Preparation and Set Up


We'll need to do a little preparation to get organized to make things easier when setting up our Youtube Ring of Fire networks.

Yes, you need to put in a little effort, but the goal is to make you into a lean, mean Ring of Fire making machine!

The info below is how you set up a foundation to be able to rank and promote video after video on auto-pilot. Every time you add a new video to your Youtube channel, it will have a potent automated marketing system promoting your video all over the Web.


Create a Secondary/Recovery Email

Your are going to need two email addresses for each ROF. One of these email addresses will be a gmail email address you'll get when you set up the Google related accounts.

The secondary email address will be used as a "recovery" email address, in case something goes wrong with your Gmail account.

You will also want to use this secondary email address when you sign up for your Gmail account.

You can use a free email service such as Yahoo mail, but I prefer buying a domain from Namecheap for about $11 a year, then using Namecheap's email forwarding service using their "wild card/catch all" feature.

You don't need any hosting for this, Namecheap takes care of everything on their site.

This means you can make up email addresses as you go, and have them forwarded to your main email address without having to set up an email account every single time you need a new email address.

Try to get a generic domain name to use as a catch all email address that you can use with a variety of projects and niches.

How To Set Up Wildcard/Catch All email forwarding using NameCheap

If you have a domain already hosted, you can also set up domain forwarding through cPanel, but using a hosting service could be a footprint.

No matter the method you choose, Namecheap, your own hosted domain, or a free email account like Yahoo mail, use your Avatar name as the account name for your email address. For example:

BobSanderson@MyNameCheapDomain.com

Remember, that with a wild card/catch-all domain with forwarding, you can change "BobSanderson" to any name you want at any time and have another email address that will forward to your main email.


Creating Avatars

An avatar is simply a profile you create of a fictitious person you will use as the "owner" of your ROF properties. Of course, if you want to create a ROF to brand yourself, go for it.

Here's a great free site that will make a bunch of avatar profiles for you automatically:

Fake Name Generator's Bulk Order Page

Don't let the "Bulk Order" fool you, it's FREE. On this page you can create up to 50,000 profiles at a time and have them emailed to you for download.

I suggest you get 3,000 profiles. Even though you probably won't use all of them, 3,000 will give you enough to choose from but not too many that are hard to work with.

Choose Comma Separated (csv). This will give you a file you can open using Excel or OpenOffice.

Name Set: American
Country: USA
Gender: 50/50
Age: 21-65

Click on the following to move them to the right column:
Gender
GivenName
Middle Initial
Surname
StreetAddress
City
State
StateFull
ZipCode
CountryFull
TelephoneNumber
MothersMaiden
Birthday
TropicalZodiac
Color
Occupation
Company
Pounds
FeetInches

Note: You can just use the "Add All" feature, but I've found it adds too much clutter and it's worth the few extra of minutes to limit the info. Remember, you're creating profiles for thousands of possible accounts at once, so get it right at first and things will be much easier in the future.

Type in 5000 as the number of accounts you want to create.

Enter the email address where you want your download link sent.

Fill in the captcha.

Click the  "Place Your Free Order" button.

And in a few minutes you'll have all the avatar profiles you should ever need. If you need more, just make more. :)


Spreadsheets

You'll want to use a spreadsheet to keep all your account info organized. You'll also want to customize and copy some of the info from your avatar account spreadsheet into your main project spreadsheet.

Included in your download package is a Excel spreadsheet template to help you store and organize your ROF info.

See your ROF download folder for:
Account-Data-Template.xlsx

Make a copy of the spreadsheet template to use with each project.

Open both the CSV file that contains your avatar profiles and the spreadsheet for the project.

In the profiles spreadsheet, delete the CONTENTS for the phone number column. Do NOT delete the column itself.

I like to sort by the column containing the State where the avatar lives and save it. This allows my to match any phone numbers, time zones and proxy IP addresses with the avatar profile. More on proxies, time zones and phone numbers below.

