@SEOarbitrageur Definitely focusing on a handful is going to much easier than managing 30+. However, it sucks how one day you're printing cash with 30 sites and then Google decides to kill that income the next day.
BTW, if you're looking to add someone to your team, I'd love to have a chat.
@sixdigitniche@Charles_SEO I never liked Ezoic. Lately, the EPMVs have gone down the drain too. Wish there was an alternative for newer sites (except Adsense, of course).
P.S. Theodore, can you please check the DM I sent you? Thanks!
Built myself a Python automated internal linking algorithm. Want the script? Get it below.
Been having some auto-gen content fun lately, with a maximum focus on making stuff as natural as possible.
Interlinking is now my focus for it.
Built my own interlinker last year, but well, WordPress is a pain with custom editors and I gave up.
Looping back to it now, and I have the base for Python interlinking script that will link my clusters together. Prioritise links how I want them.
It will take the Markdown formatted text, pre-Wordpress upload, and sort internal links for me.
Add keywords, get links.
Natural anchors
A few will be exact match links, but most will have natural surrounding text that forms a (mostly) coherent anchor.
Keyword: Blog
Anchors:
a blog
blog posts
bloggers
a blogging setup
this blog content
all possible blog posts
Keyword: WordPress
Anchors:
all those lovely WordPress features
WordPress
all the WordPress bloat
We're looking at 2,000-2,500 word articles, so I'll be looking at inserting 3-4 links to other articles in the cluster, and then a link to the pillar for the cluster.
Fallback link forcer
But, not all articles in the cluster will have a keyword that will get it links.
In that case, I've got a little fallback that will force a link in for any URLs that don't match a link.
Just one of those old "read more:" type setups, but this has gotta be better than nothing.
What it does now
Now, this is just the basis of it for testing. This isn't a run, get links, setup. It's the algorithm for it. The brains.
It still needs to be tweaked to dynamically list the keywords/urls, and also to actually pick which link to insert, as it's just giving you all the options right now.
I'll be having it randomly select a link, and then blocking it from selecting any other link in the nearby sentences, but you can obviously tweak this how you'd want.
Built with ChatGPT.
You can modify it with ChatGPT.
ChatGPT can even help you set python up... It helped me!
You could;
- Block exact match
- Block phrase match
- Add synonym matching
- Add multiple links per URL
The list goes on!
Want the script?
Like, repost and chuck a comment down below and I'll slide into your DMs with the script.
@harveymeale What are your thoughts on putting Amazon aff links/ banners in informational posts? I know the search traffic there isn't looking to buy anything but they may click the link and buy anything (maybe unrelated to your niche) in the next 24 hours and you still get a commission.
@Aoakudotcom@tonythill So, one pin with an image about the post and a link back to the post? That's what I've been thinking about doing. Using the post's featured image so I don't have to design new graphics and linking it back to the post.
@harveymeale@nichenirvana I've always used ads only on my sites. I know round up posts are basically your money articles that make a user buy something but what about info articles? Do you put ads there/waste that traffic/somehow redirect it to your money articles?
@nichesitesbeth Where/how do you get images for travel niche sites? For almost any other niche, one can find images easily but I've always wondered how travel niche bloggers get images of so many different locations/places without hiring someone in each of those places go take pics.
@KeywordcareCarl Tech companies all over the world have been laying off so this isn't much of a surprise. Regardless of that, as a publisher, I'm very disappointed with @ezoic and can't wait to get my sites off of it.
@Nick_zv_ You should also mention checking the SERPs for DA before determining if a keyword is easy-to-rank. I use Semrush and I have seen countless keywords with less than 15 difficulty that have minimum 50+ DA sites on the SERP. It's almost impossible for a new site to outrank that.
@nickfromseattle That's because black hat SEO has become harder than white hat nowadays. Long gone are the days when you'd spam backlinks on low quality pages and get ranked. Panda and Penguin updates back in the day laid the foundation stone to counter this SEO spam.
@SEOarbitrageur I've always had subjective answers to this question. Half the people believe there is no sandbox while the other half believe there is. For this reason, I just buy an expired domain every time to avoid this.