Un-failable Journey to mofo stable income. Newbie-friendly

[fartyman]

Can't fail! I just can't!
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OK, I'm frustrated. I'm frustrated I've haven't taken any real action as I'm always in doubt. I have read and watched almost everything possible to bank hard yet here I am, broke. It's frustrating as hell! People doing which I want to do are banking seriously hard.. and I complain not making anything NO FUCKING SHIT, I WON'T EARN ANYTHING UNTIL I DO SOMETHING!
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Who the hell am I?

I'm a 24 year old dude who finished his engineering degree and didn't enjoy it. School ain't for me. Not that I didn't enjoy it which was ok I guess but my life goal has been to own a business since seventh grade. I joined IMing pretty late compared to people here and other places.

I chose to do full time Internet marketing and need to succeed it in before I hit 30. Because at that age, I need to have real shit going.

The dream :rasta:
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How I plan to fix this

Right now I have 250 bucks to play around with. I will use it wisely and I know it's enough. I've read some online success stories who started with 50 bucks. For the past 3 years, my excuse has been not having enough cash or payment card. Now I have both + knowledge. It no longer "learning" before applying but the other way around. It's time to apply what I know and learn from it.

I've decided on three main things to tackle because each task will take a bit of time every day. No biggy.

• Lead Generation
• Clickbank
• Amazon
• CPA
• 2x "Start-up"

My strategy for lead generation is simple.

I'm just going to focus my shithole city where I live. I wanted to try with the US but I said, fuck it. It would just be another "niche" website. I want to test out the local market. Want to do it because people aren't opening shops, malls for no reason here. There is money to be made.

I have research quite a lot about local SEO so I"m confident in this.

What I'm going to do

1. Make a blogpost/web 2.0 property as money page
2. Paste some four page content on it
3. Use the tools at my disposal to make spam backlinks

I will try to target many niches because my goal is to see if there is traffic and if I can outrank other sites here who have established domain.

I believe these aren't as strong as Yelp, Yellowpages is in the US but these bad boys are backed by rocket internet. I'll do this otherwise this will be distraction that I didn't commit to it and will regret it.

Strategy for Clickbank and Amazon.

Use expired domain to build a review type website. For traffic will follow the Traffic Leak method. Will try to get social media traffic after building a basic backlink to boost some points in the SERP. Keyword and expired domain will play a huge role in their ranking which I will focus. Going to choose a product on which on each sale will make atleast 20 bucks as commission. Going to scrape my own expired domain.
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For the CPA, I haven't thought much about it because I've never been in a good network. I applied for M@x bounty and P33fly but got rejected. Might work with CP@lead or Cp@griep.
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My "Start-ups"

Because I want to start my own shit as well because that's what almost all 24 years old guys are doing and so did people in the past before they became filthy rich, I will try to start my own too. My current thinking is that if I manage to complete all the web development courses on code academy, I will be able to build the entire thing into a semi working condition with promising growth plan. I'm confident if these two sites get up and running, I can make them popular. I'll give a huge fucking clue, what I want to build is common to both when Amazon and Flipkart started. The other one is a large new aggregator site made in Python.

Wrote the follwing part out of sheer frustration, wanted to show it to the world. Can be ignored :anon.sml:
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There you have it. This is what I plan to do and I have to fucking succeed. I have no option. I need to get it going and making money. I need to get some serious shit rolling before I turned 28 which is around the corner. People becoming famous and made fucking serious bank when they were just fuckign 21. Like seriously and look at me, 24 and fucking broke as hell. I have internet, shelter food and everything, I have no real excuse other than living in a fucking shitty country and being "lucky" in the gene game. Talk about having dyslexia ADD into one guy and being surrounded by nerds. Feels fucking shit.

Doesn't it just feel awesome to own a business where you do the hiring and what not? Isn't it fucking amazing? I want that too. I have decided to go IMing full time even though the doubts I have. I know people who I met online and from the journey threads I read heavily for the past eight months but it's just damn feeling.

But I will fucking ignore and it try my best. If my dream is own a business my best bet is through affiliate marketing to earn decent money to invest locally. People are making $XXX, XXX annually, that's more than enough to succeed. I have to succeed as I'm old and point of no return. I'm already damn late as people have been in the iming game since they were 13. While I was a regular kid who enjoyed reading geography. Now all I can think of is how to make a damn living.

I'll fucking admit, I've been spoon fed all my life. Even till day. I don't blame my parents as they did the most logical thing any parent would do with their only son. It's not I was spoiled or failed school, it's just I never really had any stress which would force me to go work minimum wage job to support the family and pay the bills.

