Ok and for anyone who needs help obtaining 6000 pictures lol. Look for NeoDownloader 2.1! This program will scrape the images off a site in a few minutes. Its pretty intelligent too!

OMG, Eli, not this one. Not Zango, please. Zango is the absolute gutter of the internet.
So for everyone - should you follow this tip (from an otherwise interesting blog), be aware that you are spreading the spyware / parasiteware infestation, increasing the number of zombie computers, allowing someone to steal commissions from many affiliates - by bundling Zango with the screensavers, you make the internet a worse place.
Besides - you may earn measly one-time $0.45, Zango will however earn (steal, whatever) hundreds and thousands from one download.

Think about it.

Oh hell! I love this blog! Right now im thinking, why didnt I think of that? haha.

Thanks for the great tip!

For more on Zango… I mean 180 solutions affiliate hijacking, read [5] http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/180-affiliates/ that is a shame because this is such a good post.

All is not lost though - let’s see if anyone else can come up with a way to monetize this stream of content besides adsense. Surely there must be something good.

Your a pimp. This next drinks for you.

*spanks everyone on the ass*
GOOD GAME!

Very nice Eli, thanks a ton for this man.

very interesting idea…wow…genius

Sounds great, but then i saw the comments here about zango which makes me think not so great. Is there another pay per install program that is reputable?

before you attempt any pay per install program itz always a good idea to understand fully what you are distributing. From my experience Zango used to be an aggressive company. Since they’ve gotten their licensing they realy have toned it way down. They are definitely adware not spyware. They are very strict on the bundles to make sure that they aren’t tricking any users into installing. Their software has also become quite a bit less agressive. I hate spyware and adware as much as the next person but i have to defend them on certain unjust counts. they do not hijack your affiliates. That is highly against terms and unethical. If you suspect a company is hijacking your aff links be sure to test it. The guy who wrote that article is an idiot. Even valueclick said so. After that article was released Commission Junction changed the way certain cookies updated from banners and text links just to prevent people from confusing the cookie update with a hijacking.

Eitherway i was just using zango as an example. There are plenty of other ways to monotonize the install. If you really don’t want to distribute anything, you could always just change their homepage to include your google search link.

I can’t believe you are promoting zango
Go to gfy and read some threads about these scumbags

they DO highjack affiliates.

Cool idea for the newbs out there that includes me as I am new to this stuff, the aggressive stuff that is. It is said there are other ways to monetize this so can we discuss this? Find some new ways to make a buck from this so people who don’t like zango can use some other means? I like the search page idea so how can that be done? seems if you used a themed search/news/portal page along with a themed screen saver that could bring people in over the long term that would really rock as in continuous income stream instead of a one time install fee from scumbo/zango. any ideas on exactly how to accomplish this? Eli? anyone?

Alrighty how about this idea. Watermark all your images with a second website url. The second website is nothing more than a PPC campaign to other screensaver terms. The second website gets advertised everytime the screensaver runs. Also, ppl will pay money to have you include their site in a bookmark on the users computers. There are tons of ways to monotize this. Infact it wouldn’t be a bad idea to do ALL of them. It doesn’t hurt to blend in immediate income with reoccuring income.

First, once again Eli thanks for such a great article, and as long as you write great articles, I’ll bring in great comments

About the technique to “bundle an installer into your own software”, my feeling (and it just represents my feeling) is that if you spend hours writing a piece of software, maybe at the end, you might use this to get some cash, but just as a bonus for a software that you would have written for your pleasure.

Now, if it is only about making money, when it comes to spend time creating hundred of screensavers, it might not bring good cash compared to the time spent. BUT THAT IS ONLY MY FEELING, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ANY FEEDBACK from anyone who’ll try Eli’s technique.

Ok, so here an another alternative to Zango…
say you make a screensaver for that fancy singer, just create a dull webpage about the guy, with some ads on it.
e.g. your page would be called
[6] http://www.mybluehat.com/bonjovi.html

WHat next? You create the screensaver installer with the screensaver maker software, called in this example : bonjovi-screensaver.exe

you rename this file into something like
bonjovi-screensaver.ex_

Then, you create a good old .bat file, containing the following lines:

rename bonjovi-screensaver.ex_ bonjovi-screensaver.exe
explorer “http://www.mybluehat.com/bonjovi.html”
bonjovi-screensaver.exe

And finally, you right-click on your .bat file and “create a shortcut”. Finally, you rename your shortcut “Setup.exe”

And you just need to zip the three files : your shortcut, the .bat and the screensaver.

You distribute it, just as Eli explained.
When somebody will get the screensaver, he will of course click on the “Setup.exe” link that will execute the .bat
the .bat will open a window to your internet page before launching the setup of the screensaver
Then, most people will close this internet page, but some will actually have a look at it and click on some of your ads, bringing you some money.

What will bring more cash ? the cents from Zango when the user accepts to install it, or some cents from adwords when someone clicks on your links? I couldn’t tell you, so it’s up to you to test it and discover!

And remember what Eli says “this blog focus on creativity”! What I wrote is just a base, I tried to make it as easy as I could, but you can obviously improve this and use something else than a damn .bat file!

There we go. Now we’re starting to get some good ideas. This kind of brainstorming is what i like to see.

How about this idea for those who want to remain aggressive but don’t want to piss anyone off. Make your own version of Google Desktop Search. Put a little bar in their taskbar that searches google and have it use your pubid. Just be sure to include it in your installers TOS if your going to do this. That way you’ll be in the clear.

This I’ve never tried, but i’m very tempted to

Great Monetization Idea, If you Don’t Mind Being a Little Dirty

Bluehat SEO has a great idea up on how to make $100 per day. He proposes creating some free screensavers and packaging them with the software from ZangoCash. Zango pays $0.45 per user download, so this could add up pretty quickly. The post very clearly…

Everyone is prattling on about zango’s practices and policies etc. I would suggest they read their practices page [7] http://www.zango.com/Destination/Corporate/BestPractices.aspx I personally am going to try this Eli, I am not using screensavers though I am using financial how to lists i.e. get startup moneys etc. Think Matthew Lesko… Thus far making landing pages with these lists has done really well, and people rave about the content. I am going to package it in a flash-pdf and export it to exe and run it through zango, I will let you know how well it works. Great idea man, and frankly Im a little pissed I didn’t think of it on my own. Keep posting, and maybe we can make a difference for a few.

Best Regards,
J-Man

I don’t really want to get in on the whole zango debate. Just thought I’d mention that I’ve had some success using Screensavers.com’s affiliate system to monetize screensavers. Mixing in a good many free ones with some CPA screensavers seems to work well.

Lol @ post #18. I identify that as link/comment spam.

that’s not comment spam..

Any good resources out there for free images to use?

Also, Zango available to Brits?

I’m Joe Cracker and yea incase you didn’t notice Im a cracker

Your idea is OK but lame.

How are people going to find our sreensaver site? And how are you doing to get 250 doanloads in a single day and repeat it month after month? You mention a $95 program, but lol thats a rip.

Doesn’t seem possible when the niche is already way oversaturated. Celebrity wallpapers? What are gonna think of next? Rap music ringtones? Or Free Ipod razers?

I know you put time and fort into your post, but it isnt a great idea. Infact, it kinda sucks to be honest.

I give it as Ebert would say 2 thumbs down.

Great post Eli!!

Where can I find those hundreds of directories you mentioned?

Any suggestions regarding bundling Screensavers.com within your system? They have a much higher pay out per lead (CPA)!

Thanks a lot!

Hey joe and michael,
If you’ve never given software submitting i strongly recommend you give it a shot. If youc can’t afford the $95 for promosoft you could always do them the semi automated way for free. I recommend using robosoft [8] http://robosoft.rudenko.com/.
its semi automated and has tons of sites but it sucks big time when your submitting 300+ pieces of software(screensavers). To answer your question joe, you will get the traffic to both the downloads and the pages by submitting to the software and screensaver directories. I have software sites that get over 7k visitors/day from simply submitting to software sites. Don’t believe me? Try it for yourself.

how long does it typically take to create a screensaver?

How do you these screen savers to hundreds of directories? That seems to be the bulk of the work.

The Zango part is a moot point! Don’t use it if your not comfortable. There are lots of cost per action offers you can throw in front of those downloaders. Some short surveys pay 1-5 dollars each. You can use any way you monetize other traffic. Just DO IT! If one way doesn’t work, switch to another. C’mon.

I am going to give a try,maybe 30 screensavers are ok(since making a screensaver is really quickly).If that turns out to be fine,we could get in:)

ps:why can’t I reply in thunderbird?

What’s up with the hatin Joe Cracker…

And for the record…Ebert can only give “one thumb(s)” up… although wielding two thumbs he is only allowed a mono-thumb vote

I wasn’t aware that you could make your own version of Google Desktop Search and offer the modified install exe to others. I haven’t been able to locate any information on how to do this. Can anyone steer me in the right direction?

[9] http://commons.wikimedia.org should be a help for those of you looking for images

matt, thanks man that was exactly what a lot of ppl were looking for. I was going to address that issue cus of all the emails i got about it but you beat me to it Thanks!

Steve, Look up on Microsoft msdn for deskbands
[10] Creating Custom Explorer Bars, Tool Bands, and Desk Bands

I’m not going to answer any questions regarding how the site will be promoted, how to get it on hundreds of screensaver directories, or how quick it is to do. All these questions are answered very clearly in the post.

i searched the web today and i think it’s nearly impossible to find pics which i can use in promotional-use screensavers for free.

someone knows sources?

Tom - look a couple posts back, I posted a good source. Here are a few more.
[11] http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/
[12] http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
[13] http://freestockphotos.com/
[14] http://www.istockphoto.com/
[15] http://www.free-photographs.net/index.php
[16] http://www.sxc.hu/

Eli - when you get a chance could you post the name of your screensaver maker? Waiting to hear what you use before I make my decision on what to use.

How long is it taking you guys to collect these images?

Are you sticking to the 300 screensavers with 20 pics for each screensaver (I’m not!)

I’m going for 300 screensavers with at least 7 images… 20 would drive me crazy!

Also, how many of these sites have you got going Eli ?

thanks you for the sources.

my english is not the best. does the following text mean that i must put a text with the author on each photo? someone doing this?

[17] http://commons.wikimedia.org:

“Everyone is allowed to copy, use and modify any files here freely as long the source and the authors are credited and as long as users release their copies/improvements under the same freedom to others.”

Just stick a disclaimer on your site - e.g. if you think you own copyright to any of the images on here please contact us and we will take them down immediately.

Gives you a little breathing space in the unlikley event someone contacts you.

The Zango part is a moot point!

Maybe a point that was beat to death, but certainly not moot. For all the talk saying that they don’t swipe aff commissions, I haven’t seen any proof that they DON’T. I have however, seen at least antecdotal evidence that they DO. Besides that article in comment #4, check out

their recent settlement for $3 million
[18] http://blogs.zdnet.com/Spyware/?p=861

more discussion at - [19] http://blogs.zdnet.com/Spyware/?p=856

[20] http://www.haloscan.com/comments/paperghost/116068614159181859/

I would suggest they read their practices page

All that said was that they tell people they are downloading spyware/adware… big deal. The person downloading the screensavers doesn’t care that their cookies may be overwritten or that someone is losing affiliate cash. My wife still doesn’t really know what I’m talking about w/ all this Internet marketing stuff and she hears it all the time.

My point is that since we’re all promoting aff programs, why distribute a product where there is any evidence at all of swiping aff commissions? Why even get in bed for a second w/ those guys if there is that dark of a cloud.

Even if I only care about myself, how do I know it didn’t overwrite some of my cookies when the user was navigating around my site? I’d rather not trade dollars for dimes.

So is the post garbage? Absolutely not!

I like your post Eli, but there are a ton of people who just do stuff word-for-word without thinking about what is best for their situation.

If someone wants to use this plan that Eli laid out, just use other methods like CPA deals, adsense, or whatever. I like everyone’s brainstorming about other ideas - keep it up. Look forward to more posts - especially about the automating/scraping.

PS for Matt (looking for images) - pscrape, wget, and Imagemagick may be good scripts if you want to automate something. Otherwise the CC search at [21] http://search.creativecommons.org/ should give you a quick tool for pics that are allowed under commercial license

God no, please not zango!
I love your blog but really zango is nothing more than scumware.
More info on zango scumware and how it affects everyone that is in to affiliate marketing on the net:
[22] http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/180-affiliates/

Anyone using a script for their site? If so, what script?

Thanks

for those who might be a bit confused - there appears to be two matts here, I’ll use afmatt from here on out to keep confusion down

Yea this idea is lame

Issues with Zango and spyware

Copyright issues

Too much work

There are better methods of making 100 bucks a day. One method involves myspace…

I suggest if you are reading this to not waste your time.

By now im sure 100s of noobies have copied Eli’s method which will make it een less effective.

Also if you want to make big money online consider using myspace bulletins and adder programs.

I made over $1000 in a single day with this method and its all automated, too. No stupid directories or spyware or that crap.

Joe Cracker - how about instead of insulting Eli and poking cheap shots you make a useful detailed post on how to use Myspace to make money? Just badmouthing stuff and dropping hints of how you do better at something else seems kinda cheap to me…

oh bummer. I was hoping this was the ONLY way to make $100/day online

Joe, If you got a cool idea feel free to share it with the rest of us.

Joe

Why are you wasting time smearing that post? Got make $1000 dollars a day on myspace.

Joe Cracker, Eli took the time to write up a nice, detailed post on how to make good money - something that he could’ve kept to himself. I don’t understand why you’re such a hater.

Give the guy some credit.

Oh no guys please don’t defend me or the post from people who don’t agree with the project. I appreciate the support but one of the biggest reasons why I posted this was to get the entire range of comments about it. You’ll understand why on my next post, but I really do want to encourage comments bashing the post. Infact don’t hold out on me. If theres a reason why you aren’t doing this project please share. If theres a reason why you are doing the project please share as well. I really do want everyone to come out and say exactly what is going through their thought process when they were reading this post.

Well, despite all the above i’m just going to follow Eli’s excellent post step by step and see what happens, I’ve already got about 3000 images last night, my domain is registered. I’m just looking at what to use my site with. Probably Joomla or similar.

