Introductions Thread

What's going on Y'all. I am currently working on a new blog focused on behavior and behavior. I am new to developing a website and am exploring ways to generate ad revenue by sharing a topic I know well. I'm excited to get involved in this community and explore more ways to contribute.
 
Hi folks,

I am CTO of fairly high tech startup called qure.ai. We create automatic diagnosis x-rays/CTs/MRs. Here is how it looks:
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Over the years, we have been awesome at building technology that works. However, our marketing chops have been fairly low. Since Nov 1, I have decided to learn and work on this. I have so far straightened up twitter and created a process for it - got about 100% more impressions using fairly simple tricks. I am still not satisfied though - need to do more.

My next project is email marketing. We have emails of many of our customers/prospects. I need to figure out how to convert them to active users of our app and make them eventually buy it. When I searched where best to learn, reddit pointed me to this forum.

I am humbled to learn from masters. Looking forward to learn more and hopefully contribute to the forum with quality content myself.
 
Hey,

Read about the forum from Justin Charnell. Being in the SEO game for ~15 years, I had an account on almost all the big and interesting forums but somehow never crossed paths with this one. It's true that I've been mostly focused on my own way of doing stuff and growing projects but it's always refreshing to get in touch with different communities. The new angles of doing things and procedures always bring a new variable that improves my own systems.

Have a nice day and keep building!
 
Hi All,

Been around for a while, as testified by the lack of hair on my profile pic :-). Worked in the Marketing sector for over 25 years, and within many different industries/sectors and roles, from consultancy work through to CMO.

Have been a member of many forums over the years and enjoy contributing, learning new things, keeping abreast of the latest innovations etc and helping where i can.

Have a great day!
 
Hey,

Been active in the SEO world for ~2 years now, and been lurking the forums for a considerable portion of it.

Goes without saying that I have learnt a lot during my time lurking, especially regarding productivity and staying motivated.

Looking forward to actively join discussions & contribute in any way I can.
 
I've been doing affiliate marketing off and on for about 18 yrs.
Article sites, exact match domains, programmatic SEO, paid traffic, etc.

Write a bit of code, SQL (bigquery at the moment).
Currently working with DBT/Jitsu

I work part time for an Agency. Get exposed to lots of new things I'd never have got to without them.
 
Hello!

I've been lurking these forums on and off for a few years. Since the first time reading the Digital Strategy Crash Course I've fantasized about creating my own slice of money-generating internet real estate, but I never considered I was actually capable of it.

But now I'm in my mid-thirties and really dreading 15-20 more years of corporate jobs. I've come across so many MFA/affiliate sites and mommy blogs that are crushing it and I can't help but think, "Why the f- not me too?" :D

I don't have any actual hands-on experience building these types of assets, but I'd like to think I've learned enough from here and elsewhere to give it a solid go. I know the type of content I am going to create and I've researched the vertical/niche extensively. About a week ago something clicked in my brain and I felt like I could see this idea coming to fruition very vividly. It kept me awake for days.

So here I am, introducing myself.

Hi, I'm DWYB, and I'm finally getting out of my own way. I look forward to getting to know some of you and learning from the best.
 
I proceed to introduce myself properly.

My name is Alfonso, I am from Spain.
I have been somewhat lost in general in my life and at 22 years old I am starting to really work on creating myself and achieving my goals.

As for digital business, I have had several attempts to get into it, learning html and css and some Photoshop stuff. However, due to lack of consistency, laziness, fear, insecurity and anything else I can think of, I have made practically no progress.

I have no studies, I left them after high school. Right now I'm working as a dishwasher in a restaurant while living with my grandmother.

Why am I here?

Because it's one more step I have to climb.
I'm on the move. I have decided that I will progress.

What is my goal?

Livelihood. Digital business will allow me to sustain myself and continue my education. I want to go to college, learn every day, improve as a person so I can support my loved ones... In short, I want to LIVE, and I am willing to defeat that part of me that is afraid and lazy to go through the process necessary to lead a great life, to succeed.

I hope to make the most of my membership in this forum with everyone's help, and eventually end up helping newcomers. I am not looking for good words but for truth. I am here to learn. Also to learn how to learn
 
Hello, I hope you are well.

My nickname is dosiscreativa, I'm an integral designer by profession and I've been living from the digital economy for 15 years.

My interests are eCommerce of tangible and intangible products with experience in deep research focused on conversion.

I would like to share experiences and learn about techniques, methods, tools and everything that allows me to be mobile and have a competitive advantage for my personal projects.

Good luck to all of you!
 
Hey All,

I've been lurking around the forums since earlier this year and finally decided to sign up to contribute what I can to the community.

