[Journey] Builing Up An Amazon Affiliate Site from scratch

Greetings to all,

Despite a few questions asked here, I am still a newbie in engaging discussions in the BHW.
I am starting my journey thread, to have an insight on where I am going, since I do not personally know people who are in the business of niche site building and SEO.

I will share my journey here with you.

Background - I have tried several niche sites in the past but all of them failed. I outsourced the building of one of those sites, and got scammed at that time, and then, tried few start up sites which got stuck in the way due to several reasons.

But, I believe that building niche sites is still a good method of passive income. My job does not spare much of liberal free time to me.

Work up - I started building this niche site last November. Since, I do not have a friend or close person whose is well in this business, I am still in the unknown waters. So, I set a stop loss for time and money spent on this project. I have set a budget, and would be assessing my progress at the end of the November 2021.

I don`t need to be making profits at that time. If am a having a satisfactory organic traffic with signs of positive development, I will continue this journey. Otherwise, I will abort this, and consider other options.

What I have one so far,

Niche research - To have a good grip on how to land a profitable niche and the keyword research, I bought @real Daddy `s eBook on keyword research and downloaded the organic traffic formula course by Spence Hawes ( which was uploaded here in the download section )

While going through these materials, I was able to purchase collection of categorized low competition niches and keyyword lists from a local seller ( analysis done using Ahrefs)

Then, I picked one of the niches from that list and started my keyword research.

I handpicked around 30 keywords to start with initially. I used Ahrefs as the keyword research tool, and MOZ to asses the DA and PA of competitor sites, and used an excel sheet guide from organic traffic formula to pick low difficulty keywords.

Than, I bought hosting and the domain name which is think is brand-able.

So far, I have written a couple of posts and built the basic structure of my niche site.

What I am going to do in the future -
1. I have to publish at least 20 good posts.
2.Then, I will start fine tuning the on-page SEO of the site > there are certain things I don`t know jack-shit about, which I have to learn
3.I will have to get the assistance of a good SEO person to start back link building process

My challenges -
1. I am deficient in time. So, I will have to outsource the writing process.
2. As told before, I feel like treading on unknown waters, because this is m first niche site, but I have decided to keep working till the end of this year.

Thank you for reading my journey.
Your suggestions, criticisms , and insights are always more than welcome !

good luck OP for your journey!

Good Luck on your journey
You're right, amazon niche sites might be one of the best passive income that you could create when you begin (even if you've already tried it before)

Be careful with the outsourcing of your articles. If your main acquisition channel is SEO, it would be better that you start to write 20 articles even if it takes you two months to do so. It's only my opinion, do what you want after all

Ranking Expert said:

good luck OP for your journey!

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Thank you

Alpha-Legion said:

Good Luck on your journey
You're right, amazon niche sites might be one of the best passive income that you could create when you begin (even if you've already tried it before)

Be careful with the outsourcing of your articles. If your main acquisition channel is SEO, it would be better that you start to write 20 articles even if it takes you two months to do so. It's only my opinion, do what you want after all

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Thank you.
I try to write by myself most of the time

Update: few setbacks and the plans

The progress was slowed down due to several reasons.

1. I had to hire writers because I was busy with my job. But, had a pretty bad experience. They took a time period that was even longer than mine to complete. And the depth of research was not enough.
2. The bad news about " google product reviews update ". It can have a huge impact on my site since I don`t personally use any of the products I review

I have come up with ways to get around.

1. Resolved to write all the articles by myself. This may be quite challenging, given the little spare time I have. I have set a daily word target to achieve. This way, I will have a slow-paced journey, but won`t waste money on content that doesn't deliver anything.
2. Keeping an eye on those who have established amazon affiliate sites, about the impact of new updates. Meanwhile, I am planning on hiring someone to do an SEO audit and on-page SEO stuff once I publish the first few articles.
3. The last resolution is a bit sad but must be accepted. There will be a point of failure against all the efforts. With the time restraints I have, me not being a native English speaker and the new google update he top of all, it is a possibility. I will have to decide when to abort, but most importantly what other ventures I can try.