I will let you know my results. I agree that many people may be tying this, but there is a LOT of traffic for screensavers, so all you are trying to do is get a small proportion of that massive traffic per day.

Well we’ll see.

How the hell are you getting so many images so quickly?

I’ve done 24 out of 300 topics so far.. and it’s taking me an age.

I’m going to make a site out of this .. and I’ll see how good this idea is

This was a really great post and I plan on utilizing some parts of it. However I’d like to explain something on the Zango part to those saying it doesn’t steal affiliate money. On many sites, when you get redirected there, an affiliate for that site has paid to have their full page ad pop up. Now say you send a potential customer to an affiliate program’s site hoping to make a sale. But as soon as they get there a second window for the same site appears on top of the one you opened only with this other person’s affiliate id. The surfer will most likely mistake the pop up for the link they clicked and viola a good way to lose money. I’m not bashing Zango or those who use it, just trying to explain a point of view. Regardless of the entire Zango debate this is a fantastic post though.

Hey I just wanted to state that I found the screensaver program I used.
Its called Screen Saver Builder.
[23] http://www.download.com/Screen-Saver-Builder/3000-2409_4-10353859.html?tag=lst-0-1
its $20 but it has a fully functional 21 day trial.

Eli thanks a lot for this post. I have no problem with following your plan step by step. I have already invested the money and get employee to do the repetitive work. I know the logic of business already.

Anyway, I would like to ask. What’s the risk of using non public images? For example the ones I find wiht google image search? Is it a big risk for me?

And if I understand it right, with Zango I get money after they install the exe file. Why the hassle with 20 images at all? Surfers could get away with 3 images screensaver and I still get the money, no? They won’t realise the quality of my screensaver. I will already cash the money from them.

But I am the most interested about the non public images and the risk involved, if anyone could share their opinion or even experiences, please?

neon, Excellent question! I was expecting that exact question and wondering why no one has asked it yet. The bad advice for me to give is to tell you to go ahead and use any ol’ pictures you find. However, chances are the pictures are so spread around even if the original owner tried to track them down the chances of them finding it on your screensaver are slim to none. The chances are even slimmer of them caring. If they did find it, before they could take any legal action and actually expect to win they must first send you a cease and desist letter.

My personal fealings are, if finding nonpublic use pictures took you an extra couple minutes to get each picture than its worth recreating the screensaver if you get such a letter with nonpublic pictures. Using any random pictures of your subject actually works to your advantage time wise.

The only major reason why i said get noncopyright pictures was because Zango WILL ask you if the pictures are copyrighted. If you say I don’t know or no they will tell you no on creating the bundles and you will have to redo them first.

The other issue is, a screen saver with only 3 pictures - may get poor reviews on the download sites.

Whereas a picture with say 20 pictures in 1024×768 resolution of trees for a north american nature screen saver would probably fly under the radar. =)

-rob

Those of you looking at this post and thinking about doing it but don’t want to spend hours looking for images to use I suggest you try posting a project on rentacoder or getafreelancer to find someone to outsource that part of the project. I just hired a freelancer from a company I’ve worked with before to provide 150 screensavers worth of images (3,000 images total) for the grand price of $50 Outsourcing is your friend!

Eli you strike again. I’ve been reading your blog for quite some time and i think im gunna have to give this idea a shot. I talked to my AM at zango and will be testing this some time next week with an awsome niche that i thinks pretty untapped. Maybe ill throw something up on wf about it if it works well. Thanks for the idea!

Hi,

thx for the idea .

I’ll give it a try.

some

Why do we have to do step 5? Do we have to upload onto a sepereate website before sending them to be bundled at zango?

Thanks

scott, step five is actually very important. the pad files and software directories will want the url to the description of the screensaver. Many ppl prefer to visit the download page before they click the download. So you will get a greater increase in installs. This also has the added benefit of giving you more inbound links instead of each download site linking to the same page. Which causes it to loose link value. Each page and download you create should pull about a PR4-5 after the software submission. This also helps in the seo aspect.

Thanks kaveman and someone.

aftman and robert that is some great advice.

Is there a free hosting domain that I can upload these screensavers onto that isn’t geocities or something?

NeoDownloader 2.1. Does this program just get the pictures from databases or websites or whatever or does it make sure they are not copywrited?

Thanks a lot!

Will definitely be trying this.

Antz.

nevermind about neodownloader

I would like to know about the free hosting as well. What about blogger or something??

A couple of Free hosting places I recommend are zephyrhosting.net (no ads at all) or Byethost.com. Much more professional and very easy to setup.

anyone on here have any idea of a “off the shelf” script for a screensaver site? Would be nice to skip having to design/outsource the site.

I like the byethost.com. Is 20gb bandwidth and 150mb storage enough for over 300 screensavers?

150mb should be just enough. If you go through zango then they will host the screensavers for you so no worries.

So we have to upload our screensavers onto our website, THEN talk to zango? Once they bundle them for me do i put the bundled ones onto my website and replace the ones i uploaded before?

150mb storage won’t be enough for 300 screensavers, unless they’re really small ones.

Just buy some cheap $2 hosting or something.

What is good bandwidth?? I have no idea

If your not going to have the screensavers hosted elseware consider the daily bandwidth. If you got 20gb/monthly then thats a little over 650mb/day. Consider at least 100mb for page traffic and another 10mb for padfile pulls(they pull quite often). Than that leaves you with 540mb/day. If your screensavers are about a meg each thats a max of 540 downloads/day. One way to lighten the load is to signup with two free hosting accounts, one strictly to host the files. then in your pad(download description file) specify two mirrors. That will often help you lighten the load. Often times ppl will click on Mirror 2 instead of Mirror 1.

Edit: I forgot to mention that if you start seeing bandwidth issues a 301 redirect also works in emergency cases.

Thanks! great advice!

Does Zango host the files after they bundle them and i just link to the files on my website?
Do i have to host them? Can you explain this?

johnasi,
zango will host them. its better that way, cus when they make changes to the bundles they can just do them automatically. However one thing i forgot to mention is, sometimes the software submission sites want the software intself to be located on your site. So its best to put a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file to the zango then link to the screensaver.exe
for instance on your website and pad files you link to yourdomain.com/screensaver.exe
then in the htaccess file you 301 redirect to the zango download. This tends to work much better. It is also a lot safer because if you ever decided to drop zango you don’t have to resubmit all your software you can just change the redirect.

Thanks! I have to learn about 301 redirects now.haha. Thanks, i am sorting my images out right now, then plan to build my website very simple like, then submit to zango, then 301 redirct to zangos links. So i have to host a non bundled version on my websites (mirror 2 thing you suggested) then when the user clicks on the links, the 301 direct will go to the zango download?

wait nevermind. The mirror 2 thing was only for bandwidth correct?

How long does ZangoCash generally take to accept? :/
Are they very strict on people joining there program?

Not sure how long it takes i joined a long time ago. They may take awhile for them to get the screensavers bundled though. especially if you have a ton to do. They are not strict on joining but they are very strict on how you promote the bundles. Promoting to software and screensaver directories as well as search engines is perfectly acceptable so feel free to tell them that. Also they will ask about the content of the screensavers. They will want you to tell them that it is general public use pictures and not copyrighted content. If you just answer their questions when they have them they are usually very easy to work with.

Do the images in your screensavers have to be copyrighted or non copyrighted? I’m confused.

noncopyrighted, but read the comments above for the more specific answers to that question.

“Choose from an ever-growing catalog of the latest online content – Free for you and free for your users! Hundreds of the latest videos, plus a selection of audio, full version games and software.”

I’m not sure what method im going to use yet, but why bother making the screensavers at all? Zango apparently offers audio, games and software?

Are the screensavers being made to be sent to the free download sites, so you get traffic to your website?

Hey.. yeah you may be promoting a spyware company, but look at the bright side to all of this, you’ve never had 85+ responses to any of your posts before! Haha!!

But in any case, I think you did fuck up by mentioning Zango. Like I wrote on WickedFire.com — I was approached by them to do a campaign buy since I am known for buying a lot of traffic, and about 30 mins before we launched it, I got cold feet and pulled out, they refunded the campaign for me and that was that. The reason I pulled out was I started to do research and saw that they were exactly like Gator/Claria. I may have little or no ethics, but for a company that steals money from affiliate links, that’s just a low blow, and I will forever boycott people like that.

Hey Jon thanks for the comment,
Yeah its kind of funny how this particular post seemed to draw the most attention. I think this was a ground breaking post simply because no one else has ever come right out and told ppl how to make money before and made an attempt to actually help them with it as a community. It’s a start to a good thing in my opinion. I really hope other IM sites follow suite.

Thats good that you stuck to your guns on the Zango thing. I think its important to know where to draw the moral line and never sway from it(see the post after this one).

Do I regret mentioning Zango? Hell no! haha that couldn’t of turned out better. It really got people thinking and coming up with their own ideas. In the end it posed more solutions than problems. I poked through a ton of old projects before deciding on this one. I think I definitely chose the right one.

I don’t want this blog to create a bunch of formula following drones nor do I want it to produce a bunch of unethical bastards. I’m not going to say using zango is or isn’t ethical. Thats for them to decide. People need to make decisions for themselves and choose their own paths when taking on a project. Everything about this project proposal made for great practice.

Thanks for your thoughts!

Thanks for writing this article, it made me think of alternative ways to make money online. I will not be using this method to make money though, I do not agree with how Zango works.

So how far along is everyone? I’ve made 308 screen savers and for the most part finished the website and at this point am just figuring out how to monopolize on this every step of the way before I write my pad files and get started with the submissions.

What theme did you choose?

I’m doing cars, which I’m regretting a little bit because while it was incredibly easy to think of 300 cars I really wonder how many people want a screensaver of a low end audi… Of course that might be made up for with the muscle cars and the like.

good job kristopher,
I actually made one for bmws, its very popular. You are probably right a few of them won’t be very popular others will be hugely popular. So it will probably even out a bit. For instance Mustangs will probably become huge.

DONT DO CARS WHATEVER YOU DO

THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL LAWSUITS FILED BY CAR FIRMS AGAINST PEOPLE USING IMAGES OF THEIR CARS ETC TO MAKE MONEY

YOU WILL GET SUED, I PROMISE YOU

You got my attention bryan, got any further info on this?
Does these lawsuits pertain to show cars,manufacturer models, or pictures of other people’s cars?

I can see lawsuits happening from pictures of the manufacturers model cars or concept cars, but how can someone get sued for an image of a car someone else personally owns unless it’s by that person? I’m no lawyer so I’d love to see some cases where people have gotten sued by car companies for using their images and lost.

Hey, Eli I was really hoping you could add to what you posted earlier when you said

“If you really don’t want to distribute anything, you could always just change their homepage to include your google search link.”

1. First I was wondering how profitable this would be when compared to using zango(0.45 cents per download) I wonder if it would be even more profitable, especially over time, considering how often users click on ads.

2. Also I was wondering exactly how you would go about doing this? Is this something you could do with a few lines of code in the install? Or would it be a more involved process? Like making a near exact replica of google’s website and hosting it yourself? Because this idea sounds possibly even more profitable then the first.

Feedback greatly appreciated!

Hey guys, i’ve been checking out other alternatives to zango and found a list of other pay per install programs that I also don’t know anything about. I thought that i’d post it to see if anybody knows anything about them.

But i’m still really interested in the google search box idea. I can see a lot of potential in that, as i’ve heard about people who’ve made some pretty good money using it, and others who’ve made very little.

Sorry here is link [24] http://www.pay-per-install.com/

jazz, its all done during the install. of course you’d have to create a seperate installer. but you can change registry keys with a simple installer program.

as far as that list, i’d recommend you stay away from teddycash(never payed out)
yoursitebar(they wont’ bundle, part of istbar and gammacash)
iframecash installs dialers(one of those moral things)
makethemcry-doesn’t bundle and converts horribly
freezecoldcash- never pays out, although they have ready made screensavers. Bummer too.

Eli,
I for one would love to see a post on a howto on the google search side of this, heck - that would be awesome to use instead of zango and folks would not even NOTICE that they have it if I understand things right.
Matt

When using that screensaver builder program you listed…

Should I be making .scr’s or .exe’s ?

Cheers, help needed asap!

Don’t want to be wasting my time.

exe matt.

I’ve heard matcash stops logging the installs before you hit payout if people are still going through that list..

This is addressed to Eli and anyone else that’s used Zango.

How long did they tell you it would take to bundle 300~ screensavers?

I’ve spoken to my manager …

He told me that it would be best to give them to him in bundles of 50… and each bundle would take at least 2 weeks…

I didn’t expect it to be this long.

What sort of time did it take for yours guys?

Cheers.

matt,they are normally much faster. I talked tthem about this and I guess, for some reason, they are getting flooded with screensaver bundle requests. So for awhile they are going to be unusually slow.

Hi Eli,

Someone seems to have taken your advice
[25] http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=192213

Cheers,
BK

Went to read the offer !!! LOL!!!!

“the web site is sold along with 100% exclusive rights to 30 unique screensavers and 30 unique wallpapers of the highest artistic and technical quality.

The overall price for the site and the exclusive licensing right to the products is 60,000 USD.”

$60000 for 30 screensavers? he must be joking!
hey if anyone is interested I can make the same website with 30 screensavers for half the price

Great post, and comments. I actually read them all! Question: Regardless of whether or not Zango does it. What exactly does it mean when you say hijak the affilates?

Eddie, it means that they change the affiliate links that they find and put their own affiliate code in place.

Just noticed that ZangoCash.com website is not working. Its blanking out actually. Any ideas?

Eli,
Any suggestions for another company to use other than Zango? A rep from there yesterday told me that they have changed their terms and now ALL installs must START on a page you own, pushing traffic from other sites (like the ones promosoft submits to) is no longer allowed as of about 10 days ago… Any ideas of a good replacement?

wow matt thats news to me. I’m going to have to talk to them about that. Thats ridiculous. I know they require a landing page for the ddr I don’t see a single reason why they would hold that rule for applications. I mentioned they were strict. I say bargain with them and ensure that the traffic is legit and that the software download sites should count as a sufficient landing page.

