The Kretchi Return - Amazon Journey to $500 p/ Month and Leave Marines Corps.

Hey, it's me again!

You may remember me from my last journey (here) where I tried to automate accounts on instagram to make money with CPA offers and instagram repeatedly fucked me by deleting my accounts or triggering phone verifications often to the point that I got crazy about it and I gave up after a long time trying. Remember that?

WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT

I basically didn't venture into anything new venture after that (a big mistake!) and just tried to solve basic problems of everyday life that I had set aside, such as getting my driver's license, buying a car, and other things like that.
Not having any marketing venture to put my mind made me focus on just smoking weed and think about life and people around me, which threw me on depression cause I didn't realize how poor and miserable my life was!

My friends have never really been my friends and never helped me at all, in fact they have always put me down and discouraged me from anything I tried while they tried nothing at all. You may have already known this type of people, right?

Then one Saturday night, while I was in a surveillance tower at my base, I had a lapse of reason and an avalanche of thoughts hit me like a punch in the face.

I realized how much I was wasting my time with loser friends and forgetting about my family.
I got into debt and put my family in a situation I shouldn't have, and I felt a lot of guilt about that.
All the guilt that I felt was too much information for my head and I was thrown into depression quickly.
I spent several months in this situation, totally sad and hopeless,
just living one day at a time feeling self pity and thinking how miserable my life was,
Also I had no friends to advise me or even just talk to me and help me stand up again,
which made me smoke a lot more weed and develop a huge addiction. which made me even more depressed than before.

This addiction / depression lasted for several months and after numerous failed attempts to quit smoking,
I decided on November 27 that I would never smoke again. no matter what would happen next.
I had tried to stop other times before and felt all sorts of symptoms (irritability, deep depression, anxiety, insomnia, etc.)
so I knew how hard things would be.
but the weed was fucking my life too much and I needed to stop,
so on November 27th I made the decision never smoking again, even though I knew I would feel like dying the next week, it didn't matter anymore. if it happen to die or get into a deep depression than fuck it, thats what will happen.

Now I'm trying to learn again how to live a normal life being happy and motivated without any drugs. I was reading some journeys here of people that was going though harder times and I must say that was really inspirational to me and helped me a lot to get some perspective (the @Billy Batts life storie was one of them).

I had such strong symptoms last week that I even had fever, but I'm felling way better now and my depression is becoming weaker everyday. It seems that things are doing well now.

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So that's how I'm starting this journey, with a little spark of hope and doing my best to make it a huge bonfire.

I told you guys that I will comeback smarter and stronger than before and I will do my best to keep my promise!

WHAT'S MY PLAN NOW?

After a lot of people advise me to dive in SEO waters instead of creating IG accounts,
that's what I will do!

I did some brainstorming to choose a niche that it's profitable and it's interesting to at the same time since I will write the content myself.

Now I found found something that fits my needs and today I bought a domain name and I'm creating the website myself since I have some expertise doing that.

After the website is fully setup, I will research some KGR keywords with really low search volume (70 - 200 seaches p/ month) and start writing my first article following the guidelines of @Nerva on this guide (here).

I will focus on create really helpful and long content before think about link builiding, I need to master the craft of writing because if my writing skills sucks people will not care about what I'm talking about even if my article is on page 1. So that will be my focus for now. I want to create at least 10-15 long ass articles before creating links.

WHY $500 PER MONTH?

Many of you might be thinking that this is not a lot of money but in the country I live you can have a confortable life with this money, (a normal monthly paycheck is like $250) so when I reach this goal I will be able to leave this hard life on marines corps and live a happy one. I plan to start backpacking again in different countries with some unknown people, the same way I was used to do before become a military man.

I also plan to leave this country for a year to study in USA. but this is a matter for the future, right? Now let's focus on the forward tasks

I will do my best to keep you guys updated about all that I'm doing so maybe I can help some people on the same path.

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Again, wish me luck guys!

You can do this.

I wish you all the luck in the world, everything will get better as days go on.

you did the hard part getting over an addiction well done.

when your back on your feet I am sure you can repay all family members back.

good luck and God bless.

you can do this I promise!!!!

1. Glad to see your back on the straight path, all that you experienced was great as it provided you with wisdom. Useless friends and bad habits need to be eradicated entirely.
2. You don't need luck you've got this

also military niche may be worth targeting ? people love war stories and netflix just dropped a program on WW2 and Vietnam content so people will be searching in these areas.

Always nice to hear if people got inspired by one of my threads as that has always been the goal.

Seems you are on the right path, just soldier through the bad time and keep focussed on your goals.

Wish you the best of luck

Ps:where can you live comfortably for 500? 2020 I will start travelling again.

kretchi said:

Hey, it's me again!

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Boa sorte

Billy Batts said:

Always nice to hear if people got inspired by one of my threads as that has always been the goals.

Seems you are on the right path, just soldier through the bad time and keep focussed on your goals.

Wish you the best of luck

Ps:where can you live comfortably for 500? 2020 I will start travelling again.

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Might be wrong, but I think op is from Brazil.

Wish You Luck

Wishing you luck in your journey!

