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    When does selling links start to effect your site negatively?

    Keep in mind that 10 links per month adds up real quick after a year or two and each of them removes more doubt about whether or not your site is selling links. Each link, even if it's to a relevant target, is still you linking to a link buyer and those link buyers will all have links from...
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    Introductions Thread

    @PickleRick Heya, I hope you stick around and post 2 more messages to unlock the ability to send and receive DM's because I have a couple of questions for you pertaining to your niche. Cheers!
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    Google Algorithm Updates - 2023 Ongoing Discussion

    Yeah man, exactly. There's a lot of entitlement and a lot of delusion and it can only be masked by success for so long. It's easy for "publishers" (using that term as loosely as possible) to feel like they've really done something special when the numbers are going up and they're being...
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    Google Algorithm Updates - 2023 Ongoing Discussion

    I'm putting together a list of patterns that I've noticed on a small handful of sites that either got hit or didn't get hit. I'll probably ask some folks to do a very brief questionnaire in the near future, to see if any of my theories hold water when we introduce a larger sample. In the...
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    Best Resource to Learn About Paid Ads?

    @thisishatred Yep, that's the only traffic source I was using when I was banned from the ad network for fraud clicks. Prior to that, there was also a massive discrepancy in the amount of traffic I was paying for (like Taco charging me for 2000+ visitors in a day, and only a few hundred were...
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    Best Resource to Learn About Paid Ads?

    When it comes to learning the basics, setting up campaigns, tracking, making mistakes... I'd personally recommend doing that on low-stakes accounts that you don't really care about losing/getting banned from. I lost an account/all my earnings recently at an ad network when I got banned for...
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    How are you finding expired domains?

    @Strike I'm usually not looking at domains for SEO at all, just the name itself. I'll filter out hyphens, numbers, etc - but if you're looking for an SEO play those might not bother you. I have some searches that'll filter for any names in .com with one of twenty or so different words in it...
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    How are you finding expired domains?

    The main difference is inventory, since any given registrar will have the names that are expiring from their own customers, and sometimes from other registrars. Some registrars let GoDaddy manage their expiration flow instead of doing it in house (PDR for example), others manage it themselves or...
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    How are you finding expired domains?

    You can set up a routine to check expiring auctions on platforms like GoDaddy, Sav, NameSilo, DropCatch, and Dynadot, instead of looking for expired names. Each platform has its quirks, like NameSilo's expiring auctions ending at 3 am EST daily. *This gives you the more broad overview of SEO...
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    S&P 500! Stock Market trading — Tesla, Amazon, META, others

    Somebody PM'd me to request an update... PERMISSION TO RAMBLE: GRANTED. I'm up about 35% since the sky supposedly began falling last year. I'm not saying it's smooth sailing from here on out, but the gains are a nice cushion regardless, rather than having sat on the sidelines trying to time...
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    Are content sites not selling at the moment?

    @MrMedia Are you taking this as a buying opportunity to acquire new sites? If sites are selling for lower multiples, buying something now and holding until late 2024 would take care of a good chunk of the cost of the site, assuming there's stuff to be had under 30x at the moment (Not sure how...
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    Introductions Thread

    You should be all set now. You needed 3 likes, and also 3 messages, and that one was your 3rd.
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    How To Get Website Into Google News?

    *Not personal experience, this comes from a buddy... The traffic from Google News was unlocked by posting newsworthy content on a very regular basis, like several articles per day. That's when it really popped off for them. So if that's a site that's been dormant, or hasn't been doing news-y...
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    Why are my RPMs so low?

    If you get around $2 RPM with Ezoic and Adsense, I would be very surprised if Monumetric was able to 10x it. It really depends a lot on your site and traffic. Different networks can get you different rates, absolutely, but these are ad networks - I don't know if they're miracle workers who can...
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    Starting The SEO Freelance Route -- Beginner's Checklist?

    There are, and a lot of them will overlap with other types of businesses and there's a lot of existing resources you can check out to get started. I think this question is too broad for someone to help you out much. You might get some better insights if you're more specific about the areas...
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    Membership site with study guide/quizzes

    Just a quick update. I heard back from one of the plugins I reached out to (Memberpress) and they have the ability to setup a membership site, build courses/classes, and the quiz results can be saved and viewed again later by the user. That checks a lot of our boxes. I had also reached out to...
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    Membership site with study guide/quizzes

    Hello, looking for some guidance and to be pointed in the right direction if anyone has experience with this. Need a website where people can sign up for a subscription membership and access study guides / quizzes. This part is pretty straightforward, I'm aware of different membership plugins...
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    When is a plugin worth the page speed loss?

    I try to weigh what I can accomplish relatively easily without a plugin against my own capabilities or the cost/effort it will take to do things without using plugins, and then decide how much I want to really try to min/max every nanosecond of pagespeed. There's a huge cliff of diminishing...
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    Using Your Smartphone As A Webcam

    Looks like Apple added functionality into the new MacOS to use your iPhone as a webcam for your desktop/laptop now, too.
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    Newbie Question(s) so dumb, you're afraid to even ask!

    If you're catching names that have dropped, the date will reset, even if they've dropped for only 0.01 seconds before being registered again. If you win a domain at auction that's expiring but hasn't gone through the entire expiration process yet, it will retain its age - like when a registrar...
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