I tried talking to my rep, he said there’s nothing he can do that its a new company policy and they have to stick to it - he’s not real happy about it either I don’t think… I suspect that they are trying to make themselves more “FTC friendly” with this move…

Quotes from my rep

the install point, ie, the site in which the actual install happens, must belong to our partners… sorry to rain on your parade, but those are new standards that are mandetory for all partners… [this changed at the] beginning of december

that sucks man
Thats exactly what they are trying to do.

Time to find a new place then. Any ideas?

Yazzle looks decent
[26] http://tinyurl.com/ydhfk2

What the heck, WP cut off my last comment…
Like I tried to say before, I signed up for yazzle back when I was first looking into doing this. I heard that they allow .exe bundling on some ranting site but have yet to confirm this with them.
[27] http://yazzle.net is the non aff link, I normally include both in a post but WP got weird on me a sec ago…

Thanks matt.
you can email me the aff link and i’ll edit the comment.

Has anyone heard good reviews of yazzle? It seems that a lot of these pay per install programs are shady as all hell and It’s hard to find ones that actually pay out? So anyone get a check or have a good experience?

And what if you submit only your download page to these software dirs? So when someone wants to install the ssaver, he has to visit your landing page first.

they actually link to both. It is required for most software directories to provide the direct exe. Although you could(probably get deleted for it) do a 301 redirect to the landing page with the url you provide for the exe. Just make sure the page has some frame buster javascript code in it, because they usually have a downloading splash page that loads the url to the exe in an iframe.

I made the list mentioned here [28] http://www.pay-per-install.com I never had problems with sites listed on my site… It is possible that they keeping paying me on time because they know that I bring some new webmasters to them but anyway I have referred few WM and they had stable incomes as I can see from my side. TeddyCash paid already 2 times and also Yazzle.
I have there new site Rasermedia which is new for me but according to some webmaster who is using them they have custom made rates and all depends on all your conversation with account manager who is there to help you through ICQ.

Hello i am trying this idia and im looking for a template for a screensaver site like the oner thats linked here [29] http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=192213 has. Does anyone no a gd place?
Cheers Steve

Has anyone implemented this method yet (particularly via zangocash), and if so what are your results?

thanks

I want to extend this to something more than screensavers, and develop a site or sites that can hopefully become even more popular.
I am a webmaster and web developer with some resources available to me.
If anyone is interested in brainstorming/doing some joint research, please get in contact with me!
jewelz at gmail

If no one replies I will go ahead myself, and come back to this blog with my results!

thanks.

This is what I will do.
I will pay someone at rentacoder to find me a bunch of screensavers that are available for free out there so I can skip step 1-4 and do the rest.

Eli, I am unsure as to how you are so sure that as many as 250 users are going to download and install this bundled software out of a set of 300, per day?
What evidence is there that users will download this frequently? And of those users, how many will actually proceed with the install process?
Maybe I missed something, but are people really that oblivious to what they are installing?
great article though, thanks.

About 1 in 5 that download will install it. i was lowballing how much this project makes because i wanted to be accurate to how much it’ll make immediately.

I’m hesitant to post this due to more competition but… dear god it works. I of course doubt any guide I see online that says make money now but holy shit. I’m nowhere near done with promosoft yet I’ve only got about 20 up but I’m already seeing results. I guess I owe you a huge thank you Eli, I want to marry you and have your man babies.

I looked at your website & even tried your screensaver, good job of putting Eli’s post in practice!

Just a side note for those starting the project, I don’t believe Yazzle tracks downloads where the click did not originate from your site either. If you look at their exe file it’s made by 180solutions, the same company that owns Zango. I’ve tested out a few exe’s that were bundled with their software and they don’t seem to record what wasn’t downloaded from my site from my tracking…

Could you please suggest a company that’s good for this? Thanks!

well, how ya doing on this?

How is this working? Any updates?

Yah, does anybody got any updates on this??

I’m sure the people doing well with this have no desire to motivate others.

Anybody… ?

Update?

i think jons right. I’ve gotten 17 ppl email me so far telling me they’ve done the project and it really is making them 100+/day. Plus kristopher(above) who seems almost there. Also, the 5 ppl that signed up through the affiliate link are averaging 43/day. So i can assume at least one completed the job.

So what about the new rules that Zangocash implented? How do they check where the file got downloaded? (the install point as they call it) They don’t pay for installs from users which download the file and then install it a few days later from their computer?

Thanks for a great blog!

Wow thats really cool.
This blog is really great.

Hello Eli,

Excellent post. I have my screensavers ready. I have a problem: due to zango policy change I don’t know where to bundle them. I wonder if you have any other sponsor that pays. I would like to try pay per download but I found a lot of them to be cheaters (at least they had a lot of negative opinions). Please let me know if you know something that may help me.

Big Thanks,
Gonzo

What was the policy change? i’m almost finished my screensavers and was getting ready to try to get the bundle with zango.

Zango says that download must start from your webpage, so that basicaly means that you can’t directly link to exe file on screensaver sites.

yep,
this means that submitting to software directories are technically against the TOS because they require a link directly to the exe. Which of course makes the whole point of bundling software/screensavers with zango worthless in the first place.
Some people are reporting back with good results with teddy cash. I’m not sure though, I’ll see if I can contact them and score some info.

Cool Be sure to let us know about this TeddyCash thing. I’d hate to do all this work and not get freaking paid. Arggghhhh!!!

“Zango says that download must start from your webpage”

could this be possible?

from directories -> link to yoursite.com/file.exe and 301 redirect it to zango?

both matcash’s and teddycash’s support is crap. They both seem to use the same software too.

They use the same sales copy, too:
“The DAYS when you had to work hard for your money are over.” Blabla

Wow. I was close to doing this. Is there an alternative found yet?

Can some one suggest a good way to monetize since zango and teddycash look shaky?

One option i’m seeing in forums on this subject is to include a html file with the install than when the install is done execute the html file. Have the html file redirect to the google pack. pack.google.com.
They pay $2.00/install.

Eli- I was just going to post about google pack. As of now I am having the screensavers built for me, and I will be implementing the .bat example that was posted above.

I figure it doesn’t hurt to at least try teddycash, etc. What would you recommend to track the number of people that install your program - to make sure that you can track if you are being paid or not!

Thanks for this!

hehe looks like I beat you to it

Good question though!
I guess it depends on who you use to bundle. I’m going to try the google pack thing so I’m going to change up my custom script. I’m going to have the html page(or shortcut whatever i’m going to use) to redirect to my script. My script will record the ip, check for uniqueness, do an arin whois to grab the country, then update the global stats by country. The problem with most pay-per-install programs are that they differ the pay by country. The biggest problem of all is that they only pay per “unique install.” Meaning if the clientside computer already had their software installed at one point than it won’t count any new ones. So thats seemingly impossible to take into account. Through Zango I found my personal recorded stats were exceedingly different than the installs they said I got, but what can I do about it? Nothing exactly.

good ideas. man the forum is great.

What about a good old body onload with a javascript alert() saying something like “You may have a virus or s spyware on your computer, we advise you install the google pack to protect your computer”
May be a good incentive for people to download the Google pack!

How do you get a landing page for google pack? I can only see how to get the html for a text/banner link.

I tried making a page and previewing it and copy and pasting the url, but it’s a mile long and doesn’t seem like it would work right.

Any suggestions on that?

Thanks!

When you’re logged into your Adsense you click the Adsense Setup tab. Then click Referals. Then select Google Pack.

Yes, I understand how to get the Google Pack code, but the code is just that - code for a text link or banner.

How do you get the actual landing page url that you would redirect the end user to so they don’t have to click on a text link or banner first?

I’m not familiar enough with google pack yet. You may have to email adsense about that and ask them permission to use a direct landing page link.

I was considering using the BAT method mentioned above and have it automatically open up an HTML file included in the archive. That HTML file would jump the user to the google pack using the code you get from Adsense Setup.

Or would that be against TOS?

BTW, Zango still works well for me, as I host all the files on my own server. It brings in decent cash everyday, but this month I’ve seen it dip a wee bit….not sure why…

neato

seocracy - are you promoting zango elsewhere, or just on your site? Just wondering how you get the screensavers out there - and if you do promote it, you are saying Zango hasn’t done anything about it?

One quick thing- what exactly do you send to these companies - the install file and that is all? I guess you upload them somewhere and then they change them and you download them again?

Thanks!

I discussed this with my rep and we arranged that I would by all in the clear as long as the download of the bundles take place from MY server (not their server). So Zango approved my site as a registered affiliate site and thereby it is permissible under their TOS for me to promote in any way I choose as long as the download originates from my site.

Sending the installs to Zango was a pain in the arse because they kept going “oh, and you also have to include this” so it took several submissions before they finally got what they needed. Basically its this: A package of 50 screensaver installs at a time (or whatever else you are promoting) including a text file for each install describing its function and contents, as well as a thumbnail of an image from each install that has to be a specific dimension.

Further, the executable for each install has to meet some specific criteria: it has to have a dialog window that a user can click through (ie: install shield) By dialog, I mean that they do not accept installs that just do all the installation without user interaction. Also the install must be registered in the “Add/Remove Programs” menu so that a user can uninstall it. I used WISE installation shield to create these….it was a bugger to learn but easy once I figured it out.

There are some other requirements that Im sure Im forgetting because my mind is elsewhere…you best to talk to your rep and really grill him/her for all the information before you start working and waste your time and energy like I did at first.

Make sense? I hope this answers your questions.

Good luck.

Good thorough info

That is annoying - I feel like a dick now since I’ve gone back and forth w/ a coder for a week now trying to nail down exactly what I wanted - now I have to ask for more! Oh well, I guess I ‘ll just give him a good tip at the end

Seocracy,

Any chance you can share your wise installer template with me (or us) so I can figure out how to do the installer, too?

Thanks for considering!

What’s the latest news on this?

I would like to know what screen saver program you guys have been using for this - one that does the add/remove feature to the menu. Eli does the program you mentioned do this?

Thanks again!

Yes, it doses R. I test it and you may remove created screensaver through windows add/remove.

The main question still what is the best way to moneytize the screensaver, as Zango is not the best solution after they changed the policy.

Eli, did you have any success with Google pack?
BTW, thanks a lot for the idea.

I contacted Zango and they took about a week to respond. The rep asked me if I was making pron or regular screensavers. I told them regular and have not heard a thing from them for 2 weeks.

??

no luck for me on zango either.

Yeah I have been turned down by zango too, Thanksfully I had only prepared 50 screensavers!
That was for a start, but already a lot of work! lol.
Maybe this post has brought a too high increase of screensavers makers and it’s better to wait for another 6 months, like with the abandonned wordpress accounts trick?

I must admit Zango can be a major PIA - they don’t tell you what you need to do, but they will tell you after you done the work and then you may have to redo it a 2nd or 3rd time.

Your screen saver must have a disclaimer with your contact info, your system requirements need to be shown before they begin the install, it must show in Add/Remove programs, it may not auto update, etc. etc. etc.

And the software directories redirecting to Zango’s link is a NO NO they must end up on your page and click the download from there.

There must be something better than Zango out there, I am waiting to hear suggestions…

Thanks

Don’t hold out on us. i know somebody has a way to make use of all these screensaver we done made.

:)

Share your experience here also [30] http://www.pay-per-install.com. I would like to know how are you realy doing with screensavers and these programs on this page.
And dont tell me that every one of them cheat.

Zango must not be taking anymore screen savers. They have ignored my emails for information on bundling. I am also looking for other ways to make money with the ss.

The article critical of 180 mentions:

“this article describes only behaviors that I observed in June-July 2004.”

Really like to find a way around this and make it work - would love to have that guaranteed $100 coming in every day!

right now I am lucky if I am making $20 a day

Anybody want to purchase 300 car related exe screensavers?

All have 10+ quality images in them.

Does this screensaver thing still work? If Zango isn’t taking anymore screensavers, is there another place that does? Eli, help please as I’d love to do this!

I might if they are all non-copyrighted photos and the price is right - and they meet certain terms and conditions. email me at admin [at] funkydorm.com - a sample would be good so I can test it out.

Thanks!

ALRIGHTY GUYS!
The verdict is in.
Couple notes.

First!
I tested the promoting of Google pack by installing a shortcut to my aff link through my adsense account into the programs folder and then executing it after the completed install. It is making approximately 70%-73% of what Zango was making with the same number of screensavers. Also, I put in the registry command to change their homepage to my search engine using Google Search, also in my Adsense account. It is growing steadily and currently is making about 35% of what the Zango was making. I realize it can’t go up for ever and will eventually plateau but I am hoping it will top the Zango money. Which means together I would of potentially doubled my screensaver income and not had to resort to promoting adware.

More So!
I got two emails from people asking me to check out [31] http://www.rasermedia.com/. I checked them out, they seem willing to do the screensaver bundling, I’m not sure how long they will still be willing to do so once they get a couple hundred people requesting it but hey its worth a shot. I personally haven’t tried anything with them yet.

Lastly!
I’m getting reports from people using different screensaver making software, I’m assuming more expensive ones, that allow you to insert your own RSS feeds directly into the screensaver. I’ve heard a couple reports of people making good money by inserting their related affiliate links into their rss feeds.

Sorry it took so long for me to report back with some solutions. I just wanted to make sure I could give you some pliable solutions.

You should be very careful about changing people’s homepages without giving them the option to not do it. It is illegal in the State of Washington and they have filed lawsuits against people for doing it.

Good point. make sure to give them the option to not have you change the homepage. Also be sure to put it in the installations TOS.

I’m also working on a deal with Zango to allow all the people that came from this site(the ppl signed up under my aff id). to be able to bundle the screensavers they have made.

Hey Eli, thanks for the awesome ideas. I definitely want to try this out. Since we can’t use zango I want to try out the google pack idea. You mentioned you install a shortcut that opens your affiliate link and executes after the install. How did you go about doing that? Did you use a bat file?

Eli, would that deal with Zango allow us to put our sceensaver on the software sites and get paid for it?

that would be cool since i have thes freakin ones sitting around.

Hi, Eli.

Any update about your deal with Zango?

Only my seo blog, nice post about 100$

Sorry, incorrect link

Hi Eli..

Waiting for your response.

Eli,

How did you do the redirect? Did you have to make a landing page…or just the affiliate link? Curious with that strategy…

Wow, this is one of the most interesting articles I’ve read in the past week. Really looking forward to your next comment, hopefully some progress has been made with Zango.

Thanks for this, has certainly got me thinking.

