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You can target new and growing towns, cities, suburbs, etc. Search volumes are always disproportionately high compared to towns with similar populations. Supply & demand. I've built a few like this now and I just have people sell listings to local businesses. Can also make a decent bit of...

A lot will charge, and some wont. The landscape HAS been changed by the amount of emails people receive being offered money. It's almost status-quo now. The thing is a lot of them that are happy to accept any old article as long as they get a fist full of dollars isn't a site you want a link on...

I think that Amazon Affiliate has been dying for a while. I feel like it's a supply/demand issue where the incentive for Amazon to reward affiliates has decreased substantially. These big corporations don't do things out of the goodness of their hearts. There is an intense amount of...

I have a handful of Jekyll sites. These are micro-niche sites, things that I knew could add some extra revenue to my business and I had no intention of flipping. I agree with what @Steve Brownlie was basically saying - that the ease-of-use of WordPress prevents a site being unfairly devalued to...

If you set your site up correctly you can dupe the site but for the UK audience. You'll see sites doing this when they have; site.com/en-gb/ etc To achieve this you'll need to understand hreflang. There is a little more to it than that. But here's a moz link (sry lol) to get you started. Hope...

Here's the dichotomy which is highlighted by the documentary @CCarter shared. A.) We all WANT to believe we're individual. B.) But we WANT to belong. In a world where the consumer wants to feel different, they also value sameness. As long as that sameness fits their idea of different. There's...

@StartingAgain Effort. I don't mean it's too much effort either, it's actually too little effort... There is a low barrier to entry in cost and effort when it comes to affiliate. Couple this with gradually decreasing rewards (mainly amazon associates) and the turning of time, what we're left...

Pretty funny that this subject is blowing up everywhere right now... Been doing it for years on my own sites and with clients (when I was doing client work). It's also a big part of why I don't build sites as large as possible anymore.

Pretty cool idea and just a good use of the 5 minutes it would take to make such a website; https://www.scootscoop.com/ These guys are clearly keeping their finger on the pulse and the truth is you can be sure that anything that polarizes people like scooters do is going to have money on both...

They use meta-description as an indicator of difficulty?

Stick with FE. Empire, well... They could sell your sites for good money, but they're morally dubious or plain stupid when it comes to doing their background checks. Some cheeky fella sells with them regularly who ranks his sites with PBNs... Remove, re-point, repeat. Discovered this after...

Don't feel like a senior citizen, most of the newer folks lack basic skills that you will have in spades. I do a mix of sites, you can probably guess what works best in a short amount of time... I would also say that affiliate kinda sucks these days.

Depends on what metrics you care about... But on the whole the best out there is still Ahrefs (which is a shame). Ahrefs is great in many ways, but they're far from being amazingly accurate. They've been slipping recently too imho. I still use them for Domain Rating, Referring Domains and...

I build more links to my homepage than most do, and it's quite simply to do with the fact that the largest brands on the web have a high RD-Homepage Ratio. That being said it's not that simple. I am a big believer in reverse engineering competitors, so I'd do that and try to figure out the...

100% @CCarter In my opinion, you make it about word count and writers focus is word count, not quality. Just in the same way as if you take a real estate agent, give them X% and they can get a sale for 200,000 or 220,000 (but 220,000 takes 6 weeks longer) they will push you to take 200,000 as...

Yep, they are in the SERPs everywhere but if you haven't noticed the trend among newer sites then you're not paying attention. Yup I agree with this, if you remember when this forum started I was one of the first people talking about how effective silos were. Schema, breadcrumbs etc all a...

I've been doing a lot of audits for friends since this landed. I'd agree that this is very much the case... The whole thing is tilted toward fewer, but higher quality articles. Even slight cannibalization is causing massive issues for a lot of folks. In my opinion, it's a good change, at least...

I'm with @Sutra on this one. The original early September update was something completely different to what we saw at the start of October which got branded as a partial rollback or whatever. What you want to do @Tao is build your authority in other ways. Think about what you can do off of...

This is something I've learned as someone who is running a bunch of sites. I think every project has its own unique challenges, but there are a common few hurdles that any site needs to overcome. Especially with Search Traffic. If a site makes it, I'll move it along... Not all sites will get...

As you may know on September 5th OneClickSSL discontinued their certificate. If you use A2 Hosting for any of your sites I'm not sure if you've already seen this elsewhere or not. They screwed up ensuring they put the redirects back in place... Check your http > https redirects are still in...