"If you can code, you can make money" - is it real?

Yapaz

Yapaz

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Hey,
first of all is kind of rhetorical question... I just wanted to dive a little more deep about this @amandine post: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/if-you-can-code-you-can-make-money.1279881/

There was a bunch of negative comments about how you can't get any visitors while you ain't making original content. This bothers me a little as I already tried it with some of the projects. No success atm but I tried guessing, maybe those negative bastards were right?
I will sum up the amandines post:
1. Get the expired domain with descent stats.
2. Find API related to this domain(sorry guy if you don't what's API you'll need to google it).
3. Get a dedicated VPS.
4. Make a WP plugin to fetch data from API. Post it with some kind of WP theme.
5. And make all the project smooth, fast and light as possible.

I did tried to follow these steps, as I can code and other related stuff, but the content part is kind of question to me... Is it really working? I mean does google will index you after you post same content as other hundreds blogs/site etc...? Maybe the silo structure and others tricks will work? But the whole automation idea will not be the same.

Please share your opinion while I burning my money on these projects.
 
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lucky.sparks said:
Automate marketing. You will bank.
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I agree so much with this. If you are able to build bots and scripts to automate tasks or gather data ...

I don't see how you could not bank HARD with that

Or even tools man, man I'd build so many specific marketing tools if I could code
 
Repose said:
I agree so much with this. If you are able to build bots and scripts to automate tasks or gather data ...

I don't see how you could not bank HARD with that

Or even tools man, man I'd build so many specific marketing tools if I could code
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Such tools as?
 
Well, basically it would be tailored to my business specifically and wouldn't really have use for the broad public.
Kind of hard to describe without getting into detail about what I do.

But essentially, you know ahrefs right? I'd built a tool like that but more suited for me
Which also would save me 3 figures a month which I could reinvest
 
Repose said:
Well, basically it would be tailored to my business specifically and wouldn't really have use for the broad public.
Kind of hard to describe without getting into detail about what I do.

But essentially, you know ahrefs right? I'd built a tool like that but more suited for me
Which also would save me 3 figures a month which I could reinvest
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Well, you can always explain that idea to us coders or let some Fiverr guy build it for you for 4 figures.

You’ll have your money back in no time and then use those 3 figures to ‘reinvest’.
 
Yapaz said:
Hey,
first of all is kind of rhetorical question... I just wanted to dive a little more deep about this @amandine post: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/if-you-can-code-you-can-make-money.1279881/

There was a bunch of negative comments about how you can't get any visitors while you ain't making original content. This bothers me a little as I already tried it with some of the projects. No success atm but I tried guessing, maybe those negative bastards were right?
I will sum up the amandines post:
1. Get the expired domain with descent stats.
2. Find API related to this domain(sorry guy if you don't what's API you'll need to google it).
3. Get a dedicated VPS.
4. Make a WP plugin to fetch data from API. Post it with some kind of WP theme.
5. And make all the project smooth, fast and light as possible.

I did tried to follow these steps, as I can code and other related stuff, but the content part is kind of question to me... Is it really working? I mean does google will index you after you post same content as other hundreds blogs/site etc...? Maybe the silo structure and others tricks will work? But the whole automation idea will not be the same.

Please share your opinion while I burning my money on these projects.
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You need multiple skills with the internet in general to make money.

Either digital marketing, sales or code...

I see a lot more marketers making more money than coders because something you don't learn with programming and coding in is how to understand customers/audience.

You can build what you want but if you don't answer to the demand of the market you can't sell anything.

Either with paid traffic, content marketing, email marketing, customer journey, these are skills that rely on understanding the people behind the screen and if you can't understand their deep desires, how they feel, all this surrounding marketing, it's very hard to make anything useful to people and bank.

Typically ecommerce, the skill which could make you the most money is marketing and not coding, everyone can build easily an ecommerce store today but to market it is the hardest part.
 
Jeff Vh said:
Well, you can always explain that idea to us coders or let some Fiverr guy build it for you for 4 figures.

You’ll have your money back in no time and then use those 3 figures to ‘reinvest’.
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That's true, but it'll be cooler if I could do it myself
And give myself unlimited revisions
 
Yapaz said:
I mean does google will index you after you post same content as other hundreds blogs/site etc...?
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Google indexes every page that googlebot visits provided you don't have a reason to get a penalty (and duplicate content is not one of them) guess you are confusing indexing with ranking here.

It's true that it's hard to rank content that's not original and has appeared on a fuckton of other sites but it's not impossible. If you manage to find an api for a low competitive niche it's possible you can rank it well and make some good bucks provided you do the rank building stuff (doing content marketing, doing onpage and kw research, building links. Stuff like that)

Now frankly saying, the person who wrote that post you linked to does make it sound way more easier than it actually is. I'd argue it's somewhat contradictory too. You wouldn't find easily available programmatic access (with an api) to the kind of content that is 'low-competition' (and easy to rank). If you find apis to purchase (or even for free) for some content, it means there are already huge websites banking on it and it could be mere stupidity to compete directly with them.
Think of this like trying to use a "movies-info" api to make a Wordpress site which is directly competing with imdb! (And other popular movie Info sites). You probably ain't making money in a niche like that unless you bring your own unique twist to it.

I am not straightaway denying that this won't work. Just saying it's not as easy as they make it sound.
 
I dont know if you know or not, coding has levels of complexity
code hello world --> zero complexity
code a small non graphic game -->low complexity
coding a game with level --> medium compleity
coding a game with graphics and levels> high complexity
coding a game with virtual experience, one that mark zuk was talking about --> super complexity
and so on
If someone does coding for living will not go into such non sequitur argument.
 
coding without knowing marketing is bullshit .Sorry, if you think you can watch 1000 hours of youtube videos and udemy and then you will be covered in money you are mistaken at least if you do not want to sell your soul and skills to high tech company. If you want to become a freelance coder you need to know how to sell your future product
 
Most people that are rockstar coders still have to understand something
about the sales process. Coding is like an amplifier. It can amplify a
campaign that you already have going. Bots are tremendous tools to
have in your arsenal. One well planned bot can put some serious money
in your bank account.
Twelve years ago, Facebook was naive, and there were people with bots
making $250,000 a day till Facebook woke up and started crushing them.
Its not possible nowadays, I don't think.
But around every corner is a bot funneling money from the system.
So yeah coding can make you money.
You just have to think outside the box.
 
depends a lot on if you "only" know how to code, or if you are an actually good coder. i can code a little on AHK, and i could make a little bot for social networks, but they would instantly ban my ass. if you are going to automatize, its not just about coding, it about knowledge too.
 
Yes you can. Internet has alot for you. If that"s your skills and you can work effortlessly yes this thread is made for all who wants open conversations while making money on internet and to those entry internet marketers.
 
MisterF said:
If you can do anything that not a lot of people can do and there is a need, you can make money.
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Yup, any unique skill will do. The problem with most people who are stuck being poor is they have no skills. There isn't a single decent dev on Upwork that makes less than $20/hr.
 
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