[Journey] Next Authority Site to $50k/month with Ads

[Mechy]

What is the broad niche you are in? ex. Technology
Do you think you could write all the articles yourself if you had the time and the will?

Sorry cant tell anything about my niche because it would reveal too much. I dont have the writing skills and Im not native so Im outsourcing it instead.

@Mechy i’m just curious. You said English is not your native language. Where do you live?

I lived in Sweden my whole live. Now Im traveling and not written in Sweden anymore because of taxes. Right now in thailand.

Aim high eh will follow your journey will interest. With the layout of the website do you have any pages? or are they all posts? I built an amazon affiliate site that i built with pages instead of posts, and i made it a Silo so sitename/apples/best red apples ect but i think might of been a bad idea. Have you ever built a site like that?

Maybe you could take a look at it for me?

All are posts. Silo with URL slugs is also nice. I dont use it on this website, but my other side is using it and its doing fine.

Also, how do you orgsnize your keyword research, then organize the writin, etc do you have sone excel sheet to not go crazy over so much info to handle?

Yes I have a big Excel sheet of all the keywords, then just marking the ones that is ordered and which keywords that are published

 

[CFT]

All are posts. Silo with URL slugs is also nice. I dont use it on this website, but my other side is using it and its doing fine.

Do you have the keyword in the url twice for the site you used the silo format as i do and i'm not sure it's a good idea?

 

[TooCorny]

Sorry cant tell anything about my niche because it would reveal too much. I dont have the writing skills and Im not native so Im outsourcing it instead.



I lived in Sweden my whole live. Now Im traveling and not written in Sweden anymore because of taxes. Right now in thailand.



All are posts. Silo with URL slugs is also nice. I dont use it on this website, but my other side is using it and its doing fine.



Yes I have a big Excel sheet of all the keywords, then just marking the ones that is ordered and which keywords that are published

Awesome, do you take note of other metrics in the keywords sheet?

And in the silo structure do you do something else to the category page apart from spreading link juice to the posts by embedding them in there? Such as in depth content to try to rank for the category keyword or something?

Also could I PM you for details on the guest posts VAs you talked about?

 

[aristocratic]

Very ambitious!
Good luck with achieving it. Following

 

[nakamura]

Good luck! Following. Enjoy Thailand, I am here as well!

 

[Viniyois]

Could you please recommend VA service for guest post outreach? How much do you pay monthly and does he deliver minimum 10 gp/month or is it your goal?

 

[nbuica]

Good luck! I'm following your journey.
Regarding advertisement, how you display ads? Ad units / Ad placement?

 

[Satal]

Sounds and interesting journey, following

 

[hatfromthewilds]

how can u write so much content? im in tech niche and not only its hard to find things to talk about but also it requires lot of knowledge about these things

 

[Sindrom18]

@Mechy you have No idea how bad i want to be where you are right now. To have that freedom. I wish you the Best brother. Take care!

Btw.. i live in Germany

 

[Absurdas]

Followed yur first journey, going to do the same. Wanted to ask: I am in keyword research phase as I want to start my journey, I have noticed alot of spelling mistakes in keywords with high MS, do you target them? Can you drive traffic from it? You are a true inspiration!!

 

[JayDee1984]

How much traffic you expect to have in order to generate 50k / mo?

 

[Deleted member 1333509]

Nice work and good luck getting to 50k!

 

[yorkaz]

Very nice journey! I will start fallow it.

 

[YujinTan]

Hows your traffic daily per day?

 

[Mechy]

Do you have the keyword in the url twice for the site you used the silo format as i do and i'm not sure it's a good idea?

I Only use domainname.com/postname In the urls now. My other site im using category names also, and its Nothing wrong with doing so.

Awesome, do you take note of other metrics in the keywords sheet?

And in the silo structure do you do something else to the category page apart from spreading link juice to the posts by embedding them in there? Such as in depth content to try to rank for the category keyword or something?

Also could I PM you for details on the guest posts VAs you talked about?

No real silo like linking a lot of posts Into a Main post. Im just interlinking between the posts in the category and tries to not cross Link, if its not very relevant.

Sure but im afraid i cant give you so much advices about it, see furter down in this post.

Could you please recommend VA service for guest post outreach? How much do you pay monthly and does he deliver minimum 10 gp/month or is it your goal?

Sorry i cant recommend anyone here as im using "private" People for this. Im paying $400 per month and aiming to post 10-20 posts per month. They are writing the guest posts for me also, so its hands-free from my part.

