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Niche site
#2
progress thread:
I will add to this after each month.
Informational site w/ no ads until I hit 50k/mo. July is on track to hit 8600+ sessions.
@mediavine
I will see you soon.
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@goatspecialist
This could’ve been avoided if there were massive barriers with flashing lights and a rising bridge to warn them.
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@Tweetachai
@libsoftiktok
If Spencer’s was selling strap-ons to children then it would be an issue. The problem is them targeting children, not that they’re selling gay pride clothing in general.
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Saw some huge Discover numbers yesterday. I think I’ve finally cracked the code.
Course incoming 🚀
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Said it before and I’ll say it again, high initial content velocity makes the world of a difference.
From the second Google knows your site exists, pump out as much content as you can, as quickly as you can.
Then, publish frequently, and consistently moving forward.
The…
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Let’s start a Helpful Content Update destruction thread 🧵
Post your chart, or if you don’t want to do a picture, share your % of traffic loss 📉
If your site gained traffic feel free to share that too 📈
I’ll go first:
My site got hit recently from a loss of snippets, then…
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3 years ago my life fell apart when my wife passed away from cancer.
We had a 1 year old daughter that I was responsible for raising, on top of trying to put myself back together.
I gained weight, drank heavily, smoked, and isolated myself.
I was in an out of the ER for the…
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Just got laid off from my 9-5 as my company shrinks due to economic climate.
Absolute kick in the nuts for me right now and not sure what my next step is.
On the bright-side, i hated the job and now I can focus more on my sites.
On the down-side, stress levels are absolute…
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@HemanthGomez
@Austen
It appears to be a woman carrying a child while wading through a shallow creek. Let me know if I can help with anything else.
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Where do you get your logos made from?
I've been using Canva to make my own, but by no means am I a graphic designer.
Looking for somewhere I can find someone to build me a quality logo that isn't a garbage AI logo since I could easily do that myself
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If unique content is so important like everyone says,
Why are sites like Tom’s Guide, 9to5Mac, ZDNET, and LifeWire still flourishing?
There is nothing unique about their how-to guides, news articles, etc. It’s all the same content.
It has nothing to do with uNiQuE cOnTeNt.
It…
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@searchliaison
Why is my unique helpful content (not seen anywhere else) behind articles from CNET, 9to5mac, etc. that are unrelated to the query?
A lot of talk. But the SERPs aren’t reflecting what you keep saying.
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Don’t be afraid to go after those 0-20 volume keywords, in fact you should target them, *especially if it’s a new site*.
Take KW volume with a grain of salt.
With the amount of people in this world, it’s safe to assume most KWs are getting way more than 0-20/mo.
I went after…
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Who are the best blackhat SEOs to follow? (aside from Charles, I already follow him)
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My site's page-views increased 4x in a 4 days. All thanks to Forum Sniping on Reddit.
What Is Forum Sniping?
Forum Sniping is another form of Parasite SEO. Sometimes it's referred to as Forum Hijacking.
It has been around for a while.
The idea is that you find posts on Reddit…
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Building a pSEO site, w/ as much transparency as possible w/o revealing niche.
Disclaimer: never have done pSEO, I’m learning as I go.
Feel free to follow along to learn with me, or to drop advice!
This will turn into a massive thread of me documenting the process.
👇🏽
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*IF* what people are saying is true about the new update having a site-wide classifier that can drag your entire site down for a certain % of poor quality articles, then:
The old method of analyzing top posts that lost ranking is not the way to do it anymore!
The reason is:…
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I have a website with about 40 high quality articles that gets 1 viewer a day.
Makes no sense to me.
Did everything I would do with my other sites and it just won’t budge.
I’m an expert in the field which allows me for unique, original content,
And all the competition is…
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Google: we don’t rollback updates. We don’t make mistakes.
Also Google:
Today we released the October 2023 core update. We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete:
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Woke up to my highest traffic article (was ranking
#1
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What’s on page 1? I’m glad you asked…
Half of it is articles that have nothing to do with the keyword.
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Today, Google deemed imdb the go-to source for authority in my tech niche for how-to guides.
