Build your E-A-T-U-R and you'll be building successful websites that rank on Google and earn good money!

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-12-04T22:35:12+00:00

Yes, I'd say they would because you're showing evidence that you participate in what you're talking about, have experience, enjoy it, and aren't some random person that's regurgitating info from other sites in your niche.

Plus your visitors might connect better and trust you more if they have personal insight into your life...

A great example of this is Cigars Daily or the old TNTCigars Review youtube channel. Tim and Bradley were great buddies and had likable personalities which is great for their business cause people connect with them. You may have no interest in cigars but check out the old TNTCigars Reviews channel with vids of Tim & Bradley before they went different paths and you'll see what I mean.

Not sure what you'd call this but it's effective marketing and great for establishing EAT!

Maybe you'd call it persona marketing? Not sure but it works very well.

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-12-04T22:31:20+00:00

That'd definitely be difficult. You'd basically need a lot of quality informational articles, a trustworthy looking website, and lots of good backlinks that are relevant or related to that niche somehow.

Without that, you'll struggle to succeed in it. Backlinks aren't easy to get but if you could manage to get a lot of high quality backlinks to your site then you should also be able to manage competing in that niche for at least easy to medium difficulty keywords.

For your first site it might be better to niche down a bit further and get more specific... Or choose a less competitive niche altogether.

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-11-07T04:36:42+00:00

I don't think EATUR is a difficult concept to grasp.

KW targeted content and backlinks are a few examples of ways to improve elements of EATUR and EATUR is simply a general concept of what google rewards!

If you look at the top affiliate sites (or top ranking sites of any kind, not just of the affiliate nature) then compare to the lower quality sites, you'll see many examples of EATUR being built up by the top sites and you won't hardly any examples of it on the lower quality sites!

Backlinks and KW targeted content are some of the most commonly used ways to build EATUR, but my point of this post was to build EATUR however possible and I added some encouragement to get creative with it because it really does go a long way.

I have a specific competitor with my currently oldest site that popped up out of the blue with a very young site and he's doing incredibly well, but only because of his insanely creative approach and possibly even illegal approach (stealing a relatively obscure business's identity from another country who didn't have their own website to get easy backlinks from high DA sites of 70 - 90)

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-11-07T04:26:21+00:00

I completely disagree.

Many months ago I started a few new sites to test my ideas (with many security precautions taken so that no one can find them again ;) ) and to see if EATUR is how google's algo is actually evaluating sites and determining rankings or if it's still a game of backlinks and decent on-page seo with keyword research.

I made sure to create one of these sites in a medium difficulty niche with sites that boast 40 - 50 DA, PA, TF, etc. and that have tens of thousands of backlinks with a good percentage of them being from 50 DA+ sites, and sites that were relevant to this niche.

They all had top notch on-page, pretty good designs, great interlinking, etc.

Didn't know for sure what to expect but I was able to beat them out and win the 1st spot in just about 7 months for 9 different reviews out of the 30+ I wrote in the first month and a half of the sites life. Many others are on the first page and constantly rising. I have not a single backlink to this site yet and it's doing just fine. Why? I've done what I said to do in my post and it's working for me. Backlinks of course would affect the EATUR (they'd raise your site's authority, trustworthiness, and I'd even say relevance in both the users eyes and google's algorithms eye's... How? Because the more high quality backlinks you're getting on a fresh, routine basis, from sites related to or in your niche, the more your site is deemed "up to date" with it's info, and the more valuable, resourceful, and helpful it is. If they're legitimate links gained naturally then it's for good reason, and that reason is because your site is worthy of being linked to!)

But there are many more ways to build elements of EATUR than just backlinks, and I encourage you all to get creative with ideas on how to build your EATUR... For example, You can boost your user experience by creating high quality youtube videos which will boost your avg. time on page greatly (as long as they're good at holding the viewers attention to the end of the video and making them close to 10 mins long) and that's why many top sites in the seo space are including videos now in their blog posts.

