May 2021

1. Can you tell a bit about yourself? What do you do and how did you get started in internet marketing? I am 28, born in Slovakia (note, not Slovenia), raised in the lower-ish middle class family with my younger brother and sister. I graduated from law school at Masaryk University in Czechia, where you can find me wandering the streets of southern Moravia drunk to this very day. I started with IM, remotely, when I was 19. I was working as an externist for one advertising agency as a PPC campaign admin. But the work there went slowly to shit and being 21 and stuck at law school, well, I figured that I might do PPC campaigns for my own clients. Oh well, how wrong was I. After the initial success I kinda run out of money to promote my service and well, had to say farewell to this idea (From what you can see, I really like to talk about myself). Then one day I came across BHW, which was a huge coincidence. I remember having a cigarette break with my band-mates during rehearsal and someone came up with idea to make a meme website, like a copy of 9gag. So my job was to find a Facebook clickjacker. I remember looking for one for hours until I stumbled across BHW and I read threads here until 5am. That was back in 2012. I took the action the very next day, made my first big money the very year and it took off from there. 2. Tell us a bit of your current projects, what are you working on? Well, to be honest, I am trying to divert from IM altogether. I am mostly focusing on cryptocurrency offline (if they can be called offline) projects (no, I am not doing any ICO). And why the diversion? I feel kinda burnt out and I feel like a change is needed to move in my “professional” life, if we can even call it that. 3. What kind of SEO tools do you regularly use? My most favorite tools are my employees. No idea how they handle my mood swings and temperament. I guess I pay them well enough. Besides that, I love remote desktop and teamviewer… No, really, considering that I focus mostly on selling domains, my tools without which I would not be able to do crap are Majestic, Ahrefs, Archive, Domaintools and Hosterstats. One that I love the most, outside the domain checking category, is probably Semrush. Makes keyword research effortless. And this will sound cheesy as hell, but the best tools are your hands and head. I might be old school, but I still like to do most of my work without any automation. 4. How do you see the role of A.I. in SEO? I prefer the term “virtual intelligence” for science sake. Well, we can already see it in effect in form of the “Rank Brain”. I believe that if you were to ask a Google engineer why a certain site is ranked #1 for its term, he would not be able to answer. Google algorithm is advancing and learning fast, but the question is, whether it can “kill” SEO as we know it. And I believe it can’t. There will always have to be some “factors” like backlinks etc., that can be exploited and manipulated. So unless the search engine can read the mind of the user, I think we are good to go. Problem is that SEO is taking way too long nowadays. Ranking site can take years and you have to be content with the fact that you might be pouring money down the drain for months and might not ever see those money again. Getting your initial investment back can take ages and overall, SEO is a game for big boys only nowadays. You can ask any backlink sellers about how their orders look compared to few years back. Newbies can’t really afford SEO and those who come in with $100 budget end up very disappointed and demotivated. 5. What kind of link building strategy do you use? My main focus, despite the fact that I sell domains, is a perfect onsite optimization. Once you build a flawless site with flawless densities, interlinking and keyword research, the entire link building campaign is a piece of cake. And besides guest posts, PBNs and few expired web 2.0s, I do not even use any other links. Waste of time. They don’t do crap anyway. And unless you are planning to pointlessly play with fire and pump your exact/partial anchors as high as possible, while trying not to end up stuck sandboxed at 2nd page, then you do not need any foundation links at all. 6. Do you still use 301 redirects? What is a proper way to make them work? Well I have never been using 301 redirects that much and I have not played with them in some time. I know what some of my clients have been doing quite successfully and I’ve mentioned it all over the forum quite a few times (dozens). – Don’t even bother with some small 10 – 20RD domains. – Get a big one. – Like really big one. – Bigger – Is it big enough? Good. – It’s related though, right? No? Sucks. – Get a niche related one. – More related. – Anchors get redirected too you know, so if there are some random anchors, even if within your niche, then it’s not a good idea. – Good, now build it up. – What do you mean you want to redirect it at registrar level? No. – Build it up like a regular site. Populate it with content. – 2 weeks have passed and you want to redirect it? Haha, no. – Wait for a few months. – Does it rank naturally for some keywords? Good. – No you can’t redirect it yet, wait some more. – Are you there still? – Good,

