hello hello it is the Friday queue a
welcome everyone I think we have a
handful of folks on and thanks for
thanks for joining up early we had a
little discussion so if you're new to
the livestreams welcome let me know if
you are new say hello we should probably
have a few moderators hopping on you
know the usual suspects please let me
know if you could hear me okay I'm sort
of I'm changing my setup just slightly
here but hopefully this works well so I
got a few things going on today and I
know some people pop on quick and some
people stand for a long time I'm going
to make these announcements
I have like four slightly interesting
things or at least things that I'm going
to tell you and I'll probably revisit it
over and over but for the people that
are catching the replay thanks for
watching the replay
leave a comment just say hey I watch the
replay I do like the replays but I just
can't make it live so let me know that
it's always good just to have that sort
of reinforcement so I know the people
are watching later and we have Breann we
have marty mark sharif what's up we also
have I think there was another person in
here but if I missed you I'm sorry and
all Wayne of course
Dennis PG what's up tima Anthony soo bum
Camile and couple of the announcements
so I'm gonna go I'm gonna say multiple
times but for the people that just tuned
in for the first part there was a
content workshop yesterday a lot of
people attended it was very good and I
you know if you're wondering how to
outline your content for your niche site
just trying to get organized to like
brainstorm and outline things I do a
live demo you could see me sort of
struggle through the process there's a
link in the description there's links in
the description for all this stuff that
I'm mentioning the other thing I want to
talk about is a theme called rhihub and
a lot of people have recommended rhihub
in the chat and just through my
interactions I'm not a wordpress
enthusiasts I just I put my head in the
sand basically unless there's a problem
I really don't pay much attention
however a lot of people ask me all the
time and through a little bit of
research talking with some of the good
people in the chat in just in networking
and stuff I started hearing more and
more about rhihub and I got a look at it
and after I did some investigating I see
that Amazon Associates actually
recommends rehab along with one other
theme which I haven't checked out you
had to or heard anything about so I
didn't mention it but I didn't pull up
the screen but if you look on the Amazon
Associates guides you will see that
rhihub is mentioned as one of the themes
that they say hey this one works pretty
good so I have an affiliate link in my
in the description if you want to check
it out you can check out the demo and
there are a few affiliate links there
very clearly marked I get a commission
if you buy through them thanks a lot I
appreciate it
the other thing is if you're interested
in Pinterest traffic I have a free
training that one of my friends put out
John Dykstra he blogs over at my perfect
blog it used to be fat stacks blog I
think but he rebranded and I get
questions about Pinterest all the time
which I basically don't know anything
about I just I'm not into it right
however a lot of people want to get
traffic from Pinterest to their niche
site you know maybe to help get out of
the sandbox earlier right I don't know
if that works for sure but you can
indeed get traffic John is really good
at you know other areas of like SEO like
SEO and on Pinterest and getting traffic
and he's doing really well there's a
link for a free on demand training
basically it's a webinar
it's a recorded webinar right so I'm
going to be upfront with you about all
these details
it's a recorded webinar so it's not live
if you trying to ask questions like no
one's on the other side reading it
however if you are interested in Pentos
traffic you can take a look
eventually at the webinar right you're
gonna pitch the course
however if you just want to get the free
value that they offer in the webinar I
encourage you to take a look you can you
know sign up and watch it within 15
minutes or whatever and you'll probably
get an email for the replay and stuff
like that
you could also watch it schedule it for
the next day you know it's one of those
automated deals again I'm just being
upfront about all these caveats and I've
had a couple couple reactions right so
some people said that you know they
didn't learn much because they already
kind of knew about Pinterest and then I
had a couple people email me and say
thank you for telling me about this I
learned a lot in that webinar all right
so some people like it some people don't
all right so you can take a look if your
interest in Pinterest traffic just have
a look there's no harm in you know
signing up for a free webinar and then
there's two books that I'm going to
mention but I'll hold it because I see
the chat is just exploding over there so
I'm gonna hop back over and yeah if you
have the opportunity to hit the thumbs
up I would really appreciate that I
believe it helps people find this video
