it's the Friday QA I think we're live now sorry for the delay
I was I just shot a video I just rendered a video for like a new teardown
actually here's a little sneak peek I'm gonna publish it tomorrow so normally
it's Tuesday tear downs but you all love these teardown so much that I was like
hey I'm gonna publish an extra one tomorrow because I also learned that you
don't like my vlog stuff as much so that is totally understandable but I'm
reacting to you know the real life you know things that are going on this is
the the general Q&A so when you have those general questions that often come
up that's what today is about so just let me know what questions you have in
the chat hopefully I'll have my kind moderators in there I haven't seen the
pop in there yet but they're usually they usually show up
we have David awesome good to see you David my friend Santiago we have Michael
we have alway normal and Thomas very cool to have you all on I have I've I've
placed a couple additional links I want to point out a couple things as we're
getting started here so number one if you are not on my email list you should
probably sign it up so if you're on the live stream and you haven't happened to
you know sign up for the email list yet that is where you get all my templates
and good stuff so if you had an itch site project com just the main page
click on the green button enter your name and email address you'll get like
all the templates that I use now a couple other links that I put in here so
there's keyword research there's the keyword golden ratio and
there's the link building and se yeah so those are very like useful playlists I'm
working on updating like with more and more playlists and stuff but those are
sort of like core ones to get started on additionally there's a couple of
affiliate links that I've placed in here so how
wanted to point out some specific things so number one there's some rush very
useful tool for keyword research there's a AWP that is a great plugin for adding
affiliate links to your site and they have the ability to pull images from
Amazon using the API pull prices using the API and all that stuff it's sort of
like the cutting edge of you know the plugins at this point additionally three
services I'll mention two from human proof designs there's content service so
they'll write content for you they also do keyword research they also do keyword
golden ratio research so if you had trouble finding such keywords they'll
look up the keywords for you so if you click that link it should take you to
the section there and last content content refine does content services so
that I'm affiliates for those so I get a commission if you you know purchase
through my link but I do appreciate it if you do all right let's see we do have
fur hand on thank you and Wesley says you do enjoy the vlogs okay there will
be some more vlog stuff coming out I actually have a few but I do realize
maybe you get more out of it if I'm talking about affiliate stuff so anyway
I'm rendering a video pretty cool teardown pretty awesome side I'm gonna
publish it tomorrow I'm gonna publish it tomorrow so keep a lookout for that any
questions out there currently there were there were there were a lot of questions
on the Wednesday session which were unrelated but I lost the chat I wasn't
able to grab the questions and you know what I don't have the questions from
Wednesday so if you have those questions you can get into it but I will mention a
couple things so um friend of mine Marcel you may have seen him on some of
these sessions he he was kind he sent me like an Amazon gift card I really
appreciate that Marcel one of our kind moderators in fact and I was like you
know what I want I actually want to do more vlog stuff so I got this
yiii 4k um like camera and here's like the selfie stick
I haven't busted it out I literally just got it in the last couple days but I'm
hoping to sort of like upgrade what I'm able to like take video of so I'm hoping
I'll have some more like cool kind of stuff also like traveling I live near
Yellowstone I have a trip planned coming up pretty soon to visit some friends in
Colorado in the Denver area and I'm like you know it's a little hard to like
fumble around with a big camera with a dog in the car and driving around and
all that stuff so I'm like you know this is a viable solution so anyway thanks
Marcel appreciate it that's really cool all right david says
you like you like some of the other videos that are about book reviews and
productivity's and other stuff Peters on also an online internet marketing Jain
kid loves the tear downs and okay cool yeah so another additional teardown
coming out tomorrow and I do have some cool content coming
out today on master my meetings I have received several questions because I'm
in an I'm in a mastermind I'm in a couple and I talked to my friend Rob who
were in a mastermind group together so we talked about forming a group and we
also talked about like running a meeting right so if you are interested in
getting into that that there's two videos where we come out later today
like I'm going to publish them later today so okay a couple questions here
Wesley says when it comes to link building I mainly talk about guest
