hello it's Doug Cunnington from niche site project and this is the Friday Q&A
I'm a few minutes late I'm sorry about that my router wasn't working I didn't
have an internet connection I literally just restarted everything
before I started and then it stopped working so surprise tech issues pop-up
lanes on we got success rollercoaster give me a shout we got the forehand
awesome one of my kind moderators we'll see who else we have we have Terry we
have pre Tam and here's the thing I'm gonna talk about how I got my start it
always takes a second or two for the questions to roll in I have a couple
that I you know people sent people sent them in they didn't actually send the
questions and to be answered on the live Q&A but they just were asking me
questions via email which by the way isn't really the best way to ask
questions because one it you know email is the bane of my existence but the
other part is if you ask via email it only helps you but if you ask in a forum
like this everyone can get a benefit so I took those questions and I'll you know
give them people a shout and say hey watch the live stream I answered the
question so other people can get some benefit out of it so I'm doing well
today we have Terry Priam Peter Criss and Lachey what's up everyone
I am going to start by telling you how I got started like with internet marketing
so I used to be a like a consultant like a management consultant I worked at a
couple consulting companies and consulting branches and I eventually got
into project management for like a good portion of that and this was like four
year of four years ago is that right five years ago I was twenty eighteen so
almost five years ago so in 2013 I was out walking my dog in you know Dunwoody
Georgia area and I that's where we lived at the time and I
in like business or entrepreneurship I didn't even know you can make money
online which sounds crazy now cuz like I'm like living and breathing all this
internet marketing stuff you know so I had no clue that people were making
money online I just wanted to find a new podcast sort of unrelated but it will
help you understand why I was like looking at podcasts but I listen to
podcast all the time so I commuted to work a few days a week I had a lot of
downtime at work so I literally can like listen to you know five or six podcasts
through the day a few meetings here and there but really I had like a lot of
free time and I was into beer brewing so in 2007 I started home brewing beer got
really into it for probably like six years or so and you know if tape tapered
back a little bit with my involvement and the amount of brewing that I do any
beer brewers in the crowd by the way let me know you know if you're watching the
replay let me know if you're into beer or craft beer or you home brew beer and
of course if you're live at the chat let me know - the point is I listen to all
these beer brewing podcasts there were several of them in I mean I think from
like a marketing perspective like those guys that got started you know ten years
ago doing podcast on beer - no one listened for you know five or six years
like I think they're doing really well now so I got burned out of a beer
podcast and I found smart passive income by Pat Flynn and I listened to like one
or two episodes and was really interested in the topics it sounded like
a scam to be honest with you and I I knew so little that it was a little
embarrassing so you know he starts at the very beginning with affiliate
marketing and what he does and how he's been able to launch businesses and that
sort of thing so he really hooked me and I listened to
probably 50 episodes in the first week he was rolling out new episodes every
week so I caught up fast there were a lot of hopping off points I found other
podcasts from him like learned about other marketing areas and that sort of
thing so it was fantastic that's how I got started within like five or six
weeks I launched my first site I you know remember him saying you know take
action do something and my first site was you know terrible I did so many
things wrong so many things I didn't even realize that I did wrong until
later part of it was an experience and just being naive and then the other part
is I probably just made some mistakes so going to I see some questions coming
through so I will note those and I'm try I'm gonna try and do a thing here to see
if it works or if it's gonna totally distract me so Terry I see your question
I'm going to log it in the I'm gonna log it so that I could like actually answer
it later and Stephen says you drink lots of beer does that count
hey Council to me you know I think that works success roller coaster would like
to drink beer I think Alain was in the craft beer when you lived in Mexico
well that that is strange very interesting was there much beer down
there Barry's on and cool alright so we're starting to get the questions
rolling in but that is how I got started through the smart passive income podcast
and I still I don't listen to as many podcasts now because it can be like
totally overwhelming and when you listen to too many you end up comparing
yourself to the people and whatever they're covering on the podcast is
usually like the highlight reel of someone's life so even if they tell you
they struggled for a few years ahead of time you're only hearing the good part
you're comparing yourself to the good the good part the highlight reel the
very best you know a thing that they've ever done
because it's the most interesting and inspiring however you missed the 10
years where they were like making mistakes and yeah they didn't quite have
it figured out Oh Lance is on my other kind moderator thank the moderators
