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asad50

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Hello All,

Honestly , I can say that lately, and after all the updates that impacted all the money making methods in the last year, especially :
  1. SEO : Google updates Making it more and more difficult for small business bloggers to rank , and requiring more and more big budgets.
  2. Social media : Their algorithms have evolved a lot lately making botting/automation without bans difficult, and requiring us more and more to invest in ads
I can say that from now on, a lot of methods that used to work well in the past have gone including : CPA/youtube, smalls blogs, etc

Now , there are essentialy 3 sharks taking all the money on the internet :
  1. Authority and Big websites owners with big budgets.
  2. People with enough budgets doing e-commerce.
  3. People who have built an online presence and/or audience selling courses and services to their followers.
All the remaining methods that still work requires you now to work offline until you have enough budgets to start investing. They require as well a lot of patience to yield results.

So for newbies with no budgets, and looking for low/no investment methods. I can tell you honestly from now on to go get a job.

Regards
 
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asad50 said:
Now , there are essentialy 3 sharks taking all the money on the internet :
  1. Authority and Big websites owners with big budgets.
  2. People with enough budgets doing e-commerce.
  3. People who have built an online presence and/or audience selling courses and services to their followers.
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1. I know nothing about it
2. My client is selling clothes in the USA, $220 000/ month via TikTok
3. During the gold rush, sell shovels.

Point 3 have also limited time. You have 5-10 years until generative AI will eat all these courses.
For now GPT 4 is writing some crap, GPT 5 will write crap too but GPT 10? Who knows

"So for newbies with no budgets, and looking for low/no investment methods. I can tell you honestly from now on to go get a job."
Physical job. Forget about programming or other IT job. Applications for Python, for example in Poland was 50/one job place. Now it's 300 xD

You forgot point 4: media buying.
Yes, you need budget but this is the direction where all big techs are going to. You have to spend to get traffic, no more free traffic ;)
 
I'm 32 years old and back when I turned 15 my career peaked when I was averaging $500 a day making the most awful receptive youtube videos advertising Windows XP registry cleaners(would just keyword pack the descriptions with a list of every know computer error, so when people trying to fix their computer search how on youtube, my videos would show up). Had like 40 youtube channels, and would just use a handheld camcorder to film my computer screen and do the same 1 min sales pich over and over. Bach then, with like 1/50,000th of the number of yt videos online than there are no, it was that easy. I miss those days.

Though, my strategy now is creating large scale sites with overkill niche coverage(trying to join the sharks, large scale niche ecommerce site, but woocommerce configured so the buy buttons are affiliate links, basically large faux ecommerce site, don't need budget to warehouse etc), and use ai to help scale up. And secondary, doing large numbers of small 20 page review sites I can speed run and rank for very focused lower vol searches using exact match keyword domains(which, before ai, would be time consuming to do on a large scale, since individually the sites don't make much, but collectively, can get there). Really got to grind it out to work for what others have left on the table.
 
Lukmat said:
1. I know nothing about it
2. My client is selling clothes in the USA, $220 000/ month via TikTok
3. During the gold rush, sell shovels.

Point 3 have also limited time. You have 5-10 years until generative AI will eat all these courses.
For now GPT 4 is writing some crap, GPT 5 will write crap too but GPT 10? Who knows

"So for newbies with no budgets, and looking for low/no investment methods. I can tell you honestly from now on to go get a job."
Physical job. Forget about programming or other IT job. Applications for Python, for example in Poland was 50/one job place. Now it's 300 xD

You forgot point 4: media buying.
Yes, you need budget but this is the direction where all big techs are going to. You have to spend to get traffic, no more free traffic ;)
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Thanks BIG BRO. I agree. From now on, we need money and knowledge to make more money.
 
moneymemoneynow said:
I'm 32 years old and back when I turned 15 my career peaked when I was averaging $500 a day making the most awful receptive youtube videos advertising Windows XP registry cleaners(would just keyword pack the descriptions with a list of every know computer error, so when people trying to fix their computer search how on youtube, my videos would show up). Had like 40 youtube channels, and would just use a handheld camcorder to film my computer screen and do the same 1 min sales pich over and over. Bach then, with like 1/50,000th of the number of yt videos online than there are no, it was that easy. I miss those days.

Though, my strategy now is creating large scale sites with overkill niche coverage(trying to join the sharks, large scale niche ecommerce site, but woocommerce configured so the buy buttons are affiliate links, basically large faux ecommerce site, don't need budget to warehouse etc), and use ai to help scale up. And secondary, doing large numbers of small 20 page review sites I can speed run and rank for very focused lower vol searches using exact match keyword domains(which, before ai, would be time consuming to do on a large scale, since individually the sites don't make much, but collectively, can get there). Really got to grind it out to work for what others have left on the table.
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These review sites will be next time target for companies like Google.
Their search engine is not readable because this spam of review websites.
I am looking for something and bah... I have "Top 20 xxx" "reviews" made by some hired writer or AI.
Google is aware about this, many regular users choose just bing or duck duck because this spam in search scores.
Many just go Youtube to see the real person reviewing the product instead some fake websites.
 
There is another possibility--- 4. Recouped budgeting. I just made that up, but in essence, it means financing one's make money online not with bottomless budgets, or a built in online presence. It would work by finding sweet spots where you can to pay for a campaign in such a way that a secondary income funnel, that at least fully funds the cost of the marketing, and thus giving your primary money funnel a "free ride" to make bank.

