Where I started and why I started this blog

I started using Internet at the age of 14. Started out with America Online dial up. It was the shit back then. Going into chat room and type Sex/Age/Location was a daily routine.

Not long after that, I got sick of chatting online. Later on I found out a friend of mine had his own website. It was really cool but the same time I was really jealous. Then I figured if he could have a website, I can have one too. Therefore I started doing research on how to make a website.

I designed my first site with FrontPage Express. I also did a lot of HTML copy/pasting from other websites and going to other sites to download their javasript to make my site look pretty. The material on the site was very general, bunch of wallpaper pictures I downloaded, stories I copy from other sites and etc. I didn’t have money to register for a domain, so I used the free domain and webspace provided by America Online. Therefore I had a website like this “http://members.aol.com/myscreenname/” <— something like that, I can’t quite remember.

Website was done, I didn’t know how to promote. I knew nothing about Internet marketing and SEO, so my only way of promotion was going to school and tell my classmates about my website and write the URL on the blackboard. I also installed a counter on the site so I could see how many hits I was getting each day. I was lucky to get about 50 to 60 hits a day, nothing big.

I was a big user of newsgroup back in the days, reading people’s post, download stuff off newsgroup and etc, one day I thought to myself, why don’t I post my website in the newsgroup and see what happens. I posted it, the next day, 300 hits increase. It was awesome, newsgroup advertising was the shit back then. I was also getting a lot of good feedbacks on my site and I was happy.

Until one day, I was playing with the files and I accidentally deleted all the files. I didn’t know anything about back up and I was too lazy to redo everything, so that’s when I quit my Internet adventure..

Up until I was 22, I got a helpdesk job, you know how helpdesk jobs are. If nothing breaks, then you have no work. I was bored out of my mind and I started looking for stuff to do. At that time, I enjoy keeping aquarium fish very much, therefore I started a local aquarium forum. Again, I knew nothing about promoting or SEO, so my promoting method was simple. Print out fliers and post them in the local fish store, post my link on craigslist.com. The same time, I was researching on how to get my page to rank#1 on google. I ran into digitalpoint forum while I was doing my research and learned a lot of SEO techniques. Eventually my site got ranked #1 for the term I wanted to rank. I was a happy man again.

However, being rank#1 for the terms you want still doesn’t bring you enough traffic, so I started looking into some other stuff. Therefore hanging out on DP forum becomes another daily routine for me. One day I stumble upon a post by Shoemoney, ya know, the one he was holding 113k adsense check. That’s when I discover the potential of making money on the Internet.

As the time goes on, I played with many different seo and marketing techniques, both whitehat and blackhat. Eventually I started my own company for all the Internet stuff I am doing. I love the Internet market, very dynamic, there is always new things for you to try and experiment. You might be wasting a lot of time and money trying new things, but you will always learn something new in return. I have also came up with a lot of great/crazy ideas. I have implemented some myself and some ideas I simply don’t have the resource or ability to make it happen. (I can read and mod some code, but I can’t code for shit) That’s why I decided to start this blog. I want to share my idea to those people with ability and resource to make it happen.