Semi Automated Curation for Low Competition Keywords

The title pretty much sums this one up. A rough offshoot of the KGR journal I want to try and target a bunch of low competition keywords with a more scalable content model.

The plan here is to get a bunch of low competition keywords and try and rank curated content. I have a script which sets up a draft for me and I spend about 10 minutes editing and adding to it. I know the niche I'm starting with well enough to know I can make a pretty decent ROI from relatively low competition keywords - especially if it only takes 10 minutes to pump them out.

Ideally, the phrases are fairly specific so it actually matters and they're not just overrun by the search intent. I have some ideas on this but for the moment I'm just putting out content and I'll look at the results later.

Duplicate content ranks in various forms. Anyone who says it doesn't hasn't looked at a SERP it's impossible to miss and the bulk of my income for the last year has been from duplicate content. If anything, this is probably the most whitehat project I have at the moment. I'm rather hopeful it works because I'd like the diversity of having some projects back in that direction.

Like most of my journals, I've no idea if it'll work and it's still SEO which means even if it does work it'll likely be a few months before we find out.

Unless we're wildly lucky and everything sits first page by next week. I mean, I wouldn't complain. Either way, it'll be an easy journey to do and I'm curious to see the results.

So far I've got maybe 20 or so pages up with rank tracking. We've had a bit of jumping around and some keywords have briefly popped up on page 2 but that didn't last. I've ordered a bunch of blog network links and now I'm going to let it sit for a few weeks and see what happens.

I'll update if anything meaningful changes in the meantime.

Interesting journey definitely will be following along.

I'd like to do some SEO testing journey threads at some point. There's a lot I'd like to try out.

There's a massive website that ranks for loads affiliate terms with just auto-generated/thin content and occasionally some text content for harder keywords.

425K Monthly Traffic according to Ahrefs and 15M (?) a month according to SimilarWeb.

Yeah this can be done. I have seen many guys doing it and everything is automated.
Will look forward to this.

@Holzr

Have a look at the support page
https://www.bestreviews.guide/support

You'll find the answer to why this website has so good rankings ^^
""...The technology behind our ranking has many man-hours of work...""


The site has inverted a lot in advertising (Semrush Data) so I think there's a correlation between advertising and organic traffic.

I have always thought that such sites don't have the chance to rank, but it seems they do.

Really interested in any form of automated traffic so will be following closely. I remember I used to scrape stack over flow and get 8k UV a day haha ;-)

How different is the final post from the original?

I like guys that crushes seo myths. Good luck!

for me seo is just a myth

Any other sites that make use of these form of automated curation?

It seems workable with low comp keywords IMO.

Cheers folks.

Keep in mind this is different from my usual fully automated model. I have scripts which help put the draft together but I'm setting the keywords and editing manually. I'd like to diversify a bit into... closer to traditional SEO.

I normally don't try and test an SEO theory with one domain. I do have another domain in a different niche with a similar build. It's not getting the blog network links and has a little more age - however, it has some other onsite stuff which might screw with the rankings so it's not an exact comparison of this test. After a month or so it's got a bunch of page 3 results for the keywords but it's also up against much higher competition.

Shaybib said:

How different is the final post from the original?

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It isn't based on a single source so the end result is very different than the combined originals. Some sources are not rewritten at all, others are usually just lightly edited and surrounded in fresh content. There's nothing to draw from this yet until it starts getting some results though.

Interesting Journey. Let's see.

Holzr said:

Interesting journey definitely will be following along.

I'd like to do some SEO testing journey threads at some point. There's a lot I'd like to try out.

There's a massive website that ranks for loads affiliate terms with just auto-generated/thin content and occasionally some text content for harder keywords.

425K Monthly Traffic according to Ahrefs and 15M (?) a month according to SimilarWeb.

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They are doing massive pop ads.

I've cleaned up the onsite of a second site and setup tracking for about 20 keywords there with the same content model. Mostly sitting about page 3/4 at the moment with a chunk even further back or not showing up at all. Still early days.

The hope is to tie this into my Reddit journal. This means spending maybe 15-20 minutes on each post to make sure it's good enough for Reddit but also means some initial traffic to begin with while I wait for the rankings to (hopefully) kick in.

