Help Needed Thinking of Giving Up

Sounds like you are not doing nearly enough, but I don't know if there is more to your list of what you have done.

You are not doing enough. When you first start out IM takes quite a bit of work. You need to focus, write out a doable plan and then actually do it. But that plan needs to consist of a complete system.

You can find plenty of doable systems right here in the forum.

Eeeek - 7 years! I know that's got to be frustrating but the fact that you've put up 3 sites in the past couple of months is a good sign - certainly "taking action".

If you're not getting traffic it'll boil down to keywords, content, and/or ranking. You don't have to give away your niche or your site if you don't want - although it's easier to help someone understand what's wrong by seeing the site in question. Instead, you could describe your method for choosing keywords and developing content as a start. Someone might find something in your description of your process that could highlight any problems.

Choose ONE business model and discard the rest (at least for the time being).
Focus on that particular business model and promise to yourself that you will not buy any more money making products before you find success with your mission.

Choose ONE niche to market
Choose ONE product to promote
Choose One way to generate traffic

at least for 3-6 months before deciding to stay or go to the next business model.

Stay focus to your project and do not give up hope. Good luck!


Qamar

gosh, ok, so you say you've been trying to succeed in this field for over 7 years; i can't really say what you're doing wrong since you only told us about your adsense attempt of making money. what else have you been trying in the meantime? i don't think you made actual mistakes, you probably gave up one idea and started another...that's no way for doing this; you need to concentrate on a single game

You're stuck in the gimmick treadmill.

Ask yourself: what do you have to offer
that has any value? Something that other
people want.

Do that and just that - no multiple blogs/sites.
If you can't make it work, quit.

Christine, please don't take this the wrong way. You can't give up something you really haven't started. Seven years, and you have one site that got you banned from Adsense and three blogs? There's nothing here to give up.

When you say "wordpress blogs", are you talking about blogs you host on your own account, with domain names you own, or are you talking about free wordpress.com blogs?

You don't have to answer this publicly if you'd rather not, but generally speaking, what kind of "non-IM" niches are you targeting?

Some niches are way too competitive to take on straight up unless you can hang with the big dogs. Markets like weight loss, insurance, credit, etc. require that you play around the edges and work your way up.

Some niches just don't spend money online. You could have the persuasive powers of Harold Hill, and still end up on the next train out of River City with empty pockets.

On the other hand, if you pick the right niche and work it properly and consistently, you could have the personality of Hank Hill and still do very well for yourself.

Rather than giving up, you may be looking at starting over from scratch as the "sadder but wiser girl."

After all, you now know four things that don't work for you...

I would suggest learn more read more. If you cannot make a single dollar after being online for seven years you should probably change what you are doing. Think outside of the box and think what you can offer that other people are not offering as much.

You should write up a case study about what mistakes to avoid and offer that as a WSO. Then when you make money from that WSO you should write a WSO about how to make money with WSOs.

Also start making friends with more experienced warriors and IMers so you can personally ask them specific questions--you will get better answers.

Find a really good team and join it. I have and it has worked miracles for me.

Good advise soo far, I also recommend picking one thing and sticking to it. This is my problem I am trying to do 4/5 things well instead of you thing excellently. If you catch my drift. You need to 1.) Pick a niche 2.) Decide if you are going to make a product or just promote. 3.) SEO like crazy! I am talking 24/7 SEO. 4.) Once you are high on google build email list and all that, then you will be laughing.