experience also
$corpiono says:
Do you have a certain niche you like to target?
Ashish says:
better landing pages, more traffic, more products and last month i released my first CB Product
Ashish says:
No certain niche..I am targeting more than 15 niches
Ashish says:
I am planning to target at least 50 products by the end of March
$corpiono says:
I see..
$corpiono says:
What forums do you frequent?
Ashish says:
Digitalpoint, warriorforum and ewealth
$corpiono says:
Do you buy/sell domains ?
Ashish says:
no i don’t deal in domain selling
$corpiono says:
What’s the future of being a guru in affiliate marketing in your opinion? Just more niches to tap or.. something else?
Ashish says:
I think What makes a guru, a real guru is Optin List… I have started building my list now… along with this I am going to release my second product as a publisher
Ashish says:
but that would take at least 2-3 months
$corpiono says:
Is it hard to integrate a product with clickbank?
Ashish says:
No its real easy task
$corpiono says:
Do you expect to earn more by having your own product than by promoting others in the future?
Ashish says:
yes, I am planning to have a consistent income first then will come fully into Publishing
Ashish says:
as my sites/blogs will be giving steady income from organic traffic
Ashish says:
after a certain time
$corpiono says:
Perfect
$corpiono says:
An ending message for our visitors
$corpiono says:
Something you advise them to do with clickbank in the start ups
Ashish says:
this is most difficult task.. ok writing
Ashish says:
Guys, If you are planning to come into Affiliate Marketing, Keep on trying, don’t give up. Initially it may have a lot of efforts but once you start getting decent traffic,I am sure you will get success. Also if you are newbie in Affiliate Marketing, I would suggest you to join some good Affiliate Marketing forums such as warriorforums or digitalpoint. One more forum is increasing popularity
Ashish says:
It is nichechoppers
Ashish says:
I wish you all the best
$corpiono says:
We thank you for your time ashish
$corpiono says:
Great interview
Ashish says:
Thanks Scorp..
$corpiono says:
Hope to hear about you with a 7 zero sum
$corpiono says:
from CB
Ashish says:
Thanks…
$corpiono says:
We’ll keep in touch on MSN, feel free to nudge me for a chit-chat anytime
Ashish says:
Yes sure…
Ashish says:
nice talking to you..
$corpiono says:
The interview will probablly be up friday night
Ashish says:
great… thanks..
$corpiono says:
Thanks for your help and your advices for the guys
$corpiono says:
Cheers
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Interview with my buddy Matthew Kammerer
Monday, January 26th, 2009
BuildInternet.com got ahead of me and took Matthew an interview, he’s a buddy of mine, similar age so his story is about success at a young age.
http://buildinternet.com/2009/01/an-interview-with-matthew-kammerer-of-ux-booth/
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Big fish: TearaBite – grownupgeek.com
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Nickname: Tearabite / The Firefox Referral King
Name: Randy Brown
Age: 41
Sex: Not enough
Location: Southern California, USA
Describe about your usual daily activity: For me most days consist of waking up early for my day-job, doing a quick check of the site to make sure all is well and doing a quick check on earnings. Throughout the day I try to keep an eye on the site, but it’s mostly on auto-pilot and in the hands of my moderators. In the evenings I go through all my email, resolve any issues that members might be having and process premium orders. Evenings are also when I do any maintenance or upgrades on the site.
Day job? : Yes, for the last 10 years my day job has been the IT Manager for all of our offices in the So.California area, but recently i have moved into our global-network management group, overseeing the private network of thousands of locations world wide. The company is one of, if not the largest company on the planet – making and selling everything from clothes-washing machines and movies, to jet-engines and nuclear power-plants..
Websites (Ordered by traffic): GrownUpGeek.com, Success.GrownUpGeek.com (my blog)
How many hours devoted to your work per day: 1 – 10
What was your first succesful website: GrownUpGeek.com
Highest visitor peak (don’t count traffic buying/link baiting): ~50,000/day; traffic from being on the front page of Digg in Aug 2006, another time from being talked-about on Leo Leporte’s national radio show.
