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Repeatedly violating rules
- Jun 30, 2018
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Full credit goes to Jake and his https://twitter.com/jsvxc/status/1329831993450893315. Pretty interesting topic. I am posting it here in the text form.
But, what's the need of validating a niche? Because you might have noticed in some youtube videos, on BHW, in the journey threads that when someone starts multiple sites at once, one site works out pretty good and the other one is nowhere near. Now, you can find a profitable and low competition niche, but still, when you have the data, you waste less time, effort, and money.
What if, you start 3 websites, and one of them outperforms the other two? Would you like to work on that website with full focus? or with just enough focus on all the sites? That's why validation is necessary. And it's rarely used this way, to say the least.
So, the process:
Pick a niche. Don't overthink it. This is the hardest bit. Action is greater than research. Seriously just launch something and let the results tell you if it's a good niche.
Get a domain. Jake went for an expired domain just to speed things up. It was niche relevant + cost $10 (had like 2 OKAY links)
Set up hosting and WordPress. Set a timer for an hour. You now have one hour to brainstorm topics, map them to keywords, write article briefs and outsource to a freelance writer (or write yourself).
He managed 12 articles. Anywhere between 5 - 15 is doable. Are they going to be perfect? No. But getting something live is better than a perfect unpublished draft. Outsourced on Upwork. Use whatever platform you prefer. It was pretty cheap. 5k words for about $80. It was good enough. You can improve later.
Whilst this was being written he made the site. Basic custom logo, simple color scheme, and navigation + a Table of Contents plugin.
Installed GA + GSC, submitted sitemaps, and all that jazz. As soon as the content was done, posted it all. Got it looking good enough. Added some stock images. The final step: forget about it. Let it do the Google dance.
All in all, he only spent a few hours researching and outsourcing content. The results of actually taking action?
Launched at the start of 2020. When Jake started to see decent movements, he added more content. It was tempting to do a full content strategy pre-launch. If he had, he would probably still be doing it now, without anything to show for it. Launch, get some results, and then decide if you can justify a couple of hours dicking around on the internet.
If things don't work out. Try again and learn from what went wrong. Then repeat until you know what you are doing. His little experiment worked so he added some more content.
Results:
Rankings are nice. Money is better. He stuck with Adsense, then upgraded to Ezoic. Results:
He also added a few affiliate links to it. So far between Adsense, Ezoic + affiliate, the site has generated $642.87. If I left as is, ad revenue looks like it will be in the region of $200+ per month. In summary: just start
But, what's the need of validating a niche? Because you might have noticed in some youtube videos, on BHW, in the journey threads that when someone starts multiple sites at once, one site works out pretty good and the other one is nowhere near. Now, you can find a profitable and low competition niche, but still, when you have the data, you waste less time, effort, and money.
What if, you start 3 websites, and one of them outperforms the other two? Would you like to work on that website with full focus? or with just enough focus on all the sites? That's why validation is necessary. And it's rarely used this way, to say the least.
So, the process:
Pick a niche. Don't overthink it. This is the hardest bit. Action is greater than research. Seriously just launch something and let the results tell you if it's a good niche.
Get a domain. Jake went for an expired domain just to speed things up. It was niche relevant + cost $10 (had like 2 OKAY links)
Set up hosting and WordPress. Set a timer for an hour. You now have one hour to brainstorm topics, map them to keywords, write article briefs and outsource to a freelance writer (or write yourself).
He managed 12 articles. Anywhere between 5 - 15 is doable. Are they going to be perfect? No. But getting something live is better than a perfect unpublished draft. Outsourced on Upwork. Use whatever platform you prefer. It was pretty cheap. 5k words for about $80. It was good enough. You can improve later.
Whilst this was being written he made the site. Basic custom logo, simple color scheme, and navigation + a Table of Contents plugin.
Installed GA + GSC, submitted sitemaps, and all that jazz. As soon as the content was done, posted it all. Got it looking good enough. Added some stock images. The final step: forget about it. Let it do the Google dance.
All in all, he only spent a few hours researching and outsourcing content. The results of actually taking action?
If things don't work out. Try again and learn from what went wrong. Then repeat until you know what you are doing. His little experiment worked so he added some more content.
Results:
Rankings are nice. Money is better. He stuck with Adsense, then upgraded to Ezoic. Results:
