Thulf's Amazon Affiliate Niche Site Journey

[AustinL25]

Great! Seems that it works for you. Just keep going.

 

[jaka1]

You are my hero!
Reading your post is like Guru material.
Thx for this.
I want to be your padavan.

 

[Univa]

Really liked your spreadsheet.
These small small things can really bring a lot to projects and help one understand how good the website is doing.

Good luck on your project man.

 

[Thulf]

nice journey OP.

Thanks!

good luck op!

Thanks!

Good Luck @Thulf

Thanks!

You've got a great results so far. Wish you good luck! Following...

Thanks! Nice to have you.

Do you write content on your own?

At first I did write the content myself.

Once I found a sort of structure and style for my articles, I started to look for a way to outsource this now repetitive process.

I outsourced the first many articles for a total of over $100 from Megamind writing service. I wasn't very happy with them as I had to remake almost the entire article not to include any fluff and somewhat strictly follow the structure I had for every other same type of content already.

Then at some point I found a cheaper article provider, BlackHatWriter. I worked out a literal template for him/her to follow and everything worked out somewhat nicely. Though in later states I did notice quite a lot of fluff that didn't make too much sense when you read it out loud. It's kind of empty words that seem like they use all the right terminology, but they go round and round and never actually make an actual point but a vague "you know..."

Looks promising to me.

Wish you the best of luck

Thanks!

Just curious, how many articles do you have on your site?

Only just 46 posts so far.

There are between 10-20 info posts (guides, etc), the rest are all product reviews. And 1 of the posts is "best cheap [niche product] type listicle pillar post.

Good luck, following

Thanks! Good to have you.

Great! Seems that it works for you. Just keep going.

I'm surprised myself. Though I'm slowly starting to get used to it just generating me money while I literally sleep or never once even open the website. I wish I wasn't so lazy and found more motivation somehow... Because in all actuality, making money like this is So bloody easy. I'd just have to write. But I'm constantly held back by my own doubts and uncertainties.

Just write the content, Thulf! Just write it, man.... Just write... ....

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You are my hero!
Reading your post is like Guru material.
Thx for this.
I want to be your padavan.

I'm sorry, but he is really busy. besides, as his apprentice myself I can tell you that he's seemingly very lazy and takes too long to write a single post, constantly stopping to question if the facts are correct so as to not let any reader down and so forth. Just looking for mistakes and simply just pondering at almost every sentence.

But if you were saying that for real, I'm just an average Joe who just started and didn't stop...

Really liked your spreadsheet.
These small small things can really bring a lot to projects and help one understand how good the website is doing.

Good luck on your project man.

Thanks! This spreadsheet helps me get hyped for my own stuff too in a way. ^^

It's all the crucial info in one place essentially.

 

[Thulf]

You are my hero!
Reading your post is like Guru material.
Thx for this.
I want to be your padavan.

Actually, maybe if you started with your journey, we could share info while being transparent about our websites so as to potentially learn even more or at the very least stay motivated perhaps?

The problem is if you have "zero" seo knowledge and the whole site building experience though.

my first such site was p"#n site and I didn't really know what I was doing before I had done it and learned from the mistakes...

 

[Dark Sky]

Actually, maybe if you started with your journey, we could share info while being transparent about our websites so as to potentially learn even more or at the very least stay motivated perhaps?

The problem is if you have "zero" seo knowledge and the whole site building experience though.

my first such site was p"#n site and I didn't really know what I was doing before I had done it and learned from the mistakes...

Thulf, I have started a journey 2 weeks ago for an amazon affiliate site. I have done many jouneys in the past including a news website but this is my first amazon affiliate one.

If you wish to talk on skype then PM me and I will add you on skype as I do not wish to disclose my skype ID publicly. I am happy to be transparent about anything as I understand you are in your project and I am in mine, and they will be seperate niches so there will be no competition between eachover.

 

[-Ali-]

Your case study is the perfect example that whenever we stick to something it pays off. even if do very little work Today your website could sell for a minimum of 2000USD and you deserve it.