Webmaster related forums/portals you visit: Digital Point, WebmasterWorld, BroadBandReports.com webmaster forums
Time to take a look at your main website: www.grownupgeek.com
Niche: help for “beginners” and novices
Describe it a bit: GrownUpGeek.com is a website where people can come to learn things. Initially it began as a place to learn about computers, internet and technology, but we have expanded it to include help on other topics such as Taxes, cooking, animals, and automobiles. We are a ’social’ website focusing on members helping each other. The website has been very successful, and has been published as an Adsense Success Story, used in the Adsense Support pages, featured in Kontera’s Presentations at BlogWorld, and also in Kontera’s press releases, among other places.
Where did the idea came to create such a site: I wanted a place where I could send people to answer common computer questions that I was getting asked all the time.
Avg Traffic: ~12,000 uniques/day
Main traffic sources: Organic Search
Best website referral: Digg.com
Revenue type: PPC, Premium Membership Fees, affiliate sales
Revenue sources:Adsense, Kontera, and Premium Fees account for 98% of all revenue
Avg Revenue: $80,000 in 2007; Average for 2008 so far is $8,500/month
Main marketing strategy you went for: “word of mouth” and anything else that is free
Sites you look up to: Markus at PlentyOfFish.com is my hero
Future Goals: Maintaing an upward trend in traffic, membership and earnings
A personal message for our visitors: Running a website for fun or profit can be fun and rewarding, but always remember to “do unto others as you would have others do unto you” and keep the internet a nice place by building a website that YOU would enjoy visiting and using. If you build quality websites you stand a much greater chance of being successful in the long-run. Treat your visitors/customers the way you would like to be treated, and remember that without them your website is nothing. Learn everything you can, keep at it, and don’t fear failure because it is one of the best ways to learn.
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Gamecheats.eu – Interview & Review – The success story of a gaming site
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Guys, as I promcied, we’ll have some really great interviews and website reviews that, hopefully will inspire some of you, or at least will burn the desire to do the same with your $0.10/month website *blushes*
I’m starting this interview section, with a very close and old friend of mine, I call him sTaG since the days we use to talk on IRC, he goes by a differite nickname online, maybe you have seen him around DigitalPoint, but we’ll find out more about him in the interview below. *Clap clap sTaG*
Gamecheats.eu
Scorpiono: Hello old friend, we’ll start this interview by showing up your online nickname which is:
Zehrila: usually its Zehrila
Scorpiono: Does it have any personal meaning?
Zehrila: it just means poisonous
Scorpiono: Name?
Zehrila: Call me Rez
Scorpiono: Age?
Zehrila: 24
Scorpiono: I know the answer, but are you male or female?
Zehrila: Male
Scorpiono: Describe a bit your usual activity!
Zehrila: I am just an ordinary person who likes to do every that thing which a normal human being does but cross limits some times when i am with friends. Internet has recently become my main activity. Browsing around the net searching for cool/new technologies is one of the things i like to do most while i am in front this magic machine computer. Apart from that rest of my times is spent exploring the ways to promote my site or product.
Scorpiono: You got to be very transparent on these questions.. we want to give out exact pieces of information here at my blog, Scorpiono.com
Scorpiono: Websites (Ordered by traffic)
Zehrila: Gamecheats.eu is my only and main site. Luckily it has been growing in terms of traffic ever since i started it an year and a half ago, current last peak was 30k uniques this
Scorpiono: How many hours devoted to your work per day?
Zehrila: I was spending too much time in promoting t his site an year ago, submitting to directories and every possible place where i could get a free link
Scorpiono: ..and nowdays?
Zehrila: ..like 30-40 minutes a day.
Scorpiono: ..talk about autopilot, heh!
Scorpiono: Stuff you do daily on the website, like maintainance?
Zehrila: Not much really, i just check if site is loading smoothly and delete few spam posts from forums if any.
Scorpiono: What was your first succesful website
Zehrila: GameCheats.eu obviously..
Scorpiono: Highest visitor peak (don’t count traffic buying/link baiting)
Zehrila: 30,000 uniques in single day.
Scorpiono: Webmaster related forums/portals do you visit?
Zehrila: Digitalpoint, Namepros, Acorndomains, Dnforum and Sitepoint.
Scorpiono: The niche is..
Zehrila: Gaming
Scorpiono: Go ahead and describe the website..
Zehrila: Cheat Codes is a sub category of gaming, you can say a very remote category but competition among cheat sites is fierce.