Guys,

I came across this little tool that generates a “browser windows” that lets you specify a url to open when someone double click the icon. Let’s call this tool “browser generator”.

Here’s how I’m using it to work around the “download must start from your webpage” requirement by Zango.

At this point of time, I must already have my screensaver bundled PLUS have the screensaver website up. So, let’s take for example, the url is

[32] http://www.domain.com/screensaver.html

This is where I had the links to download my screensaver. Then, I use browser generator to generate a “browser app” and name it screensaver.exe. Take note, this is not the bundled screensaver. This is just a shell that once double clicked, will open a browser window and load the url “http://www.domain.com/screensaver.html” where the visitor can download the actual screensaver. In this scenario, when the visitor download the screensaver, it will be from your site, rather then the software directory. I will just proceed to submit screensaver.exe (browser app) to the software directories.

So far, this method is working fine for me. And the browser generator software does not cost much too. Only $10. If any of you guys wanted to try this method, its available at [33] http://browser-generator.ebook-press.com. This is not an affiliate link. If more of you show interests, I can contact the vendor and arrange for a bulk discount.

Hmm… seems like comments appear immediately… That must mean that my comment about the workaround is lost..

Gonna try again..

Basically, Zango says that download and install must start from our own website, so software directories download is out. Here’s a workaround…

You must already have your screensaver bundled and website up in order to proceed. So, if you are stuck with getting the screensaver bundled, tough luck.

I am using a software “Browser Generator” to generate little browser app that launches a certain url when double clicked on. So here’s what I do… Launch Browser Generator and create a browser app that points to your screensaver url (eg. [34] http://www.screensaverdomain.com/screensaver.html). Let’s name this browser app “screensaverbrowser.exe”. Take note… this is not the screensaver itself. And I proceed to submit screensaverbrowser.exe to the software directories.

So, when visitors downloaded my screensaverbrowser.exe and launch on their computer, all they see is a browser window showing this url:
[35] http://www.screensaverdomain.com/screensaver.html

Of course, this url has my bundled screensavers that they can download and install… in the process, also install zango’s software. Kaching!!!

One thing though. Browser Generator is not free, but it is reasonably cheap at $10. Here’s the link to the website:

[36] http://browser-generator.ebook-press.com

Hope this helps.

Ben

Alright, good news everyone. This just got a pinch easier. Screen Saver Maker is now free. See here; [37] http://www.mgshareware.com/ssborder.shtml .

Still aching for anymore information, if anyone has anything. I’m going to go ahead with it anyway, since there seems to be multiple monetization options, if the bundling fails.

A better way of doing it.. Is to use an .htaccess file redirect from say

[38] http://mydomain.com/downloads/abbyscreensaver.exe to 301 redirect it to the zango flash installer page.

much higher converstion + when submitting PAD files they link straight to the exe which is a forward to the zango….

Don’t want them to think they’re downloading something 2x heh.

-bobby

Ok, it’s been 4 months. Anyone making $100 per day yet?

I’ve done this project part-time so I’ve got only about 80 screensavers, and I’m earning about $8 a day, not bad, but I’ve got work before reaching the $100 per day
Some quick stats : it takes me half an hour to get pictures for one screensaver (because quality actually counts, I started making crappy screensavers with 10 images and now I’m doing 30+ high quality images, and the install rate is much higher, yeah people give their opinion on the internet).
Then 15 minutes to bundle the screensaver, and 15 minutes to post it, update my website.
On average, it takes me 1h/screensaver, and I get $3 a month on average for each screensaver, when I have 1000 screensavers I’ll be good, but it’ll take me 1000 hours, thus 2-3 years to get this far

Are you using the Zango method, or are you using an alternative?

is zango still ok with the bundles on screensavers?

hi John
which method are you using?
Zango or alternative one?

I use Zango of course, Googlepack install (Eli’s idea), and also changing the homepage to my google search page.

Overall Googlepack install is peanuts (maybe $2 last month), Zango requirements are cumbersome at first but after getting used to it, it makes me about $5 a day (about $140 last month). And settings the homepage to your google search page (simple page with a logo and adsense code for google search) brings me about $2 a day (that’s $50 extra).

Almost $200 last month, not bad at all if you consider the rate/hour. I think it took me about 100-120hours for 80 screensavers, that’s about $2/hour for every month that my screensavers will be downloaded, so after 6 months, it will beat my current hourly salary!

Passive Income?

You hear a lot of buzz words in the internet marketing industry, one of the most common being “Passive Income” the premise of course being that you earn money by doing nothing, which we all know works astonishingly well.
Unless your an Aris…

Hey, I’ve created a discussion forum for people interested in this subject:

[39] http://www.zoomist.com

Its private, so just register A.S.A.P and I’ll accept people onto the forum.

Although its not mine, I approved this forum. At this point, since this post has over 200 comments, and evolved from a fresh post I think it might be best to move some of the discussion to a more suitable atmosphere like a forum.

Seems like a pretty good idea, I’ve signed up.

I’ve just made 10 really neat screensavers, without any monetization from zango or other guys. Just changed the homepage to a site I made which grabs rss feeds etc and looks just like a “home page”, laid some affiliate & ad mines around, posted them about a week ago.

I got caught up in other business so the screensavers just went out of my head until today, I checked the stats of the homepage and already I have a solid 150 users/day who search, click on affiliate links etc and in one week it has made me $97 from aff. sales, ad clicks & search.

I made 3 different screensaver groups: one group of a couple of tv shows, one group adult and one group landscapes. I made different start pages for all of them (basically the tv show screensaver’s homepage shows rss feeds about upcoming movies & shows & gossips, has dvd rental and amazon-like affiliates etc while the adult one, as can be guessed, is a proud affiliate of adultfriendfinder and adult pay master etc etc..)

I’m planning to put a little more time in this and broaden the categories. It might really be a long-runner as far as I can see.

Thanks for the inspiration Eli, really

Good idea to target your start page to go with your niche. I feel rather dense for not thinking of that to begin with.

Hey Menguzar,

Where are you promoting them?

Again, congrats on thinking up the specific landing page idea. Brilliant.

Jim

“Where are you promoting them?” I guess I didn’t understand what you meant by that.

If you’re asking about the screensavers, I’ve just uploaded them to about 500 software sites with robosoft.

With keyword-high descriptions and titles. My sites don’t rank in the search engines yet but 2 of my screensavers in the software sites rank in the first 5 results for my targeted keywords in google. And it happened in 1 day I should say. I uploaded the ss’s and the next day when I did a google search, I saw the page with my screensaver rank in the first 5 results. It was quite nice

I see that you are still looking for new pay per install programs. I was asked by one starting company which was in the same business before to start promote their new program which is trying to be diferrent form others.
It is mainly about screensavers so it is what you need exactly I hope.
Check my site [40] Pay Per Install and at the top is review of VombaCash.
Please share here your experience with this business.

Does anyone have any idea on howone could bundle their own software with the screensaver?

Ask here [41] www.zoomist.com

I have founded new toolbar affiliate program -
Wave revenue

[42] http://www.waverevenue.com

We will pay you for installs coming from 16 countries as exposed here :

$0.40 for USA, Canada
$0.20 for United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco
$0.05 for Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands
$0.01 for China, Korea, Japan

What do i get paid?

We will pay you from $0.01 to $0.40 (depending on the country) for installs coming from 16 other countries made via our various games -or fun sites or via the content protection ActiveX and we present you the results with REAL TIME accurate stats. All payments are made via wire transfer or via Paypal (just fill in your Paypal address under “account number” at the “user banking information section” after that you have signed up).

Hey, what are the rules/lagalities of using images? I have a few great ideas, but I dont want to get sued…

Can I use images that are part of TV shows, movies, magazines, etc? This is of course referring to celebrities…

Thanks

I have looked at a lot of forums like this trying to learn how to monetize,and i must say this page is awseome.i mean the guy keeps taking abuse and still tries to help people learn how to make money.Thank you for the public service!!!P.S. another way would be to buy a pre-made download site off ebayor elsewhere…it’s the rare website that sells for more than $200.of course then we couldn’t have all this fun trying to code.

Does it have to be screensavers?

How to make a $100 per day

I stumpled upon one of the finest blogs I’ve checked out in ages. Its called Blue Hat SEO.
I don’t even know the guys name but he tells it like it is, no BS.
His simple post on how to make $100 a day with screensavers leaves no one an excus…

This one is really cool.
Thanks for posting such a great idea

sounds to me like this is just abunch of hype bullshit and noone is making shit off it

It is easier to make an affiliate account at adultfriendfinder.com (pays $1/user signup) and create a bat file with the line: explorer [43] http://renegadetech.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-convert-bat-file-or-vbs-file.html

User then runs the exe file, browser with adultfriendfinder opens and the user is asked if he wants to install the screensaver if you do it right (select to run the bat file hidden and change exe file icon)

I’ve been promoting Zango on my Social network for a while, and only bad stuff happend for me, not only that security sites flaming me for throwing “spyware” to kids, (wtf?) but one after another, I only made 38$ in 3 months, which is quite bad.

I’ll use the screensaver tip though, sounds like it will work, thanks, keep up the good post quality.

ouch, I got confused reading all the comments here, but however I’ll give it a shot.

I followed this method and I’m making $15-$20 per day easily! lol.
I’m marketing mainly through myspace bulletins, and other social networking site.

You should have a donate button man! THANKS A LOT!

Now I need to make 10 more sites. Then I’ll have $100/day.

to pack your own exe in with the screensavers, just use a file packer. UPX is a very good one and its free.

it might be possible to stick another exe inside of the ones Zango gives back to you. you can also try to install multiple toolbars, adwares, etc all with the same screensaver to help maximize revenue.

better yet, just write a web downloader for yourself. pack it in with the screensaver and make it grab the ad software from your server and run(install) it in the background, that way you can change what it installs.

Yes this is the way, once you have success with one than multiplikate…

Where can I get non-copyrighted images?

Ian,

Zango..

1 Doesn’t give you back the exes, they MUST be installed from their server unless you have a agreement to do otherwise

2 Doesn’t allow you to include live updates

3 Does not allow you to bundle anything with the exes their competition

Have you even read the TOS , because anyone doing this would just be wasting their time and the screen savers would be disapproved instantly.

simple use [44] http://www.flickr.com/

Nice idea. Thanks for good post.

Does anyone have more info on this browser generator? That link seems to be dead.

Can we still use promosoft and the 301 redirect to the zango download?

You certainly may. Infact it works pretty well.

Has anyone used Wave Revenue ( Seems to be Matcash and Teddycashed merged) They have an online encoder so you don’t have to wait for Zango.

Are these guys legit?

P.S. Thanks for the reply Eli!

Hey Eli good shit man… i enjoy reading your blog posts… With all of the comments its a bit hard to follow…

Is there a way to take this post and update it or possibly add create a series out of this post and just add other methods and suggestions from the comments in to the post with their own separate titles or something?

Maybe fix the comments so that you are the only one able to make comments, but in this case ‘updates’ lets say if aff. companies change up their TOS…

still good reading…

Very interesting idea, thank you!

I just want to say your blog is awesome Eli. One quick question. I am using your technique to submit to the 700+ directories with Promosoft. Does it typically take a couple hours just to submit one exe file to all of the software sites, or am I doing something wrong here?

Heres my question: is it ok add more pay-per-install apps or is it against the terms and conditions of the affiliate promoters? I couldnt figure that out yet.

Thanx 4 the idea, gave me yet another idea:)

I think this will convert best so what’s the big deal?

Did anybody try this and can post a link to his site?

I tried it and I thought it was waaaay too much time and effort for the money.

Forget about listing your site on the BIG download directories because they won’t allow Zango and the other crap adware programs, or software that sets the home page without user consent, etc.

You can also get your savers flagged as spyware or a trojan by the antispyware software.

When that happens, you’re back to square one and have to do something else all over again.

This may be a way to make SOME money, but it’s slow and tedious and frankly, not many people will like you very much when you tell them you make free screensavers that distributes adware and spyware in them, because most people know that stuff causes people’s computers to clog up, slow down, crash, etc.

Well, that’s MY experience and thoughts about it anyway.

Anyone else?

Hey guy’s I have used different idea’s of packing games in .exe files and have the bundle software in a sfx.exe to run in the background. Once I had a few downloads I think people cought on that I Crap-ware in the downloads and finding one of mysite’s getting Go0gle noted with this site is known for Spyware/Adware Virus blah blah. Before that happened I made 32.00 buck’s almost every month for 3 months. I lost a PageRankg 3 site now it’s crap.

I found using PDF files pretty evective on another site that site is still up and running I am getting $24.83 just under $25 a month that is for the past 2 month’s. The pdf’s pretty easy using a php script that will convert anything I put on a website to a pdf file and then compress the file as well.

I have made a little bit on putting my aff link to a video site that pay’s for clips in the PDF and trying how to video’s in with the how to PDF then they click on the video and download the bundle and I get a bit more out of this.

I know not really a WOW! these idea’s have been around for a bit with aff marketer’s. I am only speaking of the other idea’s I have tried I am not saying anything bad about anybody eles’s idea’s.

This does take some time to do. Those who are more savy to macro’s windows shell codes batch file’s and so on I am sure have no problem getting the job done a bit sooner.

So I am game for any new ideas or concepts that are out there. I will give SHOT.

Thanks again Eli. for having this topic as well as I have learned so, much from reading from your site and everyone who jumps in and helps or yeah…

DIT

if anyone is like me and either too lazy to program a toolbar or just doesn’t know how, there is a good program that can help -

I downloaded it for free and the interface is easier to use than some of the other programs out there. it also has a built in function for google adsense search. You can screw around with the fully funtional free one, but it’s branded with their logo. for 75.00 you can remove the brand. I never could find a working hack for the newest version to get out of the 75 bucks. oh well.

I’m not affiliated w this product, but I love Eli and his stuff, so wanted to share.

As mentioned already, you don’t have to distribute spyware, or change someones homepage without their permission. If you just put an opt-in on your installer, give them a choice, then the download sites wont care, and everything will be great.

Plus if you set the opt-in to auto check, they generally just ignore it anyway.

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Great, it works! Earning 150 per day!

Anyone know how to get this “browser generator” since the link’s down? Thanks!

Is it really working? Has anybody else made $100 a day from this technique?

