Hey All,
Quick question. I have a bootcamp site with around 30 high-quality posts (around 1800 words each) and on-page SEO in place. The site is fast and looks good.
See what the going rate is and I would bet someone here at WA would love to buy it. I might as I just don't have time to set mine up at this time. This is the busiest 3 months of the year for my niche. PM me a price if you would like and the url. I will take a look at it and maybe we can help each other out.
Mark
Hey Benjamin,
You may find the following video helpful: How To Sell A Website Hope this helps you.
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How do I actually sell my site?
Hey All,
Quick question. I have a bootcamp site with around 30 high-quality posts (around 1800 words each) and on-page SEO in place. The site is fast and looks good.
Are you still selling your website?
Please send me the link. Probably, we could work something out.
Best regards
Maxine
See what the going rate is and I would bet someone here at WA would love to buy it. I might as I just don't have time to set mine up at this time. This is the busiest 3 months of the year for my niche. PM me a price if you would like and the url. I will take a look at it and maybe we can help each other out.
Mark
Hey Benjamin,
You may find the following video helpful: How To Sell A Website Hope this helps you.
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Hey all,
I am a certified commenter with a 100% approval rate and 5% skip rate. Recently, I haven't been rewarded properly for comments left. Instead of the usual
Hi Benjamin -
If you do not see a Red $0.50 label on the comment, then there is not a cash credit available. Currently comments are getting anywhere from 2-5x the number of comments and if this is the case, cash credits are not paid out. You will know before you leave the comment if you will earn a Cash Credit as you'll see the red label.
If there is no red label then that request for a comment has likely achieved it's required comments and is in the bonus.
Carson
Okay, that makes sense. It just seemed odd that for a while I was ONLY receiving these 'bonus' comment opportunities. I imagine it's something you guys intend to work on for the future, thanks for checking in.
Thank you for the answers. I like the cash credits but honestly, sometimes I think I should pay for commenting because I learn a lot at times.
I feel like paying to comment too I equally learn a lot from those sites. Life is definitely a learning process. Thanks for your sincere comment, my friend!
Israel Olatunji
I was hoping with the new site comments 2.0, everything would be ironed out. Hope it is. Following the answers you get on this question.
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Not receiving cash credits despite being certified?
Hey all,
I am a certified commenter with a 100% approval rate and 5% skip rate. Recently, I haven't been rewarded properly for comments left. Instead of the usual
Hi Benjamin -
If you do not see a Red $0.50 label on the comment, then there is not a cash credit available. Currently comments are getting anywhere from 2-5x the number of comments and if this is the case, cash credits are not paid out. You will know before you leave the comment if you will earn a Cash Credit as you'll see the red label.
If there is no red label then that request for a comment has likely achieved it's required comments and is in the bonus.
Carson
Okay, that makes sense. It just seemed odd that for a while I was ONLY receiving these 'bonus' comment opportunities. I imagine it's something you guys intend to work on for the future, thanks for checking in.
Thank you for the answers. I like the cash credits but honestly, sometimes I think I should pay for commenting because I learn a lot at times.
I feel like paying to comment too I equally learn a lot from those sites. Life is definitely a learning process. Thanks for your sincere comment, my friend!
Israel Olatunji
I was hoping with the new site comments 2.0, everything would be ironed out. Hope it is. Following the answers you get on this question.
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Hey,
Just a quick question. I registered the domain of my site at the end of January and worked on it for a couple of months. I then took a break for two or three months
Benjamin,
I believe that Google uses the domain age so it would be the older. As Zsolt (smartketerr) said 3 months isn't going to make or break your site.
- Glen B
Sure, just didn't know if it would have an effect on the 'sandbox' effect (if it is a thing). Thanks!
Oh the old sandbox theory. Ok so let's just touch on that. When I first heard about this I was told that if you submitted your site to google you would get put in the sandbox.
Back in the day this might have been true. But today the bots search looking for sites with good content. If you offer good content they are going to put your page up.
Forget about the sandbox and concentrate on good content. You'll be indexed in no time.
What to get the bots to visit your site quicker?
Post on an authority site with a link back to your website post. You'll get indexed even faster.
- Glen B
Thanks Glen! Useful to know. I actually am in the middle of writing a guest post right now on a fairly authoritative site in my niche so hopefully it will help things out a bit.
Not if you are in the subject matter.
If you are on a golf site and you reply to a comment about golf and sent them to a diet site yes that's spam.
If the conversation is about putting and you send them to an article that talks about putting then no.
The idea is not to run out and spam. It's to find high traffic sites that you can add to the conversation and link back to relevant content.
What if you jump on facebook and say hey I just wrote a new article on putting. Is that spam? I don't think so because these people are friends and they might want to know about what your up to.
Hope this helps clear this up a bit.
