Is this a good 2 year plan?

Honestly, it's hard/impossible to answer. So much changes daily, that it's impossible to forecast what will happen two years from now.

My advice would be to start and see how it goes. If its not going well, change it. If it is going well, ramp it up.

Sounds okay but how competitive are the niches?


1) More articles/week
2) More links/week

That's a broad question and I don't think anyone can give you a solid answer. It depends on the competition in these niches I guess + can you remain focused on these six sites for 2 solid years? That will be the biggest challenge I think...staying focused when they aren't making money during the first months.

Good luck!

There is only one way to find out, get working. Good luck.

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Mike Tyson

Just do it and find out, no one can give you a legit answer as to whether or not it will work, its all speculation. Best success to you

None of those is a good backlink unless it's on a relevant site.

Linkjuice is determined primarily by relevance (i.e. not by "numbers of backlinks"), exactly as Google promised it would be.

We can all see for ourselves, in Google's SERP's, the ever-increasing frequency with which lower-PR pages with fewer but relevant backlinks are consistently outranking higher-PR pages with hundreds and hundreds of backlinks from non-context-relevant sites, Web 2.0 sites, forum profiles, article directories and so on. The site-relevance specificity isn't enough for those to have any/much value, these days. No secret here: Google is pretty open about this stuff - you only have to read their own sites and blogs, and watch those Matt Cutts videos, to appreciate that relevance and quality are all that really matter, for backlinks.

No. Sorry. It just isn't, in my opinion.

It's a bit similar to what I tried to do, myself, when I started. I hardly made a sale at all (without, at the time, understanding why). And it's much harder to do now than it was then, when the SEO was easier.

It seems to be missing two of the three key, essential components to making affiliate sales. It's missing two of three components that I need, anyway, to make a living.

Traffic generation, and list-building/subscriber communications.

The backlinks you mention, unless they're all on relevant sites, probably aren't going to generate enough SEO traffic, and even if they did, it would still only be SEO traffic anyway, and nobody's making anything more than the occasional, semi-random affiliate sale from SEO traffic without list-building and relationship-building.

This is the underlying basis of affiliate marketing.

Even the articles you publish on your sites are only going to draw SEO traffic (if any traffic), unless they're read by highly targeted traffic for your niches: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

Possibly these two threads may help ...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ggestions.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982

(i) I'd include a traffic generation method other than "SEO"/"ranking" (because SEO traffic's not very good for these purposes anyway);

(ii) I'd make sure that every article is both (a) written for syndication and (b) actually syndicated in front of the traffic you need (this work would occupy at least 75% of the time I put into this project), obviously after being published and indexed on your own sites first;

(iii) I'd make sure that the home page of each site has a prominently incentivized opt-in above the fold, and that the growing, content-rich sites are designed for the specific purpose of list-building;

(iv) I'd promote the products for which you're an affiliate mostly by email and to people who know, value, trust and respect you. The strength of your recommendation, based on their trust for you (after you've built that) is what determines whether or not people buy.

Possibly, with the things I've suggested above, if your material's all up to the appropriate standard of quality to be used to attract highly targeted traffic, but I think you have a big learning-curve ahead of you. I don't think the method, as you outline it above, will produce much real income, I'm afraid. Not really a viable business model in itself.

Please appreciate that I'm trying to be helpful, not critical, in saying this, but I think your ideas of SEO and traffic-generation, for the purposes of making affiliate sales, are quite far removed from reality.

In my opinion, as someone who's now successfully done this for a living for some years, these are not helpful suggestions.

In general, they speak of exactly the kind of quantitative approaches to articles and to backlinks which are responsible for so many marketers "making up the statistics".

More specifically, the number of articles mentioned above is more than enough. In fact it's too high, if anything: you probably wouldn't have time to use them properly, if you were writing that number of articles. For each of my niches, I produce three articles per month and that's plenty for all my article marketing needs.

Article marketing isn't about the number of articles you have.

It's about their quality and who reads them.

And "the number of backlinks", in itself, as explained above, has very little to do with SEO. What matters is the relevance of the sites (not just pages!) on which your backlinks appear.

Hi Petkovno,

First of all congrats on making a long term plan. This puts you ahead of many who are just "winging it."

In terms of the products/keywords you have chosen, it all comes down to can you rank those sites on the first page of multiple SE's? What do you see when you search those keywords on the first page of google? Does your competition have well aged domains with thousands of back links? What kind of back links? If things look good, build your sites and follow your plan.

Now it comes down to can you convert that traffic into sales? Anyone who has been building sites for a long time will tell you we've all had duds! No matter how good one is at keyword research, you're bound to hit duds. That's why you build a site, properly optimize it, and see how the products convert. Then you test/tweek things and see how you can best convert that traffic to sales.

I would adjust your plan in 6 months increments. After 6 months, pick out the strongest of the 6 and concentrate on those. Get rid of the rest for what the market is willing to pay for them and build more sites.

I would recommend going with wordpress. I used to hate wp sites, but with all available plugins, themes, support etc. It's the way to go.

And build a list where it makes sense. That is what will make you your long term income.

Best of luck,

Adamn

Your plan looks very ambitious. The initial question you have to ask yourself is; "Can I maintain the level of effort that will be necessary to complete all the tasks I've outlined." That's a question only you can answer. If you can answer "yes", then you need to measure as you go and determine if what you're doing is working. I'm sure you'll need to make some adjustments along the way.

BF

And to the OP, my advice is to take action...you can read and read all day long, and research is critical to your success, but taking action is more important. Who knows where your journey will take you!

Myself, I never thought that one of my main sites would start out as me posting links on my FB page about Toyota recalls...from that, I came up with a domain name, articles, etc.

That's the fun part about IM...so many niches to cover...just make sure you enjoy doing it. Otherwise, it stops being fun, and starts being an 9-5 job (which we're all trying to avoid like the plague).

Yeah it's hard to tell till you give it a try. If it goes well improve it more to get better results if not change it till it does. I don't want to give you really bad advice in case you lose to much money. Start slow and build it up to your confident...

Don't make single keyword based websites.

Don't make single page minisites.

Play by the rule and rule the game

I think you're going to need more than 223 unique articles on your sites. Sounds like your entire plan revolves around articles and article marketing. Focus on other strategies also to promote your site.