[Journey] Experimental Blog using ChatGPT

[Mr. Blackhat]

What is your site structure for seo?

Not sure if I understand what you mean. I have one category for now, all the articles go into this category. Later I will expand to more categories. I don't do any internal linking, that could be a problem later when I have substantially more articles.

 

[Marco69]

Not sure if I understand what you mean. I have one category for now, all the articles go into this category. Later I will expand to more categories. I don't do any internal linking, that could be a problem later when I have substantially more articles.

It's better when you have more categories put your articles to the topic category instead of have all posts under one category like "blog" .
Your site structure for seo; I mean do you try to build siloing site or other structure....? This is what I mean with site structure.

Many people using siloing, others have category pages, news sites have another different more complex structure..... and all trying to achive the best to get seo rankings/ organic traffic.

 

[bobblack225]

Hey! Are you using WordPress?

 

[Epstein]

Nice journey. Do keep us updated.

 

[Mr. Blackhat]

It's better when you have more categories put your articles to the topic category instead of have all posts under one category like "blog" .
Your site structure for seo; I mean do you try to build siloing site or other structure....? This is what I mean with site structure.

Many people using siloing, others have category pages, news sites have another different more complex structure..... and all trying to achive the best to get seo rankings/ organic traffic.

I don't use a silo. Never used it on any of my sites and personally I think it's just another strategy from the gurus that don't make a significant enough difference to make it worth the time to setup. However, internal linking is important, so I will probably get a plugin for that, not sure which one yet.

I will create more categories when I eventually start expanding the site, but at the moment I only have 55 articles and I'm going for topical authority.

Hey! Are you using WordPress?

Yes I am using WordPress. I was considering webflow but decided against it simply because it's an AI site and I don't want to spend $20/mo on hosting in case Google decides to deindex all the pages. I really don't like WordPress, at all, even if I've been using it for almost 20 years now. It's a terrible system.

 

[bobblack225]

Hey! I'm looking to start my own health/science blog but need help with keywords. How'd you find your niche and keywords?

 

[Mr. Blackhat]

Today I finally got the site approved on AdSense. Now I just have to wait for approval on Ezoic before I start adding more content. Hopefully they work quick so I can start making some revenue some day next week.

Good luck on this journey! I see a nice increase of stats! Did you maybe also think about content rewriting?

Do you also pass the content through ai checkers and if the content is unique?

Hey thanks, I must've missed your question earlier.

With content rewriting you mean rewriting other peoples posts and making them unique? If so, the problem lies in that there are no other blogs writing about this topic so there are no competitors to rewrite from unfortunately. I've tried this earlier with another blog of mine with less than average results.

I don't check every article with AI detectors, but I do check random articles. With my prompt the ones I have checked are all 90%+ human, and all I do is ask chatgpt-4 to make it undetectable by AI content detectors, without using uncommon words and phrases. This seems to work just fine.

Hey! I'm looking to start my own health/science blog but need help with keywords. How'd you find your niche and keywords?

For this website I do no keyword research, you can think of it as programmatic SEO where I have a list of products and cover the same question for each item.

When I do keyword research I usually just analyze my competition. Health is an extremely difficult niche to get into, as it is a YMYL category and Google will require you to show EEAT in order to rank. Focus on finding a small sub niche at first, gather all your weak competitors and analyze their content and traffic.

Then what I recommend you do is create topical authority and cover everything within this sub niche. Even if you yourself don't have the expertise and authoritativeness, create an elaborate persona that does, with a detailed about page, social pages and make that persona real.

 

[DavidG1510]

Can you show us the website itself? I would like to see it please.

 

[Bhankas]

as it is a YMYL category and Google will require you to show EEAT in order to rank

A noob query. How do you achieve this? Doesn't even a small sub niche needs EEAT?

 

[Mr. Blackhat]

A noob query. How do you achieve this? Doesn't even a small sub niche needs EEAT?

Yes it does, but it's easier to fake it when the competition is weak and may lack some of the EEAT.

 

[bobblack225]

Today I finally got the site approved on AdSense. Now I just have to wait for approval on Ezoic before I start adding more content. Hopefully they work quick so I can start making some revenue some day next week.


Hey thanks, I must've missed your question earlier.

With content rewriting you mean rewriting other peoples posts and making them unique? If so, the problem lies in that there are no other blogs writing about this topic so there are no competitors to rewrite from unfortunately. I've tried this earlier with another blog of mine with less than average results.

