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Forum Earnings, Cracking The Technorati top 50, and more

Posted February 27th, 2007 by Jeremy Schoemaker

Here are some fun numbers.

748 – would be the unique amount of domains that linked to shoemoney.com (according to technorati) in the last week. Most of this was due to the mybloglog hubub. This catapulted shoemoney.com from the 70 to the 50’s in the most popular blogs on the internet. Watch out fellow elite retreat speakers Darren Rowse and Guy Kawasaki I am on your heels!!!!!

30 – is the Age of forum legend Nintendo!! Happy 30th Birthday Ninno you crazy mf’er!!

$23,000.00 is the amount SEO blackhat forums is making monthly from subscriptions!! Quadzilla makes the disclosure in this post That is some nice reoccurring revenue

4 – would be the amount of days in a row that shoemoney.com was on diggs front page last week.

160is the hits per second we received for the noon time digg.

Unknown the amount of time the server was down… lol before you talk shit lets see you handle 140 hits per second! (we can handle it now tho)

60 is the number of days since I announced I was going to do a myspace contest.. sorry… trying to get to it when I have time.

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59 comments. What say you?

  1. Good Comment?
    boxing-for-sports-ru

    Âñå äëÿ ñïîðòà!
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  2. Good Comment?
    Poor Credit

    My site has been banned by digg due to one forum user… that’s bad publicity. To top it off, the credit site is only 3 months old

  3. Good Comment?
    Nathan Hannig

    Nintendo is 30 years old? I thought he looked a lot younger.

  4. Good Comment?
    Chris Alexander

    I’m surprised SEO black hat is able to keep those subscribers. The content is great at first, but hardly anyone posts. I suppose its because of the small, relatively, number of members.

  5. Good Comment?
    Maki

    Naked women? Whoa. Awesome. Didn’t see anything though.

  6. Good Comment?
    Maki

    Naked women? Whoa. Awesome. I didn’t notice any.

  7. Good Comment?
    TheGrin

    he he, i honestly didn’t see the post on digg front page but i almost guested right when i wrote this post on your down time

  8. Good Comment?
    Stuart

    Nah, probably 2 hours. DIGG has great traffic for a couple hours.

  9. Good Comment?
    John Loch

    Yes he’s a member ;)

  10. Good Comment?
    Tyler Banfield

    It’s interesting to look at the SEO BH Forum overall stats in comparison to the $23K per month:

    Threads: 799, Posts: 4,638, Members: 4,647

  11. Good Comment?
    ToddW

    Of course they are trying to minimize the effect if they didn’t then their system/site wouldn’t be to good ;)

  12. Good Comment?
    Stuart

    Damn, top 50. I’m in the top 500,000. That means you’re 10,000 times higher than me essentially. :(

  13. Good Comment?
    John Loch

    The problem with the Shoemoney brand is it *cant* be sold. Its not about a product or a site – its about a person (which is why he can do things like the elite retreat..)
    :)

  14. Good Comment?
    ToddW

    I’m pretty sure he’s safe ;)

  15. Good Comment?
    ToddW

    I thought it was $10mill ?
    Guess I read that wrong.

  16. Good Comment?
    ToddW

    Not only BH’ers.

    Things you read spark your brain and you can think of new stuff yourself based on things you’ve read there.

  17. Good Comment?
    ToddW

    No one said you can’t ;)
    Work work work.

  18. Good Comment?
    dan

    There will always be a way around whatever they put in place. There’s only so much you can do when you rely on users to control content. There will always be gaming, I think they are trying to simply minimize its effect.

  19. Good Comment?
    Marko

    I got a number for you, im 747,416,635 seconds old.

  20. Good Comment?
    jim

    But you’d need enough people and that many people can’t keep a secret… at least for longer than a day. :)

  21. Good Comment?
    fivecentnickel.com

    Holy crap! $23k/month for forum subscriptions? I’m in the wrong business…

  22. Good Comment?
    Stuart

    That’s a lot of money to throw, but maybe it is worth it.

  23. Good Comment?
    Stuart

    I sure as hell wish I could be making $23,000 a month

  24. Good Comment?
    Stuart

    Digg is full of nerds, they have days to write algorithms to keep them from being gamed.

  25. Good Comment?
    Daniel

    sometimes it might make the site look cheap, not something that loyal readers care, but a first time visitor might

  26. Good Comment?
    Tyler Banfield

    I’ve chatted with several people about it, and although they didn’t disclose anything, they did say it’s one of the best investments that they make every month

  27. Good Comment?
    SonicReducer

    There were many of these types of sites around, but they all fail due to their own publicity. I still think it would be possible to game digg if you had a tight network of people, you would just have to keep everything private.

