They are many John, don`t be like them.
- Focus only on churn and burn methods.
- Never take internet marketing seriously, waiting for miracles instead of working as a full-time job and beyond.
- Threat it as a business; you want to make money? Be ready to lose, invest.
- Never have patience, looking to rank the second month for a magic keyword.
- Focusing too much on keywords, but not on topic.
- Writing endless useless articles like 50% of the marketers (Top 10 lawn mowers people)
- Jumping to the first shinny niche, he finds on the internet.
- You are focusing only on the source of traffic.
- They are destroying their own businesses with tier 2-3 links as money site links.
- Hiring cheap non-native English writers and expect their article/landing to convert.
- Always follow the crowd, if everybody does Amazon affiliate, he does as well.
- Wants to invest 500 USD and have ROI in 1 year of 50k
- They are building fancy sites which nobody sees them, instead of focusing on simplicity.
- They are buying random links just because they are links.
- Talking with “bro, sir, dear, bruh” and so on.
- Checking competitors just buy their RD/DA/PA and other useless metrics.
- Listens to Google engineers propaganda on Twitter or what other gurus say.
- Thinking if John ranks with 0 RD on that specific site, you will do with 1+RD.
- Building WordPress sites with loads of unnecessary plugins.
- Fear to dive in big niches, just because they are “saturated.”
- They are not making connections/virtual friends, because they expect just to receive, not to give.
- Lazy, because Netflix or PlayStation is more fun.
- Distraction, because he wants to see what his neighbour visit this weekend.
- Talking about big money, big businesses, significant ROI, but with less 1000 USD budget all in one.
- Focusing only on one project, instead of 2-3 every year, or focusing on to many, having success with none.
- Because John makes “2000 USD much wow in 2 weeks” it does not mean you will do same, different history, different experience, different luck.
- Focusing only on traffic, not on conversion.
- They are focusing just on one earning source for their site, AdSense for example.
- Always spent what they earn instead of investing.
- He is spending time growing social accounts to much, instead of focusing on his money method.
- They are selling cheap services, wasting loads of time, small ROI.
- Refuse to work offline because he is too smart , but have a couple of hundreds of bucks all his money.
- Reading daily news, trends, how that thing grows, how that man makes billions, how Bill Gates is an alien, etc.
I am telling you from experience, instead of wasting years like me, just follow stupid simple rules.
Edit: This post is about How to not make mistakes and these points are the mistakes that many people are doing.Its on you to continue doing these mistakes or not.