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Made $2000 last month! Sucks

by dctmp
22 replies
I have been trying to make money online for about 20 months now and have been pretty bad at it until the last 6 or 8 weeks. The problem is the thing I was finally successful at is kind of black/grayhat. I do not want to build a business on that stuff, I just got frustrated and tried it hoping to get something to work, and unfortunately it did.

sorry Just wanted to vent a little, frustrated. It's tough to walk away from that kind of money but I think I am going to. I will just keep working at things that are legit and hope I breakthrough the wall sooner or later. Thanks for reading and good luck to everyone.
#made #month #sucks
  • Profile picture of the author blue_Tiger
    20 month? and ending with blackhat?
    why not just follow an easy way? buy a $10 wso and apply the method and you will succeed making money without having to be involved with those underground blackhats.
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    • Profile picture of the author dctmp
      If it was only that easy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kenster
    I dont know what you are doing, but try and think of a whitehat way to apply what you are doing. If its totally deceptive then you may be out of luck, but there are blackhat methods out there that can profitably be converted to whitehat!

    Hope there is...would be great to be going down the right track from here forward
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    • Profile picture of the author dctmp
      It's nothing horrible I guess. I started a movie site monetized with CPAlead. I know there are thousands of people doing it and making good money with it. I was thinking about just selling it and moving on.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan B Rusu
    Whats blackhat about a movie site?
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  • Profile picture of the author hhguy10
    What's your website
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    The more you focus on what you want, the more you'll get what you want.

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  • Profile picture of the author gotdmw
    can somebody tell me what bluefart is? never heard this b4
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    • Profile picture of the author Hyaku_Man
      Originally Posted by gotdmw View Post

      can somebody tell me what bluefart is? never heard this b4
      It's the opposite of whitehat. The forum is discouraging discussion of it by censoring the word (the word b....h... is automatically replaced by bluefart).
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    is there anything of what you are doing that can be ported out to whitehat methods?
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  • Profile picture of the author blueeye
    You spent lots of time in earning low amount of money, then howz it greyhat
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  • Profile picture of the author TJComer02
    Doing things the honest, legal way pays off. It doesn't matter if you're making millions if you're scamming people (Not saying you are of course), so remember it's better to make 2 grand a month doing the right thing than making twice that amount doing things that aren't so good. Look at it this way, you can make two grand, now double that, then when you get to four grand, double that, just keep doing it, rinse and repeat.
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  • Profile picture of the author Curt7
    I've been in the same situation. Use black hat/gray hat methods for money now, while you build long term white hat income.
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  • Profile picture of the author MrCruzin
    Use what you are doing now to build a more solid foundation. Nothing wrong with what you do. Just reinvest into more long term things. Sustainable sites that will bring in income down the road.
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    • Profile picture of the author loybond
      dctmp, maybe I'm asking too much, but could you tell us (or PM me) how you were able to promote/drive traffic to that site? I've considered them in the past, but the amount of time to get it to the point of receiving traffic always turned me off. How long did it take you?
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  • Profile picture of the author Augie Johnston
    to clear something up here....

    The reason he feels this way about his movie site is that those movies he embeds on his site are copywritten. You have to get an offshore hosting account becuase its agianst hotgator and thems tos. Although I dont think its really illegal to have a video embeded on your site but it is if you host the actual file.

    Either way you always have to monitor your videos because many are being taken down each day due to copywright infringment.
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  • Profile picture of the author bioshift
    Has anyone ever tried bluehat??? Just a thought!
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    • Profile picture of the author Kenster
      Originally Posted by bioshift View Post

      Has anyone ever tried bluehat??? Just a thought!

      Greenhat is where the real money is!
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  • Profile picture of the author badboy_Nick
    Originally Posted by dctmp View Post

    I have been trying to make money online for about 20 months now and have been pretty bad at it until the last 6 or 8 weeks. The problem is the thing I was finally successful at is kind of black/grayhat. I do not want to build a business on that stuff, I just got frustrated and tried it hoping to get something to work, and unfortunately it did.

    sorry Just wanted to vent a little, frustrated. It's tough to walk away from that kind of money but I think I am going to. I will just keep working at things that are legit and hope I breakthrough the wall sooner or later. Thanks for reading and good luck to everyone.
    Try doing Lead-Generation with PPC. Works great and is 100% white hat.

    Hope to have helped,
    Nick
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  • Profile picture of the author kenbuch
    Whitehat is my best bet.
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