Newbie Question(s) so dumb, you're afraid to even ask!

Dumb question: Where do people normally funnel their earnings/set up their structure? Sole proprietorship, corporation, or other?
 
Faust said:
Dumb question: Where do people normally funnel their earnings/set up their structure? Sole proprietorship, corporation, or other?
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Register an LLC in your own state. It's honestly not worth the effort of doing anything fancier until you need to. Eventually, register an LLC in Delaware and then offshore in Barbados (it's better imo than other options). Or just run away to Thailand like most affiliates and never pay taxes. I know too many guys who have made 6-7 figures in affiliate commissions and not paid a single penny in tax (yet.. RIP)
 
Prentzz is spot on. Start with an LLC as your legal entity and financial vehicle. At the point you need to grow beyond that and diversify your operation, you will likely have reached the point that you are paying a professional to help you make those decisions.
 
Dumb Question: What methods would you recommend to index new links quickly if you are unable to let them be crawled organically?
 
Get traffic to the pages or just go into Webmaster tools, use the Google Fetch option and submit your link. Then choose the option to crawl all links on the page (only get 10 of those per month though).

Oh wait, hah. Just realized you said, "can't let them". I thought you said "can't get them". So my answer may not apply. Leaving it though in case anyone else needs to know.
 
I have a newb question... what do you guys do about ad blockers? I use one myself due to a handful of sites I frequent that literally would be impossible to use without one but then it stays on a lot of the time when Im browsing elsewhere.

I was going to post a question about how a certain site monetizes but realized I was just blocking all their shit :confused:. Having said that, I still see ads on other sites so is there a coding work around Im not aware of? Or just diversify monetization techniques enough that some stick and some dont?

I will look into it more myself later but figured I would ask the forum first.
 
gasmonkeygarage said:
what are door way pages?
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These are posts, usually database generated, meant to eat up keyword real estate in the SERPs. They offer nothing of value (which is why Google is against them), but act as a "doorway" into the real part of the website. It's a traffic grab, basically, based on volume rather than quality.
 
Hi,

Wondering how you transition from monthly PBN's if you are on a tight client budget. The niche is hyper competitive and they want results yesterday. Outreach hasn't borne any fruit whatsoever.
 
pixeo said:
Hi,

Wondering how you transition from monthly PBN's if you are on a tight client budget. The niche is hyper competitive and they want results yesterday. Outreach hasn't borne any fruit whatsoever.
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I think the thing here is you need to charge more. I know that sounds tough but 'hyper competitive' + 'tight budget' doesn't work for anything 'clean' where you have to do tons of work (lots of manual outreach and awesome linkbait, for example).

Sometimes you just have to charge what you're worth and turn away things that won't work otherwise. I mean obviously if they're happy with PBNs you might just need to get them to pay for a bit more on the PBN link side... or more/better on site work/content from you - it might not be an enormous hike but you're definitely going to need more money because 'better work that's cheaper than a PBN' doesn't exist - unless you want to do it for them for $3/hour!
 
Wow, glad to see this thread is still active! I have been gone since Feb. But, today, I am back! My "other job" is project based, and it's kind of all-or-nothing. That's something I am really going to have to figure out how to deal with and balance going forward. Anyway, I am pressing RESET, and I am starting again at Day 1. False Start. Do over. Here we go!!!!
 
gasmonkeygarage said:
is google doubledlick the same as google adsense?
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I have never worked with it, I can only try to make a simple explanation, so don't quote me on this.
However, I have always understood and seen it as; DoubleClick is for the big boys and AdSense is for everyone else.
AdSense is a publisher while DoubleClick is an ad manager (I guess a better comparison is DoubleClick <> AdWords).
DoubleClick is aimed towards big brands with "huge and advanced" advertisement campaigns, whereas AdSense/AdWords is for "everyone else" (deadly people; individuals and businesses who just want to sell or buy some ads).

Please correct me if I am wrong.
 
My achilles hill is coding (html, css, etc..), I absolutely hate the thought of it but I know I need to learn to code to even have a chance at this affiliate marketing game. I have practiced and html and css are pretty intuitive so I am confident about my ability to master those it's just the other higher level stuff I'm dreading. I work for a very tiny apartment complex (less than 50 units) that is for low-income tenants and I have free reign to do what I want. I decided to create a social media presence for our community for the benefit of the community as well as to give me a chance to practice, so I plan to register the domain name for the community and practice building a site using html/css on wordpress. Once I can break through this I know the sky's the limit as to what I can do with online marketing as I have so many good ideas, just have to learn the language of the web to display my ideas.
 
Coney said:
I need to learn to code to even have a chance at this affiliate marketing game.
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Let me stop you right there, I don't think that's a true premise.

Props for having a plan to get some practice and experience with the things you're dreading, but if this is really your Achilles's heel, it's honestly not something you need to get very proficient at whatsoever, and definitely not something you need to dread becasue it can more or less be avoided altogether.

It's not a bad idea to have a basic understanding of html/css so you can make tweaks to your themes and such, I just want to let you know you might be putting too much importance on it, and creating an obstacle the doesn't need to be there.
 
