Newbie Question(s) so dumb, you're afraid to even ask!

[convbelt]

GeneratePress is what you want

Agreed. I use it and get a PageSpeed Insights score of 95 on mobile and 99 on desktop. No useless plugins.
Should probably buy the lifetime deal to be honest. I think they do discounts on it once or twice a year.

 

[JOoa0ky]

A thousand. Three thousand. Ten thousand... this isn't one of those cute replies where it's like "how does this information help you" because I know you're just trying to get a frame of reference. That's what I spend on content in a month. Not per month, because the amount fluctuates, because you have to take the turnaround time into account and how quickly you can deal with it after you receive it.


I don't know what the consensus is these days, but I have a very high opinion of MyThemeShop.com, especially ones like Schema (Schema Lite is free if you want to try it). They have about 6 total themes with two free ones.

If you're one of these people that likes to tinker with their site and customize it, but don't know HTML/CSS/JS/PHP, then GeneratePress is what you want. It's fast while still offering all the zillion features people want. The one time payment is worth it if this becomes "your main theme" because you can perfect a complicated theme and then use it across a ton of sites. One-and-done kind of deal.

@Ryuzaki Thank you! I'll take a look into it. Any rec on a page builder?

Just bought another domain, going to explore a different niche and start the tinkering but may just let it marinade a few months for domain aging.

 

[Ryuzaki]

@Ryuzaki Thank you! I'll take a look into it. Any rec on a page builder?

Yes, the Wordpress Gutenberg page builder. Any other ones are bloated. There is one that I can't think of the name of that isn't a bloat-fest but what's the point. The Gutenberg editor offers all you need and you can download custom blocks (bloat) if you want, like a comparison table or whatever. Elementor and all that crap is self-sabotage.

 

[contract]

I hate Reddit so much..

Post a link to a 12,000 word article, arguably the best ever written in a specific niche. First hand experience, lots of photos, personal story...

Post it in the EXACT subreddit that it should go in, like insanely specific.

NOPE! Mods deleted it. WTF?

Try again in a different subform.

NOPE! Mods deleted it.

How do people even use that site lol.

...

The same can be said about Wikipedia, even adding a link to a super super relevant/helpful article is a no no to all these mods.

 

[secretagentdad]

Reddit and Wikipedia require an appeals court tier law faring campaign to post to these days.

I grew a pretty nice user base by just being a fast and semi try hard replier in subreddits that hit my niche. You won’t get as much karma but if you have a sticky thing to promote people will start to associate you with it over time and even repost or upvote.
It’s a goon squad game but spergy and girly.

Also buy gold for the crazies when they post a less crazy thing and you will find more stuff gets through and u get less downvotes 5 seconds after posting.

 

[CCarter]

Reddit and Wikipedia

I gotta ask, WHO THE FUCK HAS TIME FOR THIS.

Why are you guys on Reddit? It seems like straight procrastination?

I recently got banned from /r/bigseo - a clown subreddit I haven't posted to in 5 years. Why these clowns waste anytime banning me from a place I haven't bothered to give a fuck about in 5 years is beyond me, BUT that goes to show you how much of a waste of time Reddit is.

It doesn't make you people money. Reddit users are the least valuable of any social network

I don't know, why pretend you guys aren't on there to simply procrastinate, cause by all numbers it's a complete waste of time. You guys aren't making millions or even hundreds of thousand of dollars from there, so it's just a circlejerk of whiners. Literally whining 5 years later I traffic leak that dead subreddit, lol wtf.

 

[contract]

I gotta ask, WHO THE FUCK HAS TIME FOR THIS.

Why are you guys on Reddit? It seems like straight procrastination?

I recently got banned from /r/bigseo - a clown subreddit I haven't posted to in 5 years. Why these clowns waste anytime banning me from a place I haven't bothered to give a fuck about in 5 years is beyond me, BUT that goes to show you how much of a waste of time Reddit is.

It doesn't make you people money. Reddit users are the least valuable of any social network

I don't know, why pretend you guys aren't on there to simply procrastinate, cause by all numbers it's a complete waste of time. You guys aren't making millions or even hundreds of thousand of dollars from there, so it's just a circlejerk of whiners. Literally whining 5 years later I traffic leak that dead subreddit, lol wtf.

Only use it to drop one link. I like getting at least one mention from top sites.. Other than that, I still off it. Agree with you 100%.

I remember running ads on there at one point in time, never had a single conversion.

 

[Boy]

I continue to make a lot of recurring revenue off Reddit traffic to dating offers but please, continue thinking it's nothing but whiners and procrastinators.

Posting a link talking about how Reddit users AS A WHOLE are worth next to nothing...to REDDIT, the company. Fantastic link; please post again. Probably the type to say stay off Pinterest if you're not in a niche for women because 70% of Pinterest is women...but what's 30% of 400 million MAU?

 

[Zoro]

So im the only one struggeling with work 9 hours a day, taking care of kids every other week and trying to put it 3-4 hours each day to be better and succeed while you Pros are putting out 16-18 hours a day!

I like the competition

 

[CCarter]

16-18 hours a day

18 hours? What are you trying to make money for ants?

