Interesting piece on Hubspot. I have nothing to add to it. A lot of us made a ton of cash jamming Google. Some of us still do. Just thought a few of you would like to read the article since...
Confessions of a Google Spammer
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Interesting piece on Hubspot. I have nothing to add to it. A lot of us made a ton of cash jamming Google. Some of us still do. Just thought a few of you would like to read the article since...
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Hello, I made a lot of money previously but spent it all and never built anything sustainable. I dreamed of working a dayjob at Google, but got rejected. Now I am happy to hang out with people who never made money and gush over whiteboard fridays and trendy beards. I am now inbound marketer, linkbuiling is now citation promotion, SEO is dead, Google please reconsider and hire me maybe.
I loved when this post was published and shared so much. I also love the fact that Mat Cutts is 'gone' and the whole "war on spam" (as well as "war on google" from the other side) is not public anymore. Enough of that circus full of clowns who thought they are acrobats.
Let's just all quietly make money, SEO is dead, please and thank you.
Hello, I made a lot of money previously but spent it all and never built anything sustainable. I dreamed of working a dayjob at Google, but got rejected. Now I am happy to hang out with people who never made money and gush over whiteboard fridays and trendy beards. I am now inbound marketer, linkbuiling is now citation promotion, SEO is dead, Google please reconsider and hire me maybe.
I loved when this post was published and shared so much. I also love the fact that Mat Cutts is 'gone' and the whole "war on spam" (as well as "war on google" from the other side) is not public anymore. Enough of that circus full of clowns who thought they are acrobats.
Let's just all quietly make money, SEO is dead, please and thank you.
Most of our users were ranking high for big affiliate keywords. I even got my electrician buddy’s website in New Jersey to rank in first place for the keyword "electrician" just for fun. I could literally rank first page for any keyword I wanted to with about 5 minutes of effort.
If this were true, why deal with the paypal shit and instead just rank for the keywords himself? He and his partner could have made much, much money more ranking their own sites for high-paying keywords , or bypassing WF and directly contacting lawyers and other high-priced clients for SEO services. There are so many ways they could have done this better.
It was absolutely 100% true.
I'm not saying his decision was right, but here's another way to look at it.
Making a lot of other people a whole shit ton of money can be a very low hassle and highly scalable business model.
Logistics is a bitch. You only have so much time in a day. Sometimes selling shovels is better then digging holes even if the holes are yielding gold there's a lot of hassle in staking out and managing gold claims that makes it inherently less scalable then selling shovels to the masses.