My Online Business

These are the experiences and lessons I have gained from running my online business.

by Unemployed Dad
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By July 19, 2012

Finally! A couple of my affiliate websites are showing a trickle of improvement after the Penguin disaster of April 24th. Oddly enough, the one that has come back the most is one that I recently quit working on because I thought the situation was hopeless!

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By June 28, 2012

Well, the latest efforts to save my dying business have failed. As the title suggests, I have been experimenting with paid traffic over the past few weeks. Unfortunately none of the projects have been profitable. I learned some new lessons, but I need money more than lessons right now.

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By June 19, 2012

Not much has changed in my world since the Google Panda updates. The websites which had produced steady revenues for years are still dragging at the bottom of the search results. A couple weeks ago I made the decision to stop tweaking them and move on to other ventures. I have yet to see any credible information on how to recover from Panda, so instead I am trying to build new income streams.

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By June 4, 2012

I am investing a lot of time and effort into my local lead generation site recently. Even though I prefer a more hands-off business model, the fact that I can use different marketing strategies with local services is a big bonus.

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By May 7, 2012

When will the carnage end? After watching Google’s pandas methodically cut huge chunks of my search engine traffic I finally got knocked out by their latest penguin update.

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