and you know it gets recommended and all
that good stuff all right Marcus says
you just returned to your hotel after a
solid drinking sessions my wife is
passed out but I'm ready for some good
affiliate marketing teaching when the
thing is like you know if you want to if
you want to learn how to do affiliate
marketing drunk you do have to learn it
while you're drunk so glad to have you
on Shawn's on of course search engine
marketing
Toki's on took yeah I sent you an email
looking forward to speaking with you on
the coaching session vault is on and
Marty is reminding everyone hit the the
thumbs up hit the like button really
appreciate it
kevin says you missed the live session
yesterday it was a wrong time zone sorry
about that I'd probably I don't know I
think there may have been a time zone
issue on on the signup page or something
like that all right Victor how's it
going team is
says you like rhihub it's just hard to
learn everything okay and Marty mentions
that rhihub may be a little bit
difficult for beginners so and Marty has
talked to the creator many times so
that's good that they're like involved
in it and talking to customers so all
right and let's see Eggers what's up
another student Mariana thanks for the
like button and Marty's mentioning the
five figure niche site course is is a
good one so thanks thanks for saying
that
all right and I think there was a
question okay our med said how long
should we wait after launching a site
with ten pieces of content before
applying for the Amazon affiliate
program good question it's a hundred
percent up to you I would wait until
you're getting some traffic or until
you're you're ready to start working on
on the site so once you apply you're
basically accepted right away and then
you have a hundred and eighty days to
make three sales alright so if you are
going to be actively doing stuff for the
next six months trying to get traffic on
your site you can go ahead and apply if
you do even just a a part time job and
you're putting in one hour a week within
six months like you should be able to
get some traffic on your site and make
some sales
if you are more cautious right if you're
not sure when you're gonna be able to
work on the site maybe you should wait
until you know you're gonna have you
know six months of effort on the site
again you don't have to put in that much
effort to get a little bit of
information or sorry a little bit of
traffic as long as you're putting some
information on your site alright so
hopefully that helps there's no there's
no right way to do it okay and then a
sim says tell me about negative SEO
basically someone is putting bad links
towards a site competitor site and then
eventually the site either gets
penalized
or just drops in the rankings through
over-optimization that sort of thing so
that is negative SEO it does actually
work if the person doing it like knows
what they're doing and you can in fact
you know disavowed the links and stuff
but you have to stay on top of it so and
by the way there's a new I tease this
the other day I thought Dave Fox was
gonna join me today but he had a
scheduling conflict and he said he
couldn't do it so he's doing some family
stuff today and then hopefully he'll be
able to join next week but the reason
why I mentioned that is dave was
impacted by negative SEO and then I
interviewed him ly got an update from
him we talked about negative SEO and we
talked about some really awesome white
had outreach that's coming out in a
couple weeks we did the interviews
earlier this week and just sort of you
know caught up and stuff so in a couple
weeks we'll have three videos coming out
from Dave two of which are like sort of
actionable ideas actionable topics all
right
Mauri on says Cora doesn't allow
external links anymore please someone
confirm or refute this is bad news if
it's true yeah so the email from you and
then I tried to look I typically don't
use Cora but I would say that I mean
this is this always happens right so
whatever the the trend is and when I
first started people were saying you
know go to I think was like delicious
calm or one of those bookmarking kind of
sites they're always these kind of like
little little sites where you place
links and then eventually it gets abuse
so much that they disallow it or
whatever right even looking at like blog
post on say Huffington Post right they
used to be do follow links and then
they're publishing so much content they
had so many contributors people were
selling links on Huffington Post that
basically you know they changed it to
nofollow I think that's the right site
but several sites did that sort of thing
so Mariana I'm not sure not sure all
right who is Joe says what's up and then
Aloha from Jas how's it going and if I
miss anyone on the on the chat it's not
intentional so right
oh yeah Marty indeed yeah Amazon and you
know what one thing I may do is just put
together a series of videos why just
like go through the documentation from
Amazon Associates because they they have
a lot but I mean I never read it
so I assume a lot of people don't read
it either all right and Joe says you
