How Many Of You "Quit" This Month?

SimonRdk

14 years ago

I'm not. I just work in a new method there will work pretty well after the penguin update.

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Alina Tru

14 years ago

I am also looking for selling my few websites and only will working on my best sites. I'll not try for quantity but also working on quality. This is my new rule for seo. Thanks

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jimkirk1943

14 years ago

Nope not quiting just gonna start playing by googles rules more than i was before maybe some people didn`t deserve to get in trouble after the updates but cant say i was one of them i had pretty crap content and spam links hey i deserved it.

Gonna start to write really cool content that i can be proud of and yeah of course i`m going backlink but i`ll build the backlinks myself from quality written content that adds value.

I made some good money from my crappy sites for years but i was always fighting with google now i`m going stop fighting and see what happens i mean how much harder can it be to build quality sites with quality backlinks than building spam and backlinking with spam..

Quit ?? Why there`s still money to be made sod that i ant quiting

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alexjer12

Banned 14 years ago

“If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”

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GGpaul

14 years ago

Actually this whole Google thing with all the panda penguin crocodile blah blah blah, made me dig deeper into internet marketing. It makes me learn from the mistakes I've made in the past and to utilize that now. I'm learning even MORE within this past month than the past 11 months I've done internet marketing. I'm only getting even MORE excited!

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James Andy

14 years ago

Not at all dear, infect I am not worrying about Google Penguin because I know that I did SEO very well.

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Theeban

14 years ago

I do not quit, because we are in technical related field, I mean SEO and IM are technical related fields to be, If you are on such fields, you should have fast "adaptability" for new changes, I was clear on that when I entered this field, so, I will not quit, as far as there are 1000s of IM guys and lots of SEO companies still LIVE

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Mantasmo

14 years ago

I lost over $20k in April. It sucked. But I kind of saw it coming for some time, so it wasn't a big surprise. What doesn't destroy me, makes me stronger.

I see a lot of people rebuilding right now and actually doing quite well. Others are scrambling, looking for new ways to make a quick buck. IMO the only way to become really successful is to make a lo of mistakes and learn a bit every single day.

If you're moving on to a different business model and w/e that's great. Quitting, though, is for losers. So don't quit - adapt.

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Banned 14 years ago

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ExploringInfinity 14 years ago

Ive still got traffic and rankings and income, but im already sick of Googles anti-seo game. Even the good SEOs are getting hit and they admit they're just trying to keep it unstable and unpredictable for people trying to manipulate it.

Im no quitter, I'm just taking my business above google and away from reliance on such a monster.

I'm developing my own products and my affiliates can battle it out on the google game-field while they all send their traffic to me no matter who ranks #1
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- MikeFriedman 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ExploringInfinity
  
  Even the good SEOs are getting hit
  
  Name one. I can't.
  
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  ExploringInfinity 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MikeFriedman
  
  Name one. I can't.
  
  you dont know very many SEO's then.
  
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  MikeFriedman 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ExploringInfinity
  
  you dont know very many SEO's then.
  
  Actually, I think you have that backwards. You've been listening to too many shoddy backlinkers calling themselves SEO's.
  
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Sillysoft

14 years ago

Not quitting, doing well actually. But I know my time is running out with my success with adsense. Its not a question of if, but when they decide to ban my account. Im following their TOS but after reading the stories it sounds like no one is really safe.What I need to do is get into other revenue stream opportunities.

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Mosa

14 years ago

Still doing great over here

I never stop trying to learn though. Even when our sites are doing well, I'm still trying to learn new and better things and trying to build the business so that I has multiple ways of earning.

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Sillysoft

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Mosa

Still doing great over here

I never stop trying to learn though. Even when our sites are doing well, I'm still trying to learn new and better things and trying to build the business so that I has multiple ways of earning.

Hey, did you reach your $240 a day goal yet?

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Mosa 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Sillysoft

Hey, did you reach your $240 a day goal yet?

Not yet, it's still very early so we're not even close, haha! But we're definitely on the right track.
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mosthost

14 years ago

I'm in no position to quit anything

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scottmacair 14 years ago

Now is a good time to get stuck in. With all of the low quality spam sites out of the way the road is more open for better quality sites that rank because of their quality and not because of 10000's of cheap links.
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Mosa

14 years ago

Businesses award the true thinkers and action takers. If a roadblock comes along the way, you have to learn not only how to overcome it but how to avoid future roadblocks. I started with microniches, but from that we've learned how to build authority sites and how to build our own seo and article writing team. So just keep learning from what you're doing and apply it to other things.

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Carlton Johnson

14 years ago

Not quitting at all - evolving. This is a great time for people who know how to capitalize on the opportunities. Because more people are actually quitting it means less competition. That said, the truth is that most of the people that are quiting at the moment probably didn't really know what they where doing anyway, so they didn't really qualify as my competition because they where easy to outrank etc.