So for the past eight months, I've been reading about IMing heavily and have fixed my mind I have to succeed. I made my mind if I don't have a business running before I hit 30. I'll give up everything. People my age are becoming billionaire Snapchat founder, becoming famous singers Taylor Katy, my friend in having awesome career in the US, Canada, my crush marrying a doctor grade who is my age. And look at me, makes my stomach turns with hopes of getting a career out of Iming. Not because of the money but I love the concept of it. Involved keeping up with the news, watching trends, keeping skills up to date, seeing what's hot and exploring it, and as the world progresses on, everyone will use Google more and more and spends more and more time online. People are spending time online even when taking a dump. With help of IMing I can crave out my own small share of global trillion dollar industry.

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So I wrote the top part maybe like a week ago and should have completed this thread the next day.

Tomorrow Work [March 26th]

1. Find another click bank product and filter through them to see if the publisher makes a reply.
2. Scrape expired domain for it
3. Find Amazon Product
4. Scrape expired domain for it.

Later

[Yesterday]

Update, I completed this 3 days ago and will be posting today. Funny, I’m already updating this when I haven’t even published it yet.

Well for the last few days, I’ve been busy with the game of “custom audience” of Facebook ads. My friend had wasted money in Facebook ads and told him I would help him. All I want to say before diving too much into this, I harvested decent number of ‘targeted’ Facebook user IDs. Most the time was spent on researching and finding the right tools and refreshing some basics of it. Didn’t do anything related to personal internet marketing. Today I’m planning to do it.

So what I will do on March 27 today?

• Clickbank
  • Found two products. Check
  • Now will carry out keyword research
  • Expired domain
    • Need to filter through the scraped results
• Amazon
  • Find two products
  • Keyword Research
  • Expired Domain
• Personal Project
  • Haven't moved an inch in this direction

Today as of March 28th 11:12 AM

Want to add more but it's taking too much time as I re-did it as it kept on exceeding 10000.

What I'm going to do now March 28th?

• Filter out the Facebook user ids which I harvested. Over 100,000 IDs
• Going to work on finding an Amazon product
• Starting my real keyword research today.

Goals to complete before April Starts

• Expired domains finalized for both Amazon and clickbank
• keyword research completed for it for article writing

Article writing game begin in April

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[manihatethis]

what engineering degree?

 

[fartyman]

what engineering degree?

Mechanical Engg.


Any other fucking shitty day. It just sucks so much not having any income. :'(

Couldn't get the opportunity to work on anything related to internet marketing. Most the today was spent on sorting, filtering excel worksheet.

I gave my word to my friend I will get the files by tomorrow. Everything has been complied and only filtering is required. Started it around 7:00AM and 9:00PM right now. Haven't hammered through it non stop the whole day but it's the only bloody shit been in my mind.

MOtherfucking excel 2007, 2010, 2013 just couldn't handle the 40,000 row file. Simple "Find All" and then "Copy" was making it crash the whole day. Wasted good time on it just trying to run it. Tried doing on VPS but it didn't work out.

So now, at 6 I realized the only way to do it was in batches of 3. Significantly reduces the productivity time but fuck it. Atleast I'm getting somwhere.

If I manage to fix this by tonight. I will have only internet marketing to work on tomorrow. Hopefully will be able to take actions on the tasks listed on my first post.

On the other note, had browsed other journey thread on a forum. The traffic from pinterest is grabbing my attention. Always wanted to do something with pinterest to make money off it. But there are always those stories who never had the success which the OP talks about. Whatever, i'm going to work on Pinterest as well to drive traffic to my Amazon and Clickabnk

See you guys later tomorrow. I just wish I had 5000 right now. I would be so happy. :conehead:

I'm tired and hungry. Hate being poor and having no net value. When the hell will my life change. I'm been in this world for fucking 24 years. Arggh

 

[secretagentdad]

Why do you want to make shitty websites promoting the same stuff everybody and their mother has access to?

You have a competitive advantage, you're a local and can probably install wordpress and have at least read a little about IM.

What if you just picked something where people know even less about marketing then you and did your best to provide value in a non spammy way.

Its a lot easier to make a basic level of income being the local guy who has a hosting account, knows how to install wordpress templates and sign up for google places then competing with everyone on the internet for some skimpy amazon commissions.

 

[Doc]

A. GET A JOB! Then you are not starving
B. GET A JOB! Then you have money to invest in your online business
C. GET A JOB! With your degree you can earn more then 99.9% of IMers
D. GET A JOB!

 

[fartyman]

Why do you want to make shitty websites promoting the same stuff everybody and their mother has access to?

You have a competitive advantage, you're a local and can probably install wordpress and have at least read a little about IM.

Have you been reading the success people are having in creating an Amazon review type site? I believe its my ticket.

