Amazon Affiliate - 6k Monthly

Website 2: Grabbed a decent, niche relevant backlink today. I had to add an article about their product, but what I did was only include a picture with their brand on it so I didn't actually link back to them. This way the link juice is all mine and it looks less like a purchased/traded link.

I'm trying to purchase larger articles now, 2000 words +. My current rate is around $100 per article, but I think that's worth it. The content is well written, although not entirely original. But in the end, I don't think content needs to be 100% original, so long as it's conveyed in a more organized manner or is easier to understand than the competitions.

Even though my individual reviews are outsourced, I'm still going to write the blog/helpful guides as visitors hold these to a higher degree of importance.

I choose niches that I don't care about and know very little information on. Therefore, when I am writing articles on something new, everything is written in plain easy-to-read English. This also prevents me from glazing over information that might seem obvious and non-important when in reality, to someone new on the topic, is very useful.

There are a lot of "Best XXXX" phrases in my niche. Almost too many that I'm timid about writing 6 different articles starting with the same "Best XXXX". I was thinking about starting a new silo for "Best" articles, but decided against that because I think it's weird and seems scammy or low quality. Instead I plan to incorporate other helpful, less competitive articles while occasionally including a "best XXX" article. I believe that "best XXXX" is one of the most profitable phrases for an affiliate to target. Therefore each "best XXXXX" article will me 2000 + words.

Website 1: I had 3 links lined up for November, but each required a blog article. I sent them all the same one, so I hope that isn't a problem. I'm on the 2nd page for a 35,000/month keyword, if I can make it to the first page before November ends, I'll make beaucoup bucks.

One link has a DA of 70 something, the other 50 something and the other 50 something. They are all niche-relevant, so I think my website should get a good ranking after these are published. Two of which are being posted now, the other will be posted in the middle of November.
 
Every technical term goes above my head. But good to see your progresss and soo much you know about these stuff, SEO + Coding. How long did it take you to start it from day 1?, Learn + begin earning.
 
Nice job sir, amazon is a quite good money source specially on december and other important dates around the year. the bad thing to me as a foreign amazon associate user is that I cannot get my money normally but only with gift cards. I tried to link the payoneer service but didnt work. last resort is to contact them and beg to drop my check into mail forwarder service so it can come home safely.
 
You can get 2000 word good content for amazon review sites here in the market place for like $20 - 40, instead of $100.

but each required a blog article. I sent them all the same one, so I hope that isn't a problem.<--- don't use the same article for all 3 posts pointing to your site. The ones posting on their site will get a duplicate content penalty and so will your site for having those links. You need to remedy this right away.
 
You can get 2000 word good content for amazon review sites here in the market place for like $20 - 40, instead of $100.

but each required a blog article. I sent them all the same one, so I hope that isn't a problem.<--- don't use the same article for all 3 posts pointing to your site. The ones posting on their site will get a duplicate content penalty and so will your site for having those links. You need to remedy this right away.


I think it all depends on the quality of the content. I'll bet my $100 content is better than the $40 content. Also, that's not what duplicate content is. Duplicate content penalty is having the same content in multiple areas of the same website. So you don't want to have two pages that both discuss the same topic.

Think about syndicated content, do you think they're getting a duplicate content penalty? Nope.
 
Sounds like a solid plan, best of luck for your journey.
Also try to invest your money for seo tools like gsa for tier 2, 3 link building.
 
I'm not sure if anyone is aware, but this is the exact strategy from 'systems' here in posts and for sale on the net being advertised on Youtube.

It's all in the effort and niche. I don't touch SEO or BHSEO and knew this Amazon system five'ish years ago.
 
Sounds like a solid plan, best of luck for your journey.
Also try to invest your money for seo tools like gsa for tier 2, 3 link building.

Not gonna use GSA, too high of a chance to mess up your site if you don't know what you're doing, which I wouldn't.
Regarding tiers, I usually blast some web 2.0's. But that's pretty much it.
 
