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I agree with @secretagentdad There are many ways to skin this cat, as long as you end up with a strong page for the query. Links to the page itself, links to the main domain, both work well. Links that are on-topic (relevant) work best.
Strong brands like the NY Times tend to be perceived as more authoritative, so their posts are more likely to gain good relevant links. They could outrank other sites even though the domain is more "generalized".

Authority (brand) generalized domain = more on-topic links to the page = better rankings.
 
Seems like Barron got in the IM scene at an early age.
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All I can say is that my personal project is knocking over most general competitors (think wikihow), and the ones that put up the most resistance are the ones that are only focussing on my niche.

I do think it's because my niche is 99% informational, so topical relevance probably spills over in authority.

I've only focussed on topical links because those make the most sense to me. But looking at my competitor's backlink profile, it does seem to matter little. They have tons of links from irrelevant websites (many mommy blogs). To me, it appears that the number of links got them to where they are.

But I'm kinda new to the backlinking game, so we will see :smile: Glad to have heard your input!
 
Howzit everyone I just found this forum and boy am I glad.

Alot of what I am reading here goes right over my head, but I am starting to pick up some gems along the way.

I am a carpenter of 49 and a single dad that started looking for a way to start an online business about a year ago and got caught up in a lot of fake guru bullshit and promises of the "laptop-lifestyle" but all I have done so far is waste money and precious time.
Well maybe it wasn't entirely a waste as I now know of several ways how not to do digital marketing.

I started out doing a course in starting a digital agency but soon realized that this kind of business will soon be something that I would loathe doing, and then I started creating funnels for clickbank and digistore24 products and running ads to them but with no success so far.

Enough with the failures...I am here to find out how I can turn what I know into something that people will love to consume.
So here is what I can do:
  • I can build anything from furniture through to small boats
  • I am a tool junkie and can spend hours in the hardware store
  • I can teach most muppets to become half-decent craft men (although this can be a challenge in South Africa, we have 14 official languages and I only speak 2.5 of them)
  • I can fix just about anything
While researching a bit I found that D.I.Y. seems to be a huge niche or vertical not sure which, and I would like to monitize through tool sales ect.

I am going through the Crash course here on the forum...day2 now and already I feel like finally there is a spark happening in my mind. Mr @The Engineer thank you for a kick-ass article in day1, it certainly lit a fire under my ass! The bit about @Satvrn's journey was of great value to me. The words were strong and it felt like for the first time since I started this journey that this is the real truth! It's wierd how when you think its going to be easy, and its not, then you can easily become overwhelmed, but now that I know that it is not so easy, all of a sudden I have had a complete mindset shift and I am starting to see more possibilities.

Any actionable advice will be greatly appreciated, none of that "you can do it" or "just keep at it" crap please.
Thats it.
 
Sounds like you're an expert at building/fixing things. And it's something you love to do. There are a lot of avenues you can pursue but the first thing that jumps out to me is Youtube. People love watching those video. You can do it entertainment style, DIY style, or combination of both. There some EXTREMELY popular channels where some dude with engineering smarts makes some weird contraption records the process and rakes in the money. You could do something like that. Make it entertaining first, educational second. Work in affiliate sales, sponsored ads in your videos, etc. Create a facebook page and do the same thing to get even more ad dollars and affiliate sales. Chop up and repurpose your content for Pinterest, rinse and repeat. Lots redditors and other forums love that type of content so start looking into become a user and eventually funneling people to your website and/or videos.

Eventually build your brand big that you're selling your own products. Start doing some weird projects that are a benefit to a specific community - do some charity work. Notify all local news outlets. Get featured in some of the small outlets will skyrocket your popularity. Get known and become the next Bob Villa.

Lots of possibilities. How far do you want to take it?
 
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Potatoe said:
Hi Grace, welcome to the forum!

What sort of company are you planning to build? Any big lessons you've learned in your first year, or things that you've struggled with?

You've found a very helpful community and many of us can relate to your ambitions of providing a better life for your family. It's good to have you on board!
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Hey Potatoe!
Thank you for your warm welcome!

I am now learning the skills of SEO and planning to have it as the service of my company.

The most important lesson that I learnt in this year is we having huge potential to do whatever we want, sometime is just human lack of insights and actions, so they tend to tolerate the life they are having now, human think they can not do more because XX there got so many reasons and excuses.

So after learning step by step, I realize all these are just a process and need a time to figure it out. No matter what the circumstance it is, you can solve it if you want. Currently I am using my time to learn more from courses and videos. I believe through all these hard work, I will have enough skills to impact and help more people in my life!

If a normal human like me can do that, all of us in this world can do so :smile:

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Hey Swarticus! Welcome to here!
Same here I am newbie in this forum!

Thank you for sharing your journey with us
It make the newbie like me felt not alone in this path haha

Hope all of us can find the way that suitable for us and build the business that can help and impact people!
 
Still on YouTube, you can make stuff and then sell the plans of the things you make to the audience.

You can also setup a Patreon account and offer some perks e.g. behind the scenes stuff to your audience at a price.