I don't check every article with AI detectors, but I do check random articles. With my prompt the ones I have checked are all 90%+ human, and all I do is ask chatgpt-4 to make it undetectable by AI content detectors, without using uncommon words and phrases. This seems to work just fine.


For this website I do no keyword research, you can think of it as programmatic SEO where I have a list of products and cover the same question for each item.

When I do keyword research I usually just analyze my competition. Health is an extremely difficult niche to get into, as it is a YMYL category and Google will require you to show EEAT in order to rank. Focus on finding a small sub niche at first, gather all your weak competitors and analyze their content and traffic.

Then what I recommend you do is create topical authority and cover everything within this sub niche. Even if you yourself don't have the expertise and authoritativeness, create an elaborate persona that does, with a detailed about page, social pages and make that persona real.

Thanks! I found a niche that's in science, not health related, has low products so little affiliate stuff, but I plan on using adsense for this as I just want the experience. How'd you create a topical authority and what is that? What is eeat too? Like I said total noob.

 

[Mr. Blackhat]

Thanks! I found a niche that's in science, not health related, has low products so little affiliate stuff, but I plan on using adsense for this as I just want the experience. How'd you create a topical authority and what is that? What is eeat too? Like I said total noob.

I think science is a good niche if you find your corner. Don't focus too much on affiliate, you need a healthy mix of affiliate and info content since the Google Review Update last year.

There's a lot of information on the subject on YouTube but I'll go over it briefly. Topical authority is when you cover everything in one niche. Let's say you have a site about fast food, and you want to niche down on hotdogs. You have to cover as much as possible about hotdogs before you move over to burgers. The different kinds of hotdogs, different franchises, different buns, condiments, etc. That's a topical authority, and you can map out all these things before you even start building the site.

EEAT stands for Experience, Expertise, Authority, and Trust. It's simply a way for Google to judge if you know what you're talking about. Some niches require more EEAT than others (for example health, fitness, finance). First off, you need ALL the important pages on your site, privacy policy, terms of service, contact, as well as a detailed about page. You should also have an author box on every post. If you yourself don't have the experience or expertise, you have to create a fictional person that knows everything about it. There are other things going into the EEAT but as I said, there's a lot of information online.

 

[Bhankas]

If you yourself don't have the experience or expertise, you have to create a fictional person that knows everything about it

How to get AI give me a realistic pic that google cannot pick?

 

[tombanner1988]

Cool, keep it up

 

[Mr. Blackhat]

How to get AI give me a realistic pic that google cannot pick?

I use thispersondoesnotexist.com, have had no problems yet. Just refresh the page until you get a good photo of a person matching your persona. I've tried different AI image generators before like Midjourney, Leonardo and others but the images do not look real.

 

[MrManyHat]

I'm thinking about starting an AI blog just to test it out and see what happens. I don't want to add any AI articles to my current journey site but might test the water with one.

 

[John Willusa]

A potential journey .
Hopefully , you will be successful .
Best of luck bro .

 

[Cpamatica]

Sending you good luck in this endeavor!
Which version of GPT do you use?

 

[Mr. Blackhat]

The website has now been showing Ezoic ads for 5 days, yesterday it earned just over $2 and had an EPMV of $11! This site is soon about to surpass my main money site. I have not added any more posts since last update but I'm planning to post more this weekend. Traffic seems to have stabilized at around 120-125/day.

I found another niche and launched a second AI site last week, only 11 posts for now but hoping it will start to rank as well. This time around I will focus mainly on Amazon, promoting products ranging between $100 and $500. If the site gets traction I will include it in my future updates so you can follow along.

I'm thinking about starting an AI blog just to test it out and see what happens. I don't want to add any AI articles to my current journey site but might test the water with one.

You should try it! Seeing the potential even with this small site I think building a portfolio of high-quality AI sites could be very lucrative.

There are many opinions on how to build AI sites. I find that slow and steady in the beginning seems to work best in terms of not getting hit by Google, but we'll have to see in future updates.

A potential journey .
Hopefully , you will be successful .
Best of luck bro .

Sending you good luck in this endeavor!
Which version of GPT do you use?

Thanks guys! I'm using Chat GPT-4. You can probably do similar content with 3.5 but I already had the subscription.

 

[proxpromo]

Just to clarify something.
And this is gonna sound like a dumb question probably.

But have you really built a site with just AI content, no backlinks, and 3 months later doing over 100 PV a day and $2 in revenue?

I kind of feel like I've missed something.