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    Default Hi From the UK

    Hi Everyone,

    I am delighted to be a new member of this forum. It looks buzzing with great tips and advice. I have been in the Internet Marketing for the last 6 years and have seen many ups, downs, failures and success.

    I hope to learn many things here expanding my knowedge base and contribute to the community whatever I can.

    Many Thanks

    KK

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    Welcome to the Babble!

    We have had a burst of members from the UK recently and already had a good number. Glad to have you and I am sure your experience will enable you to help others out as you learn, too. There is no end to learning, of course, and we all get to learn more quickly by sharing our "failures and successes" here.

    For a better experience here, you may want to check out our Guidelines and Forum Help in the top horizontal menu and at least listen to the video (better to read as well). You will find some interesting tips and information that you will want to know, such as signature requirements, etc.

    Glad to have you join the forum, a great place to learn and share.
    Good Success!

    Website: Success With Money
    "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." —Maya Angelou

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    Hello Kaka,

    Pleased to meet you, I am from the East Midlands, where are you from?

    Failure and success go hand in hand, especially in the competitive online space. I have a book by the author John Maxwell called "Failing Forward" and is all about embracing failure as a stepping stone to get to where you want to be.

    Looking forward to your contributions

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    Hi,

    Thanks for welcoming me to the forum. An edit to my above post, I should have mentioned "some or a little success" instead of sucess

    To Darren,

    I am from West Yorkshire. I often visit Birmingham (West Midlands) as I have many friends and relatives there. Nice to see you here.

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    Never been to Birmingham before, I must travel a little around the country when I get time (one day). What sort of internet marketing niches have you been involved in?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darren View Post
    Never been to Birmingham before, I must travel a little around the country when I get time (one day). What sort of internet marketing niches have you been involved in?
    Birmingham is a nice place to visit. If you have a taste for testing food, there is huge variety of Indian and Asian resturants.

    I started my online jourey back in 2008 with a company called Tenretni. They used to sell one page websites for high prices with promises of "financial freedom." Many newbies fell in the trap. In a year time, the man behind the company, MD Taylor, was taken to the court and sentenced.

    In late 2009, I came across the BANS forum. They had their own platform for building niche sites promoting eBay products throug EPN. The forum was very vibrant and some of the niche sites I built earned me some money to keep me in the game. Then all of a sudden, the owners abandoned both the platform and the forum and everything crumbled.

    In 2010, I purchased phpbay wordpress plugin for promoting eBay products. This was a great plugin and they had (still have) a private forum with wonderful quick money earning tips.

    With PhpBay installed, you could use the plugin capbility to rank for long tail keywords. I bought WP Twin and then once the keyword list was done, could literally make a full thin sites in just 3 to 4 seconds with thousands of posts.

    It was a big fun. I would make around 20 to 30 niche sites every day. I had more than 2000 domains registered with Godaddy. On average, 1000 of my niche sites would be live at any given point of time. I had a site in almost any niche I could imagin!

    Apart from fun, the sites earned very good money. Average monthly earning was between $6000 to $8000 for average 2-4 hours work a day!

    It did not last long. Panda and Penguine appeared out of the blow. The whole empire crumbled down in no time like the Twin Towers. 90% percent of the empire was de-indexed and the remaining 10 percent earned only a few cents.

    I acquired many tools and plugins during that time. Since then, all of them are buried in the deep dust on my computer.

    In 2012, I joined the John X-factor paid forum and bought all his books. This guy knew the stuff very well but he was a master procrastinator and promise breaker. The late 2011 and full 2012 was a complete waste of time in the paid forum. In 2013, John X-Factor, all of a sudden diappeared with all the money from his customers.

    That was a freedom. I started following blogs like SPI, Coppy Blogger, Pro Blogger, Viperchill, 2Create Website and some other. Because I had dived too deep in the thin empire, it was a transformation time.

    I realized that anything devoid of value was temporary and useless. I woke up to the fact that I must create value to stand firm in the game.

    I created a site in the alternative health niche in 2013 with the true intent of creating and passing value. The site received a very good reponse in terms of traffic. During my thin days, my Google adsense account was suspended so I had to monetise the site with Chitika and Medianet. The results in terms of earning were disappointing.

    I tried affiliate advertisements and the results were very encouraging.

    I am averaging around $60 to $70 a day with just that one site and the highest day so far is $127.

    Last month the number of visitors was 93,539, with 1 million pages viewed and 2.2 million hits.

    I am also writing content for another site which is planned to be launced in the first week of Octobor.

    This is just a summary of the last 6 years. Sorry for the long post. Any questions, you are most welcome.

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    Hello.. welcome. learn and share your experience with us

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    Kaka that is an interesting story. Wow two thousand URLs! Jeez. I have to say though, and this might sound mean, I am glad Google destroyed those sites. That kind of approach represents everything that is wrong with the internet. I am sorry to sound harsh. Needles to say, you made an excellent recovery and are doing very well indeed. I commend you for your resolve. Please no not tell me you are peddling low quality information though!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darren View Post
    Kaka that is an interesting story. Wow two thousand URLs! Jeez. I have to say though, and this might sound mean, I am glad Google destroyed those sites. That kind of approach represents everything that is wrong with the internet. I am sorry to sound harsh. Needles to say, you made an excellent recovery and are doing very well indeed. I commend you for your resolve. Please no not tell me you are peddling low quality information though!
    I am happy too that Google destroyed that. People around you will make a lot of difference. Unfortunately, the places I joined people were all thinking thin and that had an effect on me.

    I am glad Google unleashed Panda and Penguine because it changed my whole thinking.

    I would use so many tools to create content and build backlinks. Since then, the only tool I have been using is my brain.

    For my current site I mentioned in the above post, I have not built a single back link in the last 18 months.

    For qaulity I use myself as the standard. Before I publish a post, I note my own response if I would have come across the same piece of content on someone else's site. During the last 18 months, I wrote many articles which did not pass my "brain's copyscape." And they remain unpublished.
    Last edited by Kaka; 09-16-2014 at 03:32 AM.

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