were gonna wait about a year before
putting in affiliate links that is a you
know totally up to you
so however you want to do it is fine a
sim says so dave was a mystery man you
were waiting for him yeah so hopefully
like I said Dave will be able to join
him next week Camille says buying paid
guest posts from Facebook group is good
or not it is not good so basically
anything where you you are taking a
shortcut or it's easy or it's cheap or
anything like that it is
basically not going to work or if it
does it'll be high risk in a short-term
game ager says you were impacted with
negative SEO for your website it was ten
months old in traffic drop by 50 percent
ten thousand to five thousand yep it is
for real
and see this says regarding negative SEO
there are so many spanning me links
pointing to my site is it worth
disavowing those links or should you
focus your energy on creating high
quality backlinks instead I would say
that um you should probably say like
once a quarter or something disavow the
links because what happens is most of
the time you know you don't have to
worry about it and then you hit some
threshold and then your site gets a
penalty and then it does matter and then
it's like number-one priority to deal
with so I would say like do it quarterly
something like that but I mean these
sort of links happen you know over time
just because people are jerks Duke says
you just looked on Quora and the link
functionality is still there okay cool
good to know and there were a couple
questions sent in so I'm gonna hop over
and have a look at those I see we got a
bunch of new people that joined up so
welcome if you have the opportunity to
hit the thumbs up I really appreciate it
and then the question is this one's from
will and researching some competitors
you noticed that some have affiliate
links on every post some of the post or
affiliate oriented and some are more
informational but they all have one at
least one affiliate link is it
reasonable to do and not look too spammy
to Google currently I'm linking to
affiliate articles from your affiliate
or from your informational post and have
no affiliate links on them that's from
well alright well I don't know the
answer for sure only Google would know
this answer right there's another
question very related to this where you
know you're asking my opinion so I will
answer it for sure but no one knows
except for Google right and no one's
like to my knowledge is like actively
trying to
this because it doesn't matter that much
all right so my thought is yeah put it
put a link put an affiliate link in your
informational article if you know why
the person is searching for whatever it
is then you have a pretty good hunch on
like the products that they may be
interested in so if you can help the
visitor then go for it you know put an
affiliate link in there it's probably
fine the related question is from Sita
Sita what's up this is most of the
content on my site or informational post
and you want to bring it to 50 50 where
you have half affiliate content and that
means you'll be publishing about 20
money posts back-to-back over the next
few weeks or months is that advisable or
doesn't even matter since you'll have
fifty fifty at the end I don't think it
matters I don't think it matters because
yeah at the end of the day you'll have
you know a reasonable acceptable ratio
so I wouldn't worry about it and when I
got these two questions in sort of
back-to-back it made me realize like how
many like nuanced like little things
like along the way you run into because
you hear all this stuff I mean a quick
example like Mariana
right Mariana was freaking out because
Cora doesn't allow external links
anymore there's just so much chatter
like one person you know Mariana just
because it's a good example right so you
probably heard it somewhere and then
then but a bunch of people are hearing
about it here and then if Duke wasn't
able to confirm it quickly then all of a
sudden like this is how rumors start and
it's like oh no now Cora doesn't allow
links I've got a coffee er sorry
all right sorry about that
I put some cinnamon in my coffee and I
must have like inhaled it or something
like that all right maybe I'll just get
closer here and talk quieter so
basically it's very easy to go into
analysis paralysis where there are so
many inputs it's just overwhelming
you're hearing all this information you
don't know if it's true or not in in
fact I don't even know if it's true it's
one of the reasons I stay out of like
Facebook groups and the like because a
lot of people don't know what they're
talking about at all so all right so the
those two questions we're in there John
mentions and this John is asking
everyone in the chat this a question to
everyone in the chat and Doug what's my
opinion on a pen name versus your real
name on your affiliate site all right so
feel free to all right search engine
online marketing let's up the game for
your your messages that is your single
warning all right next so if you're
watching the replay then let me know and
let John know about your opinion on
using a pen name versus your real name