please they keep order in the house here and you know couldn't do it without them
so next thing we have going on is the question so and here's a fun fun thing
tomorrow I am publishing a video where I home brewed beer so I actually tried to
do like a vlog style video my editor crushed it I think it's awesome
I was video I was like recording stuff and you know I had my dog out for the
first time brewing with me since we just adopt her a couple months ago and it was
a little like distracting like everything that I was trying to do at
the same time brew some beer video and like make sure the dog didn't you know
get into trouble like something like that while we were outside and my editor
did an awesome job so right before I get to the questions
I'll mention an announcement I didn't actually announced it yesterday but I
have a plan to publish about one and a half videos per day right so I'm not
publishing two per day but one and a half videos per day on average for the
month of February so I'm working with an editor of course which is why the
editing has gotten a lot tighter and a lot better I receive compliments on it
all the time but only after I stopped doing the editing and then I have a VA
working with me actually I interviewed her on the channel so Mackenzie is
helping me out a bunch and we have a pretty good system going on so look out
for a bunch of new videos and if you like them it really helps me if you like
leave a comment whatever it is and like the video if you like it so much that
you shared it that would really be awesome but I appreciate the support
from everyone and by the way if you if you want to like this video that's
really cool too so I'm publishing a lot of stuff most of it will be marketing
oriented but I'm throwing in some vlog stuff just to see how it goes and you
know it's kind of interesting to do different things so without further ado
how about I answer some questions alright Terry said you have a question
about the keyword golden ratio when you log into the keyword planner it only
gives you search results that are ranges so how do you get real numbers okay so
Terry the keyword planner has changed so I actually have a video on that so you
need to use a different tool basically what tool it doesn't really matter
a couple people Lachey and pre Tom mentioned that they use kW finder or H
refs keywords everywhere Terry check that out it's a free plugin
and you could do like bulk searches and then it'll spit out a CSV of the data
and then you can slice it and dice it I like spreadsheets it's kind of an
easier way to deal with those things anyway
so yeah I would say keywords everywhere is a good place to start for a free
option and the tool that I typically use is keyword Keg which is part of the same
like family of you know come tools it's the same company right keyword CAG and
keywords everywhere I'm planning on doing some like oh no yeah I guess I'm
gonna check out some keyword search tools again right it's been a while
since I've like downloaded a tool paid for it and tested it see what I like and
what I don't like but I'm planning on doing you know several of them so you
know I'll do kW finder I'll check out a chav so I'll use keyword keywords every
word keyword CAG I'll probably do a playlist compare them all I'll probably
place my affiliate link so that it's like worthwhile for me to do you know
from my perspective I use a tool and it does the job and I think
people should just pick a tool use it move forward of course Terry you got to
get the real you know data in each tool they do a little bit you know they use a
different algorithm to come up with their specific numbers they're all
estimates though I mean even Google they're estimating per month you know on
average Adrian what's up good to have you on and Steven is mentioning Fort
Collins is amazing for microbrewers yes and I spent a lot of time in Colorado
like several actually is it maybe close to like a year of my life through
traveling and visiting but I've spent a ton of time and in the boulder area at
this park the Rockingham National Park area I have a good friend that lives
down in the Parker area which is a little south of Denver so really
familiar with it I've only been through a 12 driven through Fort Collins
probably like eight times or something but I've only stopped a couple times to
actually drink there so it's pretty awesome it's a pretty good town and one
of my favorites in that zone steven is is that where you're located Steven by
the way I really like Oscar blues and that is in Lyons Colorado I drove past
it all the time and the canyon there but yeah I was going or I went there like in
2002 or something like that so anyway and Lane says there's a lot of craft
breweries popping up in Mexico that's cool
pre Tom says how can I give more link juice to your homepage get links to your
homepage hiking gear what's up Peter says how can I tell if the URL I
purchased was penalized before I got it or if my content is garbage okay so
number one the you know the way you could tell is register your domain with
the search console and then it'll literal it'll tell you if there's a
manual issue or some kind of penalty and if your contents garbage you know you
may need to ask a clear if occasion question you just need to you
know read it see what you think of it compare it to the other you know niche
sites out there in the same area and then that'll give you an idea whether or
not you know it's good but basically we didn't make a subjective opinion so
Lachey does the home brew beer tastes different than Bud Light and other
popular beers they all have the same taste to you so know that like it could
