I loved this interview and thanks to Rick for sharing his story. I have an eCommerce business and wondered how I could blog on it without sounding like I'm biased so haven't gone down that path. This is such a great help and your site looks great. Thanks
These are my favorite Income School videos, case studies! I had a great chat with him about his niche inside the community too. Another favorite video!!
So inspiring! I'm one month into the "ghost town" faze right now. And even though I know to expect it, it's still good to hear about other people succeeding!
@@DigitalLiquid The site I was referring to in that comment is my 2nd site. I currently have 60ish articles on it, and am getting around 5k visitors per month. I haven't monetized it yet, but am planning on doing so soon. I have 3-5 articles getting snippets/number one spot, and probably 10 more on the first page.
Super nice chap, what an inspiring story. I love these interviews guys. You all must be very thrilled too?? And the 500k back links!!! Wooow 🤩🤩 Cheers for sharing
Great video, and what a likable guy! Here's a request: When you publish case-studies, success stories and niche-site review, it would be cool to see that Google Analytics graph - How the traffic evolved over time, what the sandbox-period looked like, and above all, how things start to culminate once the ghost-town phase is finished. (Hockey sticks!)
I'm kinda disappointed in the lack of anything happening with that 50 video challenge you were doing. You made it seem like a huge deal and huge project, and I was looking forward to seeing that go down. But besides a few ig updates for a day or so, that was it. I was stoked for that project as I was doing something similar
Howdy Critter Hunter! Thanks for checking in on this - it HAS taken a while I agree. We've had a backlog of projects in development and the 52/24 challenge was set back a bit. However... we'll be updating within a the next 2 weeks here on this channel.
Love your success stories. Feel free to publish more of them :) And the snippet course is great! I worked it through and tweaked my approach according to it. And I already won a few snippets :)
Thanks for the great video. Lots of value in this video that I watched. Lots going on this world today and this video provides solace and a way forward for us to make money. yes
Dudes, awesome video here! In actually image 2 e-commerce sites selling my own products but also use Printful for print on demand merch like shirts and mugs.
Guys, income school member here. My main concern right now is that Google are scraping the essential answers from our blogs. Posting them to their search results os that the person does not have to click through to the site. Essentially using our content to keep people on their search engine. This is happening more and more as they give first answers, second, third, fourth option. For embedded RU-vid videos, they are simply taking them placing a direct link on the search results, not linking to the blog. So people are clicking and being brought straight through to RU-vid, bypassing the blog. Is it just me or is this getting worse and worse? Will it eventually be a case that question and answer style blogs will simply die off as people will not need to leave Google at all. As we have fed it all the information required. This is my main concern. And I noticed by using a VPN, how the search results are actually formatted differently in and outside the US. Google in the US seems to try even harder to maintain people on the search page, more so than in Europe. Really giving everything right there. If this gets worse, why even blog? How much traffic have they now stopped from going through to our blogs by giving the answers right there on their own platform? Cheers.
How I would approach this is to make the essential answers a teaser with maybe saying that "The short answer is... . . . but there is more to it than that and we will get to it but first there is more that needs to be taken into consideration. Also, I'd try making the RU-vid video a condensed version with a link back to the blog that covers the article in more detail. That way you could possibly pull people back to the blog if google sends them to the RU-vid content first. I'd even add a link on the video to your blog page with a comment that there is more similar content.
I never write a post that requires only a short answer. Even though the snippet answers the question, I always choose a topic that people generally want to know more about. Many subjects require in depth discussion and require a click through. Avoid fast answer kind of questions. Write articles for knowledge seekers.
@@CammieMay That's very good, but in a world of instant gratification you may find yourself choosing a quality audience over quantity and in a world where quantity equals income you may find yourself ultimately having to compromise. Another thing that had become painfully obvious to me over the years is that we live in a world where visual stimulus trumps the written word, but that's a whole new topic...how to integrate it into the content so that they compliment each other. People sharing images from your website also forms back links. If you have ever noticed the number of images google returns when searching on a topic you will notice how valuable that can be provided you name and tag the image correctly.
Great vid guys Rick is a inspiration to us all I am myself at the building content pages stage after the original 20 pages I have initionaly created well done rick
Exactly what I was looking for! I'm about to start my third website, it will be an ecommerce and was wondering if I should include a blog with it. That question was answered for me in this video.
I am trying to write an article on Email Marketing but just don't have any knowledge in that area. Can anyone tell me where do I start? What is your strategy about writing in a domain you have no knowledge of. I have interest in this niche but don't know what I have got myself into.
I hired iwriter to write few articles for me but they are plagiarised eventhough they claim to use copyscape. I used another tool which showed the original article.
This strategy won't work on a shopify site. For some reason Google does not favor ecommercre shopify sites. Maybe its because the url structure. /blog/news which it does automatically... hats off to this guy he made it happen 👏 wonder what cms he was using
One of my articles ranked #6 on google in week 2 of the site even being live. It was a low search volume article. Low search keyword. But 2 days later my site was hacked. I had to change everything and republish all my articles. I had them backed up but the person who hacked my site deleted my backups. I had a back up to my backup which was how I was able to republish everything but now it's totally different links and I lost my ranking. I added extra security and changed my passwords to something more complicated. Got a new email too. I changed everything to prevent this from happening again. Luckily my mom knows code and was able to pinpoint the issue and help me fix it.
