You are me 1 year ago... I was 18 years old and broke and needed a car also...

Let me tell you straight up that you aren't going to get very far trying to squeeze money out of SEO traffic (let alone get SEO traffic) on a $14 budget. I don't really know what your skillset is so I can't really suggest anything off of the top of my head which will benefit you in what you are trying to do here.

What are your interests? Any games you play?

Find a niche you are interested in. Write about it. Do some SEO to get traffic to your site. And then monetize it.

My niche has always been sites that are both free to join and offer free ways to make money online. And I've been making good money with this for over 6 years.

you need to focus on free ways to make money. like uploading mass amounts of youtube videos, forum marketing, fiverr gigs, there are many free ways to make money. Just do a google search.

Care to go into detail about the kind of games you play or the type of computer stuff you are into? I've owned a few membership sites that make decent money in the niche and I'm looking to set up another one. If you are interested in getting something going hit me up, I've got capital to put up if you can't as long as you can grind out with me like a beast

you can become an affiliate or reseller to sell the goods of others by building a lot of blogs and optimization with SEO to get traffic and sales.

My best advice would be to choose one marketing method that you know and can do and stick to it, then choose one traffic driving method for that marketing method and stick to it until you are good at it.

If you got a great return on your SEO investment why would you use that money to buy a car when you can re-invest it in more SEO and make more money?

There was a time in my life when I got hooked on wanting to buy a car. Either way Its good to want things because its motivation to make money.

Good luck

Come up with a daily marketing plan. If you don't have all the money to come up with advertising revenue, create free marketing tactics that will help you to get the traffic and conversions that you are looking for.

Here is what you do:

Create a WSO with a profitable offer that affiliates will be falling over themselves to promote.
Send all of your traffic to a squeeze page
Have one time offer or two in place
*Spend all day long recruiting JV partners *

Save your money!

Might not hurt to get a mentor.

Promote high end products to your list that pay you well - You will get much further earning $200 a shot than $20 bucks a shot.

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I know what I am going to do, I am going to build a niche website. I never really built a niche website before. The websites I built were based off of products. I am going to research a niche and build a site for it. I am going to use SEO for a traffic source and monetize it someway. I gonna do something that I am interseted in so its either gonna deal with computers or games. Now I am going to look back at the forums I have started to find out what other people have said.

-The list below is things that I have said in the past threads that I haven't done. Therefore I went back and complied a list that I will be doing with this niche website with my left over money. Please take a look!

I am going to add a little twist to it, I am actually going to make my own personal blog and use some of those principles in the attachment below.

I have bought my own personal domain Techg33k.org

The extremegaming was for a friend of mine I gave to him as he wanted it. Yes I have bought the besttvreivews but I am not really into TVs but like it or not I don't care what y'all say I am going to make this techg33k blog my personal blog for computers and games related stuff. Not trying to be mean either but I think having my persoanl blog will be good.

What ever happened to getting a job in the real world while trying to make it online? So many people come here asking how to do the near impossible when they might be able to make 10, 12 bucks per hour or more working. Why not do that and then pick something you want to do online? And then work at it.

You're a War Room member. There are hundreds of legit business models in there but you come to the main forum looking for tips from the general population of the forum. Please, tell me what I'm missing.

I really hope you find something that will work but don't rule out a good old fashioned brick/mortar job. Good luck to you.

Let's review


OK, now are we on step 1 or on step 2?


You have some of the best minds on this site throwing you life preservers and offering to pull you aboard the boat... and you push them away.

Man up and pick something.

Put some content on the gaming site.

Write 500- 800 words TODAY.

Pick a topic you know well and just write it as if you were telling a friend how to do it.

Here a few suggestions:

Testing your home router for throughput speeds.

Why you shouldn't use a WPA router

5 easy ways to secure your wireless network

Building a _______ (describe something you can build or mod on a PC)

How to update the firmware on your router and why you need to.

The worst games of 2012




Go.