be you know whatever there's you know a couple or let me just keep it simple
there's over a hundred like general styles and they could be very different
so a Bud Light is like an American light lager and you can have like we're
talking to Colorado beers so there's a left hand milk stout and it's like
chocolatey and it doesn't taste like milk or anything it's like a throwback
name but it's sort of sweet and chocolatey and rich and it has more like
dark malt flavors where you know Bud Light is you know it's a there's some
flavor there's like really light malt flavor and it's you know fizzy but
there's not a ton of flavor I mean it's supposed to be like that so if you try
to Bud Light and like a milk stout from left hand you would be amazed at the
difference so okay success roller funny that writers on upwork are writing
for people they may as well start with affiliate marketing create their own
blog and they would generate much more well it's interesting but the thing is
it's a completely different skill set so most of the writers that I work with not
all but most they don't know what we're doing at all right like they just
they're the writers of some kind or they're just trying to make some money
on the side slowly it takes a long time remember I said I found smart passive
income and Pat Flynn and it took me a little while to sort of like get what
only took a few weeks for me to get started but it took me a long time to
like actually like understand the whole picture of what's going on but you know
it's totally different skill sets so some people don't don't really want to
get into it even if they know that they could make more so and steven has family
in Colorado cool cool Steven says how long should you wait before you start
getting links page of the website as soon as possible no need to wait for
anything Peter says you wrote a two thousand word article best of with a kid
gr of 0.085 and in two hours it ranked one hundred and fortieth and then after
six hours it disappeared it's a two month old site 14 articles zero traffic
just I would say just be patient yeah just I mean if you just publish it I
mean to be honest with you if you're looking in two hours and six hours you
know you just chill out come back in a week or a few weeks and check it out so
but yeah be patient these things take time what I typically find is I'll
publish a bunch of articles little rank a little bit for some longtail keywords
but after a few months like that's when it really like you'll start getting more
traffic I was just looking at one of my other sites the other day and I saw I
mean published about a hundred articles in
July and September and traffic started picking up in November December so it
takes it can take a little while for it to really move it's a great way to get
started getting a little traffic but you know if you wait a little while and your
site's super young two months old yeah you got plenty of time
terry says are you allowed to have videos youtube videos yes
if so so if we write a blog and have a video embedded yep so just grab the
embed code and put it in paula zahn what's up
and another fan of the left-hand milks out Paul says do I buy stock photos to
put on the site no I don't I usually get Creative
Commons images just because I kind of like the more authentic style rather
than a stock photo that's too professional a couple here and there may
be nice but I prefer having like a site that looks more like a blog and in that
case do I worry about duplicate photos not a ton because not as many people
pull Creative Commons you have to give attribution which I don't mind right I
mean it's not a big deal to do attribution and Lance yep is mentioning
that I do recommend putting videos embedding videos is good Terry says you
always worry about breaking the Terms of Service that's healthy fear to have I
think that's a good thing to do tt says the different keyword tools showed
different search volumes so basically everyone's using an estimate just pick
one and use it it doesn't really matter as long as you get the relative idea of
how different keywords relate to each other but the specific exact number
doesn't matter a time the second part of question is there are also different
keyword difficulty metrics across the tools which one would you recommend I
don't know I haven't tested them all I know that generally my experience is at
least for like longtail Pro the keyword competitiveness number isn't very
reliable for the other tools I'm not really sure
so I would say don't rely on any of them and use your own intuition I highly
recommend the keyword golden ratio there's a link by the way in the
description of this video for a few playlists I encourage you to check it
out so there's a keyword golden ratio playlist keyword research link building
and SEO basically not all but I would say like 95% of the questions like if
you watch this playlist like it answers them at some point I'm happy to keep
answering them here and quick note I want to get everyone's attention if you
haven't liked the video and I answered your question we please hit the thumbs
up and like the video additionally if you're watching the
replay that's really cool I'm hearing a lot of people do watch the replays later
on feel free to comment and and you could ask a question down there and I'll
perhaps include it in the next one I'm trying to stay on top of the comments so
yeah leave a comment or if you're watching live if you have the ability
later after we're not live to come back and leave a comment I hear that's you
know a couple people in these in these chat sessions told me get the comments
that really helps so anyway if you could support me by you know interacting with
