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.
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:
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:
Color the row so you know you've used it.
Copy the header row in the profiles spreadsheet and
paste it into the project spread sheet.
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:
Get your proxies first if needed (see below)
Then find the geographic location of the proxy IP
(see below)
Then match area the area code with location and time
zone of the proxy (see below)
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.
✓ 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.
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.
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.