There’s a documentary that just came out on HBO called Gasland. I highly recommend you watch it. If you don’t have HBO, surely you can find a torrent for it. The documentary is actually very good film-making too. It’s a compelling film even though the subject matter is very morbid.

I don’t plan on turning this blog into a political outlet or anything, but if you give one fucking shit about America, then all I want is for you to be aware of what is going on with current natural gas extraction process.

I’m not politically active. I figure this blog gets a thousand or more visitors a day – if I can at least help expose the truth to some people, then its justified.

I’m going to go over some of the main points of Gasland. But there is truly too much to write about. You have to see the film to get a feel for the big picture.

Unregulated Hydraulic Fracturing

To extract the gas from the earth, the Natural Gas industry uses hydraulic fracturing, which is the process of pumping thousands upon thousands of gallons of water in the earth, breaking it apart the shale below and releasing the gas.

The kicker is the chemicals and toxins they use in the process. It’s not just water – it’s a toxic soup designed to make the gas extraction process easier.

Around 600+ chemicals are used. Only about 50% of this water is recovered. The rest? The rest of the wastewater is still in the ground. Most of it doesn’t bio-degrade. Most of it ends up in peoples drinking water if they live nearby. These chemicals are some of the nastiest shit known to man. Not safe for human consumption.

Think it’s a small problem? There are thousands upon thousands of natural gas wells in the United States, and the Natural Gas industry is in the biggest boom of its history.

Property gets ruined. People get permanently sick.

All for the mighty dollar. Money comes and goes, but you can’t replace a stream, river, or landscape.

Does this even effect me?

What if you live in Jersey, NYC, or Philadelphia? There’s no nearby land available for the gas-extraction process. I don’t care about the rest of the natural landscape in the United States being ruined, how does it effect me?

Natural Gas wants to drill in the rural areas of PA and NY, near the Delaware River Watershed. These chemicals will end up in the natural water supply for millions of people.

Shit, If millions of people got sick, then maybe someone would regulate the natural gas industry.

Why Is this Allowed?

Because the EPA is asleep at the wheel.

Thousands of reports of people getting sick and water supplies being destroyed – yet the Natural gas industry continues to deny. The EPA, the regulatory committee that’s supposed to be setting rules in place, apparently can’t do anything. (See the Haliburton Loophole)

The natural gas industry is exempt from all laws that have been put into place that protect our water, air, and environment. Nixon, yes, NIXON signed these Acts into place decades ago.

Nixon initiated the Environmental Decade by signing the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act of 1970 and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act amendments of 1972, as well as establishing many government agencies. These included the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Council on Environmental Quality. The Clean Air Act was noted as one of the most significant pieces of environmental legislation ever signed.

The natural gas industry is exempt from these laws. The are completely unregulated, and are taking over American soil and destroying it in their wake.

Dick Cheney and Halliburton

It should come as no surprise that a law that directly benefits the Halliburton corporation was signed by Dick Cheney. Read about it here

If there was ever a poster-boy for “conflict of interest” – using political power to benefit your corporate friends – then it’s Dick Cheney. The Halliburton loophole, the Iraq War, so on and so forth.

I’m curious. Is Dick Cheney the most evil man to walk the planet, or did he get caught sucking dick or taking it in the ass or something? Either he truly is evil, or someone at Halliburton got pictures of him sucking a dick, and have been blackmailing him in every possible way during his Vice-presidency.

“Hey Cheney. Let’s go to war and you give us all the government contracts. What? Well, I guess the New York Times is going to have to get a hold of these pictures of you sucking off an 9 year old boy.”

No I kid. He really is evil.

Not depressed enough over the BP oil spill?

See Gasland

Google, this is a message to you.

Check this page if you’re logged into an active Gmail account. If you’re like me, you’ll see all these secondary connections.

What fuck is this shit?

Stop trying to be my fucking social network.

