Newcomer - introduction and my first project!

ratata said:

Hi everyone.

I'm a domainer. I earn money mostly by flipping domain names, I buy but also holding and selling to end users. It's not that much money but I am growing every day and hoping to grow even more.

I want to try my hand at SEO. I find it interesting because I love data analysis and I love the rush of rising up in serps and upgrading my projects.

I want to tell you how I want to start my first real SEO project and I would like advice, suggestions and feedback from you guys. Also, any questions are welcome.

Keep in mind, I'm an SEO noob so I may be getting some things wrong. Please correct me when I do.

So this is what I want to do:

1) find and buy a good expired domain which is already ranking for keywords. I can find that with semrush combined with other tools.

2) make a blog based on the main or highest traffic keyword.

3) apply for adsense or find a good affiliate network, whichever is more appropriate to the niche

4) continue making blog post for related, low comp keywords. Since I don't want to invest much for my first website as I look at it as a learning experience, I would go for ~100 per month keywords for each article.
Bare in mind, I want to make articles manually with effort, care and research.

5) do whatever it takes to do to maintain the website and keep adding content

Now I have a couple of questions for you guys and I appreciate your feedback:

- if I buy a domain with good DA, TF, backlink profile etc., will I rank automatically for low comp keywords every time I write an article or will I need backlinks to each specific article?

- do I need to invest money into SEO (or anything else) for this project, or only time?

- any reason to prefer CPA over adsense or some other network? Do some work better in some cases?

- what am I missing? This seems too easy to be true. Like write an article, rank it and get a new source of organic traffic for every article.
Do I need to pay for backlinks for every article? Is that the missing piece.

Thank you for any feedback and I love you all. Lots of interesting people on here with interesting ideas.

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ratata said:

- if I buy a domain with good DA, TF, backlink profile etc., will I rank automatically for low comp keywords every time I write an article or will I need backlinks to each specific article?

- do I need to invest money into SEO (or anything else) for this project, or only time?

- any reason to prefer CPA over adsense or some other network? Do some work better in some cases?

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SirLouen said:

1. Not necessarily. You may still need good content and some good links will always help. Considering that the domain you by may not be a perfect match of the content you are willing to rank (same niche and all that).

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ratata said:

What if I just kept buying these domains which rank for keywords and make a one page site and monetize it? That way I would need to spend $0 on SEO.

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SirLouen said:

You had the same idea as the first guy who decided to build the first PBN
The thing is that the gentleman, instead of monetizing through ads, monetized by selling links.
Also be aware that one-pagers are not liked by Google overall any more (difficult to find a onepager ranking #1) and you will never be approved by adsense

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saifur25 said:

1. You need to invest in SEO.
2. Building a successful website is not the same as finding an expired domain. You need to learn keyword research, on page SEO, and etc.
Thanks

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ratata said:

Thanks. I might do that in the future too. But I want to focus on a legit blog site first because I want to learn first and foremost.

I am also motivated to work, work, work because that's the way of success.



I am fully aware that I need to dedicate a lot of time to this. But how much money tho?

BTW, what do you think I could expect from this? Like, let's say I build my site up a bit, make a bunch of blog posts, organic traffic a few thousand per month.

Really doesn't sound like a lot. More like beer money. But it will be a good learning experience with little cost.

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