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  1. RiverStyx

    Is it still worth it to create content sites in 2023?

    I appreciate that I am an outlier to most searching on the web, but video is my last resort. I read extremely quickly and can process mounds of text far faster than people on a video can speak. So, my preference is to read. I know not everyone is like this - hell I can see the stats on the...
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    Google's Full Width Auto Complete/Suggest

    Interesting, the client in question does have a wikipedia page and a favicon on their site. I'll check with them what size favicon they're using though and if it's too small we'll try adjusting it and see if that makes any difference. I still think it might be pulling from a GMB profile though...
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    Google's Full Width Auto Complete/Suggest

    This is a newish feature Google rolled out in December and I was wondering if any of you fine SEO's on this forum have any idea where they pull the logos from in the new full width autosuggest feature? My best guess is they're pulling them from GMB accounts. I have a client that wants to show up...
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    BuSo - I'm thinking of buying this site and wanted to get your opinion

    Thank you everyone for weighing in on this! I have decided not to purchase the site and instead am investing in my own content/aff site with a decent budget now for content creation! I'll start a thread in the lab about that project soon so anyone interested can follow along. My goal for my...
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    BuSo - I'm thinking of buying this site and wanted to get your opinion

    Yeah, every single one of them is unrelated. I can't see any that are relevant to the niche the site is in right now. Plus a number of them are from blogspot/wiki type pages.
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    BuSo - I'm thinking of buying this site and wanted to get your opinion

    Thanks for the advice! I have access to GSC already but I will check out the site on the other tools you mentioned as well. I'm leaning towards not going for it at this point and instead taking the money and investing in my own content/aff site - which is already built and getting impressions. I...
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    BuSo - I'm thinking of buying this site and wanted to get your opinion

    You know what - after talking with you guys here, diving deeper into the backlink profile and looking at January's shitty performance I agree with you on that pricing. My mental valuation has been dropping steadily the more I investigate the site and I was thinking 7.5K as of this afternoon. If...
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    BuSo - I'm thinking of buying this site and wanted to get your opinion

    Right now the multiple assigned to this site is up in the air. I do not think that the good performance it had before the core update is relevant anymore so really I'm looking at just the last two months of sales data as I think that more accurately reflects its value. Jan was a terrible month...
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    BuSo - I'm thinking of buying this site and wanted to get your opinion

    Another thing that is likely affecting the site is stale content. The articles there haven't been updated since the summer and there hasn't been regular publishing to the site. All the articles need updating right now. And all the simple signals that provide trust are non-existant on the site...
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    BuSo - I'm thinking of buying this site and wanted to get your opinion

    Just based on my research into the site and its glaring lack of social proof, lack of authorship, lack of schema and just general lack of anything that gives authority to a site. The BL profile is fine, but not super strong either, it could use building up. The content is all original and well...
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    BuSo - I'm thinking of buying this site and wanted to get your opinion

    Sure, if I end up buying it I can do a journal on the progress. I agree the terrible design and the high bounce rate are actually factors in favor as I can add some real value there. The competitons sites are also fairly horrid so there is some space to dominate the niche. Current discussion...
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    BuSo - I'm thinking of buying this site and wanted to get your opinion

    Lol, nice one. To answer any questions in terms of content and general layout the site is fine, it's got some good articles that are still ranking, it just has an algorithmic penalty on it due to lack of EAT. I'm fairly confident that I can get it back to it's prior state in 3 months or so. I...
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    BuSo - I'm thinking of buying this site and wanted to get your opinion

    Hey guys, so I'm looking at investing in a content/affiliate site. It was doing fairly well bringing in about 3-4K in profit per month, then it got hit badly by the Dec 2020 core update and is now in decline and is earning 1-1.5k/mo. I'm a technical SEO by profession and have been in this game...
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    Just went through hell at Empire Flippers, I need a beer

    I listed a site with EF once, (well tried to, they seem to not like small ecom sites) and I paid the $297. The stipulation I got was that they'd refund me if they decided not to take my listing - I got refunded. So...to me this does eliminate the tyre kickers and those who have sites EF isn't...
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    What's your fulltime job.. if you have one.

    Me: mid 30's, Digital Marketing Manger for a UK telecoms. Basically doing everything for their website that I should be doing for my own. Here's my issue with it, after 8 hours a day doing digital marketing I'm feeling quite burned out and can't seem to find the motivation to work on my stuff in...
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    Using Adroll or Adwords?

    I've spoken with Adroll and from what I can tell their list of sites is not that much more extensive than adwords and their minimum spend starts at £5,000 per month. So, really, its not a good solution unless you already have quite the marketing budget. Quantcast seemed to be better but again...
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    Need a hosting recommendation for a Big Brand site

    Hey guys, Not sure if this is the right place but I need a bit of advice. I'm currently rebranding and rebuilding from scratch a clients website. This client is a big brand already but their current server setup is a god awful mess so I want to move away from all the legacy crap and start fresh...
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    Goals for March 2017

    nope ;)
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    Goals for March 2017

    Honestly, to get healthy again and find my drive is my goal for March - I've been down with a really bad flu for 3 weeks and have just started to recover. For April though I have a site in the works I want to launch for 4/20, I'll let you guys guess the niche.
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    Hardest Part of Online Marketing

    brainstorming the content is where I get hung up - working alone on projects without anyone to bounce ideas off of seems to make it really difficult for me, if I can talk with someone for about 20 mins then I can figure it out no problem. Sometimes it seems that all the articles have already...
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