But first- I only found out about that social network bullshit from google because I was doing a search, and see this “Results from your social network” tidbit. So apparently Google is dropping in results from people that you’re connected to (by google’s standards though! – I got 2 one-night stands in my “social network.” wtfbbq?)

I seriously think that there are a few “go-getters” at Google, that want some of this social networking action.

Listen here fuckwads…

Google, you are a giant corporation. You need to stop slipping shit on your users. This is getting out of hand.

Just give us the shit we want. illegal music, torrents, other peoples content, and multiple repositories of our favorite fetish.

I don’t want to socially connect with anyone through Google. I want to use Google to find shit. Stick with helping people find shit. Not connecting me with long lost skanks.

And if you do want that “social network” aspect, don’t fucking force it on people. Like some creepy advance by a mouth-breathing affiliate, who has about 10 minutes till the roofies kick-in on his affiliate manager, but he can’t really contain himself.

Every company has to “launch” something, you know, at least make people aware that it’s coming. What was that called?

Oh yeah, opt-in.

You may call it BETA, but i call it forced entry. My rights are being violated, and my privacy fondled!

I want to use you for looking up the closest pharmacy and liquor store, furry porn, marijuana dispensary, and footprints of targets…. errrr websites! (for all the right reasons of course).

Stop trying to be my social network dickheads!

Wait!!! How did furry porn get in there? Oh no… it’s too late!!

NOOOOO IT’S TOO LATE! Google started giving me Tyler Cruz’s search results!

If you haven’t noticed by now, there are a ton of seminars, systems, and stupid shit popping up – all designed to help the next retard make monies online. If you’re like me, then you think (most of) this shit is gay and only cons people in the false hope of getting rich online. Nearly every day, there is a new blueprint or thingamabob that promises wealth and fast automobiles for the unsuspecting masses.

Let’s look at the facts (which I am making up as I go along):

If you’re a member of Warrior Forum or Digital Point or any other forum, you probably consider yourself an online marketer. Or if you read Shoemoney or John Chow you have some interest in this internet thing. You are (at least you think you are) in the business of “making money online.”

The fact is 20%, maybe 15% or 10%, of people make any kind of reasonable income. These are the people who have some fucking sense and have figured out, in their own little niche or vertical (most readers of PPC.bz), how to make monies without a job or boss or whatever you people do with your 9 to 5.

The rest are just shit-for-brains individuals that are lured by promises of an easier lifestyle. Most will fail, and most of those will fail over and over. There’s nothing wrong with failing, but there is something wrong with doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results (example: Buying Warrior Forum Special Offers or WSOs.)

[side note: If you don't know what a WSO is - it's basically a market place on Warrior Forum for make money online e-books and shit like that. Check it out here (but don't stay too long, lest you lose brain cells). It is like watching sheep go to the slaughter.]

So people complain and shout – “All these ‘gurus’ are ripping people off!” or “No one is going to get anywhere using that system!” or “John Reese killed my father and raped my mother!”

Usually the people who have made money online and can see through the bullshit.

So…. so what?

The Market Size

I can tell people to not buy this and call that system lame, and I can do it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, forever, but new make money online systems will keep coming out.

The size of the “make money online” market is huge, and it’s only getting bigger. It’s called the Internet and it touches nearly everyone. You can’t get your head around how big the Internet truly is, which is why I want to kill people who ask “Can you still make money online?”

Internet yo.

And it’s still in its infancy. There isn’t a channel dedicated to online businesses, but one day there will be. The New Dork is coming.

It’s Just Marketing – Plain and Simple

With an infinite supply of people wanting to make money online (recession + job loss + internet growth), do you even need a good product?

Well, if you pay attention to any “Guru launches,” then no, you don’t need a good product. You can shit on your scanner and export it to a PDF and get by. You just need good marketing and exposure. And it’s so easy to market to people because all you need to do is say “Make X number of dollars in Y easily!” Insert any amount for X and any amount of time for Y.

