One Million Hits, More Articles, Computer Programming, and Random Thoughts

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I’ve been staring at files and my freshly purchased UBot software screen for the last 8 hours, and I think it’s time for a break.

I haven’t written an update on my own lifestyle for a while, so I thought I’d spin this bad boy out to give you a view of my life and what’s to come on the blog.

For the first time EVER recently I’ve been staying out of the clubs, working out, and getting shit done.

For a while there things were starting to feel like an eternal Ground Hog’s Day, where it was just the same thing over and over again. I didn’t know why I was even going out.

It just felt like I was “living up to the legend” of my former self. There was no spark to talk to girls, no drive to push things forward, and I ended up just falling into bad habits of drinking and letting shit just kind of randomly happen every so often.

But the drive is back.

I still have most of the month of December off as well, as I’ve set aside a lot of time to work on various business ventures, but as a respite, tomorrow I’m…

HEADING TO VEGAS! (this song just makes me wanna code some )

I’ll be out there with former instructors Saad, Ryan, my old assistant Mike, and old mentor Derek.

It’s gonna be a shit show.

So I’m loading up my new 24” Briggs and Riley black on black luggage (so sick) and getting ready for 5 nights of mayhem at the Cosmopolitan.

Now I do have some business to do during the day, and as business goes, my entrepreneurial adventures have been full of ups and downs.

I was starting to WIN BIG with my SEO strategy, Haha, I was literally telling people that I felt like I was “printing money.”

And within 24 hours of making that statement, there was a Google algorithm change and my sites all took a giant shit.

5 figure income down the drain in an instant. Nice.

There’s a quote that I can’t seem to remember, but basically it states that you are only worth as much as you ARE. If you had the ability for further financial success, you’d already be there.

So learn new skills and work harder to create more value.

But there is a silver lining to that as well.

It means that once you do it once, and reach a certain level of financial success, you should have the skillset to do it again.

And with new knowledge gained through my previous mistakes, I’m coming back full force to create an EMPIRE online.

I’ve been rounding out my CSS/HTML skills. Check out the cool little Topic rollover icons in the sidebar! Yay!

That only took about 36 hours to figure out.

Now I’m on an automation kick, which has resulted in me starting to learn COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FROM SCRATCH.

Damn, I wish I would have went to school for software engineering or something, so many applicable skills.

I think if I were to attend college all over again, I’d double major in Computer Science and Philosophy.

That’s some hardcore shit. You’d probably be a super attractive candidate for any job or professional school.

Another silver lining with the SEO debacle is that BradBranson.com wasn’t affected at all, so I’ve had more enthusiasm towards building traffic and optimizing landing pages here.

One Million Pageviews!

This site just hit another milestone over the weekend, reaching 1 million pageviews/hits since it’s creation a mere year and a half ago. So that’s pretty sweet that the traffic continues forward.

I’ve finally crossed the 100k monthly unique visitor level as well.

So what’s with all the automation?

I’m trying to streamline a lot of the mundane tasks I’ve been busy with so I can spend more time on CONTENT CREATION.

What does that mean?

I’m gonna start posting more on here again, especially with my new zeal towards going out, there’s going to be some awesome new RSD style content.

My goal, after Vegas, haha, is to start releasing articles about twice a week again.

I’ve been consistent for the last few months with the once a week posts, but with the intensified travel schedule, shorter more frequent posts are going to fit better with that lifestyle.

So expect new content on a regular basis, and check back often to see my constant ramblings and thoughts.

You might as well subscribe to the email RSS feed to make sure you don’t miss any posts! :)

2012 World Tour

With that, my travel schedule is about to get a little hectic here.

I’m spending a month and a half in Europe, then flying straight to South America for another month and a half.

I’ve also decided to do freetours in every city, so if your city is on the schedule, SIGN UP for some bomb shit!

Brad Branson Free Tour and Bootcamp Schedule

If you’ve seen my “Be the Gorilla” vid, basically I gave out ALL of my best shit, so I’ve started to develop completely new fresh content.

Expect a lot of raw new concepts on the free tour, which I’ll also try to flesh out on the site here.

Ever wanted to check out the Stockholms, Amsterdams, and Berlins of the world?

Or party in Rio for Carnaval, and summer in Uruguay and Argentina?

I’m lucky enough that my brand is big enough now where I can just kind of pick the cities I want to go to, hence the awesome schedule.

And you should join!!!

I’ll try to get some stories out for ya next week, and hit me up below if you have any specific topics you want me to start hitting, or any other questions about the daily whims of my lifestyle.

 



48 Comments

GODS

Yrah dude, the new Google algorithm was made to filter out all the shit — if you took a hit, your sites wrrent pronably nothing but bullshitz.

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    Brad Branson

    Haha, yeah man, the more I analyze my results, it wasn’t a specific algo change, more like a manual review cuz of my adsense account. No worries though, I’m coming with a more diversified approach this time to isolate my bigger money sites.

