How Much Traffic To A NEW Site? (20 First Articles - NO Linkbuilding!)

[@trishanjitkaur2969]

Length of each article plz

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

It's already filmed and scheduled ;) ;)

[@blyatman635]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek looking forward to it

[@JoshuaGK]

Want to thank you, found you about year ago and made a site to see if I could do it. Currently has 29 articles after 10 months and doing little over 1,000 page views/month with rankings improving each month, already made yearly hosting cost back and some small profit through amazon affiliate which has given me confidence to invest in making multiple sites here soon. Looking forward to writing more articles. It seems the more I write, the better the articles become and the better they perform. Truly the best youtube channel I've found for this sort of thing. Cheers.

[@HastaLaVistaBoss]

hahaha Maria is the boss! Awesome stuff bro! The site I've started following your course is ranking already for 1500 keywords according to Ahrefs and on track for $100 for the month of June (2 months old site)😎

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

That's AWESOME! Thanks for letting me know. And yes, the wife is the boss :D

[@jimsmarketingcode3147]

Awesome video Morten, and you are right my first blog has over 120 articles and it bombed I jumped into a way to competitive niche, and over a year later no traffic, now I followed your advice on my second blog just over 37 articles and most of them are only 2 months old and bam baby 7 of those articles are on the first page of Google and here's the best part I only have literally 2 backlinks to the site and I'm super excited about how many keywords can I rank for over the next few months with those 7 articles.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

THAT'S FANTASTIC! Thanks for sharing :D :D

[@jimsmarketingcode3147]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek Yes and thank you for creating these videos for us who are new in the space to help us along.

[@famifami5771]

How much traffic you are getting from these keywords??

[@sagardixit8432]

Wow, I've been watching your channel since the morning.... and then there's a new video. I thoroughly enjoyed watching all of your videos! I'm going to start a new blog soon. I'll keep you updated.

[@youssefelomrani9393]

Good luck

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

That's awesome! Thanks for letting me know :D

[@AkhilArya]

Intro is awesome Morten. Your video quality is increasing by leaps and bounds.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks! I’m having a lot of fun with these intros 😂😂

[@MattCranfield]

Hello Morten, Thanks for another good video. I have some questions about featured images. I noticed that you don't have the featured image at the top of your articles, I take it you select the Astra option do not show the featured image, but the image is just below the fold. 1) Do you use the same image that you have set as the featured image and manually add it in the content just below the fold or do you use the same image but with different dimensions? 2) What do you use for compressing your images? I used to use Short Pixels but Ezoic advises not to use this plugin whilst using Leap. I'm looking at improving my user's experience, I have noticed that having a featured image at the top of the article can impact the LCP. Any advice would be very must appreciated. All the best Matt

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Hi Matt! #1 - Yes, same image #2 - I often use ShortPixel (you can use it manually) and also Imagify (when using VProcket - for my non-ezoic sites using Adthrive)

[@udaybeksravi4926]

Great content as usual, I would like to ask you about domain; which is better a new domain or expired domain with some authority and backlinks in order to rank in Google faster? I would be so happy if you answer to my question.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I always choose a brand new domain. The benefit is minimal and it's risky if you ask me.

[@avasmith9188]

Sorry but I've one more query! In your blog, you mention that you were featured on a bigger platform like Netflix! How do you get to know that these big players feature you? I know it is the dumbest question, but I still want to know! How?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

They reached out and asked if they could share a video clip from our KZbin channel about how to organize your closet

[@LinkMediaTV1]

Hi Morten, When you Say “make better the articles where you have over 1000 pv” you mean update them and make then better or rewrite and re direct?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Not redirect. We just wrote it MUCH better and more in-depth now that we know the topics is good!

[@LinkMediaTV1]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek Hi Morten, But you update the same article or just write a brand new one?

[@alijee9443]

Hey please make a complete tutorial of ON page SEO

[@howto3327]

Hi Morten, I need your opinion please. Let’s Say I write a similar article about air conditioners. Lets Say I build a downloadable Excel report where people can type things like: The number of Watts of the Machine How many hours Per day they use the Machine Price of electricity in there are And than automatically get results on: How much power would that Machine use Per hour, Per day, Per month, Per year Would that help me stand out?

[@bosstechnology23]

Any tips on finding underserved topics or topics with high search volume but with few provided results?