Yes, it is realy working but you have to realy work hard not just sit back and watch.

I was just wondering if you tried other [45] Pay Per Install Programs

Isnt it easier just use Vomba savers instead of creating Savers with Zango?

All pay per install companies wants to be exclusive. If you put more PPI than you risk loosing your earned money and being banned.
But you can discusse it with sale reps. They are helpfull.

Glad I found this website and am very impressed at how long the discussion on this post has continued. The ideas and opinions in the comments are at this point just as good as the original post that inspired the conversation. Anyway, the one point in the article that seems to have been overlooked by most of the comments (not sure if ever comment missed it, but there were so many comments that I had to stop reading) is the end statement about getting off your butt, stop whining about your day job, and do something about it. To a certain extent, I’m guilty as charged. I don’t whine about my day job, but I am guilty of sitting around and talking about good ideas (or at least I think they are good) but fail to do anything about my ideas. This post reminded me to get off my butt and start doing something with my ideas. Thanks for the reminder to get up and get going.

Any examples of screensaver links with search homepage?I cant set a legit one still.

Ah, I don’t like giving my SSN out online, other then Google Adsense.

Anyone know of a way to set the firefox homepage instead of just on IE?

Quick tip: keyword stuff your PAD file descriptions. Don’t overdo it, of course. But if you have a high keyword density in the PAD description there’s a good chance that your product page on one of the major download sites will rank high in the SERP’s.

Here’s a list of my top 3 PAD file tips:
[46] http://www.breezetree.com/process-flowchart-blog/index.php/3-pad-file-tips/

Hi, anybody wanna try this together?
Just for the fun of it.

I have a domain purchased for one year.
I can do coding.
I have someone who can make me some screensavers.
And I have a hosting with like 5 GB of monthly bandwith (so I guess one should change it pretty soon if everything goes.

Now, I would need some design, some business plan (I mean monetization: Zango is not good anymore, I guess), and assistance with the set-up and the screensaver-making (it costs me money after all).
Plus I don’t really have experience.

It would be cool if you had some background or something. I just don’t want to take in random people as it’s risky on the net.
Anyway, anyone interested, email me at teksht [47] _the@sign_ gmail _dot_ com.
A limited time offer (I’m gonna hold this for a day or two maybe).

teksht, Zango is still up, so it should still do the trick i guess…

I’m going to do this too, on myself… I don’t have a lot of experience in this field, but i’m a quick learner. Lots of time on my hands this summer, what can I say?

Cheers…

is anyone now having any success with this…i wonder if it is indeed still viabile???

I saw someone has already make an ebook to sell this trick on some forum. Internet marketing is so fast. Look interesting !

Very interesting post, I may get around to doing something like this .. but probably not for exactly what you described as probably half of these readers are now competing on the same idea haha!

Some of you are just naive, some of you don’t get it and some of you are just plain STUPID! I am so tired of affiliates hurting themselves and our entire industry!

Zango will block and/or deletes everyone’s affiliate ads and/or or cookies from other affiliates programs. With that you are hurting the entire industry.

Read this thread that follows to find out all the reasons promoting this or any other download program that installs adware or spyware is not only WRONG, but can hurt your own pocketbook and our industry in the process.

[48] http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=46548

So next time you bundle your product with adware for $.50 think about what you are doing to all other webmasters.

I read that thread you mentioned. Nothing but opinions and vague hearsay. Bring back facts and evidence. It’s the only way you’ll get the readers here to listen.

If you don’t like Zango, do TrialPay instead. It’s legit and pays decent.

[49] http://www.trialpay.com/

Thanks a lot, it made it a lot easier to get a decent amount of images

You need some proof? How about: ” Zango Settles FTC Charges Will Give Up $3 Million in Ill-Gotten Gains for Unfair and Deceptive Adware Downloads”
[50] http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2006/11/zango.shtm

Or you can just search for “Zango adware” and find out there is over 205,000 references.

Everyone in industry knows that Zango is adware. Only “blue SEO expert” is playing stupid and teaching kids how to spread this nasty crap for few dollars per day. They will never reach $100 per day this way… Point is that there is so many diffrent ways to make money on internet without distributing this kind of staff.

lol, this was discussed above. Read the date on that article. FTC won, zango had to go to full compliance. Now, Norton does more damage to your machine and is harder to uninstall than Zango.

Glad to see your doing your research though. Keep it up.

How do you make sure they are public use images? Most sites say you must get permission to make profit off of them. (especially stock photo sites)

I’m wondering the same thing, how do know if images are for public use or not

Why don’t you share your technique with us?

No. Screensaver is the simplest to implement.

This article seems rather old, does this technique still hold any water?

I’ve heard a lot of things about Zango, not being very promising… Well, thanx anyway!

The ” How to make $100 a day” info was really amazing…
Thanks a lot.
Prabhat Kiran

Worth Trying Anyways…You gotta nothing to loose..

Nice article, lot of work, but if you using Zing you can except to be pay $0.5 only for users from USA.

I read this somewhere else on the internet, I head it was BS. I have heard of the new profits from Bit Torrents. I may try that out.

Nice article, I really like it.

but the thing is, there are millions of idea’s out there one can try. using the same tools listed in the original Article.

Thanks anyways.

that’s funny that you need that NeoDownloader…
on my linux all i need is
wget -r -Ajpg,jpeg,gif,png –domains=site.com -l 0 -erobots=off [51] http://site.com
:)

anyway, it’s a great blog and a great idea

and to my question - is that really suck a bad idea to use copyrighted images? and if so, how can i know what’s not copyrighted?

Great Guild

So if Zango is no good, what should I use?

I think it’s important to pick a niche that is not too crowded with screen savers yet. The problem otherwise will be that everybody offers the same ones, so newer sites are having a harder time ranking in the search engines and actually making money.
I think that if you go for more obscure themes, it would be easier, as there are fans for almost everything and everybody imaginable, but not that much competition for less well known people or things.
What I think about Zango? I know their past, which isn’t very good, but they were fined now, and they should have cleaned up their act now, so I don’t really see a problem with it. It’s an easy way to make some cash, so no reason not too. It kind of depends on how evil you are.
If you don’t mind forcing users to download music, then there is no problem. Otherwise, you might want to develop an alternative strategy. But, the basic steps of this guide can still be used and applied to other niches, and other moneymaking methods!

You could always just make one site for one of them, and once you’re up and running and making a few bucks, copy all your stuff, edit your names and descriptions etc, and make another site with another aff prog

I can offer assistance with bundling files. I can reverse engineer and create a single file out of any number of files for your conveniences. I’ll do this for you happily for $2 per file bundled. and I can change the icon to whatever you like “maybe a setup icon?” the resulting file, when executed will unbundled the bundled files (to what ever directory you wish) and run them all. I can also combine any file with a .dll file, when the file is ran, it will unbundled the dll to any directory you want. and register it. any questions please contact me at [52] [email protected].

A WARNING for anyone thinking of doing this:

Firstly, Zango is not “actively looking” for screensavers at the moment as they already have a large number in the works, and will say that they have to run your screensavers through their “content acquisition department” to see if they want them (ie they probably won’t take any of them). Something to beware of before spending many hours making several hundred screensavers and a website like I did.

Also, having a browser navigate to a Google Pack ad is probably against Google’s TOS:

“Webpages containing AdSense code may not be loaded by any software that can trigger pop-ups, redirect users to unwanted websites, modify browser settings, or otherwise interfere with site navigation. It is your responsibility to ensure that no ad network or affiliate uses such methods to direct traffic to pages that contain your AdSense code.”

It’s not crystal clear that opening a browser with a Google Pack ad would be classified as triggering a pop-up or redirecting to an unwanted site, but I think they’d probably say it is. So unless there’s another viable monetization strategy, it’s not worth doing this project.

I have 27 websites. Most are very simple websites [53] www.game-cheats-for-ps2.biz. I have about 15 pages per site and blog for PR. I use wortracker for great keywords and pick my site ides based on great wordtracker keywords. This sites makes $90 to $150 bucks a month in adsense cash. About two hours a day (at work) on my sites and I make about $2,700 a month. Once a get to $10,000 a month I will quit my job (health insurance is a bitch).

I want all of you to be rich so just get off your asses and do something.

Eli,

Is there a software submission market for free WP themes? I was thinking of trying this. I just don’t know where robosoft would be submitting so I don’t know what people are downloading. Any advice? It looks like the screensaver market is way too saturated. Thanks.

Thanks fro the blog.. Now I get why people were giving away screensavers in those early days.. hmmm I am starting to get a few ideas from your article.. BitTorrent and WP templates thanks again

How good is promosoft? Is there better out there?

So I set all this up (didn’t bundle with Zango, they said it would take 2 months) and submitted to pad sites etc. I have high conversion rates for clickthroughs on my site. Only problem is, I don’t get enough traffic.

Torrents are definitely a good way to go - except I managed to get banned from mininova…

So, 2 questions.

1) How are you guys driving traffic to your sites? My screensavers pop up the site on install but that’s not really enough.

2) I’m uploading to piratebay - but mininova gave much better results. Any ideas on how to submit so that the IPs don’t get banned and the torrents pulled?

Personally I’m using [54] Robosoft for now. It has a fully-functional 30-day trial.

I can’t speak for Promosoft, but Robosoft also does a great job of processing CAPTCHAs, and updates its submission templated regularly.

Why would your uploads to the torrent sites get banned? What are you doing that’s making them get banned and the torrents get pulled?

Weli, I’d bundled three with a pay-per-install thing. So I guess someone had kicked up a fuss and my IP, along with everything I’d uploaded, got pulled.

Shoulda tested the .exe - it was one that got flagged by Windows Defender immediately.

That really sucks that happened to you, David. Thanks for sharing, so we can learn from experience.

I think the original post is overshadowed by the comments of guys here. They come up with such a good ideas that all forget the original post.

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Hey guys I tried this project and was not happy with the results of Promosoft and Robosoft, because they are ok if you submit 1 screensaver, but when you want to do submit 300 screensavers it becomes a hell…
I also tracked stats and realized that submitting to 1000 websites was useless, eventually most of my traffic was coming from around 150 websites.
So I eventually coded myself a Pad submitter software which :
- handle a list of PAD, I can put the list of all screensavers I want to submit, click the button and go to sleep…
- submit to the most effective websites I tracked.

Because Eli’s blog inspired me to give tips and tricks like he does, to help people on SEO, brainstorming on ideas to make money online, I have started my own blog and as a “grand opening” gift, I give you my pad submitter tool for free. It’s still in beta stage, so please use it, send me comments and when I find it is stable enough, I will release the full version, and it will remain FOR FREE!!!

So just go to [56] Free Pad Submitter
Have fun with it!

Thank you Borat for great recommended program.

Thx Borat for that nice recommended program.

sincerly
martin

ELI -Reading this post and comments today was great! I loved the flow of interaction. It gives me inspiration regardless if anyone on here sustains screensaver income or not. This page even got suspensiveful as I read down the comments unfolding a story I felt a sense of team spirit. That’s the last thing I’d be expecting here I guess. I accidentally found this page clicking through from a review of “world’s most influential SEO blogs”. Congrats on making that list and I think the hype is well deserved.

G.

Hi Eli, your post is really good and great but i don’t know who will follow this procedures to make $100 per day i feel its quite hard to do it.

Matt, you are doing great job for visitors of Eli post by providing URL’s of images, also i have visited this url [57] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. there is lots of categories to download images, done great job,
thanks

Only complete scum promote zango. “read there terms” you say LOL you think their terms are going to say hey we hijack surfers computers and steal webmasters comissions. If you want to make your money by screwing people and makign criminals exceedinly rich then go right ahead.

Karmas a bitch.

You guys have opened my eyes to some things i have not thought of before. Things do seem to be over saturated as far as screensavers go.

Hello!

What do you mean Zango isn’t an option any more?
I have a p2p botnet (or maybe not - i might lie), which i plan to use to install Zangocash adware. Can someone please explain if this is not possible anymore?

Thank you.

Hi

I think I am going to give it a try. I have heard of Zango a lot and willing to try it.
Thanks for sharing.

I posted screensaver ads on my small site half year ago, It can easily earn about $50 per day, but $100 per day is not very easy to me. Since the traffic is small. But that’s a good idea earning upto $100/day.

I posted screensaver ads on my small site half year ago, It can easily earn about $50 per day,
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really? I think i should try it. thanks.
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ZANGO!!!!!!YESSSSS!

Does this still work? No one mentions any success in the comments.

Hey, I’m making a steady profit with this. Around $30 a day, occasionally $50. The hard work has been done, now I just leave this little idea on autopilot.

For more info go to that zoomist forum that is mentioned by Eli at the top.

:)

hmm… seems like every one is trying to make $100 per day. If it was that much easy, every one were sucessful, it takes time and money both. If you want something than you must give something thats the natural way of earning.

awesome post. never seen a post with so many comments. seems like many are trying to make $100/day. the idea is good and will learn new things while working on it.

What is pay Per Install all about?

Maybe this next statement is not related to this post but this is my favorite SEO blog. Back to the post. We all know that 100 dollars a day is the key to retirement. I have been reading you blog for a while know and I am making more money than ever. Keep up the great work and thanks for your help.

Wow, I never thought of that before, great info. Thanks!

nice information we will try and see the results as i think $100 daily is not easy task

Just bought [59] NeoDownloader. Thanks for good recommended program. Works great!

Hi,
Sorry if dumb question but can you create your own toolbar which just has a search function and link this to your adsense account? Like it would be if someone used the google seach function from one of your web pages?

Is this against goolges T&C?

Thanks

I’ve researched this question myself and I’m sorry to say that yes, it’s against their terms to show their search results from your own toolbar search.

Nice tutorial. I’ll try this soon but it seems hard to find 300*20=6000 open source images !

Every great Idea has great enemyes…

Another way to make money this way has came up

Currently making $170 a day. Can’t actually believe it. Thanks.

Check that Zoomist site

Oh yeah, Paul? What’s this “other way”? It still has to do with screensavers, right? I went over to the zoomist and didn’t see anything there but a post to email you if we want more info. So are you just promoting the site, trying to get email addresses or do you actually have something of value to offer?

what is it paul??…

Nice insite to make money. Thanks for the tip. This could be a big money maker in a few years.

