Yes, you are reviewing X against Y to see which product is the best.
I use a simple WordPress plugin called WP Word Count. Seems to work well.
I give them a $10 bonus every now and then. I do it just randomly, but only for the writers I'm testing if I want to keep.
I have a small team of (well-paid) writers I've kept around long-term. I give them each a small bonus around Christmas/New Years. I also like to "promote" a top performing writer for each site into a more "editorial" role (which also comes with a pay bump) whenever a site is ready for that.
it seems like many people here use ahrefs, so if you become fluent in ahrefs it will help you make a lot more use of the conversations in buso
Even with AutoAds I'd expect a rise in PRMs, but probably not too drastically. Will it be worth the trade off to be using worse technology with a bigger impact on your loading times and all that? Hard to say. But I'd expect some kind of increase. Me, personally, I held off with the intermediate step of Ezoic on my last site and waited till I qualified for better networks.
Google and the IAB and Coalition for Better Ads tells you what's too much and what's okay. They share their standards openly. What they deem acceptable is pretty aggressive. Doesn't interfere with rankings at all.
No, it's not risky. If it's 100% of your link profile then maybe. But you'd be silly not to take a DR85 link to any page. Most big sites end up linking to each other because they try to link to authoritative sources. It's fine and natural.
Yes. KD should guide you initially but you need to look at the SERPs and another quick guide is the top 10's DR scores. You'll see a KD10 term, which should be dead easy, being populated by DR75 - DR95 sites. But Ahrefs calls it a KD10 because the ranking pages don't have many backlinks, but the domains are monstrous. A quick check is to see if you can find any DR30's or so sneaking up in the top 10. Sometimes that means you can crack the top 10 if you're at least that powerful.
No, there's zero reason to avoid a niche that has products. Most will have products anyways. Just don't cover the product keywords if you don't want to.
A vertical is like a super niche. Finance, Sports, Fitness, Health, Home & Garden, Travel, Entertainment, etc. These are gigantic and will have more than you can dream of covering. A part of this issue might be in your use of the vocabulary. A niche is a sub-market of a vertical, all the way down to sub-niches and micro-niches. If you can't find enough keywords, climb up that hierarchy and you'll have no problem.
You know what an informational article is. You're just over thinking it. You basically have:
Yes from time to time, but also birthdays etc.
You want to double the word count on your own ranking article that has snippets? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. You can knock off the balance in optimization that has you there in the first place.
Odys is good too. And I agree. You don’t want domains that actually drop, but ones that get drop-catched. Expired is fine, dropped is bad. (Just typing this for the benefit of the general reader).
