hey what's up Doug Hennings in here from
the site project this is the Friday Q&A
and we're just getting rolling here so a
couple minutes late today just trying to
make sure that the the little overlay
was gonna be there but it's not the
little app is not working for me today
so no overlay today what's up everyone I
see we got a handful of people on give
me a shout I see what we have my very
kind
moderators out there - thanks thanks
folks we have Arun and Ferg hand so we
have ed on we have Gregorius we have
Theo what's up and let's see we got two
else who else right okay
hiking gear lab nice and we got some
questions popping up already so very
good we have Ravi and Duke what's up all
right so we have a few questions and
feel free to put them in and ask some
more by the way a couple couple notes I
I don't want to commit too much yet but
I am going to be publishing
a lot more videos coming up soon I will
let people know about the actual
schedule I'm still ironing out some
things but I have been inspired by a few
of the other youtubers that I watch
occasionally which is a common question
so I'll actually tell you about a few of
person that sort of got my attention in
the last week or so is a guy named shoot
his channel was refusing to settle his
name is Clark and it looks like you know
he's been vlogging for a few years but
he's really turned it on and and focused
on a few areas a couple observations
that I had he's big into journaling
which I'm getting
a little bit more in the journal and
currently I'll go on a tangent about
that moment but basically he this guy
Clark did like 50 videos and 50 days
challenge and he has a lot of
subscribers I think he's in the 150,000
range so a very different size channel
than mine but he has his own products
and he puts out a lot of you know videos
he's gotten better over time
anyway that sort of inspired me and I
was like you know what you know I've
been publishing a lot I'm trying to up
the quality I hope people have noticed
that the quality is higher one of the
compliments that I've been getting is
about the editing and how much better
it's gotten it's because I'm not doing
the editing anymore so I hired I hired
an editor she's way better than me so
okay I'm gonna start getting to the
questions here so it is asking about
people that had success on Amazon sites
and there was some chatter going on
about that so that's fantastic let me
keep rolling down Maroun is talking
about you know the number of sales which
is you know pretty decent and you know
one one thing to remember see
Gregorius is mentioning 200 clicks and
no sales the weird thing that happens
like it's cool to have the data however
if your sample size is too small in
other words if you're only getting like
15 visitors a day it's not a big enough
sample size to like make an actual like
determination on how well you're doing
you really need about 100 visitors per
day and then like things will kind of
blow up usually if you're making or if
you're getting about 100 visitors per
day you're probably making at least a
hundred dollars per month quick you know
math quick logic behind that if you're
getting a hundred visitors per day one
or two people they're probably gonna buy
something they're probably gonna buy a
couple things but you have to have like
a sample size of that many people per
day if you have a hundred people over
the course of a week it doesn't really
work out the same way because it may be
the wrong type of visitor that maybe
they're not interested in buying
anyway if you have a small amount of
data it's kind of misleading but once
you get about a hundred visitors per day
things are gonna start happening we have
less Leon and Edie is saying it's your
first time on thanks a lot appreciate
you being on here Jonathon Duke
let's see David is on Danish we have
asmin Ravi we also have some other
people random reviews okay
so David is saying you're just about to
start your Amazon site which course of
yours can I follow so I have a bunch of
YouTube videos I have a lot of
information on my site it's a niche site
project so if anyone's interested in
like getting started and getting more
information you should go to niche site
project click on the green button sign
up for the email list you'll get a ton
of free like resources I guess and it's
like a task list to create a niche site
it's a bunch of keywords so you can see
like what good keywords look like and
subscribe to the channel which I'm not
sure if you are but if you're subscribed
to the channel you should probably
notice the playlist section so there's a
lot of great information in there I'm
actually working on organizing it better
so as far as a course to answer your
question you can't get them to any
course that I have right now so I only
open enrollment up for a short period
you just missed it
so enrolment like closed up like a week
ago I think so it'll open back up later
this year so my recommendation is to
sign up for the email list again a lot
of free resources to help you get
started and then watch stuff on the
YouTube channel a lot of the time if you
just you know search specifically on my
channel you'll probably find your
question
next we have random reviews is saying
