hey what's up this is the Friday Q & A Doug Huntington here from niche site
project it looks like we have a handful of folks on already and today is the day
that I answer whatever questions you have several were sent in it looks like
we actually have a sort of a smaller crew right now though we're right at the
beginning so if you're watching the replay I know a ton of people watch the
replay so if you're watching the replay thanks a couple of quick announcements
there will be a webinar there will be a webinar next Thursday so those are
generally sort of announced a little bit of a ahead of time and I'll I'll place a
link in the description later on I'm not sure if there's one there now so webinar
coming up next Thursday additionally there's a free mini course that'll come
out in a few weeks I just I'm mentioning it all the time so people don't miss out
sort of helps you get in the right mindset to start a site and then it also
I guide you through choosing a niche right so starts at mindset choose a
niche early start the process right it takes longer than a week but at least
you get rolling with it so a few questions were sent in and I'll hit
those those are in the description couple other highlights any of the links
in the description potentially are probably our affiliate links so don't be
alarmed about that you can of course not use the affiliate links but if you do I
get a small commission on any of the stuff there any of the stuff that you
buy you actually buy and pay for it in general all these tools and stuff
they have some sort of a guarantee and/or trial something like that so
usually there's like pretty low risk to give it a shot so if you're in the chat
right now give me a shout let me know where you're from and if some people are
already I'm sharing that hopefully everyone can
hear and see me well so John hopped on and left the question he's gonna watch
the replay what's up I'll come back to that Duke is on Duke is one of our kind
moderators appreciate it Marcel as well Marcela have your question in the queue
we have Marc from Atlanta my old town we have John what's up overcast skies not
sunny like in the Bay Area we have Jay s from Hawaii we have Jaron on Jaron this
J plus K he is the person that was interviewed yesterday so that playlist
by the way is doing really well it turns out people like like that stuff so
that's awesome if you haven't watched the playlist and watch the videos
there's tons of awesome information everyone does things a little bit
differently people have different levels of experience so if you haven't checked
out the playlist be sure to have a look it's really it's awesome each of the
interviews has you know its own insights and I think you know those are the kind
of interviews where you know you can listen to them a couple times and get
different nuggets I know some people don't necessarily have time but you know
those are the ones that you can watch a couple times and get a lot of info from
it Sean's on Alexander's on Simon what's up
Alex or Alexander's from New York in the city
khari from France we have XE from Valencia we have Nell
Jay Bonner Ameen bright fish cool all right an ad from Serbia and all Wayne
okay I'm gonna start getting to some of the questions
thanks for saying hello but as other people join I'm gonna continue making
the same announcements and stuff like that you know how these live streams
work that coffee is colder than I thought it was going to be alright John
says you're hiring writers on up work for information articles with this
supplied outline and writers guide do you ask the writer to do research
or do you supply the research to the writer what's your experience okay I
usually have the writer do the research however in this situation you're the
boss and you can specify whatever you want if you want them to do the research
you just have them do the research just tell them what to do tell them how you
want the research done and then see how it works
test revise it if you need to you can you know supply it to them if you want
it to be a little easier for them to to get into it so it's totally up to you
and in any case whether you're hiring for like writing or you know you're
hiring a developer you're hiring just a general assistant or whatever you're
literally the boss and it's your responsibility to give a you know set of
instructions or responsibilities to your contractor employee assistant whatever
so just like a real job right you're the boss and you have to give them the right
information me I'd have them do the research and John also mentions that
it's a great channel so thanks for saying that appreciate it
and as other questions pop up I'll I'll answer them of course I'm going to take
a look at the ones that were sent in particularly Marcel Marcel is a good
dude and which question is where is okay Marcel says I did a great video with a
list of sites to get free stock images I've also talked about the benefit of
not using overly glossy professional-looking stock images to add
authenticity true Marcel further says I find that using free or creative commons
images is time consuming it takes longer to find good ones and add attribution so
you're working on a new site with 200kg are post each with a few images you're
thinking of switching to paid stock images what's my strategy for a high
volume of images okay I did