Well done, Google.
Well done.
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Added a forum to my site a few days ago.
Being in a troubleshooting niche, I should've done this earlier.
Added a new page to the first spot on my menu called "Ask an Expert" which leads to the forum.
The forum is set up in a similar fashion to Reddit, with a voting system.…
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Gathered a list of 20 competitors in my niche and checked their traffic.
Not kidding at all, the only sites that weren't hit by the recent update are all AI.
Two of the sites are an exact clone of each other with different branding, even the same authors. Horrendous blog roll…
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For those of you struggling to find a niche, don’t overthink it.
My most successful site was in a crowded niche - and one that I put 0 research into.
I just simply enjoyed the niche. It wasn’t crazy lucrative either.
But through hard work it earned well.
Niche research…
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Nothing screams EEAT like milkman69 explaining quantum physics in a 2 sentence Reddit post from 2011.
...which are often found in forums, or lesser-known blogs. I interpret this as a boost for the new E in E-E-A-T (experience).
Google clearly stated this in its communications about how the HCU is being updated to elevate real-life experience:
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I think Google is slowly letting my niche site
#2
out of the ‘sandbox’ as I approach month 6.
I firmly believe publishing high volume early is key.
Every single day has been significant gains over the last for the last week or two.
It’s compounding so quickly, and tomorrow…
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Starting a travel blog.
After some research, it shouldn’t be too difficult to absolutely dominate this niche.
Debating testing a public build, but unsure yet.
What are your thoughts on building publicly?
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I wonder what will happen when this 6 month old site starts getting backlinks?
Struggling to figure out how to get backlinks for this niche - it’s not one people typically link to.
I have an idea to start writing a new type of article - can’t say much without giving away the…
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Not far from erasing all HCU losses on my site that got hit hard.
August core update wiped out over 50% of my traffic, but that wasn’t a penalty due to something being wrong with my site.
It was because G removed snippets from my niche.
Come HCU, I lost another 50%, which…
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I love Adsense.
Best RPMs around.
You truly can’t beat them.
(This site has 16k sessions/mo)
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They can say “we’re doing this, we’re doing that. This is how you should do things”
But the SERPs don’t lie.
If what is said here is true, the tech niche wouldn’t be a hot mess right now.
@NicheAlchemist
It doesn't say that. Our guide to creating helpful content has a significant amount of information to consider if people are creating quality content:
In addition, we have additional ranking systems specifically designed to focus on reliable information:…
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@CIA_in_China
@Tweetachai
@libsoftiktok
Exactly. There is responsibility on everyone. The manufacturer, retail for selling it, and the parents who buy it for their kids.
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Want to know what a GSC chart looks like when you lose a couple major snippets?
Notice my impressions didn’t drop much because I didn’t lose rankings - just snippets.
My weekend is now dedicated to taking those snippets back,
+ a few extra for the troubles they’ve cause me 😉
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Majority of my articles are not even being shown on Google anymore, despite them being indexed 🙃
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Google really thinks their quality raters are more knowledgeable than you are, despite you being a professional in your field.
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One of my best quality of life improvements was building a home gym.
1. Save money and time by not having to commute to a gym.
2. Don’t have to watch people recording themselves.
3. Got the entire room to myself/can take my shirt off.
4. Never have to wait for weights.
5. No…
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Despite losing 80% of my traffic over the course of the last few weeks, yesterday was my highest paying day for ads.
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6. MAKE GOALS
The best for last.
I am a firm believer that a major contributor to people’s depression nowadays is lack of purpose and not having goals.
I recognized this and made a plan.
The goals I set for myself:
◦ Buy a house within 6 months ✅
◦ Started my sites…
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I am loving GPTs!
I am a SOP guy. I have a database of SOPs that I've written over the years for a certain niche.
All custom, first-hand experience from myself, who's an expert in this field.
I just trained a GPT on all of it. Now that GPT is essentially 'me'. It has my level…
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Why did every single one of my competitors with AI sites see massive gains, while reputable established human-written sites get pummeled?
