TraderScooter

Self employed content creator with a handful of websites and YouTube channels. It’s not as chaotic as you might think! 🤪😄

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@NinaClapperton Not cringy at all! It’s a legit fear IMHO.

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Small wins add up. Consistency usually beats intensity in the long run.

Story of my entrepreneurial career so far. No home runs, but lots of singles and doubles... and perhaps the occasional triple :)

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@MorganOMedia @CyrusShepard Same. I’m of the opinion that display ads were one of the factors that led to being hit by the HCU. It wasn’t the only factor of course (because some sites with ads survived), but it played a big part IMHO.

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@CharlestonCraft I’m still 100% all in on that website (because it’s my passion). But to help pay the bills, I’m going back to on an old digital product business that I set aside a few years ago - which has held up well over the past few years without me even touching it. Fingers crossed!

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@AnneMossYeys @NicheSiteLady This. I fully believe they will severely restrict reach to Gmail addresses at some point.

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@Jake_Boly @glenngabe Seeing the same thing. I didn’t think the SERPs could get any worse than what we were seeing prior to the August update, but here we are. I’m truly convinced something is broken at this point (and they don’t know how to fix it).

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September has been weird so far. Traffic on all channels (websites and YT channels) are normal, but digital product sales and email subscriber signups are way down. Like more than 60%.

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@nichesitesmel Careful. Going all in on Facebook is just as dangerous as going all in on SEO at this point.

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@terryvanhorne @lilyraynyc @ViperChill This is my theory as well

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@Jake_Boly @MorganOMedia @lilyraynyc Ditto.

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@nir_alony @DarrenShaw_ Totally agree. It’s pretty much useless in this post HCU world.

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@NicheSiteLady Why cars?

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@MattGiovanisci Not too much - I’m enjoying the new format. Just make sure you don’t burn yourself out!

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@rmstein Seriously Robby? You’re proud of the fact that you and your team have built a tool that will destroy the livelihoods of tens of thousands of independent creators (who have families to feed)? Ripping off the work of others (and boasting about it) is nothing to be proud of.

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@hardmanbs “It’s not until you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything” - Tyler Durden

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@MartinHudon4 @aleyda @lilyraynyc 123rf and thedrive are not “young sites with low authority.” Both are huge and have been around for a long time.

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@lilyraynyc @sistrix Wow, there are some pretty big names on that list - some of which I visit on a regular basis (because the content is so good). Yikes.

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@hakukonevelhot @lilyraynyc Not to pile on, but…wrong. 😄 I don’t even use it anymore. There are so many other (better) analytics tools out there that it’s not even worth the frustration.

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@MorganOMedia @matthewmarley @kristileilani I agree about the ad networks. They are as much to blame for this as the “gurus” are IMHO.