Starting to see some positive movements. Yes, this is SEO so it's slow but we're also aiming for mostly low competition keywords so that'll hopefully play a role here.

We all know that longer content ranks better. What was the average like 1900 words if I remember rightly? The balancing point I'm trying to find is time investment vs uniqueness. Most of these posts are well south of the average because I don't want to spend a bunch of time writing for low traffic searches and I don't want to pull thousands of words in and tank the uniqueness.

The page which just took top spot today has a higher word count for sure. A sample size of 1 rarely means much in SEO but it's a good sign.

I'm about finished up with the setup for another project and I'm going to have some more time for this one. I'm going to work on increasing the word count without increasing the manual work (too much) and in a hopeful bid to get some faster answers on whether it's worth doing I'm going to try and do some parasite SEO with the same build.

In the near-ish future I'm also setting up some automated outreach so I'll hopefully get some more backlinks to these two test sites.

I'm doing a KGR test, but outsourcing the content, and testing cheap articles with higher quality.

With only 20 posts up of cheaper content of 1000 words, I've seen a similar pattern to you. Page 2/3/4 with 50% of the articles, and the rest nowhere yet. This is on a brand new domain, less than a month old, so early signs good.

Next I'll get some high quality longer articles to see the comparison in rank. I'll follow your journey as it's closely related to mine.

Good luck!

dandan594594 said:

I'm doing a KGR test, but outsourcing the content, and testing cheap articles with higher quality.

With only 20 posts up of cheaper content of 1000 words, I've seen a similar pattern to you. Page 2/3/4 with 50% of the articles, and the rest nowhere yet. This is on a brand new domain, less than a month old, so early signs good.

Next I'll get some high quality longer articles to see the comparison in rank. I'll follow your journey as it's closely related to mine.

Good luck!

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I ran a KGR journal a while ago. In its defence, the original idea was mostly based around Amazon review posts which don't tend to have a lot of issues when it comes to search intent but outside of that KGR is a big no for me. The traffic vs the money and/or time just wasn't worth it in my experience. I'd be interested to hear if you fair differently.

Feel like I should keep this updated because it's been a few weeks. But it's an SEO journal for a relatively new site that I'm not actively blasting a bunch of time and money into links on. So.... yeah.

It's been about 5 weeks since site 1 went up (the domain is a little older) and nothing much to speak of so far. It's getting a few links from other projects but not much due to the size of the niche and my lack of time. The links from the BHW marketplace are live and while I don't have a whole lot of faith in them we'll see how that looks in a couple of weeks.

Site 2 is faring somewhat better. The backlink profile is pretty similar except this one isn't getting links from the marketplace. It does have about 2-3x the content count though, so even if the failure rate is the same it'll end up with more traffic. The main difference in the two is site 2 has been getting traffic from Reddit. It would take more than two domains to really say if that's making the difference.

For the most part, I'm not doing much with this for now. I'll come back in a month or so and see how it's doing.

I've been scaling up KGR research using Ahrefs and Scrapebox.

Very effective considering how simple of a method it is. I combine it with manual SERP checks. I've found a lot of informative posts but have actually been able to find some really good (high search volume, low comp. etc.) affiliate terms.

The informative KGR is great for linking to the money pages and help bring in easy traffic and create relevancy with Google which helps with rankings.

But, as you mention it's a lot of time/money for some of these terms to write content for.

I've kind of stopped looking at search volume now as I find it can be so over the place. I have some terms that get loads of clicks per month despite only having 10-50 monthly searches according to Ahrefs etc. KGR terms can pull in loads of traffic despite what keyword research tools say.

No real shift in the last week. Still not doing anything with it just waiting to see what happens.

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But, as you mention it's a lot of time/money for some of these terms to write content for.

I've kind of stopped looking at search volume now as I find it can be so over the place. I have some terms that get loads of clicks per month despite only having 10-50 monthly searches according to Ahrefs etc. KGR terms can pull in loads of traffic despite what keyword research tools say.

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I used a minim search volume to narrow things down but anything over that minimum was fair game. I did find the failure rate far too high. Maybe it would be different if I was building backlinks as well, but as for just producing content it didn't seem worth the ROI.

Wondering how your journey turned out, just found the thread and looks interesting.