I love this YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkhZ3X6pVbrEs_VzIPfwWgQ

Check the video descriptions to get ideas on monetization.
 
Sutra said:
Sounds like you're an expert at building/fixing things. And it's something you love to do. There are a lot of avenues you can pursue but the first thing that jumps out to me is Youtube. People love watching those video. You can do it entertainment style, DIY style, or combination of both. There some EXTREMELY popular channels where some dude with engineering smarts makes some weird contraption records the process and rakes in the money. You could do something like that. Make it entertaining first, educational second. Work in affiliate sales, sponsored ads in your videos, etc. Create a facebook page and do the same thing to get even more ad dollars and affiliate sales. Chop up and repurpose your content for Pinterest, rinse and repeat. Lots redditors and other forums love that type of content so start looking into become a user and eventually funneling people to your website and/or videos.

Eventually build your brand big that you're selling your own products. Start doing some weird projects that are a benefit to a specific community - do some charity work. Notify all local news outlets. Get featured in some of the small outlets will skyrocket your popularity. Get known and become the next Bob Villa.

Lots of possibilities. How far do you want to take it?
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@Sutra, Thank you, this is what I have been thinking...started filming myself while making stuff and trying to get more comfortable in front of the camera.
Also, I agree completely with making it entertaining at first and have been learning about how to script and edit to keep things interesting for the viewer, like creating open loops in the opening scene with the big payoff at the end of the video.
It also makes sense to repurpose content across as many platforms as possible and I imagine that once I have a system in place, that pumping out content will become easier.
Great post!

Grace said:
Hey Swarticus! Welcome to here!
Same here I am newbie in this forum!

Thank you for sharing your journey with us
It make the newbie like me felt not alone in this path haha

Hope all of us can find the way that suitable for us and build the business that can help and impact people!
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@Grace. Welcome to you too!
I am glad you got something from my post.
Have you decided on a path for your business yet?
What steps have you taken today that have taken you closer to your goals?

KevinOH said:
Still on YouTube, you can make stuff and then sell the plans of the things you make to the audience.

You can also setup a Patreon account and offer some perks e.g. behind the scenes stuff to your audience at a price.

I love this YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkhZ3X6pVbrEs_VzIPfwWgQ

Check the video descriptions to get ideas on monetization.
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@KevinOH thank you, this helps. Yeah I checked that channel out and it's very cool, something to aspire to and I see all the links in the description leading to plans and things for sale. Their Patreon also seems to be doing well I will definitely look into this a bit more.
 
Morning everyone. My wife and I run a small Etsy store alongside our normal jobs and I stumbled on the site. We've both come to a point where we'd really like to take our business from $$$ to $,$$$ every month through better digital marketing. Just starting the crash course now and I'm sure I'll have tonnes of questions.
 
Good place to be. Definitely a great place to read, learn, and ask questions.

You will find there are some very influential internet marksmen here, as well as some information that will feel like a 'cheat sheet' in lifting your business to a new level.

I just sold my ecomm biz shortly ago. I wouldn't mind doing another!
 
Good to hear! We're quite lucky that business went well during lockdown and made us wonder if we could do it full time... Plus being back in an office sucks!
 
Sounds like you're already way ahead of the game Tank! Scaling an already-working business is much easier than starting from scratch!

There will be many details and nuance given whatever niche you're in, but here are some big building blocks to look into sooner than later:

0. Find competitors in your niche who are running websites and study everything they do. Use various traffic tools like similarweb/spyfu/adspy to verify traffic levels. High traffic = proven success. Snipe out their best methods of customer acquisition.
1. Setup a website with shopify as your platform.
2. Get social accounts setup if not already.
3. Figure out who your real target demo is and start running FB ads towards them.
4. Figure out if you can upsell your customers with anything else that would compliment the initial transaction. If yes ---> create listing + post-purchase upsell flow.
5. Get email/SMS programs running for remarketing & retention.
 
@Grace, in case you missed it, make sure to check out our free Digital Strategy Crash Course. Sounds like it's right up your alley. Welcome aboard, we're glad to have you and wish you much success. We'll help where we can, so please join us in conversation and ask questions where needed, and we'll do the same.
 
Grace said:
The most important lesson that I learnt in this year is we having huge potential to do whatever we want, sometime is just human lack of insights and actions, so they tend to tolerate the life they are having now, human think they can not do more because XX there got so many reasons and excuses.
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Yes for sure.

The key is setting a lofty goal, but breaking it down in smaller bits, then working on those.

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at the time.
 
Wow, thanks Zach - this is a huge help :-)

I know a few of my fellow Etsy sellers but will need to work on a wider competitor list, especially as we'll be starting to look at different types of digital marketing.
 
I agree with YouTube

Videos that will EARN FOREVER for the time you invest today. Make 1000 DIY/How-To projects and let the video earnings accumulate

Spice a video up here and there to have a relevant click-bait title and use reddit (and facebook groups) to get your brand moving faster
 
Hi Grace, nice to meet you. I'm from Singapore too. I'm also pretty new in SEO and content building and just found BUSO. Looking forward to hear more about your journey.

