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Originally Posted by fuzebox
I've been having a great couple of months... I just keep building new sites and trying out new traffic sources and I grow every month.
I didn't start making decent sales until 2006 though so I don't have anything to compare to... I always had to work hard to make my sales, and the harder I work the more I make.
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I've been around long enough to have seen a few different shifts in the business. When I first started in 1998 altavista was the big search engine and I figured out that you could build a page that had a few pictures and just spam your keyword over and over on the page then submit it. They would list you within 48 hours. After a little tweaking I figured out how to get into the top 20 for a bunch of different keywords. Sometimes the listing would last a day sometimes a week then it would disappear from the index or fall so low it was useless. That was no worry, I just made 50 of these a day and hammered altavista with them. After about a year and a half of that they changed how they accepted submits and killed that off so the gravy train dried up. So I had to change and started doing TGP galleries and free sites. That is still something that can make money, but you have to be good at it because now you need to buy submit passes to just about anywhere that has any decent amount of traffic. So things changed again. Now we have the tubes and while I am still convinced that the tubes will eventually eat themselves and be forced into some major changes they are taking away a lot of traffic from some sites. So it is time to change again.
The only constant in this business is change. So you are doing the exact correct things. Experiment and see how it works. When you find something that works duplicate it. Eventually that may stop working so don't panic, just go back to the drawing board.