I can't find a podcast but its on noth@tdigial on how this woman makes 5 figures a month. All through Amazon without any backlinking! Plenty of successful journey threads can be found BxHW as well. It is this which makes me have my own Amazon success. I can make good money because others have. I fucking know I know much more than they do. I just know it.

Also not sure what you mean by local but Amazon doesn't work here. One thing I might get going is opening a e-commerce store for my uncle who owns a baby goods shop. Another one for my sister's bathroom accessories which she wants to get going. Don't know if I'll make money of it but it will be good experience.

A. GET A JOB! Then you are not starving
B. GET A JOB! Then you have money to invest in your online business
C. GET A JOB! With your degree you can earn more then 99.9% of IMers
D. GET A JOB!

My degree would have any value if I lived in a better country like EU, Australia, Japan, Korea, USA etc. Could've went to EU for Masters but why the hell should I? I always wanted to have my own business. I was never a high achiever. I have dyslexia, ADD and what not. I began to speak when I was fucking eight when normal kids do at 3? By reading the content I'm writing, you would find grammar mistakes all over. What if I told you I've been speaking, writing and been around English people for 9 years. i can't even read/write my mother language and only speak it.

And the type of real job I would do isn't widely available here which is involved in CAD modeling. Like engineers in US and what not do modeling which is fun and interesting and get paid $100,000+ while if I do that here, I get paid peanuts.

250 bucks is enough. It better fucking be. People in the IMing didn't start with jackload of money to make a killing online. If its not enough, I'll ask my rich mom to loan some cash to me. My last resort.

I did find an interesting thread last night where a IMer was having huge success with Teespring + FB ads. I'm like, I'm in a such an advantage over the average IMers just starting. I have the knowledge because for the past 3-4ish years I just read read read, always had interest in different tools which I've used and familiar with, I have tons of resources bookmarked for "future use". I'm living in the future! It's now I apply what I've learned in the past.

On the work part

Manage to fix the custom audience list for my friends startup. Hopefully, this list will kickstart his business. The list is composed of very specific people which is godsend for Facebook advertising.

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It's midnight here, what to do tomorrow?

Early in the morning, going to focus only on finding the Amazon product and do keyword research on the niche. Going to do it thoroughly so I don't regret it.
- Still need to find a way to spot PBN using free tools which competitors might be using in the niche.
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[secretagentdad]

Sounds like you're about to waste 250$ you cant afford to lose on doing scammy stupid bullshit in competitive verticals filled with other scammy stupid bullshitters.

For your own sake, I beg you to reconsider.

 

[fartyman]

Sounds like you're about to waste 250$ you cant afford to lose on doing scammy stupid bullshit in competitive verticals filled with other scammy stupid bullshitters.

For your own sake, I beg you to reconsider.

No man, I'm planning to make a quality authoritative site. Not some 4 page site with spam backlinks etc.

This one site will be my bread winner.

Look at the stats of a guys website who doesn't even do it fulltime which I'm planning to do. He has a 'real' job plus this as a side project. His key to success for the sheer size of the site with 300 plus articles.

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I should be able to do everything he did as I will do the articles myself. I've spent too much time researching about Amazon for the past 8 months already for not to do it.

If I stop now, it will always be in my head as potential way out of this mess I'm in now.

Amazon Progress
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Randomly picked a product with sale value of $100+. But honestly, the keyword research is being much harder then I thought. Simply entering the product type into LTP isn't giving me any pointers. The keywords spewed out have Amazon, Homedepot, Wallmart as top SERP.

Wasn't expecting this to be in every other keyword. The thing I did notice was lack of non ecommerce link in the top SERP i.e no Facebook page or anything. It could either mean the two following:-

1. Google giving priority to high authoritative e-commerce domains like Amazon, Wallmart, Homedepot
2. No high quality non eCommerce website exist in Google's eyes to be considered top SERP

I believe the second option is true because even with keywords where visitor is looking for information "type of outdoor heaters", e-comemrce links are shown top. When in reality, resource sites should be shown top.

But will not dive in right now. Might need to archive this niche and look for another where I can find Yahoo answers. Facebook to be shown top. I'm crossing my fingers here.

Other stuff
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Been applying to few freelance jobs which I found interesting and I can do. Just to see if I'm even employable right now in the IMing world. Could use few hundreds bucks and put to good use.

See you all tomorrow.

Signing-out.

 

[StackCash]

I can't find a podcast but its on noth@tdigial on how this woman makes 5 figures a month. All through Amazon without any backlinking! Plenty of successful journey threads can be found BxHW as well. It is this which makes me have my own Amazon success. I can make good money because others have. I fucking know I know much more than they do. I just know it.

