Overview
My first journey was a flop, but I learned a great deal from that:
My second journey has been a success for a nice side income:
With the experience I've gained from those projects, I'm embarking on yet another journey.
This affiliate site will be monetized with Amazon; outdoors sports.
PLANS
This will be the 1st affiliate niche site in my ambitious plan of building an affiliate niche site EMPIRE in order to secure a financially more stable future for myself. One where I wouldn't have to worry about money (I'm not an abitious type of person and can live frugally if I knew that I could always use the money if something went wrong). One where I'd let robots do the unfulfilling work me or something like that.
(In the ultimate scale, I hope the climate change doesn't become too big of a problem nor that a comet or a superflare hit the Earth in my lifetime - imagine the chaos if either did; I'd need to have a backup plan involving settling somewhere like the Kingdom of Bhutan in that case, if they'd welcome me that is ^^)
I'm going to build this niche site following the layout of this niche empire site's pillar post: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; except that I'm not going to neither use such an overall content plan nor will I link such sites together because I feel Google algorithm at one point will catch on to this shady tactic sooner or later. I'm in it for the long-term benefits.
The GOAL is for the site to start generating around 300€ a month, which is not too much to ask for I've learned to know. The bigger plan is to have multiple these sites each generating 100€+ each month. If I'm getting enough money with these sites, I will have the capital to invest it in other baskets as well so that I wouldn't have all the eggs in a single one (because if something were to happen to... idk, to Amazon, I'd be toast).
The only and only problem is that I work at a snail pace... This is a problem I somehow need to overcome I guess.
TECHNICAL
The domain is bought via Namecheap for 1 year. It's hosted by Host Goala premium shared hosting plan ($20 per year, starting from next billing cycle it will be $26 per year due to Cpanel price increase). I've implemented https for this site and it's using a relatively optimized simple free theme (Roseta).
SEO
Compared to my 1st affiliate site's niche, this 2nd affiliate site's niche is a little more complicated to work around. Similarly to the 1st affiliate niche site, the competition for this one is also relatively low - although this time there's less room to snap untouched keywords due to the nature of this niche, I'm sure I can snap a few if I do my research thoroughly.
The on-page SEO for the affiliate site will follow the same principle as it is in my 1st affiliate site:
The off-page SEO is not something I'm overly concerned about. I feel like there's no need for it in all actuality. I'm pretty sure that simply having better content will do the trick over time. This site is also summer-seasonal, so I hopefully won't feel the desperate urge to push my content with scammy backlinks because they won't have the needed effect outside the season anyway.
MONI
This time around I've payed only 1 year in advance. This is in case the niche turns out to be harder to rank for than it seems. I'm fairly certain that it's sure to make at least some money now that I know it's something in the realms of possibility. Just needs content and time...
This time I do have a small budget from the 1st affiliate site's monthly earnings for oursourceing content from this second affiliate niche site, BUT I'll try to create the content myself, at least at first, in order to learn about this niche and come off as trustworthy for the readers (I personally hate the obvious affiliate sites that just don't provide any actual value).
Expenses:
My first journey was a flop, but I learned a great deal from that:
- Sauna porn tube site (August, 2017 - 2018).
My second journey has been a success for a nice side income:
- Hobby site (3rd of March, 2018 - 2019+),
- 1st Affiliate site (5th of April, 2018 - 2019+).
With the experience I've gained from those projects, I'm embarking on yet another journey.
- 2nd Affiliate Site (7th of June, 2019).
This affiliate site will be monetized with Amazon; outdoors sports.
PLANS
This will be the 1st affiliate niche site in my ambitious plan of building an affiliate niche site EMPIRE in order to secure a financially more stable future for myself. One where I wouldn't have to worry about money (I'm not an abitious type of person and can live frugally if I knew that I could always use the money if something went wrong). One where I'd let robots do the unfulfilling work me or something like that.
