Amazon Authority Website Journey to € 1000 a Day - 100% Outsourced

[blackice6666]

I can't get your question mate
You mean hard things I don't want to do the next time or mistakes that I don't do again?



This is a test of 3 random pages and my website and isn't slow. This tests are done from USA and my servers are in France (so for Italian people is really faster).
Actually I'm using performance 1 from OVH with guaranteed resources (not shared).

This plan includes:
- CPU: 1vCore
- RAM: 2GB

I'm paying 13 $ a month and isn't bad
Until now I do not need more power and I think that with 15K visits a day I will upgrade to performance 2 (2vCore and 4GB Ram).

I'm using W3 Total Cache and a really light theme, with clean code.
In this moment I think my infrastructure can handle 100 visits at the same time without problems

Do you use cloudflare? I am using it on a bunch of sites and it bumps the speed a little bit. It also saves a lot of bandwidth.

 

[Lixs]

I've been reading this thread for a while and your progress is fantastic. Reaching your goal will be inevitable.

I was wondering what your thoughts on a silo structure for an Amazon Affiliate site are? I've found a few product niches that have low competition which are in a similar niche. I'm not sure whether to make a few individual sites or make one big review website with a silo structure.

 

[Lynista]

This is a test of 3 random pages and my website and isn't slow. This tests are done from USA and my servers are in France (so for Italian people is really faster).
Actually I'm using performance 1 from OVH with guaranteed resources (not shared).

This plan includes:
- CPU: 1vCore
- RAM: 2GB

I'm paying 13 $ a month and isn't bad
Until now I do not need more power and I think that with 15K visits a day I will upgrade to performance 2 (2vCore and 4GB Ram).

I'm using W3 Total Cache and a really light theme, with clean code.
In this moment I think my infrastructure can handle 100 visits at the same time without problems

I never had a doubt that your server runs at the moment slow. I just said that it could happen if 15000 Users hit the site per day.
If you want you could run a test with Loadimpact. I think they allow 150 VU (Virual Users) in the free test over 5 minutes. If 150 Users run without any increase in the delay the 15000 UV per day should work fine.
Maybe the Bandwidth could become an issue. But for that you could use a CDN.

 

[arganrecords]

Sorry mate, i Mean mistakes....

Well, I think there are a lot mistakes to be done in the future
Until now I played with my experience and made less mistakes than expected but the most important was on silo structure.

I started this website without a mind map of the content and for this I lost few weeks of work to reorganize all the content

Do you use cloudflare? I am using it on a bunch of sites and it bumps the speed a little bit. It also saves a lot of bandwidth.

No, just redirected my DNS to use it Thanks for your advice

I was wondering what your thoughts on a silo structure for an Amazon Affiliate site are? I've found a few product niches that have low competition which are in a similar niche. I'm not sure whether to make a few individual sites or make one big review website with a silo structure.

In my opinion the best solution to make your website powerful is to make a little one that covers only 1 niche.
With bigger websites isn't easy make a proper silo and you need to make changes on a daily basis as I'm doing

I never had a doubt that your server runs at the moment slow. I just said that it could happen if 15000 Users hit the site per day.
If you want you could run a test with Loadimpact. I think they allow 150 VU (Virual Users) in the free test over 5 minutes. If 150 Users run without any increase in the delay the 15000 UV per day should work fine.
Maybe the Bandwidth could become an issue. But for that you could use a CDN.

Test done with Loadimpact sending 100 UVs in 1 minute, this are results
With 15000 visits I can expect an average of 10 UV in 1 minute, I done 10x test and my actual infrastructure is great also with 50K+ visits according to this test.

 

[Lynista]

Test done with Loadimpact sending 100 UVs in 1 minute, this are results
With 15000 visits I can expect an average of 10 UV in 1 minute, I done 10x test and my actual infrastructure is great also with 50K+ visits according to this test.

