How To Create An Authority Site - Solid Site Foundation

I like the post, great info given here.
Thanks. +rep

Nice share..+rep. Waiting for your next post showcasing the link building strategy.

Valuable information all in one place, thanks +9.

Regarding content, do you go for evergreen niches or whats hot at some point? Or you combine both?

For everyone just starting out.

This guy gets it.


Follow in his feet.

Good post mate.. very useful share..!

Very nice Post. Thanks a lot

Excellent post. +rep +thank.

I modified all htaccess immediately.
Also, I heard that CloudFlare could have negative consequences for SEO. It seems that it is not That negative.

Could I request another thread of this kind on split testing and conversion optimization?

Lastly, thank you.

crazedspyker said:

Excellent share! I learned some new things from this and I'll be sure to add it to my portfolio. I'm not a big fan of adsense but this makes me want to focus on it again.

Just curious, are you using mostly private blog backlinks for offsite SEO or are you getting backlinks from all types of platforms.

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I own a lot of domains and I have access to high PR blogs and sites. All of them are having an authority look, high domain authority, high page authority, high PR, high trust flow, filled with content (related or not). With 20-30 power backlinks it's impossible to not rank for your targeted keywords. If you go for high power backlinks then, in a 30 days time frame, your site will gain authority and trust and start ranking for many keywords and many longtail keywords.

When you get these links try to send many of them to first page (domain.com) because, if you have a decent site structure and good on page interlinking, the power (pagerank, authority, trust) will flow throw all important pages and posts. The site will rank for it's keywords while your posts will rank for many longtail terms and solid keywords. This is the authority advantage.

When you rank a site for it's posts and pages using a low number of backlinks that is called Smart SEO.

With web 2.0 blogs I follow the same rules. I'm only creating solid foundation blogs, make them look like authority, drop power backlinks like I've explained above (this time, we're talking about less number of backlinks), interlink it's post and pages, add content with images - videos - outbound links to other authority and news sites within that niche and I have a solid and powerful web 2.0 blogs that sends a contextual link to the site I want to rank. Google likes it, the blog is created on a solid site foundation and looks like authority, I get hot SERP boosts whenever I drop a link so everything looks and is great.

I can see the long term potential so I'm doing quality over quantity in many cases.

Less is more.

I have read all your post word by word and its extremely useful and most important the template your shared to monetize the sites are unbelievable . You're just rocking dear and hope you'll keep posting useful stuff for us.

I was planning to start a blog in mico niche and earn from Google Adsense and your step by step guide help me a lot.

If I want to ask something you in PM ? Will you reply me. Thank you so much for this helpful post.

thanks for the detailed explanation will surely implement this

anil2006 said:

In first template Ever you test skyscrapper by putting it in right side? As reader go from left to right so end on right side . In my tests i got better results with right placements. What you say?

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The many heatmap test I've done reported that most people ignore the right column. An ad skyscrapper in the right sidebar will decrease earnings most surely. What people look for in the right column is a search box.

There might be different circumstances, as in your case, when things could work better - the overall template structure will make some ads perform better than others.

You must test the templates to see what's best for your site. Time on site and user experience will affect your rankings in time, test the templates and choose what is best for site profit but user experience too.

Zso said:

I can see the long term potential so I'm doing quality over quantity in many cases.

Less is more.

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Very nice! I agree with quality over quantity thing. The power backlinks I have aren't as strong as the ones you got, but I rarely ever have to use more than 60-70 backlinks to a site for top rankings (medium competition niches). Most of my web 2.0s are aged 1-2 years with unique content being added to them regularly, however I've been using the web 2.0 backlinks just to diversity my anchor and using my stronger domains for the targeted keywords. Do you recommend using lower quality links to create anchor diversification, or do you just mix them randomly to make it look more natural?

Zso said:

The many heatmap test I've done reported that most people ignore the right column. An ad skyscrapper in the right sidebar will decrease earnings most surely. What people look for in the right column is a search box.

There might be different circumstances, as in your case, when things could work better - the overall template structure will make some ads perform better than others.

You must test the templates to see what's best for your site. Time on site and user experience will affect your rankings in time, test the templates and choose what is best for site profit but user experience too.

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Yes, agree with you, some website/blog owners don't think about this. They don't check user experience.

Kindly check your inbox, I sent you PM.

+REP & + thanks.

This is the kind of post that makes me return to this site each day.
Much appreciated

really great post.. subscribed to the thread to see more posts from Zso.

What are your thoughts on siloing the authority sites? Do you do that for your wordpress installs or not worry about it too much. Ive posted in another thread of a builder I tried starting to mimic siloing in php.

I have many sites and never focus / complete one good site making money. Need to focus and do what your doing. The htaccess tricks are pretty neat. I will be adding that to all my bigger sites at least for now.

Great post OP

Nice to see you back, especially with such a good quality thread.
BHW has unfortunately changed since you were gone,
and reps dont mean diddly squat nowadays,
so once you get settled in again,
we would to see more threads like these and
your other posts on other threads.
well done and Thanks again.

Doing similar things, but this is really great and detailed post!
I don't give rep often, but when I do I throw all my 4 points in OP direction

Cheers!

Great share bud.

I'm into affiliate marketing. Got one authority site in HTML. I have just started another site in Wordpress. Your timing couldn't be better for me. Many many thanks from the core of my heart. A real awesome guide for beginners as well as others. You've given me a lot of things to think and implement.

nice info to study for the new year and site....respeck