I'm not asking for a holding-hand guide here. I only want to get a fresh start with the right mindset and some glimpse of the path I should walk.
Back 12 years ago, I was doing a venture with a combination of content marketing and SEO in a high competition niche. The revenue model was affiliating. It was doing great until the ranking of the websites was gone.
I knew the right thing to do, but I still couldn't fix it. When your website is affected by Google's automated algorithm, you're doomed. It's hard to recover your old identity back when you have a criminal record. No matter how hard you tried, even with the correct method.
The worst choice in my life was when I decided to try to recover their ranking. I denied the idea of creating a new website in another niche that is easier to rank. It's because that niche paid well, but it's highly competitive and almost impossible to get a new site ranking even for a year unless you have super link quality like CNN linked to your website.
I spend all available resources for 3 years, but none of them work. I broke, and now I'm working under a small company helping with their website local SEO. While it could make a living and pay the debt, it generates only 5% of what my websites used to make. I used to have freedom and time, but now I haven't. The works made me feel like dying because of rotten from the inside.
I was trying to do side hustles like selling grilled pork in the flea market on weekends, trying drop shipping, started a blog. None of them succeed.
Of course, I tried to go the same model with the new websites in 2017 in the same niche. While the inner pages got their ranking but the homepage never got its rank with the main keyword. Therefore they are making only a fraction of money. Although the hard to rank the new domain compared to the aged in this particular niche is understandable. Still, this case made me doubt my SEO ability.
My questions.
I'm feeling doubt, overwhelmed with fears, and don't know where to begin now. I don't think my current SEO skills could give the client the specified results if I get the SEO job as a freelancer. That's why I asked about the other skills I should learn.
Thank you.
Back 12 years ago, I was doing a venture with a combination of content marketing and SEO in a high competition niche. The revenue model was affiliating. It was doing great until the ranking of the websites was gone.
I knew the right thing to do, but I still couldn't fix it. When your website is affected by Google's automated algorithm, you're doomed. It's hard to recover your old identity back when you have a criminal record. No matter how hard you tried, even with the correct method.
The worst choice in my life was when I decided to try to recover their ranking. I denied the idea of creating a new website in another niche that is easier to rank. It's because that niche paid well, but it's highly competitive and almost impossible to get a new site ranking even for a year unless you have super link quality like CNN linked to your website.
I spend all available resources for 3 years, but none of them work. I broke, and now I'm working under a small company helping with their website local SEO. While it could make a living and pay the debt, it generates only 5% of what my websites used to make. I used to have freedom and time, but now I haven't. The works made me feel like dying because of rotten from the inside.
I was trying to do side hustles like selling grilled pork in the flea market on weekends, trying drop shipping, started a blog. None of them succeed.
Of course, I tried to go the same model with the new websites in 2017 in the same niche. While the inner pages got their ranking but the homepage never got its rank with the main keyword. Therefore they are making only a fraction of money. Although the hard to rank the new domain compared to the aged in this particular niche is understandable. Still, this case made me doubt my SEO ability.
My questions.
- I'm not sure if I should continue learning SEO or acquire other skills that solve people's problems and give them results instead.
- Apart from SEO, what is the skill I should learn to gain traction again?
I'm feeling doubt, overwhelmed with fears, and don't know where to begin now. I don't think my current SEO skills could give the client the specified results if I get the SEO job as a freelancer. That's why I asked about the other skills I should learn.
Thank you.
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