[Journal] My authoritative adventure to $50/day (from nothing)

Summary
- I've almost reached my 2 month mark of being on BHW and I want to commit to something.
- I am going to tackle some broader authority sites in order to make me $50/day within 5-6 months.
- I will start with 1 site and prior to launch, will write about 20-50 articles before opening to search engines.
- The first domain is only 2-3 months old.
- I will be using Wordpress. I will find a proper theme later, or make one.
- Revenue will be primarily adsense based.
- I will write periodically to update status and note feedback to adjust/enhance method.

Tools I will use immediately
- Keyword Scout - This seems to be a perfect choice for my purposes, especially with the LSI Keyword addon and SEO Competition addon.
- Treepad (free version) - This is just to help organize my keywords.

Tools/Services to Use
Note: (I wont use these until I hit between 50-100 posts)
- SenukeX Services - variety of backlinks is always great.
- Scrapebox - For scraping high PR blogs and manually/semi-automatically commenting
- Article Writing Services - outsourcing content seems to make sense once I make a bit of money

Wordpress Plugins Used
- Yoast Wordpress SEO + SEOPressor (For General SEO Purposes/Handling)
- Akismet, Link Juice Keeper, Quick Cache, Simple 301 Redirects, WP SlimStat, Google Privacy Policy, Image Lazy Load, jQuery Lightbox

My Plan
- For every Authority Site, grab a broad niche. Create 10-15 categories to post in.
- Lock down wordpress from search engines. Immediately Write a total of 30-50 articles (500-800 words).
- Open to search engines and write 3-5 posts every day (or more, if time allows). Add adsense.
- Get targeted ideas from Keyword Scout research and article ideas from Google Alerts.
- After a decent amount of articles are created, I will start to backlink using various tools such as AMR, SB, SenukeX, etc.
- Once I start getting clicks for adsense, split test different ad types/locations
- I will also incorporate any suggestions/ideas that are given to me here.

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Day #1:
- Created 11 categories based around the broader niche.
- Chose a temporary theme to help visualize things (eNews Theme)
- Took each of those categories and grabbed keyword ideas from Keyword Scout. (600-800 LSI in total)
- Took each of those categories and created Google Alerts.
- Filtered duplicates of keyword ideas and stuck them into Treepad for organization.

go on, do your thing dude.

subscribed, sounds interesting

You're writing all the articles on your own?

OneEightSeven said:

go on, do your thing dude.

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Thank you kindly good sir, I will do just that

__dark__ said:

subscribed, sounds interesting

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Thanks I hope to get some good results, especially with all my articles I have planned.

lykathe said:

You're writing all the articles on your own?

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yeah. I can write articles rather fast. Its what I used to do with Fiverr. If needed (and if I cannot keep up with the goals), I will outsource.

thinkdevoid said:

Thank you kindly good sir, I will do just that



Thanks I hope to get some good results, especially with all my articles I have planned.



yeah. I can write articles rather fast. Its what I used to do with Fiverr. If needed (and if I cannot keep up with the goals), I will outsource.

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How long does it take you to write an article?

upl8t said:

How long does it take you to write an article?

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Usually under 30 minutes unless I do a custom graphic/thumbnail. Sometimes 15-20 minutes if I know what I am talking about. lol. With Keyword Scout + Google Alerts, I can usually write "recent" news-worthy articles quite fast with some nice

They are in a conversational style which is easy to understand/read. I then take an extra 5-10 minutes getting SEO up to par with Yoast + Seopressor. (not completely watching the % as I am using LSI's rather than a targeted keyword article).

I assume this is a good approach for an authority site, anyway.

Best of luck, really good to see members taking actions.

goog going..... subscribed

Google loves authority sites but still I would recommend you to not put all of your eggs in a single basket, if you know what I mean.
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interested wish you luck , i will keep an eye on this thread please update us

I want to make this type site too,.

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Hope to hear some success news from you OP...Goodluck

What I'd like to know from those targeting authority websites, if I continue to write articles, work on SEO, backlink, etc, is 6 months a decent timeline/goal for this?

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Day #2:
- Removed 1 category (it wasn't related enough)
- I used Alerts to get recent articles then Keyword Scout + Google Adwords Keyword Tool to find related keywords and LSI's.
- Wrote 11 articles for 10 categories (one for each category + 1 extra for a category I am most familiar with).
- First round of articles are released. If I keep up with 10 articles a day ( minus day #1 which was for set up ) I can reach around 300 unique articles in a month. Not sure if I will write 10 articles per day, it'll depend on the opinions of people watching this thread.
- Each article is between 500-900 words each. Half of them with a custom thumbnails and pictures.

Recently I saw too many of these journals stopped, I hope yours not will be one of them!
Good luck, subscribed.

rever20 said:

Recently I saw too many of these journals stopped, I hope yours not will be one of them!
Good luck, subscribed.

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Yeah, I'll definitely try to keep people updated for me, making money online isn't a hobby, but more of a necessity. I know I've said that before, but its quite true in my situation. I ain't going anywhere

Quick Questions for you:
1) Do you guys think 6 months is a good goal?
2) Do you guys disallow categories/tags in robots.txt?

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Day #3:
- Removed 1 category + 1 post (saved the post for later). I need to find a better source before doing an article a day with the category. Decent alerts weren't rolling in.
- Wrote 8 new articles today.

Stats:
18 Articles in 2 days.

Average Articles: 9 articles/day