Recently I was on Alexa (I’m on there a lot) and I saw a damn ad for that beach bum who makes a ton of money from home. Come on, you’ve seen it before. His ad looks like this:

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I’m always amazed that these sites make money.  First of all, they all look the same. They all look like this:

They always use that big red type, highlight random crap in yellow, show pictures of people on the beach, show pictures of yachts, mansions, and/or bikini girls. You can have this wonderful life too, if you just enter your email address, and/or pay a little money, and learn the secrets!

Well, the only secret here is that they got your money. If you want to make the money they’re making, you need to do what they’re doing, create a website and show pictures of rich people, get their email only to sell it later, or sell some crappy product.

Well, the crux of this beach bum came today, when I saw a huge ad for the site on Alexa. That prompted me to check their actual traffic rank. I was a little surprised:

I can’t say I’m surprised but… wow. For one of those stupid scam sites this is certainly picking up a lot of traffic.

Take home message:

I don’t know what the take home message is here. There might not be one. How much much money this beach bum is making is anyone’s guess. How much traffic he’s getting? A lot.