Why do you think I am not getting results even though I'm working my ass off for it ?

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I don't want to make it a long post whining about how I can't succeed.
I'm a 17 y/o kid from India trying to make money from the past 2-3 years.
Been into blogging and SEO form the past 1.5 years and haven't even made my first $100 !

I know things take time and stuff but I've literally done everything, tried out everything.
  1. Started a micro niche, tried to rank with free links. Got so little results and then stuck.
  2. Started with an expired domain with decent stats, build high DA links by outreach, STILL STRUGGLING to get even 10 views/day
  3. Started another micro niche, having 200 views/daily but can't earn more than 0.1 USD/day. Can't scale and so broke that don't have budget for link building.
  4. Tried hosting offers with FB Ads, terribly failed.
  5. Started a tech blog, failed.
  6. Working on expired domain and targeting affiliate keywords with KGR Technique but still Google isn't indexing that content but ranks other low comp shit.
  7. Tried freelancing, earned $20. Nothing more.
I've done these things over a course of 2 years and trust me I've worked my ass off. Content I write is always good and most of the times better than the competitors. I STILL HAVE NO SUCCESS.

What I really want is to support my family and earn a decent amount to travel a few times a year. I'm studying and blogging 24*7 but GOD KNOWS why I can't succeed.

I've spent hours and hours watching courses and browsing this forum looking for stuff to implement and try out but nothing works. If anyone knows what can be done in this situation, HELP ME OUT PLEASE !
 
op if you haven't earn anything from past 2 years better look for something else.
IM and Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.
it's ok trust me me you do better in other things.
just be persistent just do self audit of yourself.
I'm sured you better coder,cook or anything which you interested.
 
Looks like you're right on track where you need to be bud. Do you think people haven't failed 100+ times before they found success? Nonsense. The fact that you can see improvement in your websites should be proof enough that you are making progress with each failure.
 
There will be two types of people replying to this thread.

Person 1: It isn’t for you. You have tried too many times and kept failing.

Person 2: Keep going. Every failure will bring you closer to meeting your goal.

Listen to person 2.

I failed 50+ times. Had one success, then it got wiped out in 1 day. So now I’m also back where I started.

Ignore person 1.

Listen to person 2.
 
I think you can make it.
Did you research your niche before starting with your projects?
Aim for niches that you like, and is little less competitive.
Did you also focus on posting high quality content along with getting links and expired domains?
Are you sure you didn't do anything wrong? Like were those expired domains not penalized by google?
If you did all this right and still didn't get any results, I would suggest you keep working and keep improving your strategies. I understand that having low budget can also be one of the reasons you are not getting success.
Alongside, you should also keep working on your formal education so that in case you can't make it in IM, there's still something for you.
 
I don't want to make it a long post whining about how I can't succeed.
I'm a 17 y/o kid from India trying to make money from the past 2-3 years.
Been into blogging and SEO form the past 1.5 years and haven't even made my first $100 !

I know things take time and stuff but I've literally done everything, tried out everything.
  1. Started a micro niche, tried to rank with free links. Got so little results and then stuck.
  2. Started with an expired domain with decent stats, build high DA links by outreach, STILL STRUGGLING to get even 10 views/day
  3. Started another micro niche, having 200 views/daily but can't earn more than 0.1 USD/day. Can't scale and so broke that don't have budget for link building.
  4. Tried hosting offers with FB Ads, terribly failed.
  5. Started a tech blog, failed.
  6. Working on expired domain and targeting affiliate keywords with KGR Technique but still Google isn't indexing that content but ranks other low comp shit.
  7. Tried freelancing, earned $20. Nothing more.
I've done these things over a course of 2 years and trust me I've worked my ass off. Content I write is always good and most of the times better than the competitors. I STILL HAVE NO SUCCESS.

What I really want is to support my family and earn a decent amount to travel a few times a year. I'm studying and blogging 24*7 but GOD KNOWS why I can't succeed.

I've spent hours and hours watching courses and browsing this forum looking for stuff to implement and try out but nothing works. If anyone knows what can be done in this situation, HELP ME OUT PLEASE !

Just work harder until you get success so you can pay for the illness you get from working hard.
 
If you blog consistently ...please tell me you blogging is based on keywords you have found or want to rank for ? I mean I could write 1000 articles on hair products but it would still be hard to rank them...

Also you might be ranking keywords and micro niche.... But what part.of the customer journey is that keyword? There is more than just blogging and putting an affiliate link on it... You need to have a plan , a strategy and then go blogging.... Sharing... Etc....

You know like when you blog... Is the site on page SEO done... Do you share it on the right times on social media.. do you cross post on different platforms like do you then turn it into a podcast or video and share again....

I am not arguing one bit you are not working hard I believe you 100%... How do you track blog ranking and visits ... How do you measure for yourself if a blog is successful or not.... ....

My opinion .... Most of IM is planning and designing a strategy, a roadmap and consistently.

Take me for example I was messing around like 3 months with one of my earlier sites just to find out I was really shit at finding the right keywords... It just didn't rank properly ..... Now I've learned everything starts and ends with keyword research... So whatever project and site......first keyword research....
 
Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you don’t try again.

The first thing you should have is a solid plan. Throwing a couple links at a site won’t make it rank, you have to understand the basics before you start.

Learn the niche, do good keyword research and when needed find some quality links that can help rank the keyword you want to rank for.
 
op if you haven't earn anything from past 2 years better look for something else.
IM and Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.
it's ok trust me me you do better in other things.
just be persistent just do self audit of yourself.
I'm sured you better coder,cook or anything which you interested.
turns out I really like doing this. I actually love doing this.
The feeling when google ranks you number 1 even just for a super low competitive keyword kicks in a hell lot of dopamine.
If this wasn't my interest I wouldn't have went on for 2 years straight.
Abh aakhri mein bhagwaan hi jaane kya hoga !
 
I think you can make it.
Did you research your niche before starting with your projects?
Aim for niches that you like, and is little less competitive.
Did you also focus on posting high quality content along with getting links and expired domains?
Are you sure you didn't do anything wrong? Like were those expired domains not penalized by google?
If you did all this right and still didn't get any results, I would suggest you keep working and keep improving your strategies. I understand that having low budget can also be one of the reasons you are not getting success.
Alongside, you should also keep working on your formal education so that in case you can't make it in IM, there's still something for you.
The expired domain I'm working on rn is really not connected to affiliate stuff but I'm still trying to rank for affiliate articles and the KWs are searched by KGR method. I'm getting ranked on the old content of the blog too. But that's way too low volume.

I'm broke to get high quality links rn as it takes up a lot of money and assuming you're from India, you might know how big a deal even $100 can be for us.
The content is really good but idk what goes wrong
 
Just my 2 cents but it sounds like you may want to focus on one thing, lazer focus down to one site to get something going. Maybe throw in affiliate offers too with related keyword traffic in the bottom of the page etc. It took my site about a year to finally get a bit stronger.
 
If you blog consistently ...please tell me you blogging is based on keywords you have found or want to rank for ? I mean I could write 1000 articles on hair products but it would still be hard to rank them...

Also you might be ranking keywords and micro niche.... But what part.of the customer journey is that keyword? There is more than just blogging and putting an affiliate link on it... You need to have a plan , a strategy and then go blogging.... Sharing... Etc....

You know like when you blog... Is the site on page SEO done... Do you share it on the right times on social media.. do you cross post on different platforms like do you then turn it into a podcast or video and share again....

I am not arguing one bit you are not working hard I believe you 100%... How do you track blog ranking and visits ... How do you measure for yourself if a blog is successful or not.... ....

My opinion .... Most of IM is planning and designing a strategy, a roadmap and consistently.

Take me for example I was messing around like 3 months with one of my earlier sites just to find out I was really shit at finding the right keywords... It just didn't rank properly ..... Now I've learned everything starts and ends with keyword research... So whatever project and site......first keyword research....
I guess I lack planning. I randomly find very low competitive keywords and write posts most of the times. For some blogs I had made a KW research plan, i usually rank for a few KWs then and get stuck at 3-4k views/mo
 
I guess I lack planning. I randomly find very low competitive keywords and write posts most of the times. For some blogs I had made a KW research plan, i usually rank for a few KWs then and get stuck at 3-4k views/mo


It is very sad to hear man that you focus that much energy and motivation but the base is not solid. Whatever you produce must be produced based on KW research. Assuming you write 3 blog a week, 2 years that would at least make 300 articles. if the KW research was done on these articles you would have got on the low end 30 clicks a month per article on the higher end maybe 200. potentially it would have yielded in between 9000 - 60000 visitors per month,....

BUT this also depends on what kind of keywords you target......so even if you get 90k visitors... if they are just looking a bit around or not really just buyers yet.... that could also mean you are not making any money..... so let's say you target " what is the best drone for children onder 5" , you might get 200 clicks per month, but those customers are still in the research mode. you could put affiliate links of drones and hope they will purchase a drone from that site within that cookie time and hopefully you were the first site he checked that had that affiliate link to amazon for example haha.

it's a though business and people are working around the clock to either beat google in the ranking game, or copy other IM, create their own twist and never tell a sole .... but keep at it.... it takes time and you might be feeling down because of not earned shit but you have learned loads..... You learned how not to do certain things but also how you have to do certain things.... that is priceless trust me it becomes handy in the weirdest scenario's in life....
 
If you don’t have a job, get a job.
Use the money to fund your SEO efforts
 
I don't want to make it a long post whining about how I can't succeed.
I'm a 17 y/o kid from India trying to make money from the past 2-3 years.
Been into blogging and SEO form the past 1.5 years and haven't even made my first $100 !