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Carl Brown 14 years ago

I agree with Scott. A lot of people are looking at this all wrong. I lost a lot, but I see it as an opportunity. I won't have to compete with the guys doing the massive spam backlinking.
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jcruz

14 years ago

I had a lot of sights that I'm selling off. A lot of them have dropped in rankings and i just don't have the time or patience to work on all of them. So I am focusing on just one site, and building it into an authority site, over 100-500 pages.

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Bill Hugall

14 years ago

SEO has always seemed a bit far out there for me. It seems like a ton of work and Google doesn't seem to like us making money the way we do so I have never been big on it. There are so many other ways to get targeted traffic for free and reasonable prices. Do you all like the work involved? I am not trying to be cheeky either I am just wondering. There are also other ways to rank high without it taking forever to do so. So yeah I quit to.

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GGpaul

14 years ago

As Bruce Lee would say :

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paulgl

14 years ago

Actually.....google wants people to quit.

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

Actually, I think you have that backwards. You've been listening to too many shoddy backlinkers calling themselves SEO's.

The WF skews a whole lot of things. People mistake SEO for some of
the garbage being touted here.

Garbage in, garbage out.

When people realize google does not need their website, perhaps
they will have a different approach. Instead of finding some
idiotic keyword, getting an EMD, barfing up a worpress site,
regurgitating BS upon BS, they might actually stop and think.
What can I truly make a site about that I actually know
something about, and can offer unique content not gotten
anywhere else?

Paul

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sovereignn

14 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

Actually.....google wants people to quit.

The WF skews a whole lot of things. People mistake SEO for some of
the garbage being touted here.

Garbage in, garbage out.

When people realize google does not need their website, perhaps
they will have a different approach. Instead of finding some
idiotic keyword, getting an EMD, barfing up a worpress site,
regurgitating BS upon BS, they might actually stop and think.
What can I truly make a site about that I actually know
something about, and can offer unique content not gotten
anywhere else?

Paul

HAH the signature is awesome. I am young and facebook is quite the distraction.

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Penguin, Panda, Pelican, Panther, Peacock, Pig, Python.

They're all the same to me whatever Google decides to do I'll prosper... Know why? Because I really don't care about Google!

I mean I do, but no matter what they decide they want to do I'm going to continue to do what I want to do.

Find something that works and make it grow, if you become complacent you've already lost.

To me what I have is never enough and if something works I need it to work better and faster. I guess I like to be one step ahead.

If you grow and allow your business to grow you'll always succeed.

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Never allow yourself to be comfortable

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GodMode52

14 years ago

I don't wonna sound arrogant or anything but today I'm stronger than ever. As I said many times you can't download few cracked softwares and pretend to be an SEO expert .

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wilsonm

14 years ago

Suppose I have quit IM.

Firstly I have no passion for spending hours on end looking at a computer screen. If it is possible to make a good ROI in terms of money for the time put it, it is something I'll entertain.

In my day job I earn $30 / hour, IM ventures certainly did not result in such returns. And my day job is something I seriously enjoy. I am involved in sales and marketing with lots of face to face interaction and communication, activity that is a world away from IM. I have been dabbling in IM for 2+ years and the Google Penguin palava was not good at all. I'll look around to see if there is quick ROI but not holding my breath.

To be honest I wish I never got into all this.

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wilsonm

14 years ago

LOL....what a joke!

I got some fiverr gigs following methods described here after Penguin and my site just seem to sliding downward towards the greasy pole!! Would have been much higher if I did no backlinking whatsoever!

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InitialEffort

14 years ago

Still rocking strong. Seriously, since Penguin it has gotten easier to rank a website because there are fewer competitors because many people have given up.

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JeanneLynn

14 years ago

I quit writing new content for my websites. I'm selling my content as Kindle books now.

I'm making 15x more than I was making with Adsense. I was upset with Google after Penguin, but I guess I should be thanking them.

Ebooks are better for my writing style. LOL, some of my website articles were 10,000 words long.

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plsearch

14 years ago

Originally Posted by ExploringInfinity

Well... How many of you are calling it quits and moving on to something else after all this google garbage going on?

I too took a huge hit these last months, luckily I am moving on to becoming product owner instead of affiliate, it's my next logical step.

I'm tired of plaing catch up with Google so I am selling almost all of my websites and only keeping a few good ones that I really enjoy working on.

SO I guess I KIND OF quit, but I am just moving on to the next bigger and better thing.

How about you?

I'm with you. For me personally I'm done with agency work. Thankfully like you I started producing a real product a few weeks ago and thankfully this product does really well with traditional print ads, go figure!

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yukon

Banned 14 years ago

If you look at how Google SERPs react to quality links, you'll see that nothing has really changed in the SERPs for ranking a page. Twelve months ago quality links outperformed low value links, same is true today.

Relevancy + quality links.

