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    Most expensive mistake?

    So what has cost you lots of money and gained nothing?

    First one for me was buying loads of backlinks on my first ever website for a expenisve rate and made my website end up dropping ranks all over!

    Won't do that again!
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    I sign up an affiliate money making site. I even paid for it. I was suppose to get form to fill in but not a single form I got. That was the bad experience and mistake I did for not being careful.

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    I purchased a social bookmarking tools....it was worst experience because I was not able to submit URL in pligg based sites.

    ---------- Post added 12-17-2012 at 02:46 PM ----------

    Even I had bad experience with IMT Supercharged Bookmark as well. Although I'm not gonna blame for it because most probably changes in Google algorithm was the reason behind it.

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    Publishing PR through an expensive network

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    I signed up as an affiliate on a site & earned money when people joined the site through my affiliate link.. I was careless and made a withdrawal request by check.. fedex delivery.
    Since I live in a different country I could't go to my regular bank and get the money.. Now I have a check saying "Bank of America" with a couple of hundred dollars.. Kind of fun.

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    Always read reviews online before spending a single penny online. Personally I have never wasted money online but one of my friend was scammed by a PTC program.

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    I had a very bad AdWord campaign.

    But I believe there is no such a thing as a mistake as long as you learn one thing from it. I think Tony Robbins said that. I like it

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    After panda pushed my site a bit further, greed came out and I started to get a backlink package, which got me down after pinguin. No serp up a down and I have to pay for the links, a double waste.

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    i bought a website knowing that it was good and has many visitors. but then in the end, all the visitors were just visitors, not even buying a single product. hope you guys will learn from this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackout17 View Post
    So what has cost you lots of money and gained nothing?

    First one for me was buying loads of backlinks on my first ever website for a expenisve rate and made my website end up dropping ranks all over!

    Won't do that again!
    I would bet we all have done that lol

    Mine was trusting a jerk and buying youtube views which lost me my adsense account.
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    I invested a lot of money in a money-doubler. They was very popular some years ago. I was told i was in early, but i was not. One day the site was taken down, and money gone.
    And not just mine :-(

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    I bought a blog on flippa for 10K without doing the proper due diligence. Seller showed income stats of 4000$ / month that was pure bullshit. Hard lesson to learn!

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    Quote Originally Posted by hagerlo View Post
    I bought a blog on flippa for 10K without doing the proper due diligence. Seller showed income stats of 4000$ / month that was pure bullshit. Hard lesson to learn!
    Wow, that hurts!

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    i lost my mobile phone it is my big mistage

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    Loving a person who cant love back...

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    How about purchasing more than 200+ domains and pay thousands of dollars for hosting to set up my own network and they are all wiped out by Google not long after.

    Cost me approx. $10,000 ~

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    I purchased two cars and return back to owner with in 48 hours and lost 10k

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    publishing Pr through an expensive network...

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    Some horror mistakes on here I would die if I lost amounts of money as mentioned on here.
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