then try to buy a small site from meathead1234 , he own a flipping company and will be able to find you a site you need.
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wow thanks for pointing me in his direction! that meathead guy really knows his stuff! he deals in the higher end of the market, though, and i'm not ready to spend those sums of cash just yet. when i'm ready to scale, he'll be on my shortlist to contact.
thanks prab!
F&ck authority sites (if you are talking about adsense).
F8ck white hat.
Go research problems, find a need and offer a solution to that problem/need through a product or a service.
This guy explains it much better than I ever could:
well, thanks for pointing that out. i'm aware that relying on adsense alone is not a great strategy in the long run, but in the short-term, it's a good way to test your skill.
and i do appreciate the links! really helpful!
LOL, I share the same experience regarding WF and this forum. I've been WF a long time. I find the posters in this forum are more balanced and helpful as well.
Doing sales in the offline world will definitely help you online if you pitching or marketing. The psychology of human are applicable for the most part, just different channels (online/offline). Sales are important for any businessman, they have to sell ideas to partners,investors, products to clients etc.
Base on my SEO research an authority site, if done right will reap the best long term results. I agree with some posters here, there is barely any distinction between white hat and blackhat SEO. Google doesn't make distinctions. Google's main monetary method is still Adwords, that's how they make over 90% of their revenue.
If we look at that aspect, the content on websites must be very original, dynamic and user friendly. Google must provide very good browsing and natural searching experience for users in order to make Adwords relevant. It is also terrible to put your livelihood on Google's every whim.
Basically I see authority sites having 2 major benefits. First is that it provides natural results that Google and Google users love, hence able to survive Google's algorithm changes, and Secondly an authority site doesn't have to depend on Google to get all it's traffic.
as someone mentioned above, google doesn't really distinguish between white/black hats. a lot of white sites were penalized with no explanation.
the best strategy would still be diversification, IMHO. but i do agree that playing by the rules at least lowers the risk of anything bad happening. great feedback
Authority sites are not the way to go...they are the only way to go.
wow that's quite a strong stand.
Personally being a salesperson is a huge boon when it comes to IM. I did sales for two years (not an industry veteran by any means but practiced) and knowing how to craft a pitch is an important skill. You will likely have more insight into what questions consumers will ask, how to present value, and where and how to ask for the sale. It's a different medium of course, so take that into consideration (i.e. you won't get a chance to answer those wonderful, unstructured, open ended questions face to face consumers love to ask). but regardless, that only applies to engagement once they are already on the site. The trick is getting exposure so more people DO get on the site (which you say you've done some SEO so I think you're in a good spot).
As to what you're looking to do, an authority site is probably you're best bet. it's more long term definitely, though it may not pay off immediately it doesn't sound like that's the problem. I think the question is how much time are you willing to put into it. it depends on the topic you become an authority in. Some topics the information never changes, for instance recipes, you can always come up with thousands of recipes but there isn't going to be any industry changing shake up that's going to change the nature of a recipe, it's the same thing forever and ever. If you pick a topic where the information never changes it's really low maintenance and you can focus on optimizing the content. or it can be low maintenance if you want, no one is going to have issues if you don't regularly post, you just won't get return visitors because they know there is nothing new. At least with a topic like that you can practice and figure out what to expect without too much of an investment.
I hope I helped at all
you helped a lot. you reminded me of the importance of 'practice' and that's exactly what i intend to do now.
i will practice buying ready-made websites and get them to bank someway, somehow.
long term goal:
to have enough confidence in my skill to be able to handle one of meathead's websites.
i really appreciate all of the feedback.
on a side note, here's what i've learned so far about adsense (correct me if i'm wrong):
adsense/adwords is basically a gigantic lead-generation system set up by the google corp to help businesses gain clients from exposure to searching on the internet.
business buy ads -> google shows ads on publishers based on indexing/algorithms etc
user clicks on ads -> goes to business's website -> a) converts b) bounces
so if i were google, i would track the conversion rate of my publishers, and de-index or penalize the non-performing ones.
but non-performing here doesn't mean the user doesn't click. rather it means that there are a lot of clicks but no conversions.
now if the customer was just dave's delicatessen down the street, the lack on cvr rate might be due to bad website design
but if the customer was a site like amazon and the cvr is whack, than that must be the traffic.
maybe that's why some adsense accounts get banned after they start making money for a while. i mean, just a hypothesis on my part.