  28. Good Comment?
    Brian Despain

    Good point – who wants to buy a web property with 230 members? Quadzilla strikes me as a guy who is pretty upset about missing out on the first dot com wave.

  29. Good Comment?
    jim

    it’ll cost you $100 to find out

  30. Good Comment?
    jim

    The only one I ever see is one in a bikini top… and it’s made me click it (but not buy anything). :)

  31. Good Comment?
    wildbluff_matt

    $100/month? It’s probably worth it, but you’ve gotta be really serious about it.

  32. Good Comment?
    ToddW

    The first rule about fight club is…. ;)

  33. Good Comment?
    ToddW

    If you click the ad you’d see it’s some PPC ebay ad or how to make money with adsense kind of thing ;)

  34. Good Comment?
    natekapi

    Wow, 23k a month off the Blackhat SEO forums is awesome!! Not being a member, I actually always wondered how many people were actually signed up there and shared stuff. Looks like its 230 is the answer.

    Does anyone here have access to the forums? Shoe, are you on the forum there?

  35. Good Comment?
    CPA Affiliates

    Awesome Job on cracking Technorati man thats a Big Feat!

  36. Good Comment?
    Kyle

    I completely agree.

  37. Good Comment?
    Hoodmonkey

    It only lasted a second, though.

  38. Good Comment?
    SUP3RNOVA

    160 hits per second….sick…

  39. Good Comment?
    Ryan

    160 hits per second? Must be nice to have that kind of a problem!

  40. Good Comment?
    Dastar

    $100 a month subscription price. A bit pricey but I am sure it’s worth it for the black hatters.

  41. Good Comment?
    jim

    23k a month… that’s some sick stuff.

  42. Good Comment?
    Lee Bandoni

    So with Quadzilla taking offers over $1,000,000 for his site what figure would it take to take ownership of the Shoemoney.com brand?

  43. Good Comment?
    wildbluff_matt

    23K a month in subscriptions?? You weren’t kidding about recurring income flowing heavy.

  44. Good Comment?
    Daniel

    Jeremy, this is an off-topic suggestion. I would consider removing those AuctionAds from your sidebar. Every now and then there is naked woman and strange ads there, not sure how it related to your content.

  45. Good Comment?
    Daniel

    Do you guys remember the site spikethevote.com that tried to game digg? looks liks it crashed down

  46. Good Comment?
    mincus

    $5000Cost to attend Elite Retreat

    $450 – Cost to fly from Baltimore, MD (BWI) to Omaha, NE (OMA) to see Shoemoney, talk and pick his brain with under 25 other people at the Nebraska People Making Money Online meeting

    Now, obviously there is a huge amount of value in the elite retreat – the amazing lineup of speakers, the intimate setting – but if you are looking to have the chance to meet Jeremy and make some contacts, $450 honestly seems like a steal.

  47. Good Comment?
    Dominic Hodgson

    Are those dig stats regular 160hits a SECOND seems a little high shoe? (i’ve never been dugg but i’ve never seen stats that high)

  48. Good Comment?
    Ahmad Uzair

    never had stats like this..wish to be like you or even better than you..

  49. Good Comment?
    John Loch

    I’m curious what drives the membership at BHSEO. I mean, I know what its about, but there must be assloads of ppl who figure, whats new ?

    I reckon they should cultivate a ‘public’ forum/thread, then when enough of their members have posted (knowing its going public), throw the doors open on it for a week or so.

    I’m at a level where I know more than many about ‘black hat’, and wonder if it would be of benefit to me (you put some 5 star juice in front of me and I’ll quaff it just like the next bloke)

    Certainly validates what you posted about recurring subscriptions Shoe. :)

  50. Good Comment?
    John Loch

    What would you do if an XPLT were made available to you ?

  51. Good Comment?
    Gary R. Hess

    I don’t know about gaming but the guys who have a lot of friends just submit stories which have been submitted by 10 other people and theirs is the one who gets on the front page. This isn’t really that big of a deal because the friends feature is nice, however it is really hard for new guys to get started there.

  52. Good Comment?
    ToddW

    Who cares about 23k a month – more importantly da king of the wackos is 30… lol

  53. Good Comment?
    Stuart

    Maybe shoe should start posting digg exploits, now that would be something to take a look at.

  54. Good Comment?
    Stuart

    Damn, quadzilla is raking in a butt-load.

  55. Good Comment?
    Bulbboy

    Are you fancying a flutter on a new forum Shoe?

  56. Good Comment?
    Dan

    There’s no such they as bad publicity hey. So next on the agenda is to get banned by digg? :)

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