This isn’t just my niche too, I’ve seen dozens of others talk about how blatant AI sites benefited from HCU.
It’s like big G’s update did…
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Great update again Google! So glad the SERPs are fixed 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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New product comes out,
I write an ‘X tips to’ type of article for the product.
I research competition to find all their articles are not updated for new operating system steps / devices. Not one has up to date info.
I publish an up to date, relevant, & helpful article.
I…
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@outwrklifestyle
Sick spot. There is something Kingly about owning a body of water. I have 20 acres w/ springs, but no pond. Debating on building one.
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@NicheCampus
This is so disheartening.
I started my site (in a troubleshooting niche) due to there being no helpful content in the SERPs.
My site blew up quickly, as I was literally the only one providing factual articles.
Google wiped out 80%+ of my traffic and now the SERPs are filled…
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@amuse
Lmao. This is an incredibly common thing in San Diego. Look at the sky and you’ll see this any week. Source: me.
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I love niches that you can’t fake.
One of my sites meets all these:
◦ Lucrative affiliate
◦ Evergreen
◦ Requires 2+ years experience
◦ Low quality competition
◦ Trending up, and won’t stop
Going to drop the niche in my newsletter next Tuesday.
I’ll see you in the…
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Seeing a slight bump in traffic today.
Still too early to tell if it's a reversal or just another dead-cat-bounce.
Are you noticing any changes in your traffic?
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Publicly sharing monthly updates has helped me stay accountable to myself and my website.
Sharing that red 50% loss for everyone to see is fueling me with more motivation than I’ve had since day one.
I have a list of tasks that I’ll be carrying out in hopes to bounce back.…
Sessions down, as expected.
Going to continue publishing helpful content, in hopes one day Google will snap out of their stupor.
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@unusual_whales
It is literally owned by the same company that owns Bud Light (everywhere but the US). There is nothing exceptional about this or the entire boycotting Bud Light situation lol. Anheuser Busch owns majority % of the beers you drink.
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@OvOBrezzzy
Such an epic game. Played competitively in the
#1
clan in the world for quite some time.
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4. Take Responsibility
Victim mentality is a disease.
The second you start treating yourself as a victim, the more things will go wrong.
You’ll look for any opportunity to put the blame on something or someone else.
I could’ve wallowed in self-pity about how bad my life was.…
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@ThaPill82
@Morbidful
Then by chance the customer lives to tell the story about how you sacrificed them
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To see if ads really do make a difference, I’ve removed them from my site.
I was only making a few $ a day anyways, so it’s not worth reducing user experience for that amount.
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3. Nobody Cares
Life doesn’t care.
Life will continue on without you, you better keep moving forward or you’ll be left behind.
People don’t care.
Well, the good ones do.
But the majority of people will forget about your circumstance over time, and they’ll forget about you.…
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Earlier today, I shared my thoughts about finding untapped niches by looking into the past.
I've received requests to expand on this, so here's a step-by-step thread on how I do it.
Let's dive in 🧵.
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It isn't parabolic, but it's steady, consistent growth.
This is my 5.5 month old site with 105 articles.
At some point, the rubber band holding this back will snap and it will get sent to the moon.
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Google can’t even tell the difference between ‘vs’ & ‘and’ queries.
E.g. There are two products in my niche that some people use simultaneously.
So, there are ‘vs’ articles, where the user would hope to find valuable information that will aid them in making a purchase between…
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> Posts comment on Reddit asking for a solution to an issue.
> Replies from an alternate account with a link to an affiliate or high cpc page.
> Profit.
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SERPs are still absolute garbage on my end.
I’ve gone through a dozen queries that I have articles written specifically for, that Google isn’t showing in the SERPs.
Instead, they show articles that don’t answer the question, and aren’t even relevant to the query.
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So far, adding videos to my articles doesn't seem to be helping.
My guess is that I have some poor quality pages weighing my site down right now.
So, this weekend I'll be updating posts, starting with those that get the least impressions, which also happens to be some of my…
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The new number 1 article is clearly spit straight from GPT.
Completely wrong information and loaded with internal links - ALL of which point to completely unrelated articles on their site...