I read this as well.....and so did a few thousand other people that are probably trying the exact same thing that you're trying to do right now. That single post probably erased the potential of this for the next 6-12 months until the majority of newbies figure out they're not going to have overnight success and drop out of the game.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't follow your plan...but you need to know it's not going to be as easy as the the lady had it in that post.

You also need to take the advice of veteran members of this forum. They're not turning you off of this idea for their health.

Unless you know how to spam properly, the cold hard truth of the SEO world is that, to succeed, you need extremely helpful content + clean, powerful links. It's not rocket science, but it is a grind. No shortcuts here.

 

[TeeBird]

. It's not rocket science, but it is a grind. No shortcuts here.

Truer words have never been spoken. I have had a couple one hit wonders, heck I got started on the path with a one hit wonder. But when I am grinding, I make money. When I start dreaming or chasing squirrels, I leak money like a son of a bitch...

 

[fartyman]

Truer words have never been spoken. I have had a couple one hit wonders, heck I got started on the path with a one hit wonder. But when I am grinding, I make money. When I start dreaming or chasing squirrels, I leak money like a son of a bitch...

I read this as well.....and so did a few thousand other people that are probably trying the exact same thing that you're trying to do right now. That single post probably erased the potential of this for the next 6-12 months until the majority of newbies figure out they're not going to have overnight success and drop out of the game.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't follow your plan...but you need to know it's not going to be as easy as the the lady had it in that post.

You also need to take the advice of veteran members of this forum. They're not turning you off of this idea for their health.

Unless you know how to spam properly, the cold hard truth of the SEO world is that, to succeed, you need extremely helpful content + clean, powerful links. It's not rocket science, but it is a grind. No shortcuts here.

One of the basic 'law' of IMing I did learn is that there is no shortcuts. I'm fully aware of this. I understand what I want to achieve, I won't get it without long days of absolute grinds with no results in sight. It's going to be long and tough.


I'm not interested in earning pocket change so I can go buy an ipad or something, I'm out of that stage. It's now I create a meaningful income which I can safe and invest offline or online. Only way to do this is by creating something of value and building a reputation.


Couldn't update the thread yesterday because I was distracted with Amazon keyword research and scraping a website using import[dot]io . The keyword research isn't as easy I thought it was. I think I can blame the niche I choose.


Almost all the long tail [commercial intent] keyword easily found were dominated by Amazon/SERP/Homedepot. Even the information type were dominated by those dogs. Couldn't dig much deeper because I was working and learning import io as well.


Basically trying to scrape numbers from a classified site for SMS marketing for the startup I'm working with my friend. I always need to get this top priority as well because if it goes well, I could earn nice amount of cash monthly which currently I'm earning nothing.


Going to dig deeper with keyword research. The strategy I have in my mind before I fully abandon this niche is the following:-

1. Ubersuggest the category name on it
   1. Select couple of the keywords and dig deeper by clicking
   2. Try to get the list as big as I can and plug it into Google Adwords to get a search volume
   3. If there is any keyword which has top SERP filled with Yahoo answers, Facebook page, random topics from forum. I'll consider it a green signal.
2. If Ubersuggest doesn't work, find an LSI tool online to and run the category name for the niche on it
   1. Plug that LSI term into ubersuggest and do the steps shown above
3. Still couldn't find any decent keyword to purse after which doesn't have Amazon, Ebay, Homedepot,Walmart as top SERP, abandon niche.

In the other news, recently installed Windows 8.1 which took fair took of my time today. Hoping to get the keywordd research going by 8-9PM till 12 or 1AM. My productive energy severely drops by 10 though. Never in the mood to work. All I want to do it get on my tablet and read random threads.



But I'll need to fight this urge and continue the research early in the morning tomorrow.


Later everyone.

 

[StackCash]

One of the basic 'law' of IMing I did learn is that there is no shortcuts. I'm fully aware of this. I understand what I want to achieve, I won't get it without long days of absolute grinds with no results in sight. It's going to be long and tough.


I'm not interested in earning pocket change so I can go buy an ipad or something, I'm out of that stage. It's now I create a meaningful income which I can safe and invest offline or online. Only way to do this is by creating something of value and building a reputation.


Couldn't update the thread yesterday because I was distracted with Amazon keyword research and scraping a website using import[dot]io . The keyword research isn't as easy I thought it was. I think I can blame the niche I choose.


Almost all the long tail [commercial intent] keyword easily found were dominated by Amazon/SERP/Homedepot. Even the information type were dominated by those dogs. Couldn't dig much deeper because I was working and learning import io as well.


Basically trying to scrape numbers from a classified site for SMS marketing for the startup I'm working with my friend. I always need to get this top priority as well because if it goes well, I could earn nice amount of cash monthly which currently I'm earning nothing.


