Contacting Dealers To Deliver Instead of Sending All Traffic To Amazon

Nice to know, kind of makes sense then for me to send them straight away to Amazon instead of trying to keep them on my site any longer then needed. Also good to reduce bounce rate

I love SEO though, afterall it's my profession, but not just cause of that, it's so damn easy, you rank a site and it makes money without having to do anything more with it, can't imagine something more passive then that.

Look at me, I had 20 sites tank during Penguin 3.0, I made a few adjustments and most recovered, but that's not the point, even when they were tanked they still brought in a $500/month purely passive income and I didn't see that disappearing any time soon. Yes $500 is peanuts for the both of us but it's still money that keeps on flowing for zero efforts, (after 10 years that is $60.000,-, can buy a nice condo for that in Thailand), and my investments were already recouped.

Now they make $2000/month combined and once again, I don't have to do anything about them (unless I want them to generate more income of course).


I agree with that, SEO can be quite turbulent, especially for newbie's that don't know what they are doing and even for more experienced guys like me, but I learn a lot from it and I like that learning curve. Google is my greatest teacher and literally forces me to improve, that's a great stick behind the door to stay motivated

Some day I do expect to be compliant with what Google wants, till then we keep on fooling them with more advanced methods. That last Penguin 3.0 update was a real joke, though thank god that they launched a refresh only a month after.

All I did was using excerpts on my private blog network categories and homepages and that was all that was needed to recover. Links next to other irrelevant links are the pure evil now, glad we got that figured out

Your alternative sounds much harder though and it requires a lot of attention, for a start you need great content and that's very hard to get at affordable rates (I got scammed almost 3 times while trying) and that's not even the best content probably.

Secondly, where to get traffic? Yes I learned you advertise in newsletters and you have your group of people now, I bet that took a long time to build up and a lot of advertising money, paid advertising rarely works out well the first time, requires a lot of split testing.

Then you need to keep in touch with your list, as soon as you quit or seek shortcuts they lose faith in you and you lose them. Not easy to come up with creative topics each time to entertain your list, you need certain skills for that that many don't posses.

So it requires quite a bit of learning money to get started and to get it all right and no guarantee for success.

Pretty similar to SEO really if you want to do it decently '

So let's agree that making money online isn't as easy as most make it sound.

Once you master it all you can make huge amounts of money, whether it's with SEO or with building lists.

I know you will say something like you can make money from a list forever but it also requires effort forever, while I can lay back in between the updates and do nothing if I really want to, that's the huge benefit of SEO and most newbies are in it for the passive dream, SEO can provide that while that's much harder to accomplish with your methods. So each has it's own unique benefits. I like the passive dream too much