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

Do VS article which is between 2 products count as "non informational content"? Like you know how you are not supposed to make the site mostly about reviews and best of X but do versus content fall under that?
 
Do VS article which is between 2 products count as "non informational content"? Like you know how you are not supposed to make the site mostly about reviews and best of X but do versus content fall under that?
Yes, you are reviewing X against Y to see which product is the best.
 
Do you guys give extra money/bonuses to your writers if they are doing a fantastic job? If so, how often and how much more?
 
I figured this was the right place for this question. Is there a way to quickly gather published post count by month, and word count by month in WP?
 
Do you guys give extra money/bonuses to your writers if they are doing a fantastic job? If so, how often and how much more?
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.

After I decided to keep them then I give them a higher rate.
 
What is better for competitor analysis and keyword research? Semrush or Ahrefs? Their plans are the same price after tax.

Can serpwoo do the above?
 
Do you guys give extra money/bonuses to your writers if they are doing a fantastic job? If so, how often and how much more?
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.
 
What is better for competitor analysis and keyword research? Semrush or Ahrefs? Their plans are the same price after tax.

Can serpwoo do the above?
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
 
Long story but I have a site in the pet niche averaging $6.48 RPM on 12K visitors with AdSense. I haven’t touched the site in about 2 years. I’m thinking about diving headfirst into this site. If I switch the display ads to Ezoic roughly, ballpark, in your experience how does Ezoic compare to AdSense on RPM?

I get there are no certainties and every niche is different, but in your experience what has the RPM increased or decreased in the switch.
 
How do you guys decide when is an ad layout too much? I've been experimenting with adding new units and RPMs have increased nicely, but I'm not sure where is the point when it becomes bad for user experience. Would too many ads ruin user signals and more importantly, rankings?
 
A big, highly popular site in my niche (DR 85) just asked for a backlink from my website. They're offering a dofollow link to another article of mine in return (reciprocal link). Is this risky? I currently don't have the option for a three way link swap as the other sites I offer are not relevant to them.
 
Long story but I have a site in the pet niche averaging $6.48 RPM on 12K visitors with AdSense. I haven’t touched the site in about 2 years. I’m thinking about diving headfirst into this site. If I switch the display ads to Ezoic roughly, ballpark, in your experience how does Ezoic compare to AdSense on RPM?

I get there are no certainties and every niche is different, but in your experience what has the RPM increased or decreased in the switch.
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.

How do you guys decide when is an ad layout too much? I've been experimenting with adding new units and RPMs have increased nicely, but I'm not sure where is the point when it becomes bad for user experience. Would too many ads ruin user signals and more importantly, rankings?
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.

A big, highly popular site in my niche (DR 85) just asked for a backlink from my website. They're offering a dofollow link to another article of mine in return (reciprocal link). Is this risky? I currently don't have the option for a three way link swap as the other sites I offer are not relevant to them.
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.
 
Hello All!

I hope this is the place to ask!

Im working on my keyword research and using the Top Pages method on Ahrefs.

Ive found keywords from a low DR sites top pages that rank on page 1. Some of the other sites ranking on page 1 also have DRs below 10.

For example...out of the top 10 on the first page, there are 3 sites with a DR of 10 or below while my site has a DR of 11. Is this a good keyword to go after if intent is matched and you have a well written article or is there more to it?

Am I overthinking and overcomplicating it? Ive found several keywords with sites with a DR of 10 or below on page 1 and I'm second-guessing my method of keyword research.

The KD difficulty sometimes for these terms is above 10. So is KD or DR a more accurate measure of a keyword you can potentially rank for?

Thank you!
 
Confused over Informational Content... apologies if I am being very thick :smile:

1. Is it best to avoid niche's that contain products?

Reason being, there does not seem to be "How to", "what is" in 100s of keywords you get from Keyword tools.

2. Some of the guys have build sites with 500-1000 articles, I just don't get how to find that many informational keywords in a vertical

However...

3. As an example - If I put "toaster" into Google. Scroll down a little and there are the "People Also Ask" Widget.

Does this mean, if I was to write about a toast and include these questions it would be classed as informational?

(Above is an example, I am not in the kitchen niche) :smile:

Embarrassing to ask the above but I feel I am on the edge of understanding, just being a bit thick

Thanks everyone
 
Am I overthinking and overcomplicating it?
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.

