We finally picked out our first dog, and since I never had a dog before I have been spending hours trying to learn as much as I can and buy all the right gear to be a good pet owner.

My girlfriend and I finally signed a new lease so we will be moving early October into our new place. It is a little more expensive and is slightly better than our apartment now, but the great thing is they allow dogs, and in the city its tough to find a place that does.

I decided to set a new goal with making money online. From talking to people it is obvious that having a specific goal, or income figure really helps your brain figure out the most optimal way to get there.

My new goal is to make 5k a month from risidual online income by 2009.

I have been really thinking about what is the quickest most effective way to do this and what I have realized is by creating the 30 sites that I did after leaving my full time employment I have the assets to make it happen, but it will be slightly different from what I hoped.

All of my sites are floating right now and the cream is slowly starting to rise to the top.  One of which has really picked up and generates about 250 dollars from ads and ebay affiliate. My goal now is to replace that income with some legit banner sponcors to total about $1,000 in consistent monthly revenue.

The other four will come from blowing out the rest of the sites that are getting fairly close to breaking through by building some links. And also leave some of my PPC campaigns that have slow trickle profit of about 20 bucks a day per campaign.

Hopefully this blog post will act as a reminder so I do not stray from what I know has to get done.

Even when guys like Aaron Wall take shots at 30DC I did not believe some of the accusations. I have learned a lot from the program, but recently I have gotten something on one of my blogs that has made me question their tactics. The screen shot below will show exactly what I am talking about.

Here is a little background information so you understand exactly how damming this would be. In the training videos 30 DC uses the keyword “vintage electric guitars” to show you how you can market a product by using SEO strategies to gain traffic.

One of the most commonly used and most annoying Black Hat ways to gain SEO ranking is to use comment spam. Basically you create a script that leaves comments on blogs such as this. Usually they are pretty easy to spot because they are poorly written, too general, or irrelevant.

The following comment was found on one of my skin care blogs.

Here I am thinking they are teaching legit techniques, but on the side they are sending out comment spam. The truth is to compete you have to use some shady techniques or else you won’t last in this business.

I sought out places where I can learn more about online marketing. Below you will find my review of some of the resources that I found that will hopefully help you on your path to making money online.

SEOBook – This is the book that started it all. Aaron Wall has been an inspiration for some time, and the things he does for SEO community are amazing. He no longer sells the e-Book, even better, he sells SEO Training full of amazing information. You can spend your time reading free information online that is full of outdated information, or you can go to the source and join a community that will help you grow organic ranking of your online business. You can read a sarcastic 10 Reasons Not to Buy SEO Book .

StomperNet – These guys are damn expensive, but some of the things they come out with blow my mind. They hire some of the best usability, sales, psych, etc people around to analyze online consumers to give you a leg up on your competition. I have not joined because I am poor, but even their free stuff is gold. Some of the things that blew my mind from them include, how to get indented results, Google PPC embedded match, and visual anchors for e commerce.

30 Day Challenge – Not to be confused with 30 Sites in 90 Day is from the same guys who bring you StomperNet, but it it is a free resource. I encourage n00bs to join the challenge of making the first dollar profit online. Some of their tactics are a little shady, but as long as your OK with it go for it. Oh and use an email you don’t care about because they will send you an email every freaking day.

Court’s Internet Marketing School – It is great when you follow someone’s blog for some time and watch them grow right before your eyes. This is the case with Courtney Tuttle who along with his partners is offering some amazing training on his methods. The great thing about court is he breaks concepts which seem complex into easy to follow steps. His Keyword Sniping methodology is a big influence on my own challenge.

The Black Ink Project - Brought to you by Jeremy from Quit Your Day Job . This is a free service that covers everything having to do with online marketing from registering your business, to a business plan, to SEO, PPC and beyond. There is some basics, but also some advanced stuff in here. This guy knows how to do online marketing and uses the “freemium” model to its fullest. He gives away great content but adds affiliate links throughout disguising them as redirects and “tinyurls”. BRILLIANT – but hey who minds signing up for things when the intention is good.

BONUS: Uber Camp – Paul started what he calls an UberCamp. If you are a top online marketer you may want to apply to join similar minded people. Can’t really evaluate this training because I did not join, too rich for my blood, and I won’t get much out of it yet. If you have checked it out please write your review in the comments.

Hope this helps and please leave your comments if you want to review any other online marketing training.