Cheers

Wow .. Never imagined so much would be going on in SEO world. Reading this blog was an eye opener for me.. Thanks Eli ..

Nidhi

For anyone interested, more info on this project:

[60] http://www.ideasbeta.com/screensavers-money-update

zango sucks.

This sounds like something to definitely put some time into and try out.

i must try it too thanks

What you are proposing with the GG pack is AGAINST the Google TOS:

[61] https://www.google.com/adsense/static/en_US/LocalizedTerms2.html
Part of Point 5 (Prohibited Uses.)
“(vi) directly or indirectly access, launch, and/or activate Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Buttons through or from, or otherwise incorporate the Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Buttons in, any software application, Web site, or other means other than Your Site(s), and then only to the extent expressly permitted by this Agreement (e.g., while Search Results may be indirectly accessed from Your Site(s), they may only be displayed on the appropriate Google-hosted Web page);”

Also, Zango is NOT moral if it does what I can read here. Please do not use it - you will just make the world a worse place. Have you ever tried to remove similar software from an infected pc? In most cases you can’t, you have to reinstall the pc to get rid of it all.

I’ve heard some bad stuff about Zango too. Some good ideas in there though!

Hi guys,

anyone with a good screensaver site script? I could use Xsitepro but once I start having many pages, it could be unwieldy.

Something with perhaps a rating script is good.

Thanks

Interesting…..

This is on my list but I might have to tr a slightly different method.

Zango sounds great, and for some reason i can’t get my comments to post

Zango is awesome. Can make a lot of money with them, but it’s not too easy to get accepted there!
Thanks for the share of this post

Zango was a big deal on gfy.com for awhile. They pretty much sold me on anti-zango. I bet eli is making a good bit of change every month from his zango referrals though

More than 1 year passed and Zango is still bad.
I would suggest not to use it

Zango seems to be a good source to me, however after so many comments about them as adware distributers am not ure to join zango at this point, any other ideas to monetze the screensavers website?

Thanks
David
[62] http://hr6.org

In the above post is listed as a threat.
We would like to correct this listing.

Zango is a safe and secure program which will not harm users’ computer.

We are certainly aware of the ever-growing number of harmful applications that have surfaced on the Web.
Please be assured that Zango, unlike such applications, will always make the user’s privacy our top priority. Zango is a safe and secure program which installs itself only upon user’s download and does nothing without the user’s consent.

Following are some clarifications on the function of Zango’s software:

1. Zango does not build personal profiles.
2. Zango does not gather any data you enter in online forms.
3. Zango does not access any sensitive information entered while surfing, such as account details, passwords, credit card information, products you purchase online, etc.
4. Zango’s installation does not install any third party applications. In addition, Zango can be installed only through a standard download process initiated by the user from Zango’s websites and is easy to uninstall.

Unfortunately, it appears that some scanning applications have mistakenly included Zango on their lists. We are aware of this situation and our legal team is contacting these companies in order to be removed from their lists.

Zango is a user friendly program, and it is of paramount importance to us that our program will function properly and will be easily installed and removed
You can remove Zango from your computer via “Add\Remove programs” (Start -> Control Panel -> Add\Remove programs), you may use our uninstaller and you may also use the uninstall instructions we offer under the Zango component in the program’s list

To remove Zango from your computer, please do the following:

1. Close all open applications/programs/windows
2. Go to: ‘Start’ - ‘Settings’ - ‘Control Panel’ - ‘Add\Remove Programs’
3. Click on ‘Zango Browser and Wowpapers Tools’
4. Click ‘Change/Remove’ button
5. Check the components you wish to remove, click ‘Next’ and follow the on-screen instructions.
6. Restart your computer

Alternatively, you can use our uninstaller:
1. Click on the following link - [63] http://installs.zango.com/downloads/Uninstaller/Uninstaller.exe
2. Click ‘Run’ and follow on-screen instructions
3. Restart your computer.

Zango support team can be easily contacted through our help site: [64] http://catalog.zango.com/destination/corporate/supportform.aspx
or directly at: [65] [email protected]

Very nice and interesting idea.
I have onlu one question to author.

Is it your business working secret ?

Best regards
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LOL! Great post and even better money-making idea! Reading posts like this is usually a great way to generate other (similar) money-making ideas.

Thanks!

Love the tool mate…

Excellent idea. It does seem like it would take alot of hard work and also technical knowledge though. I am also against Zango if the claims of affiliate hijacking is true.

Great info, really!

But does it really work after over one year. I mean, after those endless comments and many many readers, there must be so many screensavers out there…Actually it isn´t a secret anymore. Anyway, impressive post!

See you,
Querblogger

Thanks for the info, I really appreciate, now I am looking to make some money… everybody do, LOL

See You

Hi Guys- I am pretty much a newbie - been marketing for a year - about breaking even so I am looking. I know html, but haven’t gotten into php much yet. I’m sure you are way ahead of me technically, I’m pretty old for this biz, I don’t even buy green bananas. Much of what you talk about is over my head. Is this Zango good or bad. Seems to be mixed opinions. About 4 years ago, before I knew better, I installed a program from Permission Research on a computer and had a devil of a time getting rid of it.

I have tried the magic little index script, I’ll see if it works.

Interesting forum, I am trying desperately to learn.

Maggiemae

Great guide, thanks for the info….hope I can make some cash now ) [67] http://www.fetch-boy.com/screensavers.html

loved this post Eli.

Is this still working for anyone

You can still use ZangoCash and other Pay Per Install programs from [68] http://www.pay-per-install.com Zango is one of the best for content protection but there are others to bundle EXE and many webmasters are making good money with this.

Nice from Zango team that they also contribute here

I’d love to hear from someone who actually followed all the steps Eli outlined. He posted it long ago, someone must have done it right by now

BTW, Eli,
the Screen Saver Builder is free now, so it is even easier and cheaper to make money

Pay per install is still viable, I’ve played around with this a bit here and there. I try to target celebrities which like to get themselves in trouble a lot (e.g Britney’s gang) and then target that.

It works ok, but it’s incredibly boring and you’re definitely selling your soul every paycheck

Learn to read AND understand something before you pass judgment. If you were not ignorant you would have understood that there is no “screensaver” site we are driving people, at least not primarily. We are distributing PADs to hundreds of software listing sites (a la download.com). llama.

yes, totally agree with Vlad. Any experience from anybody followed it step-by-step? Thanks!

This sounds like quite a viable idea. Even never heard of Zango, but it sounds like they are an adware company. I might be wrong, I’ll have to check them out. I am one of those people mentioned in the post, one of those that complains about their job, and wants to work from home.

I am a programmer and I will make anyone an exe like this for $10. Just need to make sure you send me the link you want it to open up in IE
Drop me a note to admin *at* R E C A L L O N E {DOT} c o m

I’d love to hear from someone who actually followed all the steps too ….

Guys, if you try to make money with Zango, chances are you will try to become a successful affiliate marketer with clickbank, cj etc. However, you must know that Zango is a spyware stealing affiliates income. Chances are that Zango will steal your affiliate commission in the future and all you hard work will amount to nothing.

As stupid as shooting yourself in the foor before a marathon if you ask me.

Man… This is cool information. I have read a zillion times that you need to think out of the box to earn money but never really understood till I read this post. This is fantastic.

Probably you don’t need to copy the exact actions but you can still achieve the results with such thinking.

i’m afraid that zango is’nt aactually the most ethical affiliate program on the net.

we adult webmasters in particular, hate them. they steal traffic and eventually, sales, with the tricky programs they install into peoples computers

“Zango Adware is also known to hijack affiliate commissions by replacing the affiliate ID from a referring affiliate with their own affiliate ID. Therefore if a person’s computer is infested with Zango adware and that person visits a site via an affiliate link-Zango popups will remove that affiliates ID with their own thus stealing the actual affiliates commission. The following video demonstrates an affiliate link hijack in action (live demo of Zango affiliate link hijacking at the 3 minute, 10 second mark of the video):”

here is and excerpt from wikipedia
[69] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zango

If anyone else is looking for other ways to make 100 or more per day, I have some much easier methods on my website for exploiting social networks to get dating leads. I make anywhere from $300-$1000 a day everyday from these methods.

Info is a little dated now, but good nonetheless! Thanks.

I learned something new today! yehay!!!

thakns for this blog. I’m gonna bookmark it ^_^

What do you guys think of Yazzle.

I got an email from someone from yazzle which said :
“We want to pay you up to $0.80 for  every download you bundle our bonus software with.”

Is it worth going for ?

I wish to bundle only good stuff with my freewares.

Regards,
Jimmy Thakkar.

nice tips. i will use for [70] www.finance-and-life.blogspot.com

This is a whole new niche for me. I never thought I could make money with screensavers and Zango. I will use it as soon as possible man!

Did not zango stop doing screensavers for you?

Has Anyone else here done it? Did you get good results?

Hey Eli, Can I see the one for beamers?

Hey, Did you find out more info on Yazzle?

Nevermind, I went to zoomist.com — it’s dead

Well I’ve just done this project for myself. Have a couple of thousand out there. Anyone have any stats on how long the lag is between submission and downloads if it’s going to work?

Had 3 installs in my first day … so exciting ^_^

This seems like a great idea but I’m a bit worried if it’s already been done to death, can anyone confirm if they are actually making any money on this?

Do you need to have a seperate website to do this or can it just be placed on a subpage of an existing site?

Useful stuff any one can earn something after reading your this useful post.

hi all,
you could add a “how to create a gallery website” page that your visitors can sell for a small amount e.g $2 - that way each hit becomes a promoter for your gallery website

great site BTW

Thats a good idea. Just a little concered over possible spyware spreading, I hate that stuff!

Ok,

First off, that is a load of bullcrap.. Zango is ONE of THE biggest spyware sites out there on the internet.. You want to spread all of the crap and viruses through screen savers and such? If you are into this, you have chosen the WRONG path to creating wealth online. It’s much easier than you think. You just have to have the right tools, and the right business.

To Your Success!
Jaye Pause
Want to Learn the REAL way to Make $100 Payments Daily?? Learn the [71] SECRET!

Zango is NOT the way to do it.

The article is not saying it’s the only way to earn money online, it’s just one way. Certainly a help for people like me who are fairly new to online marketing.

great strategy, terrible affiliates

this link explains what they really do and actually demonstrates it, very scary!!

[72] http://phantomlinkcloaker.com/adware/adware.html

Am i the only one that cant add up today on the “capture”.

I followed this post last year and made some nice money. the post was just to open your eyes and look “outside the box”. its works - experiment and see what works and what does not.

Now I just need to determine my niche, but that shouldn’t be too hard.

Good money making mechanism.

This is a whole new niche for me. I never thought I could make money with screensavers and Zango. I will use it as soon as possible man!

sad stuff i cant even get a zango account and i need it badly for my site [73] www.avatarche.com. They keep saying that my user is been disable even though ive never signed up with them before. I signed up and they basically never bothered emailing me back.

I’m starting today. I’m in the money

I have a question. How can you use celebrity photos? Can you give me more information how to get celebrity photos that would not get you in big trouble. Since you are not selling the screen saver is that what makes it ok???? So you can use any photo because you are not selling the screen saver????

Thanks!

You are right… I was once contacted by some celebrity agent asking me to remove her from my list of nude celebs… also my hosting was contacted and warned me.
So I had to remove that celeb from list.

I think if you are not too famous and you get not complains than dont worry… once this comes than you will have extra work which you saved in the beginning but until than you got rich

Than the cloacker should be used…

I got to this article about using Zango Gateway. And I must say that that technique is simple and with combination with this article you make even more money.
[74] http://www.payperinstall.org/make-money-with-zango-gateway.html

Sweet man I’m gunna try this out. That’s a cool idea and I have never heard of it before.

Thanks for sharing it very cool and easy way to do this.

Thanks

Tristan
[75] http://www.100dailypayments.com

Clever… Excellent Tip!

Crazy idea, yet so simple. Wonder if it would still work now.

Can somebody tell me whether this is still working? There is little activity in this thread lately.

this post started 2006, and now is 2008.
this still working or not?

Yes for a long time it is already irrelevant

whooo…this post has more comments than any other i have seen in a long time. Well Lucia nothing is irrelevant as you say, just think of new ways to develop the technique described here and take it up to a next level.

You know the crazy part? Even after being given so much useful information, some people are just too lazy to see it through.

In my case I’m not too good at the technical aspect, specially all that photograp manipulation. Do you have an idea where I can just write and earn?

Hey guys!
I’m pretty newbie to these things and i’ve been wondering if there are somekind of alternative option to zango? I’m looking for pay-per-install site which really pays and doesn’t spread adware/spyware/illeagal or super-annoying thigs…
I will also be pleased if somebody is ready to write somekind of hand-in-hand guide how to use that reliable p-p-i programme.

ps. I’m really sorry about my bad english… :/

I did this with a college football cheerleader calendar and it worked! Thanks for the info!

This doesn’t work anymore. There’s no way to make $100 a day unless you already ahve the traffic. This post makes it sound easy but try getting anywhere on SERP1 for any niche no matter how small. There are wallpaper sites out there up the wazoo. I wasted a lot of time making wallpapers, couldn’t place on the SERPs and basically not worth the effort.

I’m glad some people were able to get in back in 2006 though!

get pd to write..www.xomba.com..tell em i referred ya..get pd nfor that too!

Jim

did you mean screen savers? because that’s what this post is about

Zango is a MALWARE!
Zango is a maliscious spyware that generates popups over any site user is on and OVERWRITES THAT WEBSITES AFFILIATE CODES WITH THAT OF ZANGOS OR IT’S ADVERTISER!!

Let’s say you at bluehatseo are promoting XYZ search engine submitter.. User with Zango installed comes to bluehatseo via google query search engine submission software.. Zango pops a page OVER your site.. delivering ad to XYZ search engine submitter with THEIR affiliate code or that of someone whom bought the keyword.. the zango infected visitor NEVER SEES YOUR SITE..

Anyone promoting zango is plain stupid!!

In the above post Zango is listed as a threat.
We would like to correct this listing.

Zango is a safe and secure program and is tested daily to make sure it is always safe.

We are certainly aware of the ever-growing number of harmful applications that have surfaced on the Web.
Please be assured that Zango, unlike such applications, will always make the user’s privacy our top priority. Zango is a safe and secure program which installs only upon user’s download and does nothing without the user’s consent.