the video in some fashion that'd be fantastic thanks Vee Tuuta says when I
create a new page with an article should I submit sitemaps again or ask Google to
index the site I usually don't so I mean take forever if you did it
every time and you're publishing a lot my sites typically they get indexed
pretty quickly the only time I would like ask Google to fetch it is if I made
some significant changes or if was like looking at changing one post
and then I wanted to have it fetched and re-index quickly so yeah so I don't
worry about it but totally up to you I mean I think it's kind of you know it's
kind of a waste of time all right
david says hello awesome so you're watching videos from the beginning the
keyword research demo from three years ago that's funny I remember I was so
nervous doing that I was trying to do a webinar because everyone was like do
webinars honestly if I would have just kept doing stuff like three years ago
my channel would be so big now it's crazy so I think the moral of the story
and throwing back to the Pat Flynn smart passive income like just whatever you're
thinking of starting like start it as soon as possible
even if it's a flop like you'll learn stuff along the way and if you commit to
it you know if you find that you enjoy and you commit to it you'll be much
better off three years from now so yeah if I would have started publishing
videos and doing what I did in the last year three years ago it would be a much
different picture now of course it's in hindsight so cool Peter says should I
use the kgr to find and to find a new niche site is there a better way can you
rephrase your question not really sure what you're asking
Lane says can I help with an Adsense site it depends on what you're trying to
do so that's definitely not my area of expertise so from a sort of like
conversion rate perspective I probably can't help much but from like an SEO
side on page off page it could probably help a lot there for actually just the
whole SEO site I could probably help with but probably not specifically on
like optimizing Adsense just not my thing
Berry says how often do I recommend updating a niche site are they as high
maintenance as a blog no they're not as high maintenance although it depends on
what blogs you're comparing it to but it's really up to you I mean I go I like
to work in Sprint's of work so like right now I'm focusing on a sprint of
work for YouTube content and have been for a couple weeks and by the way are
people interested in that stuff if you want me to tell you like my YouTube
stuff have sort of been holding back trying to get more and more data but
it's interesting as I'm progressing but if you look back from like one year ago
to where the channel is now and then as I'm like learning more and iterating
like I'm hoping things will continue to grow but the point is basically I you
know for a few sites I let them sit for like eight months and then I'll come
back do a bunch of work in two months and then wait again now is that the best
way to do it probably not but if you have like varying things or various
projects going on that is an approach that I like to do so to answer your
question how often do I recommend you have to you know think about it on your
own and figure out what you want to do I I would say you know at least have a
look every quarter and do a little on it and see what you need to be working on
or you know something like that and Paul says you liked it high highlight and
Kent what's up good to have you on you say the replays are great awesome thanks
for the support TT says this kgr is getting saturated we
need to come up with a new home ratio or method yeah you know it's interesting
people are publishing more content and stuff and you know it is catching on a
little bit however it seems like they're still more like there's always more like
there's always more longtail keywords so and I'm not sure like is there gonna be
a saturation point or is it like everything else where
people say is affiliate marketing too saturated or people you know doing too
much of it or is there too much content but you know on and on it seems like if
you just sort of shift a tad and I can't be specific I guess but like if you if
you shift what you're doing or look a little harder like you can always
compete so I mean I got started with affiliate marketing way way after like a
lot of other people did but it seems to be fine so david says david says that
you post on twitter so you like share your new posts on Twitter and it gets
indexed in a couple hours okay Paul says what are the next step
for you this year creating new sites more courses diversifying other things
so one I number one I'm obviously doing a lot of stuff on YouTube and I think it
by the end of the month I'll have like a clearer picture like how I want to work
with YouTube I you know Paul as you know you were you were in the pilot course
for the productivity course so part of you know the YouTube effort is to get
more Amazon affiliate stuff where like I see the things that people are
interested in and like really try and own the space there I think I'm putting
out information that's really good but it
doesn't catch on as well as some of the other marketers out there that I see so
I'm trying to figure out how to like balance the the marketing part of it and
the content because I think Mike I mean I think I know in like practice a little
more detailed Amazon affiliate marketing than some of the other people that have
channels that are doing really well on the topic so I'm trying to like bridge
the gap second part I'm actually yeah so a couple niche site things I'm probably
I've stayed stayed true to just having like a very small number of sites but
