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- Jan 25, 2020
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What's good, everyone.
I'm building a legitimate long-term web-business and I'm going to use this post to keep myself on track,
and to note down my thoughts along the way; I fully realize how ironic it is to post this on BHW of all
places -- where the motto is "Get rich... quick and dirty." But, after lurking for a while and observing everyone, I'm going to take a different path: a legitimate long-term business.
Because let's be real, none of the techniques that sprout from the blackhat world have any longevity. You'll make a quick -- and big -- buck running those types of schemes, but then one day very soon it'll stop working. And then what? You're going to wake up and your revenue stream is all dried up. You have to start from square 1 all over again. You'll need to adapt or perish.
I'm not about that. I value my time. I value long-term success over short-term gains. And I know that by building a legitimate, long-term business, I'll have a stable cash flow asset that brings me freedom, and allows me to live life by my values.
I'm in the privileged position that all of my living expenses are being paid for by my parents. I also have a 2 year "grace period," where I can basically do whatever I want with my time, because of college. Once the two years are up, I'll need to buckle down and start doing "real" 9-5 work. I value my time and freedom, so I'm not going to let it ever come to that. For the next two years, I'll be building an authority site from scratch, while keeping in-mind that the end goal is to make an assload of money.
Unlike the rest of these kinds of posts, I'm going to be transparent about my niche: it's nutra.
Why would I divulge that information? Because my competition is trash. Pure, absolute garbage. I've done my market research and I'm certain I can do 100 times better than any other major player out there right now. On the surface, it's blatantly arrogant, but I have a few qualities that give me a major leg-up over everyone else:
1. I'm a published, independent-researcher in the sphere of biology
This gives me a unique well of experience and information to draw form, that no one else has. Everything on the web right now is re-hashed from either Wikipedia or other affiliate sites. There are very few players publishing original and unique information. And of those that are, none of them know how to market or write copy; I do.
2. I'm an acclaimed writer, with years of formal experience
I know I'm an amazing writer. I've been told I'm an amazing writer. And I've been paid for my amazing writing. Combined with the previous academic experience, I can publish *multiple* high quality 500-1000 word posts in a single day.
3. I only need 5 hours of sleep
Compared to my competition, I have an extra 3 hours *per day* to utilize for building this business. That makes 21 hours per week. And that makes 1071 hours per year. Imagine how much more you could achieve in your life if you had an extra 1071 hours. Imagine all the things you could do.
4. I have no responsibilities
No mouths to feed. No job to work. No mortgage to pay. I am completely free to do whatever I want for 2 years, and I'm going to utilize that time so that I'll never have to worry about any of those things ever again.
Combine all of those qualities together and what do you have? A recipe for success. That is, if I properly take advantage of the gifts I've been given, and make the most out of my time. I'm only human, though, and as imperfect as the rest. The greatest battle won't be building the actual business -- that's the simple part. The real challenge is the fight against myself: my mind, my faults, and all of the obstacles they create.
So with all of that in mind, here's to a successful 2 years. Let them be used as efficiently as possible, and without waste. For time is the only thing we'll never get back -- and time rules over us all.
Now, now that's all out of my system, the following is just going to be a few of my random thoughts:
- gTLD Domain Name
I snagged a would-be premium gTLD domain for a decent price. I decided not to go with .com/.net/.org, because those extensions are overlly saturated. It's impossible to get a brandable domain name, that doesn't have a toxic history, all for a reasonable price. ICANN is non-stop rolling out more and more gTLDs as the months go by. It's an untapped and overlooked treasure trove just begging to be plundered. Clean, never-before issued domains. Brandable. Cheap. Why is no one taking advantage of this? Because they're sheep. They're afraid. They're parroting ".com is king" without putting any thought into it.
Google says it's TLD-neutral, i.e it doesn't differentiate between .com or .bz. If we take that as true, then what other concerns are there?
