Post your biggest online marketing mistake

Like the title says, post away people, let me learn so I don't make old mistakes!

 

mine was years ago when i bought a domain name, i then spent weeks developing the site and then when i came to launching the site i realised i had bought the domain name with a spelling mistake, i was 16 so thats my excuse.

 

Im fairly new but the biggest mistake i made was with a site i had were i didnt put prices.. it still converted but if i would have put the prices my sales probaly would have doubled

 

I had many mistakes so I don't know which one is the biggest.

When I reliaze that I should target words which are frequently searched I choosed one with 700.000 searches at Yahoo.

should I say that it is mission almost impossible to get rank for it?

 

Spending money on adwords. I won't do this again .. I can spend the money in another way

 

Lack of niche research

 

hidden keywords - never read google rules & got banned- yeah I know my fault!!

luckily they re instated me within 2 days & didnt lose my PR etc

wouldn't ever do it again!

 

Mine was thinking that simply placing a great idea onto a website would sell itself... Figured out later that's not true

People have to be able to find your great idea.

 

putting too much work into "me too" sites and not enough into the original ones.

 

Buying cheap traffic from Quality Traffic Supply and Redirected Visitors. NONE of those visitors (if they were even actual people) spent more than 5 seconds on my site.

I had heard plenty of times that cheap traffic is scammy but I went ahead and tried it anyway, just so I could be certain. Sure enough, it was a waste of money.

 

Don't worry mate, that is something I would be more than capable of doing myself!

 

Oh gosh, where should I start

- I paid $350 for an add on a site that should have brought me traffic. I got 11 visitors for the $350 and no conversions.

- forgetting to put a daily limit on my adwords account ($400 later... I realized it!)..

- spending way to much money on adbrite.. ugh.. rarely have got conversions from it.. (obviously not doing that anymore)

- buying script when I have no clue how to implement it LOL! and having to pay more to get it installed.

But, now that I"ve gone through some of those,, I know what not to do and more of what to do!! Gotta learn somehow

Cheers,
Lindz

 

Joining clicksor.

 

I got a client's PR7 site removed from Google

The client asked me to do some split-testing with a service I'd never worked with before. Their code for switching pages contained a NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW tag for the switching page. I copied this code onto their homepage to be used in the split-test.

A few days into the test, traffic started falling, and when I investigated I found the errant code, which I promptly pulled. It was a tense week before their rankings came back.

Of course, now I have them on the right track, possibly to a PR8 this update. Oh, and I'm finding them a new A/B service.

 

Talking about first website, I had spend one month in building a really nice site using my all skills and was hoping to make "fortune" ot of it but it didn't made any. It was on WEB HOSTING Now I can just laugh on this

 

Hidden text, need I say more?!

Got a site banned from Google for 2 months. Removed it and all was well with the world!

You live and learn. Thankfully it wasn't my site

As my dad often says 'it could have been worse, it could have happened to me!'

 

Not researching my niche well enough.

 

I have made so many mistakes where do I begin?

Not tracking links and advertising...

Not staying focused...

Spending a lot of money on hype...

Didn't do enough research...

Spent to much time reading instead of taking action.

These were some of my downfalls

Lynn

 

What do you mean by hidden text?

 

i did not care about 2-tier affiliate programs at start , but then later on found its easiest way to make great income