Am I stupid?

Why don't you try something different? Find some new (easier) KWs to target, put 5 - 10 of your unique articles and concentrate on building links. You obviously have skills and knowledge so mix things up a bit.

Good luck
 
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tronox said:
This caught me off-guard. I can't say I like writing almost identical articles. This just kills creativity, brain cells, and is f*cking boring as f*ck but I enjoy creating WordPress themes. I know I can create WordPress themes and just sell them but there's no money in that. ThemeForest is overcrowded, most people buy Avada and X just because. I can't sell from my own website because there are EU laws and regulations that f*ck small time developers in the a**. Other alternatives... Hmm... Freelance - kinda risky I'd say + you have to compete with other 100 developers for jobs which takes time. Only one good alternative is to create really niche friendly WP themes like logistic, medical, etc. but I have been rejected by Tforest over 20 times so I have this "irrational fear of rejection" :)
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nvm what i said lol
 
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I can't say firmly that I earn about 1-2 cent per visitor since I don't have that much traffic + stuff I'm promoting is kinda expensive so I don't get many sales. In the future, I will test other monetization methods. I can't promote everything since I want to make a "white" website. As with aggresive link building, I'm considering building a WP theme for backlinks.
 
if you really good with wordpress (in my case i have something i want to add to my website and it requires some skills, let me pm you details)
 
tronox said:
This caught me off-guard. I can't say I like writing almost identical articles. This just kills creativity, brain cells, and is f*cking boring as f*ck but I enjoy creating WordPress themes. I know I can create WordPress themes and just sell them but there's no money in that. ThemeForest is overcrowded, most people buy Avada and X just because. I can't sell from my own website because there are EU laws and regulations that f*ck small time developers in the a**. Other alternatives... Hmm... Freelance - kinda risky I'd say + you have to compete with other 100 developers for jobs which takes time. Only one good alternative is to create really niche friendly WP themes like logistic, medical, etc. but I have been rejected by Tforest over 20 times so I have this "irrational fear of rejection" :)
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Everytime I see a thread like this I go to ctrl + F and search the word "but". Just a weird habit I have.

The word "but" has been used 15 times in this thread so far. 11 / 15 coming from you. That doesn't mean much on its own. Not until you read why you're using this word or count how many excuses you've actually made. Which is quite a bit.

If you want my advice, stop thinking like an IMer and start thinking like a marine. Go read the book "The Art Of War" right now (shorter version). I'm rereading it for the 3rd time and every time I read this book I'm amazed. I find more and more parallels between all my successful ventures and all the strategies Tzu wrote about.

"Sun Tzu emphasized the importance of positioning in military strategy. The decision to position an army must be based on both objective conditions in the physical environment and the subjective beliefs of other, competitive factors in that environment. He thought that strategy was not planning in the sense of working through an established list, but rather that it requires quick and appropriate responses to changing conditions. Planning works in a controlled environment; but in a changing environment, competing plans collide, creating unexpected situations."

QUICK & APPROPRIATE responses to changing conditions. Read his shit. Start adopting his strategy into your warflow.

Also, doing a SWOT analysis is always helpful. Combine these 2 things together and go back to IM with a warlike mindset, you will succeed. You'll stop making excuses about writing. I remember doing my first authority site. I didn't even think about the writing aspect back then. All I had on my mind was $$$. If I wrote a sentence like, "XXX software is great because of blah blah blah" in my head I was writing "money money money money money money money money".

I didn't worry about my competitors because I KNEW what weaknesses and vulnerabilities they had. I KNEW I could exploit those vulnerabilities as long as I was tactical and ruthless in my approach. Then most importantly, I always picked battles I KNEW I could win.

If you pick battles you know you can win, if you know your competitors have gaping vulnerabilities (which many do) there's no way you can't be successful.

