Q&A Thursday - Doug Cunnington (Founder of Niche Site Project) #Best Education Page #Online Earning

right what's up YouTube it's Q&A

Thursday Doug Pennington here from niche

site project and I have facebook over

here so people are probably going to be

joining up shortly I hope hopefully in a

minute we'll have YouTube alive and

active over there and of course I need

to make sure this thing is working so I

need to pull up the feed so I can see

the chat and it will have YouTube and I

think we're rolling which is super cool

it's always good when this thing works

and I see Tana

awesome by the way do I pronounce your

name correctly

Tohono tejana Tana is that right

I'm not sure I've only see their senior

written and tejana asks am i streaming a

bit earlier now yes I am doing 30

minutes earlier as a test it's more

convenient for me generally so I found

that sometimes these sessions were going

like a little bit longer and I wanted to

go to the gym and where he's lunch

so yeah I'm moving to 30 minutes earlier

and I may even experiment to go to a

different time so it's interesting

because a lot of the people in like

European closer to GMT time zones tend

to be able to attend these and then a

lot of people in the u.s. can't unless

they are working from home or have some

like really flexible schedule so if I

shifted it to the evening in the US well

that's kind of inconvenient for me but

more people in the US can attend so

tejana tejana okay got it

that makes sense and David from Tel Aviv

very cool hey David do you know people

that work at Amdocs

I used to work at AM docks for a few

years and I see

we have three people on Facebook today

Facebook folks well hopefully you can

hear me today's Q&A Thursday I'm gonna

try and make that thing for Thursday's

also maybe I can get a better sign he's

gonna just write in these post-it notes

so okay cool so overall I have a few

things going on today so interesting

right I've been last week some people

may remember last week I was awaking up

at like 4:30 every day which was really

cool I got a lot of work done I was kind

of waking up around 5:00 anyway cuz it

gets bright pretty early around here in

the summer long days super long days so

it was getting up kind of early and I

thought hey why don't I just wake up a

little bit earlier I have a lot of work

to do a lot of writing I do better

writing in the morning and I'm like less

distracted in the morning and it was

talking I was pretty tired last week to

be honest with you I was very tired last

week and I may have been drinking too

much like coffee through the day and

then it certainly impacted my sleep

somehow but I was just like really tired

so super weird thing like I think Monday

I slept in until like 5:45 and then it

just woke up but like the last three

days like Tuesday through Thursday I

woke up at like 4:30 I just woke up I

feel good I'm not tired and I basically

just wake up and start working so I've

been up for a long time like six hours

it's like 10:00 10:30 8 in the morning

here but yeah I got a lot done so far

and if you've Leo's on what's up leo

we looks like we have a smaller crew at

least so far today although I guess we

just got started so David in Tel Aviv

says yeah you think you do know people

and Docs I never did go to that I

actually I don't know how to pronounce

that City

but I knew people that work there and I

I like I guess worked on teams with

people in that office in other offices

in Israel so yeah and I knew like a lot

of people that I worked with were for me

that area just in general like around

this city that is so anyway he has a

good company overall so today's Q&A

I think people did mention they had

questions yesterday and in fact

yesterday there were so many questions I

thought it was gonna be like a 20 30

minute session it was like an hour so I

figured hey today we'll just do that

kind of stuff okay so here we go JP

first question here come in love so JP

asks and one of my articles I mentioned

I use it as it leaves a link where you

come in which is sometimes do follow

while comment love appears to be dead

last updated over a year ago any

alternatives to this approach

nothing I'm aware of no as far as

getting that like do follow link however

the last like big guest posting campaign

that I did I didn't look for comment

love blogs I just looked for blogs that

were active right so just look for blogs

that were active because my real goal

was to get a guest post it wasn't to get

a do follow-up link in the comment it

was connected with the blogger and then

like build a relationship with them over

a series of points where you connect

with basically you do the blog comments

and then you do some email

correspondence and you make friends with

them overall and the other part is happy

to be tried at JP have you done a blog

commenting campaign and tried it out and

I see we have a

people on Facebook and Facebook people I

know a lot of folks tend to bounce in

and out but this is Q&A Thursday if you

could read those chicken scratches so

you could ask questions if you want and

you can leave comments you can mention

where you're from like it I think if you

double tap on the screen if likes it I'm

not a hundred percent sure okay

David asked if I put any thought into

having a patreon account for my YouTube