I'm potentially looking at there's a site that I've been neglecting for four
years I think I'm gonna buy my partner out and work on growing that using the
systems that I have so that's gonna be interesting I mean I think the potential
for the site is really huge and that's kind of like one of the issues that we
had so my partner and I like we didn't want to it was always this the sort of
second like a side project for both of us so we didn't really spend as much
time on it so every now and then it would put some work in and you know
revenues moving up a tad but anyway I think I'm going to rebrand it I'm
probably going to do a lot of link building to it so cool thing is the
site's been around for a while has some great links but not fresh links and we
added about a hundred articles last year so it's starting to get more traffic
which is great and I could just pour some gas on the fire by getting some
backlinks and I think the site could be great
additionally it is a site that has an email list so that is like one of the
biggest email lists I've grown and it's it's something that has some great
intrinsic value and I'm very interested in like email marketing and copywriting
so it's a it's an interesting project additionally
Paul that you know you asked another question around like like other new
sites so I also I'm working with actually it was a student of mine who
has some sites that he just he means to unload and I may take them on and just
have them as you know another suite of sites another area of income so and
there are a little bit different style than what I would normally do but again
like I have the systems and basically if I have like a link building outreach
team of like a couple people I could just put them on whatever site I want
and then they could work on that site move on to the next and it's the same
set of skills just on a different site okay
let's see what's up folks and okay and Peter clarified how to find a new niche
site topic to start a new niche site so you just brainstorm and come up with
some ideas I'm not sure like what issue are you having I believe you know if you
just brainstorm go take a look at Amazon or whatever affiliate program you you
want and then you can start narrowing it down from there so after you figure out
the products you want to cover then you can do the keyword research find out if
enough people are searching for it so I'm not sure what your hang-up is Peter
but if you want ask follow-up questions feel free to hi hi says on your process
of hiring and hiring writers and setting up their work do I have them do most of
the research on what they're writing about or supply them with enough details
I usually let them do the research but I they have a you know a specific format
that they're working on so it's kind of like pretty straightforward for them to
do the research if I want something you know there's rare occasions probably 10%
of the time where I want a specific you know thing done maybe I'll write an
outline you can refer to the RPM research paper method or the FAQ method
tt says you found a zero competitive keyword with kgr later you found a SERP
is full of EECOM sites for the keyword and the whole effort went in vain
there's more to the kgr it's let the be-all end-all yeah you're exactly right
so here's the deal with the kgr first
watch the playlist in the in the description so watch the playlist the
the real deal with a kgr is I made it to be simple if I put the you know 15 or 20
caveats in there it becomes quite complicated so one of the
things that you can do and maybe I should do a video on this but in that
case TT what you should do right so you check you check the keyword using the
kgr also google it and see what the results are
if Google is giving like all EECOM results you're probably not going to be
able to rank for it that holds true regardless so you know I don't mention
it in the kgr specifically but you know I like to your point earlier TT it's
getting saturated a little bit but there's still you know there's still
better ways to do it and you know pitfalls right sometimes it works if you
do a local monthly search of like a thousand or 1500 and sometimes it
doesn't work if you are doing a search of 50 right because all econ is
dominating it so anyway there are some pitfalls you're right it's not the
be-all end-all it works pretty damn good though and in fact people in the
comments if you're watching the replay let me know is a keyword golden ratio
working out for you and then people in the chat I'm sure there's probably like
ten people who have published stuff and it works right so yeah not all of them
are gonna work you kind of have to do a volume play for it so if you publish one
and think you're gonna you know be able to quit your job or make a bunch of
money you're probably not gonna be able to do it right but if you publish like
50 or 100 articles you're gonna get about five to ten percent that don't do
well at all like you said you'll get 5 to 10% that are really awesome and
exceed your expectations and then the rest of them they're probably gonna rank
okay so you know you got to publish a lot to make this work
tt says if you discuss your keyword with your content writer isn't it risky
what if they leaked your keywords to other people how likely is it don't
worry about it it's all execution right like basically ideas are easy everyone
has like great ideas it's really hard to do the you know hundred steps in a row
to you know make it work if you're worried about people stealing
your ideas don't worry about it like especially keywords keywords are like a
commodity it doesn't even matter so I mean I can give you all the keywords for