The Only time i have to care is if a Publisher requires payment for guest post.

Good luck! I'm following your journey.
Regarding advertisement, how you display ads? Ad units / Ad placement?

The ad companies are handling and optimizing ad placements for me, so i have no idea about it

how can u write so much content? im in tech niche and not only its hard to find things to talk about but also it requires lot of knowledge about these things

Im not writing anything myself, jusy coming up with topics and ordering. If you dont find things to write about, check your competitors or extend your niche.

@Mechy you have No idea how bad i want to be where you are right now. To have that freedom. I wish you the Best brother. Take care!

Btw.. i live in Germany

Thank you, its not impossible to do so just keep grinding and you Will soon be there

Followed yur first journey, going to do the same. Wanted to ask: I am in keyword research phase as I want to start my journey, I have noticed alot of spelling mistakes in keywords with high MS, do you target them? Can you drive traffic from it? You are a true inspiration!!

Maybe you can, but i guess Google can figure it out and Will show your correct spelled article for wrong spelled searches.

How much traffic you expect to have in order to generate 50k / mo?

1-2 million sessions per month and i think i Will reach it

Hows your traffic daily per day?

Like Nothing right now, 10-20 from Google daily

 

[sufisarfi]

Good luck for your journey .. following

 

[webdim]

Following this. Good luck mate!

 

[zcldeapple]

Hello, and welcome to my new journey. My plans of this journey is taking a new fresh domain to become an authority site making 50k dollars/month as fast as possible.

Some of you know me from my previous successful journey here:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/journey-two-amazon-affiliate-sites-to-100-day-ongoing.1057263/

To not mix these sites up too much, I decided to create a separate journey to follow the progress of it easier.

Because I learned a lot from my first journey, I got the confidence in investing a lot of money into this journey, I´m pretty confident that this will be a successful site. I will do the same as before, but in a much bigger scale.

Im also doing this full-time now, traveling around and can therefore put much more effort into the site.

Site information:
Age: Fresh Domain 2 months old. Branded name
Will rely on Advertising income much more than Affiliate income.
Pretty difficult/saturnated niche
6 Categories - Internal linked in "Silo"
300x ~1000 word Information Articles published so far
GeneratePress theme
Hosting: Siteground Cloud US

Link building:
Usually when Im building websites, I dont rely so much on linkbuilding. Im creating a lot of content and will most likely earn organic backlinks after a while. However, I have hired a VA to build 10-20 guest posts per month to speed things up a little bit and I understand the importance of backlinks.

Im not doing any type of social media at all except I created profiles and put some images up on pinterest for some traffic in the beginning. This will 100% rely on organic traffic.

Links built so far:

• 1x Press Release
• 100x Social Media Profiles (For branding)
• 100x Blog comments on niche related blogs (With branded anchors to homepage)
• 15x Guest posts on niche relevant sites

Results so far:
The results are like nothing now. I was pretty slow publishing articles in the beginning but now i publish them at a rate of around 50 per week or more. I think this will grow fast as soon as its out of the sandbox.

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Pagespeed:
For the pagespeed I rely on the WProcket plugin and optimizing images with Shortpixel. Im not using any CDN. This is on a page with 3 big images.

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Keyword Research:
For keyword research I am using Ahrefs to check other websites successful articles, with a lot of traffic without a huge amount of backlinks. Im targeting both easy and more difficult keywords and doesnt think too much about it.

Since my other journey, I got a lot of questions about which writers I use. Because Im not native english, Im outsourcing all writing and I use a few different writers from BHW. For this journey, ~80% of my articles is coming from @contentdarknight

Plans for 2020:

• Reach 1000+ published articles.
• Continue to build 10-20 guest posts per month
• Apply to Adthrive once I reach 30k sessions a month, to begin earning some money.

Lets go earn some serious money in the future! Need funds for a house and a lambo

hi,bro , can you give me a review on your outsourcing writer @contentdarknight ,what about his articles quality??

thanks

 

[zcldeapple]

Please dont talk about things you dont have any idea about.

If you check my other journey, Im earning $12k per month from 380 articles, with 400k visitors per month. Its also in a niche with low RPM. We are not talking bad AD-networks with shit RPMs like Adsense or another noname network.

For these networks like Mediavine or Adthrive, you need some quality of you site and you can expect a RPM of 15-30$ and sometimes even more.

If you dont believe me, its fine

whether Mediavine or Adthrive have better price than adsense?bro?

thanks