FabioSelau
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- Oct 19, 2018
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Here in Brazil, sports betting is booming, even more so now that they have regulated betting houses, including the .bet.br extension for regulated bets.
A few weeks ago, I was thinking about taking advantage of this boom and investing a few hours to see if there would be any financial return. The idea was to create a quality blog with tips, tutorials, betting rankings and news about regulations. That's what I did. I acquired an expired domain with good backlinks and DR 38 and I already thought I would get ahead, because I would have a domain with good metrics, I would write good articles and the blog would have very good performance and UI/UX.
I used tools like ubersuggest and kwfinder to find words with a lot of searches but little competition. After creating about 20 articles, I still haven't had any hits, not even on the first 10 pages.
When I analyzed it, I found that practically all keywords related to betting have large news sites and .gov.br links in the first position. That's right, people invade .gov.br websites and create pages with that keyword and get to the top positions. I don't know how Google's algorithm, which always says 'ranks what's good for the user', thinks it's a good idea to rank government links about illegal gambling and betting at the top of the list...
So that's my journey, to see if I can at least recover the amount spent (domain, host and my time).
A few weeks ago, I was thinking about taking advantage of this boom and investing a few hours to see if there would be any financial return. The idea was to create a quality blog with tips, tutorials, betting rankings and news about regulations. That's what I did. I acquired an expired domain with good backlinks and DR 38 and I already thought I would get ahead, because I would have a domain with good metrics, I would write good articles and the blog would have very good performance and UI/UX.
I used tools like ubersuggest and kwfinder to find words with a lot of searches but little competition. After creating about 20 articles, I still haven't had any hits, not even on the first 10 pages.
When I analyzed it, I found that practically all keywords related to betting have large news sites and .gov.br links in the first position. That's right, people invade .gov.br websites and create pages with that keyword and get to the top positions. I don't know how Google's algorithm, which always says 'ranks what's good for the user', thinks it's a good idea to rank government links about illegal gambling and betting at the top of the list...
So that's my journey, to see if I can at least recover the amount spent (domain, host and my time).