I've been doing IM since 2013 and have done dropshipping, CPA, youtube, a bit of email marketing, and finally made my home with SEO in 2019. Since then, I've built a few sites and sold 3, with the most recent being last year.

My recent interests had been to launch my own content team to build my websites faster to diversify the risks with Google updates. But as we all know, this year hasn't been great in that regard, and new sites especially are getting impacted.

Anyway, I'm happy to be here and will share my experiences when and where I can.
 
Hey,
Found the Crash Course and loved the content, decided to join.

I bought an affiliate site from Motion Invest last month, I'm seeing a LOT of room for improvement and I'm here to see others doing the same thing, and to share what's working (and not working) for me.

My current plan is to get my new affiliate site from $200/mo now (on Amazon affiliates) to $1000/mo this year then flip for about 36x. Rinse, repeat.

The way I'm going to do this is:
  • upgrade the current 76 articles (former owner was not a native English speaker and neither were his writers, and it shows)
  • write 3-4 new articles/week (for a few months)
  • optimize for SEO
  • add additional affiliate programs direct with stores and manufacturers
  • add Ezoic (for now, I don't have enough traffic for MediaVine)
  • buy some of the products (this is a niche where I use the product myself already)
  • add at least one social media channel (video tutorials and reviews are a good format for this niche)
  • perhaps chase traffic in a sub-niche just as an experiment
  • Clean up Wordpress - it's a mish-mash of old themes, abandoned plugins, and features I won't use (I don't like Elementor and I'm leaning toward GeneratePress)

I've got a lot of work to do and about an hour a day to devote to this. Not going to hire out at this point, but I may take some earnings and start another affiliate site from scratch and pay writers for that site.
 
@telaranatech Very solid plan. One thing I'd suggest is to check out Monumetric over Ezoic. You'll have to pay $99 to join, but it should be well worth it in my experience. Even if the earnings were similar, Monumetric feels so much less janky. +1 for GeneratePress > Elementor, too.

Finding a site in a niche that you're already into, having tons of stuff you can improve upon, but already having a foundation where it just has to maintain and it'll pay for itself in a few years... this sounds perfect. Did the site take a hit traffic-wise over the past six months or so? If it did, and things rebound like some of us are anticipating, you'll be laughing. Looking forward to updates and seeing how it goes.
 
I first started aff maketing/SEO back in 2007, on the Wickedfire marketing board.
Then in 2010, I went into financial publishing and started up a couple of investing newsletter websites with some very good micro-cap stock pickers.
In 2017 I started my own crypto-blog.
Six years later, that's just what I do, write on crypto and invest in crypto. I think I have been at least 5 or 6 corrections of 50% or more.
Why do I stay in crypto? Because that's where the money is.
If anybody else has crypto site, drop me a line or two.
cheers, Benji49
 
@Potatoe I'll check out Monumetric. I see very mixed reviews wrt Ezoic... some say they're great, some say they slow the site and impact Google ranking.

The site had pretty steady traffic and affiliate income since June of '22, which is when the owner last published any content. I'm going to have a lot of fun seeing where I can take the site this year. My first goal is to learn, learn, learn by getting in the game and putting real money on the line. Secondary is flipping the site.

DWYB said:
I've come across so many MFA/affiliate sites and mommy blogs that are crushing it and I can't help but think, "Why the f- not me too?" :D
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Yeah, me, too. Sometimes I'm scanning through Motion Invest, Flippa, Empire Flippers, etc. and asking myself why I'm not jumping in to make several affiliate sites just to flip as starter sites.

Looking forward to watching your progress!
 
Good morning to all
Ive been a graphic designer / print broker for the better part of 20 years
seo has really helped grow a few of my sites / businesses
looking to connect with some quality individuals who can help me take things to the next level
I appreciate Gnews for putting me on to this site
cheers
 
Hi all,

Found this forum through a Justin Charnell (what an inspiration) interview.
I'm an SEO Content Writer. I am currently studying in Medical School after retiring from being an Economist (I'm in my twenties still haha). I work on a colleague's website as an SEO content writer and link-building specialist. I also do some stuff as a freelancer and build my own websites.

My goal is to make $5000 monthly by the end of the year (currently at around $1000). In my country, that is enough to be considered rich. Not doing it for that reason, though. Just want to feel like I made it in the online business struggle.

Here are my 2023 goals:
  • Grow my 6-month-old website to 50K visitors monthly and join Mediavine. Get it to 2K monthly
  • Create a VPN website and turn it into a money-making machine. I'd settle for 1K monthly until December
  • Create a job board for a niche that is very profitable in my country. Surprisingly enough, no one has created it yet. Will need advice on this later.
Evidently, one can look at this and say that these are too many goals and that it's best to focus on one thing at a time. I would probably agree, but I'll give it a shot, still.

