Introductions Thread

Ryuzaki said:
Welcome to the club. I appreciate all of the work your team does in getting us some great links.

Do you have an interesting history in marketing (online or offline)? Are you working on any projects currently, unrelated to your service? I'd love to hear about them.
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Thanks for the kind words!
I wouldn't say my history is super interesting.. I guess, back in the day when we were doing consulting in the drug & alcohol rehab space I have some stories but I'm not sure the NDA is over yet, lol.

We do have a couple projects on the side we're working - I've been interested in making a publishing brand for a while, and we're working on a site in the skin care arena tailored towards that. Lots of cool (and disgusting) topics to cover!

I did just finally close on a house last Friday, if that is interesting to anybody. It was quite the ordeal. If you're young reading this - take your credit seriously!! be financially (somewhat) responsible! It is amazing how quickly your life can change and all of a sudden you need to make things happen. Years ago I was terrible with money (no bankruptcies, chargeoffs, judgements etc. Just lateee payments), and even with it being 5+ years ago I had a hell of a time getting qualified for a mortgage and throwing in being "self employed" made it even more fun.

Oh, I thought of a story. One time I was researching leads in the pest control niche, and found that a competitor had put a "directory" of every single one of their clients on a pest control guy's website - and this directory was in every single one of their clients' site as well. So, The young man I was, I decided to email every single one of their clients and show them what their SEO Agency was up to. Basically, they were trying to spread authority around all of their clients' sites and it was a super shitty move imo.. Anyways, of the 250+ businesses I emailed I did not get a single lead - only a few pissed off voicemails from the agency's CEO threatening litigation.

Quick said:
Hey Garrett love your podcast SEO Unmasked you do with @Steve Brownlie and @stackcash . I try to listen every week (usually when I'm bored at work haha..) Pretty entertaining and I learn a lot from hearing what you guys have to say so thanks and keep it up!
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Thanks Miss Quick! If you ever have any questions you'd like us to cover on the show please let us know, we're always looking for more to talk about.

ks1905 said:
I’m working my way through your 24 hours of SEO for charity on your YouTube show. Lots of great interviews, I’m surprised that your guests gave away so many of their secrets.
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Glad to hear you're watching everything! I need to go through and rewatch them myself.

Yes, it was absolutely fantastic to hear some of the tips that were being given away. I think a lot of the information would never have been discussed - even at paid for events - if it weren't for a good cause.
 
ks1905 said:
I’m working my way through your 24 hours of SEO for charity on your YouTube show. Lots of great interviews, I’m surprised that your guests gave away so many of their secrets.
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Is there a link to that?
 
Yo... I joined this forum years ago. I was an active member of a forum before this one, but the owner went full retard and everyone moved here (iirc it was called Black Hat something...).

When i joined here I also joined a private BH forum and spent the last few years making my living from Black Hat shenanigans.

But that BH is so fucking up and down man, Im sick of it, so am going full on white hat.

Once I get approved to post throughout the forum I will start a follow along thread for my WH authority site projects.

But for now just saying hello

Quick note about my WH site. The niche is picked, domain is registered and indexed. I am working away on KW's and content and also building some nice, starter links following this post:

https://www.serpwoo.com/blog/experts/increasing-your-domains-trust/

I scraped the URLs, deleted the defunct ones, here is the list in case anyone wants some nice WH links to build for a new site:

Code: 
https://www.facebook.com/
https://twitter.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.google.com/business/
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://www.pinterest.com/
https://www.reddit.com/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
https://vimeo.com/
https://www.tumblr.com/
http://instagram.com/
https://disqus.com/
https://www.slideshare.net/
https://www.yelp.com/
http://www.dailymotion.com/us
https://soundcloud.com/
https://www.behance.net/
https://www.diigo.com/
https://www.scribd.com/
https://www.deviantart.com/
https://about.me/
https://moz.com/
https://storify.com/
https://pro.iconosquare.com/
https://www.crunchbase.com/
http://www.scoop.it/
https://www.instapaper.com/
https://www.wattpad.com/
https://envato.com/
https://www.rebelmouse.com/
https://aboutus.com/
http://www.authorstream.com/
https://www.pearltrees.com/

I will get links from as many as these as possible as I let my domain age and my content be created.
 