Set up your affiliate site or channel, but bring traffic to it by creating separate pages that make money more reliably in passive ways, that cover the cost of advertising, while the pages in turn all point to your main money funnel. As in, initially through trial and error, find a high traffic backlink that will (like a lay up) deliver $X amount of money to your secondary page being based on the number of high paying CPM ads, paid url shorteners, blockchain-paying content, and so on that pays from taffic that arrives on that landing page. That page in turn links to your big money page, but meanwhile your ad expense was recompensated.

Meaning, your $X budget is recouped by the $X coming in from the intermediate 'lay up' source, while you use it to pursue the big 3 point shots. When you can find a sequence or funnel that so works, the advertising becomes self-funding. Methods 1, 2 and 3 can equal 4, in essence. Fuel for thought.
 
Lukmat said:
These review sites will be next time target for companies like Google.
Their search engine is not readable because this spam of review websites.
I am looking for something and bah... I have "Top 20 xxx" "reviews" made by some hired writer or AI.
Google is aware about this, many regular users choose just bing or duck duck because this spam in search scores.
Many just go Youtube to see the real person reviewing the product instead some fake websites.
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You can't make reviews for my niche on youtube, not illegal in most states but they use the tos against it for illicit substances, I tried doing youtube reviews and they banned my channel and my 200 unrelated videos with it, autoban, also banned on all ad networks including google, so that helps. There's still plenty google searches for vendor reviews
 
Just stop worrying, Google always moves up and all you have to do is adapt, change and improve. Trust your skill, learn new and update yourself.

I created a 30 days email sequence copy in a day, with the help of AI , and charged a good amount.

When everything is down, remind yourself to take sometime, pay attention, plan and work on whats important. Dont see what others doing. Thats the secret.
 
asad50 said:
Now , there are essentialy 3 sharks taking all the money on the internet :
  1. Authority and Big websites owners with big budgets.
  2. People with enough budgets doing e-commerce.
  3. People who have built an online presence and/or audience selling courses and services to their followers.
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4. Spammers.

Lukmat said:
These review sites will be next time target for companies like Google.
Their search engine is not readable because this spam of review websites.
I am looking for something and bah... I have "Top 20 xxx" "reviews" made by some hired writer or AI.
Google is aware about this, many regular users choose just bing or duck duck because this spam in search scores.
Many just go Youtube to see the real person reviewing the product instead some fake websites.
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Got to write these damn user scripts for tamper monkey to filter all the crap. :D
asad50 said:
  1. Social media : Their algorithms have evolved a lot lately making botting/automation without bans difficult, and requiring us more and more to invest in ads
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They're simply asking for more spam. That's what they want. The point is to distract people as much as possible. That way the user keeps on searching content forever and they never reach it. Now their engagement increases and their ad revenue increases.

So if you publish complete garbage without links, you get their trust as you do what they consider of value to their economy / system.

I think it's easier if you just take it chill way.
 
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There are still tons of free traffic. The problem is niche research and zero comp keyword research are not done properly enough.
 
Ballsman said:
There are still tons of free traffic
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Yes. Fearmongering people ain't serving anyone, including the fearmonger.

Just listen to what Basstrackerboats has to say!

InfinityPeace said:
There is another possibility--- 4. Recouped budgeting. I just made that up, but in essence, it means financing one's make money online not with bottomless budgets, or a built in online presence. It would work by finding sweet spots where you can to pay for a campaign in such a way that a secondary income funnel, that at least fully funds the cost of the marketing, and thus giving your primary money funnel a "free ride" to make bank.

Set up your affiliate site or channel, but bring traffic to it by creating separate pages that make money more reliably in passive ways, that cover the cost of advertising, while the pages in turn all point to your main money funnel. As in, initially through trial and error, find a high traffic backlink that will (like a lay up) deliver $X amount of money to your secondary page being based on the number of high paying CPM ads, paid url shorteners, blockchain-paying content, and so on that pays from taffic that arrives on that landing page. That page in turn links to your big money page, but meanwhile your ad expense was recompensated.

Meaning, your $X budget is recouped by the $X coming in from the intermediate 'lay up' source, while you use it to pursue the big 3 point shots. When you can find a sequence or funnel that so works, the advertising becomes self-funding. Methods 1, 2 and 3 can equal 4, in essence. Fuel for thought.
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Kinda complicated writing, but that's basically how you can do it.
 
The key is not be able to generate a huge amount of money doing 1 thing, it's figuring out semi-passive projects that can make you a little bit of money, but that you can set up again and again make 10-50 times more similar projects and be able to manage all of them. It may be a grind may take 6 months to 2 years depending on what it is, but it's possible.
 
moneymemoneynow said:
The key is not be able to generate a huge amount of money doing 1 thing, it's figuring out semi-passive projects that can make you a little bit of money, but that you can set up again and again make 10-50 times more similar projects and be able to manage all of them. It may be a grind may take 6 months to 2 years depending on what it is, but it's possible.
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Best if it's in one industry...
 
agree with all the points.
will add that even if you choose media buying - you probably will be unpleasantly surprised with too expensive cpc , for example, in G Ads
 
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