How to Be Successful Online?
This question has probably been asked many tens of thousands of times, if not more. Most of us have built sites, got traffic and spent countless hours trying to monetize the traffic only to spectacularly fail. A while back, I was reading about a blogger who spent 30+ hours per week working hard on his network of quality blogs and was only earning around a $500 a month from Adsense! And this is very common.
So, the question again, how to be successful online? The simplest and most effective way to be way to be successful online is to replicate existing success!
Forget:
Re-inventing the wheel;
Being novel;
Experimenting with different monetization strategies;
Creating a forum;
If you want to be successful online, if you want to build a network of money-making sites, if you want to increase your revenue month-in and month-out, copy successful websites!
Study these examples:
http://flippa.com/auctions/71381/Established-Highly-Profitable-UK-Cashback-Site-Very-Well-Known
http://flippa.com/auctions/65867
You don’t have to copy successful sites exactly, similar is often good enough! Inside WPBlackhat, we have been identifying more and more successful sites, so our members can easily replicate them. The biggest hurdle in replicating successful sites is getting targeted traffic. We accomplish this by using a new and rapid SEO strategy:
Creating a SEO Empire (borrowed from Eli)
Building website trust (for faster indexing and easier ranking)
Simulating viral linkbait (getting in the top 5 for the desired money keywords)
Watch out for a future post which explains these concepts more (if you’re a member of WPBlackhat we will schedule these for a detailed chat): Taking Online Money Making to the Next Level
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Guess I’ll check back after a month then
For those uncomfortable with the really black hat of outright plagiarism, it’s worth noting that seeing a successful site and finding a way to do what they do PLUS something more is also a rock solid model. More effort, but it works.
Interesting, I just started looking at Flippa for similar purpose, its great to see stats of existing sites to deconstruct how effective their models are.