Scorpiono: Where did the idea came to create such a site?
Zehrila: Well it might sound funny but thats what it is. I was trying to register a gaming domain and had been using DP keyword tracker tool and found this keyword Game Cheats and so i registered this domain gamecheats.eu because it had alot of searches.
Scorpiono: Talk about lucky, I just got my Sergiu.name recently by accident..
Scorpiono: Average traffic your getting?
Zehrila: 24k uniques per day
Scorpiono: Traffic sources.. we eat all the info we can get.. so who gives you power?
Zehrila: Google then comes yahoo and msn
Zehrila: 85% of traffic comes from search engines.
Scorpiono: Best website referral ?
Zehrila: Cheatserver.com
Scorpiono: Let’s talk about revenue, PPC/PPI/PPA?
Zehrila: PPC
Scorpiono: Why so?
Zehrila: PPC converts and performs better than other sort of ads on contextual gaming sites.
Scorpiono: Revenue sources?
Zehrila: …Adsense > Vibrant > BurstMedia
Scorpiono: It’s good you marked the best ones, some visitors running the same niche might find this useful
Scorpiono: Avg revenue per month?
Zehrila: hmm bit sneaky..well around 3-4k dollar a month.
Scorpiono: Main marketing strategy you went for?
Zehrila: Dedication towards your goals.
Zehrila: Follow the rules set by search engines, stay up to date with changing technology.
Scorpiono: Sites you look up to?
Zehrila: A complete PSP and a PS3 portal.
Scorpiono: Goals to achieve in the future?
Zehrila: Premium Adsense Publisher
Scorpiono: A final word, for our visitors?
Zehrila: Make targets and hunt them. Don’t lose hope what so ever. Browse web forums and interact with other webmasters to stay updated.
Scorpiono: Well, thanks alot mate, hope we did something useful for the webmasters community here..
Zehrila: Cheers! 
Website review for Gamecheats.eu
Let’s begin with some screenshots I took, even though you might want to check the whole website out.
Website design
The website has a professional unique design, centered layout, with a good navigation system, so from the perspective of the Designer-Scorpiono, I see the website as a 8/10.
Coding
Going to programming, the website grabs the cheats by a crawler which makes the site’s value rise up, autopilot functions are indeed very good for a big website.
Doctype: < !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> – this makes me think, why not STRICT?! My coder codes only strict, of course some of the functions have to be made thru javascript, but it’s fine as long as it validates, so let’s see.
XHTML Validation: This page is not Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional! Result: Failed validation, 21 Errors » Ouch!!!
CSS Validation: Sorry! We found the following (1) error
Search Engine Optimization
Semantic coding for SEO: Yes – most part of it it’s done..
Backlinks: 362847 (woot!!)
Alexa ranking: 45,708
Let’s take submitexpress’s META tag analyzer:
Title: Title meta tag contains no errors.
This tag contains 11 characters.
——————————————————————————–
Title relevancy to page content is excellent.
The Title relevancy to page content is 100%.
——————————————————————————–
Description: Description meta tag contains no errors.
This tag contains 150 characters.
——————————————————————————–
Description relevancy to page content is fair.
The Description relevancy to page content is 79%.
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Keywords: Keyword relevancy to page content is very poor. However, this is not necessarily bad if you have a lot of content. The most important factor is to have your keywords on the page a few times.
The keywords relevancy to page content is 56%.
——————————————————————————–
Robots: Found no robots meta tag.
This tag is not really required but helps spiders to index the web page.
——————————————————————————–
Author: Found no author meta tag.
This tag is not really required but helps for your (company) name recognizing.
——————————————————————————–
Web page analysis.
This page contains too many URLs.
This tag contains 119 urls. Some Search Engines have problems with more than 100 urls on a page.
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The size of the web page.
The size of the web page is 32055 bytes.
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The web page load time.
The web page load time is 1 seconds.
——————————————————————————–
Your site displayed on a search engine page.
Game Cheats
Video game cheat codes for PC, XBox, Playstation, Xbox360, PSP, Dreamcast, GameBoy, Mobiles, DVDs, Playstation 2, Ps 3, Wii and many more game cheats.
http://www.gamecheats.eu
Overall: 8.75/10
Design: 8/10
Coding: 8/10
SEO: 9/10
Traffic: 10/10
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