Better still, how can someone be smart enough to work a computer, get on the web, sense there is opportunity to make money, and then do the most idiotic things to sabotage themselves?
I get Google Alerts on all kinds of keywords in my niches. I am the third guy on the web to know when there is something new in my markets. It goes like this:
1. The person puts up the content, 2. Google finds it, and
3. I get an alert.
You can imagine I see a lot of stuff before the rest of the world knows about it. But you might not believe some of the stupid things I see coming online. Rather, stupid things done by incredibly stupid people.
I see people scraping content… still. This is an old practice where you set up a site and simply send a $5 robot script out on the web to scrape up anything in its path and bring it back to a site or blog and regurgitate it as some kind of twisted, nonsense content. Scraping worked for 5 minutes and made like 3 people very wealthy.
The alerts I get are for blogs like bxdftgdh.blogspot.com. (That might actually be a real domain although I just randomly smashed my keyboard with my left hand to come up with it.)
At first I thought “maybe this is a serious black hatter who really knows what they are doing and they’re making a lot of money from this.” Then I check out the site and feel like crying for the depths of stupidity that our species can reach.
It’s very, very sad when you realize that the people doing this kind of stuff are not, in fact, intelligent programming aces gaming the system with exclusive programs they developed with their 150 I.Q.
Rather, these are people who saw something a smart person did and thought they were replicating it by puking stolen, random, nonsense content all over the web (in 2007!). I will see content that is so random, with just my keyword or name shoved inside it. Sometimes it’s just a piece of one of my old posts abruptly cut in half by another piece of content from some real estate site or other completely off-topic.
My friends would say “Blow it off. Don’t worry about this stuff. They are losers.” But then I started to realize they aren’t just losers. They are people with sophisticated computers, the smarts to turn them on, get on the web, and have this land of opportunity before them to make something really powerful that returns real profits and sells real products, and they chose instead to fail.
I mean, these guys work HARD to fail. I’m talking fireworks and ticker tape parade failure. It is harder to fail to make money online than it is to succeed the way these people are doing it!
Here are some tips for those folks who somehow learned to read, but are still dumb enough to do the following…
1. It is no longer necessary to have a domain like this: real-estate-secrets-make-money-at-home.com One could argue that it was never necessary and I wouldn’t put up a fight.
2. If you own a blog on blogger like this aksdkjhtoinj!.blogspot.com you are a bonafide idiot. A savant maybe, since you were able to even figure out how to turn on a computer and get that far, but you’re stupid. Dead in the head. Something the pool boy missed when skimming the gene pool for the crap that floats on the bottom in the Spring.
3. If your domain is decent, you have an actual site on it, you’re in a market where you could actually make money, and you go and f*&k it up by putting scraped content on it and hoping it will just run itself and rake in the dough, you’re certifiably stupid. You haven’t been paying attention. You’re not just stupid. You’re lazy and stupid.
4. When the trail of success is laid out in front of you and all the components you need are in plain site, and you still think you can do it on your own with no help from people who have tons of experience, you’re pretty stupid.
5. Making money online can be accomplished with hundreds of different, legitimate tactics. Consciously choosing one that is not on the huge list of things people can and have done to actually make money is not only stupid, but I’ve drafted a bill for my Congressman to introduce to make it illegal to be so stupid.
6. When you know that all that stands in your way is hard work and doing what the smart people tell you to do – yet you choose something that no sane, reputable expert recommends or endorses because it promises easy money – I’m sorry, but you’re a Grade-A Moron. USDA Certified Beef hanging in a refrigerator truck on a meat hook is smarter than you.
7. You spend thousands of dollars on consulting or coaching to have the road to success paved in gold for you and you don’t apply what you learn nor grasp what you’ve learned even if it was painstakenly laid out in a way a 9 year old could understand. What I can never figure out is how people like this even get thousands of dollars to spend on consulting!
I have no idea why so many weirdos are attracted to, and actually believe there exist, truly easy ways to make money online with a website. There is no easy way if they are not ready to study. It only becomes like shooting fish in a barrel when you’ve learned enough to build the gun, load it, and point it in the right direction.
My advice: Don’t come into a professional arena and take a big dump on it as if it isn’t as specialized, technical, complicated, and important as professions you were born to respect. The people who make money online with great ideas, software, ingenius products, incredible marketing tactics, and eye-catching design are geniuses in their own right.
No one would never train a surgeon by throwing them in the operating room with a scalpel and a book on basic anatomy. Everyone knows this intuitively. Yet the same people who know this come online and act as if online business and marketing is something you’d just need an ebook and hosting to succeed.
I am coming to believe that the disrespect for online business as a group of serious professions is what dooms most people to failure at whatever they try online. To me, some of the things people are doing, like above, is like taking a loaded gun and turning it around to look down the barrel. That’s evolution’s way of weeding out the sick, weak, and dumb. Even on the virtual highway you cannot escape old fashioned biology.
Are you a serious, business-minded, disciplined entrepreneur? Or do you just have an internet connection and wish you had more money?