Ask me Anything about SEO [Ecom, Service, Affiliate]

Name the 3 best parasite to use and maybe why?

Does 301 redirection method still work? So buying auction domains and redirect to a money site is still effective after May update?

What is the best strategy you'll suggest for ranking Autoblogs with spun content?

For local businesses, Which is more effective ? To do SEO and be on first page of google or do massive directory listing and appear on the triplet up there? IMHO being on the top 3 geo results works better for attracting new customers. Thank you

The ecom brands you are talking about were they Private Label or dropshipping? what strategies you used to grow them to 10M+/year?

What are your tips on growing an Ecom brand?

For how many words in total do you aim for your authority site? Let s say I have a website with 50k words in total but my aim is to primary rank only 2 pages. Would you rather spend money on new articles and making the site bigger in overall or building/buying backlinks for those 2 pages? Did you personally found any authority boost when you passed 100k,200k words in total?

1) what type of website is easiest to make money for someone who has never had a website before? Should an ecom or info product be your first site ever?
2) speaking of ecoms: are there any easy to rank for keywords left in niches like men/women footwear, furniture / pergolas / gazebos, or illumination devices (lamps, chandeliers, etc), that new marketers can find to break into these - in my newbie opinion - competitive niches, or should I not bother with such niches?
3) is content length really important for ranking a new website on google's 1st page? I mean, let's say that we have a 20-page gorgeous looking, fast loading, mobile friendly website put on a fresh (thus clean) domain name and that we have posted 20 review type of articles on this site before submitting its sitemap to Google Search Console for fast indexing. And let's say that Google indexes all 20 money pages of this site in 24 hours.

So, under these circumstances, does it really matter if those review articles (which we assume are as amazing as they can get, with bullet points, perfect on-page SEO, insightful infographics, detailed stats, technical info and all that crap).... does it really matter at this point if the articles are 500 words, 1000 words, or 5000 words long? I've always thought this to be wrong, but I'd like to hear your opinion on this. Do you think that such a website stands any chance of ranking on 1st page for its keywords without acquiring any backlinks or running any social media campaigns to it?

4) do you ever target 10-100 monthly searches keywords for any of your websites, or are these not that profitable?
5) how do you assess the difficulty of a keyword? I mean, let's say that someone pays you to build a 10-page (each page targeting a different keyword) website for them that will rank and make money within a month without buying / building any backlinks to that site, and without promoting it in any way.

How do you choose the keywords that are easy to rank for in this case, and which still make you money? I am mainly interested if you blindly follow the metrics that keyword research tools give you, or if you still use your common sense and judgement in choosing the keywords? And if you use your judgement, which element in your judgements decides whether to keep or drop a certain keyword? Is it by looking at the brands that are ranking on 1st page for that keyword? Is it by looking at the URLs of the 10 sites ranking on 1st page for that keyword? Is it the monthly search volume of the keyword that makes you shy away from targeting it? What exactly is it that pushes you towards using/dropping keywords that software / keyword research services give you the green for?

I apologize for the length of this message but there was no shorter way I could come up with to express my concerns, so I hope you will excuse the novel.

Last but not least, thanks for taking the time to provide us with such great knowledge for free. Such people are pretty rare nowadays

WebMinati said:

get some brand searches on google(using FB ads)

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Brand searches with Facebook ads?

how can i outrank sites that have many reportages on big news sites without getting reportages? is it even possible?

How long will it take for you, if you make a brand new site, with $0 capital for seo, to get 1k traffic stable every day? (blog site,Amazon aff)
And what strategy will you use?

I liked it when you said that google basically wants to have websites it believes won't spam.
But those big authorities spam more than an average Joe would because of the resources.

Nowadays, I really don't get it how google ranks so many profile pages. I can go to patch.com (as an example) and create a profile with a decent article... then add some d0follow blog comments and I'm in top 100 just because of the website authority.

If I look at a link profile of any brand I will see all sorts of links (some are easy to copy and some are expensive).

So what are your favourite links (besides niche edits and guest posts)?

Byzance said:

Hii and thanks for your awesome reply, So actually my website target only traffic from my country, does this count as local SEO?. My website is affiliate website in grey hat niche, which is legal in some country and not legal in some country.

And about web2.0, profile link, and forum link. I already build that and i think the power from my previously build link starting to lose its power. Do i need to build more this kind of link?

for example:

1. i already have 2 blog (blogspot.com) web2.0 pointing to my site, do i need to build the third blog?
2. i already build 1 backlink from blackhatworld.com do i need to build the 2nd backlink from here?

For now this the only answer i can thinks of. Does this information enough?

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Local seo = seo for local businesses. So it's usually for city, state.

You can strengthen the web2.0s you have and make more links as you go (will recommend forum links for that)

The more links you get from a single domain, the less effect the have on your rankings.

Marcelinho98 said:

Hi, I saw in your journey that you built some Web 2.0 backlinks on your site. You also mentioned them in the comments above. Would you still suggest to do it? And what's the reason for this? (anchor diversification?)

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You can do it, usually make links to my new posts, forum + web2.0s work well.