Once you've selected a profile for your avatar:
  1. Color the row so you know you've used it.

  2. Copy the header row in the profiles spreadsheet and paste it into the project spread sheet.

  3. Copy the row containing your profile info and paste it into your project spread sheet.

Here's a short video showing the process:




If you are uncomfortable working with spreadsheets you can use a text file, or even better you can use the "sheets" function in Spartan Multi Clip (see below) to permanently store your ROF account info, but a spread sheet is probably the best option.



Note - It's probably best to:
  1. Get your proxies first if needed (see below)
  2. Then find the geographic location of the proxy IP (see below)
  3. Then match area the area code with location and time zone of the proxy (see below)
  4. And finally pick an avatar that fits the locations of the above. (see below)


Semi-Automation System

This is a versatile system that can be used for a number of things in addition to creating ROF networks.

Once you have your username(s), password and email, use the following tools to semi-automate your social sites for your ROF.

Firefox Web Browser

Spartan Multi Clipboard - $20 or Spartan Multi Clipboard Lite - FREE Version - The free version will work well for the ROF system, but you may want to get the paid version as you can use it for many other things.

Snap Links Plus - Firefox plugin that opens multiple URLs at once in different Firefox browser tabs.

Here's a quick video demonstrating how to use Spartan Multi Clip along with Snap Links to help us create accounts at the sites we'll use in our ROF.


For more tutorials for working with Spartan Multi Clipboard, there's a number of good videos on Youtube:
Spartan Multi Clipboard Videos

Another option for account creation is to do them one at a time as you add them to IFTTT. For this methods, go to the page for a particular recipe and use the "Connect" button for the IFTTT recipe.

As you create accounts, add the info to your spreadsheet.


Privacy When Exploiting Multiple Accounts

You don't need to worry about privacy and using proxies for your first 1 or 2 ROFs. However, you may want to create a number of ROFs in the future, either for clients, to really dominate a niche, or for different niches.

If/when you want to multiply your ROFs, here's a couple of essential Firefox plugins.

Proxy Selector - This FF plugin let's you quickly and easily switch between various proxies.

ClickClean - Cleaning your browser cookies isn't good enough. There are lots of other footprints you'll need to erase to maintain stealth. One of which is something called "super cookies" or "flash cookies".

"A super cookie is a type of browser cookie that is designed to be permanently stored on a user's computer. Super cookies are generally more difficult for users to detect and remove from their devices because they cannot be deleted in the same fashion as regular cookies."
- https://www.techopedia.com/definition/27310/super-cookie


ClickClean will delete super cookies and a lot more privacy related stuff...


For all Google Owned Accounts:

Do NOT use the Chrome browser as it's owned by Google and sends data to Google.

Do NOT use the Google Tool Bar...same as above.

If using a proxy, check time zone of proxy and make sure your PC is set to the same time zone. I suggest only using proxies and avatar profiles in the same time zone you are so you don't have to be concerned with this. See below for more info.


Proxies


Proxies are IP addresses you can use with your browser to help make it seem that you are accessing a particular website from a different computer and/or location.

There's different types of proxies, what you'll want are proxies that you can use over and over. If you have multiple accounts on various social sites, it's best to log into each account using the same proxy (IP address) each time, especially for the Google sites, such as Youtube.

A "dedicated" proxy is one you keep for yourself. There's also "shared" proxies which have usually been used to spam and will be killed by Google and other sites in a short period of time.

To find the type of proxies you want to use for ROF projects, use these searches:
Google Search for Dedicated Private Proxies
Bing Search for Dedicated Private Proxies

Generally, a dedicated proxy will cost a couple of bucks per month each. You can create 2, maybe 3 accounts at the various sites we'll be using per proxy.

I use a free FireFox plugin called "Proxy Switcher" to manage my proxies:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/proxy-selector/

Use only US proxies and I suggest trying to find proxies that are in the same time zone you are.