things I don't understand
welcome though alright Danish says is it
a good idea to hide your backlinks from
competitors by not letting you know some
people do that but you know I don't know
that it's that effective I mean you
could try it but I don't know that many
people will do that so ed says is it ok
to put an affiliate link in a
description of your video solely as a
way for your viewers to support you even
if you're not advertising a product I
believe so I believe it is I haven't
checked that specifically but I believe
so the key thing is to say that it is an
affiliate link and actually I would
recommend if you're gonna like do that
you have a call to action and you just
say hey help support my channel if you
buy stuff from Amazon if you click
through that link I'll get a small
percentage and then it's very
transparent and you know the FTC federal
Federal Trade Commission I haven't been
getting good sleep this week so I can't
think of words not a good thing when
you're live answering questions by the
way if people like these sessions you
know I do these each Friday just general
Q&A like this on Wednesdays I do a live
session as well same time same place
that is on a topic of my choosing
whatever I happen to be into and then we
we chat about it I field some questions
on Wednesday but I'm a little bit like I
try to focus on the topic so if you like
these you know you should be interested
in attending both Wednesday infrared all
right
next David says what's the name of the
course you're not sure you saw and which
one's more profitable an authority site
or an Amazon site okay the course is
called five-figure niche site and you
can sign up for the waiting list as well
additionally as far as like
profitability an authority site versus
an Amazon site they're kind of different
they're different things or they're the
same thing so you may have a certain
definition in your mind I'll tell you
mine an authority site is really just a
niche site that's a little bit bigger in
my vernacular here so it's an affiliate
site of some kind and I focus on Amazon
site some other people focus on Adsense
some other people focus on just other
affiliate programs out there but
basically the authority site and Amazon
site the way you're asking the question
is actually equivalent so they are both
profitable Jonathan says isn't placing a
link
well isn't that against the Terms of
Service are you saying like to put a
link in your description why would that
be against the Terms of Service
directing to links and support you
thought was against it huh
so I recently saw and I know I missed a
couple questions I'll come back to him I
recently saw there was an update I
thought it was specifically around
telling people to bookmark links so that
could be a little fuzzy so okay Edie
read the Terms of Service and check for
yourself I'm not a hundred percent sure
I'll make a note to check that out but
it used to be in yeah an ad just go go
check out the Terms of Service and check
and Jonathan if you have a reference
like a link that you could post that'll
be awesome but yeah it used to be okay
and
I used to I mean I used to listen to
these beer brewing podcast and they
would often advertise that way like a
support us click through Amazon blah
blah blah and I wonder what they do for
I mean these podcasts are like a decade
old so I wonder how Amazon handles that
if they are like oh you gotta you gotta
redo those podcast bumpers you know just
curious yeah the Terms of Service
they're always changing basically once a
month they often they often change so
okay next we have David says your case
study site the one I exited how many
articles and content did you publish per
week we didn't publish on a per week
basis so the site was launched really
with about you know 20 articles and then
another 25 were added and then on the
course over the course of like when I
was working on it I added over about 8
months about 60 more articles 60 or 70
more articles something like that but we
didn't publish on a per week basis it
doesn't really matter so quick note if
you find this helpful if I'm answering
your question could you please hit the
like button or if you're watching the
replay and you're finding this
interesting or helpful at all please hit
the like button really would appreciate
it helps other people find these videos
okay so then Terry says can you link
articles for products from new sites on
your affiliate site or does it have to
be your own genuine blog post I'm not
sure what that means so can you link
articles
for products from new sites like what
new sites and yeah I'm not really are
you saying like copying news stories if
so I would avoid that and you know okay
so I see a couple people are saying that
you can't post links to ask for support
so apparently that changed and I didn't
realize it applied for stuff like that
for like YouTube videos so thank you for
the smart people in the crowd that
corrected me there and you know you
could write quick quick thing to get
around it and why don't you just say hey
I love this product and if you want to
check one out like go ahead and order
you know a notebook I use a notebook and
I love it I get a commission and let me
