So after a couple of years being at this, I’m just now really investing in building lists and getting social media savvy (unreal opportunity lost without these two things), and I wish someone told me sooner to:

A) SEO the daylights out of your site…

then…

B) Market it like there was no Google.

Not that I’ve not had great success with SEO, but you never know – and what could it hurt? More free traffic? It’s a win/win if you keep asking the question as you go along.

With that said, those who adhere to this principle, “build a business not a money maker”, will escape any misfortunes if something like that happens.
What do you think?

Nothing to link, or rank for. Internet is now alive.

I don’t know if this post was inspired by my comments on, “100k BluePrint Warning – Read This!” But it’s extremely important that webmasters do NOT rely on Google. I don’t know how many times I have had a site getting 100’s of visitors a day only to be slammed by Google overnight.

On your other post, I commented the following,

“Google has the right to do whatever they want, whenever they want to. Google could deindex your site or ban your AdSense account without warning.

For years, I was relying solely on Google for my income. It had me worried sick.

These days, I am capturing subscribers, making Youtube videos, promoting my site on Facebook, going to be doing offline promotion, using Twitter, and using Google Search. For the income revenue, I am using Team Beach Body, Clickbank, Amazon, etc.

The more you diversify, the less you will be hit if a company decides to ban you. I recommend that you all diversify your traffic and income streams.”

This post that you have written restates the point that I was trying to make. This is NOT just advice either, folks. This is something you MUST do if you’re going to be successful with this business.

LOL! I didn’t think of that – but now it’s stuck in my head!

– Vins

The problem is, Google is still alive and still getting that traffic… even though Google recently dropped one of my websites from it’s first page. I have no idea why or how to get it back to the first page. Traffic has gone from 50 visits per day down to 2. Doesn’t figure!

But I’m just wondering: What are some alternatives to relying exclusively on Google?

Put another way, could you develop a profitable online business WITHOUT relying Google (or even giving Google a second thought). I don’t think its possible, but perhaps I may stand corrected.

I definitely agree that we can’t just rely on Google and cower in fear of the decisions they make. I’ve seen a lot of people’s online business destroyed by changes in Google algos and there’s really no need for that.

It’s important to remember that there are other ways to get traffic to your sites, too. WordPress, blogger, squidoo, etc, have lots of traffic and internal searches that you can make use of.

Thanks for the timely reminder!

i belive that google optimizations are god for short-time efforts, quality content and reasonable god keywords are a longterm story 😉 longterm tactics need reliability and like their name suggests: are developing slowly but steady.

if a marketier does not expect to much, like getting rich over night 😉 sells honest products and just does his god old handwork 🙂 he can be a happy person for a long time.

i do think that is “THE master trick” to trick around that ugly google trapp.

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Yes we need to remember Google is not the only one on the block. Yahoo, Bing etc………….

And yes I do agree………quality content is king.

Thanks for the post Jennifer!