Fat Harry White said:
I was an active member of a forum before this one, but the owner went full retard and everyone moved here (iirc it was called Black Hat something...).
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You must be talking about Agent "Crack" Hat and Black Hat Underground, where for a monthly fee you could submit and answer your own questions and wonder where the owner was at. I lurked it right after Wickedfire pulled the exact same stunt. "Here, pay me money and you can have access to your own content!"

Fat Harry White said:
But that BH is so fucking up and down man, Im sick of it, so am going full on white hat.
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I started out doing mass spam back when it was viable. It was a walk in the park back then. Nowadays it'll give you a heart attack and anxiety disorder. I do just as well now with white hat projects, but it took years to ramp back up to where I could get much more quickly with spam.

The problem is, besides losing your properties and income, is that the time frame between ranking and getting penalized and deindexed is a lot tighter than it was. You spend more time churning out decent properties only to lose them, than you do building a giant white hat authority site.
 
Fat Harry, welcome aboard. Your story is similar to most, I'd think, if they've been in the game long enough. Nearly everyone started out with link spam because it was so easy, why not. Fortunes were made. But nothing sucked worse than losing your entire network of sites and PBN's when Google looked you over with a fine-tooth comb. I did that a couple times before I just couldn't handle that stress any more.

I was building the nicest sites but was building them faster than I could possibly get decent links to them, so I spammed and lost some great properties. That was back when everyone preached "diversify your sites," but that never mattered because if you went hard enough, they never deindexed just one site. They got all of them.

So we might as well have built just one monster site. And when you do that the problem of getting links to a ton of sites solves itself. White hat authority sites are definitely the way to go in SEO. I sleep better knowing I'm not shitting up the internet with spam links and knowing I'm not under threat of losing my sites. Also, I like contributing high quality content and actually educating people. It all feels so much better than being than chasing money, and the side effect is you earn more money by providing value.

Glad to have you around and look forward to your follow along.
 
"Agent "Crack" Hat and Black Hat Underground"
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Hahaha yeah that was it. It was a shame it went FUBAR, but it lead to this so its all good.

"It all feels so much better than being than chasing money, and the side effect is you earn more money by providing value."
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Yeah this really appeals to me. My first niche is one I love and also potentially lucrative which is really exciting.

Thanks for the likes and repliesa guys, I now have enough credit to start my case study thread:

https://www.buildersociety.com/thre...ty-site-to-escape-the-bh-roller-coaster.3801/
 
Its good to finally find a good IM forum again. Also good to see a lot of familiar names here. A friend referred me to check out this place, after lurking for a few days i decided this is my kind of place. Good info, good personalities, i have had a few laughs out of some of your guys posts lol. good stuff. wtf happened to wicked fire? when did that go to shit? I havent been on any marketing forums in a few yrs and went to check it out and that place is a ghost town.

Anyway, looking forward to being a member here, cheers!
 
Hey welcome to BuSo, what sort of work do you get up to online?
 
thanks, been doing SEO since 2007, kinda got burnt out and slowly got out of it for the last cpl yrs due to a pretty good offline biz op i got involved with, made good money but wasnt my thing so i sold out recently. Over the past yr i have been helping some friends/former clients rank a cpl websites in an advisory role only. While helping them i got the bug to get back into the game again. forgot how much i missed doing this stuff.

I seen a post was removed earlier i posted for some humor, sorry my bad, i thought id try crack a joke, seo can be frustrating at times... Is there a shoot the shit section where you can joke around with ppl in your off time on here?

I remember you guys from wicked fire, seems like alot of ppl moved over here.

What's a cracker got to do to get the final like around here, I want to ask about the North Dakota/South Dakota v whatever tax law in the water cooler section, is first I heard about it and I'm from ND.
 
mj22 said:
I seen a post was removed earlier i posted for some humor, sorry my bad, i thought id try crack a joke, seo can be frustrating at times... Is there a shoot the shit section where you can joke around with ppl in your off time on here?
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The Water Cooler is for the goofing around, but you gotta put some effort behind your posts even there. That thread with the Dude Where's My Car clip barely made sense!
 
sorry man, i got a different sense of humor i guess, my bad bro
 
Hi Builders!

Lurking for a while, time for an intro so I can contribute in other parts of this forum.

I'm 24 years old, been doing SEO since I was very young (12, 13 years old I was building sites). Currently own a small network of affiliate sites earning me around $5,000 profit a week. Looking to expand that and get it up to 10k per week.