on the affiliate site so me personally
right if you have an internet marketing
blog most likely I advise you to don't
put your name on your affiliate sites
cuz someone will try and find them and
then put negative SEO links at your site
right that's bad otherwise my personal
opinion is to look at your like your
professional career and like is there
going to be any sort of conflict of
interest by having a public site out
there now most of the time not and it
depends write blogs are way more common
becoming you know an online influencer
is way more common now so if you have an
interest in that it's probably going to
be okay and no one at your company is
really gonna have an issue with it
because your podcaster come in it
wouldn't be weird if you had a podcast
and you had affiliate stuff on there
that's totally acceptable these days for
most companies but
I think you have to look at the culture
in your company and figure out like
what's acceptable there all right and
let's see hold on one second folks okay
cool I'm back all right so I'm gonna hop
back over to the chat really quick here
because I missed some stuff okay Anthony
says what do you use to make a sitemap
to submit to Google console for the XML
and a regular HTML version so basically
for the sitemap I usually will have you
know probably some kind of SEO plugin
like Yoast SEO plug-in I don't use it
for the SEO portion but it has some
useful tools on there like editing your
htaccess file from the tool section or
the sitemap so I usually will just
submit that sitemap URL from there next
Marcus says you actually try to use kora
a lot you used it for an hour for 30
days in a row to answer questions you
got some traffic but it really wasn't
that great so you're not sure if you got
anything in terms of ranking okay and I
think I mean it's probably it's probably
decent if it continues to bring in like
a few visitors a day I imagine even if
it's a nofollow link I imagine it's
probably useful link to have reason as
in my experience what's the good link
what's a good length for the intro of a
post I would say like a hundred to three
hundred words or so
he says how do I feel about offline
marketing for one site like print ads
and word-of-mouth
I would say it's probably a huge waste
of time I mean there's so much that you
could do online it's like way more
leveraged versus either of those I'm not
saying it wouldn't work but I think
there's better ways to do it in Anthony
I would say if you're trying if you're
if your traffic slow and you're trying
to like patch up an issue somewhere else
by doing like offline stuff then maybe
you should fix the part that's broken
we're not sure the like why you're
asking that although if you're like a
skilled if you're like a print ad person
in a networking master then maybe yeah
that's a great thing to do whose job
says my opinion on creating backlinks is
that I don't believe we should create
them but allow it to be done naturally
because Google is bound to find out okay
I respect your opinion Jeff Daniel
what's up you published a bunch of info
articles first and then many buy our
articles to get a good ratio but the
results were really good cool and I've
heard that as well I mean you can get
good traction get some Google love early
on and then you know follow up later
with more affiliate content so see it I
think you're good to go
Kevin says you had more than one
category for your post and you change
them to one category will this effect
Google or should I resubmit a sitemap
Google should probably be able to figure
it out I would advise you to no Index
your category archive pages and your tag
archive pages and your data archive
pages and all that kind of mess so you
don't have duplicate content if you
don't know what I'm talking about just
look it up Google it you should be able
to find that another useful thing you
can do with the Yoast SEO tool and
probably a lot of the comparable SEO
plugins a sim says should I submit all
my book marking directory submitted
links for indexing by the search console
so I don't think you can do that I don't
think you
can fetch other other sites that are not
yours I wouldn't worry about it all
right Anthony says how does Google
interpret products embedded in blog post
if you use a site stripe does it see it
as an affiliate link I'm not I don't
know how Google interprets things but
yes it's an affiliate link for sure a
sim says is my course free well you get
a certificate no my course is not free
and no you won't get a certificate you
can watch all the YouTube content that
you want though there's hundreds of
hours of it it's it's obscene so yeah
you can totally check it out for free on
YouTube and the blog stuff is free too
and Kevin says you would use a pen name
for the main reason it should anyone get
angry with you personally but even so
even if there is no reason okay
CEDA okay see this says thanks there's a
lot of misinformation on the internet so
true Marty says you've heard the
authority hacker guys both for and
against using an alias I think they
essentially felt it depends if there's a