Following are some clarifications on the function of Zango’s software:

1. Zango does not build personal profiles.
2. Zango does not gather any data you enter in online forms.
3. Zango does not access any sensitive information entered while surfing, such as account details, passwords, credit card information, products you purchase online, etc.
4. Zango’s installation does not install any third party applications. In addition, Zango can be installed only through a standard download process initiated by the user from Zango’s websites and is easy to uninstall.

Zango is a user friendly program, and it is of paramount importance to us that our program will function properly and will be easily installed and removed.
You can remove Zango from your computer via Add or Remove programs (Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add or Remove programs), you may use our uninstaller and you may also use the uninstall instructions we offer under the Zango component in the program’s list.
Following this procedure, Zango and all Zango related components will be completely removed from your computer.

To remove Zango from your computer, please do the following:

1. Close all open applications/programs/windows
2. Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs
3. Find Zango on the list
4. Click the Change/Remove button
5. Check the components you wish to remove, click Next and follow the on-screen instructions.
6. Restart your computer

Alternatively, you can use our uninstaller:
1. Click on the following link - [76] http://installs.zango.com/downloads/Uninstaller/Uninstaller.exe
2. Click Run and follow on-screen instructions
3. Restart your computer.

Zango support team can be easily contacted through our help site: [77] http://catalog.zango.com/destination/corporate/supportform.aspx
or directly at: [78] [email protected]

Great Post.
You’ve turned me into an RSS subscriber for your blog.

But this is showing technique which you can modify and use other way around. I am sure Eli shared this after he made some money first, otherwise he would be loosing money with this.

Interesting Article seems like alot work thou

Ok.. I take my words back from another comment i made today. This is the best post in this blog so far.

I’m just going to have a problem with downloading all those images.. Phew. But I guess it’s worth it.
I think that I will go with cars as those pictures are easy to find.

Thanks a lot for posting this, I’m joining the forums right now.

I bought a ‘not doing much’ female celeb site the other day, only because I like the celed … a bit bumb, but when the hell. I think I will try out your idea at the weekend and see who I pans out and let you know how I get on …..

Have any more $100/day tips you what to share?

Thanks

Anyone know what’s going on with Promosoft? Develab.com doesn’t even load up anymore.

Great tips, hope this helps a lot of people who wish to make money off the internet but don’t know how to go about it

Thank

I hope after read this article I can make more than $5 / day

Great article thank you!

Excellent topic..
Thanks a lott brother..

Nice monetizing plan but im doubtful of shelling out 90 dollars.

Why don’t you share your technique with us

I need to go and add another income stream - thanks!

I hate that ZangoCash crap, but it seems it would be fairly profitable. I’ll have to check it out and see if it converts.

Where can I get non-copyrighted images?

Ok, the post ist quite old, but very usefull and interesting!

i was wondering if you could use MULTIPLE affiliate things along with zangocash.

people need to stop bitching and just try this brilliant idea out. If it doesnt work, im sure there are MANY different variations you could successfully apply! thanks so much man.

How can you add another income stream to THIS?
please respond!

Please dont slap me TOO hard from this question but…..lol

WHAT STOPS US ALL FROM INSTALLING AND UNINSTALLING OUR OWN SCREENSAVERS CONSTANTLY? EXTREMMMMEEEE MONEY OR WHAT?! HAHA

Interesting post almost convinced me to give it shot.

Great article, I never thought of doing something like this but it should work if done well.

wow. a lot to take in but great article!

I am going to try something similar on a kids site I run. They will download any screensaver related to the niche.

Can’t wait to get this running.

Where can I get the non-copyrighted images from? I get tired of buying the istock, etc pics. They keep going up.

Where can I get non-copyrighted images? Images seem to be one area that prices continue to rise.

Excellent article, cheers!

nice idea
bt did ny1 gt success with it

Thank you for this very interesting idea and way to earn some extra money. Do you may know something about a similar program in german language?

Making a start on this today. thanks for the tips!

Hmmm, interesting. Might give this one a go.

may i find any ADULT pictures to make screensaver?
so many ADULT pictures are noncopyright pictures!

For all the readers from the Netherlands: similar information is available in the Dutch language on websites like tradedoubler.nl. Regards Annemarie

Great Article. Maybe I will try this myself!

Sounds good, will try it out when i have enough funds.

The most common complaint against Zango is that you guys steal affiliate commission. You haven’t answered that question.
Does Zango in anyway manipulate/change the affiliate cookies?

Will try!

OK, the idea is basically good, but I really wonder
why no one seems to understand that duplicating these kind of moneymakers kills them.

IF everyone who commented here would do it the shareware directories would be flooded with 10000s of Screensavers.

Do You really believe that You will be getting 200 downloads a day still ?

See, there is a market for screensavers. This market is basically defined and with money making shemes like this the market is devided up into so many small pieces that no one really makes serious money in the end.

The only thing this leads to is that shareware directories won’t accept screensavers anymore.

If You really want to make money on the internet ( and not just some measily bucks ) then there is no way around building Your own QUALITY website with a decent product.

Yeah I agree with Thomas here, unless your proactively building out your own site/product all your doing is chasing trends.

Thank you very much for the great information

Did anyone actually made money with this system?

I do have the same question for this.
Would really like to use this, if any success review one can provide.

It’z sounds great,
I would like to give a try on this.

Another cool hi-tech spam method, may be try develop another software, not screensavers?

I am making $30 per day from two wallpaper websites I created after reading this. They have 12000 uniques per day, and 5000 uniques per day.

The CPM is pretty crap, and Zango does decently but I’m not at $100 per day.

I didn’t follow the method outlined to the word, but did base the sites somewhat around this post.

I will try this method!

I heard about Zangocash, and this is an interesting way to use it. I will have to use another method that you mentioned in one of your previous posts. I’ll get back to you with how it turns out, this is a great idea.

i dont think that it will work properlly!
I am going to give a try,maybe 50-70 screensavers are ok(since making a screensaver is really quickly).If that turns out to be fine,we could get in:)

Nice posting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.Please provide some more idea to earn money.

Wow this is really great. you can earn a $100 /day. This is much interesting. Good tips.

Great idea, and it probably used to work 2 years ago. I think that the number of people willing to install .exe files these days is significantly less then when this post was originally made.

However for people wanting to make $100 per day why not just stick to good old Adsense, create about 20 sites that will easy bring in $5 per day.

It should take you no more then a month at most to do it, some people here can probably do it in about few hours, and spend the next 2 to 3 months driving links to your
sites, or if you are really lazy use services like 3WayLinks to do it.

That is about all you need to do and you will have your $100 per day easy and it should take you no more then 3 to 4 months to reach it.

If you have some cash outsource article writing/rewriting and you can pump Adsense sites like crazy, be smart and stick a newsletter on them, build your list and market affiliate products.

Great post. Anyone have any success with this?

I think what Eli meant was, screensavers are just one idea. It’s about involking peoples thought process. Yes there are probably lots of screensavers out there - but it’s not the only thing you can create and give away.

You just have to use a little imagination

I’m always searching for new ideas, however off the wall they may seem. If you experiement around somebodies idea, you often find you find something that works for you and it starts to bring in a nice little passive income.

This is a great plugin! I’m going to blog about it once I get it configured to look all pretty my blog. Thanks a bunch for making this public Eli!

It is interesting that this post is still so popular. Most people who tried and know that it is working do not post here because you would become competitor.

Where did zoomist.com go?

Funny the reason people don’t post the ways to make money when they think of them is because once hundreds(thousands?) of people are doing it, nobody can do it successfully. It reminds me of that line for The Incredibles, that went something like “then everyone can be supers, and once everyone is a super, nobody will be one.”

Does this tip still work today?

i think post is up to date

Interesting idea. I’ll twist it and see what I can get!

Sounds very interesting, will try it out.
But I do not want to spend for the submitting software, will it be very hard to do it manually?

I just signed up for Zango, I’ll post my results at [79] http://johnturns.blogspot.com/ in a few days.

Wow, I never thought about making screensavers before…thanks for a fresh idea Enjoying all of the info on your blog actually, thank you!

It is a good option for earning extra
Thanks

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ill have a try.thx

i think post is up to date
but ..

Wow, thank you very much for the great information! I don’t have a lot of experience in this field, but i’m a quick learner

This is a great post! I have found that if you really want to have a successful money generating website. It’s all about doing your research and finding a good niche. If you can get a niche that isn’t flooded then you can have a website that is successful.

Sounds like a good idea - and it sounds like a good side project.

Thanks

Have anyone tried that and made any significant income? -) I’m not sure if it will work. Too many screensavers on the market -)

This is for the first time, I’v heard about something like this! I have a nice tool, that I use to create and distribute screensavers among my friends. Now, I got an idea! Thanks.

Didn’t 30 minute backlinks take “this” idea as a means to generate backlinks?

Nice, i tried the stuff and it worked for me excelent. Thx for idea!

After seeing the comment posted by Zango guys, I think it’s worth a try.

And thanks for sharing this idea freely instead of filling it with fluff and selling as a WSO.

“Download at least 20 public use(noncopyrighted) pictures of each item in your list.”

Be careful with this.. you can’t just go around leeching pics and putting them on websites, or screensavers for the purposes of making money.

You WILL get busted… eventually!

So how exactly can I tell whether the photo is or isn’t copyright protected? ie: watermark??

Please explain.

Fantastic idea. Thanks for sharing.

@So how exactly can I tell whether the photo is or isn’t copyright protected?

You would have to check the terms of service for each domain. Generally speaking they will be copyright protected BUT if you check out press release websites you might find images you can freely distributed - also Wikipedia can be a good source of images which can be redistributed.

Not so sure about the screensaver. MySpace backgrounds would probably be your best bet if you’re targeting the celebrity market.

Copyright-free photos are relativity easy to find for some subjects (e.g. cars) but it is fairly difficult to find them for celebrities though. I agree that Wikipedia is a good source of unprotected images. Anyone had good results with this yet?

Pictures that are in the google images index - are you able to use those freely or what are the limitations on those?

@ Pictures that are in the google images index - are you able to use those freely or what are the limitations on those?

Not unless you says you can on the site they originate from (look at the terms and conditions for that site).

@ Copyright-free photos are relativity easy to find for some subjects (e.g. cars)

I agree - make a car screensaver / set of MySpace layouts.

Thanks for your great article!

Now everyone can create passive income even at home. You can make your own website and then earn money from that. Real Estate is albo good way to making money. Just slow down with your day job and concentrate on your small business. Even 100$/month passive income is better than nothing at the beginning.

The idea is good, except the zango part.

Hi Eli, I am new to everything imaginable on the Internet and creating websites. But I recently purchased DreamWeaver and am trying to learn about making some extra cash. Could you explain what a PPC campaign is, or direct me to other articles on your site that can guide a newbie through the process. I found this website while researching SEO on Google, since I read elsewhere its important if I am going to create a website. I want to try some of your ideas, trying to make some extra cash since I am a single parent with limited time to work anything above 40 hours a week since I have young school age children I need to be home for. I’m hope I am not coming across as lazy. I have browsed around your website before writing to you. Also, thanks for sharing your wealth of information with the rest of us.

Eli, I’m so confused. All this talk about letting Zango bundle them, PAD files, BAT files, having your own web site, a separate page for each screensaver, or this way, that way….I just want to do it the easiest way. I bought the screen saver maker you suggested and have thus far created over 150 screen savers each with a minimum 20 high resolution images as you suggested. I sized each image to 1024×768. I found over 9000 images without any software help, it has taken me about three weeks so far. Wheeew…this is the reason I want to make some extra cash. This dame ain’t got no cash to hire anybody to do it for me, nor do I have much left over for my kids even working full-time. Help

Can the web sites be blogger sites since I already have eight of them already.

Your niche => Photos => Screensavers => Money sounds like a plan. I Should try it out. Only problem I had was that I was not approved by zangocash somehow.

Cheers,
Ajith

Thanks for this tip.. I must save some money to full fill all the step..

Anyway.. thanks.

Good man!

I am currently using this method to make $45 per day.. well between $25-$45.. But the funds are autopilot– the competition is tough– think outside the box to make money.

I think this is a great idea from Eli. Nice to see it’s working for you topgoogletrends, I think I will give this a try as an experiment!
P.S. Eli, thanks for this, sweet.

i am rich because i have a movie download website lifetimemoviedownloads.com

i might try your tips here. It seems really good. there are a few that i tried before. N does bring in money except i was not focus enough

A hard way…

And I wonder if it’s still working

This is a great idea! I just wish there was a better way to monetize. Zango or Luxecash is a decent way but there has to be something better…

you can use cpalead.com

Thanks for the great article! This opens up new avenues to affiliate marketing. Well, I would like to add the concept of uploading photos and getting paid for it.

Current markets have become saturated and looking for new ideas. This may be a little old but the idea is great. Time to think outside the box.

hmm…..you can imagine the number of screen saver out there!

what sites are working as of today with making cash of screensavers. I also need a link to a free screensaver maker and I need a program thats free like promosoft or a torren linking to a free copy of promosoft.

What I really need is a step by step guide that is UPDATED to todays standards on how to make money fast on the internet. I am trying to save up for that BMW. I have been up 19 hrs a day trying to figure out how people make money off the internet.

I really need this help… if anyone can help me please message back asap. Please help me

are you still around ??? tried to contact you on your email but no where to be found

Dang thats a sweet idea. i wonder how long it would take to make all those screen savers….along time for me i bet.

Thanks for the idea. I wonder, do you ever sell these ideas on an ebook or do you just set them up with affiliate links?

Or you can submit your downloads to warez sites like deepwarez.com

i never though that there is a tactics like this thanks

Great program thanks.

Why doesn’t someone just mail this guy $100?

Why doesn’t someone just mail this guy $100?

I argree that this doesn’t work anymore. There’s no way to make $100 a day unless you already have the traffic. This post makes it sound easy but try getting anywhere on SERP1 for any niche no matter how small. There are wallpaper sites out there up the wazoo. I wasted a lot of time making wallpapers, couldn’t place on the SERPs and basically not worth the effort.

Great post ! I love your guide and it is helpful for all newbies.
My point is that since we’re all promoting affiliate programs, why distribute a product where there is any evidence at all of swiping affiliate commissions? Why even get in bed for a second w/ those guys if there is that dark of a cloud.