Elon, Gates, Jobs - all slept in their offices when starting up.

18 hours? You need to pump up those numbers. Those are rookie numbers.

 

[Zoro]

18 hours? What are you trying to make money for ants?

Elon, Gates, Jobs - all slept in their offices when starting up.

18 hours? You need to pump up those numbers. Those are rookie numbers.

How many years and hours per day did you put in before you could quit your job and work with your company ?

 

[CCarter]

How many years and hours per day did you put in before you could quit your job and work with your company ?

For 6 months I ate oatmeal 3 times a day to save up 5-6 months worth of reserves while at my last "corporate gig". Then I quit went balls the wall. Realistically things took off when I had 1 months left of money, cause then you'll do ANYTHING to get it going, otherwise you'll be out on the streets.

After that I 10-18+ hours a day were not uncommon. But you have to know when you take breaks though. But some of us are beast so 24+ hours a day is nothing.

I remember story about hoe Beyonce didn't eat for 4 day straight cause she was just working off of adrenaline while making one of her albums. She simply forgot to eat. That type of focus, that's what you need.

"Hunger makes beasts of men and demons of beasts." - Dan Pena​

Most people just aren't hunger or passionate enough.

 

[eliquid]

How many years and hours per day did you put in before you could quit your job and work with your company ?

This is wrong thinking.

Don't measure by hours. Measure by "is it done?", or "is it making me money", or "did I gain success".

Hours don't matter, results do.

If you want hours, well.....

I remember working 10-hour days at a day job ( 1 hour drive, work 8 hours, 1 hour drive home ) and then working another 8 hours at home on stuff on the side to get things going... for years.

I remember I was so broke once, my laptop I used had a broken cat5 cable plugin so I could only use WiFi ( which is fine now, but wasn't fine 15 years ago ), I had no R key on the keyboard, and 20% of my screen was cracked and didn't work... and it had to stay plugged in 24/7 because the battery was shot.

Once it hit, I was working 18 hours still, but getting up in the middle of night to still check on things.

And then bringing my laptop to Texas Roadhouse and working during meals and birthdays and even movie nights at the theatre.

Then I was buying a laptop just for my boat in the middle of the lake and buying expenses internet plans and dongles just to work in the middle of nowhere.

Or the stops at McDonalds on roadtrips just to pause campaigns and change offers on my landing pages.

Those types of things are immeasurable.

 

[JOoa0ky]

Curious... is there a certain DR where you guys build your site up to and then you just stop investing time into acquiring backlinks and just let it build organically?

Or you're eternally hustling until the day you turn the site over?

 

[Ryuzaki]

Curious... is there a certain DR where you guys build your site up to and then you just stop investing time into acquiring backlinks and just let it build organically?

Or you're eternally hustling until the day you turn the site over?

It completely depends on the competition level of the keywords you're going after, for one. If you're going after extremely weak keywords, then you could sit at a DR50 and be pretty good.

One thing to consider though is that for every page you publish and interlink to (and if they feature external links), you're lowering the amount of page rank that "stored" in each page. A very crude calculation, just for example purposes (the reality is the PR and DR scores are exponential), is if you have 100 units of page rank flowing into a 50 page site, each page will ultimately have 2 units of page rank each. But if you pump that up to 100 pages, then each page has only 1 unit of page rank. So you do want to keep adding more in, especially trying to gain some links to new pages as you go to spread the love around so it flows equally.

Again that's a simple view but a way to help understand what's going on. It also depends on the strength of the backlinks coming in. A DR50 site could get 100 new DR20 links and not bump up to a DR51 score. Also DR is simply an estimation of how PR used to work.

But yeah, there are times where it's strategic that you should coast on the links you have and publish a bunch of content (depending on the type of site you're building). You just gotta figure out where your ROI is coming from at any given time.

 

[Biggy]

Lets say one day I would do 10k$ profit per month. For how much would you sell it? 300k ? 400k? More than that? How to value site?

 

[bernard]

I hate Reddit so much..

Post a link to a 12,000 word article, arguably the best ever written in a specific niche. First hand experience, lots of photos, personal story...

Post it in the EXACT subreddit that it should go in, like insanely specific.

NOPE! Mods deleted it. WTF?

Try again in a different subform.

NOPE! Mods deleted it.

How do people even use that site lol.

...

The same can be said about Wikipedia, even adding a link to a super super relevant/helpful article is a no no to all these mods.

You might want to drop your link as a comment instead of a post.

You can also comment-jack on Reddit, by posting a reply to the most popular comment.

 

[sirloinsteak]

Could I get in trouble for recording a video of myself navigating a virtual home tour from somewhere like Zillow?

I don't completely understand "fair use" or if that is even the right term. Can anyone set me straight or point me in the right direction?

 

[Ryuzaki]

Lets say one day I would do 10k$ profit per month. For how much would you sell it? 300k ? 400k? More than that? How to value site?

36x is your baseline. Add or subtract from it based on certain criteria like other assets, if there’s room to grow, room to optimize immediately, how meticulous your records are, if it comes with employees and operating procedures, what the monetization is, time involved for owner, etc.

