Is it worth it (in short-run) to make a few $ investments into a PBN for my niche

Hi guys , I have a niche I can make money in through a money website (blog-style), as long as I have a few loyal visitors (non-adsense money).

I want to try to invest as low money as possible, and put in as much manual work as I can.

My question is, would it be more profitable in the short run (1-3 months) if:

1) I spent around 200$ (total budget) on 2 auctioned niche-relevant domains (still got some link juice coming and good analysis), + 2 shared hosting accounts, then build these up at the same time as my MONEY site, then put some links to my MONEY site and watch the MONEY site rise in rank.

2) Just blast MONEY site with content and use some other free methods for Blackhat SEO to rank up, and wait until profitability.

Which will help me get profitability faster? If I do it correctly, will the PBN really help that much? Also, my method of money could be big big $ if only I get a few of the RIGHT people for my niche...

Just to be clear I am starting from scratch on my MONEY site and PBN (if I choose that option).

Again, I don't expect to instantly earn money from only 200$ investment, my question is though will that 200$ investment make me profitable QUICKER or will it not help me get there that much faster.

Thanks for your help!!

low competition keywords is the quickest way to rank and bank, no matter if the domain is expired or new. Just create content on keywords that no one targets and you'll rank within a week or 2. But don't expect a lot of traffic all of a sudden, and definitely not from 1 article alone.

If I had $200 I would not bother with PBN at this moment, I'd just buy a good (like in, REALLY good) expired domain (I think there's a guy on this forum, @Nargil if I'm not wrong) who sells good, clean expired domains, so you might want to get in touch with him, and then save the rest of the money for darker days and start pumping out content around the low competition keywords (you can uncover these with Ahrefs, which you can get with group buy services for like $10 a month or so, with limitations obviously, but still enough to make the investment worthwhile) and then, like I said, pump out content around these keywords and 5-6 months down the line you will have a nice inflow of organic traffic if you've done your keyword research correctly and created the right type of content

@tazarbm thank you for the mention.

I have to concur with the post above, with $200 I don't really see a point of even doing SEO. If I were to do it with that budget, I would rather buy a domain for money site with those money and then just write and upload content.

Though without a budget it will require a ridiculous amounts of effort and discipline. It will take at least a year, most likely more, until you see some results. And even then it might not happen if you chose your keywords badly. Or if you get hit by a random core update, etc.

IMO, these hard effort, low budget, almost white hat sites are a thing of the past.

You'll get much better results if you do invest your sum in using/buying a domain for your Money site,
That will drive the link juice directly to your money site rather than just using a single PBN as a tunnel

tazarbm said:

low competition keywords is the quickest way to rank and bank, no matter if the domain is expired or new. Just create content on keywords that no one targets and you'll rank within a week or 2. But don't expect a lot of traffic all of a sudden, and definitely not from 1 article alone.

If I had $200 I would not bother with PBN at this moment, I'd just buy a good (like in, REALLY good) expired domain (I think there's a guy on this forum, @Nargil if I'm not wrong) who sells good, clean expired domains, so you might want to get in touch with him, and then save the rest of the money for darker days and start pumping out content around the low competition keywords (you can uncover these with Ahrefs, which you can get with group buy services for like $10 a month or so, with limitations obviously, but still enough to make the investment worthwhile) and then, like I said, pump out content around these keywords and 5-6 months down the line you will have a nice inflow of organic traffic if you've done your keyword research correctly and created the right type of content

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Nargil said:

@tazarbm thank you for the mention.

I have to concur with the post above, with $200 I don't really see a point of even doing SEO. If I were to do it with that budget, I would rather buy a domain for money site with those money and then just write and upload content.

Though without a budget it will require a ridiculous amounts of effort and discipline. It will take at least a year, most likely more, until you see some results. And even then it might not happen if you chose your keywords badly. Or if you get hit by a random core update, etc.

IMO, these hard effort, low budget, almost white hat sites are a thing of the past.

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Thanks for suggestion. Yes I know traffic won't come right away. I'm still deciding whether or not to start one up, trying to challenge myself to go in with spending almost 0 money.
I am planning to dropship sell a course related to the niche. I won't upcharge though cause that's just scammy and not my thing. But I will just provide the course through one purchase of mine.
Even if like 10 people bought 1 month subscription of the course I would have enough funding for a full pbn and insane blackhat pushing.
I just need the followthrough to get to that level of organic traffic and I fear I may not be able to push myself to get there.

Nargil said:

IMO, these hard effort, low budget, almost white hat sites are a thing of the past.

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I've been thinking about what you said here Nargil.

So for beginners with no budget, who go the whitehat income school route of new domain and pumping high quality content with social media marketing for traffic push, there is a better way to do things? Care to develop?

Zakch93 said:

I've been thinking about what you said here Nargil.

So for beginners with no budget, who go the whitehat income school route of new domain and pumping high quality content with social media marketing for traffic push, there is a better way to do things? Care to develop?

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I haven't said that there are better ways. I said, that there are none.

Without budget, you will spend a LOT of time making that site work and chances of it taking off are very slim.

PBNs still work but make sure they look like authority sites.