Recent content by Nichewit

Link to and from your pillar content.

Sounds like a smart move, as long as you had a strategy for the articles you created.

It heavily depends on what you changed. Generally speaking though, sometimes your rankings will just bounce around a bit after making changes and eventually settle down. Here's an example of a page where I changed the year in the title (from 2020 to 2021). It went down initially but eventually...

Some things that have helped me: Manual outreach: If I'm looking for writers for a very specific topic, sometimes I'll look for sites in the same niche and contact writers directly. This isn't always possible, but if you can do it, it works really well Be clear - When I create listings on...

There's nothing wrong with that. Large media companies do it all the time. Look at Dotdash.

Possibly Scrapebox?

Since you're willing to do most of the heavy lifting (creating the content, building the prospect list, writing the email templates), the rest is pretty much just outreach which can definitely be outsourced to a VA. I'd go with Upwork over Fiverr for VAs though. That way, your VA just needs to...

You might also want to consider Problogger for higher-paying gigs. Since you get to work directly with clients, you don't have to worry about the fees most platforms charge. I've gotten a lot of writers from there. And just for reference, I typically get anywhere from 50-200 applicants when I...

Nothing beats Lo-fi.

Yes, to a certain extent. A lot of SEOs got so caught up in the idea that in order to rank, your content needs to be "high quality". Somewhere along the line, the definition of "high quality" became "more words". Partially because a few studies came out and showed a correlation between content...

Yup, that's usually the best route, particularly if your site currently gets traffic. That way you don't create any downtime and break things if the new theme isn't compatible with certain plugins or breaks something. Also make sure to take a backup of your current site just in case the changes...

No tool is going to be perfect. I use Ahrefs, Mangools and SE Ranking and it's rare that all three have similar numbers. I mainly use them to get a rough sense of what the landscape is for certain keywords, and a general comparison. Ahrefs admittedly under-estimates traffic numbers. So I look...

How long has it been? A lot of the time for a new site (particularly on a brand new domain) it can take a year or more for you to start seeing traction. But like @arpitagarwal82 pointed out, keyword research plays a big factor. Are you targeting less competitive keywords or broader keywords...

I'd suggest going with a different domain name. Aside from the fact that it'll likely create confusion with that other brand, I'm not a huge fan of having numbers in a domain name (unless it's a necessity for some reason). Numbers create unnecessary friction because people don't know whether to...