videos that's a question from David

now I haven't specifically um that's

something I'm a little torn right so and

maybe I can get your feedback on this so

the thing is basically I sell the course

right

I saw the course I don't even do much

affiliate like marketing on each site

project where I you know review products

and encourage people to buy I'm not sort

of like what Pat Flynn does right like

the majority at least up until very

recently Pat Flynn from smart passive

income his revenue is primarily from

like affiliate purchases his you know

fans make which is great I mean he's

making something like 30 to 50 K per

month just from Bluehost right so that's

only from Bluehost and there's a bunch

of other products that people buy I mean

I buy a few things through his links

because he you know helped out provided

so much information and basically where

I'm at like I sort of struggled David

because you know primarily I want to you

know support myself and a lot of the

work I do is for a lot of it especially

then more advanced and interesting

things that I'm sort of struggling with

is people that already have sites they

don't need my course right at best they

may want an hour or two of coaching from

me which is cool like I enjoy doing that

especially when it's like

a complex problem I can come in from the

outside and help people but as far as

like a patreon account which is if

people aren't familiar essentially it is

a way for content producers to get paid

right they are like I'm gonna screw up

the nouns and verbs and stuff like that

but I think we have an international

audience so if I speak English poorly it

won't offend anyone probably just

embarrassing for me but these like I

don't even know how to say it now that

I'm thinking about it but basically

people can donate money to me right if

they like the content that I'm putting

out they appreciate what I'm doing they

want to support me in some way they can

be a patreon and like give me some give

me some money

basically so in is interesting David

that you mentioned that because I know

like I'm pretty sure you have a site

that you're working on you're on these

you're on these sessions all the time

you like help me out when I send out

poorly formatted emails or have you you

helped me point out the mistakes that I

overlooked but I don't think I

necessarily have like a product that you

can buy specifically so maybe that's why

you're asking I hope so but and then

that makes me I mean I'm in a point

where I'm looking at other courses where

I could expand a little bit more I

always throw out productivity because

everyone wants to be more productive but

I'm not a hundred percent sure like

where it fits in really project

management should be the course but very

few people are gonna buy a project

management course so I could like wrap

up I can reframe project management as

productivity right because not that many

people are gonna think I just want to be

more organized and have systems and blah

blah blah some people do but most people

will get like glassy-eyed and not pay

attention so anyway this is a good

question David and as he can't over from

Bristol thank you CAD good to see you on

if you have any questions just let me

know and I appreciate you being active

in the Facebook group and

like that that's very cool okay um and

going back to JP so the original

question by JP was around comment love

and I asked her JP asked comment love

hasn't been updated in a year it doesn't

look like it's a route to go through

anymore are there any alternatives

so yes don't use comment love just go

comments out there but my follow-up to

JP was if he tried and the answer is no

yet you just have your site under 10

articles so you're waiting so basically

the answer is and I think you came

around to it JP if you give it a try

you'll find there's a lot of blocks more

blogs than you could ever comment on

with comment on them so it definitely

still works however the fact that it is

not still an active readily updated or I

guess up-to-date plugin means where that

may be going away people do like to have

plugins that are modern and updated and

at work but the the two things that I'll

say is give it a try before you dis

candidate which I see that you're going

to and then the other thing is you have

once you get 10 articles going I mean

actually go ahead and start doing these

blog comments I mean no one's not gonna

allow your comment just because you

don't have enough critical on your site

every site started out with zero post so

there's no shame and going out there and

starting to become active in the

community I mean people want you to

comment on their blogs it's like a sort

of a compliment to them that you

actually cared enough to read and

comment on the blog so alright mark

what's up good to have you on and let's

see okay next question

tejana asks how it does it take you guys

to write an article about 5,000 words

yeah feel free and everyone to answer

that for me I am

excuse me barely slow in writing and my

voice is going to die here hold on a

second

okay I think that's what happens if you

drink coffee for like six hours all

right so the other day I wrote about 500

words in like 20 minutes so if you

expand that out I guess that means I

could write a lot faster than it think I

