Dedication, Perseverance, Patience, and Tolerance ..

[RyanLanane]

Are the four most important qualities for some starting today in this business in my humble opinion. I have been taking this REALLY seriously the past month, mostly research and the last couple of weeks slowly starting to work building up my own traffic back into the picture. I'm far from doing fantastic but the most important thing is I am learning.

There is ALOT to learn about this business nowadays. The days are far from gone where a ripe newbie can jump in and make money blindly without pure luck (hitting the lotto type of luck) free bandwidth or not... Things I considered trash and not worthwhile 5 years ago are pure gold now. It is truly amazing how this industry has evolved.

Personally, I see room for ALOT of improvement. Mainly in the paysite and webmaster program area. I'm not going to get into my opinions on what will happen the next couple of years - but changes are coming that will affect the way these are run. The type of changes that happened back in 1999 that resonated ... well are still resonating to this day.

I see plenty of great opportunities in this business now but you have to be very patient and expect to wait alot longer to see rewards now I am realizing and have accepted. I have a long road to get to 1/8th of the position I was in years ago, but I will do it ... I've went off on spats like this over the years, many times.. This is the longest I have stuck with it in 6 years though, and my interest is only growing daily.

Not sure what the point of my post is exactly - But making next to no money I'm psyched daily just by the litle pieces of information I am pickign up.. starting to put the puzzle back together. With the ideas I come up with once I am properly funded, there's no stopping me

Most importantly I'm back to being arrogant and self assured regardless of what anyone else thinks of me and my past, which I don't care what anyone else says ... is a very important trait for any successful businessman.

To a successfull 2006 for everyone !!

[JoesHO]

Good luck to you Ryan.

[RyanLanane]

Thanks Joe - BTW, I just figured out how to use https://www.google.com/webmasters/si...html#directory to generate a site map that spits out every single url in the domain you run it under.

This is perfect for people running tgp submits with different headers due to the recips being added... you will get listed multiple times in google whereas if you have the recips at the bottom you won't

It's perfect for me as I am doing all kinds of small sites here and there on that domain - If I set this to crontab, add it to google... It runs and automatically any sites I build are added to google's index with no work once I set it up on that domain... pretty sweet tool

You can also take it, generate a flat text file... convert it to html and upload it... submit it to other search engines so they will crawl everything on your site as well

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by RyanLanane

Thanks Joe - BTW, I just figured out how to use https://www.google.com/webmasters/si...html#directory to generate a site map that spits out every single url in the domain you run it under.

This is perfect for people running tgp submits with different headers due to the recips being added... you will get listed multiple times in google whereas if you have the recips at the bottom you won't

It's perfect for me as I am doing all kinds of small sites here and there on that domain - If I set this to crontab, add it to google... It runs and automatically any sites I build are added to google's index with no work once I set it up on that domain... pretty sweet tool

You can also take it, generate a flat text file... convert it to html and upload it... submit it to other search engines so they will crawl everything on your site as well

Nice sitemap tip Ryan!

[Sin]

Originally Posted by RyanLanane

Most importantly I'm back to being arrogant and self assured regardless of what anyone else thinks of me and my past, which I don't care what anyone else says ... is a very important trait for any successful businessman.

To a successfull 2006 for everyone !!

I'm looking forward to the things 2006 has to offer as well, and I agree that self assurance is a very key aspect of being successful. Never underestimate yourself!

Here's to a successful 2006 for you & the others on this board as well!