I want to say sorry warriors I was just being rude like usual when you guys help me and I just ignore the fact of your guys help when I needed it the most. I really am deeply sorry therefore I am willing to give you a free video series on how a computer works. I need toonline stop being an a$$ all the time to you guys and ignore your help. Even though I have a lack of focus and not make any money I would still love to get to know y'all as friends. If you guys don't I understand. If you hate me I understand as well.

Theres one thing I haven't told yall though. I am one lazy kid though when it comes to doing things. Sometimes it takes a lot of motivation to get me to do something. :/... I wanna be honest with yall.

Create a blog - brand yourself! Build a business not just make money.

Alright! The site is up and has content. Although you might want to add some spaces /line breaks in that ginormous wall of text.

Looking forward to seeing the trouble shooting chart- when will that be up?

Zack,

You should have a look around lots of big successful blogs. They all usually use short sentences in their articles.

Just read a few of his old threads. If you can't still find them, message me.

I will try to reorganize the first blog post that I have put up today. You will see it in the coming week. Just letting yall know this is gonna be my personal blog I am not going to monetize it in anyway or form.

I thought the idea of going thru every part of a computer and explaining what it does was pretty cool, but I somehow how get the feeling I shouldn't hold my breath.

All I am trying do is provide a free resource to people who don't know about computers. I could maybe start a list from the site though?

Dude, start a business

well would starting a list be good for my blog?

I think I am just gonna take a break for the weekend. To just clear my head. Ill see yall later.

I thought you wanted to buy a car? Where I come from you can't buy much of a car for free but maybe in Texas it's different.

You're doing it again. The same thing you've been doing. You're now going to take a break?

Maybe the rest of us need to too. And when you get serious about this, no for real this time, no for real this time, no for real this time, no for real this time, put up a site and do what's been advised by tons of people who are trying to be friendly and helpful THEN come back and ask more questions.

Till then, my friend, I'm afraid ALL of this is a waste of good time and hard drive space on this forum's server.

Good luck. I hope you figure it out.

Mark

I am just fustrated right now! >< I need to get my mind off of things. In Texas you don't get it for free either, you have to save up. I aint looking for free stuff my friend.

You know how to cure the frustration?

First step: Make a decision and a plan and do NOT deviate from it for any reason whatsoever. Don't mention other opportunities, business models, something you read somewhere, a hankering you've been having, other domains, other methods, other anything.

Once you do that the frustration will start to go away and you can start seeing some success. Until then the frustration will continue to increase and you'll keep going in circles.

As far as your free computer help while I think you may have a lot to offer, at the rate you're posting the free advice it'll take 3 years to figure out why my computer is running slow. By then I will have bought a new one. Stick not only with something you know but something you can and will do is my point.

Your call.

Mark

We're all waiting for that list.

Once you know what your niche is you can go full throttle.

Really, it's going to take you a while to make enough money with a blog to afford a new car.

If you need money quicker, get on Fiverr and other service offering forums and start writing your little heart out...

I really think you should just chase girls and play video games. You're all over the place. One minute you're quitting, the next minute it's another thread like this one. It's like some crazy see-saw ... up one minute, down the next, with no action ever really being taken.

You're not serious about this. Do something you're serious about. You've lost your audience here. We've seen too much of the same old same old.

I am just gonna be straight honest with you guys, Yes I want to make money online. I know I said I didn't want to monetize my blog after thinking about I really should if I wanted to turn it into a business. I am gonna be honest guys I am one of those guys who start projects and never get them done. Ill start it, but never finish for some reason that I make up. I am terribly sorry for you guys wasting your time on me I really am. I know I lost you guys as an audience and I completely understand you are who you are I am not gonna change you. I know I say sorry a lot its because I say sorry to the littlest things ( ask my friends, my boss, my co-workers they will tell you I do ). I basically talk to talk and it is easy to talk to talk, but for me as a person it is hard to walk to walk when it is really easy to talk to talk. I've probably wasted a whole year here and if I did I want to say sorry and I hope your guy's business goes well. You guys are probably right maybe this isn't for me, but the only thing I am lacking is ACTION and FOCUS on one thing.