a site that's making money in fact you can do that yourself just go to like
SEMRush or aah refs look at the keywords like all the keywords are right there
they are all there for you to take so so unlikely don't worry about it and you
know our ideas are really cool unique snowflakes but it's all about the
execution okay and then lay some X's please make another video on the cage er
you didn't know that okay is there any specific stuff on the keyword golden
ratio that you don't know David says you'd love to ask questions but you know
you have to read all the content first and put put it to the test and ask if I
get stuck David that is the best way to do it but feel free to ask questions
like just the fact that you said that really appreciate it I mean the fact is
what will happen in this live stream right right here right now in about
another 10 or 15 minutes or so people will ask questions that were already
asked earlier in the video and it's like you know if I'm gonna do live streams
that'll happen and so I appreciate it David if you have questions you know
feel free to ask I know that because you you mention that you're probably gonna
have like a well informed question those are the good ones to ask
additionally here's the reality right I think I have like 400 videos on the
channel it's not fair for me to think that someone has watched everything so
every single video could be the first time that someone is watching so I have
to keep that in mind and I may be able to reference another
video but you know as it as it goes I'm probably gonna be you know updating or
referring told videos and like I said I can't assume anyone has
any other video ever okay Marcel says on the org chart for
freelancers I talk about writers and content editors do you have a separate
team working on blog commenting and link building yes technically in my case some
of the people did both but not at the same time so for example I asked a
content editor if she was interested in doing some other work for me she was so
I had her do some of the blog commenting and link building so you can move them
around but they they shouldn't be working on the same like on both teams
at the same time they're separate efforts and you you know best-case
scenario I'm like if you have the budget and you know then you won - you can't
have like a Content team and then you have like your outreach team Paul says
which tool do I check backlinks with eh refs
8 refs is awesome and says what it makes sights on trending topics no I'm not
saying it's a bad idea but inherently like it could be something that you know
is a flash in the pan so you spend all this time on a site and then it like
loses popularity or something like fidget spinners right like if you did a
whole niche site on fidget spinners you know the popularity is probably gonna go
down is what I expect and you know it's it's a little more risky unless you're
into that tt says how many articles with how many words do you recommend for a
new site so 10 I would say 10 articles and then for the amount of content I
would say if you can you know do on average about a thousand words for most
of the articles that's good and then the rest of them you know maybe make them 2
to 3,000 start off with and Julius says you
learned a lot from the channel thanks thank you thanks for watching and as
we're running out of questions you know feel free to ask more but if you enjoy
the video if I answered your question that here's a good Q if I answered your
question hit the like button if I answered multiple questions of yours
like some of the other videos - alright and I had a couple other questions that
I was gonna put in here so if there's dead time I'll put that in in there tt
says affiliate marketing with niche site is not saturated take your stance I
don't know I mean it doesn't matter what I think I guess I don't I don't know can
you rephrase the question I'm not really sure so you made a
statement you want to know if I agree or disagree is it saturated I don't know
does it mean you can't make money no but you could definitely make money with
niche sites you could start a new site and make money in like six weeks right
so in people in the course literally a couple people that were in the chat that
I saw started a site and they made money within like a few weeks right so is it
saturated maybe but doesn't mean it's not a viable option No
so we're not sure what do you think TT what's your stance on that Paul says how
do you know the guest posts you make are not part of a pbn and how it might
impact your site - so typically PBMs are really easy to identify usually you'll
see links to like random affiliate sites and the majority of the post or like
links to affiliate sites a lot of times with like an exact match anchor text I
was doing a coaching call the other day and I mean it's it's obvious once you
start finding them and once you see a few of them it's
really easy to tell them apart so basically you could tell you really
easily
Vytautas says how many backlinks to start with for a new site as many as you
can um yeah as many links as you could
possibly get but I think you probably want to ask a different question if you
want to try again but yeah for any site new-old whatever
as many links as you can get that's how many you should get Beth says what's up
Beth good to have you on which is better for SEO individual article pages or a
blog format does it matter so it doesn't really matter it's more important with
the titles and the URL I typically publish posts and I think you're saying
post versus pages so I usually do post just that's kind of what I like to do it
doesn't really matter post or pages or equivalent and I don't like to have like