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      Jeff

      Was it not organic traffic? Otherwise I don’t see how it could fall so far.

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Michael Cherry

Lol, Kicken ass Brad.. I still look forward to any of your updates/articles.. Come to Melbourne Aus, I’d see you speak.

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    Brad Branson

    I’d love to get out to Oz, I’m supposedly gonna be heading that way in May. I’ll keep ya posted. ;)

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duckmack

Awesome!! Look forward!!

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Molan

heard some good things about UBot,
what kind of things are you planning to automate with it?
seems like awesome tour going on for you in the next couple months! have fun!

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    Brad Branson

    I’ve almost finished a script that will completely automate my site development. All I have to do is find keywords, and run the shit. Everything from website registering, hosting, wordpress install, ordering content, setting up plugins. It’s the bomb.

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      Molan

      this sounds awesome! on my way to buy it now! :)

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Rich~

Just curious, why the programming? php for wordpress stuff & plugins is so cheap & easy to outsource, so I’m guessing it’s something bigger than that

My sites took a hit too btw. It wasnt surprising though – the more throwaway ones got nailed – some down like 90% of their traffic – but the ones with great content on actually did better after Panda. So I’m down about 20% revenue overall. Just another reminder that in the long run you get what you deserve – like you’re say, “only worth as much as you ARE”

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    Brad Branson

    The current script I’m developing prolly costs $500-1000 to outsource, and it’s highly specific to the business model I’ll be using in the near future. I also plan to automate all sorts of little things like social media posting, weekly email reports, etc.

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      Sasha

      If you REALLY want to learn cool programming, check out Python or Ruby.

      It’s way more fun than PHP. And chances are PHP is going to be outdated several years from now. PHP team is currently struggling to make their langage evolve.

      Check out some cool projects written in Python / Ruby :

      Django: https://www.djangoproject.com/

      Ruby on Rails: http://rubyonrails.org/

      Now this is only going to be very useful to you if you really want to learn programing web applications. It takes time and you need experience. it will take you several months before you will begin to understand how all this stuff works, but it will be absolutely worth it! You will actually no longer need WordPress because you’ll be able to make your own blog engine.

      If you just want to customize your WordPress blog and don’t have a lot of time, PHP is of course the way to go. But just so you know if you struggle with this: when you look at the WordPress code, well, it is ugly. WordPress is popular, but it is not quality code. It has no style. You may not realize it because you have nothing to compare to. When you’re more experienced it is quite painful to work with WordPress because of all the crap you’re aware of.

      Also, send me an e-mail explaining exactly what do you want to do. I am smart and have a passion for this, so I might do it for you or at least help you do it properly! I would be glad to help you with this :)

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        Brad Branson

        Awesome man, the RSD website programmer suggested me to check out ruby as well. I’m not exactly sure what I want to do with it yet, but once I start digging in and see the opportunity, I’ll definitely hit u up with some ideas. :)

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Leonidas

Building your brand definitely takes time.

I think it was you, or another RSD instructor whom noted that it takes ~10 years to build a successful brand.

Better yet, when the brand is you simply being you, doing what you do best… then that certainly allows for self-fulfillment.

Also, congrats on 1,000,000 hits. A+

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    Brad Branson

    Yep, that was me. ;)

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Andrew

our paths share a lot of similar stones

http://www.cssbasics.com

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    Brad Branson

    Yep, gotta love CSS.

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synergist

Your computer business skills are awesome, and so is the fact that you’ve kept the blog politics free haha… hey if you’re going to be doing free tours, filming yourself like Tyler does and putting up video blogs could really enhance your articles and your development of new content.

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    Brad Branson

    Heh, dude that’s like thanking me for not talking about the Kardashians or Britney Spears or some shit. I don’t watch the news, and I don’t talk politics. I’m too busy being amazing to worry about stuff outside of my immediate control.

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Diego

Hygiene.

The other day i was wondering how come you guys fuck girls all around the world without getting any std´s at all.

Specially in places like Rio de Janeiro in Carnaval or in crazy spots like Ibiza.

Obviously wearing a condom is a must (duh!) but is there any tips that you guys from RSD have about this subject??

p.s: I´m doing my best to make it to rio on time!! the other chance is to go to Argentina or Uruguay (i´m from Chile so it´s easier for me to go to those places)

cheers

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    Brad Branson

    I have AIDS.

    -Hope to see you in South America!

