What You Get:
8 Core Units
4 Advanced Units
1: Big Picture Overview
- Affiliate marketing, ad revenue, and the business model
Niche markets and their value - Expectations about time, effort, costs, and making money
- Figure out your goals so you can reach them
2: Choosing a Niche
- Brainstorming techniques so you won’t get stuck
- Keyword Research including 4 types of keywords
- Two of the 4 types that you should target
- Keyword Golden Ratio with over the shoulder demos
- Using KW Difficulty Scores from tools
3: Competition Analysis
- SEO Tools for Competition Analysis
- The thought process and flow of competition analysis that I use
- Demo of Competition analysis sheet
- Finding communities and the market
- Templates and Checklists (Brainstorming worksheet, Competition Analysis Worksheet)
4: Setting Up the Site
- Required pages so you’ll get accepted into most programs
- Recommended WP themes
- Recommended WP plugins and why I use as few plugins as I can
- Checking Site Speed and Tips
- Templates and Checklists (Speed Checklist, Required Pages Checklist)
5: Content (and Launching)
- How much content to launch, including “The Content Myth” and why you need less than you think
- What kind of content and how to format
- A little bit about Agile Project Management and why it can change the way you do nearly everything
- What should informational content look like
- Where to get images
- Silos, Clusters, Categories, and Site Architecture
- Templates and Checklists (Perfect Product Review Template, Informational Content Template, Site Architecture Template, On-page SEO Checklist)
6: Monetizing
- Applying for Affiliate Programs
- Why you should look for digital products with affiliate programs
- Signing up with Display Ad Networks
- Adding affiliate Links
- Approaching Companies that don’t have public facing affiliate programs
7: Promotion and Link Building
- Overall goals and an overview
- Social Profiles
- Where should links go – mostly to the homepage with branded anchor text
- Relationship building, then ask for guest posts
- Podcasts and YouTube appearances for traffic and links
- Templates and checklists (Social Profile Checklist, Relationship Building Worksheet & Process)
8: Scaling
- Either sell more or get more traffic, ideally both
- Boost conversions
- Add more content
- Templates and checklists (Conversion Checklist, Geotargeting calculator)
9: Outsourcing Content with Scaling in Mind
- Advanced/Premium
- Where to find writers?
- Why trial gigs are essential
- Job posting sample and template
- Screen proposals so you don’t waste time
- Style Guideline to set expectations
- Creative briefs to let the writers focus on writing
- Do you need a Content Manager and Editor – Formatting, drafting, and working in WP
- Content Project Management
- Templates and Checklists (Job description template, Google Sheets Content PM template, Trello Content PM template, Style guideline Template, Content Manager Jobaide)
10: What to do if you are stuck
- Advanced/Premium
- Assessing the current state
Gap Analysis (qualitative and quantitative assessment) - Improve existing content, publish more content or get more links
11: A practical guide to email list building
- Advanced/Premium
- When you should and should NOT build an email list.
- Why some of the experts are WRONG when they tell you to always have an email list.
- How to get people to willingly sign up for your email list with two proven techniques that I’ve used to build email lists of over 10,000 subscribers.
- Tools that’ll help you build your list – they are usually free.
- What to send your subscribers in your autoresponder.
- How to DRIVE traffic anytime you want with Broadcast emails.
12: How to sell a site – Two 6 Figure Case Studies
- Advanced/Premium
- When you should and should NOT think about selling your site.
- How to estimate the value of your site.
- What you should do before you sell your site to prepare months ahead of time.
- What you can do to speed up the selling process.
- Why it’s normally better to sell with a business broker, and when it’s NOT.
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