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How I Made $2k in a Month from One Medium Article

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77 pointsNicoJuicy23 comments

If this article was written in September and referred to earning over $2k in August does it really count as $2k per month? Sounds more like "I earned $2k in a month" rather than "I earn $2k per month"

I'd be interested in seeing longterm stats in the future

I can guarantee you the answer is somewhat related to the term "clickbait"

Ok, we've put that in the title above.

My main takeaway from this is providing people with value results in value being returned. There is no SEO “hack” that results in long term success. He’s honestly providing information that people find useful, and in return he is receiving value. This is a great example of authentic, honest marketing. Good job!

Except the problem is he basically asked them to give him more money in exchange for guaranteed long term mention in the article.

To me that's a bit shitty because you're no longer recommending them based on what they offer but more so based on how much money you receive from them.

Exactly. He went from helping readers to helping himself. And now that I know his opinions are for sale, he's lowered my trust level for everything he writes in the future. I'm sure the same is true for any editor who he approaches about a new piece.

Hmm. I guess that’s true. I think it’s safe to assume however, that this article is relevant and useful for x months, and I see no issue with him getting paid as long as the article is relevant. If the services mentioned significantly decreased in usefulness or increased in cost etc. then it would be on the author to appropriately update the article. If new services were added in place of old ones, it stands to reason he could get the same arrangements with those companies. I guess it all comes down to trust and whether this guy seems honest or not. Seems to me that he is

It certainly helps that most potential customers looking for an instagram bot are probably from the marketing department and have little technical knowledge. Many times what seems obvious to use HN people completely flummoxes non technical users even when they’re directly responsible when the CEO says “get us on Instagram!”

Why are all the author's twitter account suspended anyhow? Maybe too much blog spamming?

".. and then I decided to create an article on exactly how I did all this, and posted it to Hackernoon, earning me yet more income. Also it was likely to be picked up by HN, which would increase traffic even more, and provide me - through their excellent comments - some neat tricks & tips on how to improve my campaign even further." :)

But I appreciate all the efforts, and the original article is good-quality content, I guess (I'm not into Insta bots).

Good guess, but i'm not the author.

I have some things of HackerNoon in my follow-list, he had an interesting novelty on increassing commission through contacting the websites in specific.

And then i click on "Post to HN" :) (i'm not kidding, https://gyazo.com/122a7939fe26a2a76836d4deae03aaab )

What script / plugin is that? Looks interesting.

It's a web application of mine, it's not ready yet ( performance wise)

What you see is rss import and custom actions ( eg. A button to add a new link to post to hn).

I dogfood it as a bookmarking web app and rss-reader currently, but it can do a lot more

Nice, what's it coded in if you don't mind I ask?

Asp.Net MVC with Entity Framework.

I added some other stuff also, eg. Tag Properties.

Because a tag can have properties ( eg. Html field or a textbox input). Perhaps i can explain it better with an example.

I add a story that has a HN comment section.

So i add a url ( like here) and a title. As tag, i add a COMMENTSBYHACKERNEWS tag.

It loads the properties endpoint and adds a textbox. In the textbox, i add the Item Id of hackernews

When you press discuss on the article, it loads custom javascript, so the HN comments are loaded.

=== I also added Actions on buttons ( eg. Post TO HN goes to a HN url with the Title and Url) Or the button can use ToggleTag, which would make it usefull for task management.

=> Item has a tag "todo", click on the button done, launches the actions => SwitchTag: todo and SwitchTag: "finished"

So you go from tag: todo to tag "finished".

Isn’t the first rule of affiliate marketing “Don’t out your niches?”

niche snitch gets stitch

But now he can make money each month from articles about making money each month.

This is both the affiliate endgame and signal that everyone who could make money in the market already did and they're getting out.

Sometimes it's the result of hubris, though.

Ya, a lot of time, it is hubris. Everytime I have started making money in a niche, there are always idiots that start making money and telling everyone they know about how they are making money.

Apparently the answer is to use the word "rocket" a whole lot of times in the first couple paragraphs, accompanied by animated gifs of rockets, to illustrate potential marketing success.

TLDR: Affiliate links

and ways to increase commission (new) and increase clicks ( old)

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