Your Personal Facepalm IM Moment

[BigMarcusStud]

Ever did something stupid in IM that you had to facepalm yourself? Share!

I was new to IM and I was doing keyword research. I found a keyword that had around 20k local searches. I checked domain and availability and what do you know! EMD is available and it's a dot com! So I quickly snatched it up, put in a CB product and made a mental list of the things that I'm going to buy with my earnings.

So here we go. Weeks went by and I'm only seeing a slow trickle of traffic for that keyword. While browsing around BHW, I found out what's wrong. I didn't choose "Exact" match. When I checked, there are only 73 local searches a month.

 

[descover]

I facepalmed myself when I realized what internet marketing was.

I facepalmed myself again years later when I realized all the years wasted by not learning about internet marketing earlier.

 

[dgilpin22]

This is probably the wrong place for this, but what exactly is IM?

 

[jul3s]

This is probably the wrong place for this, but what exactly is IM?

are you kidding me??

IM - internet marketing

 

[jdog37]

This is probably the wrong place for this, but what exactly is IM?

internet marketing.

Not really a facepalm moment but more an almost shit myself moment.

Found an exact match .com for an extremely competitive keyword with almost 1 million exact searches per month. Went to the checkout to buy the domain and noticed I had misspelled the keyword in the domain.

 

[Deleted member 36594]

This is probably the wrong place for this, but what exactly is IM?

Yeap, that's my facepalm moment right there. RIGHT THERE!

 

[oni3350]

Working for about 6-12 months in the adult industry to generate 40k hits a day and convert at around 1:1000 only to get hit with the panda update plummeting my traffic down to about 6k hits a day and conversion ratio to about 1:2000 now coz im no longer updating......

And recently decide to rip articles online, rewrite them automatically with TBS for long tails and CB products to convert at about 1:100.... thats the face palm right there, if only I was focusing on CB and article marketing this whole time

 

[BigMarcusStud]

Oh! I have another one.

I went through days wondering why a lot of spam comments are being put up for my moderation. It was so annoying because I get all these notifications. I was wondering why I was still getting spam when I have Akismet up. It turned out that I need to activate it with a special key.

D'oh!

 

[christoss1959]

Ever did something stupid in IM that you had to facepalm yourself? Share!

I was new to IM and I was doing keyword research. I found a keyword that had around 20k local searches. I checked domain and availability and what do you know! EMD is available and it's a dot com! So I quickly snatched it up, put in a CB product and made a mental list of the things that I'm going to buy with my earnings.

So here we go. Weeks went by and I'm only seeing a slow trickle of traffic for that keyword. While browsing around BHW, I found out what's wrong. I didn't choose "Exact" match. When I checked, there are only 73 local searches a month.

I facepalmed myself when I converted my hubpages account to a subdomain. My articles from a PR6 domain went to a PR0 and I lost a ton of link juice. My websites dropped from 1st to 10th in a matter of days!

 

[Crazy]

Sent a script viral, found out my links weren't pointing to my pay site about 30 min into it. Was more like a facepunch than a facepalm though.

If you're wondering why I didn't check sooner, I thought CPA stats were lagging, which happens more often than you'd think.

 

[Scococo]

Ever did something stupid in IM that you had to facepalm yourself? Share!

I was new to IM and I was doing keyword research. I found a keyword that had around 20k local searches. I checked domain and availability and what do you know! EMD is available and it's a dot com! So I quickly snatched it up, put in a CB product and made a mental list of the things that I'm going to buy with my earnings.

So here we go. Weeks went by and I'm only seeing a slow trickle of traffic for that keyword. While browsing around BHW, I found out what's wrong. I didn't choose "Exact" match. When I checked, there are only 73 local searches a month.

I had the EXACT same story in mind when I read the thread title (excuse the pun).

I found a term with 20k local searches per month, low competition, emd etc. but the "exact" searches were about 100.

You're not alone on that one.

 

[healzer]

Facepalm myself for not facepalming myself when I had to facepalm myself

 

[Scococo]

Facepalm myself for not facepalming myself when I had to facepalm myself

*facepalm*

 

[thinkinghat]

Facepalm myself for not facepalming myself when I had to facepalm myself