Disclaimer: I’m all over the place. Please forgive me for the sporadic answers. 1. Can you tell a bit about yourself? What do you do and how did you get started in internet marketing? 1. I got into IM in 2009. I was about 14. Lived in a rural area so there wasn’t much to do – no distractions. So it led to me spending a lot of time on the computer and then eventually internet marketing. Micro niche websites were popular then, so I made them for people. I realized the only two keyword research tools at the time (Micro Niche Finder and Market Samurai) sucked so I started making my own. Exec VIP member meathead1234 told me I ought to sell licenses and not just keep it for myself. hitman247, another exec VIP on here, saw me talking about it on the forum and came in as one of my first customers. He’s now a very close friend of mine – we chat daily and visit each other often. After that, the company blew up on BHW and WF. I got WSO of the day and week. First day I ever made 5 figures was then, when I was 16. PayPal came along Feb 1, 2012 and did what they do, limited my account, held 5 figures and cancelled all my recurring subscriptions. This basically forced my company to a slow and painful death. More about that here. Then I founded another tool called SerpClix (credit goes to BTB and Taktical for their advice on this project), and had some exciting times with that. Learned old school sales. One day I was on the call with an older man, he was an agency owner down south and had a few big contracts. I think it was Victoria’s Secret and Hilton Hotels for each around $500k/mo. He wanted to try SerpClix. On the other end of the call is me, a kid in college, sitting in my apartment at a desk, half dressed, bed head, about 2:00 in the afternoon, excited and anxious with every answer I gave back. He said he wanted to try it for $500. I confidently replied “add a zero” – and he’s said “okay, $5000?” – and that was basically one of my first sales calls ever. His young female assistance PayPal’d that money over to me right away. I got another few hundred agencies signed up and then one agency just bought the company outright and I’ve been enjoying life ever since. So, to answer your question, what do I do – I sell software. Mainly. 2. Tell us a bit of your current projects, what are you working on? 2. Right now I moved to San Diego for the winter. I just graduated college 11 months ago so I’m kind of living my life on the money I earned while in college. SD is supposed to be one of the best places in North America, so I got a nice place downtown. I don’t even call what I do “work” – like I wake up in the morning and just do whatever I want to do. But after I exercise, clean up and clean my apartment, I fill my empty time with problem solving. I’ve been coding all sorts of stuff lately but my main venture is my influencer search engine Shout. Everyone in the IM/ecom space is pretty familiar with success stories like Quay Australia so I won’t recap much but there’s a lot of money to be made in influencer marketing, so I just have a tool that helps do that. I’m also into ecommerce, and we’ve been doing well with that. 3. You have successfully built 3 6-7 figure companies, and sold one. What are the processes to achieve something like that for someone who only does SEO? 3. Everyone makes money in a different way on here. There’s no real process that’s true for all of us. As humans we try to find patterns in situations where patterns may not exist. I guess the first thing is to decide what your goals are. If you’re good at SEO, the easiest way to make money is to sell links in the BST forum. Everyone does it. Issue is, you’re going to struggle to become a millionaire from that. If you’re like me, you’re looking for something that can grow and be massive, not capped. So you could rank your own money sites. Sure, less capped, but the issue is then, your income is super unstable. Rankings jump around. They’re like your mentally unstable ex – you never know what they’re going to do next and you can’t have that shit in your life. So that’s why I like PPC. You can spend $50/day and mess around with campaigns and when you get a good campaign, you just scale it. You find guys who can bank roll a $250k/mo ad spend, you show the numbers/ROI for your trial campaigns and you decide what kind color your Lambo is gonna be (joking about the Lambo, no one gives a shit what kind of car you drive). However, to answer your question, easiest and most reliable money in SEO is being an agency. A friend of mine, Ilan, owns a very successful agency. He doesn’t take on clients under $3k/mo. We talked 2 weeks ago when he called me about some ecom stuff. But he mentioned his competition was under offer for $35 million. He says he doesn’t know how they get an offer because no one in the agency space wants more clients. They’re all busy. If you have discipline and can open an office in a city, there’s good money to be made. As for my own process – I’m kind of old school. Also I wouldn’t say I’m in the SEO space, but I’m just an entrepreneur. I basically prove my worth to as many people as possible and opportunities present themselves. So I try to keep an open