I Need Money Now

Today it really hit me. What can I do if I need money now, and more importantly what could I have done differently to avoid this situation. I started to think about all the wasted websites that I had built and all the work that I had been doing just plain wrong. I was spending my money on outsourced content on websites that I never used that much, and even if I got traffic there it did not convert, and I never bothered with the niche again. I have been using way too much money in trying to make it and it has left me with a dumb feeling.

I should have remembered the very first words that really hit me when I started reading Griz’s blog and that was that he actually promised to teach people how to earn cash without spending any. Although I remember him saying that at some point you are going to need to use some of that hard earned money to be able to actually multiply your income over and over again. If you are ranking just on the second page and your website is making $500 a month, would it be reasonable to pay $500 to be able to get it on the first page? In my opinion it would, but this post is not going to be about that. I am going to talk about the sh*t that hit me today.

What I understood was that I am still making pennies. – well okay hundreds-  a month, but given the time I have been around doing this, I could be making more. Much more. I know that everyone is telling that actually making money online is a journey and it will take some people years and some people months to learn. And when you learn what you need to do to actually see that cash, it will take months ’till you actually start seeing it. This is though on your patience and I am not one of those patient guys so here it goes: this is my story.

I relised at one point that my current level of income was just not going to give me what I needed. I was working a very low paying job and I was not able to live the life that I wanted, and I was in debt also. That day I started to look for ways to make money on the internet and that is the day that I found out about the so called Gurus. Thank gosh I understood that because I need money I can’t afford to enroll in to some scheme to get rich quick. Something that I then -and maybe partially later – realised was that those “leaders” were not going to show me any way to start earning money from the scratch. Most of the programs like How To Make Money While You Sleep and other programs that cost a lot of money, are guaranteed to work. They work if you already have a working business which you want to take to the next level – just like most of the bloggers want to do with their blog, and just like the people buying in to these programs, they forget that they need an already working format to be able to push it to the higher class.

This does not mean getting a new theme for your blog, or trying to come up with a business idea that you will use your newly learnt skills on. The professional marketers actually use people so they begin to think that “they can do it too”, even if they don’t have what it takes. Reading the comments on the most frequent post on MMOFB you can really get a grasp of what I am talking here – except I don’t think that they purpose of the post which quite frankly, adviced people to produce quality content so that Mr. Bear could actually give traffic to, was intended to get people making MMO blogs in the hope of actually being in the first page of the search engines for any MMO search terms. There was in my opinion a misunderstanding when it comes to the people who were actually trying to put people down from trying to build a personal blog about their journey – IMO you should keep that stuff to yourself – if someone want’s to build a blog like that then let them, they are going to learn something just like I have, and this post is about that.

The one thing that I think is the reason people are so against the hyped internet marketers that are selling their method to get the cash you want is that that they don’t clearly state their customers. Their target group is more likely going to be someone who is already having an offline business and wants to take it to the internet. These people are not known with online marketing, but more likely they are comfortable doing it in the real world, and that is where they need some good advice on how to transfer and develop their skills to match the www. The problem is that they programs that they promote are promoted to everyone, and the most desperate people are the most desperate to join – and the people behind the programs don’t really mind since they are not looking for customer satisfaction but money in their pockets. The first thing that should alarm you is the prices of these systems. If you are in a desperate need for extra cash then you should not afford to pay a few hundred ( thousand ) dollars to get in on it – that would make it impossible for them to make any sales. If you already have a small business that pays off, then investing $3997 to make it even more successfull is not going to be a big amount of cash.

What is the actual thing that I learnt about getting “free” money from the internet? Well actually I really understood the potential of an authority site, and even a very strong general website or a blog. If I would have spent all my time so far trying to build a few high quality blogs, for which I would have done everything (yes, everything) possible to get a huge amount of high quality backlinks, and a huge quality of low quality links I would most likely have myself a similar amount of pretty strong blogs. This means that I would have nearly authority sites (well not nearly, but maybe in the future) that could be used to provide some juice for my other sites. These sites that I should have created should have been far from snipered niche sites that are using adsense, but instead as general as possible – even possibly those WTF uncategorized blogs where I would jabber about everything. While at the same time actually targeting specific niches with each post and getting correct backlinks for them, getting indexed for various keywords but not minding about the ranking.

Instead of that I have been buying domains without really understanding anything about keywords that could produce anything, and without being capable – or actually really getting – the proper links for them. It is actually about a mindset and before you really understand the fact that the majority of your time has to be spent somewhere else than on your so called “money” sites, you are doing it wrong. I always thought that I really understood that you have to spend every living monent on building other websites than the ones that you actually intend to use for monetization but I for some reason never did that much to do it. I always ended up doing more and more keyword research and spending time reading how to do this and that, instead of fuckign doing it. Once you understand that you can actually get something done if you just do it, and it won’t be done without you doing it, you are going to earn some cash – well that is how I see it.

So what am I going to do about it? Well like I said I would have a way better start if I would have just bought some aged domains and get a separate hosting account for each domain, with a different IP and created one post for each of the sites that I had, each day. Well.. That would mean that I would have a few sites with a huge amount of content on a large variety of themes. At the same time I would have spent the rest of my time commenting on do-follow blogs and doing everything I could to obtain as much backlinks. Even try to socialize and get some natural links for me, even blogroll will do, as long as there are a lot of them. So I am going to start it now, not actually like that but in a different manner. I just bought 6 domains that are all 6 to 9 years old and have 10 to 150 pages indexed by google – don’t get me wrong I did not spend that much on them since I am not getting any content, just the website addresses. The thing with these is that they already have the trust of the search engines, so I can start more swiftly on them, and I can even outsource ( dumb me ) a lot of the content and get it pumped on the sites quite fast. Then links and voilá in six months or so I will have six websites that are going to provide me with some juice and the pulp. I did also get separate hosting accounts for each – cheap ass ones buck fifty or so for a month each – and I am getting them set up in a few days just to get started. Although I am not rushing it with these – the goal is just to build those to the eternity and eventually have nice sites that can pass on the fruit.

This is the message behind the “build those authority sites”. You can build them as long as you do something else. Don’t get me wrong I am not going to spend that much time on those sites, just write frequent quick posts on them and use some quite popular services on them. I am not going to monetize these sites but just build them for the days to come, you will never know what happens and I feel that by having a few of these I can have an advantage in the future and not end up filling online surveys or try to invest in order to make some money. There area no real ways to make money today unless you are willing to start make money writing for companies like textbrokers, and even then I think that you are going to have to wait to get the paycheck. If you wan’t to find out some legimate ways to make money then you are not far away from. Creating high quality small websites for which you have some huge factories backing them up can be a real way to actually get traffic and eventually make the sales. Well at least I believe in it and that is one of the things that I am going to do to make money in the years to come.

I am not looking for some fast way to pay the bills; that is why I have my day job at the moment. I am looking for a way to get an income that is beyond my offline income, and able to give me the lifestyle that I want – travel more and work less. If that requires eight hours a day of work then that is something that I am going to have to put in. Although it is not possible yet, and I am going to have to to wait until I actually make enough to get rid of current source of income – I am really fed up with it – and besides just the fact that I need money I also need a vacation.