The goal of this post is not to tell you what I did and did not all this years but to make a list of the reasons I believe things are not better for me and why probably many others have failed before me and will fail after me.

Why people fail online and what has to be done to accomplish success

• Read less and practice more – don’t make the mistake of thinking you have to read first tons of books and then get to work trying to deploy everything you’ve learned. Try and balance the time spent reading with the actual practice hours
• Have a goal (or more goals for short/medium/long term) -  If this goal is measurable it’s even better as you always know where you’re at compared to your dreams. No goal means no focus which translates in working in vain.
• Don’t give up – results don’t show over night, always focus on doing everything needed to build a strong business that will always stand the test of time and will get you a decent and constant amount of money.
• Work hard – this is very important as only hard work will give results, but also work smart as efforts without brains are no good and don’t guarantee success
• Know your niches – if you get into a new niche make sure you did research about it to ensure better exploitation. It’s best to spend more time researching then wondering what went wrong and why you failed.
• Make friends with same interests – the best ideas come when you talk with people having the same problems like you. Don’t fear your secrets will help others as it’s best to be part of a group: there’s more chance you will get up helped by the current.
• Monitor your business – even if things are fine keep an eye on everything vital to your business as once things get broken it’s hard to get them on track. It’s like confidence, which is earned hard but gets lost easily.

There are I think the problems and mistakes people do very often, all which translates in bad results or no results at all. Do you have anything else to add to the list? Feel free to share.

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Top 10 countries that lead in click fraud traffic

What’s the biggest growing danger for advertisers and publishers? Click fraud, which is an invalid click, on purpose (attempted click fraud) or not (innoculous invalid) to alter statistics or increase earnings for the publisher. Click fraud is also use to deceive advertisement programs (like Google Adsense) to exclude a certain publisher from the system because it uses unfair techniques to increase its earnings.

What’s the danger?

For the advertiser it’s hard to calculate its ROI and in time it will see that advertisements don’t result in sales increase. After it sees that the obvious outcome is that it starts paying less to publishers. As you can see this is a circle that affects everyone in long term as we all know that trust is gained hard and gets lost easy.

Click fraud statistics

A report submitted by Anchor Intelligence show that the percentage of click fraud in advertisements system reached a very alarming 22.9%. Vietnam is leading with a 49.7% percentage while, Canada is second with 28.7 %, while USA is third with 27.3 %, but it has the highest indexed volume of clicks and this makes it the worst.

A map of quality traffic on the globe shows that Russia, Eastern Europe, Africa and South America (minus Brazil) are the regions with less click fraud, but as traffic increases is likely the percentage of valid clicks will decrease in time.

Global report click fraud traffic quality

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