I would love to have some girl friends, but i only came across advice on how to get out of the friendzone.

How do you get a girl to actually want to have you as a friend? When talking to a new girl, I use the techniques and stuff, and that usually leads to her being attracted to me, but no girl out of the 500+ I approached actually wanted to be friends with me.

Do I just stop using the techniques? But what would I say instead?

(if you say 'just be you', I don't feel like that's good enough to be a friend of a cool girl)

Why would she be interested in me, without the techniques? It seems like you guys who get friendzoned have some sort of quality that the girl likes, otherwise she wouldn't even talk to you.

Has anyone had the same problem? Thank you.