the home page with like all the recent blog posts in full text like I don't
like that it's kind of an older style so I don't recommend that in Beth I'm not
sure if I answered your question exactly so if you want to clarify let me know
Barry says you're starting from scratch with a new site how do you first start
to build links and get traffic blog comments so blog commenting will start
you know will get links for you and then people will follow those links from the
comments and then you'll get a little traffic not a huge amount but you'll get
some and I have a method where you use it you take advantage of a plug-in
called comment love where you do will get a couple again you're probably not
gonna rank solely using blog comments but then you're able to get a few do
follow links like five to ten percent is what I've seen
just kind of on average using that comment love idea I have a video on blog
commenting so if you go to the channel and just search for blog commenting
you'll see the way it's actually an older video but it's still effective so
if you check it out and utilize it you can you know that is probably how people
start making money so quickly you know you know publish a couple kids your
articles and you know do some of this blog commenting should be able to get
traffic all right tt says I just said as many links as you
can get four fresh site really doesn't it hurt Google there should be a
threshold for link building for a new site I just can't flood my new sites
with backlinks right I don't know man how many backlinks can you actually get
in say a month so if I but so answer the question TT so if I was like get 150
white hat backlinks as quickly as possible do you really like will you be
able to do it really quick I don't think you can it's a lot harder than you think
that said the site like I know of a site where you know they went out they were
getting you know fifty to a hundred links per month and their site is doing
awesome they're making lots of money and you know they have a team working on it
that budget to invest and yeah I challenge you TT I mean if you think you
can get them fast you should be making just a lot of money and yeah so
basically if you're getting bad links yeah don't do that but if you're getting
good links you're not going to be able to do it as fast as you can and then
your second question is does the Google sandbox really exist I think so Peter
says some recommendation to put your picture and about yourself how do you
represent yourself or business on your niche sites
usually it's good to put a persona Peter I highly recommend you check check out a
few of the Amazon affiliate tear downs so I talked about about pages and a
video coming up I may even be able to tell you when it's coming out but I have
a video coming up where I look at three different about pages on three different
sites as part of the Tuesday teardown series so Tuesday's I'm gonna do Amazon
affiliate tear downs so once coming out but basically it's good to have like
some authenticity on your about page do it however you prefer but having a
picture is good it doesn't have to be a view right you can have a fake persona
and that is alright like a you know a pseudonym a pen name
very good to have you on Lane says you got a new site and you're getting white
and yak getting white hat links is not easy if you're trying to do it quickly
or you can't do it quickly yeah basically I mean even if you have a team
working on it you know you're not going to be able to exceed that yeah TT yeah
let me know let me know man
ban says any specific affiliates other than Amazon that you recommend no but I
would say you know take a look at your niche take a look at you know what you
have available so off the bat it doesn't really you know I don't have anything to
recommend because it would just be arbitrary so look at your niche and
figure it out how many sites do I have a few lame says you're dealing with it
right now must be the Google sandbox yeah yeah for sure
lay some eggs yeah so watch the replay later you keep losing power in the
snowstorm you know we had a little snow here in Bozeman this morning Matthew
says you just had $125 in your fourth month on Amazon you did nothing in
January and revenue double once again despite the hate for the kgr it works
and you love it traffic has doubled in the last week of January see that's a
really interesting thing like you're in a growth path so it's really unusual to
have growth after like after December usually everybody takes a dip so you're
on a growth path Matthew and actually you may be interesting to interview on
the channel if you're up for it let me know Matthew I know we exchanged a
couple emails in the past when you were sharing results so really cool to hear
TT says what if for a new site you go with Google Adwords and then after the
sandbox is lifted you go pure organic sounds awesome let me know how it goes
usually you won't be able to make money the margins or too small and unless
you're like a magician with AdWords so so TT how many links do you think you
can get in one month
and basically the AdWords method that you outlined TT it just like Blaine
mentions it's not gonna work for an affiliate site with Amazon right so if
you have you know if you're selling a Clickbank product or some other product
then you essentially have higher margins so you can make the math work okay and
Pete says you just googled the sandbox you've
never heard of it so it's kind here it's a whole other story so I'll try and tell
it in a brief way how many people by the way let me know in the chat and let me
know in the comments like have you heard of this Google sandbox do you believe in