- Glen B
A 3-month age difference is almost irrelevant anyway
If you are talking about the same domain (I guess yes) and you haven't requested a removal from the Google index, it should be the older version
Makes sense. Google Analytics shows a complete zero traffic in those months so I assumed it had been removed from the index but I imagine it was because the site was down and so the tracking code wasn't working. Thanks!
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Hey,
Just a quick question. I registered the domain of my site at the end of January and worked on it for a couple of months. I then took a break for two or three months
Benjamin,
I believe that Google uses the domain age so it would be the older. As Zsolt (smartketerr) said 3 months isn't going to make or break your site.
- Glen B
Sure, just didn't know if it would have an effect on the 'sandbox' effect (if it is a thing). Thanks!
Oh the old sandbox theory. Ok so let's just touch on that. When I first heard about this I was told that if you submitted your site to google you would get put in the sandbox.
Back in the day this might have been true. But today the bots search looking for sites with good content. If you offer good content they are going to put your page up.
Forget about the sandbox and concentrate on good content. You'll be indexed in no time.
What to get the bots to visit your site quicker?
Post on an authority site with a link back to your website post. You'll get indexed even faster.
- Glen B
Thanks Glen! Useful to know. I actually am in the middle of writing a guest post right now on a fairly authoritative site in my niche so hopefully it will help things out a bit.
Not if you are in the subject matter.
If you are on a golf site and you reply to a comment about golf and sent them to a diet site yes that's spam.
If the conversation is about putting and you send them to an article that talks about putting then no.
The idea is not to run out and spam. It's to find high traffic sites that you can add to the conversation and link back to relevant content.
What if you jump on facebook and say hey I just wrote a new article on putting. Is that spam? I don't think so because these people are friends and they might want to know about what your up to.
Hope this helps clear this up a bit.
- Glen B
A 3-month age difference is almost irrelevant anyway
If you are talking about the same domain (I guess yes) and you haven't requested a removal from the Google index, it should be the older version
Makes sense. Google Analytics shows a complete zero traffic in those months so I assumed it had been removed from the index but I imagine it was because the site was down and so the tracking code wasn't working. Thanks!
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Hey all,
Recently I managed to get in touch with an authoritative site in my niche and I am currently working on a guest post for them.
The general consensus is tha
BT,
You should find this as a high honor and as long as you can
include at least one backlink to your website then yes what
a great opportunity this is for you :)
Susan
You were asked by an authority in your niche. That can only help your ranking as an authority as well.
Jerry
Trish has it nailed.
The benefit of a guest post is to get a link to your site from an authority site. G's premise, at least originally, was to see how many other sites linked to yours and I think that's still a factor.
There is some discussion about the link anchor text. If you site is about losing belly fat and your site is fatboyslim.com, for example, then it would be better if your anchor text is 'lose belly fat'.
Of course, you have to watch out for over-optimisation of the anchors too; if your link profile is full of exact match anchors from guest blogs it could become an issue.
Thanks for helping out!
A link in a guest post is great. Every site that allows or invites guest post does not use dofollow links. those links are great if the site is relavant to your own site.
Hey Benjamin,
Kyle doesn't say it's a bad thing... see screen print below...
The link you've mentioned here is a great idea and I'm sure Kyle would agree.
What I think you may be misinterpreting is the fact that as long as your website offers great content, it WILL gain authority... and it will then gain backlinks (like Kyle explained).
You only need to decide whether your time would be better spent creating great content for your own website to help you gain authority in your niche... or, to write great content for another's website for a simple backlink to your site.
Hope this helps you decide.
Thanks for stepping in!
I see what you're saying; the fact Kyle says ‘you’re going to get backlinks naturally’ reinforces the fact that backlinks ARE intrinsically good, just perhaps too much of a distraction/time drain if done wrong?
In an ideal world, I would have time for both but I agree that content is key here.
I think the danger is that link building done wrong can be way more harmful than content done wrong.
In the beginning stages as we go through the training at WA, we all make mistakes in our content creation. Luckily, these mistakes are no biggie in the long run.
However I can only imagine what kind of mistakes people might make if link building were a part of the OEC course. Is it a case of ‘better safe than sorry’ here?
Thanks again!
Truly, I think it is a matter of do you have the time to spare offering your great content to someone else's website and still provide yourself with great content for your own site.
You're very right about link build if done wrong, for sure, it can be more harmful.
I fully believe in it. Typically, when guest posting on another blog, it is acceptable to have a back link in your author profile. And, as you indicated, if they are an authority within your niche, from my experience, it has helped me in the search engines quite a bit.
Awesome. I figured that from a non-SEO/ user related viewpoint, it made sense, and so would most probably be considered a ‘natural’ link (Google likes things that make sense to users...)
Thanks!
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Quick question on including backlinks in guest posts?
Hey all,
Recently I managed to get in touch with an authoritative site in my niche and I am currently working on a guest post for them.