posting do I ever focus on other tactics such as skyscraper not specifically but
here's what I do Wesley instead I'll do a skyscraper with an infographic on it
and then I'll do guest posting on it so if you just do a regular skyscraper like
campaign it's probably not going to work okay
it's prepped like most of the time it's saturated in fact I get emails probably
every day slightly I don't I don't know what to do about it
I'm not sure what to do about it other than like filter out emails where people
are trying to get me another you know hey I wrote a post and it looks great
I saw you linked out to this other post do you want to take a look at it the
answer's no I probably am going to delete your message I just don't have
time to to do that so the answer is I don't necessarily do this skyscraper but
I'll stack different techniques on each other and then you end up with some kind
of unique you know something a lot more powerful
Jane Kay says hey Doug I'm three months into your first site you published 32
articles you're averaging about 320 page views a day so far
how is my progress that is awesome I think you're doing great that's really
good and can I talk about the typical audience benchmarks yes so actually what
I'm gonna be real brief because there's a whole video on this and it it's sort
of like the timeline to hit certain milestones of money now it depends on
your traffic and the keywords you're ranking for and stuff like that J and K
but I mean I would expect with 320 page views a day you're probably making you
know a few hundred dollars a month which is very good for a three month old site
so have a look at that typically what I see is about a hundred to make your
first hundred dollars in one month is around six months that's kind of across
the board and then within nine to twelve months usually the growth is more than
double so in nine months it totally varies but you could be
making up to you know five hundred or like fifteen hundred or something like
that and then in a year you could be at you know 500 or 5,000 right it can
really depending on you know how much time you put into the content how much
time you did a link building and the quality of your keywords and the quality
of the content those are you know big factors Carl what's up good to have you
on Davis's tell us a bit about hangar texts in regard to link building let's
say I just started a campaign in your targeting dog training what am I going
to use is anchor text in the guest post okay so anchor text is for people that
don't know that is the hyperlink that is in like wherever it's posted so that
those are hyperlinks usually blue and underlined or some other color
underlined right and if you're targeting dog training you're probably going to
want to use you know dog training a couple times but typically what I go for
is like partial match within a longer phrase so I would use like dog training
within a sentence and then you know two two words will be dog training that
you're targeting and then the actual anchor text will be like six or eight or
ten words long so it's a partial match of that whole anchor text there's
another portion of the links you know 25 to 50 percent that you would probably
want to have like generic so it would like say this article or click here or
you know the brand of your site something like that but for me I'm
usually on the more conservative side I typically will do like long phrases that
are partial match Thomas says how much should I look at da when doing keyword
research you've found some great keywords according to my course but some
of them have a DA of forty to fifty although very poor content okay Thomas
are your in five figure niche Knight is that correct let me know Thomas by strum
and and if you are you should you know email me on the support email address
for the course so I can give you proper support this is just you know I just
want to make sure I take care of you properly and you get the right
information okay but much should I look at the DEA you should
kind of look at it so you know from the competition analysis worksheet that
you're mainly looking at the page authority not the DEA so just keep that
in mind and as far as the quality of the content
I mean that's you know that's important to look at but that's typically not like
what's ranking the those sites it's usually backlinks so you know the DEA is
kind of important but the PA in general is more important it does depend also
Thomas on your like the keywords that you're looking at if they're keyword
golden ratio or if they are you know the mid-range terms
alright so Thomas if you have follow-ups just let me know via email all right
Michael says you notice that I talk a lot more about commercial content as
opposed to informative ones what you'd like to know is how you come up with
informational content to help visitors solve their problems and how you go
about researching topics to write about that they're interested ok Michael good
question so for informational topics there's a
couple really good sources so number one if there are any forums out there on the
topic go look at the forums they usually have many boards on the forum and you
