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$10k to $32k/MONTH in 100 DAYS - 3 Steps to SCALING an Amazon Affiliate Site #Best Education Page #Online Earning

$10k to $32k/MONTH in 100 DAYS - 3 Steps to SCALING an Amazon Affiliate Site



hey what's up duck Huntington here this
is going to be the session on taking a
site from 10k a month to 32 k a month in
a hundred days and this is sort of a
summary of a case study that I went
through this is part of project go white
hat and I see we have a few people on
thanks for joining live do appreciate it
and I see we have Lance on we have yeah
we have four here and thanks who is
moderator so my moderators hopefully you
can help me keep an eye for trolls out
there always interesting to have them on
so again this is the session on 10k per
month to 32 K per month now this is a
snapshot in time right so I'll give you
some of the baseline information and
then the few steps that we took to go
through it now when I say we I'm talking
about Rob Atkinson who is my business
partner for this specific project here
so again this is part of project white
hat and we indeed move the income from
10k month which is really good to 32k a
month which is yeah over three times
better and a couple things I want to
mention number one there is a free
workshop tomorrow sort of self-indulgent
and it's about how I started a niche
site project my internet marketing blog
and sort of the platform that we're
doing now and I see we have a few more
people on so really appreciate you
joining in we have sinja van hopefully I
pronounced it right and Utah and ten and
you to ask the question already so 10 to
30 to means invest 10 or you telling the
range of income the range of income so
again I'll paint a little picture
hopefully it'll be clear a lot of times
with the live streams I'm a little
inside baseball here I'm sort of
fleshing out these ideas a little bit so
I've you know mentioned these here and
there and some people want to go deeper
in certain aspects so I'm going to tell
you about that and this is in three main
steps that we did so basically the site
was making about 10k a month for several
months right so I don't remember off the
top of my head but for a few months it
was making 10k a month and that was
great then I joined the team and Rob and
I were working on it and I ended up you
know where we both ended up doing some
work a lot of the stuff that I'm going
to talk about today was around the work
that I was doing and I'll explain that
so the site was making 10k a month for
several months
and then we made some changes in content
and in the link building side which if
you see many of my videos you realize
the niche site model has like two main
areas in its content and link building
right so those are the two main factors
that contribute to success or lack
thereof so we grew the site pretty
quickly and I'll tell you the
progression I should probably write in
the description but basically it was 10k
in September of I think it was 2016 at
this point September of 2016
10k and then in October it was 14 K so I
moved up by 40% and then in November it
was 19 K and then December it was 32 K
and everyone should notice that is
taking advantage of the retail season
hey this is a good headline 10k to 32 K
per month in a hundred days and it was
pretty crazy we actually when we started
proposing and brainstorming things that
we could do we didn't know like what
could happen right we thought maybe we
could get this site up to about 15
- 18 K by the by December like we made
predictions in in August of 2016 and we
thought hey maybe we can increase the
revenue by forty to sixty percent which
is a lot right I mean forty to sixty
percent is you know a lot I mean that's
a crazy man of growth in a small amount
of time so here's what we did I'll get
to the point so we looked at some
additional areas but here are the three
areas that really made the difference so
number one we improve the content on
just one post a specific post was
getting the majority of the traffic and
forehand thanks for incest it's pretty
incredible it shocked us we had no clue
what was gonna happen so we knew we have
a lot of traffic on one post it was an
affiliate review post it converted
pretty well for that page I think we had
something like fifty percent of the
traffic that landed on the page would
end up at Google or Google would end up
at Amazon and the conversion rate at
Amazon was about remember it was about
four percent or so it was on the low
side but that tells you that we're
getting lots of people over to Amazon
maybe even ones that weren't well
qualified they weren't actually
interested in buying they were just
browsing right so keep that in mind so
we had 50 percent of the traffic going
to Amazon we had about four percent
converting the amount of traffic was in
the I think 1500 per day range and most
of the traffic again was going to that
one post so we looked at that one post
and you know Rob initially created this
site and I joined then in mid-2016 so I
went in and audited the site right so I
did I looked at a few a few posts right
there were about 4045 something like
that and I reviewed a few of the post
right most of the traffic was ninety
percent of the traffic traffic was
going to a few posts I checked those out
identified one post where most of the
traffic was going most of the sales were
originating from this post so I realized
that number one the content was poorly
written upon you know talking to rob he
he knew that it was poorly written and
