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Not looking to get Rich Quick, looking to get rich Eventually

by Retiring Ironman
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New to IM. I've recently loss (last 2 years) over 170 pounds, and have taken up endurance sports. I've ran several half marathons (13.1 miles), and am in training for my first full 26.2 mile race in January. this is my passion.

I understand that this is a huge niche, and I won't be breaking into the top three anytime soon. However, I've been concentrating on writing good, original content 800-1000 word articles. And trying to post 5-6 articles per week of good content relating to my training, and marathon training in general.

My goal is to eventually have an authority site making enough money to retire me from my current industry and allow me to compete in an ironman competition. I'd like to focusing on training plans, nutrition plans, possibly weight loss plans (ebooks), as well as affiliate marketing (running shoes, cycling equipment, triathlon based equipment, etc)

I'd like to see a decent return with in the next year making $500 per month, and making close to six figures with my entire effort with in three years. From what i can tell there is big money in an authority site if you do it right and put in the work.

1.) Am I going about this the right way in regard to only writing content for my own site?
2.) am I missing something by not having a good back linking plan?
3.) Is 800-1000 words per article too much?
4.) is my goal of 6 figures realistic for a 3 year time frame in this niche?
5.) Plus Endurance Sports | Endurance defines us is my site, any critiques would be greatly appreciated.
#eventually #quick #rich
  • Profile picture of the author Carl Brown
    Congratulations on the fitness goals you've reached! With your enthusism and having already done it, there's no reason you can't achieve financial success in this area. One of my favorite fitness sites is bodyrock(dot)tv. They've turned their passion into a great business. The hot models don't hurt either. They do a lot of youtube videos to bring people into the site. Their site is a model I'd mimic.




    Originally Posted by Retiring Ironman View Post

    New to IM. I've recently loss (last 2 years) over 170 pounds, and have taken up endurance sports. I've ran several half marathons (13.1 miles), and am in training for my first full 26.2 mile race in January. this is my passion.

    I understand that this is a huge niche, and I won't be breaking into the top three anytime soon. However, I've been concentrating on writing good, original content 800-1000 word articles. And trying to post 5-6 articles per week of good content relating to my training, and marathon training in general.

    My goal is to eventually have an authority site making enough money to retire me from my current industry and allow me to compete in an ironman competition. I'd like to focusing on training plans, nutrition plans, possibly weight loss plans (ebooks), as well as affiliate marketing (running shoes, cycling equipment, triathlon based equipment, etc)

    I'd like to see a decent return with in the next year making $500 per month, and making close to six figures with my entire effort with in three years. From what i can tell there is big money in an authority site if you do it right and put in the work.

    1.) Am I going about this the right way in regard to only writing content for my own site?
    2.) am I missing something by not having a good back linking plan?
    3.) Is 800-1000 words per article too much?
    4.) is my goal of 6 figures realistic for a 3 year time frame in this niche?
    5.) Plus Endurance Sports | Endurance defines us is my site, any critiques would be greatly appreciated.
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    • Profile picture of the author HeadStartSEO
      Originally Posted by Carl Brown View Post

      Congratulations on the fitness goals you've reached! With your enthusism and having already done it, there's no reason you can't achieve financial success in this area. One of my favorite fitness sites is bodyrock(dot)tv. They've turned their passion into a great business. The hot models don't hurt either. They do a lot of youtube videos to bring people into the site. Their site is a model I'd mimic.
      @Retiring Ironman. To echo Carl Brown's post, mega kudos for your work ethic in fitness and motivation to build a site that helps share your message. If you can maintain the same "endurance" with a blogging schedule that you did during training, the payoff will be huge.

      800-1000 words is the sweet spot. Just make sure that each post is useful and valuable to your readers and has some purpose for them or for the site.

      Cheers and good luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author massiveray
    So a couple of things that are immediately apparent.

    1) you're thinking too small
    2) you need to market your content

    The best way for you to make decent money (I think) is in a membership format, I love the business model and I think that's the best way to sell diet plans etc etc

    These articles that you are writing are probably decent for long tail traffic however it might be an idea to join and participate in forums around this area, take away one of those articles each week and spend the time contributing to forums, have a cheeky link to your site in your signature and it will drive traffic.

    "If you build it they will come" is simply not true, all of these articles you are writing are a waste if people don't see them, how many people go past the first page of your blog and look at the articles you posted 3 weeks ago? I'd bet very few. So make some effort to market them.

    You'd be better off posting 1 or 2 huge articles per week, really spend the time to make them great, have the aim of everything you write being the very best resource on that topic.

    Also in my extensive research, the actual sweet spot is 2000-2200 words, if you can hit that number and maintain a great level of quality, your visitors will stick around. And then come back.

    I'd really look into setting it up as a membership site though, concentrate all of your plans that were going to advertise your affiliate stuff etc and have them all lead to people becoming a member of your site, a years worth of £30 is much better than a one off payment of £30 from an affiliate.

    I recently set one up for a guy who does paleo diet plans and he's making nearly £5k in his second month. And I'm telling you right now, your content is better than his and you have more of it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Retiring Ironman
      Thats some solid advice. I appreciate your kind words about my content.

      When referring to a membership format, should I be marketing the content that I am actually writing now? Or are you referring to the training plans, ebooks, etc.

      I would be very interested in how to market the content that I am already putting a lot of work into at this point.
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