can find sort of the beginner sections and frequently asked questions you could
find certain stickies on in the forums you can go to like the dummies guide or
the Complete Idiot's Guide to the various topic and then you can look at
the information in fact you can just look at the table of contents and see
what they cover and get different ideas if you actually can you know look at one
of those books or see certain sections in I know the dummies guide actually to
have a website you can get decent information via blog post so you could
actually just get ideas about no contact so those are two ideas so far
and I'll give you two more one or sorry three I guess number three would be go
to youtube and do searches on the topic you'll probably find some interesting
information on the topic and there's tons of how-to information
the third is SEMRush so if you go to SEMRush there's a link my affiliate link
in the description if you go to SEMRush you can go to one of the big websites
one of the big like authority websites in the niche see what they're ranking
for and their keyword like the organic section there and then filter by how to
so only look at the keywords where the how-to is in the keyword and then
that'll give you tons of informational topics and then as far as researching
that you know the places I told you those are where you get the answers and
additionally as far as like organizing that content let's say you don't want to
write it I can tell you you should probably check out the there's a two
videos on the channel ones the RPM the research paper method and then the other
is the FAQ method so if you look at those two that's that will help you
research and come up with ideas Santiago what's how much can I pay a Content
Manager for each article not four hours this is totally up to you I would highly
recommend doing it by the hour because each article right may have a different
length different amount of editing to do a different you know amount of work so
for me I would rather pay someone by the hour because it's more fair to them and
I want to I'm not trying to take advantage or pay anyone the cheapest
that I can I'm trying to get the best value right so look at it that way look
at everything that way right you want to get the best value sometimes that means
making a bigger investment but you'll get a bigger ROI on the other side if I
try to pay the cheapest amount for content I mean I could but
you know it wouldn't make me happy cuz it's kind of a pain in the ass to get
the cheapest content you can get so but if I just had to throw out an answer
Santiago I'd say 10 15 bucks per article
but again I highly recommend paying by the hour so that it will be you know
fair because what could happen is you don't want your you don't want your your
VA is to be like resentful of the work that you're having them do Thomas says
for blog commenting do I use a homepage link or do I attempt to link to a
specific page on my site I do a little of both but Thomas there's a key
strategy tip here and that is using a like an idea with comment love so again
on my channel I have a video on this on my channel search for blog commenting
and there's this awesome short five minute video that will show you how to
get a link to your homepage and to a specific page on your site
alright so it's using an idea with comment love and it's awesome and works
really well so search for it Thomas you should be able to find it
thanks to my moderators we have Duke in her hand I think was on here as well I
just want to be sure I give a shout out a quick reminder I know a few people
hopped on a little bit later so number one if you're here and you're not on my
email list that is something you should do so you should go to niche site
project com click on the green button type in your name and email address and
you'll get like a link to a bunch of templates and stuff alright next what do
we have Peter says OTE I'm not sure okay Yellowstone awesome have our into Tesla
cars awesome for nature driving you know what I mean I don't follow you exactly
but
yeah I can imagine it it's nice I guess or nice and quiet Oh Wayne says if I get
a guest post how long before I noticed the effectiveness of that post on my
site it's almost impossible to answer sometimes it will be within a couple
weeks and sometimes it's up to a couple months a lot of times what happens is
you just need to you know set a goal get 10 guest post and then like move on and
then some months later the rankings will probably go up so it's really hard to
tell Duke says you have a weird question do I have any experience with gaining a
super high editorial backlink in its effectiveness on the site um generally
no I have gotten a couple like you know links I don't know if I would call it
super high but I have gotten links from you know bigger sites and it's really
hard to tell again the impact of the link may not you know pan out for a
little while so yeah I'm not sure and the background Duke says you just
received a da 94 backlink no outreach or payment it's a true editorial link wow
that is amazing that's really cool yeah I don't know you let me know what
happened so I don't think I've gotten one quite that high I think it was like
in the DIA 80 range or so all right JK says when you hire articles like in my
