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Outsourcing Arbitrage - Get Cheap Links From The Philippines
By Max | May 25, 2007
I usually get about one good money making idea each week. I keep a lot of them a secret because I fool myself into thinking that I’ll be able to cash in. Most of the time I retreat back to my lazy ways and forget about it though. Maybe one of you can take this one and run with it?
So there are a lot of popular blogs out there that make good money selling text link advertisements, usually through a service like, text-link-ads. John Chow is one of those guys who earns big money doing this. I believe one of his text links will run you $240. Well he also runs a plugin on his blog called “Top Commentators.” I also run it on this website. The Top Commentators plugin, allows the person with the most comments during a week or month to get their web link displayed on the main page exactly like a text link ad.
I checked in on Craigslist in Manila, Philippines, and it looks like you can hire a full time English writer for 20,000 Pesos/month. That may sound like a lot, but its only $430. The Philippines was an American colony for many years, and much of the city dwelling population speaks English. Most Filipino colleges teach in English. You could have them writing 500-1000 comments a week and getting your (or a paying customer’s) link on 10-20 big websites for much less than the price of paying for a text link ad.
Imagine charging your customers $1000/month, skimming $400 off the top, paying your hired commenter $400/month with another $200 for expenses. Thats the way to earn some cash. Hire 10 Filipinos, and you can quit your job.
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May 25th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
I am confident one of these days you will no longer need to work. I am just hoping I am smart enough to join you.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
I’m pretty sure that a filippino couldn’t keep up with some of the spammers on John Chow’s site
May 29th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
This is a great idea.
June 1st, 2007 at 4:11 am
Ok, now that we know all know about this, don’t tell anyone else.
We’ll corner the market.