Going to dig deeper with keyword research. The strategy I have in my mind before I fully abandon this niche is the following:-

1. Ubersuggest the category name on it
   1. Select couple of the keywords and dig deeper by clicking
   2. Try to get the list as big as I can and plug it into Google Adwords to get a search volume
   3. If there is any keyword which has top SERP filled with Yahoo answers, Facebook page, random topics from forum. I'll consider it a green signal.
2. If Ubersuggest doesn't work, find an LSI tool online to and run the category name for the niche on it
   1. Plug that LSI term into ubersuggest and do the steps shown above
3. Still couldn't find any decent keyword to purse after which doesn't have Amazon, Ebay, Homedepot,Walmart as top SERP, abandon niche.

In the other news, recently installed Windows 8.1 which took fair took of my time today. Hoping to get the keywordd research going by 8-9PM till 12 or 1AM. My productive energy severely drops by 10 though. Never in the mood to work. All I want to do it get on my tablet and read random threads.



But I'll need to fight this urge and continue the research early in the morning tomorrow.


Later everyone.

OK. Say you get 1000 potential long tail keywords from Ubersuggest off of your seed category keyword. Then, out of that 1000, maybe 200 keywords that have a search volume of 100/month or less. You can then run these 200 low volume searches through termexplorer's keyword analyzer to check the SERPs. BUT, you're literally going to have to manually view each SERP to see if it meets your criteria.

So, once you get done with that tedious bit, you'll have your potential keyword targets. How many do you think you'll have? 10? 15 maybe? Out of those, how many have search volume anywhere near 100 searches per month? Some might have 10. Some might be listed at 0.

Now you have to spend time building out pages for each of these low volume, low reward keywords. Then you have to wait for them to rank. How many do you think will rank on the first page without any links? 1...maybe 2?

Maybe you go back and update your content on these pages and get 4-5 on the front page. Kudos.

So now you have 5 front page listings with a max search volume of 500 searches/mo....MAYBE.

It's been documented that the #1 spot gets approximately 35%-40% of the clicks for any given SERP. I'd doubt that all 5 of your keywords will be #1, but let's just pretend for fun. This means you're getting about 200 potential clicks per month to your site.

Now how many of these do you expect to convert into sales? I think 1% is a reasonable number in this case. That would equal 2 conversions per month with absolutely everything I listed above moving in your favor. In reality, you're probably not getting that lucky.

So, of those 2 sales...what's your commission going to be? Even if you sell a high priced item and make $100, that's still not very attractive.

Do you really want to spend allllllllll this time to POSSIBLY make $100 a month?

 

[fartyman]

OK. Say you get 1000 potential long tail keywords from Ubersuggest off of your seed category keyword. Then, out of that 1000, maybe 200 keywords that have a search volume of 100/month or less. You can then run these 200 low volume searches through termexplorer's keyword analyzer to check the SERPs. BUT, you're literally going to have to manually view each SERP to see if it meets your criteria.

So, once you get done with that tedious bit, you'll have your potential keyword targets. How many do you think you'll have? 10? 15 maybe? Out of those, how many have search volume anywhere near 100 searches per month? Some might have 10. Some might be listed at 0.

Now you have to spend time building out pages for each of these low volume, low reward keywords. Then you have to wait for them to rank. How many do you think will rank on the first page without any links? 1...maybe 2?

Maybe you go back and update your content on these pages and get 4-5 on the front page. Kudos.

So now you have 5 front page listings with a max search volume of 500 searches/mo....MAYBE.

It's been documented that the #1 spot gets approximately 35%-40% of the clicks for any given SERP. I'd doubt that all 5 of your keywords will be #1, but let's just pretend for fun. This means you're getting about 200 potential clicks per month to your site.

Now how many of these do you expect to convert into sales? I think 1% is a reasonable number in this case. That would equal 2 conversions per month with absolutely everything I listed above moving in your favor. In reality, you're probably not getting that lucky.

So, of those 2 sales...what's your commission going to be? Even if you sell a high priced item and make $100, that's still not very attractive.

Do you really want to spend allllllllll this time to POSSIBLY make $100 a month?

Ok buddy. First of all the traffic conversion you are assuming is way too low. I'm expecting it to be much higher as the keywords I have in mind to target will be commerical intent. By building a decent website, I'm expecting to rank out the shorter tail keywords which currently are ranked by Amazon, Ebay, Homedepot. Also these keywords will be 'evergreen'. I'm expecting decent profit on a single site. I'll be extremely happy if it manages to make 500 bucks a month. Because if it ever does, it's going to be very stable.

On the other note before diving into too much detail, newbie who just started going on this Amazon method are making ridiculous amount of money. Like a single site making 2000! If I find the keyword search volume to be too low, I'm going to promote a cheaper product.