video when I publish to in articles what's the minimum word count usually I
tell them to aim for it varied right for that particular set of content I said
you know make the minimum like 800 or so unless it's something that you can't
find much information about so here's the thing I would rather and I told him
this I said I'd rather it be shorter but you know a good article versus fluff I'd
rather you know cut out the if it's if it only needs to be 600 words
that's fine and by giving them that flexibility and
I also said hey if you're interested in the topic and you can't find anything
like it's alright if it's shorter and if you're interested in some other topics
you find a ton of information and make it 1200 words make it 1500 I gave them
flexibility one of the average to be about a thousand words I'm a big
believer in giving people autonomy so I have a an assistant right now she helps
me with a lot of this YouTube stuff that I'm working on and some other projects
as well and I want to give her more and more autonomy and you know people are
smart if you let them be smart but if you try and micromanage usually you end
up with you know poorer results I imagine a lot of people will challenge
what I'm saying but I've also hired like I've
interviewed over a hundred people like in-person for my old corporate job and
on-boarded and you know helped manage you know dozens of others so I'm
confident in what I'm saying but I do recommend that you experiment with your
own style but I am not like the greatest manager but I have good solid experience
so I definitely lean on that Alright trying to see if there's any other
things that I missed right there and keep the questions coming we got some
good ones coming through here quick note be sure to check out some of
the playlists below so I am trying to get more playlists out there so I hope
I'm sharing good ones with you Owen last I'm gonna I'm gonna answer a question
and then I have something I want to tell you about real quick pride yoosh
Oh what's up red you should good good to see you can I share my very first
experience of getting a do follow backlink from a big site like a da 50
plus how much time did it take to affect your rankings in to what extent okay
and that's an interesting question you know kind of hand-in-hand with Duke
here's the thing I don't remember and also usually these things like these
things are not in isolation right so when I've gotten like really impressive
backlinks I got a bunch of other links too so I have no clue which link did
what and that is part of the you know issue with like working on SEO usually
we're doing a series of like activities and you were doing stuff right we're
doing a lot of different stuff so it's really hard to tell like what the source
of and like it's just hard to tell what does what unless we're like methodically
testing things and most of the time we don't have time or the effort or even
the ability right it's really hard to run an experiment like in the wild so I
don't know the answer to those questions and I don't think yeah I don't think I
have like a good answer for it so sorry probably I wish I could answer more
specifically better all wayne says met diggity did a test of all the sites that
receive Google penalties in 22 percent of those sites were just using guest
post and editorial links so it's confusing okay interesting all Wayne
Hemel says how many search volume needed mother keyword for opening a niche site
okay so I think what Hemel is probably asking is what's the search volume for
the main keyword of like a starting niche site
there it's a wide range and it sounds like perhaps you're following a
different model than what I I do so I'll answer in the context of the question
that you're answering even though it's not what I do
alright so keep that in mind handle I would say like 2,500 to 10,000 search
volume but I don't do things that way it sounds like you may be trying to follow
some other model so if you're doing that probably the higher end for that mother
keyword that you're talking about I'm on the other end of the spectrum I find it
a little easier to get started so Wesley says Wesley tells me you could have a
unique landing page to link in your YouTube descriptions for your email
lists to track conversions thanks Wesley so I did that for a little while and you
know what I'm learning so much on different areas of everything so yeah
that would be the ideal scenario but what I can tell you Wesley is I know
that the conversions that I get I do track the conversions and I do know
where they're coming from so one of the reasons why I've spent so much time on
YouTube is because the conversion rate to the email list was something like 5 X
so yeah I could do this stuff you're talking about but I already have the
data that Early's close enough right so thank you for the suggestion though Ryan
says hey Doug you were watching the via video you were watching videos and you
saw it was live it's your first time on that's really
cool welcome good to have you on right you have a question if you were to
choose a site to start with a passion site with a fair bit of competition or
one with lower competition but no passion what would you do I would
