First of all, as someone who used to write content for cash online, I want to say that there is no substitute for QUALITY, targeted content. The kind that can only be done either by yourself (if you have the skills), or by a skilled content writer.

However, there are many instances in which you don’t necessarily need quality content. MFA (“made for Adsense”) sites are commonly stuffed with virtually unreadable content, often the work of writers who have practically no grasp of the English language whatsoever that charge very little. This content serves its purpose just fine. As long as there is a ton of it, and it is properly indexed, it is going to bring in traffic (if only from long-tail keywords).

Of course, in a perfect world, you’d be able to get higher quality content at those deep-discounted foreign prices, right? Well, here is an option you might want to consider.

College kids write a ton of content, they just don’t call it “content”. They call them “essays”, or “papers”. But a whole lot of it would make excellent content for one of your websites, right? For instance, if you have a finance related blog, business students probably have a vast wealth of original content on their laptops that they’ve accumulated that would make a nice addition to your site. There are several different niches with respective majors that work.

Of course, publishing the paper that your friend turned in last week may not be the best idea. That’s why I’d recommend doing this with older material, or better yet, buying content from students who have recently graduated.

It’s as simple as posting a flyer at the end of the school year on a campus bulletin board. We all know college kids need cash. They sell their text books at a HUGE loss just to make a few bucks at the end of the year. Of course when they see they can actually make some money off of the work they have already forgotten, they’re going to jump at the chance.

It’s up to you to decide what you want to pay for it, but most likely you can get away with paying very little. After all, if it weren’t for you coming along and offering them cash, they probably wouldn’t see a dime for it. It’s a win-win situation.

If you are a former college student, it has probably already occurred to you now that you can put your own work to use. Maybe school wasn’t such a waste of time after all?

Seriously. Recently in #cakes chat, some BHW folks were defending E-Whoring, saying it is a no different method of making money than creating “so and so’s” weight loss blog.

First of all, I don’t promote weight loss crap, and I never have. I don’t have a problem with it, it’s just not something I ever got into. Luckily, however, I have a couple referrals that have been actively slanging them berries. But I digress…

The very first money making forum I ever encountered was Wickedfire. I was referred by my girlfriend’s brother who is a designer/coder. It was sort of a sink or swim experience, and one I’m grateful for. However, the first thread I really got into was in the newbie section, and it was basically a step-by-step tutorial on e-whoring.

I didn’t know anyone in the community, so I didn’t know who to listen to or who to trust. But I went ahead and dove right in, signed up for Dating Gold under some schmuck’s affiliate link (okay, maybe I was the schmuck) and started e-whoring on MySpace.

If you don’t already know what e-whoring is, good. But if you insist on asking, it’s basically the practice of impersonating women online in an effort to get guys to sign up to your dating offers.

I was never able to break more than around $60/day. That’s about the same as what I supposed I would make working some mundane hourly job. However, it really took its toll on me, reading all of the terribly pathetic messages from some of the loneliest and most depraved people around. Eventually I learned ways to go about it that didn’t require as much manual interaction, but the vibe was still there. The whole concept just never sat well with me. And all that moral bullshit aside, it doesn’t generate enough money to even be worth it.

Fortunately, I never gave up, and I read the shit out of the golden stickies on Wickedfire. If you’re still banging your head against the wall trying to figure out ways to make money online, it’s because you haven’t taken the time to educate yourself there. I still promote dating off and on, but not like that. There are so many better ways for you to utilize your time and to apply yourself online. Don’t get caught up in that e-whoring bullshit. Even if you find that you are fantastic at it, you’re just going to get dropped from your network when they find out. It’s just not worth it. Not to mention it’s totally gay.

Christmas is finally here. Finally we can get it over with and get back to our normal lives and our normal department store music.

Have you heard the latest gossip on Wickedfire? According to Ruck, Co-Commander in Chief of Convert2Media, his fantastic affiliate network will be changing its payment terms for the new year.

What will the new terms be? Beats the eggnog out of me. He didn’t reveal a whole lot of details.

“Anybody that has been with Convert2Media is grandfathered until Jan 1st”, Mr. Ruckman quipped, “and then I am changing over to a different payment structure based on volumes.”

So, in other words, the current payment terms are probably better. That means you have just a few days to sign your ass up with Convert2Media, and hope they approve your application before the Tournament of Roses Parade.

Now, I must crack open my 3rd bottle of apple cider (it’s not even noon yet, so don’t worry, I’ll be switching to Stella Artois at some point).

Alright, here is my first contribution as an expert super affiliate guru genius overlord.

Everyone knows that when you try to link to something from a MySpace page, it gets redirected to some bullshit warning pop-up that says something like “Are you sure you want to click that fucking link? Do you really know what you’re doing, dumbass!?”

And on top of all that, user created links on MySpace are no-followed. Or so you thought…

Check out a MySpace music page. As an example, we’ll use Dr. Dre (talking affiliate marketing gets me feelin’ gangsta). Take a look on the left under “Dr. Dre General Info”. Next to “Band Website”, you’ll see a link to “dre2001.com/“. Now peep the page source (with FireFox, that would be right-click–>view page source). Then how about a little Ctrl-F action to search through the code? Search for the URL, dre2001.com, and see for yourself that there is absolutely no “nofollow” attribute to be found within the link.

The beauty of MySpace Music pages is that they are easy as shit to boost in terms of PR. All you need to do is befriend super popular MySpacers (like bands and celebrities) and leave them a few comments. Of course, there is plenty of software at your disposal to automate your MySpacing.

Before you know it, you’ll have a PR3 (or more) link to whatever site you want. It doesn’t necessarily need to be a music related site, but that may be more beneficial to you.

And that concludes the first GEM excretion from OffWhiteHat.com. Click here to sign up for a MySpace Music page. No, you don’t actually need to upload any of your grunge garage band’s demos from the mid 90s.

You may be asking, “Hey, kingofsp, this is a pretty sweet layout, and it is so functional! Are you some sort of php prodigy, or what?”

Well, believe it or not, this is just a standard WP theme that I tweaked a little bit. And when I say tweaked, I mean fucked up really bad. Then, good fortune smiled upon me, and Flewid was nice enough to save the day and fix the mess that I made.

Well, now I’ve got my theme in order, and I’ve got my affiliate links in the sidebar…I guess all that’s left is to start refreshing my referral commission stats. Oh, wait…I should probably photoshop some checks. Damn..this shit is exhausting.

I figured if I want this “super affiliate marketing” blog to be a success, I had better take care of the most important aspects of it first (the network affiliate links on the side). If I’ve learned anything from the greats, it is to never stop pimping out your sidebar with your favorite affiliate networks.

Now that I’ve got my referral links in place, what’s next? Hmmm…

By some miraculous, inexplicable twist of fate, you’ve arrived at the greatest blog on Earth, OffWhiteHat.com. As if that weren’t odd enough, you found the very first post!

Go buy a lottery ticket!