What Part of Making Money Online Don’t You Get?
Site Build It Review or wtf was yesterday’s post really all about.
I tell people I make money with Adsense by driving targeted search engine traffic to my sites. I explain how to rank on top of the search engines using anchored backlinks. I tell people that social traffic is useless for making money from Adsense.
My friends thank me for all this free info by posting screenshots on forums like Digital Point so that I get a flood of useless traffic and an avalanche of troll emails.
Why Forums are for Losers – What exactly don’t you understand?
I ask people if they would like to join a private forum and discuss topics that aren’t meant for public consumption. A week later a particularly useful network I mentioned is de-indexed. I guess I charged too much?
I ask people if they would like to be included in a little program I want to start. 374 people tell me they are “in“. I send them an email asking for a little info and tell them that they will have to help others. Everyone is fine with that.
Yesterday I asked them to help someone else. Site Build It Review
They responded with comments and emails telling me they don’t agree with what I’m doing. They want to know why I’m not being constructive? They want to know why I’m wasting their time? They want to know why I’m not posting about the “I’m In” program. They want to know why I am trying to replace a serp page full of useless affiliate reviews with a page full of real reviews for a program that is outdated, unnecessary and relieves noobs of $300 a year just for a website. They want to know how to get ranked in the serp’s themselves – can I show them how? Basically all I read in the comments (I deleted all of them) was why was I wasting their time instead of helping them. Of course they were right – there was nothing in yesterdays post that could teach them how to rank on top of the serp’s. Nothing that would lead them to think that helping others might just be the way to making money online. There was nothing in it for them. And that is a good lesson learned. It’s nice to know just how much people appreciate all the free legit info I have handed out over the past two years.
Btw – Lissie is now ranking on page 1 for Site Build It Scam and will see some traffic on her blog. Of course this isn’t what I’m about… or what I try and teach people or what people want me to help them with. Noooooo…
374 people are “IN“… nope, I don’t think so.
Not surprising the regular crew of friends who are in this to succeed didn’t let me down. They came through, they always do and they once again showed why they are succeeding in this business. Everyone created a legit post that was fair and balanced – far more useful for searchers interested in SBI than any of the fake reviews. (and yet some of you thought this was wrong?) They showed their creativity in working it into their existing sites – related or not. I was also impressed with a couple of newcomers who took the time to create a new lens or blog just for the occasion.
So let me ask everyone – if you were me, who would you spend your limited amount of time helping? Who would you trust? Should I continue to help all those people who email me regularly with questions who didn’t lift a finger to help someone else? What would you say to the people who email me the most asking me for help and had the nerve to complain about my post?
I’m not vindictive or bitter – just a bit relieved. I will continue to post useful info in my blogs.
To my friends – thanks and you know who you are. (RT, Trent and a few others – you’ve always been in and don’t sweat it – I never filled you in) You will be hearing from me.
If you have missed Vic (I have) you can hear him here – Yup, People Do Not Appreciate FREE
and check out Allyn’s Video Site Build It! Video
Cheers,
Griz
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agree post above. I used to work for a PR company as their computer guy. building the brand is a huge hurdle all new companies face. PR companies get your name in front of people by getting you in the paper/magazines for your niche or talked about on website. Same rules apply for your website. You want people to talk about your site so your core audience (big G) thinks you are the authority. You want to be the 80′s IBM brandname for your niche.
Thank you for your posts about Site Build It. I am a total noob who really wants to try building a site or two, and was about to plunk down the money. Guess it’s back to the drawing board and more research. Thanks.
@Laura
You are in the right place! You will learn EVERYTHING you need to know if you invest some time reading and applying what you learn.
I took the information that Griz provides and I can get sites on the first page relatively quick — my shortcoming is getting backlinks from sites with PR; coupled with a “follow” tag…
I realize that there is a plethora of pages with info on it here, so if you need a little guidance navigating, and getting the necessary plug ins (Firefox) to ensure proper keyword and SEO content, I would be more than happy to share what I have learned.
You can only keep what you have by giving it back
~Scooter
Griz,
After reading more of your articles I finally get why you were mad at being posted at DP.
Cause it will hurt your CTR. ouch.
But in away I’m very thankful for that post cause that is where I found this blog.
If not for that unfortunate post I would still be listening to wrong advice.
But I hope nobody ever do that again. :p
Griz,
I’m new here. I come from a point of view that true altruism does not exists. However, with that said, service to others has been one of the only ways I have truly found serenity and happiness in life. Service to others filled the doughnut hole.