can but I knew exactly what I was gonna

write about so I just like it was almost

like stream-of-consciousness and then I

edited multiple times after that

that was for a blog post it was project

go white hat part 9 if you're following

along in the series so at the end of the

day that post ended up being much longer

because I reacted and added more and

more so for me it takes me a super long

time to write especially if it's high

quality so for 5000 words honestly that

would probably take me about a week of

like 4 to 6 hours a day

give or take and that's like I'm that

that's like with me going back and

editing it probably doing some other

work to break up the activity so if I

like put it down into like and I'm not a

like I'm not writing for like a

Productivity like it means a lot if I

can go back and edit it for a niche that

project and make sure it's like really

good content so what's up Paul over

there so really other people it may be

more accurate for other people to answer

I'm not sure Deana next mark says could

a site rank that's very narrow product

focused when there's not much content

available maybe that's a little bit

tough to answer but I would say you know

that question is tough is it possible

sure it's possible is it likely I'm not

sure and then should you try it there's

only one way to find out if it's gonna

work so and then T on dimensions on

patreon you can publish more premium

content that would be more affordable

for some and it's only available for the

donors okay very interesting that may be

something to test I actually I actually

have some ideas especially for for

example right I'm like I mentioned it

often so hopefully everyone knows I'm

relaunching the course in a few weeks

and basically I'm going from like a 16

day launch period to like seven days and

I was following a particular model that

I haven't mentioned specifically I mean

I have a Trello board and a list of like

activities and a template that I was

working off of and it took a long time

to like reverse engineer and work

through it plus write all the content so

I'm cutting it down and like it's

interesting stuff if you're interested

in like launching products analyzing

other people's launches and then

implementing it yourself

that sort of stuff so I'm going from a

nine-day launch window to five-day and

there's reasons why I'm doing it and

then I'm adapting it down

additionally um I've asked I did a pilot

would like to affiliates you know we're

sorry three affiliates in the last

launch and I'm bringing on like two

other people that I trust people that

I've known for years so this is all like

behind the scenes and I've mentioned it

for like to other people a couple of

times I'm pretty sure people are

interested in it

but it's also very light inside my

business right so um it's not that

someone can steal it I've just

remanufactured and reverse engineered

what other people have done so it's not

like I have proprietary information in

the like generic lunch but specifically

what I'm doing is very like I guess

proprietary to my business

how valuable it is to someone else I

don't know but anyway the point is that

could be something where I just like do

a test maybe it's much cheaper because

the thing is even if I gave everyone

like what I'm doing in the formula of

exactly what I'm doing

there's very few people that would be

able to like reverse-engineer and then

my copy the course right because you

know I have credibility built across

like multiple years of guest posting and

being on other people's platforms so

like that is sort of impossible for

someone to recreate in less than like 12

months or something if someone was

really like knew what they were doing

I'm sure they could recreate it but to

actually get stuff published out there

is not an easy thing to do okay so next

do you see a couple questions on

Facebook how many max affiliate links

could be inserted in a text without

Google SEO penalizing it Paul that's a

good question I don't know the answer

because I've never put too many links in

but I would say just put like maybe one

affiliate link per about 250 words or so

so if you have a you know thousand word

article that's for affiliate links can

you put more yeah you could put more but

I would I would I guess question your

calls to action and how powerful they

are because if you have a good call to

action you have the right people on your

site then you don't need to like put

thirty in there right I mean there's no

real value in that so okay and then cat

mentions as far as content and writing

cat mentions on the Facebook side that

she wrote a buying guide that was 8,000

words and it took two to three weeks

with the research so if

you think about that tejana it means

that 5000 words would take like a week

and a half something like that maybe a

little longer okay and I see my man Mike

is over on the Facebook side that's cool

I think it's very late at night over

there Mike and I see you we have a

couple more questions okay david says

you're personally on the fence about

patreon you just wanted to get my

thoughts on it now that I'm youtubing

daily cool and then JP also mentions

that whatever I said about like blog

commenting makes sense to push on

there's so much to do yeah there's a ton

to do but really there's a lot of like