you know funny thing the person that
wrote it like didn't really know about
the topic like at all it was kind of
it's kind of funny so that said I
realized the content was poorly written
and the buying guide area wasn't that
great the length of the content was
about 2,500 words there was a table in
there it generally follows the perfect
Amazon review format which I you know
readily share if you google the perfect
Amazon review and their site project you
should be able to find my template so it
roughly followed that and when I took a
step back I thought hey we need to
improve the buying guide and just
tighten up the copy so if I remember
right Rob tightened up some of the copy
for a few of the the specific products
and then I use the RPM method right or
rpm which is the research paper method
and there's a whole free training on
that so I used the research paper method
to go research other websites and find
out what they had I went to the
competitors websites I went to
manufacturers websites several
manufacturers websites I watched a
couple of YouTube videos and I think I
read a few other specifications like for
trying to mince my words here so I don't
give away the niche I looked at sort of
like professional standards within that
niche that applied to that post and
products so the point is I did a lot of
research I probably sat down and did two
and a half hours of you know just taking
notes learning about the topic
understanding what the point was and
and I created an outline then I hired a
writer to go ahead and you know fill out
the outline write it write a narrative
or whatever he wanted to do to approach
that topic he wrote about 40 like I
think it was about 4,000 or 5,000 words
so I'll just say 4,500 words for about
$200 and then we we published it right
so we didn't remove the whole post we
just appended to it so we added to the
end and that beefed it up from 2,500
words to about 7,500 or 8,000 words
additionally we added a few other
products and I see some questions coming
in I see Joan and I'll come back to the
questions Tony's on as well appreciate
you both on here and John is on as well
so cool next after I guess that yeah the
next point after the improving on the
content and hiring someone we then
looked to add more content so the goal
with project a white hat was primarily
around selling the site and we wanted to
sell the site for over six figures which
we did we later sold it for two hundred
thirty-five thousand in June of 2017 and
basically we knew or we had the feeling
that if we wanted to sell a site for
over six figures we would need more than
40 posts now we didn't think it was
gonna like boost income a ton but just
having a more well rounded site the
value proposition is higher now mind you
Rob and I knew people that sold sites
for that amount but we had not done that
ourselves so we were just speculating
that hey we need to raise the value
proposition on this and one way to do it
is to add more post around that time I
was you know I had already tested the
keyword golden ratio if you
unfamiliar with the keyword golden ratio
I'll paste the link in the description
so if you're watching this not live
you're watching the replay I should have
more things in the description so you
could refer to like the RPM the kg are
all these buzz words I'm throwing out so
the key word golden ratio is basically a
way to look at key words supply and
demand so that you could find key words
that are underserved on the internet the
benefit of that is you can usually
publish content in rank without
backlinks so let me say that again
so everyone heard it make sure everyone
heard it so usually you can bind these
keywords post the content and rank
without backlinks I suggest people get
comfortable with backlinks but backlinks
do seem to be the bane of most people's
existence in the internet marketing
world so the point is if you can do link
building probably good shape but by
posting key word golden ratio content we
thought we could be found the site we
thought we can make it you know a higher
value proposition if someone just looks
at it and potentially rank more
affiliate content with no additional
link building because we were gonna be
busy doing some other stuff which I'll
talk about in point 3 and if people are
just joining up I see we're getting more
and more folks on this is this is my
story on how I took a site making 10k
per month to 32 K per month in 100 days
yes it was during the retail season but
I'm telling you the three steps and yeah
regardless if you raise the like the
revenue by like three hundred and twenty
percent that's a lot right so thing is
we published about 60 ish new articles
if I remember right give or take right
so we published sixty new articles I
hired someone to do keyword golden ratio
research for me I trained them myself
right so there's not many people out
there doing that I think that's another
topic for another day but I hired
someone to find the 60 keywords for me
it probably cost a few bucks probably a
hundred bucks or so and then I took
those keywords and I had a Content team
already in place so I just had them
write those articles right it was a
no-brainer pretty straightforward
I pay $15 for a thousand words each one
of these posts was a thousand words okay
so we had were basically adding 60,000
words of content and 60 and 15 and we
spent I think under $1,000 including the
content management so I had a Content
Manager who would edit the content would
format the content and then draft it for
us
all right so that is how we handled step