I talked to Shoemoney about his system recently. He gave me a pass into his System, and it is pretty much what I expected: Newbie-tailored bullshit.

But is that so bad?

Shoe actually provides some good content. Before you flip out and call me a ball-licker, “good content” means its better than some of the other shit out there. Shoemoney wants to reach complete tards, and he does it with dozens of videos any idiot can watch. He meets the needs of his demographic and that’s all he really needs to do. If a complete idiot watched it they would know about 80% of what they need to know (the easy part) to make money online.

So can you hate Shoe for gettin 1800+ people paying 200 or so a month? I hate Shoe, but not for this reason.

Back to market-size – Talking with Shoe he said that the “Making money online” niche will be as big as Poker. If you were into Poker at all you know that there were a ton of books and systems and coaching programs that came out during the trend. Most of them just regurgitated the strategies from a few core authors (Doyle Brunson for example) Same shit with online marketing.

Being Helpful to Newbs Means Popularity

And if you still can’t figure out this making money online thing, you can start a blog and post the shit newbies love! This means free shit that will never work in the real world (random pics of chicks for your FB ads), or 5 dolla landing pages because most people don’t know what the fuck Photoshop even is.

PPC.bz isn’t as big as it could be, because I don’t fucking care about newbs. If I did, I’d have thousands of readers – but I don’t need idiots reading this blog. But some how, some way, PPC.bz got relatively popular by entertaining that tiny sliver of the market – the part that makes monies.

If I sold out tomorrow and started promoting Frank Kern products, 90% of my reader-base would leave but I’d quadruple the amount of readers I have. That 80% of people who don’t make money online will keep buying shit until they either run out of money, or something clicks and they join the 20%.

The Moral of the Story

So what the fuck was I getting at? Really I don’t remember.

I just need to say some things –

The influx of newbies into the industry will only grow. You will see more and more stupid systems and programs being released, and there’s nothing you can do to stop them. (Fortunately that means more material for PPC.bz to work with)

Your Volks and Shoemoneys will keep posting generic material (Volk’s dipshit affiliate marketing guide) and they will continue to grow. This will keep happening, until everybody in the world runs their own make money online blog.

The moral of the story is we need less newbies in this industry, but the reality is that there will only be more.

We can hate all we want, but people are making bank catering to this need.

(But, in truth, I will certainly hate all I want)

I opened up my internets and saw news that shocked and appalled me. Much to my dismay, I found out that I was NOT nominated for a Pinnacle Award.

First off – I didn’t even know what a Pinnacle Award was until about a month ago when Wee nominated me for it. Second off – How does Nickycakes get on the list for affiliate of the year? 2008, Sure. But in 2009 Nickycakes spent 8 months out of the year cruising for tail in his step-motherland, Asia.

Look Murray Newlands, Geno, and Shoemoney … I’m really happy for you, and I’m a let you finish – but PPC.bz is one of the greatest affiliate blogs of all time.

Who Live Like This?!

In the immortal words of YTCracker, WHO LIVE LIKE THIS?!

Let’s go down the list.

Shoemoney While Shoemoney is a worthy adversary, do any affiliates actually read his blog, or just wanna-be Digital Point jerk-offs?

Murray Newlands – What the fuck? All this guy does is fucking interview random people from the internet. Sorry – not a good blog at all. There is no good information on here, unless you think good information is watching 10 minute interviews with complete nobodies. If you watch these interviews then you need to choke yourself out.

The only saving grace of Murray Newlands blog is that I can copy and paste his HTML to join his fan club, which I will paste below.

Now i’m a fan.

Geno Prussakov? I never heard of this guy, so I had to look up his blog.

Low and behold, the first thing I see is this guy bitching that he couldn’t commit affiliate fraud by using his own affiliate link. Is you serious?