[@highlandutilities]

Interesting facts, great niche, and 2500 page views a month, really great. . love the Teeshirt 👍👍

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks! 😀

[@avasmith9188]

Please reply! #1 - Every topic that I found on google is almost 10 to 7 to 5 years old with zero articles and (zero related topics 'means sub-topic'). On the first page of google it shows 90% forums and 10% 'different' articles, so should I write those topics or not? #2 - It's been two months now since I started writing underserved topics, and I've written 12 articles, but still, my average position is 40 to 50 is it bad? Plus I'm getting 150 to 200 impressions but hardly 1 click! #3 - As you said in some of your videos, that you wrote the first 50 articles in 1st month and another 50 in the 4th month (which is impossible for many of us)! So does it matter to write articles in a bunch and (upload in a bunch)? Or it's ok to write constantly means one after another?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

#1 If you mainly find forums it's a good idea to write those. #2 You need to give articles 7-10 months to rank. Frustrating, I know - but that's just how it is with Google... #3 Just write what you can, it's completely fine to not write as much as I did!

[@youssefelomrani9393]

Can you show us the google search console of these web sites in the next video please

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

What exactly would you like to see?

[@youssefelomrani9393]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek the performance

[@iws365]

Great video Morton! Love the intro😂

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks! 😁

[@akashwandhekar7864]

Hey I have 50 articles is it better to publish 50 articles in bulk or publishing on daily one by one

[@prafulnaik2919]

It doesn't matter! Whenever you write a post just publish it! You can reduce its ranking time

[@akashwandhekar7864]

@@prafulnaik2919 ok thank you

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Yeah, publish all of them sooner than later 😀

[@akashwandhekar7864]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek ok thank you

[@famifami5771]

Do you write seperate Informational and commercial?? Or write in category wise both Commercial and informational in one category?? And then move to second category??

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I mix the two. But I write very few reviews and "best x for y", I mostly target questions about products - at least for the first year or two with a site.

[@prafulnaik2919]

Intro game going strong 💪 I had a query related to the keyword research! If we have a new site while doing the keyword competition analysis, can we write for the topics which are written by only one site Can we outrank a high DA site with a weak snippet Or should we only go with topics where the forums are ranking!? Any tips?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I recommend digging deeper to find topics with only user-gen. contwnt in top3, when possible. Otherwise go after those with few articles up there in Google 👍

[@famifami5771]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek What do you mean User generated content?? Can you explain furthur??

[@brwa4455]

He means websites like reddit and quora are easier to outrank them in some cases

[@prafulnaik2919]

@@brwa4455 gotcha bro! I do the same but sometimes you run out of keywords

[@steveiws]

Great content on this channel 👍 One thing that confuses me... Category pages. You mentioned in another video that these pages aren't that important but I thought they are the most important pages on a site? Aren't category pages the top of a silo?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

yeah, but I don't think they're that important. Many SEO's will noindex them in Google for that same reason. Just have them, and don't obsess over optimizing them - they should just be there for Google to find your content and for users to navigate.

[@famifami5771]

How many affiliate articles do you write in one category?? Do you write all informational and commercial articles related to one topic in one Category??

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I mix aff. and informational type content in the same categories yes. I like to go easy on affiliate heavy articles for the first year or so but you can do lots of articles targeting questions aboout products and include aff. links!

[@famifami5771]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek Ok. That mean's we can promote affiliate links from Informational articles

[@productivitybydesign9368]

Love that t-shirt. Excellent original design.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@KayOveGabrielsen]

Hi, What is the best payment method from Ezoic to Norway/Denmark?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I use Bank Transfer or Prepaid Card Via Payoneer

[@IsrarAhmedsiddiqui]

how do you check if the content is scrapped or copied from any other site. I mean if they just have replaced few words and those can not be picked by Plagiarism tools but still they fall in the category of copied content?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

My editor tries to keep a close eye. When something seems out of place, out of context, out of the "normal tone" etc. we do lots of manual checks.

[@yousportshd6058]

Awesome video Morten, I always enjoy learning from you. I really appreciate it 🙏. So I have a big, not a HUGE doubt. In other videos you were talking about KW research and normally you don't use KW tools. So despite we point for low competition keywords, most of them have a very low CPC. Is this a problem? Does my revenue will be impact negatively? Or it doesn't matter, does it? Can I build niches only with low competition kw and gain good money?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

GoDownsize is 90% underserved topics and it's making +$50 per 1,000 pageviews. If you write about products and stuff people can buy you will typically be fine.

