It has been slightly more than a year since I started to get involved in internet marketing. From starting my first blog, to coming up with my first website, I’d say my journey is a fun but not a very rewarding one so far.
I am going to share my experience for this one year and I am going to end this blog’s origninal direction. They say ‘Fake It Till You Make It’. I’ve learned that this does not apply to me in my online journey.
Anyway, I’m just going to share my experience for this one year and start this blog from a different approach.
My experience:
My first site http://www.visiting-singapore.com started from SiteBuildIt. I paid for a one-year fee and started learning about how internet marketing works. Then I decided to select info marketing and started my site.
I learned about selecting niches, about keywords, about how to drive traffic. I began enthusiastically going around Singapore to take photos for my site. I used the block by block site builder as I was not familiar with html. I was so excited about my site when it finally appeared on the internet, page by page and even more so when it started appearing in google for some keywords. Nevertheless, what I am earning out of this site (mainly Adsense) is not enough to ensure its continuation. Hence, with effect from March this year, I transferred it to a fellow SBIer and I trust it will be in better care. It is doing great now as I continue to monitor its pageranks and Alexa results.
My second site http://changewifme.com started in July 2009. This was my continuation of my internet marketing exploration. I was told to start a blog, so I started one with wordpress.com. I updated stuff like the changes I was going through, the books I read, the decisions I made and some other stuff. Then, I learned that on wordpress.com sites you can’t put Adsense. So I learned about buying a domain name for my blog and learned how to migrate my wordpress.com blog to wordpress.org.
My third site http://empoweringday.com (this site) – This is a continuation of my previous site. I wanted to make it like a personal development blog and share stuff about personal development. I put some Adsense scripts on it and hoped for it to make me some money. Alas, you can’t get money without traffic. As you are reading now (if you happen to be reading), I rarely update this blog now. It is this blog that lets me see that I should not be blogging about something that does not interest me as it will bring me no where. Hence, I am redefining my interests and niches. I will have to relearn what I have learned and start from scratch. Luckily for me, I am still passionate about making money online and because of what I have learned, I am certain that I can eventually do it. I just need to continue to believe that my believe will become a reality.
I will stop blogging about empowering stuff on this blog. No more fake it till you make it stuff. Instead, from this point onwards, it will just be a diary for me to document my online journey. Just pure, honest updates. I will update what I know about Internet Marketing and the steps I take every day as I work online. I believe that my hosting expires in September this year and I hope that by then, I am already making money online.
Currently I own two other sites and I will be spending some time to build them. Both are niches of my interest although they are highly competitive.
I have learned much from the Internet in this year and I know that I have been making beginner’s mistakes – Not focused on my business and jumping from niche to niche. Hence, I have decided to put my focus to only two things – to stay focused on my two sites and to learn all I can about search engine optimization/marketing.
I have also chanced on a membership site that seems to give good value. I am undecided if I should join but I will certainly check out the site (non-member portion) first.
With this, I end empoweringday.com and I shall embark on a new beginning.