2 and if you're just joining up step 1
was improving the content on one post
that was bringing in the majority of the
traffic part 2 was adding more content
in the form of keyword golden ratio
content and step 3
was adding links so the whole if you're
unfamiliar with project a white hat I
will probably do videos on it number one
to tell the story again but point number
two is I did a whole blog post series on
niche site projects so if you google
project a white hat if you go to a niche
site project there's like I don't know
it's like a small books worth of the
story and I take you from the very
beginning to the very end when we sold
it and basically this hat this site had
grey hat backlinks private blog network
backlinks and our theory and our
interest in the project was to do
outreach replace those pedia and private
blog network links with guest post links
that were obtained through white hat
outreach I was as I was and I guess I am
a specialist and outreach
and that sort of white hat link-building
I used to have a service I got a lot of
experience doing that realized I didn't
want to run a service and I should yeah
just do the work for myself and that is
one of the reasons why you know I was
able to partner with Rob I had a skill
set that he didn't have and basically we
went out and we were placed about I
think it was like 45 private blog
network lengths with about 45 guest
posts now in hindsight like our rankings
like we did this in a very methodical
way beyond the scope of what we're
talking about but basically we added a
bunch of backlinks and we staggered
removing the private blog network links
until later so that we would not impact
the rankings especially rolling in to
the retail season so again I'm just
gonna repeat that so everyone can
hopefully I'll say it better so
basically we were replacing these grey
hat links with white hat links over a
period of time we staggered removing the
private blog network links so as not to
impact our rankings it worked out fine
the rankings actually moved up because
we were adding links at the beginning
and that is probably you know one of the
other contributing factors now we were
already ranking number one for the terms
that we were trying to rank for but I'm
pretty sure we started moving up for
other longtail keywords that we weren't
actually targeting or track we weren't
even tracking other keywords so the
point is we ended up adding more content
to the post which was already ranking
number one that attracted more longtail
keywords and it was higher quality
people stayed on the page longer and we
believe other longtail keywords we're
bringing in a majority of the traffic
now the interesting thing is we
published this you know first like step
one improving the content on that big
post we took it from
2,500 words to about 8,000 words and
then we kept working we kept moving
forward so in September the site made
10k in October it made 14 K improved by
40% in traffic and revenue within like
40 days right I don't remember the exact
amount but we probably published the the
content in like early September and
before the end of the month in October
the site you know had moved up and
started attracting more traffic again
I'll repeat the the the revenue stuff in
a second so it was like nineteen
thousand and we went ten in September
October was 14 November was nineteen
thousand and then December was 30 mm so
it slowly ticked up and the revenue
matched the traffic so I don't remember
the traffic exactly but basically the
traffic went up by 40% in October the
revenue went up by 40% it increased the
traffic increased even more the
following month in November and the
revenue went up too so they tracked
together and they were correlated and
you could see you know both track the
same line all right so I'm gonna
summarize my points again and then I'll
answer some questions quick reminder
before I start summarizing number one
I'm doing a free workshop tomorrow on
starting an internet marketing blog no
pitch just talking about it
self-indulgent I'm just gonna talk about
myself and what I did for about an hour
there's a link in the description if you
want to sign up you could check it out
and you just have to enter your email
address there so if you're interested or
if you've ever thought about starting an
internet marketing blog you should
probably attend so and it's very much a
you know I'm just telling the story of
it not being easy right so I know when I
started I looked up to people and I
thought hey
they started a blog I'm gonna do that -
they're just sharing their story and
what they did but it's a lot harder than
then I thought it was going to be and I
think a lot of people assume that
because it looks easy it's probably not
too hard but anyway that's tomorrow
additionally if you like these live
streams and I hope you do I'm doing
another live stream on Friday that's a
general Q&A we just go back and forth
answer some questions so be sure I think
if you go to my channel like the main
page of my channel it should be listed I
encourage you to add a reminder on there
so you don't miss out make sure
notifications are turned on same time
same place I usually try and publish or
do something 10:00 a.m. mail and time
which is you know this time this hour
okay so I'm going to do this summary and
then we'll answer questions and thanks
folks for asking questions if you do
have questions feel free to add them in
there alright so the first thing we did
oh and I'll retell the the revenue just
a bit so in the site was making about
