Suggest Traffic Method That My Non-Tech VA Could Do

I used to hire a VA who built backlinks in forums for me. I had two intentions:

1) Monetize the direct traffic from these forum backlinks
2) Show google that some (obviously low quality) backlinks are built to my site, so that the high quality links I paid for look more natural :-)

The result was interesting and totally unexpected:

1) Only VERY few users who clicked through those links actually bought my products
2) As I didn't find the time to buy the high quality backlinks, the only linkbuilding that was done was through her. And believe it or not: The low quality links made my site actually rank in google for a few keywords :-)

I spent around $100 per month for 50hours of link building and the rankings I got lead to around 15k visitors per month. The quality of the traffic was not that good so I "just" made around $250 per month leaving me with a net profit of around $150.

Considering that you can usually sell a webite for a x20 multiple of the monthly net profit, I could probably get around 3k for the page. I keep it though, as it still makes profit on auto pilot... and the my VA has a steady income of $100 a month :-)

Considering she told me that her husband makes only $450 for a full time job and he is a studied IT-developer, I guess thats fine :-)

Since your VA is not technical, I would focus on link building. There are various ways of doing link building and it's more of an administrative task than a technical one. I hope that helps!

Hi again, regarding your PM:

I did it the following way:

1) I hired someone on UpWork to generate a list of around 100 topic related forums
2) I hired a VA for link building and told her some rules (like that she should not spam forums, be helpful and not create more than 2-3 links per forum, etc.)
3) I installed wplinkbuilder in my wordpress site (a plugin I wrote, that automatically checks backlinks and allows you to assign VAs with building links and monitor it => Check out the intro video on the homepage)
=> If you want I can give you a free test key.

Cheers
Michael

Usually, if I hire someone, I make sure they know basically what I will want them to do

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