Alexion
Banned - Shitlisted and did not do the right thing
- Sep 9, 2021
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First of all, I wish to apologize for the lack of rich media. However, even though my presence on this forum is short, I tend to belive I never left the impression I ramble stupid facts without anything to back it off.
This being said, I wish to share my small, personal results in terms of paraphrasing other people's work.
In December, I started a new blog on a fresh new domain, in the tech niche, informational articles.
Since I'm no Tolstoy, and I suck at coming up with my own ideas, I tried something different.
I picked another tech blog that was(and still is) doing fine with his 150 or so articles. All in the same tech niche.
Hand picked about 30 of them which weren't affiliated oriented (none of those best PRODUCT for NICHE in 2022 articles), but information content, basic how-to, why, etc.
I paraphrased the articles completely, line by line.
I did it manually, using my own english, applying a small principle that journalists(some, not all) use, and what healthline has been doing for a while.
I kept the sentences short, or shorter, more concise, no fluff, and made it sound as if I would explain it to my really dumb friend.
But I did keep the keywords, or LSI keywords, or long tail variants the same.
But anything else was differently written, by me, in my non native english.
First week, most of the articles were ranking on page 5-6. I said great, wow, at least shit is out there, who cares on what pages, but they show up. GSC impressions were present as well.
Didn't make much of it, as the intention was to sell it later on this year.
Besides a few twitter and reddit backlinks(for indexing purposes), there was no linkbuilding done, as I suck at that as well.
Ok, here are the results.
First of all, the most impressive part, I shit you not, are the 35 backlinks appearing in GSC, naturally, organically, however you want to call them, from real people. All of them on forums, weird boards for reference in a discussion about cpus/motherboards/etc.
As for ranking, out of the 30 articles I paraphrased, 11 of them are on page 1 for the main keyword. More specifically, all of them range between #7 and #9.
Traffic wise, I get roughly around 2,500Uv/month since the last two months.
July adsense earnings(yes, it got accepted into adsense in the first month with just 15 articles) are at a staggering $22.81.
All graphs(analytics, adsense, GSC) have an up trend for the last 4 months.
Theoretically, if I chose to sell this website as it is, I would probably get around $1,000 or so for it.
That translates to $30/article. It took me 10 days to do them in my free time as I also work.
For now, I tell my wife I worked 10 days to afford to pay disney+, netflix, and two prepay sims every month for the next 1-2 years. She congratulated me with a nice tuna salad only she knows how to make. Win-Win.
The moral of the story is, that you can make SOME money just by copying other people's work.
Ethical? No, it's not. Does it work? Very much so.
I could talk about my other project with translated articles from english to another European language I know, but I don't want too much competition over there. This sentence would be enough to get some ideas around.
Working works. It's just a matter of patience, and time invested vs the expected outcome.
For me, it takes about two hours to rewrite 1,500 words. Three hours if I really want to polish it. But two is enough with media included, formatting, etc.
If your english REALLY sucks, I suggest getting Grammarly just for those special touches.
I don't personally use the premium version, just the free one as it's enough.
I'm sorry if I made you think this is a get rich quick scheme, it's not.
But it does bring SOME money on the table, even more if you are smart about it and scale it up.
Don't be afraid of the presumed competition.
From what I've seen in the last 3 years, 90% of that competition completely disappears over time, probably misusing PBNs, etc.
Ok, that's it, sorry for the long story.
L.E. Bing definitely knows what's up. After 2 months and a crazy surge in traffic from bing, the blog vanished from their search engine. So yeah, keep this into account.
This being said, I wish to share my small, personal results in terms of paraphrasing other people's work.
In December, I started a new blog on a fresh new domain, in the tech niche, informational articles.
Since I'm no Tolstoy, and I suck at coming up with my own ideas, I tried something different.
I picked another tech blog that was(and still is) doing fine with his 150 or so articles. All in the same tech niche.
Hand picked about 30 of them which weren't affiliated oriented (none of those best PRODUCT for NICHE in 2022 articles), but information content, basic how-to, why, etc.
I paraphrased the articles completely, line by line.
I did it manually, using my own english, applying a small principle that journalists(some, not all) use, and what healthline has been doing for a while.
I kept the sentences short, or shorter, more concise, no fluff, and made it sound as if I would explain it to my really dumb friend.
But I did keep the keywords, or LSI keywords, or long tail variants the same.
But anything else was differently written, by me, in my non native english.
First week, most of the articles were ranking on page 5-6. I said great, wow, at least shit is out there, who cares on what pages, but they show up. GSC impressions were present as well.
Didn't make much of it, as the intention was to sell it later on this year.
Besides a few twitter and reddit backlinks(for indexing purposes), there was no linkbuilding done, as I suck at that as well.
Ok, here are the results.
First of all, the most impressive part, I shit you not, are the 35 backlinks appearing in GSC, naturally, organically, however you want to call them, from real people. All of them on forums, weird boards for reference in a discussion about cpus/motherboards/etc.
As for ranking, out of the 30 articles I paraphrased, 11 of them are on page 1 for the main keyword. More specifically, all of them range between #7 and #9.
Traffic wise, I get roughly around 2,500Uv/month since the last two months.
July adsense earnings(yes, it got accepted into adsense in the first month with just 15 articles) are at a staggering $22.81.
All graphs(analytics, adsense, GSC) have an up trend for the last 4 months.
Theoretically, if I chose to sell this website as it is, I would probably get around $1,000 or so for it.
That translates to $30/article. It took me 10 days to do them in my free time as I also work.
For now, I tell my wife I worked 10 days to afford to pay disney+, netflix, and two prepay sims every month for the next 1-2 years. She congratulated me with a nice tuna salad only she knows how to make. Win-Win.
The moral of the story is, that you can make SOME money just by copying other people's work.
Ethical? No, it's not. Does it work? Very much so.
I could talk about my other project with translated articles from english to another European language I know, but I don't want too much competition over there. This sentence would be enough to get some ideas around.
Working works. It's just a matter of patience, and time invested vs the expected outcome.
For me, it takes about two hours to rewrite 1,500 words. Three hours if I really want to polish it. But two is enough with media included, formatting, etc.
If your english REALLY sucks, I suggest getting Grammarly just for those special touches.
I don't personally use the premium version, just the free one as it's enough.
I'm sorry if I made you think this is a get rich quick scheme, it's not.
But it does bring SOME money on the table, even more if you are smart about it and scale it up.
Don't be afraid of the presumed competition.
From what I've seen in the last 3 years, 90% of that competition completely disappears over time, probably misusing PBNs, etc.
Ok, that's it, sorry for the long story.
L.E. Bing definitely knows what's up. After 2 months and a crazy surge in traffic from bing, the blog vanished from their search engine. So yeah, keep this into account.
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