Thulf's Amazon Affiliate Niche Site Journey

Than how u manage to rank so damn good?
Thulf said:
I bought the social signals thinking I was gonna start warming things up for building backlinks... But I realized that good backlinks I can't just really buy without spending what my site is worth, so I dropped the idea. The social signals were costly and they were absolute shit. You can basically look at this social signal package purchase as an accident, a mistake, a mishap, an ankle twist. ^^

But I have to point out that you're welcome to buy all the backlinks and social signals you can find because if I didn't say that then there are a lot of ppl who are gonna get angery.
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Thulf said:
The idea is to play the long game, so to speak, and map out your content plan regardless if there's enough search volume or if there are competitors in the way. That's the reason I start with info posts that aren't even in the keyword package. I basically build an actual wholesome site that covers almost everything about the niche which act as supporting content for the keywords I want to rank for (money keywords).

If you create content this way, even if you initially can't rank for keywords like "best niche product", you still get traffic for its variations. But that's where the content HAD to cover everything about the niche beforehand for Google to rank you in various other areas and not just the singular "best niche product"... It's hard to explain, but it seems like common sense to me.

If I wanted to rank for e.g "best bicycle for something", it would be natural that I explore that "something" in my other content before I even think of creating the "best" type of content. Analogously, think outside the box and in a much wider wholesome scale. And that's how I make content rank. Simple.
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I chose something similar for my amazon affiliate website, i thought to myself it's better to have reviews for all products and then start with the "best product for xx" type of posts.

Thank you for inspiration :)
 
Iamdrseo said:
Than how u manage to rank so damn good?
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Oh no... Don't be that guy. Though it seems like a rhetorical question, I'll still try to answer it.

Take a look at any mediocre, a.k.a normal affiliate niche site. Type into google: best [random product].

Now, that site probably has a few pushy reviews calling whatever the review is about the best product at best price or some analogous baseless claim without really explaining why. Next there' likely a pillar post with something along the lines of "best niche products" which probably has a 1000-word introduction that goes something like this: "If you're into this niche then you probably are looking for the best niche product on the market. It's important to have the best niche product because you want it to be reliable and not break down on you." They continue these NO SHIT SHERLOCK sentences until they feel there's enough words to entice the reader to buy one from the list. They might even bring out the best one well before the actual list itself starts. So far no reasons have been given why it's the best or what makes a good niche product or give anything of value in explaining to the reader who's about to go into things. Just the dumbest most shallow shit we are all so used to seeing by now following exactly the same pattern almost everywhere. Oh, and maybe they've included some interlinks to other "best" type pillar posts which is effectively a direct off-topic derailing of the entire post at hand. Nice going, mr. affiliate site... On to the products themselves on that list. What's that? A short description of the description that one can find on the sales page the link redirects to? Holy shit! That's so amazing! Oh, look, there's more! A pro and cons section underneath the shallow baseless description. Holy mother of GODS! The drill is lightweight and it's got a multi-mode?! NO WAY! HOLY FUCK! Next product... It's a drill with similar features, but only those are mentioned that aren't the same as the last one's features even though they've got mostly overlapping features and everything. WOWOWOWOW! Amazing shit! A pro and cons section bringing out some other random no shit features as pros and obvious things as cons taken away from the product design when it designed that way and wasn't meant to be used in that way you listed as a con, you fuck! And the entire post is like this. A TOTAL fuckery. And THIS POST RANKS FIRST BECAUSE ALL THE OTHER SITES ARE EXACTLY THE SAME BULLSHIT with the only difference being that this one has more backlinks. Fuck me dead, but I might be able to outrank these guys with content alone over the span of few years.
OH, and that's it. That's all there is to it. Reviews and Pillar posts! NO INFO POSTS. The site owner doesn't even seem to understand the niche by the obvious looks of things. Hasn't even bothered to understand the niche it writes about. Oh, wait, what's that. An "INFO post"? NOPE, it only pretends to be an info post by exploring something that looks like info buy then goes on to recommend all the products to deal with the made-up problem the info post created. Well fucking done, bro.

And then you ask me how I can rank with content. Look how bad the competition is everywhere... And they'll likely disappear from competition with the next Google update anyway... Those affiliate sites outright DISRESPECT the reader (unless the reader is a retard). If you read Google guidelines on what Google wants to rank, then the matter becomes far too obvious.
 
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Lol u sound like copy paste. :anyway: haha
Thulf said:
Oh no... Don't be that guy. Though it seems like a rhetorical question, I'll still try to answer it.

Take a look at any mediocre, a.k.a normal affiliate niche site. Type into google: best [random product].

Now, that site probably has a few pushy reviews calling whatever the review is about the best product at best price or some analogous baseless claim without really explaining why. Next there' likely a pillar post with something along the lines of "best niche products" which probably has a 1000-word introduction that goes something like this: "If you're into this niche then you probably are looking for the best niche product on the market. It's important to have the best niche product because you want it to be reliable and not break down on you." They continue these NO SHIT SHERLOCK sentences until they feel there's enough words to entice the reader to buy one from the list. They might even bring out the best one well before the actual list itself starts. So far no reasons have been given why it's the best or what makes a good niche product or give anything of value in explaining to the reader who's about to go into things. Just the dumbest most shallow shit we are all so used to seeing by now following exactly the same pattern almost everywhere. Oh, and maybe they've included some interlinks to other "best" type pillar posts which is effectively a direct off-topic derailing of the entire post at hand. Nice going, mr. affiliate site... On to the products themselves on that list. What's that? A short description of the description that one can find on the sales page the link redirects to? Holy shit! That's so amazing! Oh, look, there's more! A pro and cons section underneath the shallow baseless description. Holy mother of GODS! The drill is lightweight and it's got a multi-mode?! NO WAY! HOLY FUCK! Next product... It's a drill with similar features, but only those are mentioned that aren't the same as the last one's features even though they've got mostly overlapping features and everything. WOWOWOWOW! Amazing shit! A pro and cons section bringing out some other random no shit features as pros and obvious things as cons taken away from the product design when it designed that way and wasn't meant to be used in that way you listed as a con, you fuck! And the entire post is like this. A TOTAL fuckery. And THIS POST RANKS FIRST BECAUSE ALL THE OTHER SITES ARE EXACTLY THE SAME BULLSHIT with the only difference being that this one has more backlinks. Fuck me dead, but I might be able to outrank these guys with content alone over the span of few years.
OH, and that's it. That's all there is to it. Reviews and Pillar posts! NO INFO POSTS. The site owner doesn't even seem to understand the niche by the obvious looks of things. Hasn't even bothered to understand the niche it writes about. Oh, wait, what's that. An "INFO post"? NOPE, it only pretends to be an info post by exploring something that looks like info buy then goes on to recommend all the products to deal with the made-up problem the info post created. Well fucking done, bro.

