Made my first 3000€ - [Selling backlinks]

[homeriscool]

but I feel like you need to "fuck around to find out".

This should be pinned to the home page of Blackhat World.

 

[JakeSantiago]

whats the DA/DR of your site? How many articles all? Handwritten or AI?

The DR is 11 atm, got 22 backlinks from quality websites ranging from 15 --> 50 DR.
The articles are all handwritten and I have about 30 articles. Reason I'm able to charge
so much is because I operate within a small niche and affiliates are desperate for new links.

Congratulations on your earnings, you can scale it up now.

Thanks! Yeah thats my plan atm.

 

[Shana Walters]

Sure I can share a bit. You'll have to ask for specifics if there is anything you'd like to know.

But I can go over my strategy in broad strokes. So what I did was I found a niche wich wasn't really
profitable as an affiliate (or at least didn't have very many affiliates). Since this generally causes much greater competition from people who actually know SEO. @RealDaddy Has a great guide here

After I decided on a niche, I found a few competitors who had lots of traffic but very few backlinks.
I then just made a list of the articles they had written and I started writing my own articles on the subject, but longer and higher quality. If they had written 800 words, I wrote 1000 and maybe added a picture.

In my opinion, when you are first starting out, the most important thing is not to find the "perfect" keyword to write about.
The key is to simply GET STARTED and keep writing. I didn't do very much kw-research (expect for verifying search volume). I simply pumped out content and kept doing that untill I saw result. Sure, I wrote a lot of articles which google didn't even index, but if you write 50 articles, I guarantee that some of those will draw traffic. Which is why it's so important (imo) to put more time into maximizing content instead of spending hours and hours on finding the perfect keyword.

Let me know if there is anything in specific which I should cover more in depth.

Thanks for the heads up!

My site is niche specific but within that niche I provide general content.

Thanks for sharing this with us.

 

[JakeSantiago]

Thanks for sharing this with us.

No problems! Good luck!

 

[saimdesign]

good work. keep it up!

 

[praetserge]

Now, just last week, I got my first two customers. I charge 1500€ per link per year. Making me a total
of 3000€ and my total investments are about 400€ and since I published those two links, more and more
requests have started coming in.

You charged 1,500 euros per link per year on a blog which gets a few thousand visitors a month?
Please...

 

[ciphercipher1]

Where can I look for similar interships/jobs in the SEO fileld? What is the position called?

 

[V]

Where can I look for similar interships/jobs in the SEO fileld? What is the position called?

Are you another bot posting on BHW to increase their post count?

 

[bananasubmarine]

Now, just last week, I got my first two customers. I charge 1500€ per link per year.

So, you're renting out the links? Can you please explain how this works?
Is it a pinned guest post, or a link from the homepage, or how does your model work?

 

[solidguy_82]

Thank you.
Nice motivation
I agree it should be pinned to motivate newbies

 

[TimeRider]

Congratulations! This kind of the story of SEO and selling backlinks is motivating.

 

[ciphercipher1]

Are you another bot posting on BHW to increase their post count?

you are free to check my activity (at least i think so)

 

[jondaz]

Congrats mate. Keep up your good work.

 

[V]

you are free to check my activity (at least i think so)

In that case, start working for yourself. Get a domain and hosting. Start by ranking a site for low-difficulty KWs. SEO is the most straightforward job on this planet. If it works, it's because of you. If it doesn't, it's because of the latest Google update. Let me know how I can help you.

 

[Matta28]

Nice to see other ways to earn money, good luck!

 

[M0805]

Congrats

 

[jnz]

Hi @JakeSantiago ,I wonder how much the traffic of the websites is now, you can earn such high incomes.

 

[Mountainsforever]

Hello OP - Congrats on your success.

Please use multi quotes when replying otherwise you'll get a warning from mods.

Thanks!

Oops I forgot about this feature in my own journey....

That being said isn't that more to stop self-promotion on the marketplace?

I mean I realize some people use these journeys to try for self-promotion but I digress

 

[Deleted member 832639]

How did you sell links from the main page, did you offer them yourself?
It's just that I never received offers for links from the main page, only guest posts.

 

[JakeSantiago]

You charged 1,500 euros per link per year on a blog which gets a few thousand visitors a month?
Please...

I do. The GEO i operate in is very small and the casino affiliate websites are desperate for new link.

So, you're renting out the links? Can you please explain how this works?
Is it a pinned guest post, or a link from the homepage, or how does your model work?

Yes! I rent out a link on the homepage. Either textlink or banner.

Thank you.
Nice motivation
I agree it should be pinned to motivate newbies

Thanks man!

Congratulations! This kind of the story of SEO and selling backlinks is motivating.

Thank you!

Congrats mate. Keep up your good work.

Tnx mate, appriciate it!

Nice to see other ways to earn money, good luck!

Same to you.

Congrats

Ty!

Hi @JakeSantiago ,I wonder how much the traffic of the websites is now, you can earn such high incomes.

The website has around 2k traffic / month. Reason I can charge such high prices is because
my GEO is very small and the casino affiliates operating in it are desperate for new links. A similar
site in the US could maybe charge like $50.

How did you sell links from the main page, did you offer them yourself?
It's just that I never received offers for links from the main page, only guest posts.

It's usually sites which operate in highly competetive environments which purchase
homepage links. In my case, casino affiliates bought both links.

P.s Sorry for going ghost. Thought this post was dead.

Peace!