the former all right I did creative commons images and time-consuming ly
search for them having the proper attribution and did that over and over
and over again two to five times for posts not me personally the editor that
I hired so you have to make you know you have to make your own call if you want
to add some speed to it then you know the stock images will certainly make it
faster what I may recommend in your case Marcel is to do a blend alright so some
of the images are gonna be more polished from the stock company but if you
potentially can like lead or at least place higher up on the post your
authentic more authentic looking image the one from Creative Commons or
elsewhere you know something that an amateur took then that'll be in that'll
be a way to speed it up still have some authenticity maybe not as much so that's
my recommendation if you want to try and save the time of course at that point
you know the images will cost you something so either you're paying for
the images straight up or you're paying for the time to find entik images I
don't know the ROI you know on that it's it's several steps removed so my
impression right this is a personal impression about the like authentic
looking photos so maybe it doesn't matter or maybe it does so it's so many
steps removed that I think it would be hard to really tell okay good question
now and if you haven't if you're looking for like free images and stuff there's a
video on that which is linked in the description
near the question from Marcel super duper socks what's up
Amin mentions the interview videos and says they are very inspiring cases true
Alexander said you like the new vlog Tuesday Tyrion and success stories
awesome thanks for watching those and you know if anyone enjoys these videos
actually if you're here now please hit the like button I'm gonna hit it myself
you could like your own videos so we went up by one I'd appreciate it helps
other people find him and if you like any of the other videos I know a lot of
people do leave comments even if you leave a one word or something like that
it's great leave a comment really appreciate it I
think it helps I'm told with the algorithm so if you want to lend me a
hand that's a good way to do it XE says Doug in order to calculate the
keyword golden ratio is the monthly search volume indicated by keywords
everywhere extension as a valid number for the calculation as given by the
Google Adwords Keyword okay that sounds like a sort of a I don't understand
exactly what you're asking but I'm gonna answer question that I think that you
probably are can you use the number from keywords everywhere yes you can if you
were asking something else feel free to clarify but yes slightly unclear from
the question probably my father's alright
Santiago what's up good to have you on Rose is on how are you always says you
hire writers from up work and they all they do is copy other people's work and
it's hard to find quality writers yeah okay I am I've never had that issue but
you know there are a number of factors involved you know do your best to hire
professional folks that you know are not going to do that because they have
professional integrity and yes you may have to may have to hire a few people to
get one or two good ones
okay and and by the way so all Wayne is else I won't read everything but all
Wayne is explaining that it's hard to find good writers it sounds like most of
the writers that he's been working with are copying other people's information
and stuff which is surprised I don't know that I've ever had that happen that
you know where I had that happen is I'm text broker I would get back articles
and they would send him back in on text broker this is a couple years ago they
have like the copyscape score and it would send it back and tell me that
there was like 30% copied and I'm like that is ridiculous that you let it go
through there which is why I tend not to work with any sort of content machine
house you know that they're just providing the administration because I
could do that part myself so anyway everything can be difficult
including finding writers and some people you know some people have harder
times and others you know I'm I'm a I've hired a lot of people in my career so
perhaps I have a high high filter for that I don't know what a high filter is
but maybe I just do a good job at it alright 10 facts says I'm a huge fan
well thanks for hopping on 10 facts what's your name
Alexander says do any do I use any tools for tiered link building no I don't and
you're asking if I'd use any automated software for that no I don't use any
automated software even for our like outreach and stuff I'm trying not to use
like any kind of software to just do it manually because I get all these emails
from people that are clearly from automated the ones I love I may do a
video on this because it kind of pissed me off there was this guy this
for an insight project and he he was using automated software clearly so he
would send me an email he's like hey I did an infographic do you want me yeah
do you want to take a look at it and I'm like no I ignored it right cuz I'm the
last thing I want to do is send an email so someone can send me like two or three
other emails and then eventually ask me for a favor not really what I'm trying
to do so anyway I replied back and I was like hey just sent it sounds kind of