-Sbu I am really not looking for a girl right now though because I am not one of those guys who wants the attention, I am the silent type of guy who sits in the corner and minds his own business.

-Kay King: I really did go through the video series but only up to video 6 for follow up messages, I have to say I am impressed with aweber.

Overall Warriors,

If I lost your trust or friendship or whatever the matter maybe I am sorry and If you guys don't give me anymore advice that is fine. I accept that as I know it is my own fault for my actions to what I have done. For me as a person I always think so negative about things and I never see the bright side. I always come up with something to do whatever it is that I was going to do. An this is the full truth.

The only thing I have made money from is google adsense, but only .68 cents that is all.

Flat,

It's good that you've identified what your problem is.

Now that you know what the problem is, address is. Just because you've never finished a project in your life doesn't mean you never will.

You just need to discipline yourself.

And most importantly, eliminate all distractions. You know where my PS3 is? In the closet. You need to remain focused. Even if it means staying home and grinding out content while your friends are out having fun.

You don't need a break - you need to take action. Even if you fail, you will learn and will eventually succeed - as long as you keep trying.

Honestly, I wouldn't start a tech or gaming blog just yet. Unless you have $$ for paid advertising and tons of content. There's just too much competition. Unless you find a micro niche within your original one.

Say, instead of a gaming blog, you'll start a blog about one specific game. Like Skyrim, Star Wars, or whatever floats your boat. Build a tight nit community around THAT specific game. It'll be much easier than talking (let alone ranking) for games in general. And yes, you will get traffic.

Find long tail keywords in the specific micro-niche of your choice, and focus on those. Like, "How to make money in Skyrim," "How to get a better K/D Ratio in COD," ect. You're a gamer, you know what people might be searching for. Offer Free tips to build your email list, and then up-sell them on better products you come out with.

I know people are willing to pay money for game guides and what not. But it will be much easier for you to focus on a blog about ONE game, than to generate organic search engine rankings for a general gaming blog.

Heck, you could even upload your own gameplay tutorials to Youtube and use it to generate traffic to your blog. How about that? You get to play video games and make money.

And trust me, there's TONS of stuff to write about one game. Specially if it's an MMO with tons of people competing against each other. If they're willing to shell out money to play against other people, they're more than willing to pay more money to get an edge.

Just my .02

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You need to know what motivates you.

I'm 21, so not that much older than you. I'm motivated by knowledge. I cannot bear not understanding something. I got my degree because my dog was sick and no one understood why, I can build computers because my computer broke and the repair guy didn't know why, and I finish tasks because I need to know things.

My nephew is motivated by food. He loves food. For chocolate buttons, especially, he'll do anything. Tidy up, do his homework, anything. His dad is much the same - he works a job he hates, but rewards himself with food he loves.

My FIL in money motivated, so watching his bank balance go up pleases him. He'll do anything if we can convince him it'll save him a few pennies, or earn him some more.

Find out what it is that drives you, and use it. I've worked full-time as a freelance journalist for years and years, because early on I needed to know things. I research things for hours until I have a unique perspective and a full understanding, and my clients love me for it. Now I can command rates that make that research time well-paid, and I get paid for finding out more. I'm also taking my second degree - self-funded.

Once you know what motivates you, you'll be able to finish projects, and start making money. For now, set a target for that car, and stick pictures of it everywhere. On the fridge, on your Xbox, on your computer. Hopefully, seeing it will motivate you into working towards it.

It won't just come to you one day. Work for it, and you'll get there, and much further.

E x

Because after playing games for awhile it does get a boring after awhile, but I am looking forward to only game for now. I dont really play all day. I go to work and come and surf the internet. Or do whatever is it that I need to do. I mean I don't really have to always write about a games. I can go for other things. I actually sometimes think of travelling because there are places I would love to see.

FlatBro94,

Focus that is all you have to do. Now you're talking about traveling. Dreaming is o.k. but you have to get your mind out of the clouds, if you're going to make any money on the internet or anywhere else.

If you can't focus then Internet Marketing is not for you. As others have said get a little age under your belt, learn some discipline and them come back and try it again.

Ken
The Old Geezer

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