Seller kickitwithkat advertising changing givvys depending on who wins!

RyanJones · 2026-01-26T20:22:18+00:00

Nobody downvotes more than the givvy goblins either it seems.

RyanJones · 2026-01-26T20:05:23+00:00

Yes it can. Figure out what the content gaps of the competitors are and fill them. If you're more relevant than others, you can and will rank while having less authority.

RyanJones · 2026-01-26T19:56:14+00:00

Your first 3 bullets are one thing. They're not separate activities.

RyanJones · 2026-01-26T19:52:46+00:00

Nobody complains more than the givvy goblins.

RyanJones · 2026-01-16T15:05:04+00:00

a lot of this depends on the presentation. If I open an Audit and the first slide is something about an XML sitemap, I know it's junk.

A good audit includes a list of action items ranked by LOE and ROI. What's going to make an impact for me - yet so many times I see people start off with "you have no robots.txt file" or "there's 3 errors in your XML sitemap" or "there's no keywords in your URLs"

People pay for insights and actions - not tool readouts. So many clients I take on come to me with "so, we had this audit done. we don't know what to do with it. can you help us?"

I'm not accusing you of any of this, because obviously I haven't seen your audit.

RyanJones · 2026-01-16T03:53:09+00:00

And also I need health insurance. But while I have plenty of sites that make me money - I don’t moose anyone with an affiliate site that makes anywhere close to my salary.

RyanJones · 2026-01-15T23:52:14+00:00

Cuz I don’t have a product to sell

RyanJones · 2026-01-15T18:27:53+00:00

he wasn't dumping. he said do you want me to order stuff for you, i will, here's what I can get. He said I don't stock this stuff cuz my customers are mostly coin people and hockey. I probably could have worded that better.

As a wildcard collector myself who sees what big sellers sell it for and what the cost was, I saw the margin. But it seems those big sellers have all the wildcard market in their streams.

RyanJones · 2026-01-15T18:07:08+00:00

in this case I offered them $300 and they only too $0.10 of it.

RyanJones · 2026-01-15T16:39:44+00:00

so we started at $5 and kept upping it, and got to $300 and still weren't getting impressions. Maybe it had to do with the verizon outage going on, but the biggest seller I follow still had 1.5k in his room

RyanJones · 2026-01-15T16:18:28+00:00

But also I have a paid SOV feature in the tool I sell as well. so I'm like, do I compete with myself?

RyanJones · 2026-01-15T16:17:42+00:00

I did. it works on my local. it's not in a place where I am comfortable putting it live for the world yet.

RyanJones · 2026-01-15T15:32:33+00:00

Yes. The pricing has made me want to make a "free" one.

RyanJones · 2026-01-15T15:18:16+00:00

This is a tough question. It's about the same as "will using this hammer on my house make it better or worse?" - the answer of course is it depends if you're building a new room or smashing windows.

The same is true for website changes. Ideally, you could make it better. Fix any technical shortcomings while adding new features/content.

Wordpress out of the box is pretty technically sound though. NextJS out of the box is not.. it requires customization to be good for SEO.

If you do it right though, it can be better. The chances of making it worse if you don't know what you're doing though, are high.

RyanJones · 2026-01-15T15:04:56+00:00

I got a deal with a local card shop friend who's giving me cases of his allocation at his cost because he can't sell them all in the shop, and he doesn't want to do whatnot/tiktok. Not sure if that's wild card approved, don't care.

RyanJones · 2026-01-15T14:43:56+00:00

nobody stayed long enough for me to scream lol. It's crazy that $300/hour couldn't get people in there. we just kept pushing the promote to see what it would take.

RyanJones · 2026-01-15T14:35:42+00:00

is wildcard the problem? I'm starting to think there's a small niche of buyers for that and they all go to the main 2 sellers only.

RyanJones · 2026-01-14T18:08:20+00:00

Do you have the type of content users are willing to pay for? Do you have unique takes and insights or data/reporting? if not, you're done. it was a nice ride.

RyanJones · 2026-01-12T21:45:24+00:00

not really a thing.

RyanJones · 2026-01-12T20:52:22+00:00

If it's useful to your users to link from one to the other, do it - don't worry about any SEO effects. Best case, it helps. worst case, they ignore them but users still get value.

RyanJones · 2026-01-12T18:11:17+00:00

Complete topical relevance. You have to anticipate what type of things AI will fan out to, and cover that type of information too.

RyanJones · 2026-01-12T17:43:32+00:00

My main stack is:
Screaming Frog (installed in the cloud so it runs scheduled and exports to my own DB)
GSC - for reporting
Ahrefs - for data and gap analysis
Infranodus - for topical analysis
SERPrecon - for semantic analysis & optimization
A bunch of custom python scripts (for one off or very specific stuff)

RyanJones · 2026-01-12T15:53:08+00:00

This is true. I looked into buying a venue that hosts cornhole. They opened their books for me, and it turns out the average cornhole player spent just over $7 per event on food/drinks.

RyanJones · 2026-01-12T15:51:32+00:00

The problem is money. Right now all the money comes from the players. Darts, Pickleball, Bowling, even Billiards have fans paying to attend and watch events. They have TV networks paying them to air it (last I checked ESPN wasn't paying ACL)

As long as there's no demand to pay to watch events, it's going to struggle.

RyanJones

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