just talk about the product for like a
second so you can make it like your own
advertisement if you want to and then
you're talking about the product you're
giving a light potentially descriptive
review and you can put the link in there
so just you know I guess keep in mind
and thanks Matt appreciate it thanks
Jonathan
so okay alright next we have grigora
says if you have a good article with
recommendations in your niche should I
buy PBS for it that's totally up to you
so a pbn for people that don't know is
I'm probably blog network and that is
against the Google like webmaster
guidelines so they call it grey hat and
it is completely up to you so if you
want to do grey hat stuff go for it I
would you know just make sure you know
the risk make sure you understand what
you're getting into a lot of people use
PB ends very successfully I however
don't
I don't have the stomach to deal with
the risk so you know totally up to you
Theo says you see other sites like top
10 best and reviews should I do a
complete review site and then there are
there any problems with that so I would
recommend no there's no major problems
with it but do you have the budget in
stamina to compete with other sites that
are that big so there was a period of
time I remember about two years ago
these sites were very popular smaller
ones were sort of taking off and a lot
of people created these and if you go
scour the you know the SERPs and look
for these kind of sites you'll see just
a wasteland of you know sites where
people published 100 articles no traffic
ever went to the site that never ranks
for anything it's super hard to do that
so if you have a huge budget like very
large budget then you should you know
potentially go for it and I would say
you need to have a team in place you
need to be able to put out high-quality
content you should be buying all the
product stuff like that and if that
sounds crazy to you I don't recommend it
rasool says how much revenue can I
expect for a hundred thousand visitors
to my website a month that is really
hard to answer I'm not really sure so I
only have like a very small data sets to
tell you about so I have no clue no clue
it could be you know I would expect that
you can make at least you know five
thousand a month but you may be able to
make twenty thousand a month or fifty
thousand a month depending on the type
of traffic the type of site and stuff
like that so really difficult to
you know figure that out depends on how
you monetize all right Michelle says how
many times a year do I open the course
four times a year the next one will be
in the April timeframe so and I do that
because there's a lot of interaction
with the students there are components
which happen real time like within the
course so I just I have to stagger it
that way and it makes it easier for me
to work with a manageable you know a
number of people and next David says how
much search traffic should your keywords
generate to be considered as a good
niche to move into and to avoid going
into a very small niche okay I don't
like that question so I'm going to
answer a different one that's more
helpful David so your keywords you can
target small search volume keywords
however what you should do is you should
brand your site in a general way so that
you can expand later
so you should find a pocket of keywords
that are you know approachable you know
key word golden ratio kg are terms are
preferred with a couple larger terms
larger search volume terms in the mix
too but you want a brand generally so if
you're looking at notebooks which I have
next to me which is why I keep referring
to it if you're looking at notebooks you
wouldn't really want to just focus on
notebooks unless you're just super into
notebooks you would probably want to
focus on like the journaling aspect or
the planner aspect make it more general
you can go one level up and say office
products right so if you brand it in a
general way then you have a room to
expand and then you're not stuck in a
very small niche next as
we are getting some more advanced
questions today somewhere I have a
little bit of gap in knowledge question
is it not allowed to use
okay I'm gonna rephrase it a little bit
better can we use Amazon on referral
links like buy from Amazon or check
price on Amazon okay
so typically in the past I thought that
was okay however I recently heard from
one of my students and basically it
sounds like you can't do that so there's
some trademark thing that you have to
take into consideration and I'm not
really sure so I thought it was okay
it's actually quite common
and it's not misleading you're letting
people know that they're going to Amazon
so I'm not sure asmin if anyone knows
then let me know in the chat here okay
Danish and Jonathan says I'm sort of
lost and thread so Danish says if you
have to if you have a second affiliate
website is it mandatory to let Amazon
know yeah so just add it to your account
top motivate
video says what is an authority site so
basically it's an affiliate site but you
know for me the definition of like a
niche site versus an affiliate site it
is purely branding right so the stuff
that I made my sites and it's a niche
site project so I used a niche thing