However i would like to know since there are some case studies where In The 1-year time frame people manage to achieve the 500 or 1000USD/month with their affiliate websites.

Wich kind of actions did you take or not take that prevented your website from achieving that same kind of results?

 

[Raygh]

Do you put affiliate links in your guides?

 

[BlueBuzzy]

Would you say the VPS made a difference? I am with Siteground right now and a little worried about switching to a VPS because they are usually self-managed and all. Have you noticed any difference from the SEO standpoint?

Would love to hear what your experience is!

 

[JinxerCraft]

How old your site is?
Did you buy an old domain?

Sorry if I'm missing something

 

[JinxerCraft]

Would you say the VPS made a difference? I am with Siteground right now and a little worried about switching to a VPS because they are usually self-managed and all. Have you noticed any difference from the SEO standpoint?

Would love to hear what your experience is!

Switch to a managed server for first month
Once your website is working fine , move to unmanaged server

 

[BlueBuzzy]

Switch to a managed server for first month
Once your website is working fine , move to unmanaged server

Hey man, that makes good sense! Have you noticed a difference from an SEO standpoint?

I’ve been told it’s a lot better because you have 10 times less sites on the same IP. The speed of my site is already really good so I am mostly debating whether this will make a difference to have fewer sites on the same ip as mine.

Let me know your thoughts my man!

 

[JinxerCraft]

Hey man, that makes good sense! Have you noticed a difference from an SEO standpoint?

I’ve been told it’s a lot better because you have 10 times less sites on the same IP. The speed of my site is already really good so I am mostly debating whether this will make a difference to have fewer sites on the same ip as mine.

Let me know your thoughts my man!

That's not a ranking factor. So, I think NO
Your site will load faster but that's not gonna bring you more organic traffic. Search for semi dedicated hosting if you're not familiar with Linux

 

[Thulf]

Your case study is the perfect example that whenever we stick to something it pays off. even if do very little work Today your website could sell for a minimum of 2000USD and you deserve it.

However i would like to know since there are some case studies where In The 1-year time frame people manage to achieve the 500 or 1000USD/month with their affiliate websites.

Wich kind of actions did you take or not take that prevented your website from achieving that same kind of results?

It's a complex matter, but it all boils down to my personal attributes that were simply not suited for this kind of stuff.

Some people are perfectly fine half-assing things, some simply don't give a damn about other people's well-being (site's visitors), and have lots of other things going for them like that. I'm just an average too honest and trusting naive Joe with a work-a-stable-job-or-be-homeless mentality who just took a leap of faith of a risk and didn't give up (mainly thanks to Income School guys constantly saying in their YouTube videos that it's perfectly fine if nothing happens for the first 6 months or heck even the entire 1st year or so), and I slowly improved myself to better cope with this line of work in the process... I'm sure that if I had the capital and the free time the money would create for me I would make a site equal or even better than this current site within a few weeks or even less from ground up.

Do you put affiliate links in your guides?

In short: nope.

In length: they're strictly informational posts and I wouldn't feel comfortable having links to products in them. If I was the reader, that kind of thing would almost instantly raise a few red flags for me. I simply tunnel them towards articles that have affiliate links if they so wish to go that far. And the guides are not so much a "buying" guide as they are guides to introduce and teach things about the products so they could make an informed decision. The whole premise of those guides is for readers to learn to make an informed decision when they were to buy something (and the idea of actually buying anything is not even mentioned in them). I'm also trying to show Google that I've made every effort possible to provide value to the reader rather than squeeze the money out of them like all my competitors do - it's simply just a futureproof concept of my own making neither tested nor proven to match with reality (yet). Lots of little things like that have taken me a lot of time to realize in this website.

Would you say the VPS made a difference? I am with Siteground right now and a little worried about switching to a VPS because they are usually self-managed and all. Have you noticed any difference from the SEO standpoint?

Would love to hear what your experience is!