different things that you can do but

really you only need to do about like

three or four things and do it like over

and over and over again and then Tana

mentions or ask what I say that I'm a

perfectionist no not anymore

I think I used to be but now I'm very

much a this is a good enough good enough

thing so I mean look at this this is

terrible so the the other thing to

mention is I just read this book called

it's been out for a while it's The

Happiness Project has anyone read The

Happiness Project out there is by

Gretchen Rubin I believe and there was a

section in there about it wasn't

perfectionism but it was close to it so

there's what they call it maximizers my

wife is a Maximizer

so whenever actually this just happened

right this is a perfect example so we

were talking about booking our

anniversary trip later on this year

so she recently got a new job

she doesn't have like a huge amount of

vacation time shows to accumulate it and

basically you know we're trying to

figure out how many days and what we're

gonna do and we were really struggling

so she's a Maximizer which I'll defined

in a second and I'm a satisficer right

so I basically look for like a minimum

threshold of what I want and then I'll

find something that meets it and then

I'll make a decision then I move forward

and I don't think about it again my wife

on the other hand is a Maximizer so she

wants to maximize value she wants to

maximize the enjoyment she wants to

maximize you know the like amount of

time and stuff like that so we were

looking at trips to maybe go to San

Francisco and go see a comedy show with

like this guy this comedian called John

Mulaney who has a few Netflix specials

you should check them out if you haven't

watched them and she was looking at a

lot of different possibilities on what

we could do different cities that we can

go to and in fact before we talked about

going to San Francisco she threw out you

know four other cities that were

possible options too so Seattle Portland

I think Vancouver and a few others and

after we had like five options I had

already thought you know what San

Francisco is awesome I haven't been in

eight years or something like that and

it would be great to check it out it'd

be you know really fun no need to look

at anymore and it looks like there's

really affordable flights

she continued looking and looking

because she wasn't sure if you know it

was the best

you know flight maybe we can get a

little bit better of a flight option or

so on so that's all to say I used to be

a perfectionist and I probably used to

be a Maximizer and there are certain

things where I like do a ton of research

like I got a new camera recently and it

did a ton of research on like cameras in

which camera to get and then once I

found something that met the minimum

threshold

I like decided between

to even have picked it and bought it and

I won't look again for like you know

five or six years until it breaks or you

know some other great technological

thing happens so anyway there was a long

answer it used to be a perfectionist but

now I'm not and I think the other part

is that used to do I mean I have an

engineering degree so I really I mean

all that detail-oriented stuff is sort

of like inherent and all the details

matter like precision matters and

accuracy they all matter right and for

some of the work that I'm doing now with

internet marketing as long as you're

like close enough like with my niche

sites as long as you're close enough

like it's usually good enough so that's

kind of how I'm operating right now okay

next I see that Leo mentioned about

writing the question was how long it

takes to write five thousand words leo

is also slow just like me he plans one

hour per thousand words but that

includes inserting images finding

relevant links and formatting that's

really good leo that's actually kind of

fast and yeah the poster does stand out

a little bit let's see and then John

asked hey Doug would you be open to

answering some questions outside of the

webinar I really I'm open to it

but there has to be really good

questions and really concise I think

anyone that's emailed me knows I

basically answer every single email the

quality of your question dictates the

quality of your answer additionally if

you're a student of mine you'll get a

really good answer back even if your

question isn't as good as it could have

been so I would never write that but

clear questions get clear answers and

specific questions or what we're looking

for so John I'm definitely open

brevity is appreciated so let's see okay

and then tejana mentions that your

Maximizer and it could be a drawback if

there's not enough time which is totally

true and yeah with experience you could

tone it down and the thing is like there

are certain things or certain decisions

in which you know it really pays off to

spend the extra time in if you buy a car

you buy a house if you're buying

something that's gonna last multiple

years then it's really important for me

like on the you know anniversary trip

that I was describing when I got down to

it it was like I wanted to go to

somewhere that was not entailed right so

somewhere out of town and it didn't

matter you know if we drove there or if

we you know flew I didn't even mind if

we had your multiple connections or