benefit it's it's good they say tema
says
do you think a niche site for lead
generation instead of affiliate like
directing phone calls to a business is a
good way of making money Tina it's a
great way of making money it's a
completely different business model but
I mean it's a you know lead generation
situation and you know you could totally
do it and there's you know people in
that space
comparable to what I'm doing where
they're telling you you know here's how
you set up the sites you can focus on
plumbers and certain geographies based
on the population and then you could
just you know market to those folks and
a good part I mean all sorts of
professional kind of services plumbers
electricians dentists all sorts of stuff
like that maybe you have a flooding
issue in your crawlspace and you need
someone to put it into some pump like I
do I had to put in a new sump pump
apparently we burn the last one out even
though I got like a more powerful one
but anyway lead generation is great
different business model Berzerk says
what plug-in do you use if not yes I
actually usually use Yoast just because
I know how to use it and Marty is
mentioning there are there were some
issues with the Yoast they screwed up
fairly big and I mean it sounded like
some people felt that their rankings
went down because of it I personally
didn't have an issue with it but yeah
some people did Duke says what's my
favorite type of article for conversions
a best list a review a comparison what
gives you the best conversions I haven't
looked at this analytically Duke but I
believe it is the best type list and a
comparison those are those are the good
ones for me so
says can we copy any affiliate Mitch
blog idea and write articles on that and
earn technically it is possible but if
you do what you said it's probably not
gonna work alright so if you are looking
for a shortcut and you're just copying
someone else you will always a hundred
percent of the time be behind them
unless you somehow like you know change
how you're doing things but this is
across the board right quick example as
we're talking about my course a little
bit and I have a couple other topics
that I'll cover in a second but see
we're getting we're developing a crowd
so if you haven't hit the thumbs up
please hit the thumbs up I do appreciate
it I think it helps me get more people
watching these but it remains to be seen
so I have this course if I figure a
niche site it opens for enrollment in
like a month it's a premium course right
if it's too expensive I encourage you to
just consume my free content it's better
than a lot of the courses out there so
when I was rolling out my course
initially like a couple years ago I
worked and worked hard on it right on
the content and I focused on a different
area every time I was like going through
another lunch and I was trying to figure
out like the packages so there's a basic
advanced and a premium level and one
thing that I saw and this this is
assuming this story is for you an
analogy a little bit so basically one of
my competitors had another course that
covered you know roughly the same stuff
and I saw that they basically copied my
exact packages that I like worked a
couple launches to figure out so they
copied me and I was a little bit
offended at first I was like me and they
they copied me now I probably got the
idea from someone else right I mean I
moved some things around but really I
just probably looked at several other
people did some research and then
figured out how to position my offering
and when they copied me I was like maybe
they just copied me but then after a day
once I calmed down and got a good
night's sleep basically I was like well
I'm ahead now like I I won because I
figured out how to do the package and
they didn't know they literally just
copied what my package was right one two
and three roughly the same things so at
that point I was like why 1 I'm ahead at
this point now it doesn't mean I could
like relax or anything but I know that I
was working harder than this individual
was so okay so sue boom if you were
copying people you're not going to win
now
it's alright to sort of like be in that
influence but be inspired by other
people's sites and stuff but if you're
just copying you're gonna lose all right
okay Anthony is giving more details
about the print ad stuff and potentially
yeah maybe you could promote your site
if there's if there's something relevant
and perhaps Wesley is on good to have
you all right sue boom says so if you
want to get your blog ranked without
doing much hard work in building links
then try to get some do follow backlinks
from medium or high authority sites you
can contact a few blogs and so sue bum
ya refer to my last okay and you say I'm
reading ahead authority site owners and
then ask him to backlink your site and
it ranked from just one backlink in your
Alexa ranking went from 6 million to 30
thousand okay it just that's all very
interesting super but my my point is you
know you're saying that your statement
without doing much hard work in link
building everything's super hard so just
imagine it's gonna take a long time and