I took the VPS route mainly because it was so much cheaper. It might easily break down for any reason and I would have absolutely no clue how to fix it. I don't even know how to create and launch(?) a backup or whatever a snapshot is. VPS (Vultr) is just a server for me and (in my case, free) hosting is done by a 3rd party company's (ServerPilot) cheap script, essentially. The way I acquired https was simply just by following some guy's instructions pretty much and I almost felt like I was going to destroy the server because I got a few hiccups as I tried following those instructions (I did manage to learn a little about the server and I overcame those hiccups by simply just changing the commands according to my server's info after much of figuring stuff out - I felt pretty proud for not messing things up too much if I may say so myself).

VPS is essentially a ticking time bomb for me, in all honesty, because I don't know how to run it, let alone how to maintain it properly or, heck, how it runs even...

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[pauliakas]

And what about your site rating
DA/PA UR/DR etc?

I'm in the beginning of the road and building new site for Amazon Affiliate and so far the toughest task is great content

 

[Thulf]

And what about your site rating
DA/PA UR/DR etc?

I'm in the beginning of the road and building new site for Amazon Affiliate and so far the toughest task is great content

I tend to not pay much of any attention to metrics like that because they're incentives for signing up to the paid programs in my point of view. Google provides all the metrics I need at this point of time. I'm trying to waste less time looking for any loopholes and more time on improving the website as per my taste while in the visitor's shoes. Intuitivity is something I've always felt comfortable with - the only downside is that it's a very long and slow trial and error kind of method, but it's certainly much more cozy than cold blooded statistics that are ever changing (assuming you failed to look for patterns and trends in large).

Moz free chrome extension tool shows DA 6 for example. Combined with other free tools that show for example ranking for certain keywords and etc, it's pretty clear I wouldn't have much use of them anyway as they'd suck me into whatever SEO methods align with such metrix results. Which would bring me straight back to cold blooded statistics I'd need to start to make sense of in the hopes of understanding Google's algorithm at the end of it for me to have much chance of making it this way...


I like to think that Google values stuff I too would value in a website and this is all I need to know to go forward as long as things keep clicking.


Good luck on your journey though! It kind of depends on your personal tendencies when it comes content though. I think there's 2 kinds - ones that rely on statistics and write cold blooded words according to the criteria the statistics set forth and ones that go with gut feeling and hope Google is not an evil powerhouse taken over by AI long time ago trying to destroy humanity...

 

[BlueBuzzy]

I took the VPS route mainly because it was so much cheaper. It might easily break down for any reason and I would have absolutely no clue how to fix it. I don't even know how to create and launch(?) a backup or whatever a snapshot is. VPS (Vultr) is just a server for me and (in my case, free) hosting is done by a 3rd party company's (ServerPilot) cheap script, essentially. The way I acquired https was simply just by following some guy's instructions pretty much and I almost felt like I was going to destroy the server because I got a few hiccups as I tried following those instructions (I did manage to learn a little about the server and I overcame those hiccups by simply just changing the commands according to my server's info after much of figuring stuff out - I felt pretty proud for not messing things up too much if I may say so myself).

VPS is essentially a ticking time bomb for me, in all honesty, because I don't know how to run it, let alone how to maintain it properly or, heck, how it runs even...

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Lol same here man - that's pretty much the reason I haven't switched yet.

 

[Salamouna]

Good job
Do you write your own content?

 

[Thulf]

How old your site is?
Did you buy an old domain?

Sorry if I'm missing something

All the more important info is already in the spreadsheet. The beginning date is 5th of April, so pretty much from the beginning of April in 2018 as is seen on the spreadsheet it all started for this site. And I bought a totally new domain via GoDaddy.

Good job
Do you write your own content?

I've written everything pretty much by myself. The content I outsourced I ended up rewriting almost entirely to better fit my style of writing and to include my expertise and to fix the fluffiness of them. The reason I started to outsource the content was because the "reviews" (filler content) follows a certain template that just needs to be filled with the according information in a manner that simply reads differently than those other reviews but which look the same structurally. I ran out of words to describe all the similar things among those products I had to write a review about I simply outsourced them to have different writer's wording I could get inspiration from for writing the piece the way I described at the start of this paragraph (no offence to the outsourced writers pls!). ...If any of that made sense of course.

 

[Raygh]

How/Where do you build your backlinks?