This will not be a long post because I will only point out a few things I have noticed since I started this blog (well, call it website, I don’t really like the term “blog”).

I have not started this site believing I could make great amounts of money with it. When I started it a few months back, I was way beyond the “make money with your Internet Marketing site” phase. This is a niche that’s way too crowded. I don’t really try very hard to promote it either. I rank decently for a few terms, but that’s about it. If rankings for important key phrases are going to come, good. If not, that’s good also.

I hear you saying “Get to the chase already”. Ok, here we go: it’s obvious that I am not a known expert and getting acknowledgment in the Internet Marketing circles is way down below in my list of priorities. However, when I make a post about a specific technique that I’m using, I see copycats appearing like mushrooms after the rain.

I don’t mean that they copy the style. They copy the exact keywords! After I explained about how to make niche sites that pay their own rent and I gave the site about the Hoover u5140 as an example, a bunch of other sites about that exact model appeared instantly. The same thing happened to the Spinmaster Air Hogs car and Cranium Hullabaloo.

Now, don’t get me wrong: I’m not complaining about the competition, I don’t really care that sites that compete against me appeared all of the sudden. The problem is that people do not like to think for themselves and this is one of the main reasons why people do not make money online. If you don’t develop creative thinking, if you don’t learn how to discover good niches yourself and if you don’t constantly refine your strategies and techniques, you will never make money online.

This is probably one of the main reasons why scammers and Internet Marketing gurus (a term which I detest by the way) thrive in the online environment. People don’t really like to think for themselves, they want others to do it for them. If you adhere to this mentality, you will surely be just another victim of the gurus and what’s even worse, making money online will always be just a dream for you.

By the way, the commissions generated by that Hoover site amount to a total of $27.71 up until today but the site will continue to produce sales for many months to come. I know it’s not much, but it was only 30 minutes of work and the main reason behind creating this website is to support bigger projects. You can create hundreds of these mini sites, as there are tons of products you can promote at Amazon.