I started online a year and a half ago, on my 28th birthday.  My previous experience on the internet consisted of buying cd’s on Amazon.  Punk and rock mostly.  I was given some money for my birthday, about €150 and while I was deciding what to do with it, I had a thought, what if I built a website?

I’m a bit impulsive so I decided there and then that I would start a site, I didn’t know what it would be about or even how to go about starting a website but it interested me, I had taken a course in typing but that was it for my computer skills.  So I googled “how to

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make a website” and got a variety of results about html etc, I read and searched a bit more and found out that I needed a domain name and hosting.  Considering I knew nothing at all about any of it I decided to play it safe and chose a local hosting provider (in case I got stuck and needed to ring them for help, I didn’t want to have to ring abroad for support, I live in Ireland by the way).

The next step was to register my domain name which I did through my hosting account, I chose one to do with children as I have three kids and thought it would be easy to write about. Long story short, I spent weeks if not months working on that one website, learning html, php and css with the help of quite a few people I met online and after about 8 months I had made my first $100 from Adsense ads.

I may or may not have continued on with the site if it hadn’t been flagged by google for distributing malware (it got hacked) and not knowing enough to fix it, I deleted the site and let my domain name go.

It was around that time that I discovered blogs and started with a few of them because I didn’t want to spend that much money on one site again (my first hosting cost me €130 for the year for that one site) I had varied results with my blogs but still wasnt making money and started looking into how to make money blogging, I found quite a few sites, one of which was site build it, which led to Lissie’s (Passive Income Online) site build it scam review and on to Grizz and eventually I found my way to the Keyword Academy.

I joined the Keyword Academy a month or two before my 29th birthday, I wasn’t sure I could afford it, my budget with three small children is tight but is also one of my reasons for starting in the first place, my aim overall is to be able to afford a home for my family. I followed the methods but I am easily distracted, and was constantly skipping from one project to another, starting new sites whenever I got a new idea and then after a few months of not really making any money I gave up. I quit the internet altogether, not even turning on my computer for about three months.  There were personal reasons for giving up, not connected to the internet but I needed some time to think clearly.  Just before I did thoughh I built a new site, it took less than two days to build. I added a few products from Amazon, two links and left it at that.

Well obviously I came back to internet marketing about three months later and when I logged in to my Amazon account I found that my little site had made just under $200 in about 2 weeks, now that was Christmas traffic and sales but I was delighted.  At the moment, my income is spread out, some weeks I make money others I don’t.  The truth is I still lack focus, I still build too many sites and that is one of the reasons I re started this blog.  It gives me some accountability, even if no one reads it, my experiments are the way I keep track of my progress and keep me focused on the project I am currently working on.

So that’s it, I love learning, I prefer to build a site from scratch than use blog’s such as wordpress, I am gradually learning things as I go along, one thing about working online is you can never learn enough, things are constantly changing and you need to keep on top of it all which can be challenging so I will experiment and try out new things until eventually I find the method that works best for me and I will keep track of it all here, my results, what worked, what didn’t and what made money.