Authority site project
Hello folks,
I have been thinking a lot lately to start something long-term & valuable. Since now I have been only playing around with niche sites and PPC and they work quite well for me. I'm making over 5 figures per month. Although my PPC campaigns are optimized and I'm doing whitehat SEO which means that my niche sites should stick on Google for long time, I still believe that a sites that only gets traffic from Google (PPC and organic) are not long-term stuff.
Right now, I have put some money aside ($30k) and thought I would start building a authority site. My goal is to make a site that makes 5k+ per month and is not relying on Google traffic. It doesn't matter whether I get there in 6 months or in 2 years.
Right now I have thought about building a site that gives career advice, advice from career specialists, job offers and maybe a discussion board etc - basically for people who are jobless. Nowadays, it's getting more harder and harder to get a proper job, especially when young folks (18 - 24) are mostly becoming hipsters and spending their time on FB/Twitter/Insta and being a scrubs.
Right now I have no idea how to monetize it, but that's not the main goal here. I just want it to get popular and then I'll see where it goes...
I was thinking of:
The good thing about it is that I have somewhat good knowledge in generating traffic so this shouldn't be a problem for me.
Any advice or suggestions for me? I know that 30k is not much, but I can add 2-3k every month. Furthermore, I'm very interested on how real authority sites like techcrunch, mashable, monster.com started out. Is there any good articles and/or casestudies about something similar?
I have been thinking a lot lately to start something long-term & valuable. Since now I have been only playing around with niche sites and PPC and they work quite well for me. I'm making over 5 figures per month. Although my PPC campaigns are optimized and I'm doing whitehat SEO which means that my niche sites should stick on Google for long time, I still believe that a sites that only gets traffic from Google (PPC and organic) are not long-term stuff.
Right now, I have put some money aside ($30k) and thought I would start building a authority site. My goal is to make a site that makes 5k+ per month and is not relying on Google traffic. It doesn't matter whether I get there in 6 months or in 2 years.
Right now I have thought about building a site that gives career advice, advice from career specialists, job offers and maybe a discussion board etc - basically for people who are jobless. Nowadays, it's getting more harder and harder to get a proper job, especially when young folks (18 - 24) are mostly becoming hipsters and spending their time on FB/Twitter/Insta and being a scrubs.
Right now I have no idea how to monetize it, but that's not the main goal here. I just want it to get popular and then I'll see where it goes...
I was thinking of:
- Hiring a full-time blogger who writes articles and manages FB account
- Doing some SEO to get organic traffic -.I can do this by myself so it wouldn't cost much for me.
- Outsourcing epic/valuable/comprehensive content
- Start running FB ads to make FB landing page larger and maybe drive some targeted traffic to my site
- Buying ad space on niche related sites/blogs
- Branding a lot
- Customly designed WordPress - $10k
- Content marketing
The good thing about it is that I have somewhat good knowledge in generating traffic so this shouldn't be a problem for me.
Any advice or suggestions for me? I know that 30k is not much, but I can add 2-3k every month. Furthermore, I'm very interested on how real authority sites like techcrunch, mashable, monster.com started out. Is there any good articles and/or casestudies about something similar?
On the whole, you get what you pay for.