the Google sandbox is it like you know Bigfoot it doesn't exist but we see
signs of it all the time I don't know I've never seen a sign a Bigfoot but the
thing is Google sort of like holds back on the rankings right so if you publish
if you yeah if you publish a brand new site if you you know start a brand new
site start publishing content you can get some traffic you can get some
rankings and stuff but like inevitably after six months like traffic starts
growing faster so I've had people who you know they worked on their site for
three months they were like this isn't working and they stopped and then once
six months hit like almost to the day their start their site starts getting
and more traffic and it just keeps growing like for the next six months or
something like that it's pretty remarkable when you see it and then when
you see it from multiple people it's hard to ignore TT says do I announce the
live beforehand if you known you would have come you would have lists the
different questions more questions TT you you're you are one of the most
active folks on here I commend you for your activity yeah so basically Fridays
it's listed on the about for the channel but on Fridays at this time I do QA
Wednesdays I do a topic of my choice so it's not the time to ask random
questions like that only related to the topic thanks I'm glad you're learning a
lot you're still learning yeah I think a lot of your questions like you're at a
point TT where you've consumed so much information so like when you come back
at me and you say oh isn't it bad to get so many links it depends on you know who
you've learned from in the past right so if you're trying to do
something different than what I'm describing then yes the the answers
don't apply right if you get a bunch of bad backlinks from Fiverr then yeah
that's not the right way to do it but you know people do that I do stuff
differently so I would say you know check out some of the older live streams
and I was gonna give a shout-out to Arun for putting together a playlist several
playlists so there's a couple new links I'll put in the description after I
finish up here yeah okay so anyway TT yeah so there's
quite a few of these take a look at some of the older ones too it's just like
random questions like this Ellen says you can speak highly in defense of the
kid yaar you're already making just under 2 K a month on a site you lunch
before July and you've done no link building just the kgr that's cool hey
Ellen we exchanged a couple emails I would be interested in interviewing you
two if you're up for it next we see Matthew says you never tried link
building of the blog comments and forums authority hacker are big on link
building but their courses insufficient on the topic and further I was gonna say
I'm pretty sure I'm getting like so many emails from people that are authority
hacker followers because man I just get these garbage emails where like they
don't know my site they don't understand what's going on and they just keep
sending reminders so people are like automating the stuff that said I believe
that outreach is gonna slow down being effective and it's gonna shift I mean
I've been saying that for about a year now because for about a year I've been
getting these relatively ineffective emails they're just automated it's
terrible so and Lane did say I click the bell beside the subscribe button to get
notifications and then funny enough arun said you're
late no notification so click click the bell
there's a higher likelihood that you'll get notifications but tt it doesn't
always work so thanks laying yeah click subscribe if you want if you want to be
notified I hear sometimes they come out a little late but you know what are you
gonna do we do our best and let's see here and I'm gonna make a note so Ellen
and Matthew it sounds like you guys are doing wow it's really cool I mean Ellen
that's awesome 2k a month you must punch the site under a year ago you're just
doing kgr stuff so awesome awesome yeah that is fantastic and Lane says you
believe this sandbox exists and in further you know someone asked about
like how many sites I have so I try and keep it low right if you hear me talk
about like should you build a portfolio of sites or just have like a few I
usually recommend a few however like I mentioned earlier I have you know I may
be getting a couple more sites that are just sort of smaller and you know from
my perspective it seems interesting to have a couple other smaller sites the
deal is though they're already making a little bit of money number one hey
they're aged from like two to five years so like they they are out of the sandbox
they are ranking for some terms already and it's just really helpful to have
that in play already and if you add you know kgr content like it kind of solves
solves the problem alright julius says unless you're using an expired domain
all your websites go through the sandbox and you're used to it by now and yeah i
mean like the people that i know that we're in favor of portfolio of sites
oftentimes they'd have a site they'd build a site
and they wouldn't do anything to it for about eight months they would just like
load it up with content and then they would come back in about eight months
and then they would start through the link building stuff however I you know
like I mentioned before if you do come out and you do a lot of brand brandable
come out of the gates you do a lot of brandable backlinks anchor text then
it's pretty pretty effective all right all right okay I'm catching up do I know
of any books to help with writing content I you know what I do have a book
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