Good luck and welcome back.

Great to have you back and focused. Just believe in your self and stay motivated , don't be discouraged if at first you don't succeed, keep at it. You will definitely succeed.

I look forward to your journey, what Country are you from

I suggest learn python as well through youtube tutorials, very easy to learn and once you learn it you will have unlimited ways to make money (automate stuff), plus github programmers all over the world share their aweomse code/scripts which you could use for yourself.

redarrow said:

You can do this.

I wish you all the luck in the world, everything will get better as days go on.

you did the hard part getting over an addiction well done.

when your back on your feet I am sure you can repay all family members back.

good luck and God bless.

you can do this I promise!!!!

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That's the kind of stuff that motivates me and gives me energy to keep going. I will do my best to get there, I promise you. Thanks for you kind words.

EducatedHustle said:

1. Glad to see your back on the straight path, all that you experienced was great as it provided you with wisdom. Useless friends and bad habits need to be eradicated entirely.
2. You don't need luck you've got this

also military niche may be worth targeting ? people love war stories and netflix just dropped a program on WW2 and Vietnam content so people will be searching in these areas.

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Yeah man, losers friends are even worst than enemies. They can make you feel like everything is impossible and nothing is worth it because that's how they see life. Fuck then off.

I've already started a website in the health niche, it's about a subject that I have some interest about so it will be easy to create content about. also, thank you for you words.

Billy Batts said:

Always nice to hear if people got inspired by one of my threads as that has always been the goal.

Seems you are on the right path, just soldier through the bad time and keep focussed on your goals.

Wish you the best of luck

Ps:where can you live comfortably for 500? 2020 I will start travelling again.

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You should visit Rio de Janeiro in January or February, the Carnival time. Just bring $500 and I assure you will have a great time here. Let me know if you come

theRevolt said:

Boa sorte



Might be wrong, but I think op is from Brazil.

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Obrigado!

Yes I'm from Brazil.

HatArrows said:

Wish You Luck

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Thanks

invu3 said:

Wishing you luck in your journey!

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Thank bro

share4win said:

Good luck and welcome back.

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Thank you man

Fynesttrish said:

Great to have you back and focused. Just believe in your self and stay motivated , don't be discouraged if at first you don't succeed, keep at it. You will definitely succeed.

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Yeah, this time I will be more positive minded with my tasks and leave no room for lazyness and negativity. Thanks for you words.

Surfboykj said:

I look forward to your journey, what Country are you from

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Brazil

NatalieDev said:

I suggest learn python as well through youtube tutorials, very easy to learn and once you learn it you will have unlimited ways to make money (automate stuff), plus github programmers all over the world share their aweomse code/scripts which you could use for yourself.

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I'm not sure, I agreed that this will be worth it on the long run but for now I want to fully focus on my website and my content creation, but I'm opened for that in a near future. Thanks for your advice

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I'm currently doing some keyword research and setting up some basic stuff on the website.
I will write a detailed update about how things are going later, see you guys soon.

Best of luck man! I follow

I'm in a kinda similar situation, will be deployed to military in the next months and trying to start some journeys to help gaining some income and i wish to achieve anything before i got deployed.

I smoke too, i think i'm smoking because of frustration as i want to achieve something, and have this kind of friends but i advice you to deal with them, negative people are everywhere and even if they're successful they keep their success themselves and only share negativity, fuck them anyway you can't change people, but keep them because we need to socialize too but don't take their shit seriously.

The most important thing is consistency, niche sites are a long term projects that may take months to give you results, so don't give up on it, there are several journey threads here that will give you motivation, read them.

I hope you finish your military service and have a success in this journey.

Keep us updated

Deividas696 said:

Best of luck man! I follow

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Thanks!

Shar9ie said:

I'm in a kinda similar situation, will be deployed to military in the next months and trying to start some journeys to help gaining some income and i wish to achieve anything before i got deployed.

I smoke too, i think i'm smoking because of frustration as i want to achieve something, and have this kind of friends but i advice you to deal with them, negative people are everywhere and even if they're successful they keep their success themselves and only share negativity, fuck them anyway you can't change people, but keep them because we need to socialize too but don't take their shit seriously.

The most important thing is consistency, niche sites are a long term projects that may take months to give you results, so don't give up on it, there are several journey threads here that will give you motivation, read them.

I hope you finish your military service and have a success in this journey.

Keep us updated

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Man, I've already losted a precious time smoking weed and as a ex addicted I advise you to stop as soon as possible and start to deal with your frustations and problems as real man. Thinking ways to solve then, reflecting about the cause, or just putting your mind in something useful as a sport, a book, a hobby or even on a brand new marketing venture. Don't just take a hit on a joint and try to forget everything that bothers you. You will pay a high price for that choice.

About deal with negative people, I believe we all need to know how to deal with then since it's impossible to take then off of our life 100%. However there is plenty of incredible people in the world that worth our time and we need to make friends with this kind people and help then as much as possible because they are alone the same way we are. Surround yourself with this kind of people and your life will improve a lot, btw that's exactly what I'm currently doing and I'm having good results.
Unity is power my friend.

Also, thanks for your words.