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Izak

hey brad,
5 figure income sounds very nice. wish you all the best with your business ;) Can you tell me how much content one of your websites has and what type of niche you prefer. high or low competition? Tanks

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    Brad Branson

    It’s really a mixture. When I got hit I had 3 sites that were creating most of my income. Once you get a decent sized site it’s so easy to rank subpages relying on the domain authority. But with more traffic, and bigger sites, you’re more on Google’s radar, so to diversify I’m tweaking that approach. Basically it’s building out lots of sites, prolly with about 3-5 pages of content, and scaling the winners. Making sure to isolate them on their own hosting, registar, and maybe even separate adsense account. Hence the automation, cuz I’m planning on seriously scaling up the number of sites I’ll have.
    -it’s also speaks for itself why bradbranson.com wasn’t hit, because it’s the exact type of site google wants in the search results, quality unique content and a good user experience…

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      Molan

      I know its more of a pickup blog man, but still would be great to hear your way with it…
      how many sites per hosting account are you going to hold?
      how many adsense accounts, and what you do to open all those adsense accounts?
      good luck with your sites! i’m sure you’ll get this income back very soon and more…

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      Thomas G

      Hum interesting approach, totally on the opposite of Glen’s “million dollar website” philosophy those days, about having actually one big thing. Excited to see the updates :)

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Reniro

Inspiring stuff as always man!

Any plans to come to Cape Town again?

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Bill Rey

Yo Brad -
I know you’ve been dabbling in the nathaniel branden area lately and recently been listening to some of his audios. Is there anything that you took away that you already didn’t kinda already know.. Is there something you took away from his teachings that you find yourself applying to your life?

Cool.

Keep us posted about the journey with D and the bunch..

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Gates

Cool shit man. How’s Ryan doin ? I loved his stuff. Very level headed like your material.

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Craig~

Congrats on the 1 million page views!

Cosmopolitan… very nice ;) Gotta love Vegas.

Enjoy travels, South America will be sick!

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Matthew

Hey Brad, nice post. I went down the coding route about two years ago writing plug-ins for wordpress. I finally broke down and took a course on dreamweaver. It’s been a complete godsend. I can develop in a fraction the time now. You might like to look into getting a copy yourself.

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Tom

Hate to break it to ya man but most of those million pageviews are actually just me. ;p
Seriously though the amount of free value on here is sweet, I’ve recommended it to friends and used a lot of your advice in my own lifestyle over the months I’ve been following, with some pretty nice results.
You planning on picking back up with the RSD newsletter btw?

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Tyler

LOL that Can’t Complain picture is hilarious

I remember editing that video with Mike and we were laughing our asses off. We wanted to think of how to use that footage in a video but it wasn’t linear enough, so integrating it into the mating strategy video was the way to do it.

It was the first time we integrated another video into a vblog and it was the shit. Makes you feel like you’re going on an adventure when you watch a vblog. We’ve got more coming out like that.

Soooo pissed I couldn’t be out in Vegas that would’ve been bomb. Blaaaaah!! Work work work. :)

Tyler

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Tyler

btw you may wanna take pictures like that with bizarre taglines and put them as alternating headers, similar to how Mark Sisson or Tim Ferris use alternating headers.

It would give the blog and it’s themes more recognition and make it more of a “purple cow”. You’ve got something there that to you seems like no big deal but it actually an asset.

Tyler

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Night Wolf

Brad thanks for awesome articles!

One question, will you be at the free tour in Budapest, Hungary on January 19th?

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Mark

hey dood, great stuff, could you rant on the thread of social circle and managing those logistics? cant complain. west side. western european $id3 8)

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Mark

also, I know this doesn’t really relate to pickup and whatnot but it does relate to lifestyle development, how did you first get into SEO, AdSense and afiliate marketing? blogs, forums and whatnot (blackhat lol) would be a nice resource ^_^ thanks for all the value dood!

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byberis

hey Brad! can you post links to your websites? Curious of what kind of stuff are you in to

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Caledonia

Hey Brad,

I’m thinking about taking your bootcamp in Stockholm Jan 6-8. Do any of your students actually end up pulling?

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    Brad Branson

    Yep, I’ve pulled WITH students in Stockholm before although it’s definitely not guaranteed or anything. I think there’s one spot left for that weekend, so if you’re interested, sign up quick or contact stu@realsocialdynamics.com for any other specific questions.

    Hope to see you!

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      Caledonia

      Well Brad Branson it looks like I will be seeing you in Stockholm.

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2Horns

ey brad isn’t there a chance that you add Tunsia(North africa) to your schedule while you’re at it?

would be fucking great man.

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en-tea

Hi Brad!

Have you been to Helsinki before? Do you have any experiences of how it is?

Im really considering the bootcamp 13-15 January, but somehow my inner chode makes me hesitate, hopefully I can encourage myself to sign up… :) already signed up for the free tour though.

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    Brad Branson

    Hey man, yeah I did a bootcamp a few years ago in Helsinki and LOVE IT! I’m excited to get back there again. I’ll send your email address to stu@realsocialdynamics.com and he’ll be able to answer any other questions you might have…

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filip

hi, arent you going to budapest this january ? i was interested to attend on your bootcamp (its close to slovakia where i live)

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    Brad Branson

    Yeah man, I wish! I love Budapest but we didn’t get any sign ups. So now I set up a second weekend in Stockholm, which is the only weekend left that isn’t full in Europe. Feel free to join there man, otherwise, NEXT TIME!

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Boss

Whats up an african dude diggin u up.

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