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**witnesstheday** · 01-10-2009, 04:44 AM

I had to kill a rodent last night - I live in a place which sadly gets attacked by rodent infestations very regularly, built on a former scrap metal yard which was never decontaminated, my house terraced and a corridor of mouse immigration passing my way from least several swathes of mouse-infested zones. Even the exterminator gave up.

Killing rodents yourself is tricky. The best way is to use heavy objects to throw at them and knock them senseless. This is the third mouse I've killed so far.

Boy am I looking forwards to getting out of the slums!

**witnesstheday** · 12:57 AM

The disney rascal got his revenge. No sooner had I got my money machine sorted than some further mouse went and died under the flooring of my bedroom somewhere such that the place is now going to stink of dead mouse for absolutely ages, if any of the other parts of the house where this has happened are anything to go by! This means I have no other option - this one room left, where my computer room, has to be scrapped as a computer room and turned into a bedroom. I just finished my work on google - a good fat 3000 keywords to be going on with. Should be making money already. From now on I'll just carry on with it at cybercafes. it's light work. I'm getting out of this house and staying out!!! I can't have a crappy bedroom, so I'm sacrificing this room now. I officially live in hell.

Still, no matter how much evil this babylonian system has tried to foist upon me, I stayed a step ahead, eh? The clicks are mine. They can't stop me, even if they can make it smell and take away my heat! I just finished ALL my work, and just about the last thing I did was compile a huge list of women's underwear on the google keywords tool. The things I do for England.

Time to dismantle this room now! See you guys on the other side. I'll drop in one day from a cybercafe. I take all this to be a good sign. The thicker the flow of coincidences surrounding any particular event, the more likely you're getting to your final destination.

The stuff at this forum will have been some of the last stuff I did on this computer, assuming I'm rich enough to be a proper one in coming months, when i move to canary wharf.

I'm kind of glad about how it all unfolded. SO what if it stinks of dead mice all over my house? So what if a guy threw a shoe at me?

It's been fun spending 7 to 10 years in computerland. I hope this is really it. I hope I can get away now. It seems fairly simple. I just have to swap the rooms round and that's it. Without any rooms left to use as a computer room, I can't use a computer in my house. Makes sense. I'm free! Finally free from my computer. **** you computer! Right. I have beds and desks to dismantle and shift around a slum hellhole all by myself of a saturday evening. But when I AM a millionaire I'll try not to be vindictive about the life I've had to live.

**wayfarer07** · 01-10-2009, 03:39 PM

When you are a millionaire, send me $1000 per week for keeping you entertained through your prior suffering.

**colbyt** · 01-10-2009, 03:45 PM

Watch out the PETA people are coming after you.

How could you do such a thing?

**witnesstheday** · 01:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wayfarer07

When you are a millionaire, send me $1000 per week for keeping you entertained through your prior suffering.

Come on, I entertain as good as I get entertained!

However I am deadly serious about my new plan to come HERE to w-t to recruit the dozen to three dozen developers I shall need to set many of my plans in motion during tax year 2009 to 2010!

I'm sure I can throw some contracts your way which would take very little time to generate you lots of cash!

The business machine is doing well. The mistake I made with google adwords in the past was to be too careless in the final execution of my keyword bids - I'd let 1000s of impressions end up amassing for SLIGHTLY irrelevant words and my quality score would fall through the floor after I left it on for about a week running like that. Currently I'm working with an unspoiled domain and being VERY careful.

Although I did end up seeing 10,000 impressions go by with only a 0.1% CTR - however it's paused now and I've removed words enough to reduce that to about 2500 impressions for the same clicks, pretty much. So I'm more than pretty sure that my system works now, plus it's morally acceptable, plus google can't aim its greedy switch-you-off gun at me since Google aren't the ones paying me, they're the ones I pay, so they know their place and learn to obey.

I have turned my computer into a picture frame. It sits on my bedside table (not much of a place for daily typing and engagement with software and browsers) with a big picture of you know who lighting up my bedroom. Don't worry, a quick splodge-q and a quick clearing of the recent items menu and any date I bring home won't be any the wiser. They'll just think I was surfing porn or something, if they're I.T. literate (and you'd be surprised, some of my dates are shockingly I.T. literate).