probably go for the passion even though I mean I'm a I'm a big fan of meets 80
and he you know points out you know you don't necessarily need to go into
something you're passionate about and that sort of thing but I can tell you
that there will be periods where you know things get hard you'll get a little
bored and it's kind of nice if you have a little bit of a passion so the key
parts are you know you mentioned a fair amount of competition but how much is a
fair amount of competition I mean it sounds like maybe you're just getting
started Ryan and if you're if the fair amount of competition is actually really
hard competition well that may be an issue so my hunch is Ryan if you may be
able to find like some less competitive areas and something that you do you have
some passion about so all right the pause here for a moment and pose
question so I've I've published a lot of YouTube videos actually in the last year
I've published like just a crazy amount in the last month I've published about
two videos a day several people were asking about you know how did I do it
like what are my productivity secrets and I actually have like a pilot
productivity course I ran through about 15 students some of which I think may be
on the chat and watching this now but is anyone interested in getting involved in
the beta version so it's like the second iteration of the this productivity
course and I'm actually gonna be adding like this sprint of work of you know my
YouTube work as part of the case study in there so just curious like in the
chat just let me know hey if you're interested or let me know say hey I'm
interested in such a productivity course I can tell you that you know it'll be
under a hundred dollars it's a it's a good course I you know like I said I've
I've been through the material already with one set of students and I've I have
some tweaks based on the feedback from them as well so I'm it'll be yes Lance
is asking how much will it be so the course will be under $100 I haven't 100%
ironed out the price yet but yeah okay as I'm scrolling dinya let me know
about the productivity stuff if you're interested I may roll it out in a in a
quick fashion by the way so next gen K says is there a content goal at which
you call a website done or move on to another or do I just keep writing more
and more and more content for the successful websites not reaiiy don't
think I have like a specific content goal I don't think a site has ever
really done it's always like a living sort of entity or asset is but you can
still move on to another when a site is in maintenance mode and it's just
personal preference like whatever you want to do david says what
service or software do I use for outreach can I expand on the answer for
why I prefer that so the one that I would recommend you check out is ninja
outreach my friend actually founded that back in the day we weren't a mastermind
meeting that's for my meeting a mastermind group
actually so ninja outreach is pretty good they've done really well as far as
updating it and stuff and they started it from scratch now I don't use any
software like that because you know number one if you were more personal and
you're actually like crafting these emails and blasting them out you'll
probably get a better ROI you'll probably get better responses
what I'm finding is the software is getting more sophisticated people are
using mail merge apps I use some mail merge stuff a couple years ago quite
quite useful to use a mail merge app but what I'm seeing now is like you know I
probably get one to two emails a day for people or from people that are using
outreach software and it's really bad like the way they're doing it is really
bad so I recommend don't use software like figure out how to do this stuff by
hand and then you'll be able to get links that other people can't all right
Adrian is asking what am I going to start your podcast have I ever thought
about it yeah I've thought about it a lot I was interested in starting one but
you know what instead I decided I was gonna publish more stuff on YouTube
instead of going to the podcast now the thing is I was thinking of you know
using content from YouTube and like pulling it down taking the audio and
then publishing that as a podcast but I decided just to pause and just keep
going with YouTube because this it's good I'm enjoying it so far
um alright kvt says what's another source of traffic other than Google the
that can get you sales you need to make some money to pay your hosting okay
you're not gonna like the answer here so number one you're not gonna like the
answer I can tell you that already so if you need to make money to pay your
hosting you should go do a service like somewhere locally go you know work on
someone's house go cut their grass go wash some cars whatever you need to do
to make the money to pay the hosting right if you're looking for another
source of traffic than Google I could I mean on any social Channel right pick a
social network and you can get traffic from there as far as sales I don't know
ma'am like those channels are not specifically targeted for sales all
right and I know like manoa you've mentioned a couple you've mentioned a
