SEO Casestudy Day 6 - Monetizing Beyond Steemit
What if you could make money from you steemit account without hoping to make it to the hot and trending section of Steemit? This is what I am attempting with the SEO Casestudy of my pet account @ucluelet.
Day after day, I am working on improving the link profile of this account so that down the road I can be in a position to provide a service that people would be willing to pay for. The strategy I am thinking about is what I am outlining below.
Pre-Requisite Of This Monetization Strategy
The pre-requisite for this strategy is to
- Have an account name that is relevant to your market
- Have a domain with high authority
- Have an account with a high page authority through SEO optimization
Thankfully, because we are blogging on Steemit.com, we have number 2 covered (which is usually the hardest thing to achieve). Number one and number three need you to be very clear about your target and to stick to it even if you don't get much rewards at the beginning.
Building Page Authority
At the beginning, you will have to produce your own content on a fairly consistent basis so that Google starts liking you for being an active blog. Then, building social media profiles with readership would be also a very very good thing to do, it will help you get links and also viewership for your content which in the end has a lot of value.
So What Is This Strategy?
I call it: Pay Me To Post Your Content On My Blog
Look at this fiver gig: https://www.fiverr.com/sureranker/do-travel-guest-post-on-upto-da90-travel-blog
Basically, they sell you the possibility of guest posting on a website that is niche relevant and that has high domain authority. Here are their guidelines:
- Provide unique and quality article(s) 500+ words
- Articles can contain 2 dofollow links to your site (I will add another link to an authority site)
- Spun or duplicate content will not be accepted
- I will add relevant videos/images to your post
- Your travel guest post(s) will be permanent
- You must provide your anchor text and your targeted URL
Topics should be related to: Travel, Tourism, Hotels, Car Rentals, Flights, Tours, Vacations, Rentals, Transport etc.
Pricing Strategy
Benefits of this strategy
One of the hardest thing to do when you start a niche blog is to find a continuous supply of fresh content. Some people pay in order to have article creator or journalist write for them. When you start having multiple niche blogs, it becomes a problem.
Now, rather than paying people to write for you, they pay you to post their content on your website. Brilliant!
On top of that, it helps with the page authority of your blog.
Conclusion
It is easy to become dependent on Steemit payouts. But one thing that I've learned in my year blogging here is that payouts are highly volatile. You can be on the top of the world for a while only to fall out of favor. Diversifying your sources of income can only bring more stability to your enterprise in the long run.
Unfortunately, I've been told by SEO experts that paying for backlinks on these types of pages actually can hurt us because Google may see it as spammy.
@donkeypong You are rightly advised on that.
Google is very strict for those who pay for the links. Actually, paying for links mean you're taking the risk of "De-indexation". It's not rare, it's a common practice by people and they often get their ass kicked.
Another point is that, There are a lot of idiots in Fiverr (call them SEO beginner) who review service as "Outstanding experience" or "Good seller" or "delivered on time". Actually, delivery is not an issue. Link's effect in the long term is what matters. If you are penalized by Google, then you'd have to try to remove those links, and with fiverr service, you have no such option.
Google is strict for OBL and CF ratio too. I'm planning to explain those factors in Off-Page tutorial series which will come out soon. I am just busy in some personal projects.
But @cryptoctopus highlighted the importance of view-based incentive in Steemit and I really appreciate it. I am sure it will help Steemit greatly to attract new people since people will work hard to promote their content.
I am following you now and looking forward to what you are going write. You are right of course but I don't see how google could figure which articles are being paid for and the ones that are not when they look exactly the same from the outside.
I checked her blogs are they are very SEO compliant. Guest blogging is still a strategy that works.
Google Webmaster Guidelines have always advised that site owners NOT pay for backlinks. That being said, if the blog posts are good quality, good length, and relevant to the overall topic of the blog, then you should be okay. Also the guest posts should not have a ton of links to the client's website.
One other thing to keep in mind is that links placed in Steemit content are automatically nofollow links.
I will correct you on the NoFollow aspect. Once you hit a certain amount of reputation, your links are DoFollow.
Can you explain this a bit more? Where is the threshold?
Well, I don't think it will work.
I have a few large pages on facebook with niche markets. If you want to chat about prices and pages send me an email. [email protected] Over 5 million fans.
Yup! Let's talk! :-)
Hit me up anytime. I check my email daily.
sounds good! I'll seraching about that soon i'll join it thanks man :)
Lesson I learn from this post is build authority around niche on high rank domain. Writing on steemit cut some work to build high authority domain.
Thank you for sharing your strategy.
Your SEO strategy is very good, i hope that people will recognize it's real value on steemit and take advantage of it.
Good postinanga and meaningful greetings from me @abupasi.alachy
Yes indeed very volatile. As i work on my regular job, i allot some of my free time and few funds here in Steemit. Unless you have a whale backing you up or you're a just an awesomely rich/ famous fellow, well be my guest, completely focus here in Steemit. Have a lot of options, atleast if something doesn't work well on you, you have other methods to earn and have a stable living.
Very interesting, don't put all your eggs in one basket!
wow, this is such amazing strategy and ideas. thanks for sharing always. they are so useful
i think this strategy is very good, what is left is for people to recognize the real value of it and take advantage