I also own a digital marketing agency. I'm a member of a lot of (not as good) forums as well. I've actually purchased a few services from BuSo marketplace but haven't been able to leave reviews due to not having any posts.

Glad to be here and happy to have you all on my journey with me. I am currently building a bangin affiliate site in a new niche I just discovered.

Cheers!
 
$5k a week on sites alone is fantastic, congrats and achieving and on your hard work. Glad to have you posting. Any knowledge you can drop on us is appreciated :evil:

How many sites is a "small network" in your eyes? I'm currently pounding away on my one and only, although I do have another one built and sitting, not sure I'm going to pursue it but I see no harm in aging it.
 
Ryuzaki said:
$5k a week on sites alone is fantastic, congrats and achieving and on your hard work. Glad to have you posting. Any knowledge you can drop on us is appreciated :evil:

How many sites is a "small network" in your eyes? I'm currently pounding away on my one and only, although I do have another one built and sitting, not sure I'm going to pursue it but I see no harm in aging it.
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Thanks for the kind words! I have around 15 sites live, 4 of them are my babies that I pay the most attention to. I also have a new one cooking up now that I am absolutely stoked to work on.

I've been doing this for ages but only recently started working for myself full time. I have a small home office where I am constantly brainstorming and working on projects.

Can't hurt to age a site :wink: a lot of times if I find myself neglecting a project I will let it age and come back to it
 
Sensual said:
One thing that I noted, all the IT guys that I sold to regularly, were also rabid car fanatics, with brand loyalty that was unbreakable! What was funny, is that none of us agreed on the right sports car, but I was one of the only guys that would call them up and argue with them!
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Genius! I have noticed that the common ground to do business is not always "the business" itself. In a way you showed them you not only cared for the company they work for but also for them as human.

Thanks for sharing :-)

Hello all :-)

This post is a selfish one. It serves many purposes. For one, it will set me free to roam this forum and respond to some people I like to help out. The second purpose is a more humble one, for you to know me. At last, I have found the missing puzzle piece. As entrepreneurs, we need to collect many skills and knowledge to realize real products from ideas. In this journey, you're pretty much on your own, from idea to execution to marketing to selling to scaling to liquidate. By no means, I have all the skills, but at least I have the first four now. For the longest time, I struggled with marketing and selling. I just could not grasp the theory and concept. And now I do. It's time to start again and beat the odds. More organized, more efficient, more humble and definitely have results.

The third reason for this post is to change my attitude and provide actual value. Like many of you, I'm so tired of the perceived value passed along as "actual". Fake value has drained so much of my energy in the years that went by. I'm so allergic to bullshit, that I happily click back and don't bother.

I like to take a moment to personally thank the founders of BuSo, writers of the BuSo crash course and just everyone who takes a peak and provides real value.

BuSo, here is the key. Please unlock me! I promise I will behave myself ;-)
 
I figured I would use an old school scene term to say hello!

I have been building websites for basically 20 years, started when I was quite young. Transitioned into system admin stuff and then SEO.

Currently in a project management role at a digital marketing company, looking to get serious on the side and hopefully transition to full time some day.

I love talking about strategy and ideas in my spare moments.
 
20 year veteran! I'll hit that mark soon if you count from when I first started, but if you count my time going at it hard I'm probably just past a decade.

Do you feel like, working at a digital marketing agency, you're privy to any insider or less-known information? Or do you guys cover the basics for a ton of clients? I'm always interested in what goes on inside agencies, if there's any secret killers being set loose upon the world behind closed doors. Casper, the mattress company, has some in-house killers apparently.

Welcome aboard.
 
I would say the same, actually been in the "work force" around 10 years.

There is nothing too crazy going on behind the scenes for us. We cover the basics for a lot of clients in a very competitive niche. There are certainly some very knowledgeable people there though, and it is fantastic to be able to pick their brains at anytime.

Which is a great life lesson I suppose, never be the smartest person in the room. I hope to continue that here!

One thing that has really come to light for me since being there is content length matters. We rarely do anything less than 1000 words.
 
I'm trying to quit, I almost really did it Harry! Jk, nice to meet you.

I got goofy mang. My bad.

After all day of being stressed to the max dealing with clients, is nice to blow some steam and deal with some of that with humor.