10k a month for a few months in
September where I'm tracking it from so
it's September 2016 made about $10,000
in October 2016 it made about $14,000 in
November $19,000 in December
$32,000 I can't remember what January
was I think it was like 14,000 but I
can't remember so I mean the retail
season gets insane and we didn't know
that it was gonna grow that much and we
also didn't know how much was gonna drop
but it still made five figures in
January so the three things we did
number one we improve the content on a
post using the research paper method rpm
I'll paste a link once I finish up here
I'll paste a link in the description of
this video so you can refer to some
training in other information
additionally I'm gonna do just a video
straight up on the RPM so it's not a
workshops
but just where I go through quick and
show you the RPM method the second thing
we did was add keyword golden ratio
content and that was something I had
already developed in the previous year
and tested for you know 12 or 18 months
at least and I knew that it was going to
be a route to get more traffic and
probably improve rankings just on the
overall site third thing we did was add
white hat backlinks and coupled with you
know the fact that we were adding
content we just attracted more traffic
we were able to publish this content
without doing link building alright so a
couple questions um okay so Joan says
what with average monthly traffic an
average price per item okay so the
average monthly traffic it went up right
so at the start it was you know a
thousand twelve hundred fifteen hundred
people per day so that would end up
being what is that like forty five fifty
thousand per month
something like that on the conservative
side and as the traffic moved up or
sorry is as the revenue moved up the
traffic went up too so that means it was
getting you know monthly perspective
unique visitors it was well over a
hundred thousand visitors per month and
one of the other videos I haven't
drafted it yet or anything but I think I
mean for the month of December we were
making a thousand bucks a day which
sounds crazy to say out loud but we're
making a thousand bucks a day now sure
we made some reinvestments you know so
I've done the math somewhere else but
you know the we ended up spending on
content you know twelve hundred dollars
and on the link building portion you
know over the span of the project I
think we spent
you know maybe $5,000 or something five
to six thousand dollars however right
that was over the span of like eight
months so you know you got to keep that
in mind
additionally we were I mean we were
reinvesting the profits right this was a
project that we were working on we were
happy to invest money anyway but the
site's making money you could afford to
reinvest it so the profits were still
maintained and in that sort of thing
average price per item I don't know you
know the the thing is people buy other
stuff on Amazon so the idea that you can
I mean it's hard to say it was probably
50 bucks if I had to guess but like I
said I mean people would buy the one
item that was reviewed on the site or on
the page and then they'd buy like ten
other things right so average price per
item it's like under 100 bucks Lance
says once you have the site up and
running and accepted to Amazon do you
target buyers keywords or do you keep
the 50-50 keep the 50-50 for this
particular project we didn't do that
we were quite aggressive and just it was
80% affiliate post Steve what's up good
to have you on is that a dog is your
avatar that's cool what kind of dog and
then the average link for the article it
was about a thousand words
however the post that was making the
majority of the revenue was like eight
thousand words almost everything else
was about a thousand words
Bynum says in the key word golden ratio
do the key words have to be in the title
or can it be h1 h2 and rank as if it was
in the title so the it does have to be
in the title couple curry
actions on your question you should only
have one h1 tag on your page it should
be your title your title generally is
going to be the h1 tag and everything
else should be h2 or below okay so but
your real question is around the keyword
golden ratio it should be in the title
Bonnie yeah this stream will be posted
immediately after so feel free to watch
it later
jihad how do you choose the product the
price reviews I think you know it hasn't
published yet but I talked about how to
choose a product usually try and find
some premium price some middle price and
some economy priced products not
everyone wants to buy and expensive
whatever and then I try to make sure
that they have like four to five star
reviews in general feel free to do
whatever you want there there's no right
answer on that Barry says how long did
it take for you to start making some
money off the site and how much was the
first earnings that I don't remember the
site was around for a couple years
before I joined up but I think probably
the very first couple bucks were
probably in the first couple months and
then the first earnings were probably
you know under 20 bucks in the first
couple months so yeah that's that isn't
it's hard to make any conclusions based
on that question so Barry if you have
follow-ups up but you have follow-ups
let me know and Steve says it's a rescue
dog it's a mutt cool yeah we we just get
rescues we've oh my dog is dreaming down
there Georgie she's she's sniffing in
her sleep down there okay any other
questions out there cool and it's it's
