We have now left a vast quantity of largely inaudible footage on our cutting room floor.  (Sign up on the right if you'd like to see some of it).  The video is now definitely entitled "Traffic Heaven", and you can see the first cut below.  One or two more edits still need to be made and we need to add music,  maybe also a few more English subtitles for the hard of hearing!  Hopefully you can now get the basic idea though.  Feel free to let us know what you think by adding your comments at the bottom of this page.

On the traffic front we are starting to get a trickle from the Google natural search results. For example somewhat unexpectedly, since we are not explicity targeting the term, we are already at number 2 in the Google rankings for the keyphrase handycam connection.  For the terms we are targeting we have now risen to 9 for traffic geyser michael koenigs (ahead of both Eric Holmlund and Joel Comm ), and 61 for just traffic geyser.  We are still at number 1 for traffic geyser heaven and after starting at 60 four days ago we are now ranked 37 for the title of the video: Traffic Heaven.  For Secret Classroom we have had a slight setback.  Google has got a bit confused and now has us ranked at 147 for a Russian translation of our blog which no longer exists!

Our very first video, tentatively entitled "Traffic Geyser Heaven" is now in production!

We still have made no sales, so it looks like we've missed out on the $1 trial for Traffic Geyser.  I wish I knew what Frank Kern had to do to get his absolutely 100% free trial of the service, and therefore some extra free publicity for the relaunch of his Mass Control marketing system.  Not being in possession of Frank's contacts it looks like we'll have to make our own video, and promote it any way we can that costs $0 or less.

We waited for the weather to improve yesterday, and by late afternoon at least the rain had stopped so we shot about half an hour of footage.  As you will see in a day or two conditions were against us, so we have a lot of editing to do.  In the meantime I just recorded a screen capture video courtesy of the free version 3 of Camtasia.  We are now sandwiched between Eric Holmlund and Joel Comm in the Google natural search rankings! Take a look here.

We urgently need to get one dollar or more into our currently empty PayPal account.  We're going to try to do that by selling at least one copy of a very low cost product from one of the experts from the Secret Classroom.  A quick bit of research revealed the ideal ebook - Joel Comm's Adsense Traffic Secrets.

To discover this little gem I headed over to 7dollaroffers.com and browsed around. As luck would have it a couple of products from Joel Comm himself are on sale at $7 dollars a pop.  The advantage of 7dollaroffers.com in our current predicament is that 75% of all sales we make are paid directly into our PayPal account, which is just perfect.  The disadvantage is that this is a statistical thing.  On average we get 3/4 of all sales, but the first sale might go straight to the PayPal account of the owner of 7dollaroffers, and we'd still have nothing to pay for our 14 day Traffic Geyser trial.  If that happened we'd have to wait for the second sale, and there's no telling how long that might take, because we're still only getting a trickle of traffic.

Is there any kind soul out there who could do us and our experiment a tremendous favour and buy Adsense Traffic Secrets or one of the other $7 products from us?  Alternatively if you happen to know Michael Koenigs' phone number please give him a call and ask him if he could make us an irresistible offer that we cannot possibly refuse, even in our currently dire financial state.

Thanks very much in advance.

Earlier today I received an email  which included a link to some early Xmas gifts from Joel Comm.  One in particular caught my eye. Only $1 for a 14 day trial subscription  to Traffic Geyser which is the latest brainchild of Michael Koenigs, one of the experts featured in the Secret Classroom.

It sounds like the answer to our prayers.  Loads of traffic and a front page Google listing "in a matter of hours".  Now I know that I'm biased, but personally I don't think we're doing too badly in terms of getting on the front page of Google.  We are certainly lacking traffic just at the moment though.  Apparently the Traffic Geyser service makes it really easy to create videos then upload them to a series of Web 2.0 sites.  It's the latest thing in traffic generation.  Lots of people get to see your video, which generates huge quantities of traffic and you zoom up the Google natural search rankings in no time.

It sounds like just what we need and we're desperate to try it out but there is one small problem.  We still haven't made a sale. We are determined not to put any money down, not even one measly dollar, until we can do so out of profits generated from this business

We've now got SEO Elite configured to check what progress we have made in the Google natural search results for a variety of keyphrases.  Yesterday we just wanted to know if we'd been indexed, which happened very quickly.  Today we want to know where we stand for keyphrases that people might actually type into their Google toolbars when trying to find out more about the Secret Classroom course.