And then you ask me how I can rank with content. Look how bad the competition is everywhere... And they'll likely disappear from competition with the next Google update anyway... Those affiliate sites outright DISRESPECT the reader (unless the reader is a retard). If you read Google guidelines on what Google wants to rank, then the matter becomes far too obvious.
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wow, you seems to have really don it well. congrats
 
Hello, congrats on your success. I am in a low competition niche also and I found that if my site is niche-targetted and I do on-page SEO properly, it will climb in the SERPS. It's slow tho. But it surely does climb. At this point, I consider on-page SEO as an art really.

How long does it take you to start seeing traffic?

Do you use category to silo your content or page -> sub-page?

What is the strongest on your site?

What do you put in your homepage?

Is your main money maker site a niche-targetted site?

With internal links anchor text from info content to pillar content, do you maintain a proper anchor ratio or you just use what seems natural? Do you just do a sentence type anchor or generic anchor?

Hope you answer my questions OP. Thanks.
 
Unchained said:
Hello, congrats on your success.
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Thanks

Unchained said:
I am in a low competition niche also and I found that if my site is niche-targeted and I do on-page SEO properly, it will climb in the SERPS. It's slow tho. But it surely does climb. At this point, I consider on-page SEO as an art really.

How long does it take you to start seeing traffic?
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It varies. At first, my aim is not to really "grow traffic" (it's more like a nice bonus) as much as it is to "create" the foundational (supportive) content for the site itself.

What is this my "foundational content"? Let's say the product is fish tanks. Before I can "review" fish tanks or make "best fish tanks" pillar post or the like, I first need to start with the most basic shit there is. What's a fish tank? What's a fish tank made of? How to clean it? What type of fish can I put there? Where do I get the water? How do I make sure the fish don't die there? etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc - "fish tanks" is a humongous niche to cover and would maybe literally take 300 info posts to cover just barely. Actually, it's a bad example because the niche is too big to define who the target audience is. I just don't know much of anything about fish tanks. Maybe a fish tank for shrimp is different from a fish tank meant for gold fish, so it's like comparing apples to oranges. But I personally want to know where my target audience hangs around, are they mainly women or men, family people, business setting instead, etc, because without knowing this stuff it'd be like using a shotgun to hit the tiny mark 250 meters away (can't exactly see the mark clearly, won't even exactly know if you hit it or not).

Anyway, that's the foundational content that I consider just "filler content" that supports the type of content I ultimately want to rank (the "best niche product" type posts). The reasoning is, if I've covered everything related then Google must see that my claims are not baseless and the reader can look up everything to squash their doubts about fish tanks for their particular use. Sometimes I can get away with less supportive content than I originally planned because the competition is just too weak to stand a chance even if I half-assed it leaving me with some leeway in the future in case they started upping their game to stay relevant.

So then, it takes exactly as long as it takes for me to cover the niche with the planned content.

How long it takes.PNG
The P2 is the main affiliate site,
P3 is an experiment with cheap content,
and P4 along with additional projects are trying to be new P2-equivalents but for which I have only partially finished the foundational content.​

Unchained said:
Do you use category to silo your content or page -> sub-page?
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Well, yes, of course; categories look something like this: 1) reviews, 2) info posts, 3) extra (e.g accessories)

It's a simple means of navigation. Can't do without. Could be done better, but I like to keep things super simple and easy.

Unchained said:
What is the strongest on your site?
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Pillar money posts, the main posts, the type of posts everything else revolves around. ("Best" type money posts)

Everything else, as has been mentioned many times over, is supportive content (the reviews, info posts, etc).

Unchained said:
What do you put in your homepage?
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Just posts.

Hard to find decent themes nowadays. Every1 is copying whatever the current trend is, and they all suck. Incredible amount of bloat. I can't even find an example for this very reason.

Unchained said:
Is your main money maker site a niche-targeted site?
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Yes. It's because it takes less effort to get on top of a small hyper-focused niche. Bigger niches would require way, way more work with this approach.

Unchained said:
With internal links anchor text from info content to pillar content, do you maintain a proper anchor ratio or you just use what seems natural? Do you just do a sentence type anchor or generic anchor?
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Whatever makes sense.

And it's mostly the other way around - the pillar article links out to all the supportive information. It would hardly ever look natural if you linked to a sales page from info posts. But you do you want a link pointing towards the main money posts, so you just have to be extra crafty to come up with these links on top of the normal interlinks that genuinely make sense.


Hope it helps.
 
This post proves to me I know jack about SEO lol great job. I spent about more or less in expenses and I don't even get the same results, not even 1/3 lmao which is funny considering I actually thought of going full raw articles rather than using any backlinks and paid a heavy price.
 
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