interesting send it to me and I'll have a look soon and then he started sending
follow-up emails as if I never replied back to him so his automation software
didn't get the email that I sent so he was sending messages automated messages
like a moron to me after I already replied so like not only did he like
fail on that campaign he like burned a bridge like I'm never gonna work with
this guy and in fact I'm a I'll probably cover up his last name or whatever but
like I'll probably tell you the website that he came from just because I can so
maybe not the best thing for me to do but it's like come on man I don't care
about your site I'm not gonna do you I'm not gonna send the emails to you asking
to get the information I mean I know why they do that but don't try and use
marketing tricks on a marketer I think that's the point because there's this
book called influence if you have a read influence it's worth taking a look so
they go over six Robert E eldini goes over six different sort of influence
tactics from a marketing perspective primarily and then at the end he talked
about how to resist those tactics so as you read it you know you need to use
this stuff for good not evil but at the end of the day it's very easy to pick
out like how people are trying to manipulate you if in that that's one of
the things to get me to ask for the information
it's funny you could basically like tell whatever I can tell whatever story I
want no matter what question comes in that was a question about tiered link
building I don't use any software for it Alexander that was a good question all
right Marv mari on is that right mari on and what about the images from Amazon do
I use them someone says it's a no-no and someone says it's okay
Amazon doesn't mind although it's against their Terms of Service I don't I
don't I I did I did download the image and then put it in a higher res like
download the high-resolution and then resize it and we didn't post it on my
site and that sort of thing however that is against the Terms of
Service and I was I was around a few people like multiple people in the span
of like a month this was about a year ago in the span of a month they were
telling me that there were multiple multiple people they had their accounts
shut down because they were using the images right so it could have been a
couple other things but they were using the images so basically I was like I
need to fix that so it took a couple months but high it was a problem that
was solvable right it's like there's an image I know there's images on like each
of the posts so it was a lot of work but I went through and used a site stripe
and changed well someone did not me specifically but someone did so all the
images are now from the site stripe or their Creative Commons images so I would
say you can get away with a lot of stuff right but whenever you get caught it's
hard to you know bounce back it's typically a lot of work and if you
could control it ahead of time then you should you know you should do that all
right Bonner says success stories are your
favorite I i'm perceptive says I'm a fifth-year story everyone has failure
stories until they have like a better story
so I share my timeline often of like ups and downs where most people just hit the
highlights so if you haven't seen that I perceptive you should check it yeah so
khari is saying this is in reference to hiring writers so English is not Kerry's
first language so you need to hire us writers or english-speaking writers yeah
and you know what I'm not a lot of people will struggle with writing so I
mean you could definitely hire writers if everyone had and always just having a
little issue with it people are copying right we don't we have no idea
I'll wait how much are you paying them right how much you paying per thousand
words let us know that cuz like depending on where you're hiring people
you'll end up with different levels of quality Lucas from Denmark what's up
Nick tells us Nick's a former interview interview EE on the show probably gonna
have them back on again soon so Nick is saying you've had great success DMing
people that's direct messaging people on Instagram lately asking to use their
images most are super excited and happy to let you use them cool Duke says you
found a good writing source can you ping it over to me privately Alexander asked
about determining if work was copied you can use copyscape pre Tom's on what's up
and press on my I snagged a couple questions that you asked yesterday in
the in the webinar so I'll answer a few of those
Ross says random question what's my take on Google's mobile first algorithm
update you know what I don't know I don't know I'm kind of I'm behind on
everything so I'm not sure seems interesting I think Brian Deena
backlinko he's more on me not more on the he is on
the like leading edge of you know information and stuff like that so I'd
take a look at that stuff but I have no clue I have no idea it's probably
something to be aware of so for me I basically just make sure my site is
responsive okay and Rose says Brian Dean has a guide so yeah check out Brian
Dean's stuff he covers it really well
okay and Jas has a question around images okay yep and the here's the thing
you can use images from Amazon if you use the API so Jas you're right if
you're using Wu's own or a plug-in that uses the Amazon API then you're you're