Before I use to think if I don't target amazon products which have retail price of +300 bucks, I wouldn't make a good money because of amazon low commission rates. Suprise Suprise mofos.. 'newbies' making upward of 2000 dollars a month from a single site with product retail around 100 bucks. He was earning 4-9 bucks a sale.

Amazon going to be successful. I know it will.

What I managed to do regards to IMing today?

Nothing . Today I woke a bit late at 8. I spent good time from 8-12 fixing Windows 8.1 which I couldn't mange to do it. Had lunch and from 1-4 I got it fixed and was it a relief! Phewwww :xmas-smiley-016:.

4-8pm gym and had to do some offline errands. 8-11, back on PC and catchihng up. It's 11 PM right now.

Going to update this thread, look into the newspaper for "potential jobs", and read "Fastlane to Millionaire" before sleeping. Really want to get the research going tomorrow. April 4th.

Never knew keyword research going to be this pain compared to article writing which people complain.

Last note, I'm going to expose the 'niche' here if I decide to abandon it.

 

[StackCash]

Ok, "buddy"...I guess my experience with this and years of trial/error are no match for your conversion expectations.

And, in regards to the other newbies making $2k...... well, hey, no one ever lies on the internet.

Whatever. Best of luck to you. Come back in 6 months with your success story and shove it up my ass.

 

[Pheasant]

Lmao this whole rant from a dude who's been at this for years and is still at square one cos he's too stubborn to take good advice... Doubts himself too much to even try but then acts like a complete know-it-all... then follows it up with...

"What I managed to do regards to IMing today?

Nothing"

This thread is like a dead, frozen body that you come across halfway up your ascension of Mount Everest... It's a warning.

You don't have time to get shit done but you have plenty of time to write checklists and do empty tasks... Plenty of time for a 3 hour lunch... Plenty of time to spend 4 hours in the gym... Plenty of time to spend 3 hours "catching up" at the computer... Plenty of time to read books about being a millionaire, but no time to work.

GL bro.

 

[fartyman]

So it's been 12 days since I made any update to this thread. Let me tell you this, I genuinely didn't have the "time". I was just so fucking distracted! I could've just said NO and sticked to what I had on my to-do list but I couldn't

The three big ass things which occured during those days which sucked most of my time were the following:

• Family member came from abroad and stayed at our place. Got two nieces who were playing around me all day. As someone who love internet and technology but is broke as hell, I spent good time finding games from them to play. After finding them, I would test on their tablets and find other if they didn't like
• There was a large wedding taking place for a relative of ours, it sucked good amount of days as well. It also fucked up my sleeping routine. Still haven't recovered from it. Going out to do errands and such. The wedding also gave me a moment to stop and think about where I am. The bride came from an extremely, extremely filthy rich family. The freaking bride wore like 50,000 dollar worth of gold! Just looking it sunk my stomach to the ground. I couldn't believe it. Here I'm struggling to earn few bucks, spending day and night figuring out what the hell do it and yet this girl's dad manage to amass so much money so he can all throw on his daughter's wedding day. They had a huge house and very extravagant wedding day. I felt so shattered, I couldn't even enjoy the food. All I was thinking was how far behind I am against everyone in the world.
• Lastly, another family member came who stays at our place for the whole day and goes back. Huge distraction. Like big.
• Summer approaching, another frustrating event is unfolding. It's was expected but it's annoying. I have ways dealing with it but I wouldn't say I'm lazy but it ruins the routine I'm trying to set.

I need to set my priorities right but I'm working on it. Did manage to do partial work but nothing substantial. Got many edx, cousera courses on queue which i tried sorting them out last night but I couldn't do it. Will try to do it before sleeping as its 10:25AM.


Work I did regarding IMing

Amazon

I decided to abandon the niche on which I wasted too much time on. Was driving me insane.
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"outdoor deck boxes"

[URL="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=lp_13400641_nr_n_2?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A2972638011%2Cn%3A%213238155011%2Cn%3A13400641%2Cn%3A671804011&bbn=13400641&ie=UTF8&qid=1429205291&rnid=13400641"]http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=lp_13400641_nr_n_2?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A2972638011%2Cn%3A!3238155011%2Cn%3A13400641%2Cn%3A671804011&bbn=13400641&ie=UTF8&qid=1429205291&rnid=13400641[/URL]

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I spent good time on it to work with it but the keyword search volume and results weren't on my side. Took me almost a week to realize this. Would work on it for a few hours in the morning and give up in frustration. But now, I'm officially giving up on it. The fucking SERP WAS BEING DOMINATED BY WALLMART, AMAZON, HOMEDEPOT etc.