Now the last thing I want to do is fuck around with a bad-ass looking Russian, but this shit is bananas. This dude is on the list because he has Pie Charts and shit?! YO I GOT PIE CHARTS TOO

Who drops hit after hit on you fuckers? Who throw dem parties where the bitches whip out their titties and fight to the death in half an inch of coagulated Jell-O? WHO LIVE LIKE THIS?!

Who brings a blog from obscurity into the forefront of affiliate marketing in less than a year without ever providing a single useful tidbit of information about making monies online?!

WHO?

Comments from the Public

zero12: you wouldve won if you didnt call collins a bitch

eleah: wait, your name is missing from the best blogger of the year list

So I like Mafia Wars. Fuck you. It’s a brainless task I spend 5 minutes on every few hours. I don’t know why I do it. I just fucking do.

And I see this a few minutes ago:

There is a bigger picture here fellas. PPC.bz will get to the bottom of the story once I start to care. But rest assured people at TechCrunch has beef with the way these games are monetized. Why…all of the sudden, there are many “articles” about the way these games are monetized. Why is it all of the sudden, such a big deal that article after article needs to posted about how these games make money hand over fist?

Does Arrington have a beef because he’s jealous of a company that’s raking it in by the bucket load? Zynga is a legitimate, investor backed company. Does he run a competitor and want to push some bad press their way?

Who the fuck knows, I don’t really read TechCrunch. But I do have this to say…

Dear Techcrunch: Fuck off.

I don’t really know who Danny Sullivan is. I’ve heard the name tossed around plenty. I guess is he is like an SEO expert or social media guru or some shit. I think he speaks at a lot of conferences, and if you speak at conferences that pretty much guarantees your “guru status.”

There is a post by Danny Sullivan floating around … you can read it here: Danny Sullivan bitches about some shit.

A good majority of PPC.bz readers are Wickedfire members. And if you are a WF member chances are at least involved in something nefarious in your online marketing endeavors. If you are on the shady side of things, you might take offense from his article.

Let’s take a look at the first paragraph –

If you’re link spamming, you suck. If you know someone who is link spamming, they suck — and you should tell them so. If you don’t know why you suck, here’s a story about the human impact of what you do.

Listen friends. I need you all to go out there, and tell everyone you know that they suck. Tell them they suck hard and they need to stop making a living.

Basically, Sullivan’s post is him crying about his wife’s website that got spammed to death because they didn’t have the time or resources to prevent spam attacks. Well, no shit Danny. Have you ever seen what happens to a Wordpress blog if you leave the comments open?

Someone decided the world needed another 500+ links about discount prescription drugs.

I don’t know who this “someone” is, but I’m confident they are Russians or Turks who could give a flying fuck about your fucking feelings. I’m pretty sure all they want to do is spread their links all over the internets. A pharmacy link for every man, woman, and child!

No, the core problem is that the web has people who think nothing of vandalizing other web sites. That’s what link spamming is. You’re not adding value to a site. You’re simply spray painting garbage on someone else’s property, for your own personal benefit. You have no manners. You have no morals. You ought to be ashamed.

I can’t comprehend this far-fetched utopia vision of the internet. Imagine an internet with morals. There would be no ringtones, no acai berries, no 4chan, no nothing. We’d all be sitting around fucking unicorns and snorting mermaid dust.

SEO doesn’t mean link spamming in my book. There are SEOs who also link spam, clearly. Aside from hurting individual site owners, you give the entire SEO industry a bad name. You should stop. Or call yourself something else — perhaps link spammer would be a good title?

Let’s get some shit straight. I don’t get these high and mighty SEO clowns. What the fuck are they trying to prove? 90% of SEO is bullshit. There are so many scammy fucks that spam SEO services it is an impossibility to separate “legitimate SEO” from the rest.

In fact, it might be easier to just call “real SEO”s something else, and leave the spammer title for SEO’s. Let’s call the real SEOs “internet link developers,” “web link jerk-off-ers,” or “link fluffers.”