anything like that for a flight I'm

pretty simple as far as accommodations I

don't need anything super fancy just a

place to hang out I don't even care

about Wi-Fi I'm not gonna be working

while we all were out and you know just

a clean hotel would work for me so I

wasn't really like shooting for the

stars or anything I just need like a

place to go really simple so luckily you

know my wife is also simple she doesn't

mean anything fancy but she's definitely

like into the process of like maximizing

experiences to a point where it's like

you know she's spending hours and hours

and hours and you know is not gonna make

a big change I have another story about

that too if we have time I'll tell it

okay I see a question from Victor Thanks

over there and oh oh and I see Paul

mentioned her was asking questions so

the book is called I think the Happiness

Project and it's Gretchen Rubin I think

that's her name the

asks what's your favorite method for

gaining backlinks except guest posting

for a new website so blog commenting I

mean I wish I can give more exciting

answers but you know if you do blog

commenting and you do guest posting

it'll work if your content is good and

your networking like how I outline

multiple touchpoints and you're actually

like connecting with people you should

be able to get a guest post and if your

site is you know high quality of good

content that's actually helping people

you should be able to get those guest

posts so not an exciting answer but I

hope that's helpful

okay next Brian asks Brian from Fort

Wayne asked for link building what do

you include in my comments do you use

your personal Gravatar yeah so basically

you just need to comment on the post

right so an intelligent comment on the

post will get you you know it'll get

approved right and then do I use my

personal Gravatar yeah yeah so you know

you can have a persona right and maybe

that's what you're asking

maybe I'm reading it wrong but basically

yeah so if you have a persona on your

website you would create you know put a

Gravatar image you you know use Gmail

primarily so you have like Gmail a gmail

G+ account with like the image on there

too so like the chorus everything lines

up and has the image in person on there

cuz he'll remember right they'll

remember your face on there and

everything so yeah and next is Brian

asked what's the risk of the writer

stealing the content I would say low it

would be more likely that other people

would

and in fact that it's a perfect lead-in

Brian thank you for asking that this

happened to Jim from the starting from

scratch case study so this happened like

two weeks ago or so maybe three weeks

ago to Jim and we recorded a video about

it and like Jim texted me he was like

hey somebody stole my content they

published it on their site and there's

like 40 posts that they basically

rewrote so we recorded a video and

within a week you know there's a couple

things to do I'll just be brief here

because there's a whole video coming out

on it but you find their hosting company

and you file a DMCA which is the digital

copyright millennium act and the hosting

company basically took their site

offline within a week so you don't

really stop them so much like Google

does know that you published it first

but if you find it what Jim found it and

I'll explain how he found it deeper in

the video but basically he saw him

SEMRush that a particular site was

competing with so many of his terms he

was like that's weird he took a look at

the site and they basically ripped off

his site so it sucked but within a week

we had their site offline superfast and

I've actually had a couple consulting

clients that I've worked with where they

hadn't actually they didn't even know

someone copy their site but it didn't

quick audit saw someone copy their site

and again but in a week we took them

offline

so the and I mentioned this in the video

I think I'm publishing next week by the

way

but basically you could try to reach out

and email those individuals but it's

kind of dumb right like they stole your

content they're not gonna negotiate with

you or be reasonable in any way so I was

just like okay just file this thing and

we'll take care of it which then okay

and John says you respect my time Thanks

and you'd be happy to

for the time that's cool I'll answer all

your questions if you pay for the time

so yeah you can shoot me an email and if

you're gonna initially project.com slash

hire - me you can send me a message

there and I always get back to it okay

and then tiana says asked does my wife

like researching yeah I think I think

she does like researching but there's

also like a stress component that I

don't like in there where it's like come

on like can't we just like do this like

we're not we're not gaining anything by

further research so and you know what a

lot of people will pay you for research

especially if you'd like it and it's

deep in certain areas people will

definitely pay you and let's see yep so

so Brian over like overall and I know

some people can't see the chat so I'll

you know some of the conversation going

on so if they see like it is scary

because people can steal your content

and then republish it as their own and

the thing is if they actually put if

they actually put sorry I lost my train

of thought there yeah completely lost my