RyRy, thanks for taking care of my dumb ass bro, and the rest of you for putting up with my dumb ass. Im lvl 4 at tom foolery, and lvl 8 at shenanigans in my off time. I come here in my off time. good place to chill.

Not sure what u mean by unlock you, can't u see everything on the forum?
 
mj22 said:
Not sure what u mean by unlock you, can't u see everything on the forum?
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New users need to earn a handful of post likes before they can particulate in discussions outside of the Orientation section.
 
Oh, it looked like he has all the requirements I thought, that's why I was asking.
 
Greetings Nerds,

Long-time lurker, newish poster. I had an account before but it has been lost to the digital ages (it was a stupid name anways). I've been lurking around reading and absorbing information in this space for the better part of a decade, maybe more. I bought my share of crappy ebooks in the beginning, and quickly cultivated the ability to read between the lines and try to see what was really going on -- or not going on with many pitches.

I've built several SMALL businesses based on the ideas and techniques I've found and learned some very expensive lessons extremely cheaply, but I have always been defeated by massive roadblocks/life events. Several years ago, around the time of the CC9, I was ready to take the plunge and go all-in. I was ready to burn the ships as @Ryuzaki or maybe it was @eliquid or @CCarter (I haven't been able to find that post again... yet) had said to do in one of their epic posts.

But I took a look around, gathered my own inventory, and found that years of waiting tables to make ends meet had left me with little in the way of ships. I had no degree, no career path, no car, no assets, and little did I know at the time, soon to be no social circle from a bad breakup.

There, standing on the edge of the void, I chickened out.

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I rationalized it, I told myself, "You can't burn ships you don't have." "You have to have a life before you can sacrifice it at the altar."

I had to make myself better.

So I went back to school, into the black hole, at 27.

Halfway through, I got a job cold calling for a small 20 person SaaS selling SEO ranking tools to Mid and Enterprise level clients. It was a bootstrapped (mostly), extremely lean operation, that had just taken on a bit of capital to grow the sales team.

I got an Associates Degree, and a certification or two. I'm now one semester away from my Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems. I've worked my way up from cold calling to IT/Tech Support to CRM Admin and finally to a systems analyst position. The company has quadrupled in size and revenue. We are closing in on some pretty significant targets, I get to hone my skills (some of them...), learn the industry (parts of it...), get valuable certifications (Salesforce, Marketo, PMP), Manage large projects, and watch software sales and purchasing from both sides.

But guess what returned?

The call of the void.

The closer I get to the end of the tunnel, the louder it gets. It's like a train whistle blasting at this point. Every day is groundhog day at the office. I build on top of a foundation that I didn't lay and no one else knows. Things fail at random from lack of planning and systems implemented years ago and it's a constant game of whack a mole on top of a house of cards. I've done what I can but I am passing torches as fast as I can and there is still so much more to do. I'm just one man. I just keep the train on the rails as long as I can while attempting to build more rail line for the miles ahead when time permits.

Imagine how I felt when pulling out of my tunnel vision and starting to try to remember who I was and where I came from (and most importantly where I was going when I started this path) when I noticed an email from BuSo in my personal email account -- and when I came here there were still people actively contributing!

Spoiler alert: I was fucking thriilled

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It's a little quieter than it used to be, but I don't mind that. I'll be making plenty of noise around these parts in the days, weeks, and months to come.

I just have to dust of the rust and cobwebs.

My Strengths:
-Fast Learner
-Tech Savvy
-Longtime exposure to industry

My Weaknesses:
-Imposter Syndrome
-Survivor's Guilt
-Semi-Rusty Web Skillz

My Opportunities:
-ANYTHING-- after being exposed to the relative "talent" level of many of the people I have come into contact with, I feel confident I can do better in whatever I do than 90% of people

My Threats
-Myself
-FOMO
-Family and Life "Obligations"
-Financial weakness - I'm a poor student, I did get a raise recently, but after COL in a HCOL area, transpo, food, sanity, I've been running a deficit.

Favorite Marketers

Above mentioned BuSoErs of course (not in order hah)
u/humblesalesman (deleted account but content is still out there)
u/w1zz4rd
u/localcasestudy

More that I will remember as I find them again.

My goals:

I plan to embark on a journey to success (defined as learning, growing, and hopefully profiting) and document it in a Lab thread. I have a few ideas, and a few more, but laying the proper groundwork in terms of market research and strategy will be key.

Extremely happy to be back.

Stay Tuned.
 
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