Here’s a good general guideline:

• 33-36x for a stable site
• 24-32x for a declining site
• 36x-44x for a growing site

 

[milkandhoney]

When you are thinking about diving into a niche... how many competitors puts you off? Or is it perhaps one competitor but they are a big dog so it turns you off? Or do you go guns blazing, regardless of the opposition?

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I wrote a 10,000 book on personal development two years ago (didn't have a plan, just hungry and wanted to eat)

I've since taken it off amazon kdp but wondering if I should publish it as one long blog article or divide it into 10x 1000 word articles?

Bearing in mind that each chapter title is pretty competitive to rank for and I guess trying to rank for: "free book no download" might be equally or more competitive. Any thoughts?

 

[Biggy]

I always wondered. Let's say you got few sites. 1st site is making 10k a month, but theres a plenty of work compared to 2nd site. 2nd 5k a month, but got insane potential to scale evergreen content and traffic is going month by month up and 3rd site just idea which got good potential. How would you focus?

 

[Ryuzaki]

When you are thinking about diving into a niche... how many competitors puts you off? Or is it perhaps one competitor but they are a big dog so it turns you off? Or do you go guns blazing, regardless of the opposition?

Depends on if YOU can compete. One competitor can only take up one SERP spot at a time (for the most part). That leaves a lot of the pie for you to eat. If I can beat the dozens of competitors then I go in. I know what I can pull off, what I'm willing to pull off, and what I should pull off. I'm not going to fight a ton of .edu and .gov sites. I have in the past and took my slice of the pie. But there's often easier slices of easier pies to be had.

I wrote a 10,000 book on personal development two years ago (didn't have a plan, just hungry and wanted to eat)

I've since taken it off amazon kdp but wondering if I should publish it as one long blog article or divide it into 10x 1000 word articles?

Bearing in mind that each chapter title is pretty competitive to rank for and I guess trying to rank for: "free book no download" might be equally or more competitive. Any thoughts?

You should post it as 10 articles despite the competition because the one super article has little chance to rank for the more refined and specific topics, but the chapters do. The "super article" tactic used to work in the past but Google changed the way they operate and it no longer works. The closer you get to dealing with the direct topic and answers, the better chance you have of ranking. Fluff is bad, and super articles may not have "fluff" but they do have fluff because it's not what people are asking for.

"Hey, how do I get up out of bed without snoozing 5 times?" Would you tell them exactly how to do that or hand them an encyclopedia?

I always wondered. Let's say you got few sites. 1st site is making 10k a month, but theres a plenty of work compared to 2nd site. 2nd 5k a month, but got insane potential to scale evergreen content and traffic is going month by month up and 3rd site just idea which got good potential. How would you focus?

We've had this discussion multiple times in the very recent past. You can read people's opinions here:

• 7x$1k sites or 1x$7k site?
• Would you focus on just one or multiple sites when starting out?

I don't want to vomit out the same opinions again but I can tell you that your imaginary 3rd site has zero value because there's zero execution behind it and sites 1 and 2 should be scaled together since they're both already past the hump and proven. Otherwise I'd have told you to work on one site.

 

[ItsYoBuddy]

I got an email from someone wanting to "publish a high quality guest post" on one of my sites. The site doesn't attract a lot of traffic yet. What's the best approach for this? Do I charge them or should I just add it for free? If I do decide to accept it, do you put them down as an author or no?

 

[Ryuzaki]

I got an email from someone wanting to "publish a high quality guest post" on one of my sites. The site doesn't attract a lot of traffic yet. What's the best approach for this? Do I charge them or should I just add it for free? If I do decide to accept it, do you put them down as an author or no?

I get about 15 of those a day per site. It's not a unique opportunity. The way I handle it is I delete them without opening them. They CAN be from real companies but 75% of the time it's some agency trying to place their clients on your site, and 25% of the time it's just automated outreach from SEOs hoping to score a free link.

In the past I've considered charging some insane amount. All it would take is preparing an email you can copy and paste in to reply to them all. It would get rid of the dummies real quick, which would hopefully keep your outbound link profile safe. The last thing you want to do is sell a bunch of links to link buyers on your own precious site.

It's not that risky if you don't accept every offer, but the problem is you have to drag the information out of them. Nobody wants to tell you what their site or client site is before you say yes. And then you find out it's casino and crypto and CBD and all that (the ones that can afford to pay whatever your really high price is). Your time will be wasted so heavily that you'll need to hire someone to handle that outreach, because as soon as your domain starts showing up in competitor's inbound link profile, you'll get even more offers from niches you don't want anything to do with.

And thus, I just delete them and move forward. If you want to work with real brands, you'll need to join some of these PR companies designed for this purpose.

 

[freshpeppermint]

Yo I want to change the entire theme of one of my old websites. Do I just do it normally? It's on ezoic so, long ago I heard you need to do like some extra step in order to do this or what not.

Hey also I am looking at one of my competitors and they have things like: (I am trying to create proper silo structure like on my other site)
- Complete Guides, Beginner Guides, Comparison Guides <- should I have something like this or should I just have "Subject Guides"