I'm counting on all your help, and if I can be of service, you can count on me as well!

Have an excellent year!
 
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Good morning to all
Ive been a graphic designer / print broker for the better part of 20 years
seo has really helped grow a few of my sites / businesses
looking to connect with some quality individuals who can help me take things to the next level
I appreciate Gnews for putting me on to this site
cheers
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Welcome to the board. It's much better than the other place
 
I'm an digital marketer based in Ireland, working mostly in the e-commerce space.

Decided to really deep dive into SEO the last year or so with some side projects which has led me to many many discussion boards and communities along the way.

I've come across this site a few times and thought its about time to jump in and contribute a bit.

Looking forward to being part of builder society.
 
Hello everyone,

I just discovered this forum the other day when I stumbled across the SEO Avalance Technique post by CCarter. After looking around a bit, and finding a lot more great content, I knew I had to join. Hopefully, I can learn enough to give back someday.

I am a 47-year-old software developer living in New Mexico with only a little IM/SEO experience. I've had several websites over the years but mixed success. Since it has always been a part-time thing eventually other responsibilities would force me to shut them down or sell them. I love everything about making and promoting websites so the plan has always been to someday get back into it.

That time has finally arrived and I launched my first new website in the travel/outdoors space about a month ago. I still have a lot to learn, and a lot of what I knew has changed, so I'm taking it slow but I plan to be in this for a long time.

Anyhow, I look forward to getting to know everyone and contributing where I can.
 
Hi all,

I'm starting at the very beginning. I was wanting to buy an existing site, but quickly found that good ones are out of my price range, so I started looking at building my own. I've been watching a lot of youtube videos on SEO and building niche sites, and saw Kyle Roof talking about the search avalanche post, and that's how I ended up here. Thinking my first step is probably get a domain, hosting, an ahrefs membership, and maybe some tool like Jasper to help write content faster. After that, get some easy to rank keywords and write, write, write. That's my big plan so far. :happy:
 
I come from a packaging design background and want to learn more about how I can grow a new agency/service with strategies outside my expertise.

In client services I've been ultra-specialized, I've only had SME wine brands and hospitality clients for which I sometimes would do all marketing/design functions. (portfolio is 15 years deep, lvl.2 somm) However, wine is unlike other CPG categories, you can't make more when it sells out. My work on wine label design and branding generally gets resented by some aspects of the market. It's been frustrating but also interesting to see how the brands grow through the years.

I'd like to move my specialty out a bit to Food & Beverage, particularly packaging and branding. I'm in California, wrapped up in the wine scene... How do I find a way out?

In progress
  • New service website where wine is a minor aspect.
  • Initial email outreach to distribute/retail/restaurants of brands created by or refreshed with helpful sales materials, point-of-sales, and presentations. What's my offer?
  • Content: Spoof rebrands and product mockups (Fruit Loops Hot Sauce), design/branding b2b analysis, not sure of b2c.
Excited to have found the forum!
 
Hey, all. I am a software engineer with 10 years of experience. I am always looking to make more smooth and streamline solutions. Have a great day.
 
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Hi all,

I'm starting at the very beginning. I was wanting to buy an existing site, but quickly found that good ones are out of my price range, so I started looking at building my own. I've been watching a lot of youtube videos on SEO and building niche sites, and saw Kyle Roof talking about the search avalanche post, and that's how I ended up here. Thinking my first step is probably get a domain, hosting, an ahrefs membership, and maybe some tool like Jasper to help write content faster. After that, get some easy to rank keywords and write, write, write. That's my big plan so far. :happy:
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Skip the AHREFS to start with. You can get a free account with them and with SEMRush that does a limited amount. ScreamingFrog will help, too. Yoast has a free version, as well. Go free until you get some experience and traffic and then use revenue from your site to pay for the tools.

Jasper or ChatGPT will help but be careful, Google is on to AI with some good detection (even if they don't now, they WILL get better at it and penalize you).

Definitely content content content! Make it helpful and value-add!
 
telaranatech said:
Skip the AHREFS to start with. You can get a free account with them and with SEMRush that does a limited amount. ScreamingFrog will help, too. Yoast has a free version, as well. Go free until you get some experience and traffic and then use revenue from your site to pay for the tools.

Jasper or ChatGPT will help but be careful, Google is on to AI with some good detection (even if they don't now, they WILL get better at it and penalize you).

Definitely content content content! Make it helpful and value-add!
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To be clear, I have no intention of using Jasper to write articles. My plan is to use it (or a similar tool) to help with creating outlines, new ideas, etc.
 
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