like Authority hacker its Authority
hacker they're gonna say Authority sites
right but there are affiliate sites
usually monetized with Amazon associate
program right so that that's kind of
what it breaks down to you can add other
programs you can have your own product
stuff like that Authority sites when you
say that people think bigger they think
a bigger site more thorough an email
list stuff like that it doesn't have to
mean that and I like to just say you
know if you're gonna work with those
kind of definitions like an authority
site is a niche site that's sort of like
grown-up usually I mean if someone
looked at my sites you would think their
authority sites per that definition so a
lot of times there's more content stuff
like that
hiking gear lab says can I please
explain a little more about my keyword
golden ratio it is very difficult to get
that ratio so you just need a little
more experience with it and I actually
have a playlist that I put together it
has like all the details you need to
know about the keyword golden ratio so
basically if you haven't heard of the
keyword golden ratio it's like a
data-driven way to find keywords that
you don't need links for which is cool
because a lot of people hate building
links people hate it a lot and they look
for any shortcut they could possibly get
to not build links so I'm gonna paste a
playlist in here hiking and why don't
you take a look at the playlist and it
answers a lot of stuff if you're having
trouble finding the ratio then you just
haven't spent enough time with it most
likely once you find like the way that
you find it right the sort of like
format that works for you the process
that works for you you're gonna find a
lot of them in I mean you'll probably be
able to find like you know if you spend
an hour doing it you'll find like 20 25
of them and then maybe the next time
it'll be a little harder but then you'll
find another pocket of keywords okay and
if you have specific questions let me
know but basically you just need to look
harder and that's why it works right
they're a little bit hard to find you
have to do it manually Matt James what's
up what length do I write product
reviews so a thousand words or longer
Arun says for product reviews we can use
the images using site stripe and you
notice that only the main image of the
product will get picked that is correct
all right Duke says what do I recommend
for images when you try to pull an image
from the site stripe and it gives you
image unavailable hmm I would is a great
question I would not worry about it I
would go to Creative Commons and get
some other images that you can take and
you can you know use proper attribution
that fits the niche then for the
call-to-action I would say see image on
Amazon if that's allowed and then use
that as the call-to-action to get people
over to Amazon that does happen
sometimes and it turns out that having a
picture of the product is good but not
required in if you don't have the
picture it creates an information gap
and it makes people curious which is a
good thing and the
Iger hopefully to click over to Amazon
and I see we have a handful of people 48
folks in the house hopefully
everything's cool yes everything's cool
it looks like if you find this helpful
please click the like button it helps
other people find the video next David
says in fact if I answer one of your
questions or something that you find
helpful that's a good prompt for you to
go ahead and click the like button I
know if you're on mobile or something
could be a little difficult but if you
like swipe a certain way you do what you
can really would appreciate it so david
says what type of content is best
comparison tutorials reviews so it
depends on the purpose of the content if
you're trying to sell something the
reviews are best
so tutorials can be helpful for you know
getting other people on the site and
establishing like credibility within the
niche stuff like that so figure out your
purpose of what you're trying to do and
then put the kind of content that
supports that so you have to understand
like what you're trying to do the part
two of that question that you didn't ask
is you should probably have some helpful
content and some affiliate reviews 50/50
is a good blend second question does
website structure matter ie creating
silos or example creating silos not
really I think in my opinion the big
thing that you get from siloing is a
inter linking strategy that you do like
throughout the site so as long as you go
ahead and interlink the site you should
be good to go Gregorius says but how can
I make sure that this post is ranking
very good in order to get some visitors
and some sales of course buying
backlinks or what
so if you want to buy backlinks you can
it is totally up to you that is more
risky the other route is to work on a
backlinking strategy yourself and or you
can hire people to do it right there are
methods out there so let me paste
another playlist highly recommend you
check it out this goes over outreach and
different strategies to take care of
that stuff I probably should have listed
that like what what it was but yeah
there's a couple playlists the first
ones the keyword golden ratio the other