good these are great questions to have I
am like continuing to log additional
questions that I get to shoot videos on
it so
the tricky part with the livestreams I
love to go back and forth get the real
questions that people are asking like I
said a lot of times if I'm doing a live
stream I'm like figuring out the cup
like I already know like what we did in
this case but like when people are
asking questions about it
then if I can go back to my notes
develop the idea more so when I talk
about this in the future I know the
questions that you asked here so I could
place that in the content
so again just tomorrow's the live stream
on the internet marketing blog that I
started and basically it's like there's
a lot of iterating over and over again
so I know when I first got started it
was it was hard to do that Stephan
what's up okay
the question is do you use something
like ez Azon or how do you handle the
layout so I don't use ez Azon that is a
plug-in to help place affiliate links
they have some calls to action and stuff
like that
basically I'm a minimalist when it comes
to like plugins and tools and stuff like
that so I typically don't use that stuff
on this particular site we were using a
fairly standard theme and it was I think
was a thrive theme right so Robert II
haven't met that set up I'm not a huge
fan of thrive but it's pretty it's a
clean-looking theme I don't remember
what specific theme from thrive but it
was a clean-looking theme we weren't
doing anything fancy we use different
tables right so Rob would do some tables
and that sort of thing
but the tool that you use doesn't matter
too much I usually just use a site
stripe I don't pay too much attention
and Steven says you lost a job similar
to what I had that sucks man I yeah well
I'm kind of I'm at this point I'm glad
that I lost
but yeah it was definitely surprising I
guess you're doing IT project management
of some sort or you were so weird market
out there too especially where I'm at so
any other questions on the topics today
and I do see we have quite a few people
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hope it was helpful and what I'm gonna
do now there's a couple playlists
that'll be super helpful for doing the
stuff that I talked about and videos so
under each point I'm probably gonna
paste a link down there and it'll take
me just a minute to find that stuff
because it's just a little it's a little
tricky
alright yeah like I said any other
questions and again just a reminder I do
the Friday Q&A out there on you know
whatever questions you want to ask
basically so Friday Q&A is out there and
same time same place I encourage you to
set a reminder so that you're you know
able to attend you don't forget
additionally you know I'll just point
out a couple other things I've been
working on a few playlists and I think
people really like the niche site tear
downs so definitely check those out
there's many hours there's one playlist
where the videos are like
oh I don't know they're very long
they're like 30 30 40 minutes and then
there's some others that are much
shorter and I see a bunch of people are
joining so I did take a niche site from
ten thousand a month to 32,000 and about
a hundred days so if you're just joining
up now I encourage you to rewind the
video and then I talked through the
points and if you have questions you're
watching the replay or something if you
have questions leave a comment I'm
actually scheduling time in my day to go
and answer questions now
so there are turns out there's a lot of
comments out there and I appreciate it
and I am a believer in you know sticking
to like goals right I don't have my
notebook next to me but I'm a believer
of you know one of my focuses for today
was to you know create a Content
schedule and it's tempting to go and
insert comments because like there's a
lot of comments out there but I usually
find that if I allow a couple little bad
things to happen like it takes a couple
days for me to get back to comments or
maybe there's comments from months ago
and I'm gonna have to go back now and
realize that I didn't answer this
person's question from a long time ago
little bad things happen but I am
focusing on you know bigger things so I
accept that and I accept the
responsibility but if you do have
questions ask I you should i hope get
faster responses then us in the past
so alright cool i don't see any new
questions coming in but I know there is
sometimes a bit of a delay so I'm gonna
snag one of these playlists that I was
describing and I'm gonna paste it in the
description so that people can check
those out the first one I'm gonna do is
the keyword golden ratio so I put that
playlist there and the other one I'm
gonna have to playlist it's actually a
video so again the big things are the
RPM the research paper method the other
is the keyword golden ratio and the last
part is around white hat outreach and
overall none of it was complicated but
it did require us to ignore several
things when we brainstorm the things
that we could do to increase earnings we
had about ten ideas we threw out seven
of them we had seven other good ideas
that probably could have helped but
instead we poured all of our energy all
of our intention and resources into
these three and we you know far exceeded
any investment that we made into it we
invested I think around ten thousand
from each of us which of course it was
actually just a reinvestment of the
profits so no actual money out-of-pocket
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