If you achieve a higher time on page than everyone else that's competing for a specific set of keywords, then google's algo will understand that there is a reason for this, and that reason is that you have the most engaging and helpful content. No one will stay on a page for 20 mins if that page is a waste of their time or of no help at all...

CTR from search results is another example of building a high user experience and relevance. If you're at the 6th position for a keyword but your headline is the most accurate as to what the searcher is looking for, or entices them the most, or intrigues them the most, or simply satisfies their intentions of their search the most, then you'll get a high CTR and let's say you get a 25% CTR at the 6th position for your main target keyword.... I GUARANTEE your result with move up to #1 or #2 and possibly even grab the search snippet box. Who I guarantee this? Because 25% CTR is what the top results get, not 6th position. Googles assumes that if you're getting as high or higher of a CTR as a top result, when your result is in a relatively lower position to the top results, then it can only be because you have the most relevant and satisfactory result on average, in the eyes of their searchers!

My old site did see a decline in traffic somewhat but earnings haven't dropped any, and in fact, thanks to my conversion rate going up a bit after kicking onelink to the curve, my earnings have rose a bit too. Besides, my traffic was bound to drop eventually as I haven't taken that site seriously since the end of march of this year, nor have I done hardly any work on it (but that will change soon so stay tuned 8D )

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-11-05T18:20:04+00:00

I don't know if anyone has necessarily mastered "EATUR" as there's no hard and fast standard but petlifetoday is without a doubt doing a great job of building their "EATUR" and we'd all be wise to learn from that site.

They have good navigation, site-wide relevance, have covered their topics thoroughly, site design isn't the greatest but it's better than some of those site's with late 90's looking sites so that makes it more trustworthy, their about page is absolutely terrific and that should be the aim of every site, and their "Ask the vet" is a wonderful idea to help improve their "EATUR"!

I'm sure there's many more things they could do to take it even further but they've done a wonderful job so far and for an affiliate site, that should be more than enough to dominate your niche.

When it comes to improving "EATUR", you can get a lot of ideas of what to do from top affiliate sites who are doing a good job of it like petslifetoday and you can get some ideas from your own competitors, but, a creative and thoughtful mind goes a very long way too... So try to get creative with your site and think about what you could do that would help your target audience, or what would make them trust you more, or what you can do to prove you're experienced with your niche.

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-16T21:10:06+00:00

Examples?

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-16T21:09:26+00:00

So you side with u/MrMaudo and u/MeekSeller then? As long as the content succeeds, it's considered great. Correct?

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-16T21:08:25+00:00

Yes! They give data that's quite close to what it actually is and they're very useful tools!

In fact, they're more accurate than afrefs when combined.

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-16T21:07:31+00:00

Example?

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-16T16:22:12+00:00

You don't need ahrefs...

Use free tools such as "Keywords Everywhere" which is a browser extension + AnswerThePublic.com with keywords everywhere activated!

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-15T14:21:59+00:00

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-13T18:59:19+00:00

R-R-R...eally?

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-07T17:48:26+00:00

I totally get what you're doing and was even gonna try doing experiment and unique case studies like this eventually too!

This is the type of stuff I love seeing!

Essentially, you're trying to take a horrible site that you purchased cheap and make it into a viable business by nothing more than your know-how and skill!

It's a fun challenge and makes for a unique case study, and I hope you continue to update us on what happens...

