2-Step Process To 20x Your Amazon Niche Site Value

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Step 1: Add Content

The key thing is to add content that will rank without any backlinks. This is HUGE.

What I did

I published about 200 new posts over 5 months, or 40 posts per month. It’s a lot of content and I hired a few writers plus editors to help me. Actually, I didn’t write anything at all. I slowly built a team starting with one writer and grew from there. All the content costs about $4,000 over the 5 months.

In month 1, only about 20 posts went live, but the team got more efficient – so efficient that 70 posts published in month 4.

If you think about building links to 200 posts, you’re going to get stressed out and that won’t help anyone. The key is to find keywords with a Keyword Golden Ratio of less than 0.25.

We call those keywords “KGR Compliant.” This video explains it all:

The ratio is this:

*where the 'allintitle' results don’t have quotation marks, and the search volume is less than 250.

It’s tough to find them at first, but once you get the hang of it you’ll find more than you need.

In summary, here are the steps that I took:

Takeaways and how you can implement this

The biggest stumbling block is hiring and working with a content team. I create teams so that they can grow fast if needed, or dissolve if the project is done. Plus, it’s a real bummer when a freelance contractor disappears, which does happen. If you expect the team to churn some, then you won’t be surprised when you need to shuffle around some of your team.

Note from Andrew: If you're looking to hire an experienced, well-trained and professional team of researchers, content writers and editors, we strongly suggest ContentRefined.

The content team can look something like this:

As I mentioned, you can get a head start on building your team and see what my templates look like here. The video below goes in depth for each of the templates and I talk about the following.

Remember to grow slowly and adapt.

My first month of building the content team went slowly as I learned and the team learned. We all got better and I improved the onboarding process for new team members. Use an iterative approach with the idea of continuous improvement driving it.

If you try to build a team of 10 writers in one week, you will get frustrated and may fail to follow through.

Step 2: Add Backlinks

Content targeting more competitive keywords will need to have backlinks to rank in Google.

My site has content targeting competitive keywords and generally means a higher search volume. It’s great to have a few of pieces of content where you can get more traffic.

It takes longer for more competitive keywords to rank and takes more backlinks. In my case, I’m interested in White Hat backlinks, meaning backlinks that adhere to the Google Webmaster Terms of Service. In short, I don’t buy backlinks.

Instead, I network within my niche and build relationships which help me get links to the more competitive posts. It’s a simple 3 step process that goes like this:

1. Comment on a blog post published in the last 90 days. This helps ensure that it is a live blog with someone that publishes regularly. If you reach an inactive blog, then your effort will be wasted.
2. Email the blogger and ask for a guest post. After you comment on someone’s blog, they’ll be more likely to accept your pitch.
3. Write the guest post. Be sure you add a link to the content that you want to rank - that’s the whole point after all.

I was able to publish few dozen guest posts on blogs using those three steps. You can see some more details on the guest posting process here.

When I first started my guest posting campaign, I did horrible. I got better with practice, though. One thing you must remember is that a great campaign only has a 10% success rate.

If you send out 100 emails, you up with 10 published guest posts – that’s exceptional!! Most people aren’t used to being rejected that much, that often. It was something to get used to.

But this is an advantage for guest posting. Most people won’t do it.

Guest posting is hard work and takes time, and you know, people are lazy. You can’t even outsource guest posting for a reasonable cost and expect high quality, authentic guest posts. The difficulty is the barrier to entry so if you put in the time, then you’ll win.

If a blog asks for a posting fee, then I skip it. I want guest posts that are not paid for in any way. If you want to pay that “administration” fee, then make sure the blog isn’t filled with guest posts that clearly have been purchased, too. I’ve seen sites that are clearly part of a Private Blog Network accept guest posts and those are ones that you want to avoid.

Conclusion

I was talking with a trusted friend and mastermind partner of mine. He’s been building niche sites for years, definitely longer than me. We both had great successes in the past, especially in the last 12 months.

The conversation was about how we tried to follow trends, tried to build so called “authority sites,” tried to do things that people told us would work. We failed at that.

What it came to was simplicity. It was all about doing the simple things right.

Two things:

When it comes to success online with niche sites, you need to have a long term vision. If you’re in a rush, you’ll get burned. But if you take your time, you will be successful.

If you want to take my system and implement it for yourself, you can get all my templates here. You’ll need to enter your name and email address, and then you’ll get access to content templates, guest posting templates, Upwork job listing templates, 15,000 profitable keywords, and more. All that’s free and more than you need to build a six figure income.