Internet marketing is a lot of work when you are just starting out and/or don’t have the money for outsourcing yet. Hell, I need to learn how to outsource.

At this stage, I’m trying to think of this as the training part of my internet marketing career- not unlike being in college. Study, do the exercises, apply the knowledge. You keep plugging away, no sign-ups, trickles of traffic or maybe a few coins from AdSense. Nothing. Nada. Zilch.  And since this is about making money, sometimes I get a little discouraged.

I just got off  call and was thinking about what another marketer had said about not seeing any results. It worried them; then it started to worry me.

And then I recall the words of my favorite philospher from childhood, Alfred E Neumann-”What, me worry?”

So rather than worry, I started surfing the web; then, the law of attraction kicked in and  brought me to a site that did website evaluations.

First, I looked at  a site that I built back in June 2009, when I considered trying my hand at monetizing my blog.  I wanted to be a professional blogger.  I wanted to get paid to blog.  I had no clue. So, I started to gather knowledge-a writing class and books on blogging. I remember this guy in class came out and said, “I’m not here to make friends. I just want to learn how to blog.” Still a little puzzled by that one but I just thought I’d bring it up.

This blog was created a year ago and according to this evaluation taken just 2 days ago is worth zero.

The site below is about 6 months old. I bought the domain ‘xyinzer.com to write about my experiences in New York and Pittsburgh but somehow wound up promoting youth baseball. I haven’t done anything to this site for months and it still has value. The figure is $96.35

I’ve taken this site down and I am going to blog about New York and Pittsburgh as originally planned.

Next, is a valuation of a site I created 2 weeks ago. $632.91!

Ah, progress.  The bits and pieces of what I’ve learned is paying off-sort of.

You can’t  get this kind of  feedback in college. “Julie, you did very well this semester. That paper you did on Newton’s Third Law was moving*. Here’s $100.”

The name of the site is Cubestat.

It’s pretty simple: type in your URL, hit CHECK and wait for your results.

Some call web evaluation sites a waste of time and have entertainment value only. I ran this site through another site and there is was worth a little over $1,000.  Really doesn’t matter.

I use the site as an ego booster, physical evidence  to remind me  I am creating something of worth.  I hope you find it as helpful as I do.

Virtual Real Estate, a 21st century oxymoron if there ever was one.

(*Sorry, couldn’t resist)

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