[Journey] - To An Authority Site - "Effort Consistently Applied Produces Tremendous Compound Results" - Someone Smart

Effort Consistently Applied Produces Tremendous Compound Results - not sure who but it is motivating

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1. Rank For Easy Keywords - just writing articles quickly with little research because I do this for a living. Don't care about affiliate links yet but if the opportunity arises I put them in. Interlinking with my existing articles where possible.
2. Free Quizzes - Make some free quizzes for people who are taking licensing exams in my profession. Inspired by @Big Ron . These will be great because on the quiz plugins they have an option where each question is a different page. That will equal more page views. People love free also.
3. Paid Quizzes - My profession is full of people eager to learn and willing to pay for it. When I have the time I will make premium quizzes. I don't want to put out garbage though because reputation is important in my industry. I want people to mention me when they talk about exam prep.
4. Job board - Implement job board website that I purchased here. Will make a separate page on my authority site that points to it. Will offer cheap job postings for owners there and people looking for jobs can find them for free
5. Resume services - Will offer resume tips for free and templates paid
6. Business advice - As I run a business in my industry, I will offer advice for free, also paid sample templates of checklists people may need for my profession or business forms they will need and are annoying to find/make on your own. I know I had a hard time when I started and would definitely buy them if I knew where to when I started.

Dunga said:

Are you using brand new domains for all 3 sites?

Am a fan of compound effect as well!

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Toz said:

You're taking on quite a bit. Good luck.

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yoyoyoshi said:

Hi, I am starting an authority site. I am pretty new to this IM thing but I find it really fun. It is a hobby for me that I want to achieve success in. Little by little I will pour my free time into this and see what I can do. I have been thinking about making a my journey thread for a while now. Since I am taking this project more seriously I decided to make this. The reasons are 3 fold:

1 - Help me - your replies and responses will help me when I say what I am doing if it is something dumb or maybe you have ideas for an angle I didn't think of
2 - Help others - hopefully my story may encourage someone or show them another angle of doing things. Even if I fail there is a lesson in that. I have learned a lot here and hopefully I can share something useful in this thread.
3 - Keep track - I will try to be detailed with this and just keep a log of my journey. I don't plan on quitting period. Success will be inevitable just a matter of time and proper game plan to try and shorten that time with ACTION

My Favorite Quote


I'm sure we have all seen this quote play out in our lives in one way or another. May it was the scrawny kid in class who just kept working out and all of a sudden in a year or 2 he is muscular and fit. Maybe it is the not so smart kid who just kept hitting the books relentlessly and got into a great university. Could be the poor person who kept working hard and was frugal with what he made and with the proper investments got rich. The scenario plays out on and on all the time throughout the world. I have been that guy in some situations, in IM I am just a watcher. Not anymore. I will be that guy that keeps banging his head against the wall until it finally cracks haha

My Websites

Website 1 - A blog in an EAT niche. Health related

What a doosy this one was. My first blog and I chose a health related niche in EAT criteria of google. I did decent for a while but got so bored writing for it. It took me hours to write a post. Was not too passionate about the topic or knowledgeable and had to research a ton. I did not give up on this one but it is a on the backburner for now until I get my authority site up and running.

Stats For Website 1
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Website Started - April 15, 2020
Posts - 8
Words - 7500
Page Views - 11 per month lol
Youtube - 14 Subscribers
11 Videos
490 Total Views (yea, sad lol)

I am proud of this one because the CTR is decent I think especially for my first blog in an EAT niche. Will continue with it one day.

Stats For Website 2
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This is a job board I bought here from @patadeperro. I did nothing with it so far at all. Will implement it into my main site which is site #3 when I am ready.
Posts - NONE
Page Views - 41 Per Month

Stats For Website 3
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This is a site I started based on my profession. I am an authority in real life but not at all online. I want to change that.

Website Started - August 16,2020
Posts - 9
Words - 13,500
Page Views - NONE

I am writing very generally about various topics. I did not put the first 9 articles into categories yet but I will. As you can see I only have 1 more post here than site 1 but I can banging out about 3 per week with more words. About 1500 words per post but some more. I am using the income school method. The traffic on this website is still 0. I am in the sandbox stage. Ranking for easy keywords quickly though and hopefully that changes soon.