In war it's not even about winning. It's not about outranking some dude for the most competitive keyword. It's about occupying and dominating territory. By any means necessary. It's about accessibility. If you have a small army (not making money) then you have limited accessibility. If you then drop $500 on random SEO services... you're further decreasing accessibility. You're destabilizing an already destabilized environment. The environment being that you have 5 soldiers. And you just walked everyone through a narrow pass littered with snipers. The snipers in this case being the fucktards in the marketplace who don't GAF if you rank. So you didn't even get defeated by your competitor.... you got defeated by your own army. Think about that.

One smart thing to do is pick keywords that nobody likes. Low competition. Keywords that don't look profitable. Then you send your spies out. Find those "shitty" keywords with covert buyer intent. That could easily be ranked for $25-$50 or by doing a bit of SEO yourself. Then you bring better weapons into that territory. As in better copy, better positioning, better execution. Brute force & exploit these "poor", vulnerable regions. Get a bit of cashflow rollin in. Like $200-$300 / month. Then enter more vulnerable territory. Once you've raised your flag in enough shitty areas.... then you get to slightly raise the stakes and move your troops more inland. Closer to the gold.

If I was you, I wouldn't even care about ranking in profitable niches. I'd care more about peeping SEO itself as an art and war strategy. Learning whats effective whats not and making it consistent. Then roll out your method to smarter niches. Do the same with other forms of marketing. Learn how to drive traffic with blog comments. Blog commenting is highly fucking effective when done right (all forms of marketing are). I see fake experts everywhere everyday writing about shit they don't know about. Maybe they do a popular post on ahrefs or something. Some fluffed out cheese that gets a lot of views. Where you dream about the SEO world being more transparent and doing more case studies. Then some little dude comes in and drops a bomb in your comment section. And everyone winds up reading that dudes comment & case study more than the original post. It's too easy to skim read fluffed out cheese but when you see real cheddar you stop, focus and read that shit.

Almost like a rap battle. Everyone needs a reality check at least 1-100 times a day. Incorporate this into marketing to get peoples eyes on you. Don't dream about being a real fucker or doing this and that.... be a real fucker and DO this and that. Be that mfkr people wanna know.

That's how you mobilize traffic. Move people from point A to point B then straight to the bank.

Good luck,

-BB
 
BreaknBrix said:
Everytime I see a thread like this I go to ctrl + F and search the word "but". Just a weird habit I have.

The word "but" has been used 15 times in this thread so far. 11 / 15 coming from you. That doesn't mean much on its own. Not until you read why you're using this word or count how many excuses you've actually made. Which is quite a bit.

If you want my advice, stop thinking like an IMer and start thinking like a marine. Go read the book "The Art Of War" right now (shorter version). I'm rereading it for the 3rd time and every time I read this book I'm amazed. I find more and more parallels between all my successful ventures and all the strategies Tzu wrote about.

"Sun Tzu emphasized the importance of positioning in military strategy. The decision to position an army must be based on both objective conditions in the physical environment and the subjective beliefs of other, competitive factors in that environment. He thought that strategy was not planning in the sense of working through an established list, but rather that it requires quick and appropriate responses to changing conditions. Planning works in a controlled environment; but in a changing environment, competing plans collide, creating unexpected situations."

QUICK & APPROPRIATE responses to changing conditions. Read his shit. Start adopting his strategy into your warflow.

Also, doing a SWOT analysis is always helpful. Combine these 2 things together and go back to IM with a warlike mindset, you will succeed. You'll stop making excuses about writing. I remember doing my first authority site. I didn't even think about the writing aspect back then. All I had on my mind was $$$. If I wrote a sentence like, "XXX software is great because of blah blah blah" in my head I was writing "money money money money money money money money".

I didn't worry about my competitors because I KNEW what weaknesses and vulnerabilities they had. I KNEW I could exploit those vulnerabilities as long as I was tactical and ruthless in my approach. Then most importantly, I always picked battles I KNEW I could win.

If you pick battles you know you can win, if you know your competitors have gaping vulnerabilities (which many do) there's no way you can't be successful.