Yea, I think also the 13$ infrastructure should be enough
I saw that OVH offers in your package an build in CDN which serves Pictures, HTML and other static files. So I guess you have no bandwidth restriction. As soon as one page has been cached by W3 Cache, the whole page is static and will be served from one of the 17 CDN location of OVH worldwide. Thats also why the load time became better as more clients hit your site.
As long as you have no bandwidth restriction you should be able to have unlimited visitors to your site

 

[Panther28]

Never head of lead impact, great share, your looking "ironman" robust

 

[arganrecords]

Day 56
Google Traffic: 571 UV
Earnings: ? 76,81
Total Articles: 330 (+4)

As you can see the link building activities are directly proportional to the traffic increase.
For this reason I'm investing more than previous months (backlinks from PBN and link exchange).

In my niche other authority websites have really spammy backlink profile compared to mine that is full of content and without exact match anchors.
My anchors are as follows:

50% - http://www.mywebsite.com (naked)
20% - my brand name
10% - random forms or my brand name (Website.com - www.mywebsite.com etc)
20% - anchors with keywordin it but there aren't exact matches (not "fruit juicer" but "the best fruit joucer online")

In this moment I need to multiply my traffic x10 and I will do my best to make at least x3 only in this month (for the link building activity done it's all calculated)

 

[sairos]

are you italian?

 

[arganrecords]

are you italian?

Yeah sure, who wants to know it?

 

[sairos]

Yeah sure, who wants to know it?

just out of curiosity,

sono italiano anche io

 

[arganrecords]

Today I'm noticing a drop in visits, I checked the rank tracker and there wasn't a lot of movement.
Few keywords jumped in the first page too!

I analized my traffic and I can understand that on every Saturday I've a little drop and every Sunday/Monday I've a big increase

 

[blackice6666]

Today I'm noticing a drop in visits, I checked the rank tracker and there wasn't a lot of movement.
Few keywords jumped in the first page too!

I analized my traffic and I can understand that on every Saturday I've a little drop and every Sunday/Monday I've a big increase

I always noticed this detail from the analytics screenshots you are posting, a drop and then a spike

 

[austin.c]

Congratulations Argan, this is one of the best journeys i've ever read!

 

[jonross]

This looks really interesting. I wonder if Amazon Affiliates is a good long-term strategy?

 

[blackice6666]

This looks really interesting. I wonder if Amazon Affiliates is a good long-term strategy?

Why shouldnt it be? Users are choosing to purchase the product and actually pay money. The question is will be the link building strategy long term? Maybe google one day decides to totally lower the power of web 2.0 which are being massively used right now. Or maybe the start targeting PBN's since they are really being over used also. However i think that guest posts of high quality (directly arranged with the webmaster) will always stay, these are the most organic backlinks in my opinion (with just a small boost that you are letting the webmaster know that you have made a great article). In my opinion link diversity is the key to a long-term strategy so at least you have something left if google tries to penalize some types of backlinks, like they did with the blog comments, directory links etc.

Just my 2c

 

[arganrecords]

Day 57
Google Traffic: 554 UV
Earnings: € 54,74
Total Articles: 333 (+3)

CloudFlare is a great find in the free version and I have noticed a marked improvement in loading time (-30%).
As said before my triffic drops every Saturday as swiss watch and I get new record every Monday or so

I wonder if Amazon Affiliates is a good long-term strategy?

Yes, it's really difficult to earn with Amazon in the short term, you need to invest a lot of resources/money before see some good earnings!
From my experience an Amazon website needs from 3 to 6 months before get potential customer's trust (I'm speaking about italian market).

 

[JuggernautJukey]

Would you say your income is similar to what you would get with an adsense based website, for the same amount of traffic? Or would you say Amazon is more lucrative?

 

[arganrecords]

Would you say your income is similar to what you would get with an adsense based website, for the same amount of traffic? Or would you say Amazon is more lucrative?

If you can get at least € 50,00 CPM AdSense will be more lucrative
Since it's simply impossible with products keywords (with more lucrative keywords is possible but your competitors wil be very strong), so Amazon is the more lucrative solution.

You can see my experiment in this previous post.

 

[guruvadivel]

I havent had that great results with ovh very slow loading time
is there anything to be asked regarding location to them or server setup?

Btw great journey thread!

 

[arganrecords]

I havent had that great results with ovh very slow loading time
is there anything to be asked regarding location to them or server setup?

Btw great journey thread!

No, I've few hosting and server plans and it's all fast dude.
I don't know what's the problem with your hosting plan but you don't have to ask anything to them

Are you using shared hosting with a lot of domains?