Rand recently posted his 5 websites he could not live without and asked for others to post there’s.
Here is mine:
Yup thats the whole list.
My wife and my daughter I could not imagine living without but godamn SEO BLOGS?!?!?
I am amazed at how many people in the comments list all the sites they cant imagine life without… I guess I am in the minority.
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Jeremy Schoemaker – who has written 2415 posts on ShoeMoney.com.
Hi I am Jeremy Schoemaker and ShoeMoney.com is my blog. 99% of the post here are done by me but you will see others occasionally make guest posts. This blog is fun to write but for my day job I run several online companies.
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How about shoemoney.com ?
Nice front. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on.
seems like you would atleast have nextpimp or auctionads. not sure but they seem relevant to you.
There’s this site about some party with lemons that I just don’t seem to be able to make it through my days without.
I could totally live without this site. Its BY FAR the lowest return time/money that I have ever done. Blogs are the biggest timesinks =(
I could live without them and focus more on our brick and mortar business investments.
But you’re having fun right ?:)
is it an empty list? i don’t see any in the list you said
Haha. Guilty of not reading the question.
“couldn’t live without” is a little strong….
i didnt get it i thought that my ad blocker was blocking them, but then i got it. i could do without the web, it would be hard at first, but i could do it.
i weep for your children
they do take up a lot of time. especially if you are trying to monetize them.
haha… he wanted to say that he could live without the websites, and that his family is the one that it’s the most important in his life.
I did without the Web for the first 20 some-odd years of my life. I was happy then. I do like the Web and all the fun it brings and the promise it brings to the world of brining it closer together and sharing ideas, but I could live without it. I don’t know what sites I rely on.
Off topic:
Your own posting is appearing in the friends’ posts (dmoz extortion)
Update:
All the postings in the friend’s section are from yourself..
right on, Shoe. I just unplug when I’m away and it’s fine. The blah-blah just goes on whether i read it or not. What cracks me up is that I can fire up the reader after 2 weeks and see another dozen “google changed its algo” or “5 ways to improve your….” post. It just doesn’t change.
What? You could live without Desktop Nexus? Heresy!
=p
Sick new implementation of an RSS idea there Jeremy.
Yep, the web is just another way for people to tie themselves to something, my last vacation I logged back on and then just mass deleted the emails from the 3 days I was gone and it seems like I missed nothing.
Hey on another note, this guy tried to buy one of my domains and he followed the shoemoney buying domains strategy you have in an earlier post, now that I’ve thrown out the $5000 figure for him to pay we’ll see if he will either sh1t or get off the pot, lol.
Come on. I know you could not live without Perezhilton. lol
ya im playing with some things
I have switched from perez to thesuperficial
I can’t wait til the next q & a. I am new to reading about people making money on the internet, so hearing things such as the above surprise me. It seems most people try to go the other way…
i personally thought for few seconds that my network was really slow loading an image or so… then i understood.
I would just change the title to “5 websites i could not start working without visit them” (not sure about the grammar) and I could see that. I personally never start working before reading my favorites newspaper sites and blogs.
I was like, “where’s the damned list!” lol, good one. And I agree.
Shoemoney, what do you actually do besides this blog? I am a new member and don’t know much about you except hearing that you made millions doing online stuff like I do.
I agree, I could live without any sites at all, though I wouldn’t want to live without usbank.com ..do all my banking through that site.
Of course I could live without electricity too, but that would be boring at first and then I’d find other interests.
Awesome.
Oh here is my list:
Google.com
Now you tell me that you miss days without typing Google.com?
are you making millions like him? sure?
I couldn’t live with google. =(
ProBlogger… Google… TMZ… OffTopic… WordPress
It’s hard to imagine not using the Internet daily, but after a week or two on vacation I’m ready to abandon it altogether…then I crack the lid of my MacBook Pro and I’m instantly hooked again…it’s a drug!!!
Hahaha, i love it when people say ridiculous things like “I can’t live without XYZ.” Yes, yes you can. People lose parents and grandparents and other loved ones and they still live on… to attach that meaning to websites? C’mon…
So it desktop defender… hahaha
Hey I’ll take over shoemoney.com If you want to get it off your hands
Hahaha. J/k of course.