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WHAT I DID TODAY

I think I've developed a nice process to research my keywords without having to actually pay for ahrefs, and I believe i'm finding some gems now. Somehting like 170 searches per month with 0,02 KGR. Some keywords don't even have 5 results with allintitle and the competitors almost have no links.



For now I'm currently writing my first article, however I realized that I will need to do a little more research about the subject so I can write something useful for the reader, so I've just wrote the Intro part. Tomorrow I will study a little more about it and continue to write.

Also, I will explain how this keyword research process works in a detailed way. It's nothing new but I believe it can help absolute newbies. Just let me have some free time to do it.

Best wishes for you, OP

I am also one who's inspired by @Billy Batts posts. It's never easy to be in a situation where you don't know what to do, leading to less favourable behavioral choices and resulting in a downward spiral.

I am glad that you are taking it day by day.

Please keep this attitude, and when the going gets tough, remind yourself where you started and that you are a work in progress. The last but not the least, you are worth it, just like everybody else. Keep shining your light, hold on to your purpose and continue being an inspiration to others.

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Best wishes for you, OP

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Thanks.

rajlorfel said:

I am also one who's inspired by @Billy Batts posts. It's never easy to be in a situation where you don't know what to do, leading to less favourable behavioral choices and resulting in a downward spiral.

I am glad that you are taking it day by day.

Please keep this attitude, and when the going gets tough, remind yourself where you started and that you are a work in progress. The last but not the least, you are worth it, just like everybody else. Keep shining your light, hold on to your purpose and continue being an inspiration to others.

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Thanks bro, for now it's been way more easy then it was in the first week, I'm not feeling depressed or anxious anymore.
I just believe I'm more lazy then I was before the addiction, maybe I've developed the habit to deal with work as something hard that needs to be done instead of something that will get me closer to my end goal day by day.
Which is a loser mindset that will set me up for failure in the long run. But I'm dealing with it and I will do my best to change that.

Good luck on your journey. I've been on this for about 5 months now... I'm sure you will find this interesting... It can also be boring sometimes too though -
Anyway, I'm going to warn you to not be vary dependent on KGRs, use moz to analyze the results on the first page before going with the keywords.

UPDATE 22/12/2019

Hello guys, today is update day so first I would like explain what I did and also explain the methods I use so maybe it can help someone on same path as mine, so let's start.

KEYWORD RESEARCH

After reading several different keyword research methods I have created a process that it seems to be quite reasonable, I cannot tell you if it is really effective since it's too early to say that. So let me explain:

1. Go to ubersuggest.

2. Search for broad keywords related with your niche, they must have thousands of searches per month and no more than 3 words (something like "best cars for" or "tires for" or "the best oil" or things like that). Our goal is to generate all sorts of suggestions, don't be specific here.

3. Now click on "suggestions" and export the results in CSV spreadsheet, then click on "Related" and do the same thing.

4. Put both results in one single spreadsheet and look for terms with 70-210 searches per month

5. Now it's the boring part, you will need to check one by one. Search in google "allintitle:*your keyword*", divide the number of allintitle results per searches per month this keyword have and if you get at least 0,25 we can keep going.

6. After you found a kw with at least 0,25 KGR, you need to check if your competitors in SERP are not too much strong. You need to find at least 2-3 sites in top 10 that have no links(or some few weak links) and their content are not much relevant with the keyword (something like a kw for "guided meditation for autist kids" when the most of websites just talk about "guided meditation")

7. Create another spreadsheet and put these keywords there.

Like I said, it's nothing new. Just hard and boring work that I'm hoping it works.

CONTENT CREATION

guys, yesterday I had an idea that can change the whole situations however it can maybe be risky in the long run. I was thinking of translating English content from some ebooks into my native language and using that content on my site.

I searched my translated content on google and found no results, and also searched on some sites that check plagiarism and everything is ok.

My question is: It's google smart enough to detect that this content has been translated from an ebook?

(The content from the ebook in english can be found when seached in google, however I also have some ebooks that are not indexed and need to use an OCR tool to edit the content, which can be a safer option if necessary)

And another question, if everything is ok and it's safe to do that, I can start posting a lot everyday with no problems?
Something like 5 posts with 1500 words per day everyday or more, it is safe to do that? A lot of people are telling me that it's okay but I'm suspicious because it's looking to much easy

itsmytime said:

Good luck on your journey. I've been on this for about 5 months now... I'm sure you will find this interesting... It can also be boring sometimes too though
Anyway, I'm going to warn you to not be vary dependent on KGRs, use moz to analyze the results on the first page before going with the keywords.

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Yeah it's really boring man, everything looks boring specially all the people that work with me. Looks like a videogame where they all are a NPC always talking the same blablabla and always reacting the same way and thinking the same way as well

But I'm knowing some new people that are more interesting than that and its been ok now. Sometimes you think that is a withdraw symptom but in fact you are just tired of idiot people telling BS every day in your ears lol

Anyway, I'm not sure if Moz metrics is really trustworthy anymore. I'm using SEMRUSH and Ubersuggest and they are being good enough for now. However I also use MozBar sometimes.