But got some good news. Did find a keyword which I think is more promising. 1000 local search volume [GOOD O'LE US OF A] and SERP not dominated by e-commerce giants. You can see the stats below:
http://i.imgur.com/CQ6IpDf.png
Domains dominating the SERPS.
http://i.imgur.com/SxyPs7p.png

Going to roll with it even thought it falls short of my checklist, not really a female niche. Think wine and furniture.

- Did Ubersuggest it to get a shit'load of keyword to build article upon but after running those on Google Keyword Planner to get estimate of search volume, I was disappointed. I wanted a high volume, like in range of 400+ but they were in 10s. Really put me down but I think I might roll with it.

Task Wat do now.

Still need to go through Amazon one more time but before I do, I'm thinking to take a pause. I think I might be doing something wrong, so I've decided to get back to the drawing board and read successful Amazon'er threads on their guideline of finding a product and how to actually finalize on one. This thread on blackhatworld[DOT]com/blackhat-seo/making-money/523869-ultimate-amazon-thread-mark-2-q-good-bad.html Got another one on queue as well.

Wanted to read those since last 2 days but couldn't manage to do it. Hopefully, I will tonight.

Success stories which I read
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One thing different about me I don't get jelly of other people success. But instead I try to compare them to me. Why couldn't I achieve it? Do I lack something? I have internet, decent computer and shelter. What more do I need to succeed other than passion?

Chick making $600,000

blackhatworld[DOT]com/blackhat-seo/blackhat-lounge/752903-how-young-girl-making-600k-month-off-instagram.html

She literally blows 98 percent of internet marketeers. It's astonishing. Everyone in the internet marketing is making shit do this do that, theorycrafting this is what is working that isn't, this ain't 2009 its 2015, that's old that's new, new meta, mocking each other out while here a girl, in her 20s playing on our turf and absolutely dominated. Making more than what affiliate marketeers actually achieved.

It also reminded me that, there are ALL sort of people online who have money. Not everyone is tech savvy, knows which site is spam, what's fake and such and is broke. People would buy anything if presented well or being at the right place at the right time.

Before I end this disappointing post, I would like to hear your guys input in this.

  inbound[DOT]org/discussion/view/i-am-sujan-patel-vp-of-marketing-at-when-i-work-co-author-of-growth-hacking-ebook-100-days-of-growth-ask-me-anything

Did you guys finding anything really informative in it? Because I couldn't find a single thing which I would say is "new" to me. Like all he talks is so freaking basic. He doesn't share anything about how he achieved real growth for the project he claimed to work on. Yet the guy has been in the game for over 12 years, owns an agency, employee other people [my dream] and must be banking hard. The only thing I found interesting is his claiming of generating large content. But all he does is create shit load of content everyday, ain't he a just a content writer and not a digital marketer?

 

[StackCash]

Domains dominating the SERPS.
http://i.imgur.com/SxyPs7p.png

Are these the sites ranking for the new "promising" keyword? Maybe I misread, but I'm not sure how you don't think these are e-comm giants.

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Success stories which I read
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One thing different about me I don't get jelly of other people success. But instead I try to compare them to me. Why couldn't I achieve it? Do I lack something? I have internet, decent computer and shelter. What more do I need to succeed other than passion?

Chick making $600,000

blackhatworld[DOT]com/blackhat-seo/blackhat-lounge/752903-how-young-girl-making-600k-month-off-instagram.html

She literally blows 98 percent of internet marketeers. It's astonishing. Everyone in the internet marketing is making shit do this do that, theorycrafting this is what is working that isn't, this ain't 2009 its 2015, that's old that's new, new meta, mocking each other out while here a girl, in her 20s playing on our turf and absolutely dominated. Making more than what affiliate marketeers actually achieved.

This chick is a business owner, not an internet/affiliate marketer. I'm not really sure what "turf" you're referring to, but she had an awesome idea, identified her market, created a product the market wanted, and used online marketing tactics to bring her product to the people that want to buy it. She works hard and is rewarded handsomely.

 

[TALLY]

No more reading.
Build pages and then build more pages.
After you 200 or so pause and see what kind of Traffic you are generating off Internal Links
Then build more pages another 200 or so.
Keep building for 6 months. Now you have an idea on the amount of Tedious work is involved
Finally NO MORE FUCKING READING

 

[fartyman]

No more reading.
Build pages and then build more pages.
After you 200 or so pause and see what kind of Traffic you are generating off Internal Links
Then build more pages another 200 or so.
Keep building for 6 months. Now you have an idea on the amount of Tedious work is involved
Finally NO MORE FUCKING READING

Build pages on? Haven't came across a niche which is promosing.