For example: one of their anchor texts reads something like, "stay tuned for more…
Woke up to my highest traffic article (was ranking
#1
) being pushed down to page 2.
What’s on page 1? I’m glad you asked…
Half of it is articles that have nothing to do with the keyword.
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There’s a product in my niche that I’m the only one to have written a review on.
I’m spot number 5 on Google for that keyword. It’s a well-written review with a YouTube video that I made which is embedded into the article.
The number 1 spot is a Reddit post that has 2…
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Let's stop pretending like we know what G did with this update.
It has nothing to do with the authority of a site.
It has nothing to do with quality of content.
It has nothing to do with brand.
It has nothing to do with ads.
The only thing that is for certain is that G is…
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Topical authority isn’t as important as most think it is.
I’ve seen actual results go against topical authority more than I’ve seen it work.
E.g. There’s numerous well-known sites in my niche that have authority over 55 (I’m 10).
Im beating them on all the articles I write.…
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The whole HCU thing gives me such crypto vibes.
Every single bear market, “crypto is dead”
Same goes for post-HCU, “niche sites are dead”.
But, crypto and niche sites aren’t dead.
This same psychology applies to every market.
The people who make the most money are the ones…
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Despite my niche being flooded with incorrect information for troubleshooting guides,
And me being the only site to provide the actual proper instructions,
My content is still ‘not helpful’.
Good luck finding an answer now if you’re searching for anything in my niche.
Going…
It’s amazing how much incorrect information is on the top of the SERPs in my niche.
Not sure if it’s just outdated information and they haven’t updated, or people just using AI to write and not verifying the output.
Leaning towards the latter, since most of the articles appear…
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1. Exercise
At the top of the list because it had the most significant impact.
I was always an active person, attended spec ops training twice, was a competitive swimmer my entire life, loved to trail run with weight vests, etc.
Baby steps.
Started doing (2) 45 minute walks…
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Estimated 8600 for July and beat that with 3 days to spare.
Another 100%+ month 📈
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@ClownWorld_
I learned at the age of 2 or 3 to never play in the road. Crazy to me that some people never learned that lesson. Imagine being a fully grown adult and not knowing things that 3 yr old knows.
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Google really thought that destroying their SERPs just to spite niche sites was worth it.
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@NFT_GOD
What are your thoughts on manually adding interests to your account to tell X which clusters you should be in?
Privacy and safety > Content you see > interests > check boxes for your interests
From there you can add and delete interests linked to your account.
For example, I…
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> Collect Discover titles in your niche, the more the better.
> Prompt GPT4 to find patterns in them.
> Have it assist or create titles for you based off those patterns.
This works very well.
But if you want real Discover advice, check out
@tonythill
who drops straight…
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What a recovery!
Love to see it.
Curious to see how this current helpful content update (that started rollout today) impacts this site.
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Are there any other podcasts similar to
@nichepursuits
?
I’ve watched all their videos, numerous times.
Looking for something similar to satisfy my need to learn while I wait for them to post more.
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This system reminds me of when banks penalize people for not having money in their account.
Too poor? We’ll make you more poor 😆🫵
If helpfulness is what Google is after, and a site has very helpful content (despite the rest of their site being poor quality), why would Google…
Here are some more thoughts on how the helpful content system works.
The 160K+ quality raters help Google create a system to determine if, overall a site is likely to have content that a searcher will find helpful.
The Quality Raters' Guidelines instructs the raters to rate…
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The reasoning for my decision to add video to my how-to articles:
After extensive competitor research, I found that none of them have their own unique videos.
Not one does.
The few that have video are using someone else's YouTube videos.
Adding my own will boost my EEAT over…
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Liking how this looks so far (minus the loss of impressions).
Haven't made any major changes yet.
This is why you don't make changes directly after an update.
If I had, I wouldn't know what cause this bump in traffic. Now, I know it's a result of the algo working things out.…
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Starting a new pSEO project this upcoming week.
Will be sharing as much as I can about the process publicly, while keeping the niche hidden.
Can’t wait to see how it performs.
Stay tuned!
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