it's very difficult and nothing's gonna
go your way so if you have that is your
expectation then you'll be set
five all right Zach says is there
anything I could say to get you to stop
checking your site and ranking so much
it's feeling like an obsession I think
that is normal Marty says that's normal
too Duke says yeah so at some point like
when once you once you sort of stabilize
and you're like alright this is okay and
you're really busy you will probably
like that check it as often I still
check a few times a week traffic in
particularly if I'm doing like some work
on a particular area so and I'm losing
in the chat there's so much going on
thank our moderators I see Duke on for
sure and yeah my mug Zach is looking
pretty gnarly I have coffee in here but
I also put yeah I'm looking at it now
looks like it looks like dirt I think
but it's actually cinnamon in coconut
oil so yeah it looks pretty gnarly all
right I'm gonna I'm gonna step away from
the Chad just for a second so a couple
things cuz I know a lot of people joined
up late if you missed the content
outlining workshop there's a link in the
description it's free you just have to
enter your email address you could watch
the replay it's pretty good we did some
new stuff yesterday a great discussion
actually a long Q&A really like good
group of people we had you know probably
like twice as many as the last couple
weeks so that was really cool the other
thing is people ask me about WordPress
themes all the time and I did some
research after getting some good
information from people like Duke and
Marty and a couple other folks about the
rhihub theme I placed an affiliate link
for rhihub in the description but upon
investigating I see that Amazon
Associates actually mentions rhihub by
name in their documentation so I thought
well if they are mentioning it why can't
- so if you want to check out that
particular theme you can it looks really
good but as Marty and I think Duke maybe
told me once it takes a little bit to
figure out how to use the theme
it's pretty sophisticated there's a lot
of options and stuff but it seems like
the supports pretty good already
mentioned that the developer you know
interacts with the audience or the
customers so it sounds like a pretty
solid theme again Amazon Associates does
mention it in their documentation if
you're interested in Pinterest traffic
there is a free training where's the
where's the link yeah interested in
Pinterest traffic so my friend John
Dykstra over at my perfect blog has
training on really starting a blog and
then they go into some details about
Pinterest and getting some traffic from
Pinterest some people mentioned that
they love it they love the training they
they really got a lot out of it and then
one person said they thought it was too
salesy so it is a recorded webinar you
can watch it basically on demand
whenever you want to and then they're
gonna they're gonna try and sell a
course at the end of and I want to let
you know ahead of time but I've looked
through the course and you know cherry
picked certain areas there's a
ridiculous amount of information in that
course and it is very very good
John is super successful in like getting
traffic from Pinterest and he's doing
really well with a couple of niche sites
himself
the nice part with you know John very
smart guy he and I cover totally
different stuff so like we get traffic
different ways we have a different way
of doing things so it's nice to like
work with him so anyway sorry Georgie
good girl so have a look at that if your
interest in Pinterest traffic and then
the other thing that I didn't get to
before is a couple books I'm reading I
put affiliate links to Amazon over there
but this one is the one I'm sort of like
currently reading hopefully that'll
focus up 22 immutable laws of marketing
and it's by Al Ries and Jack trout it's
pretty short it's only about a hundred
and thirty pages super easy to read
through each one of the 22 just has a
handful of pages a couple case study you
mentioned and
got this book when I was in Portland at
Powell the Powell bookstore Powell's
books I think it's called if you haven't
been there
it's a bookstore that takes up a full
city block it's like four storeys and
have new and used books and I've heard
it's better to get the like the original
printings of this book versus the newer
version now I don't know why or when I
heard that but this is a 1993 version so
you hear about technology and stuff some
examples in this book are are
interesting to think about considering
that was you know almost 30 years ago
pretty crazy but good book I'm reading
it right now have a look very
interesting I don't think you know it
doesn't apply directly to affiliate
sites however the stuff that you'll
learn in here is just good to know and
then the other book I'm not actively
reading this but productivity project by
Chris Bailey really good book and it's
one of those books where you know a guy
was like trying different productivity
techniques for like a year but really
interesting read very actionable you
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