one is about you know link building
strategy so basically Gregorius you
should where did that question go you
got to get links somehow most likely and
then you're gonna have to either pay
someone to do it or do it yourself so if
you're paying someone to do grey hat
stuff the private blog network links
then it's more risky so you could start
making a thousand bucks a month then you
have a site worth like twenty-five
thousand dollars and then it goes away
overnight that's happened to me a couple
times and that's why I don't do it some
people do it with great success just not
my thing all right
Jobe says when applying to join the
associates programs which images should
someone use can you clarify your
question do you mean which images on the
site I would recommend that you just you
know grab images from Creative Commons
or unsplash or another free place maybe
your own images if you have some and
just put those on the site right Amazon
once people that have like a regular old
blog and I think that would be fine
Esmond says what I would you replicate a
general review site like ten beasts in
2018 or stick to a niche me I would
stick to a niche
hiking gear lab says please explain the
kg armoire okay I highly recommend
checking out that playlist okay yeah you
will
alright I'm catching up on the chat
that's the flaw with me reading slowly
in the chat basically you have to do an
advanced search string in Google it's an
all in title so you do all in title and
then your search string you get some
value right the playlist it shows you
like exactly what to do
gives you some examples and I answer
your follow-up questions that you'll
definitely have so basically you end up
with a number of results and then based
on that you could check how many times
people search it per month you come up
with a ratio the ratio should be under
0.25 the local monthly search volume
should be under 250 there's a reason for
that I answer it in the playlist and
you'll be able to essentially publish a
post and rank probably in the top 30 or
so even for like a brand new site and
like a couple days it's amazing if
people in the chat have done this before
just say yeah I've done it or if you're
watching the recording say yeah you know
let me know what's been going on with a
keyword going ratio for you so I tested
it out I've been working with it for
about two years or so and I've finally
told enough people that it's a thing now
right so and I see someone in the chat
the human proof designs is actually
selling kgr pacs I'm not not thrilled
about that but you know that's a people
ask for it
so they'll sell it and hiking hopefully
that playlist is helpful for you you
feel free to like share that around or
whatever if you like it like the videos
ask questions on there I like that too
what and this is banned here so what
gigs when I recommend for your site from
Fiverr I would recommend like graph
stuff I would recommend not link
building so anything not link building
is probably okay so fgh says what if I
don't get any sales in 180 days is it
even easy to open an account or will
they give you a hard time I think it's
pretty easy to reapply it's pretty easy
to reapply and then vo you get a little
less than a hundred new visitors every
day and you have a low-cost high profit
product than you could produce at what
volume do I start selling my own
products so you should do the math so I
don't know but if you pull together a
spreadsheet
it'll be very clear like when the
margins work out and you should do it
I've never done that by the way so the
other part with selling your own
products is it's pretty capital
intensive and you have to be interested
in doing that you have to be interested
in selling your own products so if you
consult like fulfilled by Amazon FBA
experts you should be able to like
figure out pretty easily when it's
profitable to do it but remember it's a
different business model it is not
really as passive unless you hire a
business manager to actually like run
the business
so it's capital intensive to sell your
own products and you have to manage a
supply chain could be super interesting
I know some people love it I know some
other people that got into it and hated
it and they move to another area so I
would say if you're just getting a
hundred visitors per day you know maybe
you could fantasize pulled together some
spreadsheets it's fun to play with
members all right
Mon Steph thanks for the live you're
welcome thank you and then SK thanks for
mentioning that
proof designs all right it looks like
everything's good the trolls are not
getting in here today which is cool by
the way quick reminder if you haven't
hit the like button I see we have 46
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James says jacksie keyword finder
thoughts anything better you know what
I'm not a huge fan of jacksie
currently I think it's kind of an older
school keyword research tool so I
usually like if you're looking for an
economic option keyword CAG is the one
that I mention often they don't have an
affiliate program I'm not affiliated
with them it's just the cheapest option
right it's functional cheapest option
the other tools that are good I I don't
use them I use keyword CAG but I know