But yeah, you're thinking too hard. Both of these metrics are just heuristic tools for people doing bulk work to filter a ton of data quickly. If you're being precious about a single keyword then you need to check manually. You can spend less time doing this as your own domain becomes more powerful.

1. Is it best to avoid niche's that contain products?

Reason being, there does not seem to be "How to", "what is" in 100s of keywords you get from Keyword tools.
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.

2. Some of the guys have build sites with 500-1000 articles, I just don't get how to find that many informational keywords in a vertical
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.

To follow your own example, it might be like:
  • Home & Garden (vertical)
  • Kitchen (sub-vertical)
  • Kitchen Appliances (niche)
  • Toasters (sub-niche)
  • 4-Slice Toasters (micro-niche)

3. As an example - If I put "toaster" into Google. Scroll down a little and there are the "People Also Ask" Widget.

Does this mean, if I was to write about a toast and include these questions it would be classed as informational?
You know what an informational article is. You're just over thinking it. You basically have:
  • Informational (how to, why, what, when, types of, entertainment)
  • Navigational (where, closest, near me, destination included)
  • Commercial (comparisons, product names, or info that narrows the target)
  • Transactional (coupons, for sale, discount codes, download)
Yes, the People Also Ask is helpful in finding questions to write about. Many will overlap each other and present the same results in Google, so watch out for duplicate intent.
 
Thanks very much Ryuzaki

I reread a few times plus investigated for hours and ... I get it.. finally :smile:

Thankyou for your patience, I do find times in life where something is so obvious I don't get it then... that lightbulb moment :smile:
 
Youre the man as usual @Ryuzaki ! Basically, pay attention to the KD score and DR score in the serps. If the KD is low and the DR of the sites ranking are low and/or comparable to my sites DR then there's a good chance I can rank! Gotcha!

I tend to over complicate things so its nice to hear from someone with experience that I just need to take it easy.
 
I've noticed an article, only 1200 words, ranking decently with some good snippets and PAA. I was thinking about doubling the word count, has anyone ever seen a negative impact from doing something similar?
 
Does anyone have vendor/people recommendations for buying quality domains? I'd prefer domains that haven't been dropped, but just transferred.

I know Nargil is a good one, and I have contacted him, but I also like to check out some other people.
 
I've noticed an article, only 1200 words, ranking decently with some good snippets and PAA. I was thinking about doubling the word count, has anyone ever seen a negative impact from doing something similar?
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.

Does anyone have vendor/people recommendations for buying quality domains? I'd prefer domains that haven't been dropped, but just transferred.

I know Nargil is a good one, and I have contacted him, but I also like to check out some other people.
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).

You can even use godaddy auctions if you want to do some work yourself filtering. Expired-domains.net (I think it is) helps you do this too. Talk to @Golan too, as he’s a domain we as well.
 
From real-life experience, is the choice of gTLD a real factor in rankings in 2022?

I understand that sticking to the classics is best overall and preferred because of the "trust" factor for users and because it is also easier to directly type. But if the whole strategy is pure SEO and users' minds have changed (where users are a lot more accustomed to seeing and using other new extensions) does it really matter nowadays?

Supposedly, Google doesn't favor one over the other, but do they see some extensions as "less worthy" or spammy?
https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/ ranks the TLDs by frequency of spam. Could Google be using a similar approach?

So, ultimately, the question is: Has anyone any real-life feedback on whether a site that has sound quality content, speed, proper SEO, etc. but has a novelty gTLD, been hurt by the choice of extension?

I am specifically looking the .best TLD.
 
I'm doing a content audit on the very first site I built. One of the issues I have here is that I didn't know keyword research when I started.

Some of the keywords I went after are much too difficult to rank for. What should I do with these articles?

I only have 50 or so of these articles. I wonder if I leave them or spruce them up a bit I may rank for them in the future, or should I just delete them and move on?
 
I'm doing a content audit on the very first site I built. One of the issues I have here is that I didn't know keyword research when I started.

Some of the keywords I went after are much too difficult to rank for. What should I do with these articles?

I only have 50 or so of these articles. I wonder if I leave them or spruce them up a bit I may rank for them in the future, or should I just delete them and move on?

I would not delete those posts. Some posts are good just to have as a 'base'. You can refer to those posts from other articles.

Maybe you cannot rank for the main keyword, but it is probably possible to address some long-tails in the H2's. You can try to rank the article on those long tails. To support the 'difficult to rank posts' you can also write separate articles on those long-tails and link back to the main article. Who knows, maybe you can rank in the future.
 
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