fine all right
XE says if I target a technology niche topic where the internet content is
still small how many articles do you think would be needed to ranked as the
number one Authority 10 or 20 I don't know so I would I would say it's
probably not about how many articles is probably like the quality of your
articles and it's probably like the credentials that you bring to the table
so for example Brian Dean only has something like
forty articles on his site but he has like a seven-figure business with
courses his a seven-figure business and he's like the authority in SEO right
he's one of the main authorities in SEO and if you go like start poking around
he'll be referenced by a lot of other people so it's not really how many
articles you have so you should flip the way you're thinking about it and if you
want to be the authority and a certain thing
you have to do quality just because you pump out a lot of content doesn't mean
anything alexander says does that mean you don't
bother with building two or three tiers at all
that's correct Alexander I do white hat so I don't really bother with any of the
stuff that you're talking about ten facts and I would say Alexander if you
don't know what you're doing with that stuff it can be easy to goof up on your
second and third tier it's not as good of a buffer as it used to be because
Google is much better at looking further down the line so if you have say a pbn
that you've pushed with automated software then you may get a bump in
metrics but it's unlikely that you're gonna be able to you know pull a fast
one out there so okay and as I know we have several other people on so if I've
answered your question please hit the thumbs up please hit the like I'd
appreciate it it helps other people find it and then a couple of announcements
there is a webinar on Thursday coming up here
I should have snagged the link previously but I forgot to but if you
check out some of the videos next week I'll definitely be putting the link out
there just look forward on Thursday those are live sessions those are hosted
elsewhere they're not on YouTube so check it out additionally there is a
free mini course coming out via email so if you're not on my email list you
should sign up there's a link for that I did put a link
that in the description and that'll be april 9th through the 13th it's a three
part course helping you with sorta some mindset leading up to launching a site
and/or growing the site alright 10 facts says so google should
deal with the natural similarities between different content because that
could really happen we might need the exact content written by different
persons it is possible okay I'm not sure what you're asking can
you please rephrase it or if someone can rephrase it for me I'd appreciate I'm
not sure what you're asking there it seemed like a sentence with a question
mark at the end and I don't I don't do what with those in a live situation Roe
says there are Makaveli ins in the affiliate marketing you're gonna read
the book yeah it's a really good book you should definitely check it out
alright breakfast says do I had no follow to Amazon links no I usually
don't Angela what's up good to have you on and it looks like oh and it looks
like we had a troll popping on here oh and I was gonna say here's what we can
do thanks to Marcel for taking care of that and you know what I don't do
timeout I kick people out there's a no
report yeah there's a zero tolerance situation here I'm not sure what what it
was but I'll assume okay thanks thanks
Marcel yeah zero tolerance situations so
okay and Alexander says as long as your website is mobile-friendly there's
literally no reason to worry about the update okay thanks for that mari on says
can someone suggest a good plugin for Amazon API images using their site
stripe is not a good situation or a good solution the images are too small okay
there's actually a link in the description Mariana is my affiliate link
but a AWP is really good so that's a great plugin to use as like your one
solution I think there's some tables in there as well there's actually a table
like solution a plugin that links up to the API it's called A's on tables I'm an
affiliate for that as well and if you're interested I can send you a link for
that it's I think it's like 20 bucks off for a week or two let me see I may
actually have the link here and my clipboard somewhere there's a lot of
stuff in my clipboard here I think that's it so I see some additional
questions keep them coming I'm currently working my way through and just a
reminder if you haven't hit the like button please hit the thumbs up
especially if I answered your question I answer your question if you found it
even slightly helpful perhaps a little bit misguided but even if it's slightly
helpful if you have the ability I know some people were you know other phones
or something and you're not able to hit the thumbs up but when you get a chance
to later I would really appreciate it ok
we have a situation where I lost my spot okay we're back yeah take a look
Mariana at the AWP it's very good and then I'm gonna try to place my affiliate
link for the A's on table in you know what I better put in the description I
have a feeling the old the chat the chat links don't seem to actually
work well at all so just think this update should take right and it's