From the movie Peaceful Warrior:
Dan: “Hey Socrates, if you know so much, why are you working at a gas station?”
Socrates: “It’s a service station. We offer service. There’s no higher purpose.”
Dan: “… Than pumping gas?”
Socrates: “Service to others.”
You ask a good question, “if you were me, who would you spend your limited amount of time helping? Who would you trust? Should I continue to help all those people who email me regularly with questions who didn’t lift a finger to help someone else?”
It’s understandable to be frustrated. The first thing I learned in MBA Accounting was “there’s no free lunch… ever.” So even though you are giving away information, it is not free. You worked for it, but don’t expect all others to have the same work ethics or values than yourself.
Maybe you should just use an auto responder that says “It’s out there, go find it!”
And yes, it is hard to determine who is really working hard and who is just looking for a handout. Especially in the world of email and twitter. Too bad there’s not a gravatar that measures online karma points.
It’s easy to see how people like yourself who try to help eventually end up becoming unreachable. Everyone wants to be rich and wants the answers handed to them. If it was “that” easy, everyone would be doing it. But then… it wouldn’t be worth as much either.
Why are the great things and hard dreams so difficult? It’s God’s way of determining who is really serious. I’m rich beyond belief! I have everything I need within myself. No material thing or person can make me happy. I tried that for years…. trying to fill the hole with all sorts of things; money, drugs, alcohol, cars, women. Once they’re gone there’s one thing that’s always left, me. So I’d better learn how to have a loving relationship with this “me” character or this is going to be a long rough ride. (sorry, got off on a tangent…)
So I would say… really determine what’s in it for you. Determine what you really want out of this venture of helping others. If it’s praise or money, figure out how to measure that. If it’s just to help… then let everything else go. I’ve only been hanging out here for about a week, but you seem like a straight shooter and really want to show others how you’ve gotten to where you’re at. That’s admirable. In my experience attraction works better than promotion. Just keep staying real and asking for help in areas you don’t understand (like who to trust). No one knows everything. I don’t know CRAP about online ad marketing, that’s why I’m here.
I don\’t usually agree with this type of thing but you are right. Thanks.
hi . i have alot time and i need a job for making money. thanks for your help
best regards
parisa
I am truly impressed with the broad content of your blog. It is obvious that you know you subject matter and you are passionate about it. If only I had your writing ability I have bookmarked your site and look forward to additional updates.
Not to minimize Griz’s venting, but I think a little drama gets the blog comments going and more search engine results with titles that get you to click the result and that’s what this is all about.
If the title of this article showed up in G’s results, I think it would increase click through ratio’s but that’s just a theory. I think the same with the SBI Don’t Buy It Post. People who are thinking of buying programs that they see online go to G and search for reviews and I’d be willing to bet that the ones that talk it down get clicked more. I know that alot of those that I’ve clicked in the past say Don’t But Whatever Until You Read This and in the end they still recommend you buy it.
We hadn’t posted anything yet either because we hadn’t had the opportunity to figure out where it fit in with what we were doing but I don’t think it’s a personal attack on us.
In the end, I think Griz knows we’re not out here milking him for information without wanting to reciprocate in any way and that those people if they exist, lol, know who they are talking about.
Medic – a gold star for you.
Well then, that’s that. I’m surprised you didn’t comment on my Grizzly picture. I think it spoke volumes all by itself.
The Pope is Married? Well..
That certainly changes things up a bit don’t ya think? LOL
Grizz – I think you can consider the lesson very much learned by all considered.
Lol – hey did I forget to mention Nice Pic RT!
I should mention that you are one of the reasons I wanted to get the crew focused. It would be nice to make offhand comments in my posts about various friends like “Gee wouldn’t it be nice if RT’s ConnectContent.com ranked number 1 for terms like “link building programs”, “how to get back links” etc and suddenly find that you are number 1. It would also be nice not to have to explain why having your site number 1 for those terms would help everyone who uses the program or how nice it would be to have a member of our group like Justin of SEO Zombie dot com ranking number 1 for oh I don’t know… SEO comes to mind. If only people could see the value in helping friends get to prime positions where they in turn could really help the people who helped them… oh silly me, there I go daydreaming again.
Oh Nice Grizzly RT!
Hey RT…where are you at in the PI? I will be in the Makati business district in Manila next month. Maybe we could get together and do lunch.
Let me know.
Larry, I don’t do Manila.
I’m in Olongapo where it’s almost safe to drive.
Yes
Hey Griz,
Latest post has links to RT & Justin – did I get the hint correctly?
Take care
Tracey