[@yousportshd6058]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek Thank you so much 🙏

[@football-planet22]

Hi Morten i have an Amazon affiliate. Site with almost 39 published articles and still getting no traffic . Site age 2.5 months but a few click from bing

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

2.5 months is too young to get traffic. Let it age and keep publishing!

[@NalinS]

Had been waiting for your next video eagerly. :D

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Glad to hear that!

[@prakashcvs458]

Hi, Really love your channel . Any discount code for your course ? What do u do to get the table of contents in the blog post? Response will really be appreciated . Thanks

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I use this plugin for the table of content: wordpress.org/plugins/easy-table-of-contents/ I don't offer discount codes for the course as I've decided to price it lower than the other courses and not drop the price now and then, so the price is constant so everyone pays the same...

[@timures]

Thanks, interesting experiment.

[@kevinsmak]

and 4 to avoid - that is an amazing title.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks 😉

[@famifami5771]

How old these 4 websites??

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

1-3 years old from today

[@famifami5771]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek But you mentioned these are new blogs??

[@SmartWebpreneur]

Great content. I love these real-life case studies. Thank you for the video.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Glad you like them!

[@et7300]

This is very helpful, thank you.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Glad it was helpful!

[@famifami5771]

How do you assign articles to writer?? Do you assign only keyword OR assign H2,H3 etc etc.. One more question is how do u find H2 and H3 for Main keyword so we can write Content like you so that reader get engage for reading whole article.... Your H2 and H3 heading and sub heading are adjust in well manner

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I give the writer the full outline, every time! I have a video coming up about that ;)

[@famifami5771]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek When Sir

[@demo7191]

Thanks for this video, and can't wait to see your Pinterest review video!

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks :D

[@TechSwanky]

That intro took me back to 90's ❤️

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

haha, yeah! :D

[@jeremyjordan6786]

Hey, MORTEN would you recommend a multiple niche blog that targets all low competition keywords in a variety of niches ? Can it even rank?

[@ArshRamgarhia]

No!

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I did exactly that as a test and it ranked SUUUPER slowly. But eventually it caught up. Here's the story: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIbWn4poZ8mpe9k

[@ibexkid8002]

Thanks a lot. Learn new things from you.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Glad to hear that!

[@baz914]

Hi Morten, did you manage to find underserved topics in the tech niche, because I know tech is very competitive?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I did, but I had to get pretty creative. I also wrote a good deal of articles that just had little competition (a few articles). I'm OK with the site taking longer to succeed, as the niche is awesome ;) Wouldn't recommend it to a beginner though...

[@baz914]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek Ok great, thanks Morten. Will you be adding some stuff into your course on how to beat competing articles?

[@BelowAverageBlogger]

Love the intro and great info! We all know the “grading” feeling you showed!

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks Mike! :D :D

[@madhusankakumara7303]

I have a little problem. My website got 10000 users in the last 30 days. Will I lose rankings if I change the logo? I mean, I really need to change that.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

You can change the logo, it will not make ANY impact on rankings.

[@EmiliaGardner]

You guys crack me up

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks, Emilia :D

[@firstmillion9583]

Hi Morten! I just bought a site that's getting 4k-5k page views per month. Been checking out what I could improve and I feel that the website needs a redesign, like a new theme to look cleaner and load faster. Do you think this is worth it? Is there a high risk of losing my current keyword rankings because of the change?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

There's no risk in updating the theme and design. As long as you don't change the text and the URLs, you're good! Let's go!

[@Andrew-C-Witham]

Brilliant.... thanks.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

You're welcome!

[@famifami5771]

Do you look at volume of keywords?? How do you expect how much traffic can generate per article?? Any suggestion??

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I have learned to not look at search volume, but really try and get good at guessing. Think about whether something will be searched by people or whether it's something very few would look for. I also have a couple of tactics for this, but these are inside the course...

[@famifami5771]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek So we must have to enroll in your course.

[@hossainchowdhury5629]

Awesome 👍

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks!

[@alaminsagor7618]

Great content ✨ appreciated

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mphsmpa8686]

hey man have you ever experienced this? I am getting random domains pointing to my website homepage

[@imrankalathingal6444]

Lol you are amazing 😂

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks man!

[@ukrainenightlifenet2975]

First of all, thanks for the video. 3 weeks ago I published a blog about ukraine nightlife. Sharing my experiences with strip clubs, nightclubs and prostitutes. The problem is that facebook and instagram won't let me advertise. Due to adult content. i need some advice. I'd appreciate it if you could give advice for adult blogs like mine.