Super Affiliate Challenge - from PILLAR to POST
Hi Wealthy Affiliate community,
OK, since the Super Affiliate Challenge began, its time for me to come clean.
Month 1: 20 April - 20 May: Goal 12,000 words, 12 posts
Actual: 8,730 words, (plus email marketing setup would've been more than 12,000 words, if I included all those words)
Month 2: 21 May - 3 Jul, Goal 12,000 words, 12 posts
Actual: 20,605 Oh my goodness!
Month 1 I was finishing of landing page, my "offer" make money online guide AND email marketing before I even knew of the Super Affiliate Challenge, so this was completing these things. Then back onto posting early May.
Month 2 There are 2 Pillar style posts in this output.
Let me digress here a little....What the longest post you've ever written?
I have been hearing more and more about "Pillar" style content. I've read a bit about Pillar Content and having Clusters content (smaller blogs) hyperlinked to the huge pillar content. I guess to maximise the SEO effect, I will create a few related blog posts.
Anyway, I've gotten a bit carried away, I kept writing, researching, writing, in Google Docs. I wasn't even thinking about word count.
I was just thinking about being the best on Google because for another review I did the most comprehensive review on the internet and it has resulted in me getting tons of keywords ranked and on page 1 of google https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/johnjstanley/blog/google-pag...
Here's my training on how to do this: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/how-this-easy-seo-t...
My clicks and impressions for that post have gone up 10 fold in about 3 months since the training.
Anyway for a different company rewiew in a more complicated industry that I knew little about (science and stuff), I've created a humdinger...over 13,000 words.
OK that's my digression and lesson's learned....
So from Pillar to Post and getting accountable for the Super Affiliate Challenge goals:
OK John, I've got those solid pillars firmly planted in the ground. I'll apply the same SEO strategies that worked previously (in my training). But now, that's enough Pillar style posts, I've got to produce some smaller Posts, to get the post count up. I'm well short of the post count for month 1 and month 2, but I feel have set up an essential framework.
Ok, so I'd better get writing on only my third post for Month 2, but I have a bunch of cluster post ideas relating to those 2 Pillars. And 3 July is looming so post, post, post!
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Great job John!
My longest post currently is my WA review which is 6380 words:)
Thanks Kaju, I need to tone them down, the last 3 in the same niche are 7,191, 13,414 (this Pillar!!) and 6,479 (this week). They are all interrelated. Time will tell whether it was genius OR I should've pumped out 50-60 smaller ones in the same time you did. I'm sure the 50+ is the go and is what Kyle teaches....
I have 1 more cluster post that I started today, then potentially 1 more. It may make me an authority in that sub-niche, lets see.
Then I want to do the same in a similar sub-niche, I already have my first Pillar from Oct 2018 (https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/johnjstanley/blog/finished-a-6000-word-article-took-me-about-a-week) and can cluster up 2-3 related to that.
The more I think about it "being the best on Google" could be a curse of perfection....
But at least its a bit unique & could make me stand out....
I have a fear of being like many others with 2,000 average posts in our competitive niche??
Thanks John, I will look at these links.
I think these 7K to 13K while super impressive, might be too long.
I agree, I think I'll cap them at 4K to 6K in future, unless its a super important PILLAR that I think will work well.
Sounds like a winning plan!