"Consumers don't trust anything besides .com/.edu/.org." You vastly overestimate how tech-savy the majority of the population is. The amount of people that read a link fully, let alone care, is small. As long as your TLD isn't some stupid shit associated with spam, e.g ".bz," very few people care. Google is even A/B testing whether or not they should show the URL. It could become irrelevant in the SEO space.
That brings me to my next point:
- Diverse Traffic Sources
The game is business. I see too many people get caught up on SEO and PBNs, and all that other shit, and completely neglect every other source of traffic. Cloaked PPC, guest posts, posts on forums and other websites, videos, advertising, word of mouth; the list goes on and on. You're building a business -- a brand. If you focus on purely SEO, you won't only be putting all of your eggs in one basket, you'll also be irrationally neutering your brand awareness.
Social media? How many people really take the time to optimize for social media.
Viral marketing? Guerrilla marketing? The internet is so vast. There are so many ways to generate traffic, but everyone is focusing on fucking SEO. Idiots, all of them.
This is a business, so treat it like one. Your brand won't become a household name like Wikipedia or Reddit or YouTube if you only do SEO.
- Web design, copy, the experience
The only thing that matters is how a consumer feels. If they don't feel like your brand is reputable, they'll click off. If they don't feel like your copy is convincing, they won't buy. If they feel like your web design is basic bitch Wordpress themes, it'll impact their actions subconsciously.
The experience matters. Do it right in the beginning; set everything up properly and it will pay dividends down the road. I took 8 hours to completely redesign my site, because I realized that, while yes it was functional, it didn't "feel" right. Now, it's set and forget. The custom templates will always be there for me to reuse.
Logo matters too. Don't be a hostgator or godaddy. I made a high quality, modern logo in Inkscape within an hour of fucking around with clip art and vector tools.
The good news? It doesn't take too much effort. The modern web is trending towards Google's minimalist "Materialism" design standards, which take simple designed, but spruce them up with attention to the tiny details here and there. For example, a very small shadow under the nav bar. It doesn't take much, just an intelligent use of CSS.
Well, that's it for now. I have a shitload of work to get back to.
I'm building a legitimate long-term web-business and I'm going to use this post to keep myself on track,
and to note down my thoughts along the way; I fully realize how ironic it is to post this on BHW of all
places -- where the motto is "Get rich... quick and dirty." But, after lurking for a while and observing everyone, I'm going to take a different path: a legitimate long-term business.
Because let's be real, none of the techniques that sprout from the blackhat world have any longevity. You'll make a quick -- and big -- buck running those types of schemes, but then one day very soon it'll stop working. And then what? You're going to wake up and your revenue stream is all dried up. You have to start from square 1 all over again. You'll need to adapt or perish.
I'm not about that. I value my time. I value long-term success over short-term gains. And I know that by building a legitimate, long-term business, I'll have a stable cash flow asset that brings me freedom, and allows me to live life by my values.
I'm in the privileged position that all of my living expenses are being paid for by my parents. I also have a 2 year "grace period," where I can basically do whatever I want with my time, because of college. Once the two years are up, I'll need to buckle down and start doing "real" 9-5 work. I value my time and freedom, so I'm not going to let it ever come to that. For the next two years, I'll be building an authority site from scratch, while keeping in-mind that the end goal is to make an assload of money.
Unlike the rest of these kinds of posts, I'm going to be transparent about my niche: it's nutra.
Why would I divulge that information? Because my competition is trash. Pure, absolute garbage. I've done my market research and I'm certain I can do 100 times better than any other major player out there right now. On the surface, it's blatantly arrogant, but I have a few qualities that give me a major leg-up over everyone else:
1. I'm a published, independent-researcher in the sphere of biology
This gives me a unique well of experience and information to draw form, that no one else has. Everything on the web right now is re-hashed from either Wikipedia or other affiliate sites. There are very few players publishing original and unique information. And of those that are, none of them know how to market or write copy; I do.