The general consensus is tha
BT,
You should find this as a high honor and as long as you can
include at least one backlink to your website then yes what
a great opportunity this is for you :)
Susan
You were asked by an authority in your niche. That can only help your ranking as an authority as well.
Jerry
Trish has it nailed.
The benefit of a guest post is to get a link to your site from an authority site. G's premise, at least originally, was to see how many other sites linked to yours and I think that's still a factor.
There is some discussion about the link anchor text. If you site is about losing belly fat and your site is fatboyslim.com, for example, then it would be better if your anchor text is 'lose belly fat'.
Of course, you have to watch out for over-optimisation of the anchors too; if your link profile is full of exact match anchors from guest blogs it could become an issue.
Thanks for helping out!
A link in a guest post is great. Every site that allows or invites guest post does not use dofollow links. those links are great if the site is relavant to your own site.
Hey Benjamin,
Kyle doesn't say it's a bad thing... see screen print below...
The link you've mentioned here is a great idea and I'm sure Kyle would agree.
What I think you may be misinterpreting is the fact that as long as your website offers great content, it WILL gain authority... and it will then gain backlinks (like Kyle explained).
You only need to decide whether your time would be better spent creating great content for your own website to help you gain authority in your niche... or, to write great content for another's website for a simple backlink to your site.
Hope this helps you decide.
Thanks for stepping in!
I see what you're saying; the fact Kyle says ‘you’re going to get backlinks naturally’ reinforces the fact that backlinks ARE intrinsically good, just perhaps too much of a distraction/time drain if done wrong?
In an ideal world, I would have time for both but I agree that content is key here.
I think the danger is that link building done wrong can be way more harmful than content done wrong.
In the beginning stages as we go through the training at WA, we all make mistakes in our content creation. Luckily, these mistakes are no biggie in the long run.
However I can only imagine what kind of mistakes people might make if link building were a part of the OEC course. Is it a case of ‘better safe than sorry’ here?
Thanks again!
Truly, I think it is a matter of do you have the time to spare offering your great content to someone else's website and still provide yourself with great content for your own site.
You're very right about link build if done wrong, for sure, it can be more harmful.
I fully believe in it. Typically, when guest posting on another blog, it is acceptable to have a back link in your author profile. And, as you indicated, if they are an authority within your niche, from my experience, it has helped me in the search engines quite a bit.
Awesome. I figured that from a non-SEO/ user related viewpoint, it made sense, and so would most probably be considered a ‘natural’ link (Google likes things that make sense to users...)
Thanks!
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I recently managed to land a decent guest posting opportunity, but now I’m not sure what comes next.
Specifically, where do I actually write the post?? Google Docs
Yes Debbie Rose is right each site owner has his own way he likes to receive the post just email him or her and ask what format would you like the post in.
- Glen B
Hi...wouldn't this be a question for the site owner....how do they want it submitted. What was the agreement in terms of format, etc.
Debbie
You should type it out in Word or some other wordprocessor and then email the people and ask.
I have guest posted in the past and this is how I used to do it.
It doesn't make sense to type it up in wordpress but perhaps in Google Docs.
But if you type it in WordPress you can get a better feel for how it will look on their site, right? When you write in Word do you add links into the document yourself or ask them to do that over on their end? Thanks!
Why can you not add links in Word?
I do it all the time and I can format my article any way I want to and that is how it looks in wordpress when I paste it in.
Robert
I think Vickic3 has the right idea here. One benefit to composing it on Wordpress is you can be sure the SEO is spot on. But you could always write it on Google docs or Apache Open Office and then paste it to wordpress to check.
You likely will need to use a doc format to send it over, unless they give you writer's access to their website.
Geoff.
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Guest posting: where do I actually write the thing?
I recently managed to land a decent guest posting opportunity, but now I’m not sure what comes next.
Specifically, where do I actually write the post?? Google Docs
Yes Debbie Rose is right each site owner has his own way he likes to receive the post just email him or her and ask what format would you like the post in.
- Glen B
Hi...wouldn't this be a question for the site owner....how do they want it submitted. What was the agreement in terms of format, etc.
Debbie
You should type it out in Word or some other wordprocessor and then email the people and ask.
I have guest posted in the past and this is how I used to do it.
It doesn't make sense to type it up in wordpress but perhaps in Google Docs.
But if you type it in WordPress you can get a better feel for how it will look on their site, right? When you write in Word do you add links into the document yourself or ask them to do that over on their end? Thanks!
Why can you not add links in Word?
I do it all the time and I can format my article any way I want to and that is how it looks in wordpress when I paste it in.
Robert
I think Vickic3 has the right idea here. One benefit to composing it on Wordpress is you can be sure the SEO is spot on. But you could always write it on Google docs or Apache Open Office and then paste it to wordpress to check.
You likely will need to use a doc format to send it over, unless they give you writer's access to their website.
Geoff.
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Are you still selling your website?
Please send me the link. Probably, we could work something out.
Best regards
Maxine