Sorry for the late update. Won't get into much detail why but when you aren't living alone, there are something which you can't avoid. But that ended at the start of this month which allowed me to catch up since last update. It's 11:45PM right now. Been working since 7AM.

One thing for sure is that IMing is a grind. After May started, I had to finish up second potential keyword research. Never knew keyword research can be this frustrating and a constant battle. It's like a battle with no direction. You keep plugging and seeing the results, you move on to the next one. Until you get exhausted and frustrated. That is exactly what was happening during second amazon keyword. It's just so fucking stupid. Contradictions everywhere. I made couple of fourms post in other forums and people said, "just do it and test". But I'm like, why can't I learn from other people knowledge who've been in my situation?

So the keywords I ended with has 2400 local USA and very broad with no commerical intent keyword in it. It's person who searches for "green bottle" It could either mean they want to buy a green bottle or know more about green bottle. From the SERP results it's either no one knows about it [which I highly fucking doubt considering its 2015 with Amazon hype] or it's actually impossible to outrank Amazon, Wallmart. Reason why I'm gunning with this is, there is no way I would stumble upon a commerical intent keyword which doesn't have Amazon in top SERP, let alone Wallmart. There is no way. Amazon is everywhere and it makes sense. If someone searches "green bottle", it would most probably mean a guy is looking for info and later buy it. Amazon is the top resource. Unless, here's the kicker if there is a dedicated website to green bottle which talks about all the variety of it, types, shapes etc. Like an authority site. Then maybe, just maybe these site could outranks the big dogs. I'm betting in this so I'm going to try it. 2400 local searches sounds good but the fucking conversion rate.. the damn conversion rate. God dammit. The conversion rate could or probably is shit. StackCash is right . Trying to build authority site with false hope and to find out it just make 1 or 2 sales with no where to be seen in the top SERP, going to be abosolute worst feeling. Holy fucking shit. All I have right now are three keywords for Amazon.

So, after that sudden let down, I reminded myself there is CPA. After browsing throug the CPA networks in the past, people were making upwards of 17,000 USD PER FUCKING MONTH. I think I can spot bullshit but this was legit. It's absolulty astounding amount of money. During the browsing, I met a local in my country who made a living out of IMing and earns 4000-5000 dollar per month. All through CPA. He was even kind enough to show me a site of his. After I saw it, I couldn't believe. A wordpress site with just single page was ranked position 7th and earning him 300 bucks per month. It's was so f'ed up. And here I thought you need loads of quality content, SEO on site optmized to rank high and let alone the earning to come. And here he was doing it. He managed to rank it though GSA and he did say ranking though Spam is dying.

Funny thing he said because in another forum, people were saying "churn and burn" is not dead with a nice logic. As long as Google uses backlinks as a factor to rank sites, the churn and burn method won't die. All this lead me to frantically sign up and apply for all the CPA networks I could find. I'm in a few but chose just two which were recommended by many different sources. Although I never wnated to rank for android modded game niches because it was 'childish', I'm have no option but to try for it. Reading through the CPA network internal chat, you can see people making upward of 100 bucks a day. That's crazy.

What I have been doing the whole day was trying to find a keyword where the SERP results weren't being ranked on by other blackhatters. So far, I haven't came across a single keyword which had similiar stats to my friends 12,000 global search where the top SERP isn't a battleground. I can't compete with them just right now because I don't have all the tools. I only managed to find one keyword which looks promosing. 1) USA exact search is 3000 2) Most sites are from 2012 in top SERP. I think I have a chance in ranking here. The only downside with this keyword is that I didn't come across it in a 'real keyword' research but I had that game in my mobile and decided to search it on Keyword Planner. I still I have no clue how the hell people find niches with high keyword and low searhc volume. Google Keyword planner doesn't allow it to happen, you have to figure the keywords yourself out and hope the volume is massive.

I just want this damn keyword research to end. Want to have couple of keywords in my fucking hand to build a website on. Write content, publish, SEO and backlink it. Rank and bank. But the first step..

Decided to adopt a different startegy in finding the successful niches and that is from Flippa. Spent the last 1.4 hours of the day in this method and it's proving futile. Going to contiune on it tomorrow. Before i end this, I also need to do keyword research for pomoting CPA offers via Bing Ads.

 

[StackCash]

At least you're learning these lessons through your own experience instead of continuing to believe what blogs are feeding you.

You're right, you're not going to find keywords with high search volume and low competition. All of those niches are going to have SOME competition. This means that ranking (and making money online) is actually a grind and not super easy. You have to work for it.

My best advice would be to stop wasting so much time on keyword research and just choose a niche that you enjoy working in and has low to moderate competition. From there, you just need to start chipping away at it and learn how to make money in that niche.

Hard work is the only way.