Hi everyone, this is Nel from Singapore.
I've been trying to start a side hustle for many years now. Started multiple projects but have never seen any of them to fruition.
I hope this time is different.
Currently following Authority Hacker's method and intend to start a new site soon.
I'm totally new to BUSO and look forward to learning and connecting with others in this playground.
 
Hi, @nelism, welcome aboard. Glad to have you.

nelism said:
I've been trying to start a side hustle for many years now. Started multiple projects but have never seen any of them to fruition.
I hope this time is different.
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There's really nothing to hope about it. Hope concerns external factors. If you haven't seen any projects through to the end, that's an internal factor. That's something inside you where you aren't persistent, committed, able to delay gratification, etc. A school kid can't hope that he'll do his homework. He either does it or doesn't. He has all of the power to make it a reality.

If you have a method you're following, just follow it all the way through, and then keep going. It seems unlikely that you'll waste your time. Best case scenario is you make good money. Worst case scenario is you learn a ton that helps ensure you won't make the same mistakes next time. Sounds like win.

Best of luck with it. We're always here to help if you have questions or just want to talk about the business!
 
Ryuzaki said:
Hi, @nelism, welcome aboard. Glad to have you.



There's really nothing to hope about it. Hope concerns external factors. If you haven't seen any projects through to the end, that's an internal factor. That's something inside you where you aren't persistent, committed, able to delay gratification, etc. A school kid can't hope that he'll do his homework. He either does it or doesn't. He has all of the power to make it a reality.

If you have a method you're following, just follow it all the way through, and then keep going. It seems unlikely that you'll waste your time. Best case scenario is you make good money. Worst case scenario is you learn a ton that helps ensure you won't make the same mistakes next time. Sounds like win.

Best of luck with it. We're always here to help if you have questions or just want to talk about the business!
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Hi Ryuzaki, thanks for the welcome. Yes, I'm looking to finish my homework this time round :smile:
 
Ryuzaki said:
@Grace, in case you missed it, make sure to check out our free Digital Strategy Crash Course. Sounds like it's right up your alley. Welcome aboard, we're glad to have you and wish you much success. We'll help where we can, so please join us in conversation and ask questions where needed, and we'll do the same.
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Hey Ryuzaki! My friend shared the same thing and mentioned this helped a lot!
thank you for sharing and i will definitely learn from your course!

bernard said:
Yes for sure.

The key is setting a lofty goal, but breaking it down in smaller bits, then working on those.

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at the time.
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Yes, totally agree with you!

nelism said:
Hi Grace, nice to meet you. I'm from Singapore too. I'm also pretty new in SEO and content building and just found BUSO. Looking forward to hear more about your journey.
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Hey Nelism! Nice to hear from you!
Me too! This is a long journey but we definitely will achieve our goals!
 
Hi Builder Society members,

I'm Jenny from Vietnam. A couple of my SEO friends recommended this forum as a place to learn and network, so here I am. I actually stumbled onto this forum several times over the years by searching for information related to SEO, but never signed up until now.

Currently I'm working as an outreach specialist for a software company. I also handle outreach and link building for several clients privately.

My formal education is in languages (English and Korean), which I planned to use to find a corporate career. Now that I'm in my 20s I realize that's not the kind of career path that I really want for my life. Over the next year I'm hoping to open my own SEO agency or link building productized service, so I'm always looking for opportunities to connect with other people in this field.

Looking forward to contributing and helping :smile:
 
Welcome to the board.

Good luck on building your business.

You're in a great position to launch your own company, considering you're starting out with someone whom you may turn into a client one day.

I hope you do well!
 
Hello,

I been into IM since 2010,

Background: I studied Travel & Tourism, Business, Business Eventing & Reporting Analyst.

My Hobbies: I enjoy reading, in fact, I must read every night or I have a tough time falling asleep.
I enjoy blogging as well, just about everything, I have designed sites for myself for my foods, my travels, my pets, travels and more; and for clients & potentially future in the past.

I found BuSo through one of my friends who linked me @CCarter 's threads.

Despite being in the game so long, there is always more to learn and grow, I look forward to not just learn but help contribute to the community :smile:
 
Hello Dears,

I have 5-6 months experience with SEO and Affiliate Marketing.

My journey started when I got a hold of another forum (BHW) and studied the methods proposed there.

I chose SEO and Affiliate Marketing because of the compounding income it can produce, even if its more of a 'long term' way to make money.

I implemented a handful of initial methods I've learned, but I feel I was lacking more depth in terms of studying SEO.

So I did more research, added people who are real SEOs, then finally stumbled upon Kyle Roof and his gang. I joined his IMG group asap, and he mentioned CCarters methodologies as a good source of inspiration and theory based knowledge. I joined this forum asap because of that.

I'm really loving it here as the community since the members do their best to provide actual value.

Thanks,
Josh Saga
xoxo
 
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