I have read ZSO thread and he said he starts making backlinks after 1 or 2 weeks only but he does have 50+ articles in that time frame, he also says he only make 10-20 high PR and high authority backlinks. do you think that its too risky?
All I build are big sites and I never start any backlinking until I at least have a few hundred articles on them. I'm never in a rush to get rankings as I expect my sites to be there for years sending me money.
Also if you don't mind me asking, from your experience, which kind of monetization seemed to be most profitable for authority sites?
I have some relationships with a few Fortune 500 companies that advertise on some of my sites that are nice, some local companies that have a long reach and I do some CPA and CJ and of course Adsense.
That is something that you need to test out on your site as you would be surprised how some opportunities pay much better than others but the only way to find that out is testing.
Doing a authority website, currently only has 12 articles and its 13-14 days old