I think it all depends on the quality of the content. I'll bet my $100 content is better than the $40 content. Also, that's not what duplicate content is. Duplicate content penalty is having the same content in multiple areas of the same website. So you don't want to have two pages that both discuss the same topic.

Think about syndicated content, do you think they're getting a duplicate content penalty? Nope.

I can tell you that right now, if you post the exact same article on 3 different websites and point links from those sites to yours that is just asking for trouble. Think, why do people use spinners? they make tier 1 links on different properties, why not just use the same text? Press Releases are different, they are syndicated and google understands that but when you are building links you do not want google to know that you are building them. 3 exact same posts on different websites, what does that tell google? Your links will get duplicate content penalty.

Read this: https://moz.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content
Duplicate content is content that appears on the Internet in more than one place (URL)

I'm certain $100 content is better than $40 content. But $40 will get the job done as well, especially if you are trying to save some cash. Here at BHW, people offer content writing/SEO services for far less than what they offer them outside. At the end of the day it's your call.
 
I can tell you that right now, if you post the exact same article on 3 different websites and point links from those sites to yours that is just asking for trouble. Think, why do people use spinners? they make tier 1 links on different properties, why not just use the same text? Press Releases are different, they are syndicated and google understands that but when you are building links you do not want google to know that you are building them. 3 exact same posts on different websites, what does that tell google? Your links will get duplicate content penalty.



I'm certain $100 content is better than $40 content. But $40 will get the job done as well, especially if you are trying to save some cash. Here at BHW, people offer content writing/SEO services for far less than what they offer them outside. At the end of the day it's your call.

You're probably right, the safest bet would be to provide unique content for each post, but I don't think it's going to be a real negative if I don't. We're gonna call it a test and see what happens, but I still think duplicate content is only a major issue if it's the same content on one website with two different file paths.

I really don't care if the guest posts rank well.
 
The site owners whom you're paying to put up those posts would be pissed as hell if you provide them all the same content. If they figure this out (which they probably will) then they will take your links down. It's really a recipe to set yourself up for disaster. You can buy 3 good articles for cheap at BHW and get your links to stick, that's the best way to go. If you're fixated on using the same article then spin it(manually) so you have 3 unique copies, in this case you will be fine unless you get a manual review which is not that common. Goodluck and keep us posted.
 
Can you share with us a little bit more detail in how you build link for your sites? If you don't mind...
If I'm correct, it seems like you bought links for your websites from other webmasters who own a similar niche site.
 
"Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar."
You are risking too much.
 
"Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar."
You are risking too much.

This refers to ranking content. I also like to try things myself, you would be surprised at the small tid-bits that help.
 
I don't use expired domains, and I currently don't use PBNs. I don't trust them, but I'm testing PBNs for the third website simply because I bought a domain and didn't realize there was like a 45 day waiting time for the domain to be released from auction.

I use Google Keyword Planner, and just this week I purchased Ahrefs lite. You don't need any paid tools though.

Website 1
- About 10,000 unique a month, over 100 pages.

For 10,000 visits 3k is damn good!! I'll take that any day!!
 
I got a backlink from a website in my niche, but for some reason the link is posted on every page or something and now ahrefs is showing that I received like 4,000 different referring pages from this 1 domain. Do you think this is a problem? My ahrefs rank is plummeting, but that doesn't really mean anything. The anchor text is something like "click here", or "More information", so that might even help. I've also heard that Google recognizes multiple referring pages from 1 domain as 1 back-link, so I might be ok.

Still not allowed to post links:
Google "SearchEngineWatch, Are All Sitewide Links Unnatural"?

Regardless, I'm still worried. However ranking-wise I'm doing great, I'm around position 13 for that 35,000 monthly keyword. I'm not going to freak out until the rankings show a negative affect. It's as natural as a white hat link gets, so I'm gonna leave it be.
 
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