In war it's not even about winning. It's not about outranking some dude for the most competitive keyword. It's about occupying and dominating territory. By any means necessary. It's about accessibility. If you have a small army (not making money) then you have limited accessibility. If you then drop $500 on random SEO services... you're further decreasing accessibility. You're destabilizing an already destabilized environment. The environment being that you have 5 soldiers. And you just walked everyone through a narrow pass littered with snipers. The snipers in this case being the fucktards in the marketplace who don't GAF if you rank. So you didn't even get defeated by your competitor.... you got defeated by your own army. Think about that.

One smart thing to do is pick keywords that nobody likes. Low competition. Keywords that don't look profitable. Then you send your spies out. Find those "shitty" keywords with covert buyer intent. That could easily be ranked for $25-$50 or by doing a bit of SEO yourself. Then you bring better weapons into that territory. As in better copy, better positioning, better execution. Brute force & exploit these "poor", vulnerable regions. Get a bit of cashflow rollin in. Like $200-$300 / month. Then enter more vulnerable territory. Once you've raised your flag in enough shitty areas.... then you get to slightly raise the stakes and move your troops more inland. Closer to the gold.

If I was you, I wouldn't even care about ranking in profitable niches. I'd care more about peeping SEO itself as an art and war strategy. Learning whats effective whats not and making it consistent. Then roll out your method to smarter niches. Do the same with other forms of marketing. Learn how to drive traffic with blog comments. Blog commenting is highly fucking effective when done right (all forms of marketing are). I see fake experts everywhere everyday writing about shit they don't know about. Maybe they do a popular post on ahrefs or something. Some fluffed out cheese that gets a lot of views. Where you dream about the SEO world being more transparent and doing more case studies. Then some little dude comes in and drops a bomb in your comment section. And everyone winds up reading that dudes comment & case study more than the original post. It's too easy to skim read fluffed out cheese but when you see real cheddar you stop, focus and read that shit.

Almost like a rap battle. Everyone needs a reality check at least 1-100 times a day. Incorporate this into marketing to get peoples eyes on you. Don't dream about being a real fucker or doing this and that.... be a real fucker and DO this and that. Be that mfkr people wanna know.

That's how you mobilize traffic. Move people from point A to point B then straight to the bank.

Good luck,

-BB
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I'm going to read the art of war again.
 
BreaknBrix - I've read Art Of War myself, studied all the weaknesses, tried to make use of them, but I'm still the three dollars a day guy (if that makes sense) :) and your post is probably the smartest thing I've read in this god forsaken money money money money forum. God bless you!
 
Bro thing is you just are not building a business man.

And by the way i have to say i started broke with no money with my name.

Last year it was my.breakthrough one as i built 2 sites that have ranked for over a year now and making consisting money. I didnt go for the fast short term money, like 99% of people in bhw tend to do. Build a business bro, grow bigger projects each one bigger than the last and im dead sure you WILL make it!

Best of luck bro!
 
Thanks for advice Roy. At the moment I am building something sustainable, that's why I am really confused. I thought I'd go the white hat route, doing something I have deeper knowledge in, building backlinks slowly as I've read in all the best SEO guru/guide/tutorial websites. But as I start analyzing my competitors, I see that they are doing things differently and are happily ranking for long periods of time (more than a year or so). I think I'm gonna copy backlinking strategy from my competitors :)
 
Ste Hughes, I know exactly what you mean. You see, there's double meaning to that. If you analyze it, I would have used "gay" as "bad" or something I don't like. For example, "Hey, did you see his new car? Yeah, it's gay as f*ck". More info here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=that's+gay. I instead used "fudge packer" because it is not only gay (figuratively) (bad), but also a mind numbing job that kills brain cells (literally). Oh yeah, and it's also a reference to South Park episode. "Hey Stan, Isn't that Tom Cruise? Oh, wow, it is! Hey guys, check it out, Tom Cruise is a fudge packer!". Maybe they've used it just to simply say that he likes eating freshly baked hot dogs or to portray something more. I'm not exactly sure. I hope that just blew your mind. And I'm fun at parties.
 
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