Hehe. The only sites I couldn’t live without are the ones I own. Why? Because I literally couldn’t live since they’re my only cash source.
Another brilliant Shoemoney blog. I love it!
I couldn`t live without online banking.
And obviously this is not just a scam to get people to look at the actual site to make sure they didn’t miss anything. Allowing you to hit them with the rss popup. I wonder which one is going to win. You are both devious, that’s for sure.
you have no idea
haha amen to that!
no, I meant I heard that Shoemoney makes millions, I don’t make anything lol. I wanted to know what other stuff Shoemoney does besides this blog, I thought he made millions on this blog but he said otherwise on a recent post.
I guess once you get a good name and are successful in something, it’s much easier to build new projects. Would love to discuss this topic with Shoe, but will probably move it to the forum before getting carried away and making a huge post in the comments…
hmm well then you’ll have to destroy it somehow, as it’s practically everywhere!
Hmm google resembles the matrix in some weired way…
I’d have to say blank list for me too. They are just websites for crying out loud. Although I think the “can’t live without part” is just hyping up the title for better link bait. Sounds better than “5 really great websites”.
I could live without computers
I don’t think there are any sites I can’t live without. I do have five sites that I hit more often than any other (more out of habit than anything), but I don’t have cravings for them in any real sense.
Pop Ups suck
If I had to choose 5 sites that I would be restricted to for a period of time, I guess they’d be :
- reuters.com (to keep up with news)
- wikipedia.org (to look thing up)
- php.net (reference for code)
- maybe youtube.com (for entertainment)
I can’t think of a 5th site off the top of my head. I guess I could LIVE without any of them. My wife is slowly showing me how to exist for days at a time without the Internet. I only go on once on our honeymoon.
very nice posting. I totally agree, my list looks just like yours.
well some of the….more affluent IM marketers can say this after the INTERNET has created them an nest egg of other bricks and mortar ,shares etc investments that bring home the bacon on auto.
..as for my fav sites hey ,i bookmark tons of sites i never get to,but shoemoney aint one of them thanks to non boring fresh honest fun content,which is well targetted to the likeminded visiting crowd.
Well so would i if the situation arises in the future.
The internet is a time and life sucker,apart from sleeping and sitting in the crap house.
But the truth is no one whom is addicted to this Internet shat can,stay away for more then two days without getting withdrawal symptoms..such has our lives been changes by online highway
he is talking about sites not “real” things
what about Google? Could be your 5th website no?
I can live with out these blogs – but I CANT live ONLINE without these blogs…
Shoemoney.com
MilovPatel.com
JohnChow.com
SitePoint.com
DigitalPoint.com
Huh! What type of blog are you running? It takes me around three hours a day to interview people. Another one hour to review and post the dang thing online. But I do it because I enjoy blogging, where as most people mainly do it for the money, or etc.
Huh! What type of blog are you running? It takes me around three hours a day to interview people. Another one hour to review and post the dang thing online. But I do it because I enjoy blogging, where as most people mainly do it for the money, or etc.
This comment is for this dude down there v
What about the sites you could live without?
It be hard to go without online banking. Who gets paper statements anymore?
It would be in my list.
Pop up only worked once for me…
Actually he did add…
(or at least, couldn’t earn as much without)
I’d like to know your answer to his question, shoe.
I nominate this for the greatest blog post, no, make that the GREATEST POST EVER anywhere on the internet. Unfortunately Blogger’s Choice Awards doesn’t have that category or I would actually do it.
I don’t think there are any websites that I couldn’t live without. Keyword is live.
I like my internet hobby.
HaHaHa. Keepin it Real.
my 5 webpages that I can’t live without
Shoemoney Home, Shoemoney Forums, Shoemoney Marketplace, Shoemoney Photos and Shoemoney Advertising.
Now thats what we call ButtKissing! Now gimme a link back
lol… yes indeed… Google is the Matrix… Unplug while you can!