Wow, that's terrible. I can't Believe some low life did that to your new site. I'm glad you had someone who was in-the-know and could help you pinpoint the issue and fix it. But it was also your smart plan to prepare for disaster in the first place, and have more than one back-up!
There's a bunch of shady links in his backend. Looks like the site has been hit hard in the latest google update. Curious to know if Income School checked out his Google Analytics to confirm his claims on traffic? Would be interesting to touch base with him a month or two from now to see how he's doing.
He said he had 240k page views and around 3% conversion rate, when I calculate amount of orders with a 2% conversion rate that comes out to 4800 orders and with only 60k in revenue that would be a Avarage order value of $12,5. This doesn’t seem right to me I think his numbers are off please explain
Ahrefs has to use their limited data to extrapolate. They don’t have access to the analytics. Do you think we’d interview someone who wasn’t succeeding and just make all this up? Ahrefs is wrong. They’re never even close on our sites.
@@IncomeSchool that's true but how come we never saw screenshots of his analytics at least? Not c Saying your lying but that would be useful for stuff like this. Anyway enjoyed the video, thanks.
As of Spe '20, Ahref is showing 2.3K Organic Traffic, that means at least he is getting 4 times the number of Organic Traffic. Ahref Organic Traffic numbers always are always low in comparison to the actual number.
@@sanu1231000 even if the traffic is 4 times, I highly doubt it will lead to that many sales. Its a fact that the organic traffic has a low conversion rate.
Such a cool story and Rick sounds like a great guy. Love his self confessed stubbornness!!! Love your channel, been so helpful to these last 12 months! If you guys are reading this comment, I just hit 100k views for my RU-vid channel within a year starting it properly (I had 1 video for the first few months as an experiment). Given my review videos usually rank on Google anyway, would you suggest I keep focusing my energy into my channel, or should I split my time to write separate blog post reviews too? I have a website for blog posts, but it's getting around 150 views per month at the moment, compared to my channel which is getting around 1,500 per day currently.
If there is additional content you could add (downloads, pdfs, guides, etc) by having a blog post about the same review, then yes. If not, I'd suggest keeping the majority of your focus on what's working (your channel)
I chose a niche for my blog but it is competitive. Mine is about making money online, affiliate marketing, email marketing. I don't know if I should continue with it or abandon it for some other niche
If I'm buying for my business do I need to pay for both my business partner and me? I don't know that he would be very active in logging in and is going to be more comfortable with me bringing him back instructions on what should be done.
Please how do you make search analysis? How do I know that there is lot of search volume ? Can I know this only from google search or I need some tools ?
Please help me, I’ve just joined income school, tried to get into the forum and it’s telling me my account has been suspended for 1000 years, what is going on, very disappointing start, please sort this out
100% but before employee, rent, material, electricity costs and taxes. So it’s not really 100%. Digital products will always have a higher profit margin. And depending on your website, might be easier to set up and sell.
Just managed to rustle up $299 even whilst unemployed and am told you stoped the offer. Hardships will continue for some time. Now looking to spend money with other gurus.
Are there any options to join project24 as a teen? Like maybe with a discount or so? Because I#M 15 years old and just don't have the money (or at least my parents would kick me out of the house xD) if I said I want to get such a course ....
hey guys im really confused i watched all these videos in this channel every single video and it"s like i don't like i choosed a niche about gardening (philo and monstera) but i don't think its a good niche im so confused and hesitated i don't know guys i watched all these videos bc i didn't want to start a failure i want someone who guide me
Do some research on your possible titles. Do they have enough search volume? How hard is the competition? Can you outrank them with better and longer posts? If you believe that there’s a better chance than 50% of you managing to do so, then go for it.
I don't think you realize the scale on which real businesses operate. That guy was looking to start a business with multiple employees, not some side-hustle. 20k is like a single guy from an SEO Company working for a single month, it's basically nothing and wouldn't even be worth getting started for many of those Companies.
He claims to be ranked fourth for the keyword "engraved mens promise ring" but I checked and he's on page two of google. Also, he doesn't follow any of the principals taught in the Income School course. It's not a blog but an eCommerce site. So, I'm very skeptical about his claims.
While I find a lot of what he says suspicious and need proof, he does actually ranks 4th for the keyword mentioned. I just checked right now. His store is right there.
I took a good look at his Shopify website and used SEMrush and I find it very very very hard to believe he is telling the truth. No way he is making that much money, sorry I can talk the talk too. Show me proof. Half a million backlinks? Yeah right, he has less than 1,000.
SEMRush is totally guessing. I wouldn't trust those numbers at all. They're often completely wrong on our sites where we actually have the analytics data. They just don't know.
Yet we hear this every time we share numbers. “But guys... SEM Rush says this and AH Refs says that!” These sites don’t have access to our data. They’re extrapolating from a limited data set.
Yeah, the traffic is incredibly inaccurate. It makes you wonder why they bother to report on it. Their keyword positional data seems to be more of an accurate barometer. Although still not perfect