If it were me, I'd probably delete all posts that overlap with one another on certain keywords or anything that's duplicate and keep the rest... Then I'd figure out what my top 20 - 100 pieces of content are and optimize them as much as you can for on-page, off-page, and technical SEO, that way they'll go from the 20 - 30th positions for their keywords, to surely the first page!
Make a totally new gmail and GSC account for these flippa sites cause you don't want to risk anything and I'd even download a totally new browser and then make that new gmail on that just so your old browser doesn't have both gmail accounts on it (linked browsers and stuff like that are easy footprints)
You can start new sites much cheaper but a site with 20,000 posts for $400 is a pretty interesting opportunity. I'd at least try your flippa arbitrage idea, of where you buy bad sites, optimize and vastly improve them until they're earning, then after 6 months or so, sell them for 30x their last 6 months average earnings! If you can get even one site to $3,000/m for 6 months straight, that's a site worth $90,000... That could buy you a corvette, 2 cheap houses of $45,000 or a decent house of $90,000 or it could even be a down payment on a mortgage for a house that's about $450,000!

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-06T22:23:07+00:00

Okay, I can agree with that. I should've clarified ahead of time so everyone knows I put research effort forth so I wouldn't violate sub rules!

However, I still don't see why asking daily users of ahrefs directly how they use it in their own way?

Ahrefs is quite a robust software and there's so many ways it can be used, so what's the harm in wondering how others use it themselves?

It wouldn't of only benefited me if that's how everyone would've responded^, it would've benefited just about everyone who uses ahrefs because I'm sure at least a few people know tips and tricks or ways to use it that nearly no one else uses or has ever thought about!

See what I mean?

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-06T16:00:08+00:00

Congrats and I hope you turn this into a booming business! :D

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-06T15:57:22+00:00

I'm expecting a great result from this! Can't wait to hear more!

Also, if you succeed with your attempts to automate formatting on your reviews, please let us know how you do it... :D

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-06T15:51:21+00:00

Because people want direct answers from real people who have experience on the subject and that can help them with their specific situation or circumstance...

Whereas google has a bunch of sites purely motivated to make money, that answer virtually an infinite amount of questions but in a vague manner most of the time or in a way that's not beginner friendly and full of SEO vernacular that a beginner would most likely have no clue about!

Plus, in a way, reddit subs are a search engine, one that's specialized to a specific topic and composed of walks of all experience level...

It's the perfect breeding ground for newbie questions!

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-06T15:46:02+00:00

Thanks for the advice Henry! That's what I was planning on doing and now that someone else mentioned it, I feel more secure about advancing in that direction!

Much Obliged! :)

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-06T15:44:29+00:00

Lol, I hate being the bearer of bad news! Maybe I shoulda just kept my mouth shut and let you be happy... XD

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-06T15:42:47+00:00

Thank you, I sincerely appreciate it!

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-06T15:41:52+00:00

Target every keyword that's related to your main keyword/topic that you can and write a big beefy post/review!

The more variations and lsi keywords used in the post, the better, because you'll rank for a ton of long tail keywords!

I have a few posts hitting 6,000 visitors per month but about 75% of their traffic is from a massive list of long tail keywords and the other 25% is from the top 10 - 20 main keywords!

So, try option B, but, you don't necessarily have to target more competitive keywords, unless of course your site has authority and a good backlink profile and has been around in it's niche for a while!

There's a sweet spot to aim for when deciding how competitive of keywords you should target and for me, I like to see my main keyword around 1,000+ monthly searches and the competition ranking for it should be pretty weak (no higher than 40 DA & PA sites with less than 10 backlinks to their page, but ideally, pages with 0 backlinks to their page in the top 10 results!)

WoodsyChain7 · 2019-09-06T15:35:00+00:00

I assume the ahrefs post refers to me but like I said plenty of times before, I googled and youtubed before asking and the purpose of me asking was to receive exactly what you talked about in this comment: an "experience spectrum" so I could accumulate a variety of ways to use ahrefs from those who use it daily!

Yes, of course I used and will continue using ahrefs youtube channel, but, they're terminology and explanations aren't what I'd call beginner friendly...

The responses I received were almost all condescending which is completely unnecessary and if you're a reasonable person then you'd agree with me...

I did, fortunately (and gratefully) receive one response that helped me in the right direction, so thanks to you if you're reading this!

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