For anchor diversity, I recommend links that don't drop with time, if you are making awesome web2.0s then cool.

But if your links drop overtime, your anchor ratio might fuck up.

Eg: if you build 200 links, and use 180 branded, naked, generic anchors and build 20 guest posts with exact match anchors.

It can happen that 160 of those 180 links drop and you are left with 20 branded and 20 exact links.

And you don't know what Google is discounting overtime (some guest posts might get discounted and some links might)

Hence, it affects overtime, if you buy any diversity package on the forum(I have bought many) they will work for sure but overtime you might just cry that nothing's happening.

It's a very subjective topic though, best way is to do it and find a working forum but auditing your and the competition 50 times.

The thing is to analyze, then do it.

Analyzing all day also doesn't help, coz you might get good in theory (like a lot of seo gurus are) but you don't really make enough money/ get traffic with your projects.

swathi sinha said:

How different is backlinking strategy for ecommerce seo, affiliate seo , parasite seo and local SEO?

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The question is very subjective, you can learn these things on seo blogs for sure and test stuff

200 said:

Name the 3 best parasite to use and maybe why?

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Medium, patch, marketwatch.

Medium= info
Patch= news, local and stuff.
Market watch = good for anything if you know how to get posts on them.

Standartuye said:

Does 301 redirection method still work? So buying auction domains and redirect to a money site is still effective after May update?

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Yes it does.

Helps af in health and ymyl niches. Google anything in those niche, you will find a few websites with a 301 or built on expired domains.

I recommend to go after rd300+ though, they are pretty good for money sites.

n0de32 said:

What is the best strategy you'll suggest for ranking Autoblogs with spun content?

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Build a site on expired domain maybe?

Never really made 1 though.

jacvzla said:

For local businesses, Which is more effective ? To do SEO and be on first page of google or do massive directory listing and appear on the triplet up there? IMHO being on the top 3 geo results works better for attracting new customers. Thank you

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Triplets for sure!! But you lose that when radius isn't close enough.

So getting on top3 organic results help better there

I recommend the clients to rank top3 if the ROI justifies it.

Mr Taimur said:

The ecom brands you are talking about were they Private Label or dropshipping? what strategies you used to grow them to 10M+/year?

What are your tips on growing an Ecom brand?

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Just 1 brand, private label.

Seo + affiliates + parasites + cross promotions on high traffic product reviews.

Email funnel + fb group in the backend.

I left it at 10M/year revenue. They still have me as a consultant though.

It's a supplement ecom, so didn't do fb ads.

Now they do! The returns are awesome with fb ads too, so they can go crazy with the ad spend.

projections for next year is around 30M

I am getting my own Ecom site, where I will have the founder status soon. That's when I will be able to go in details how to grow an Ecom company as I grow it.

i just had 20% shares in the company and looked after marketing stuff for the brand (would say that I learned a lot on how to do brand seo)

Will share what all can be done with Ecom seo later on

micho24 said:

For how many words in total do you aim for your authority site? Let s say I have a website with 50k words in total but my aim is to primary rank only 2 pages. Would you rather spend money on new articles and making the site bigger in overall or building/buying backlinks for those 2 pages? Did you personally found any authority boost when you passed 100k,200k words in total?

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My aim these days = 1M words and small sites (amazon) have like 100-300k words on it. Just do those to sell them after 6-10 months for a profit of 30-60k and can't work on 1 project only, I get bored

I don't know how the competition is in your niche, how big the authority sites are.

You have to check how much content they have, and how long they are ranking for.

A few churn and burn sites might come and go over an year but you have to concentrate on the authority sites in your niche to get a long term project.

I love short term projects too but it's disheartening to see a website go down after it makes you so much money.

I will be able to answer your question better if you can give me more details

I usually start with checking the competition, the websites I can beat in 6,12, 24 months (content wise)

Then start making links from month one.

Not every project is successful, some don't move with time and they just wait and I hop on to the next project.

I have over 8 failed projects right now, but with updates any project can push up and start making me money that's when I start pushing that hard.

Just add all the keywords to your rank tracker and organize according to the ROI they can give.

monere said:

1) what type of website is easiest to make money for someone who has never had a website before? Should an ecom or info product be your first site ever?
2) speaking of ecoms: are there any easy to rank for keywords left in niches like men/women footwear, furniture / pergolas / gazebos, or illumination devices (lamps, chandeliers, etc), that new marketers can find to break into these - in my newbie opinion - competitive niches, or should I not bother with such niches?
3) is content length really important for ranking a new website on google's 1st page? I mean, let's say that we have a 20-page gorgeous looking, fast loading, mobile friendly website put on a fresh (thus clean) domain name and that we have posted 20 review type of articles on this site before submitting its sitemap to Google Search Console for fast indexing. And let's say that Google indexes all 20 money pages of this site in 24 hours.

