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32 pointskreci10 comments

I need to warn the HN crowd. KreCi previously wrote an eBook on improving PageRank. There were a few good reviews and everything sounded great. He sold the site and the eBook on Flippa and make a few hundred bucks.

Link to his blog post: http://www.kreci.net/blogging/pagerank-4-in-two-weeks/

Link to the ebook site (now owned by a Flippa purchaser): http://improve-pagerank.com/

I ended up purchasing his book a week or so ago. It was quite terrible. The "secret" was e-mailing bloggers for back links. The book was probably about 10 pages, 9 pages were about how to set up a blog, buying a domain (with affiliate links), and then there was one page about e-mailing bloggers for backlinks, and a few example e-mails he sent.

I can't say I expected much, but I'm afraid someone else might waste their money on this sort of thing.

All this being said, I think KreCi's site is pretty interesting and there was some valuable/useful information there. I just feel a bit ripped off from the book purchase. I take it as a lesson learned, but hopefully no one else needs to learn the lesson here too.

I am sorry that you were not able to use the knowledge in the ebook. Before you bought (at least in my original intro) there was a number of the pages given in the description (it was a report not ebook). As you said most reviews were positive. I sold it on flippa as I do not know how to promote it (it was sold via one of forums mostly - not my blog). Now I regret I have sold it as I believe if I would be working on it more it would be much better now and still would be selling.

Anyway it is not secret and all history may be read on my blog.

I will not make this mistake again and will not sell right to my ebook again.

I'm a HN n00b so I don't understand why this is getting promoted up so quickly. Do people not actually visit the links? No offense kreci, but there's no actual info on that page yet. Seems like pure self promotion to me.

He has been developing free Android apps for awhile now and has been posting his financial results to HN for some time now.

He lives in Poland and is unable to sell paid apps, so he can only rely on advertising for revenue.

Thanks chopsueyar, I knew there had to be a valid reason!

I like his approach - get others to help him create content to drive traffic and pay them with ebooks.

A side note: You web site have more text in advertising then in posts.

Thanks for being honest. I will try to optimize it. You are right - especially last post is short and it is not looking good at all.

Questions welcome =)

Where do you think the biggest opportunities lie for passive income in Android apps? I already feel like the market is saturated and I can't come up with any ideas.

How do you come up with ideas and how long does it take for you to get them into reality? Do you outsource any of your work?

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