Von Doogan said it best – “I need to post about how email spammers made me stub my toe because I was clearing my Inbox for 20 minutes, and then i realized I really had to go pee and ran to the bathroom and stubbed my toe on the way.”

This is off-topic, but important nonetheless.

PPC.Bz is proud and at the same time shitting in their pants to present to the world the new “exclusive” poster “ButtStuff”. Much like what you have done in life, you can expect a bunch of meaningless shit ranted and posted about. You are probably wondering what you can expect from me and I can tell you that while the Barman has been ever increasing in his cynicism and hatred for morons in this industry I will be bringing a much more blunt perspective on the dumb shit that’s being posted by people in this industry who think they have a clue as to what they are saying.

Shit, shit, shit and even more shit.

Let me start by telling you how my day went yesterday. I woke up yesterday and banged my girl. I’ve found that when I wake up and have to piss really bad, it makes my wang look gigantic and all girls cant resist a giant meatstick in the am. I then walked naked to the computer as I always do to go ahead and surf the interwebz. Not to my surprise I saw  bloggers posting about Hasoffers and Revolution 202. Seriously, I’m going to take a crack here and say that not one of them has made a fucking dime with either of the two. Do you know what this is? Let me tell you. This is called false reporting and makes you look like a giant fucking idiot. I dont give two flapping pussy lips who you are or who you think you are it’s stupid. This is why we have an influx of morons who cant make money online asking silly questions. As small as this industry is, you probably have a couple of web stalkers who jizz at your every word. Do you realize what will happen if they go to use this service that you recommended without you first REALLY trying it? They will come to terms of knowing what I know. That you are an idiot and they will probably at the very least troll you or worse make you the very first statistic of an obsessed slaying of an internet marketer.

Anyway, back to talking about me.

Codename “buttstuff”. Where, how and why? Simple answer is I like anal. Nuff said.

You know what, I’m not much for words tonight so I’m going to leave you wanting more. (Pretty much how I leave all the women I meet).

The days of reckony and destruction are upon us. “Buttstuff” is watching every move in this industry. Dumb shit will be posted the second we see it. Retardism will not be tolerated.

PPC.bz is back in business taking on all comers in the business horseshit and hypocrisy!

Clickbank VS Biz Opp Rebills

If you’ve been a member of Wickedfire for any amount of time, then you know this crowd doesn’t care for Clickbank offers. “They rip off people!” “Snake Oil!” they scream!

Give me a fucking break. First off, while Clickbank does make it’s living selling stupid ass e-books to stupid ass members of Warrior Forum, they have a ton of other digital products that have nothing to do with making money online. I’m not trying to defend Clickbank or anything, but let’s get real – they know what they’re doing with digital products.

So you have a problem with people selling information to gullible idiots? Then what the fuck are you promoting shit like Google Money Tree System Web 2.0? At least with Clickbank, they get a product in their hands and don’t get their bank account raided by some sketchy mafia in Utah. The smash and grab techniques used by some of these advertisers is not a viable long-term strategy and only hurts the affiliate marketing industry as a whole.

Sure you make a killing in the short run, but so did pharma. Rip off enough people and you get attention on you from the gubment, and the whole industry suffers.

Get the fuck off your high horse and decide – Are you a filthy scammer on the same level as e-book peddlers? If you promote biz opp and hate on Clickbank, then get your shit in order because you’re lower on the morality ladder.

Please note: I <3 the rebill. Not all advertisers are created equal. Some clowns are taking it too far though.

NickyCakes Vs. Shameless Self Promotion

We all make fun of John Chow and Tyler Cruz for making up stupid contests to stroke their ego and grow their reader base. Then nickycakes goes and has one and everyone is on his nuts about it, swinging from the left nut to the right nut and back again.

That said, I could use a new TV cause I’m moving soon, so use this link to shill for nickycakes.

Personally, I think this contest is more fun than following Nickycakes on twitter