There are some proxy services like HideMyAss, but I don't recommend them as they same proxies are used by many people and the actions of others could set off some triggers even after you've set up your own accounts.

Another option is to buy PVA (phone verified accounts) on a site like Fiverr.com. I don't recommend this, as you will have a different IP address than the person that created the PVAs and this could trigger some issues with Google, either now or in the future.

When using a proxy and before I go to any site to create accounts, I like to to double-check the proxy info by going to BOTH of these sites that check the IP addresses your computer is using:

http://whoer.net - This site will tell you if the time zone of your IP address matches the time of your computer clock. If this site can detect this, you can bet Google can also.

http://whatismyipaddress.com - This IP check site will tell you if they can detect if you are using a proxy. You want it to report: Services: None Detected. This tells you the site can't detect a proxy in use.

I suggest you add both sites to your FireFox Bookmarks ToolBar, and not just your Bookmarks Menu. This makes it super-easy to visit both sites.

Also, do not forget to remember to click ClickClean on your Firefox Tool Bar to clean your cookies and other browser footprints before account creation.


And whatever you do, DO NOT use the Google Chrome browser
or any browser with the Google Tool bar installed!



Time Zones

It's important that when you create your Google accounts that your time on your computer matches the time zone of your avatar and the proxy location and the address you used all match. If these are correct, you MAY not have to use a phone verification. And if you do have to use phone verification, have the area code match the above as well, as this can help avoid any issues in the future.


By choosing proxies and locations for your avatars that are in the same time zone, you won't have to worry about changing the clock on your computer, which can really mess things up if you're saving files, etc. The time zones in the US are big, so you should have plenty of options in regards to proxies and avatar profiles.

Phone Verification

This is one of, if not the biggest hurdle to overcome when creating multiple accounts. Some sites, like Google and Microsoft owned sites may require that your accounts be phone verified. This means they'll send you a message with a code you'll need to enter into when creating an account with them.

The best options are to use your own phone, then a family member or friend's number for your first few accounts.  I've even used prepaid cell phones I've seen at Walmart on sale just for phone verification.

You can create 2, maybe 3 accounts per phone number. And if you do things correctly and your details match, like IP and location, you may get away with creating a few accounts without having to phone verify.

Also, it seems that Google will let you use the same phone number if it's been over a year since you used it last to verify accounts.

Other options are using an online phone service. However, Google is really flaky when it comes to a lot of things, including phone verification. It could be a random thing, or some footprint we leave that we're not aware of, a combo of both, or something else. Who knows?

Sometimes an online call service can work for a long period of time, then Google will wipe out every account made using a number from that service.

As mentioned above, you can reduce the chances of needing to phone verify your account is to make sure everything matches, such as your IP address, your location and the time zone match for the location of your time zone. This is easier for US residents that those living in other places.

For non-Americans, you'll need USA proxies and likely an online call service. However, some those living in some countries may be able to use an SMS service to get phone numbers very cheaply.

Despite the hassles and hurdles, the issue of phone verification is actually good news. The vast majority of other people won't put in the effort of creating accounts that need to be phone verified. This simple fact makes creating ROF networks even more beneficial to those of us that are willing to put in the effort.


Online Phone Services - Note: These aren't recommendations and could fail at any time.
  • callfire.com - Probably best for using just for phone verification.
  • CallRail.com - Probably best if also using for lead tracking for clients and phone verification. See the included Marketing Plan for more info.

Fiverr for PVA - PVA means phone verified accounts...use with caution. If your PVAs fail, your entire Ring of Fire network will fail also.




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Intro

Preparation and Set Up
Semi automation
Organization
spreadsheet

Create Accounts
Social Stacking

Create IFTTT Recipes
 Recipes
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 More Recipes

Collect and Ping RSS

Advanced Strategies
Link Resources
Automation Tools

Parasite and Web 2.0

Video SEO Thunder
 Youtube On Page
 Optimization

Marketing Plan and Resources

Secret Bonus
Tuelz
Content Multiplying