train of thought

I saw a couple other questions come up

so okay so leo says how confident were

you that they copied you if someone took

my site offline there's a hundred

percent chance I would have an attorney

send them a demand letter which is the

first step of sealing so Leo good

question probably 95 percent sure so we

go into it a little bit into the video

but when I tell you now basically they

were very specific kgr posts for very

specific things and

there they copied the subheadings and

then rephrase the some of the copy not

all of it but somebody copy they use the

same images also so as you know their

problem they're probably reading this I

project by the way as you know the kgr

content is like really like not

competitive like people don't publish

much of that content which is why it

works so the point is basically like

copied it and I think hired someone to

rewrite it so they used like so many of

like you like the articles were the same

they were formatted the same as well so

that was number one number two the

hosting company didn't I skip some steps

but basically the hosting company

contacted or attempted to contact the

owner of the site and they did not

respond right so it was probably some

people that like we're putting up dozens

and dozens of sites they probably copied

a lot of other sites and the hosting

company tried to resolve it they tried

to ask the people that infringed on the

copyright to explain themselves they

didn't respond so they took him offline

yeah cool all right looks like it's

winding down a tad but yeah Leo you're a

hundred percent right if that happens it

would definitely be like an issue but

they just didn't respond and didn't do

anything so any other questions on the

Facebook side over here oh cool one more

and

Paul just mentioned you know on the idea

of having your your site copied so Paul

said the his site got hacked a couple

weeks ago

and it took a few hours and a lot of

stress to get it back online so this one

thing maybe I'll cover in the future

YouTube video is like backing up your

site so I didn't back up my site for a

long time I had like the Erb I backed it

up but it was on the same server right

so you can set up like you know full

database like all your folders to be

backed up but if it's on the same server

and then there's a hard drive or the

machine crashes or something bad happens

to the actual server

well that backup is gone so you really

have to backup on a daily basis off of

whatever server you're on so I use

managed WP and it's like a couple bucks

a month per site and they back it up on

Dropbox it's fully I mean it works

really well and Paul mentions that he

has daily backups to Dropbox so it works

really well and then you know you can

restore and you know go back like if you

update to the newest WordPress version

and for some reason crafters your site

because the plugin isn't updated or

something like that

you could always restore it and easily

get it back so you know manage WP is

what I use any other questions on

YouTube on the YouTube side ok so while

those questions are coming in I'll

mention you know if you have a second I

think it'd be great if you liked and

commented on some videos that always

helps me out I think everyone watching

here probably is already subscribed to

the channel so I really appreciate that

I keep talking about it but really soon

I'll probably publish the video of like

the like the analytics on the YouTube

side and if I just like through it

out for you there I mean basically I was

taking a look earlier my YouTube like

watch time which is sort of the metric

that I'm looking at it was something

like this where basically looks like I

got I have some sort of coffee grounds

under my fingernail so that's

embarrassing but really I'm not that

dirty

basically I this was like around the may

time period and I'll show actually I

could show everyone because Facebook

can't see me well over here so basically

this was like May over here and then I

stopped doing as many webinars because I

was tired and I didn't want to do as

many webinars so my watch time on

YouTube went down which is sort of the

metric that I watch as part of the

reason I do such long videos which I'll

come back to in a second and then when I

started doing these daily live streams

like watch time went up cuz all all you

good people stay on here for a pretty

long time so even if it's not that many

like there's high engagement people are

chatting there's more and more people

watching on Facebook which is super cool

and then this part right here where it

starts going back down this one my

account got bands for live streams so

we've made like great momentum and it's

really cool like when I extend the graph

out which I could actually do on the

analytics when I share my screen and

stuff like this sort of growth like

consistent growth was kind of amazing

because I had ups and downs and you have

spikes depending on if something's going

well but when my live stream went away

my watch time went down and now it's

starting to go back up just a tad so

hopefully I'll be able to and actually I

lost almost all the momentum like that I

had so hopefully I'll be able to recover

it and you know double down and actually

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