I understand people get frustrated with SEO, but that's not going to rank a page. I look at SEO like a Chess match, no way in he$$ the other guys winning.

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mrehan 14 years ago

If you think you have quit and are still on WF, you have not quit... mentally.
There is still hope.
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wilsonm

14 years ago

I am not completely giving up IM but at the same time, IM is not going to be the only source of my income. It would be nice ifI can make 6 figures through IM while working on other ventures.

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idoitbigtime

14 years ago

It's Impossible to Count on 1 Resources
When you are affiliates you must play in a few Niches
when you promote your Sites you must use Diffrents strategies
when you are Create your Own Product you still need to be a Player & Promote Other products for JV Etc
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sackboy127

14 years ago

As they say, a quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

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seoimninja

14 years ago

Sorry to hill of you ill-luck.

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TheFBGuy 14 years ago

For those of you quitting, please send me your domains and web hosting accounts, lol. I am serious.

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AndyBlackSEO

14 years ago

It's a case of not relying on Google for traffic. There are lots of traffic sources and Google shouldn't be the only method you focus on.

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InTheMaking

14 years ago

I had to go through the trouble of resetting my password because I haven't been on this forum in ages just to post about how much BS goes on in this forum.

As controversial as everything I may say here, this is what comes off the top of my head.

- Every so called SEO "Guru" doesn't make anything near to some of the ballers I know.

So called SEO Guru's are the worst people in this industry, they rely on YOU to make their money, do you honestly think they would be open to saying they took a hit on this Penguin update? If they did everyone would stop buying their ****.

Every person who commented on this thread saying you can't think of a so called Guru that got hit, stop living in fantasy land, and open up your eyes. I know people with 100% White-hat sites that took a beating. Even google screws up.

- Next point, Googles always going to be gamed, this isn't the end all of SEO. Now you "White Hat" boys who think if you build a good site you're going to rank naturally, good luck it'll never happen.

99% of you guys here don't make anything significant doing IM, if you do.. good job it's an awesome feeling. Anyway, don't believe everything you read, and honestly if you have to rely on your reputation to make over 75% of your money, you're doing it wrong.

If I'm making good money, why on earth would I want to out my **** to you guys? Guru's repeat the same stuff over and over. Honestly, I could gather data, throw the information in your guy's face and say, Hey.. I'm a guru, listen to me, buy my ****, let's be successful.

Anyway, /rant..

I just hate how everything is so white hat on this forum, what's the difference between getting a natural link on a relevant site or buying a link on a relevant site?

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Dellco

14 years ago

Originally Posted by InTheMaking

I had to go through the trouble of resetting my password because I haven't been on this forum in ages just to post about how much BS goes on in this forum.

As controversial as everything I may say here, this is what comes off the top of my head.

- Every so called SEO "Guru" doesn't make anything near to some of the ballers I know.

So called SEO Guru's are the worst people in this industry, they rely on YOU to make their money, do you honestly think they would be open to saying they took a hit on this Penguin update? If they did everyone would stop buying their ****.

Every person who commented on this thread saying you can't think of a so called Guru that got hit, stop living in fantasy land, and open up your eyes. I know people with 100% White-hat sites that took a beating. Even google screws up.

- Next point, Googles always going to be gamed, this isn't the end all of SEO. Now you "White Hat" boys who think if you build a good site you're going to rank naturally, good luck it'll never happen.

99% of you guys here don't make anything significant doing IM, if you do.. good job it's an awesome feeling. Anyway, don't believe everything you read, and honestly if you have to rely on your reputation to make over 75% of your money, you're doing it wrong.

If I'm making good money, why on earth would I want to out my **** to you guys? Guru's repeat the same stuff over and over. Honestly, I could gather data, throw the information in your guy's face and say, Hey.. I'm a guru, listen to me, buy my ****, let's be successful.

Anyway, /rant..

I just hate how everything is so white hat on this forum, what's the difference between getting a natural link on a relevant site or buying a link on a relevant site?

I'm not going to get so involved with IM anymore. That's sort of "quitting" in a way, but it's not a nice feeling to look back and realize that the a**h***s at Google can mess up what you built over years with just one simple flick of a switch. Unless you are owner of some big brand pulling in millions a year. And don't forget they can flick that switch anytime they want, and as many times as they want.

Any real business owner will agree its pure madness to have one single company that is basically unaccountable to anyone (very troubling fact) to have so much power over your "business". The people I know who are making loads of money (more than 95% of this forum) are not into IM, that's for sure.

And ditto on the "guru claims".

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Danny Cutts

14 years ago

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.....

Danny

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marketwarrior06

Banned 14 years ago

I am still in the struggling zone dude

So no chance to give up at this moment

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daweelmac

14 years ago

I'm with the other guys here, I also don't quit after the latest penguin update. But rather, i take it as a challenge to myself and learn from my mistakes.

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