[Journey] from £0 to £100k/month

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With a recent close-encounter with death, the boot has been firming kicked up my a** to get it in gear. I'm director of several businesses that i run day to day, have business partners and staff, an am experienced developer by trade and build high traffic platforms for my customers, yet I (specifically me) am still hand to mouth each month as i have to pay everyone else first, and enough is enough. I want a better life, the measly £1.2k i pay myself is just not enough.

I am going to be building 50 subject-matter specific affiliate websites, making each one operate independently in a specific subject and target specific keywords, with a target affiliate revenue of £1-£2k per site, following the below documented process and only progressing once I see positive markers:

#1 subject matter identification. (come up with random ideas)
#2 longtail keyword research (ahrefs?)
#3 grab domain (namecheap, domain auction portals) with positive DA.
#4 spin up site per the setup below.

Setup:
  • Domain in Cloudflare
  • Setup domain within office365 account
  • Run catchall inbox so that all emails are together
  • Document accounts and site-specific information on Confluence
  • Set up each website within one account Google Search Console & GA account [done]
  • Setup each domain within its own free SEMRush account [done]
  • Setup each domain with its own social media channels (ideally twitter/facebook and instagram) [WIP]
  • Connect to DeployHQ
  • Single Laravel instance & VueJS application to power all websites [done]
  • Article generation integration [done]
  • Custom click tracking and redirection engine (so i need to swap xyz.com from one aff portal to another, i can do it for all sites without having to change anything). [done]
  • Use Buffer to manage social media (over api) from Laravel [WIP]
Routines:
- Scrape / Digest products specific to the subject matter, daily
- Generate 2-5 articles per week using the the base subject matter as an anchor and using long-tail keywords and "ideas" for the article generator
- Generate the homepage content automatically once every two weeks, rotating through specific sub-subjects (e.g "automotive" is the base subject, then rotate through "Car", "Van", "Lorry", "Motorbike" as an example). (bannerbear)

I know I lack the skills in:
- Marketing
- Keyword research (I hoping by having each site in its own SEMrush account, i can specifically hand off specific sites to contractors to help).

Technical SEO is not a problem. The sites already score 97% on mobile & 100% on desktop on Google Page Speed, GTM metrix and almost every SEO auditing tool.... on the 4 websites i've already built.

I have so far spent 1 week (7 days) on this Journey.

Tips & tricks welcome around keyword identification.

I'll keep this thread updated once a week on either Thursday/Friday.
 
Good luck bro, please don't let this journey end on page 2 ;)
 
Goodluck man keep the thread updated! We love these journeys and we want you to succeed!
 
omg, the type-o's!

Well, i think it gives the jist of the situation.
 
Good luck bro, please don't let this journey end on page 2 ;)
Absolutely not - its in my calendar to come back to this thread every Thursday or Friday for the next 12 months.
 
I'm in a similar situation, wish you all the best on this journey!
 
I'm sure you are a great business manager but is it possible that you care more about the staff than the business?

Just a thought, I might be off. But if it's so, you may want to read Ruthless Management by Dan Kennedy.

As for keyword research, you can get an intern to do alphabet soup method for each site (look it up, an intern can learn it in 5 minutes). Or use keywordseverywhere, or even keyword planner and other free tools to cut costs.

Good luck on your journey!
 
I'm sure you are a great business manager but is it possible that you care more about the staff than the business?

Just a thought, I might be off. But if it's so, you may want to read Ruthless Management by Dan Kennedy.

As for keyword research, you can get an intern to do alphabet soup method for each site (look it up, an intern can learn it in 5 minutes). Or use keywordseverywhere, or even keyword planner and other free tools to cut costs.

Good luck on your journey!
I've actually just been gifted that book.
 
You are very well skilled to make this happen.
Will definitely follow to learn something new.
Best of luck op
 
Seems like a great journey will follow this journey. Best Wishes.
 
What dies that means? What can you do with it?
Well i've got 50 websites to manage, and piling them all in to one semrush account / ahrefs account is going to be expensive. SEMRush offers a free tier for a single domain, so, 50 sites, 50 accounts.
 
Would you consider a JV, especially for the content generation side
The scale of the content creation is not something we're going to be able to request for manual creation, and I've already automated most of it. But to give you some idea of scale, when we get all sites up and running, we'll be pumping out 200 articles, 700-900 social media posts and 1m emails per week.
 
Damn, how is it to controll 50 sites? Isn't it hard to log in to each of them etc? Good luck anyway!
 
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