kkw finder is pretty solid keyword
reveal or solid longtail Pro
I think I've heard they've improved it
I'm probably just I'm gonna let everyone
know little secret I'm gonna probably do
more keyword research type videos
tutorials just like use it for a day use
it for an hour show you what I'm doing
show you what I like show you what I
don't like and you know actually test
these out for a little while so it is
something I've neglected because well I
don't do that much keyword research
right I mean you can find you know all
the keywords you need for a pretty long
time and then at some point it does make
sense and depending on where you're at
Matt something like semrush or a H refs
may be the right move those are
expensive those are powerful tools love
both of those tools so next
Owain Doug the best way to let more
people find your videos is to get people
to comment comment is very strong in
YouTube's eyes which is why deadbeat
tells people to comment thanks always
appreciate it so I'm working on that and
I think that will be a key component in
new videos these live streams a little
bit different but if you're watching the
replay later you could comment so but
yeah I'm actually gonna do you know one
of those question of the day kind of
things at the at the end perhaps in the
live streams I should do a question of
the day at the beginning to get the
people that are watching and I'm just
unsure if you're watching the replay
comments below I'm curious like how many
people actually watch the replays later
and I mean I see the number of views so
I have a decent idea but just curious
and thank you all Wayne you are right
I'm definitely learning about YouTube
quite a bit and thanks folks for liking
the video I see it ticked up a little
bit again if I answer your question
that's a good cue for you to go ahead
yoen thanks for the info you noticed
that low price items have a higher
conversion than high priced items in the
same niche if is that correct I'm no
clue but I would guess so because
they're cheaper so more people would buy
him all right hiking gear lab says the
main problem you faced with the keyword
golden ratio is that keywords with less
than 250 monthly search volumes and the
number of all in title ok so basically
you probably need to look at longer
phrases that's a good way to filter
things out so if you're using a keyword
research tool where you could filter and
only look for the keywords that are like
4 or 5 words long that helps
Matt says what are my thoughts on the
income school strategy would just
content mainly for SEO I think that is a
fine way to do things I think it takes
longer and I think if you add links
right it's like pouring gas on the fire
so if you can build links like why not
do it does just content work it can sure
but I think you're artificially limiting
like you're you know capacity for profit
which is our goal right so if you could
add links and then you know do that then
yeah okay Theo says try using Facebook
article boosting reddit posting and
Twitter to get your poster rank quicker
it worked for you oh cool I haven't done
that but that's a interesting way to go
green engineer how do you find the right
subject to write a guest post about
considering that you have to reconcile
the editorial line of the guest blog and
the page you want to rank - um I think
you know that point is exactly what you
need to think about basically come up
with an idea that fits for both I really
like a list post because it's easier for
a writer to write a list post and it's
pretty easy to put a link in there so
how do you find the right subject I mean
just I try and pitch something that the
hosting blog would would accept that's
like my whole goal so basically I would
say a list post where you're pretty sure
that it's gonna be a acceptable post and
then move forward from there if you have
like a more specific question let me
know but I don't know how to explain a
different I can give you a quick example
if I was doing the notebook right and
let's say I
was approaching fitness blogs I would
say hey ten items four maybe five
five items that that I got in 2018 to
help me reach my fitness goals one of
them is a journal right one of the five
is a journal the other ones could be
like whatever like gym membership
weights I have no idea right
so the writer can figure out the rest
but basically that's how I do it you
just have to find like the one link
between the two topics okay
arc trooper 5 says you can't get any
traffic to your website and the idea is
how you could remedy this yeah so make
sure there's two main areas to focus on
content and links so make sure your
content is good make sure you have good
keywords keyword golden ratio is what I
would recommend and then get backlinks
so basically this whole business model
can be summarized in those two points
that's it there's really not much else
there are dozens of ways to do each one
but if you put those two things together
that's how you get traffic and based I
mean that's a tough question to answer
so I can only be general and those are
the two areas that I would take a look
at Dennis says you're terrible SEO where
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