actually the JB's u length that I placed in there
all right Philips on what's up Phillip event Lucas says may not be
related today's a random day so everything's
good do I like to add alt description on your images yes definitely and do I
think it makes enough of a difference to do it with all your images yes for sure
do it and if you have the ability to rename the file names that helps to Nina
and says do I cloak Amazon affiliate links no that's a bad idea
your shouldn't mislead people alright i cassis is definitely clear about that
content is king you're just wondering if there's a minimum amount of articles
that you'd recommend to plan your strategy and project plan so you want to
do in authority sites here's what I would do in a lot of cases if people
have seen more than a couple of the videos with me go do research right I
have no idea it depends on the niche it depends on the amount of information out
there depends on so many things so go check out your competitors or the
closest thing to competitors put together basically you're doing market
analysis right so you go research the current state of everything and then
actually this is more from my consulting days as well you you take a look at
where things are at this is your as is state and then you figure out where you
want to go right then you have a gap analysis and then hopefully maybe you'll
see something like most of the sites that are in the niche or close to it
slightly related they have you know 45 articles on average and there's a couple
outliers with too so you can make some determination that
you probably want to be over the average but you probably don't need to have 200
yet if your content quality is really high so go do research figure out what
other people are doing this is right in line with how long does content need to
be well however long it needs to be but you can also get a really good idea
about how long it needs to be by looking at your competitors
what about keyword density go look at your competitors how many links do I
need competitors the data is out there you just have to go find it yourself in
any sort of generic question like how many articles or how many links or how
long the content anything like that where you're trying to get a specific
answer for a generic question question and by the way don't ask the specific
question because I don't know the information most of the time whoever is
asking the question is a greater expert on the specific topic than I am so put
that idea in your toolbox analyze the current situation and then that's the
biggest takeaway of today I think all right awesome content said hey Doug are
there any do's and don'ts for the Amazon affiliate link text for example get X on
Amazon versus get X on Amazon I've heard rumors about putting Amazon outside of
the links as well I don't know exactly I recommend you call up right call up the
customer service for Amazon Associates and then you can ask like you were
specific copy if that's going to be okay the main thing you want to do is not
mislead people in any way you want a seamless positive customer experience
starting from your site ending on Amazon so if you are saying you're going to
Amazon this is an Amazon that it's gonna open an Amazon or whatever that's better
than you know not telling them where they're gonna go or saying hey this is
the lowest price ever you're gonna save a certain amount and
then if that's not accurate then you could get in trouble but my
recommendation if you have questions on the specific copy that you can or
use then you could check with Amazon directly and they could answer directly
and you could have it you know in a documented fact documented fashion JSA
changing the post categories from uncharacterized to something that's some
category when a post is ranking well what effect the post rankings negatively
j/s it should not it should not it may have some difference with someone's
putting a flyer on my house not sure why I wonder if those are
effective I don't think so we kind of just throw them out it's kind of a waste
of time okay next is yeah your ranking shouldn't be negatively affected it may
drop for a couple days or something like that I mean any sort of change could
could have some impact but it should go back if you're not changing anything
else Mariana says the tables from a AWP are super awesome you've seen them on a
YouTube tutorial great Phil says do I use other affiliate programs and write
content focused on these brands as it's more flexible than Amazon regarding the
rules and stuff no and in a related question felt good question I don't I
feel that Amazon converts so well that I don't worry about it however you know if
you're in a certain industry where you're gonna have direct relationships
on a high-end ticket item or something then perhaps it's worthwhile one of the
other questions I got and this is from yesterday in the webinar someone asked
should you mix and match stores like Amazon Best Buy Walmart and Target to
give your reader the best deal in quotes assuming you're an affiliate of all of
them my answer is and this question is for from a beginner alright so the
answer is don't worry about that stuff just focus on when I recommend I mean
everything I talked about his aim is not a failure right so I'm
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