My 5:
Lifehacker.com
Drudgreport.com
Shoemoney.com
bloglines.com
Technorati.com
lol… yeah for a minute there I had to pinch myself because I thought I was back in the 90′s again…
Hey man… you gotta do what you gotta do. Keep those numbers climbing.
My online translation tools… life would be much more difficult..and I would have to study more… (;_;;;;;
Haha.. got me. I thought it was a typo.
I have switched from neither one to nothing else. I just don’t see the point… it’s like I want to read for information and listen / watch entertainment.
Jeremy makes sites focused on a service. He makes them really good and the traffic naturally follows. He’s also really good at monetizing them, which helps a lot. I’ve got a ton of respect for him and Dave both, and I don’t give out respect all that easy.
Like… without electricity… geeks would totally cease to exist. We’d all be relegated to doing… uhm… real world stuff. The horror! The HORROR!
I don’t search at all on the weekends, and probably 2 – 3 days during the week. I have a few sites I go to for information, and everything else is just spent working on my own sites or my 9-5.
Yeah… you’d have to learn how to make money some other way.
I totally missed the pop-up. I was trying to change to a different program and accidentally clicked on the blog page, making it go away. What was on the pop-up?
You listed 4 sites I’ve never been to. Am I really missing out in my online life?
I started looking trough the html source
lol that cracks me up
Don’t want to. I like living in th fantasy world of google
Who in the world is Milov Patel ?
There’s a few websites I cannot live without as a single hetrosexual man. Unfortunately I can’t list them here. Family website and all
Well, that was a nice list, but i guess for me it would be DP(DigitalPoint) and techmeme.
Thats about it..including gmail ofcourse!
lol, I wasn’t even look at the question from a making money angle.
Google, Gmail
I can’t see the list. Where is it?
Oh, and ShoeMoney (but that’s just a given right
)
Now that’s a nice list, I must confess I’ve highlighted the text to check if there was something hidden… :p
I can’t live without my PC, that’s for sure, and probably without some of my websites, but then again I read this and that every now and then, but I don’t have that kind of list…
Without websites, I would be a lumber jack by choice
Yea well put, saying you can’t “live without” a website is a bit ott…
lmao I know. I could live without any website. One thing I couldn’t live without with is money though, if I was a millionaire I would just be on the beach in jamacia or something about 60% of my time and then the rest spent working on new projects.
Ive switched from perez to stabbing my eyes with forks, its alot more pleasant.
They had geeks before electricity ie Ben Franklin,Aristotle, Da Vinci, Archimedes, the list goes on.
I couldn’t live without howtobreath.com
It’s nice to be here. The one and only site I can’t live without is Google.com.
Ha funny how people actually think they cannot live without the internet.
Even funnier is how involved and caught up in the whole “internet” we actually get. I for one am certainly guilty of it and I certainly notice a lag time to try and “de-clutter” myself from common technological gadgets.
Ah the simpler things in life are sometimes the best.
Regards
Marc
If I could only ever visit one site it would have to be Amazon.
Honestly there isn’t one site i couldn’t live without… as i would probably jsut spend more time with friends and family
I have the same poblem
I can’t see anything either. Do this have to be viewed a certain way?
You forgot Socrates and Abraham Lincoln, those guys were great in the Bill and Ted movie
I could live without the Net. Period. Some people have forgotten we once had no net other than phoning a friend or neighbor. With that being said, I would be extremely disappointed to lose access to it on a permanent basis (ELE, comet, ice age, Hillary Clinton, etc.).
The pop-up was a chance to sign up for Shoemoney’s RSS feed to his blog (the contest, you know!)
Wow, I didn’t know TechMeme was so popular.
LOL – hmm, either I have to believe a smart cookie like you doesn’t understand “hyperbole,” aka “linkbait” (not likely); or admire your digital hat trick: 1) Link-baity post title, 2) Comment-baity content, 3) Subscription-baity… AJAX craziness…
Ack. This is the last time I comment on a blog while taking Nyquil…
Way to stay focused. Family is the most important thing! You should do another post about you are balancing family life and your work. Has it changed since you’ve moved your office out of your house?