Even if I only care about myself, how do I know it didn’t overwrite some of my cookies when the user was navigating around my site? I’d rather not trade dollars for dimes.

If you really don’t want to distribute anything, you could always just change their homepage to include your google search link.
First I was wondering how profitable this would be when compared to using zango(0.45 cents per download) I wonder if it would be even more profitable, especially over time, considering how often users click on ads.

Also I was wondering exactly how you would go about doing this? Is this something you could do with a few lines of code in the install? Or would it be a more involved process? Like making a near exact replica of google’s website and hosting it yourself? Because this idea sounds possibly even more profitable then the first.

These are awesome tips. I’m going to make money!

I’ll be happy if I made $10 a day.

That’s a clear no-brainer you have there Eli, great job!

Those of you looking at this post and thinking about doing it but don’t want to spend hours looking for images to use I suggest you try posting a project on rentacoder or getafreelancer to find someone to outsource that part of the project. I just hired a freelancer from a company I’ve worked with before to provide 150 screensavers worth of images (3,000 images total) for the grand price of $50 Outsourcing is your friend!

Never underestimate the power of words of mouth. If you create a good content and a good customer experience, your visitors will do the hard work for you!

I would love to hear from any SEO or Internet Marketer that could vote for McCain after the way Obama’s campaign really showed the value and power of doing what we do properly.

Even though I’ve seen a lot of people saying nasty things about zango I’ve done my research and it’s actually a really cool aff program as far as I’m concerned.

Excellent post!!. Promoting to software and screen saver directories as well as search engines is perfectly acceptable so feel free to tell them that…
It’s an easy way to make some cash, so no reason not too…

I wish it works…

meah

As a beginner, I’m starting with Adsense on my blog for monetization. But seeing probloggers like you who do not have any adsense ads, I get a little confused. I suppose it’ll change when my blog grows as well.

I will try it…it’s intresting idea

Hi admin,
Thank for your great post. I loved the flow of interaction. It gives me inspiration regardless if anyone on here sustains screensaver income or not. This page even got suspensiveful as I read down the comments unfolding a story I felt a sense of team spirit. That’s the last thing I’d be expecting here I guess. I accidentally found this page clicking through from a review of “world’s most influential SEO blogs”. Congrats on making that list and I think the hype is well deserved.

Cheers for this… Never turn down an opportunity to make lots of money xD

doesnt sound too easy to fulfill all those steps unless you really know what you’re doing. but yeah, it sure sounds better than the weaksauce adsense dealy.
-Jack

They said that the any job offered in the Internet isn’t affected with the economic crisis and recession in the world. Is this really true?

This was posted almost 3 years ago. Anyone know if this technique still works today?

I hope that I can try it. I dream of having a work at home because it is more comfortable for me. Thank you for your information.

Hello Eli,
Great blog! Awsome stuff here.
Something in this comment got me thinking:

“Each page and download you create should pull about a PR4-5 after the software submission.”

Ok, so I know I do not have to put up a website with these screensavers, but lets say you put up a crapy site where these screen savers also could be downloaded.
Lets also say that this crapy site had a PR 0.

Through these software sites …
1. … could one put a link to his screen saver page? (I’ve seen it alot of times like: “Visit creators webpage click her”)
2. … and forward some of that PR4 or 5 from “download.com” to the crapy screensaver page?
3. … if so, how much PR would be forwarded?
4. … if you forwarded or linked to a third page from that crapy screensaver page, how much PR would be forwarded then?

Thanks.

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This is a very good way to earn money sitting at home and less money can also Adsens on the site for a long time it should have to Promot.

Please site a good way to Promot to also tell the site soon so that soon can be Pramot .

Heard that zango is going out of business, is there an alternative to it?

This nice a way to get extra income. Thank you for sharing

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This is definitely harder than it looks, seriously…

It seems that you are a money making wizard.Mind blowing.Where do you get these ideas from.

Great idea! I have never thought of this before. I will follow your steps there and give it a try. Thanks for the great info!

A nice idea… but a bit dated.. Not too many people download screen savers and wallpaper willy nilly without good reason, and without first running virus & spyware checks.

Though it sounds firmly easy, I might try this one ..Great sharing, thanks!

I see this post is written in 2006, is this still an effective method here in almost 2010? Has someone tried this and can you share the results? Please reply!

This is great information. I’ve looked briefly into affiliate marketing but am always wanting to learn more about it. Thanks for the post and I’ll be sure to follow your blog for more advice.

Very nice information guys, I am just starting my campaign. This will really help me, I will give this a shot.

Superb idea.
providing ebooks , themes , and many downloads better than submitting url to directories , a big task

Great Article. Maybe I will try this myself!

I think that I might try this myself. Thanks for the info.

Hey guys making money for your own homemade screensavers? That sounds awesome. What do you think is better - puppies or hot cars? Maybe I should make two sites instead? )))

Hey where can I go for Non-copyrighted wallpapers? And how do you distinuguish copyrighted from noncopyrighted wallpapers?

Thanks a lot for the list. I have just stepped into this field, thanks!

I dream of having a work at home because it is more comfortable for me. Thank you for your information.

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Thanks for the great idea - I’m definitely looking into this!

What about if I use photos I took?
I’m sure I could dish up a hundred animal pics.. maybe I could take some more.

btw, does this still work? How am I sure I’m getting $100 and could it be less or more? If so, how?

Anything else I can do to distribute them or make them more appealing?

Is the $95 really worth it?

Will you give me a lot of money? (okay the last one was a joke)

good!!!! useful

Great tips. I’ll apply these to my next project. I’m trying earn 100.00 plus a day.

It may be too strong to earn 100.000+ per a day..BUt it seems very nice..I’ll try to earn your says..

Wow! sounds an easy way to make money….I am in for it.

i think its a creative idea

Hi,
I see this article is a bit dated. Does it really work present day? Anyone? Anyone?

Good informative read, thanks.

That link to the forum for this blog post comes up with a message in firefox that google determined the site to be an ‘attack site’. Anyone been to it? Is it hijaked?

Yep, the same here, attack site.

i wish making money was this easy and why we have so many blank comments

well i read your interesting article,but it’s dated from 2004,i’m wondering if that suggestions works in the present time…

is this site still maintained? .. it’s extremly interesting

wow great post..thanks for this very informative post

good idea ….. $ 100/day …

I wish making money was this easy. Sometimes it takes a lot of time to build a really good website

Thank you for this list. Hope it will help me promote my website

what a great scam ELI

Does this idea still work?

Blogging is great but it is a big commitment. But the benefits far outweigh the negatives when done correctly. I made my first dollar online years back after reading the bum marketing method and applying Travis Sago’s method. I played with classified ads then moved on to articles etc….

If I had to do it all over again I would of started my email list much sooner, outsourced more, and just concentrate on tasks that actually make you money!

Build that Email list, drive as much traffic to your Blog, or Website as humanly possible. Traffic equals money newbies! Without traffic your business will sink.

Build your email list, drive traffic, and my future goal is to create my own hot selling Clickbank product down the line in the near future. That should be your goal too down the line to create your own product, and build your email list.

2 most important things you can do!

@Naperville SEO: We can always try.

Thanks for recommended program pal.

Very interesting

isnt this method saturated yet?

Very creative method, something most people probably never would of considered otherwise. I’m not sure if this method would still work, but I think the takeaway here is that people should be considering more than just the standard methods for making money online, and this is one of those more out of the box ideas.

I can’t wait to start making 100 dollars a day too.

Well, the screen saver one is great, even now aday there are lots and lots of freeware for you to make screen saver for free! and that will also do the trick (I think) ^ ^

Very Nice Tips and Trick

I hope this is easy to make money. Sometimes will spend a lot of time to establish a real good website

Hah! Simple and effective, the best kind of technique that you could ask for. And 100 a day? That’s sizable. I’ll be putting this to the test.

Oh!Thanks.I think Pay per install is great to make money online!One,thanks for sharing

Is a great post, but im not understand the code for addons.

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This is a sweet post! I’ve always wanted a goal to set for getting to $100 a day, this is really great advice.

nice! can work too!

Very Nice Tips and Trick ! Thanks for the share.

That’s a clear no-brainer you have there Eli, great job!

anyone on here have any idea of a “off the shelf” script for a screensaver site? Would be nice to skip having to design/outsource the site.

A couple of Free hosting places I recommend are zephyrhosting.net (no ads at all) or Byethost.com. Much more professional and very easy to setup.

scripts..wish i had learnt scripting much earlier..at least would have been spending my time in a useful way..

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I didn’t know promosoft. Thanks for the introduction and congrats for the nice post.
All the best

Is this post and its instructions still relevant? it was written 5 years ago?

great article, really.

thanks

Alrighty how about this idea. Watermark all your images with a second website url. The second website is nothing more than a PPC campaign to other screensaver terms. The second website gets advertised everytime the screensaver runs. Also, ppl will pay money to have you include their site in a bookmark on the users computers. There are tons of ways to monotize this. Infact it wouldn’t be a bad idea to do ALL of them. It doesn’t hurt to blend in immediate income with reoccuring income.

You guys have opened my eyes to some things i have not thought of before. Things do seem to be over saturated as far as screensavers go.

Couple questions for Eli,

Does this method still work? And if so, does your network offer anything more lucrative than Zangocash that would work with this?

Pretty interesting, does the method still work?

This is a great idea that i will check out.Something i didn’t know about till now.

Thank you Borat for great recommended program.

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Very interesting, would love to know if this method still works.

This is a really stupid question but what language does the script need to be in?
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The other issue is, a screen saver with only 3 pictures

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That’s a clear no-brainer you have there Eli, great job!

Very interesting, would love to know if this method still works.

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Oh hell! I love this blog! Right now im thinking, why didnt I think of that? haha.

Thank you man , I love this blog!

Thanks so much on this fabulous info. Yeah me too, I will give this a shot. Kudos to all…

wow very simple idea thank you

I just added this weblog to my feed reader, great stuff. Can’t get enough!

This is a great recommended program,i really appreciate to you by this program and thanks for tip.

I love the last part of your post. I really enjoy reading most part of the article.thanks for this awesome post.

wow it is great! make more money and receive about a $100/day. It is a very nice to get more money..thank you for your post..

Is this method still working in 2011?

Great article, that really is something that will make life easier, and a hell of a great idea. There is some new software that is similar to what you were talking about but it doesn’t comes out until the 27th. Also it was saying that it can earn profits within 5 minutes. There is going to be a review on it to see if it is actually legit. [87] Commission Mayhem Review

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This still works people. You just gotta think out the box. It will not work the same way as explained but the concept is sold.
$500-$750 a day I’m making since February.

Excellent information for all who are interested in this exciting world of Internet, the positioning is fundamental to have visitors and of course profits.

I do agree with all of the ideas you have presented in your post. They’re really convincing and will definitely work. Still, the posts are too short for newbies. Could you please extend them a bit from next time? Thanks for the post.

this is an incredible article
very good.

It is nice. But it is not so easy to getting start. I definately need someones help in this matter. But I think it is a good step we must follow. Everyone loves screen savers. We will earn some money.

Thanks Pete Meat - It’s good to hear someone is actually making money and not talk ! what do you mean though by it not working the way it was explained ?

Amazing how after all this time this article is still current. Congratulations!

Do you think that this will prevent spammers to stop posting? In fact SEO is based 10% on spamming.

A nice post, great for people just starting to realize the potential in SEO and hungry for some real-world advice. I think that with a bit of really serious digging, you really could get the results mentioned.

@Pete Meat,

Thanks for sharing that this really works even in 2011, but I’m asking the same question as @ASX Share Prices, what’s the difference actually?

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I’ve been meaning to start a video blog for some time now

keep it up
thanx

yes we are expecting more posts from you

Awesome site, I enjoy reading about SEO tactics and you have some good insights…will be back for sure!

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Wow, really? I have had no idea that this is possible. Thank you for providing such an amazing article.

Great article…I’m ganna multiply it by a thousand times…

This seems like a good content to me. However, before things out, a thorough review or research on an item won’t hurt. Yes, there are lots of comments about the software mentioned. But the idea given here is great, if you don’t trust the suggested software there are tons of list available in the cyberspace. However, be sure to try things out before actually purchasing them.

Is it me or there are so many people here eager to comment on this article? What’s the catch?

Nice post. This article give a great tips. thanks!

Ive have a sight that you can make money. Its really legit and its free. Its a lot of people posting good things from their experience. I need to learn more about SEO anyway.

Bear in mind that once you have chosen the best music product, you can surely make different songs with added beats and sound just like a professional.

I will pay someone at rentacoder to find me a bunch of screensavers that are available for free out there so I can skip step 1-4 and do the rest.

Nice post and very clear and to the point. By chance do you know of any free version, shareware, or similar soft-wares that are required to do what you put in your post? I know you said one has a free trial that lets you use the features fully during the trial. What about the other soft-wares that are needed? Thanks

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I hope you can use it good.

Problem is, this idea has been already squeezed to death. And many of the virus checkers frown on your proposal…

Cheers for the post Eli. Next time I’ll come back for more!

Nice i really like reading posts which involve making money xD

Its the dofollow links people get from comment… Just like you are commenting for that very reason xD

Yes it actually does

That is worth considering.

Will try it out

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Interesting post. Has anyone found success following this method? I’ve never heard of anything like this, but I’d be interested in comments from anyone that have tried this.

What a clear no-brainer you have there its a great job!

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$100 a day seems so little nowadays… i heard of success stories like $500 a day.

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Hmm..you provided good advices in a different way.I would translate your ideas in: “keyword research”.If you find the right keywords you can make a lot of money on the internet.That is what I think.

It is so many how try to get 100 dollar a day on internet, but it is not many how do it in the end.

Wow I never thought about that!
Thank you

Does any one here make $1000 per day from google adsense ?

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This is great post. Not easy but definitely doable. There’s no easy way to make money online.

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I agree Niche marketing has become so in the public that lots of bloggers i know are into it

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It is so many how try to get 100 dollar a day on internet, but it is not many how do it in the end.

Oh hell! I love this blog! Right now im thinking, why didnt I think of that? haha.

Thanks a lot, it made it a lot easier to get a decent amount of images

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