I know things take time and stuff but I've literally done everything, tried out everything.
  1. Started a micro niche, tried to rank with free links. Got so little results and then stuck.
  2. Started with an expired domain with decent stats, build high DA links by outreach, STILL STRUGGLING to get even 10 views/day
  3. Started another micro niche, having 200 views/daily but can't earn more than 0.1 USD/day. Can't scale and so broke that don't have budget for link building.
  4. Tried hosting offers with FB Ads, terribly failed.
  5. Started a tech blog, failed.
  6. Working on expired domain and targeting affiliate keywords with KGR Technique but still Google isn't indexing that content but ranks other low comp shit.
  7. Tried freelancing, earned $20. Nothing more.
I've done these things over a course of 2 years and trust me I've worked my ass off. Content I write is always good and most of the times better than the competitors. I STILL HAVE NO SUCCESS.

What I really want is to support my family and earn a decent amount to travel a few times a year. I'm studying and blogging 24*7 but GOD KNOWS why I can't succeed.

I've spent hours and hours watching courses and browsing this forum looking for stuff to implement and try out but nothing works. If anyone knows what can be done in this situation, HELP ME OUT PLEASE !

DISCLAIMER: I am not attacking you. I am trying to shine a light on why you've failed and give you a reality check so you can get better results in the future.

Because you probably spend very very little time actually working.

It sounds like you spend most of your time dreaming, reading and watching courses, then every so often you dabble in something, give up, and go back to dreaming, reading and courses until the next thing.

It's not possible to work for 2-3 years and not even make $100. It is just NOT possible.

If you were to pick just one thing, and write out your tasks every day, wake up and do those tasks for 8 hours a day, for 3 years you would be an expert in that field.

If you picked just fiverr and stuck at that for 3 years, there is no way you wouldn't make money. If you spent a week researching what sells, then another week planning what you could do there, then constantly improving your sales page, reading about free traffic methods, building a blog to support your fiverr page, building up your email list with hfree traffic methods from facebook. Just being an annoying spammer messaging people on fb. It works. Learning about retargetting. Creating some youtube videos. Building EVERYTHING around your fiverr service, and eventually scaling that out to your own site, your own traffic.

There's just NO WAY.

What I believe you did was create some crappy fiverr sales page, get no results, then moved onto the next thing.

Your tech blog. How many words of content was on the site? 3 million? If you wrote for 3 years in a subject you know about, you'd have traffic. At least $1k/mo if you really fucked up.

So answer these..

How many words did the tech blog have.

How long did you try fiverr and what did you try.

When you tried to be a freelancer how long did you try? How did you advertise. What did you do.

Your expired domain on point 6. What did you target, how many words did you write. Show me your page.

Point 4. Forget that unless you've got money :)

Point 1, your micro niche. How many micro niche sites did you build? How many words each? Did you build 30 of them? Because if you sat building endless micro niche blogs and learning about seo, link building, on-page optimization, trying new things etc, then you would have learned a TON. I used to be clueless about SEO. I started a site. Failed. Learned. Read more. Created another site, had some minor successes, created another 5 sites, had a couple of them succeed. I tested endlessly. I analysed 100's of sites to understand why they rank. I ran more tests. If I had ran one site, read a few threads and given up with it didn't get any views, I would still be poor.

So..

Go into some deep detail here.

What did you do? Share and I'll tell you where you went wrong and why.
 
I don't want to make it a long post whining about how I can't succeed.
I'm a 17 y/o kid from India trying to make money from the past 2-3 years.
Been into blogging and SEO form the past 1.5 years and haven't even made my first $100 !

I know things take time and stuff but I've literally done everything, tried out everything.
  1. Started a micro niche, tried to rank with free links. Got so little results and then stuck.
  2. Started with an expired domain with decent stats, build high DA links by outreach, STILL STRUGGLING to get even 10 views/day
  3. Started another micro niche, having 200 views/daily but can't earn more than 0.1 USD/day. Can't scale and so broke that don't have budget for link building.
  4. Tried hosting offers with FB Ads, terribly failed.
  5. Started a tech blog, failed.
  6. Working on expired domain and targeting affiliate keywords with KGR Technique but still Google isn't indexing that content but ranks other low comp shit.
  7. Tried freelancing, earned $20. Nothing more.
I've done these things over a course of 2 years and trust me I've worked my ass off. Content I write is always good and most of the times better than the competitors. I STILL HAVE NO SUCCESS.

What I really want is to support my family and earn a decent amount to travel a few times a year. I'm studying and blogging 24*7 but GOD KNOWS why I can't succeed.

I've spent hours and hours watching courses and browsing this forum looking for stuff to implement and try out but nothing works. If anyone knows what can be done in this situation, HELP ME OUT PLEASE !

If you had a good expired domain with decent stats, and your content is good, your onpage SEO is good, your off page SEO is good and your keyword research is good. You will get more than 10 views a day, a lot more.

That means your not good in one of those areas? That means you expected too much without learning enough, and moved onto another projected, and repeated the same mistake over and over again.

From my quick analysis, you build basic knowledge and don't become rich, so you build basic knowledge in another area, don't get rich, try another area and the cycle continues.

You lack determination to pursue and area of knowledge until you become an expert. And if you are not an expert, how you going to compete with the experts? IM is a collection of games, and you keep playing other games before you master the first game.

Stop. Think. Grow.
 
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