IM Newbie Hits Page One on Google - Secrets Revealed!

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Hee, hee! How's that for a title?

Seriously though, I'm feeling pretty good, and I do want to share with other newbs a little motivation.

I spent a year blogging with no idea what internet marketing was but I was dead set on learning how to make a living online. I'd been burned with offline 'get rich' schemes, but after a year and only making $15 with Adsense I got desperate. I signed up for Project Payday - yuck!

While investigating one of their ripoffs, I stumbled across Brian Johnson's Commission Ritual. I immediately recognized it as being sincere and entirely doable.

This is the important part for newbies!

As I went through the material I took the actions he outlined. I didn't read through it first, dawdle, and procrastinate. I took action!

That site I built hit page one in a week! (Yeah!)

3 months later it has had 124 visitors (at least 20 of those are me) and I honestly don't know what people are looking for when they go to the site = no money. (Boo!)

A week after it hit page one I realized I had made a mistake in my keyword research and that site was never going to produce any income. I was pretty bummed out, but a couple days later I started on my next site.

I've made a bunch of mistakes on that site also, I changed the content too often and Google sandboxed it for over a month. I did get traffic from articles and social bookmarking and made about $50 in two months.

Two weeks ago I noticed it was on the front page of Bing and Yahoo; and yesterday it showed up #7 on Google. Hallelujah!

I'm pretty happy, and very motivated now.

I really want to get the point across to anyone who hasn't built their first site, or published their first article, or taken any action in IM, to do it! Don't worry about doing it right, just do it.

I have learned so much, and been inspired in ways that reading forum posts or other IM materials could never have done for me. All because I took action, made a bunch of mistakes, and didn't give up.

This sh*t is hard, don't let any B.S. sales copy fool you; prepare for pain, confusion, and frustration. You will fail.

But, it makes the successes so much sweeter when you persist through it. I figure I'll probably make $100 this month which seems like nothing, but to me it will be a HUGE success.

I love internet marketing! (Still, I wish I was making more money - back to work!)
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  • Profile picture of the author Albert Pasillas
    I wouldnt squawk at $100 a month!! LOL! Yeah, it seems that the most important part is simply taking action and putting yourself out there. I am a little new to this forum, but I have been marketing for quite a while. I remember the days of trial and ERROR. Problem was, I had too many errors, and not enough trials.

    Great job taking action.....look forward to hearing more success stories from you.

    Albert
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  • Profile picture of the author foxanthony
    Thanks.

    This forum is the best. I've gotten help on all my mistakes here and owe a lot to the Warriors. (Maybe, I could have mentioned that in my post)
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    • Profile picture of the author faceitfacts
      Agreed fully, it isn't easy. Anyone who says it is, is full of it. It gets easier, that's the truth.

      But you have to fully invest your time. When I started I had to fight myself daily because i had the urge to go play a videogame or watch a movie, but told myself to shut up and keep at it.

      I made loads of mistakes too, but I'm glad I did because I learned from them and did things better the next time. Now I have something that's starting to generate $500 bi-weekly or so and hopefully with more work it will increase.

      But work is the key factor, it's never easy and very time consuming. But when you start making sales, it's totally worth it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Simon74
    Congrat for getting to page one of google, now all you have to do it to multiply.

    All the best,
    Simon
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