5 Serious Mistakes While Making Money On The Internet

In this small two-part series of articles I would like to address a total of 5 mistakes that should be avoided when making money on the Internet. Then it also works with the income.

Mistakes in Making Money on The Internet

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You Don't Start

A big problem that I see again and again is due to the hesitation for too long. Instead of getting started, people think about whether it is really worth it or not.

E.g. when creating niche websites. There are, of course, a few things that one should do before building a niche website. The analysis and selection of a good niche is very important. But that shouldn't be a thing to think about for weeks or months. Some people are forever looking for the perfect niche that simply doesn't exist.

In addition, many ponder whether they should really start. They worry that they may have invested 50 hours of their life by the end of it and the niche website is not going to be a success.

But when you consider how many countless hours most people waste on pointless things, I don't think that's an argument. And even if the first niche website is not a success (neither was mine), then you have learned a lot and gained so much important experience.

If you hesitate and don't start, you only waste time in which you could be further yourself and in which your own website could already have its first good rankings, e.g. in Google.

So get started! Not tomorrow, but today!

You Have No Plan

• Getting started quickly is important, but you should still know what you want to do.
  
  
• Simply creating a website from the gut and taking any other measures can bring something, but usually you will be far below the possible potential. Therefore, you should have a plan of exactly where you want to go and what you want to do step by step.
  
  
• So if you start a blog, for example, in addition to the topic, you should also think about what the competition looks like, which target group you want to address exactly, which content is useful for it, how often you can write new articles, which marketing measures you use, which sources of income make sense, etc.
  
  
• It's not about setting everything in stone, on the contrary. Of course, you learn a lot with the implementation and that affects your own plan, which is constantly adapting. Nevertheless, you should not start without a headache and without goals, as you will never know what you have already achieved and what is possible.
  
  

For You, Money is The Most Important Thing

If you want to make money on the Internet, money is of course important. But if you only think about money, you will often fail.

There is now also great competition on the Internet, especially because the costs for your own website are so low. To be successful here, you have to build something special and really stand behind it.

Of course, this costs effort and time and possibly money. In addition, you don't become successful on the Internet overnight; it is hard work.

Anyone who starts a website with the sole aim of making money will give up very quickly. I've seen that over and over again in recent years. Money as a motivation is not permanent, there has to be more.

You Don't Think About Your Visitors

1. This point is strongly related to the previous one. Unfortunately, there are many website operators and even bloggers who do not think about their own visitors. It is mainly optimized for Google and designed according to your own ideas, layout, content and monetization.

2. However, this is not optimal, because in the end, what counts most is whether the visitors / readers like your own website. These must have added value, because only then will they come back, buy something, click on advertising, etc.

3. Therefore it is important to think of the potential readers and to orient your own website primarily to them. Ideally, of course, you will find an intersection that you and the readers like.

4. Under no circumstances should you ignore your own visitors, because then it will be difficult to earn money on the Internet.

You Don't Obey The Rules

One of the reasons why the Internet is so interesting for making money is that you can be very flexible. It's easy to implement new ideas and be creative. But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't stick to a few rules if you want to be successful in the long term.

There are many website operators who think they can outsmart Google. Tricks of some kind on your own website or purchased links are used to try to get to the top in Google faster than would normally be the case.

But Google is becoming more and more intelligent and those who overdo it often find themselves at the bottom of the rankings with a penalty.

But the legal point of view must not be ignored either. The internet is no longer a legal free zone. In the past it wasn't, but today the prosecution of legal violations is much stricter and it is not for nothing that many lawyers have specialized in, for example, prosecuting copyright violations.

A single warning in the four-digit range can eat up the first income very quickly.

Those who stick to the rules, on the other hand, can build a stable and successful website over the long term and earn money. 

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