My Plan
Get some initial traffic on Site #3 with easy keywords. I am posting the articles right away as per income schools recommendations on their videos and letting them hit the sandbox as fast as possible even though the site isn't completely ready with all the features I want to implement. So here are the steps broken down below:

1. Rank For Easy Keywords - just writing articles quickly with little research because I do this for a living. Don't care about affiliate links yet but if the opportunity arises I put them in. Interlinking with my existing articles where possible.
2. Free Quizzes - Make some free quizzes for people who are taking licensing exams in my profession. Inspired by @Big Ron . These will be great because on the quiz plugins they have an option where each question is a different page. That will equal more page views. People love free also.
3. Paid Quizzes - My profession is full of people eager to learn and willing to pay for it. When I have the time I will make premium quizzes. I don't want to put out garbage though because reputation is important in my industry. I want people to mention me when they talk about exam prep.
4. Job board - Implement job board website that I purchased here. Will make a separate page on my authority site that points to it. Will offer cheap job postings for owners there and people looking for jobs can find them for free
5. Resume services - Will offer resume tips for free and templates paid
6. Business advice - As I run a business in my industry, I will offer advice for free, also paid sample templates of checklists people may need for my profession or business forms they will need and are annoying to find/make on your own. I know I had a hard time when I started and would definitely buy them if I knew where to when I started.

Seems ambitious right? I know, but I don't expect success any time soon. I will not be discouraged because I view this as a hobby. If I have no viewers for another view months I will just view it as a lesson. If I get them great. This process will be slow and steady and a LONG term project. My 3 posts per week may slow down to 2 after a while. I do not want to burn out but I think 2 per week is an easy enough goal. If you think about it 2 posts per week is 104 per year. Not hard to do just need CONSISTENCY.

After I get a good amount of posts I will go to the next phases. I am thinking after 30 posts I may start posting quiz questions and see where that takes me. Will update this post once a week, probably on weekends as that is when I have the most free time.

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Toz said:

I'm rooting for you.

By the way, when replying to multiple people / messages at once, please use the +Quote & Insert Quote(s) functions, so you don't end up double-posting.

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patadeperro said:

Happy to see your journey, I will be following it and sharing some experience if you are interested cheers.

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Big Ron said:

Definitely do the Quize quizzes. You can place up to four ads on each question page. Plus, enable the Right / Wrong pages after they answer. That generates even more ads viewed. Try the quiz out yourself for sure, to make sure it doesn't look too obnoxious. When I placed four ads on each question, it was really bad. Generated some negative email feedback from users. I now show two ads per question. I keep my quizzes to 20 questions each so they don't take too long.

Keep at it bro!

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Big Ron said:

Definitely do the Quize quizzes. You can place up to four ads on each question page. Plus, enable the Right / Wrong pages after they answer. That generates even more ads viewed. Try the quiz out yourself for sure, to make sure it doesn't look too obnoxious. When I placed four ads on each question, it was really bad. Generated some negative email feedback from users. I now show two ads per question. I keep my quizzes to 20 questions each so they don't take too long.

Keep at it bro!

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AAW said:

Where do you get these quizzes from?

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Big Ron said:

Some are my old tests from when I went to school 15 years ago. Some are from friends in my same field.

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yoyoyoshi said:

Week 2 Update

So this week I wrote 2 more articles as was part of the goal.

Article 1 - 1,000 words
Article 2 - 1,200 words
Total website word count - 17,800

I am happy with my impressions and average position going up from 65.8 to 61.8 in search console. Also impressions from 334 to 523. I am assuming 2% click through rate is the average or is it a bad CTR? Anyone have insight on this?
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I am now working on a Pillar post. I'm 1650 words in so far and aiming for 3500-4000 words. For next week this may be the only post that I write since usually I write 2000 words and this would be more than that in 1 single article.

I am a bit ahead of the game for next week since this week I had more free time. I want to make it a good one. Income school says to mix up your content and not just do response posts. Even though my pillar may not rank they say Google should see you writing that kind of pillar content to give you authority. They seem like a pair of nice trustworthy dudes, they wouldn't lie to me right? It seems logical also, so I am going for it.

Saw a post on journey section by @blackbeans which really caught my eye! Will try the same in my niche as far as content research goes. In my niche there are so many heavy hitters that write 300-500 word articles and rank for them. Why not just copy their research and make my articles much better and more detailed.

Also I have been thinking, I followed smartpassiveincome.com guy long ago when all I did was learn and not act. He gave away so many free tutorials and other things. It made me feel like I was getting value from him and made me a fan. I want to do the same thing on my site. This pillar post I am working on should be a nice free resource for people and I will make more content like this.

Not much social media marketing work done. Just making content and letting it sit in sandbox of google. Can't take on too many things at once but definitely want to attack pinterest and other forms of social media with some heavy marketing once I have a good 30 posts. I will NOT allow myself to do that now however. I always chase shiny objects and get distracted. This simple goal of 2 posts per week is working for me and I will stick to it.

QUESTION
My search console shows 11 clicks. My google analytics shows no organic page views. These clicks on search console must be organic as I do no social media marketing. Anyone have any insight on why these 2 don't match up? Do clicks not mean page views?

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AAW said:

so writing on daily bases is helping you?
I thought pillar articles are 5000 word and over

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