couple things in the last few videos maybe I can't remember but I know you
made a couple sales and you're doing better but you need to you know just be
patient and if you need money to pay the hosting totally can understand that but
if you're trying to make money fast you're in the wrong line of business
nothing's fast nothing's easy Matthew says how do I track pages that are
giving you the most action from Amazon do you need a tracking ID for each page
alright Matt it's a little tough to track that so I don't know I don't track
it that way I don't track it that way but the thing is like it becomes a huge
pain in the butt if you're trying to create a new tracking ID for each page
and the there may still be but there used to be a limit on the number of
tracking IDs so you're gonna run out as far as like other ways to track it I
mean but you can get a relative idea if you just know how like which pages are
getting the most traffic okay and Matt also is saying asking what
opt-in and email list provider do I use and recommend okay so I'm using
optinmonster primarily and I use Aweber I have an account at get response as
well it was for another project but I'm actually consolidating it over to a
weber so a weber their their service is great
they've been very slow to implement like marketing automation tools and tagging
and begin begin to get more like sophisticated it's taken them a while
but they're actually you know they have all the functionality that I need at
this point and if I move it over like I have a list of about 10,000 people and
that 10,000 is about like the cusp of where the pricing changes so instead of
like 60 or 70 bucks it's like 150 so I'm gonna move it over to Aweber just
because I know how to use it their tools are good enough and I'm already deeply
embedded as far as like the opt-ins and stuff you know optinmonster has been
good with me but there are many other options out there that's just the one
that I happen to be using currently nick says at a certain point you notice
traffic and keywords beginning to increase exponentially you haven't added
content it's moving up quicker yes I have seen that so Nick did you just hit
the six-month period are you at the point where you got out of the sandbox I
think that could be yet that's kind of what happens
all right and Ron says do you use Adsense
no I don't I don't and that is why let's talk about it I do
have on my list too to create a video on like had cents versus Amazon affiliate
for monetization but I haven't I mean I've never had a successful ads insight
because I just haven't spent time on it and I have low interest in getting into
it okay Ryan is saying you would love to find out more people would be interested
to find out more about the productivity course all right cool cool david says
you have a lifetime membership to ninja outreach but you're not using it yet
you're striving to maintain focus do I recommend any certain software for
automating a fresh site when you say automating a fresh site David what do
you mean like what to automate what D cards on Barry is on as well Thomas says
is choosing a unique niche is as important as choosing a unique niche as
important as the keywords for instance if you choose a very competitive broad
niche like skincare would I think there's still great kgr keywords
undiscovered I don't know you know the thing is you don't want to be too unique
because no one's searching for it and you know I don't know there's just not
no one searching for it but as far as like great undiscovered kgr keywords I
think they're out there I think even in broad niches like new products are being
developed so new keywords are coming out where people are searching for specific
products and that sort of thing but I really don't know time it's a it's an
interesting question but I'm not really sure Michael says can I use H refs to
filter the organic section for the information articles yes you can and do
I recommend doing keyword research for search volume or just go ahead and write
on the topics that I find it is up to you you know if you look at the search
volume here's what I would do right look at the search volume if you could find
kg are terms that are informational hey why not publish some stuff where you can
get some traffic and rank for it and stuff but I've also published articles
where I know it's a useful topic so I'll just publish that one is on good to have
you what's up Barry says how do you do how do I go about guest posting from
start to finish there's a long long answer Barry that is unit six in my
course how do I build relationships with bloggers how do I approach that all
right I'll tell you but I'm gonna say quickly and I won't be able to go into
all the details so you find a list of blogs right
so I recommend finding something that's like related to your niche but not
direct competition then you comment on their blogs like two or three times and
then you send them an email and you make friends with them and then you ask them
if you could guest post on their site that's it it's like four steps that's
all you have to do do it over and over again
all right david says thanks for speaking honestly and truthfully ice you're
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