2. I'm an acclaimed writer, with years of formal experience
I know I'm an amazing writer. I've been told I'm an amazing writer. And I've been paid for my amazing writing. Combined with the previous academic experience, I can publish *multiple* high quality 500-1000 word posts in a single day.
3. I only need 5 hours of sleep
Compared to my competition, I have an extra 3 hours *per day* to utilize for building this business. That makes 21 hours per week. And that makes 1071 hours per year. Imagine how much more you could achieve in your life if you had an extra 1071 hours. Imagine all the things you could do.
4. I have no responsibilities
No mouths to feed. No job to work. No mortgage to pay. I am completely free to do whatever I want for 2 years, and I'm going to utilize that time so that I'll never have to worry about any of those things ever again.
Combine all of those qualities together and what do you have? A recipe for success. That is, if I properly take advantage of the gifts I've been given, and make the most out of my time. I'm only human, though, and as imperfect as the rest. The greatest battle won't be building the actual business -- that's the simple part. The real challenge is the fight against myself: my mind, my faults, and all of the obstacles they create.
So with all of that in mind, here's to a successful 2 years. Let them be used as efficiently as possible, and without waste. For time is the only thing we'll never get back -- and time rules over us all.
Now, now that's all out of my system, the following is just going to be a few of my random thoughts:
- gTLD Domain Name
I snagged a would-be premium gTLD domain for a decent price. I decided not to go with .com/.net/.org, because those extensions are overlly saturated. It's impossible to get a brandable domain name, that doesn't have a toxic history, all for a reasonable price. ICANN is non-stop rolling out more and more gTLDs as the months go by. It's an untapped and overlooked treasure trove just begging to be plundered. Clean, never-before issued domains. Brandable. Cheap. Why is no one taking advantage of this? Because they're sheep. They're afraid. They're parroting ".com is king" without putting any thought into it.
Google says it's TLD-neutral, i.e it doesn't differentiate between .com or .bz. If we take that as true, then what other concerns are there?
"Consumers don't trust anything besides .com/.edu/.org." You vastly overestimate how tech-savy the majority of the population is. The amount of people that read a link fully, let alone care, is small. As long as your TLD isn't some stupid shit associated with spam, e.g ".bz," very few people care. Google is even A/B testing whether or not they should show the URL. It could become irrelevant in the SEO space.
That brings me to my next point:
- Diverse Traffic Sources
The game is business. I see too many people get caught up on SEO and PBNs, and all that other shit, and completely neglect every other source of traffic. Cloaked PPC, guest posts, posts on forums and other websites, videos, advertising, word of mouth; the list goes on and on. You're building a business -- a brand. If you focus on purely SEO, you won't only be putting all of your eggs in one basket, you'll also be irrationally neutering your brand awareness.
Social media? How many people really take the time to optimize for social media.
Viral marketing? Guerrilla marketing? The internet is so vast. There are so many ways to generate traffic, but everyone is focusing on fucking SEO. Idiots, all of them.
This is a business, so treat it like one. Your brand won't become a household name like Wikipedia or Reddit or YouTube if you only do SEO.
- Web design, copy, the experience
The only thing that matters is how a consumer feels. If they don't feel like your brand is reputable, they'll click off. If they don't feel like your copy is convincing, they won't buy. If they feel like your web design is basic bitch Wordpress themes, it'll impact their actions subconsciously.
The experience matters. Do it right in the beginning; set everything up properly and it will pay dividends down the road. I took 8 hours to completely redesign my site, because I realized that, while yes it was functional, it didn't "feel" right. Now, it's set and forget. The custom templates will always be there for me to reuse.
Logo matters too. Don't be a hostgator or godaddy. I made a high quality, modern logo in Inkscape within an hour of fucking around with clip art and vector tools.
The good news? It doesn't take too much effort. The modern web is trending towards Google's minimalist "Materialism" design standards, which take simple designed, but spruce them up with attention to the tiny details here and there. For example, a very small shadow under the nav bar. It doesn't take much, just an intelligent use of CSS.
Well, that's it for now. I have a shitload of work to get back to.