(In the ultimate scale, I hope the climate change doesn't become too big of a problem nor that a comet or a superflare hit the Earth in my lifetime - imagine the chaos if either did; I'd need to have a backup plan involving settling somewhere like the Kingdom of Bhutan in that case, if they'd welcome me that is ^^)
I'm going to build this niche site following the layout of this niche empire site's pillar post: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; except that I'm not going to neither use such an overall content plan nor will I link such sites together because I feel Google algorithm at one point will catch on to this shady tactic sooner or later. I'm in it for the long-term benefits.
The GOAL is for the site to start generating around 300€ a month, which is not too much to ask for I've learned to know. The bigger plan is to have multiple these sites each generating 100€+ each month. If I'm getting enough money with these sites, I will have the capital to invest it in other baskets as well so that I wouldn't have all the eggs in a single one (because if something were to happen to... idk, to Amazon, I'd be toast).
The only and only problem is that I work at a snail pace... This is a problem I somehow need to overcome I guess.
TECHNICAL
The domain is bought via Namecheap for 1 year. It's hosted by Host Goala premium shared hosting plan ($20 per year, starting from next billing cycle it will be $26 per year due to Cpanel price increase). I've implemented https for this site and it's using a relatively optimized simple free theme (Roseta).
I love simplicity, minimalistic feel to things. Less distractions, more focused mind...
(this quote is not directly related to what I said above)
(this quote is not directly related to what I said above)
SEO
Compared to my 1st affiliate site's niche, this 2nd affiliate site's niche is a little more complicated to work around. Similarly to the 1st affiliate niche site, the competition for this one is also relatively low - although this time there's less room to snap untouched keywords due to the nature of this niche, I'm sure I can snap a few if I do my research thoroughly.
The on-page SEO for the affiliate site will follow the same principle as it is in my 1st affiliate site:
- keyword research is completed;
- 1500-4000+ word articles with pictures, short paragraphs, useful content, etc are planned;
- interlinking to useful and relevant sources within the site itself with ultimate pillar content for each bigger money keyword is the method;
- [user friendly - useful yet simple and pleasant overall feel of the site(s)]
The off-page SEO is not something I'm overly concerned about. I feel like there's no need for it in all actuality. I'm pretty sure that simply having better content will do the trick over time. This site is also summer-seasonal, so I hopefully won't feel the desperate urge to push my content with scammy backlinks because they won't have the needed effect outside the season anyway.
MONI
This time around I've payed only 1 year in advance. This is in case the niche turns out to be harder to rank for than it seems. I'm fairly certain that it's sure to make at least some money now that I know it's something in the realms of possibility. Just needs content and time...
This time I do have a small budget from the 1st affiliate site's monthly earnings for oursourceing content from this second affiliate niche site, BUT I'll try to create the content myself, at least at first, in order to learn about this niche and come off as trustworthy for the readers (I personally hate the obvious affiliate sites that just don't provide any actual value).
Expenses:
- 1 domain: $9.06 (June, 2019 - June, 2020)
- hosting: $20 (June, 2019 - June, 2020)
- total: $29.06
- not monetized yet
INSPIRATION
Did I miss anything? I hope I didn't...
On a sidenote...
My current 1st affiliate niche site can lose its profitability overnight.
I'm well aware that this niche site Empire project can very easily fail too.
These are few of the reasons behind building enough income sources - to mitigate potential drawbacks in life in general.
To safeguard myself mentally from a possible failure.
Nobody really knows what they're actually doing, even if they seem to have it all figured out.
Did I miss anything? I hope I didn't...
On a sidenote...
My current 1st affiliate niche site can lose its profitability overnight.
I'm well aware that this niche site Empire project can very easily fail too.
These are few of the reasons behind building enough income sources - to mitigate potential drawbacks in life in general.
To safeguard myself mentally from a possible failure.
Nobody really knows what they're actually doing, even if they seem to have it all figured out.
