My second only, and maybe last, entry.
I've hit the wall big time. The site I had wasn't working according to the business model. I was mostly done with the third module and got to the point where doing what Kyle said just wasn't appropriate for the type of site I had. It was just a movie review site where I wasn't trying to sell anything. I was just talking about movies because that's what I know and love. But I was never out to sell the movies I talked about. That being said, the handful of movies I did review, I put hyperlinks to Amazon Instant Video because I signed up with the Amazon Associate program. According to the training though, putting hyperlinks on every page means that Google views my site as nothing more than a bridge page, which means I'll have a hard time getting ranked, therefore traffic, therefore money. So that's one.
I also am struggling with depression right now. the reason I started this in the first place was to get out of my rat race job, which stresses me out like crazy and only ever feeds my depression. I come home completely robbed of all will and motivation to work on this little project. I thought about starting over from scratch and just doing it the "regular" way of picking a random product in a popular niche. Is that what we're supposed to do all along? I thought we were going to be able to take our passion and turn that into a business. My passion for movies doesn't seem to translate well into this business model. At least this is how I'm perceiving all of this. When I get depressed as I am now, I have a tendency to beat myself up and only see the worst in everything I do, which leads me to the next part.
I'm totally giving up, at least for now. I am completely discouraged from doing working on WA. The information is great and the training is fantastic, but as I said, I have no will to really come home and make this work. I have rationalized a number of great reasons for making this work, but my heart and my head just aren't aligned; and I don't know how to make my passion for movies work for me within the scope of WA, as I was never trying to sell any of the movies I was watching & reviewing.
I'm also writing all this out because I'm looking to ask for advice. Has anyone else ever hit this kind of block before? Does anyone else out there struggle with depression, and when it hits, does it prevent you from doing what you'd like to do? How do you break through the wall?
Thanks for reading, and sorry to be such a downer. I hope this doesn't prevent you from enjoying the rest of your day!
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Only you can choose to succeed or fail. I hope you haven't already made up your mind and you decide to stick around and give yourself another shot at success. I'll be here.
ROCK ON!
E
Hi Roger,
Don't despair. We all reach a point of despair and self doubt. Movies are a passion for you and something good for you to do. OK you didn't want to sell movies. What did you want to do?
There is always more than 1 way to skin a cat. Kyle warns about too many external links but you need external links to make money. The placement of your links can be important. If your link is high on your page, then you are sending people away before they read your site. You can hit them with where to buy at the end. You can have a page about where to buy movies. Then refer to this internal page in your post. You've only been at this since August. What do you expect. It takes hard work and a certain amount of luck to get visitors to your site and have it ranked. Are you using Jaaxy to look up keywords you can use.
DON"T GIVE UP!!!
Saul