So, under these circumstances, does it really matter if those review articles (which we assume are as amazing as they can get, with bullet points, perfect on-page SEO, insightful infographics, detailed stats, technical info and all that crap).... does it really matter at this point if the articles are 500 words, 1000 words, or 5000 words long? I've always thought this to be wrong, but I'd like to hear your opinion on this. Do you think that such a website stands any chance of ranking on 1st page for its keywords without acquiring any backlinks or running any social media campaigns to it?

4) do you ever target 10-100 monthly searches keywords for any of your websites, or are these not that profitable?
5) how do you assess the difficulty of a keyword? I mean, let's say that someone pays you to build a 10-page (each page targeting a different keyword) website for them that will rank and make money within a month without buying / building any backlinks to that site, and without promoting it in any way.

How do you choose the keywords that are easy to rank for in this case, and which still make you money? I am mainly interested if you blindly follow the metrics that keyword research tools give you, or if you still use your common sense and judgement in choosing the keywords? And if you use your judgement, which element in your judgements decides whether to keep or drop a certain keyword? Is it by looking at the brands that are ranking on 1st page for that keyword? Is it by looking at the URLs of the 10 sites ranking on 1st page for that keyword? Is it the monthly search volume of the keyword that makes you shy away from targeting it? What exactly is it that pushes you towards using/dropping keywords that software / keyword research services give you the green for?

I apologize for the length of this message but there was no shorter way I could come up with to express my concerns, so I hope you will excuse the novel.

Last but not least, thanks for taking the time to provide us with such great knowledge for free. Such people are pretty rare nowadays

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1) Local website are lucrative and easier than affiliate sites and Ecom. In my opinion! What you should absolutely learn is checking the competition! You won't know what you are into till you try a lot of shit.

2) if you can make affiliates in those niches, coz seo will take a lot of time. You can try fb ads etc in those niches, with seo those are tough!

You have to find people with traffic, have to convince them somehow to push you. You need to make them more money and give some security that you won't run away.

What I do is, give big affiliates a joining bonus (coz I know they generate traffic)

3) This is a competition question. If you want to rank for "siteground review". The word count won't really matter as you're up against some giants.

More words help you rank for more long tail keywords, more long tail keywords, so if it's a long form content, you might rank for more keywords than your competitors.

So if you're the only one talking about ingredients of a supplement, you will rank for it above those people who might have more authority than you (overtime) and can happen that algorithm favors content that talks about these things more than 500 word articles that are ranking. That's why I always go with 3000-5000 word reviews and cover almost every faq that people might have.

Traffic generates more traffic for a page. I don't know how to explain it better. I hope you understand this.

4) Subjective question well, we have keywords that have 0 searches according to google that we will cover on our seo service site coz we think people will want to know the answer of that and if people buy seo services from us. We can make 40 to 5000 dollars depending who we are solving the problem for

5) Tell them to buy ads, seo isn't for them if they are not in for a long time! Will recommend you to read threads on bhw on how to research competition.

If I used tools blindly, I would have never made any money common sense + educated guess. Read about what I talked about seo service articles above.

I drop keywords if they don't supplement the keywords I want to rank, or the keywords which are obsolete and people aren't looking answers to them now.

I hope I answered your questions

rafark said:

Brand searches with Facebook ads?

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Boost your posts, and tell people that there's a tool/giveaway etc

Can use fb groups and forums too.

People then come again and again to check if we are giving away something or to use the tool

Helps build up some brand searches.

Niel Patel did it well with Uber suggest.

l3est said:

how can i outrank sites that have many reportages on big news sites without getting reportages? is it even possible?

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Reportages means articles on bigger sites?

Build more page level authority to beat them (difficult but doable)

Elvlin said:

How long will it take for you, if you make a brand new site, with $0 capital for seo, to get 1k traffic stable every day? (blog site,Amazon aff)
And what strategy will you use?

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Really subjective, can't know till I do it.

I have spent 10000s on sites which didn't even reach 100 per day in traffic.

Still I will probably go the income school way and write a lot of articles in something I am interested in.

And promote my articles on forums, quora, youtube etc.

Like we get a lot of traffic for our services from this forum. Just have to find where your potential customers hang out and provide value af without expecting shit.

That's how you can do this in your industry as well.

praetserge said:

I liked it when you said that google basically wants to have websites it believes won't spam.
But those big authorities spam more than an average Joe would because of the resources.

Nowadays, I really don't get it how google ranks so many profile pages. I can go to patch.com (as an example) and create a profile with a decent article... then add some d0follow blog comments and I'm in top 100 just because of the website authority.

If I look at a link profile of any brand I will see all sorts of links (some are easy to copy and some are expensive).

So what are your favourite links (besides niche edits and guest posts)?

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You are absolutely right!

Some people use these websites to scam people af... promote these trial offers that gets people.

You have to understand that these are taken down when reported, they generate their own traffic using native and other ads.

Heck even youtube allows bitcoin scams to advertise on their platform. People know how to play the algorithm and that doesn't mean it can stay up for a long term (more than 1 year).

And there are some terms which are manually checked too (payday loans etc)

I am a firm believer in good product and any type of marketing which can get the sales

I like forum links, web2.0s and profile links (anything that doesn't die with time)

yeah, you've answered my questions. Thanks!