Brought to you by Ezoic.
Show Notes:
DISCLAIMER
I’m not claiming that the 6 things I’ll discuss nobody else does.
My point is what I do is not discussed much in blogging circles.
Plus, when you combine all the 6 together, it creates a unique approach
1. Unique Pinterest Strategy
- I used to do what other bloggers suggested when it came to Pinterest.
- I got nowhere.
- In 2020 I decided to take matters into my own hands and come up with my own strategy that works with the new Pinterest algo.
- It worked. I went from 74K Pinterest visitors per month to 300,000 in a couple months. It’s still growing.
- Never have I grown free traffic so fast.
2. Go for keywords other sites won’t touch
- Low search volume
- Low or no ROI (on the face of it)
- Avoid going toe-to-toe
How do I find low competition keywords?
3. Ditched Affiliate Marketing
- Okay, I still do it, but it’s gravy (not my focus)
- Most bloggers only talk about affiliate marketing because their only site is a site about “how to blog” which is ideal for affiliate marketing. They don’t own other sites so they don’t know anything about display ads.
- That created an opportunity for niche sites AND Fat Stacks
4. Ditch the list
- Everyone says build an email list.
- I did for 2 niche sites.
- I say ditch the lists unless you can print money from them.
- Making money from lists in many niches is not easy and it sure ain’t plentiful.
- Is your time better spent doing other things?
5. No link building
- As more and more Google updates crash sites, the more I’m thrilled I don’t build links… including guest posts.
- Guest posts for the most part are lousy link building practices.
- Short term gain for long term pain.
- That’s my 2 cents’ worth.
- I prefer publishing content that attracts links au natural.
6. Finance an op-ed
- I pay a writer very good rates to pen an op-ed column in a niche where op-ed columns don’t exist.
- It’s snarky, funny, informative.
- Visitors like it.
- It elevates the site.
- Yes, it can be done in any niche.
What’s the one thing that makes the biggest difference?
- That’s easy. Long tail, low competition keywords.
- Why?
- That strategy drives over 1 million monthly visitors from Google search.
- That cannot be beat!!!
- Learn more at fatstacksblog.com/courses-training
Learn more about being a content creator by joining my email newsletter here.