My job pretty much no longer requires the use of a computer. All I have to do from now on is take dosh out of my bank account and pay it into google's. The more I do it, the more money will appear in my account - it's a bit like Brewster's millions...

**wayfarer07** · 01-11-2009, 11:07 AM

You've got me kind of curious now. I haven't played with pay-per-click since the Overture days (before it got swallowed up by Yahoo), though I did have some success back then. The idea of having passive income is definitely appealing to me. Anyway, if you want to bat some ideas around with me sometime, feel free to get in touch.

Ok, I'm going to go do work by the hour now... (yes, on a Sunday)...

**witnesstheday** · 01:25 PM

It's definitely worth having that kind of income if you believe in your ability to make it. What amazes me is that it wasn't so many months ago that I was REALLY close to where I am now and one of the biggest things which drove me back away from it and into what then led to many months of slavery is the confidence aka the balls. I'm more optimistic and self-driven than most and yet society finds it easy to demoralize me and drive me back into my shell... I couldn't get 4p hits for very long before the quality dropped and I got booted up toward 15p a hit, which then messed up my profit bigtime. Instead of trying to scientifically repeat the pricess but without letting the quality drop (i.e. by simply learning to fiddle and fiddle and fiddle and prevent the CTR dropping below a critical threshold) (and by doing devious things like running only for 15pence a day in order not to let any massive failure of CTR have too much damage on rating before I can get a chance to remedy the problem words etc) I tried to buy them at 15 to 20p and accepted that I'd have to work at a loss until repeat business made up the difference and made me break even (i.e. I'd just be paying for a gradually growing audience rather than for up front sales at a profit).

This meant trying to raise the loot in other ways, and in the end, in times of despair, I tried to raise the traffic directly through slave-labour-driven promotion. I built a really big list of good forums, too, which i now have stopped short of using for promotion. I think there's well over 1 million people reading all those forums on my list, collectively - it's a vetted mainstream list with only relatively large and gigantic membership and readership levels.

Anyway. This machine remains a picture frame, and I have to get on my knees to use it, so I'll get up now and finish sunday with a trip to the sweet shop. I deserve a dairy milk. Every other penny I have is going into the money machine tomorrow, but tonight I'm having a dairy milk. It's my only alternative sugar to the real thing. Nudge nudge. Wink Wink. Owz yer father.

I say go for it. Get yourself the extra dough. I mean I could have had this shiyat up and running a few months ago, when I was trying it out and getting beaten back. Trouble is I was using someone else's money that I still had left over from my adsense arbitrage failure - which reminds me, don't let google be the ones to pay you. You HAVE to get your income from somewhere else otherwise you are at google's mercy (and they are NOT merciful - ignore the hype - google won't let ANYONE have any dough but themselves). The only reason my machine is 100% reliable and can be trusted to carry me to Jerusalem and back, and take care of any number of children (even my own, should it come to it) is that my income is from the performance-based networks which means it's totally fair and proper income, all of it based 100% on my having made a profit for the major UK retailers first. (Whereas a LOT of pay per click income, rather than pay for performance, is not truly correlated with profit and many of the clicks you're selling never make the other party a penny. With me they ONLY pay me if they got something out of it. It doesn't matter if they click. Although of course they have to in order for the website to get something out of it)

Thus as long as I'm getting more money off those guys than I'm paying google, I'm getting myself a good profit and I'm not 'playing' the system. It's not arbitrage either - it's really just promoting my own search engine and building its traffic. But in the end I measure everything in terms of per click payment, in order to make it easier to assess the ROI.

Some of the sites I am going to be building with my profits (and will definitely need developers, back/front end both, and graphics designers, to produce some truly far out online resources)...

Propertyfinder (with a clever twist, all will be revealed at its launch)
Debt management tool
Virtual court-room for political debates

(I will continue with a number of smaller, less tricky projects until I am absolutely ready to build my affiliate network combined with an upgraded version of my search engine's software itself)

Anyway, I've been on my knees long enough. See ya later. I'm off to buy a dairy milk.

**jv17** · 01-11-2009, 07:09 PM

nice story LOL

**witnesstheday** · 01-12-2009, 02:33 AM

My mum taught me to always be polite, so thank you Jayvee. But please, don't call me Lol! Call me Rashid Al Abrahami! It's not my name but if you abbreviate it you get RAA!