But surely you missed my site in your list! the invisible linkage link. sweet.
Well, I agree that it’s not that I can’t *live without* these sites..hopefully..but my five faves? Or five I use the most? ebay.com, youtube, amazon, facebook, and, increasingly, shoemoney…when I am not blogging on “bidbits,” my typepad blog about ebay and such, the url of which I shall not give here because that would be blatant self-promotion, but hey, I’m sticking a toe into the tiny opening you gave us.
Whoops..is that six? 
Would have to say Amazon is my site of choice and a site called seomoz
it’s nice to be here..
i think you dont really care how much this shoemoney blog makes. it is just bonus if there is revenue. this is for you to make some ranting. there is no fun if no one is reading your rants
I dont think I can live without text-link-ads.com they pay me a lot of money
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I should put what’s on your list on mine then.
http://www.Ican‘tlivewithoutsex.com
how many times does your mrs nag you to get off those top 5 websites though lol
thank you for pointing out the obvious which most people miss. SEO blogs and forums come and go. people move, every word posted is not gods law. You have to think foryourself a bit and you have to have priorties right.
I think if you have a can’t live without list it should be people
the web is a tool, and should be viewed as such. Once again Shoe points the way
Google and its cache, you got it all right there.
shoemoney.com johnchow.com problogger.com paypal.com clickbank.com
where is google.com ?
I can live without Yahoogle moogle toogle …. or any other site ( read crap ) .
But i can`t live without … air , because if i don`t breathing i will die … And food too … OK maybe and couple of beers …
Seriously i can`t live without my son Matija , my two daughters Miljana and Milica and my wife Daliborka .
Clever…
both are great for the random celeb shot
that reminds me, need to get some gifts.
amazon is getting some love here
Wikipedia is the only site I couldn’t live with out – it’s such a great information resource for assignments
/sarcasm
~ Dave
This is a great post. Some people get wrapped up into life online and lose track of it offline. Remember what matters most.
I couldn’t live without John Chow dot com, I get traffic of note!
I could live without the entire internet but it would take me a while to figure out what to do with my time, and I might be broke too, so maybe I couldn’t live without it. I couldn”t live with out google, to find everything else. And the forums that are now half my social life.
You can live without Google. If you have ask, lycos, yahoo, etc….
I can live without but I can not live without it
I can live without but can not live without
Haha. When I first saw this, I thought there was a video loading or something.
Of course Shoe is having fun! People that meet him keep asking for autographs and pictures. Isn’t that right Jeremy?
Microsoft Help Desk…lol
I am with you shoe – I have yet to find a site I can’t live without…
lol, only one i could’nt live without is ebay
WOW. That is quite a list. All fluff and no substance…er…I mean..
The Mad Ape
Hmm I can’t see the list, donno something wrong with my firefox…. Do others see?
True. If I was living without that site before discovering it, I can live without it now also
The list was supposed to be “empty”
the list is empty…:S
Hi,
Well, I’ll sure bookmark your website since my Adsense has given me really small money.
Since I’m an artist, my preferred site is Wetcanvas.
I have many bookmarks on my favorites, but none that I would say it stands out.
Hehe it took me a few minutes to figure it out.
Haha. I would NOT be able to choose. My bookmarks go on for literally minutes!
-Dave
Clever
5 websites i can’t live without is
Google
Yahoo
Paypal
Gmail
Youtube
These are a must go every day for me.
I don’t see the sites—or I guess that’s the point. I’m a little slow right now–it is 5 oclock. I get it—you don’t need website to live, but family is essential.
LOL ..i can understand the importance..
For me is my teenhut.net forums
Wowie!
Same here! I cannot see any listed
Wikipedia is sooo cool. I just love to be able to go to one place and get the basic info I need on just about everything on the planet. I just discovered the other day that in IE7 up near that little magnifying glass in the top right corner that you can list it as a search provider, To search Wikipedia then you can just enter the work in the search
box, select Wikipedia from the drop down menu and go.
Could never without google or wikipedia!
I can’t live without this site click the link
I think nearly everyone will have to say Google
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