Things can change very quickly this early in a campaign, but at the moment on a search for "Joel Comm Secret Classroom" (without the quotes) Google ranks us at number 29 out of  9,930.  A search for "Secret Classroom" (again without the quotes) puts us at 108 out of 798,000.  Total sales (that I am currently aware of) stand at $0!

It is less than an hour since I clicked  the "Publish" button for my post about  the Secret Classroom.  We are already at number 7 in Google US for the query "joel comm" "secret classroom" "next internet millionaire" "mark joyner" simpleology.  Now it is very unlikely that anyone will actually type all that into their Google search box.  It does however illustrate how quickly it is possible to get into the Google natural search results these days.

Today Joel Comm has launched a new product called The Secret Classroom. It is the home study version of The Next Internet Millionaire internet reality show.

If you've been following this blog for a while you'll know that here at World Wide Web Gurus we are big fans of Mark Joyner and his simpleology courses.  You will also know that we are attempting to demonstrate how to earn money on the internet without spending any first.  This launch presents us with an opportunity to try and combine these two passions of ours.  We are affiliates of Joel, and can therefore earn money by selling his products.  In addition Mark Joyner was the first real life internet millionaire to appear on the show.  He was teaching the 12 contestants how to use the techniques he teaches in simpleology to organize their time better and so become vastly more productive.

Now normally for a big launch like this we'd buy some pay per click advertising, but that is against the rules for this project.  We'll see if we can find out what is possible without paying for any clicks, or any other form of advertising come to that.

Watch this space!

Adsense guru Joel Comm has started a new venture, a reality show delivered via the internet rather than TV.  The show is entitled "The Next Internet Millionaire", and the prize the 12 contestants are competing for is a joint venture with Joel Comm himself.

One of the things I don't like about the internet marketing industry is the way in which thousands of products are churned out every year, most  of which are simply regurgitated stale crap.  Of  the few products that do contain some real meat very few address what seems to me to be the fundamental problem.  Even if you have bought some up to date information, maybe even a system that really works, you won't make money on the internet unless you get your head straight.

This point was made by Richard Dennis many years ago, before the internet as we now know it even existed. "I always say that you could publich my trading rules in the newspaper and no one would follow them.  The key is consistency and discipline" (Quoted in "Market Wizards" by Jack D. Schwager.)

From this point of view I was very pleased to see that the first episode of "The Next Internet Millionaire" featured Mark Joyner and simpleology.  On  the  WWW Gurus  mission  to teach  "Internet marketing with no money down" simpleology 101 is the ideal starting point.  Mark Joyner has provided at no cost whatsoever an online course that helps you get your head in the right place to achieve whatever it is that you want to achieve.  If what you want to achieve is to make some money from internet marketing then you might want to take careful note of the methods Mark uses to try and persuade you to part with some money for his other simpleology courses!

I have no idea how many of the contestants on "The Next Internet Millionaire" were already familiar with the ideas behind simpleology before meeting Mark Joyner on Day 1 of the show. If they weren't I'm afraid I don't think they would be in a position to make much use of them over the 2 weeks they spent recording the show. I am sure that Mark Joyner would agree with Richard Dennis that the key to success, in internet marketing in general, and simpleology in particular, is consistency and discipline over weeks, months and years, not just a few days.

Scott Boulch proclaims "The Death of Adsense".  Joel Comm retorts that "AdSense is Alive".  Another 8 months down the line Joel assures us that changes at Google mean "The Death of AdSense Arbitrage".

Is there any truth in any of this?  We intend to find out.  More than that - We intend to find out if it's possible to earn money on the internet without paying for clicks, without paying for links, without paying for anything at all.

In the 21st century anyone with an internet connection anywhere in the world can sell pretty much anything to someone else with an internet connection somewhere else in the world. A third party can make money from bringing those buyers and sellers together.  Companies like Google and eBay are making a whole lot of money doing just that.

Imagine you have no cash, no bank account, no credit card.  Nada.  Zilch. Imagine a benefactor gives you access to an internet connection free of charge for an hour or two a day.  What might it be possible to achieve? Take a look at what's happening on our blog.