Hello Everybody!
This (longterm) journey thread is written to keep myself motivated, to get some feedback and hopefully spread some knowlege
My Goals:
Create an adsense (Micro-) niche site with a (inital)budget of 100-150$.
Not using Wordpress unlike most of us (more on that later).
Buy most of the articles and off-site SEO, but in small batches spread out over the next 6-12 months.
Earn my expenses back, everything else is bonus
About me:
I am programmer/student in my mid 20s, working a well paying 25h job which covers all my expenses + 500$ in savings every month. I created a Micro Niche Site about 4 years ago and it didnt go that well. Currently its no where in google but #2 in yahoo and bing (main kw), in total it earned around 700 $ which i used as spending money for my free time. I did pretty much everything wrong with that site (spamming links via scrapebox, barely readable articles, crappy&cheap host with insanely long loading times) and it still covered all expenses, I learned very much about websites, hosting, security and html/css/js
Why I don't like wordpress:
It is too bulky for my taste, and I don't need most of its features (Admin Backend, Plugins, Comments, User Management, etc.)
So what am I using instead? A static site generator (https://www.staticgen.com), specifically Hugo (https://gohugo.io/). These are small programs which turn some input (text)files + a theme into a static website which can be uploaded to your webhost. Just plain HTML, CSS and some Javascript, your webhost doesn't need php which frees up alot of resources. Serving static content is extremely cheap.
What i have done till now:
I started this journey 2 weeks ago and have a main keyword + domain + own vps running nginx + the complete site setup without content. The domain is a very general one, not containg the main keyword but very describing of the overall niche. I have payed a service in the marketplace to find some mre keywords in the niche to give me some possible expansion options. Additionally I bought a 1000 word article for my main keyword.
Expenses:
16$ - low end VPS for a year
10$ - domain
12$ - initial keyword research
24$ - high quality 1000 word article (not recieved yet)
15$ - additional keyword suggestions in my general niche
=77$
My off site SEO plan for the next 2 Months:
Profiles on all social sites
Web 2.0s as basic backlinks
Social Signals to get post indexed
After the 2 Months:
Maybe a more expensive service from the marketplace
Selfmade videos and photos
Depending on the result of the first 2 Months I will add adsense to my site or wait a bit longer...
Hope someone out there thinks this is interesting and helpful. I will try to update this thread twice a week
This (longterm) journey thread is written to keep myself motivated, to get some feedback and hopefully spread some knowlege
My Goals:
Create an adsense (Micro-) niche site with a (inital)budget of 100-150$.
Not using Wordpress unlike most of us (more on that later).
Buy most of the articles and off-site SEO, but in small batches spread out over the next 6-12 months.
Earn my expenses back, everything else is bonus
About me:
I am programmer/student in my mid 20s, working a well paying 25h job which covers all my expenses + 500$ in savings every month. I created a Micro Niche Site about 4 years ago and it didnt go that well. Currently its no where in google but #2 in yahoo and bing (main kw), in total it earned around 700 $ which i used as spending money for my free time. I did pretty much everything wrong with that site (spamming links via scrapebox, barely readable articles, crappy&cheap host with insanely long loading times) and it still covered all expenses, I learned very much about websites, hosting, security and html/css/js
Why I don't like wordpress:
It is too bulky for my taste, and I don't need most of its features (Admin Backend, Plugins, Comments, User Management, etc.)
So what am I using instead? A static site generator (https://www.staticgen.com), specifically Hugo (https://gohugo.io/). These are small programs which turn some input (text)files + a theme into a static website which can be uploaded to your webhost. Just plain HTML, CSS and some Javascript, your webhost doesn't need php which frees up alot of resources. Serving static content is extremely cheap.
What i have done till now:
I started this journey 2 weeks ago and have a main keyword + domain + own vps running nginx + the complete site setup without content. The domain is a very general one, not containg the main keyword but very describing of the overall niche. I have payed a service in the marketplace to find some mre keywords in the niche to give me some possible expansion options. Additionally I bought a 1000 word article for my main keyword.
Expenses:
16$ - low end VPS for a year
10$ - domain
12$ - initial keyword research
24$ - high quality 1000 word article (not recieved yet)
15$ - additional keyword suggestions in my general niche
=77$
My off site SEO plan for the next 2 Months:
Profiles on all social sites
Web 2.0s as basic backlinks
Social Signals to get post indexed
After the 2 Months:
Maybe a more expensive service from the marketplace
Selfmade videos and photos
Depending on the result of the first 2 Months I will add adsense to my site or wait a bit longer...
Hope someone out there thinks this is interesting and helpful
. I will try to update this thread twice a week 