@Potatoe

Thanks for the reply Potatoe. I had tried to put up an affiliate Alibaba site some time ago and I got stopped in my tracks on the coding so I gave up in frustration. Now I think it was just a case of me not knowing the basics so your point would still stand. I just want to get to the point where I can manage all of my sites myself from a design standpoint and not have to outsource it since that costs $$$. You have given me a boost this morning though as it is good to know that this is not as big or an obstacle as I thought. I have read the Digital Crash Course and I already have experience with registering domain names, installing wordpress and working with themes so I am not a total lost cause! lol.
 
Glad it isn't just me who doesn't understand the difference between Adsense and Doubleclick... I've been using Adsense for years but still didn't understand the difference. Haha - guess that's why I'm here!
 
DoubleClick: Ad management platform. You can create "banners" or "spaces" for your sites, and fill those blanks with several ad networks (AdSense, your own banners, etc).

AdSense: Google's own ad network.
 
I actually wonder what this forum is exactly about, I got referred by somebody on 4chan in a thread that was about affiliate marketing, is that the main theme of this forum?

Furthermore, I found the "Digital Strategy Crash Course" interesting,

Is this a sort of guide on affiliate marketing, or rather about selling your product? I think it's a very good guide, but it misses the complete picture, what is it that you're actually doing.
 
gadsie said:
I actually wonder what this forum is exactly about, I got referred by somebody on 4chan in a thread that was about affiliate marketing, is that the main theme of this forum?
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The main theme is "Online Business," although we're happy to discuss offline brick-and-mortar business as well. Affiliate marketing is encapsulated within the main theme of the forum.

Furthermore, I found the "Digital Strategy Crash Course" interesting,

Is this a sort of guide on affiliate marketing, or rather about selling your product? I think it's a very good guide, but it misses the complete picture, what is it that you're actually doing.
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It doesn't miss the picture. It IS the picture. What you're talking about is a problem of scope. It's like walking around your kitchen, digging through the pantry and cupboards, asking where your house is.

The Crash Course covers everything related to operating a business and earning a living online. That includes, but isn't limited to affiliate marketing. It is all completely relevant to affiliate marketing, which most people think of as "build a site, do some SEO, buy some paid ads," but the guide shows how limited that worldview is and how there's so much more in our arsenal we can be using to connect the buyer to the seller and have all three parties be happy.

But we're not always the intermediary (affiliate) either. Lot's of us here are the sellers, the drop-shippers, content and media creators, front-end & back-end coders and developers, media buyers... it goes on and on.

Basically, this forum and the crash course both are analogues of the landscape itself. Which hill you want to climb is up to you, but you'll eventually need to know about all of them and use techniques from them all.

Welcome aboard!
 
Thanks Ryuzaki! I wasn't trying to criticise the course by the way, just saying that I found it a bit confusing. To me it seemed a bit like a guide made from the assumption that you already have a pretty good understand of the subject, which perhaps it was. What I would've really liked is if it was more like "There are these options: selling a product, affiliate marketing etc etc., and you can do each one like this or like this". Of course, I understand that this would be spoon-feeding and one should figure it out themselves.
 
gadsie said:
What I would've really liked is if it was more like "There are these options: selling a product, affiliate marketing etc etc., and you can do each one like this or like this".
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There is a day dedicated to different monetization opportunities on the internet that can help you with exactly that: Day 9 - Monetization
 
gadsie said:
Thanks Ryuzaki! I wasn't trying to criticise the course by the way, just saying that I found it a bit confusing. To me it seemed a bit like a guide made from the assumption that you already have a pretty good understand of the subject, which perhaps it was. What I would've really liked is if it was more like "There are these options: selling a product, affiliate marketing etc etc., and you can do each one like this or like this". Of course, I understand that this would be spoon-feeding and one should figure it out themselves.
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There's a concise quote I think can help perfectly put in perspective some of the general themes at work with BuSo, the Digital Strategy Guide, the members, the nature of our discourse...
"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?"
-Sun Tzu
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It is certainly a change of pace from the average marketing community to be sure. The average digital marketer coming across the Digital Strategy Guide for the first time is sure to experience a healthy dose of system shock. One of the greatest difficulties in any business endeavor is making a choice from the multitude of choices available, and then focusing time, energy and resources towards building success from it. These are, after all, business decisions.

The guide can give you glimpses of what's possible, so that you can step closer towards confidently making a choice and applying it aggressively. There are Builders here who work for or have worked with Fortune 500 (and probably Fortune 50) companies. Some Builders have produced SAAS platforms that have revolutionized entire industries. Many are world class affiliate ballers. Some are thought leaders. The possibilities are endless.

As tough as it is, try to fight through the ambiguity you might be feeling and just start chipping away at the guide. Take LOTS of notes! Write down every question you can think of about things you're not sure about. It's a process, but one that rewards one's self in the long run.
 
Hey lads I'm pretty fresh to the Online Marketing game and have some retarded basic questions...

I recently added SSL to my niche site and switched from http to https domain.
In my Google search console my website is added as http, I couldnt find an option to switch to https there so I just added my https as another site there... Is this okay? I now have 2 sites with different data for basically the same webpage in my Search Console. Is it possible to combine the 2 webpages in Search Console so that I can see all the data for my webpage?
Also the search results for my https are completly different in rankings, keywords, etc. in Search Console data than for my http domain...
 
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