{"id":3286,"date":"2015-02-02T12:12:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2015-03-04T14:28:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T19:28:22","slug":"seo-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/seo-money","title":{"rendered":"The Hustler’s Guide to Making SEO Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"seo-make-money-online\"If you’re deep in this SEO game then chances are you got into it for one main reason: the money. If you didn\u2019t and you\u2019re on some philanthropic quest to rank websites for non-profit organizations then good for you, but most of us are out to make a buck, actually a lot of bucks. I myself found SEO several years ago and quickly became obsessed with it as my vehicle to entrepreneurial success and financial freedom. It\u2019s been an incredible journey, one I continue to progress on while still striving to improve my game every day. Before getting started, here’s a brief rundown of my background in SEO and what I\u2019ve accomplished over the years. <\/p>\n

2007<\/strong> – The first “aha” moment happened in college after meeting a friend and future business partner who was banking $50k+ per year on SEO traffic at the age of 20. <\/p>\n

2007-2009<\/strong> – Became completely obsessed with SEO and read everything I could get my hands on. I began taking action building small sites and parasite pages, had my first taste of decent $$ near the end of this grind. Yup, almost two years without making anything, that’s harsh reality folks. <\/p>\n

2009 – 2012<\/strong> – Began to dominate SERPs and started an epic spam run generating over a million dollars in affiliate commissions. <\/p>\n

April 24, 2012<\/strong> – Oh penguin, how you beat my ass. This was judgment day for me, wake up call, lost 90%+ of my portfolio overnight. Sites making hundreds of dollars per day (even had one hitting thousands) gone, all gone. <\/p>\n

Penguin – 2013<\/strong> – Rebuilt, kept spamming, vowed to never depend on pubic blog networks again, with the goal of building the biggest, baddest, spam network ever created. I also started my blog somewhere in this time, it kinda took off, made a few bucks and gave me some laughs<\/a>. <\/p>\n

2013 – 2015 and Beyond<\/strong> – As the industry divided my focus remained on the same thing, doing whatever works to rank sites on Google and trusting nothing but the data I had created myself. <\/p>\n

Phew, that brief outline wasn\u2019t so brief after all, and that\u2019s leaving out all kinds of shit. So let\u2019s get started, this is how you make money as an SEO, a search engine marketer\/opportunist, straight from someone who has battled through it and been there and back. <\/p>\n\n

Affiliate Sites<\/h2>\n

Now this is the area I have the most experience in, just making sites and ranking them. These can take on many forms. We will put them in two categories; minisites and parasite pages. You don\u2019t need to stick to one category, you should have a diverse portfolio and also be testing a wide variety of domains\/pages with your links. <\/p>\n

Minisites:<\/strong> This can be anything from a simple three page site to a twenty page site. That is what I would consider my true churn and burn sites. I give zero shits if these sites go down, we play the game knowing this. Be cheap as hell, make a minimal investment in each site, and keep storming forward collecting as much data as you can along the way. <\/p>\n

Parasite pages:<\/strong> As you\u2019re developing your linking strategy\/system, you\u2019ll find parasite pages to be an easy thing to quickly setup and test with. You also have the hope that the root domain you\u2019re using will help you rank better than just using a brand new domain and making a mini-site. There are usually a few domains just crushing Google, watching the SERPs will help you unlock these. Then test some spam blasts and see if you can make some magic happen. Keep things cheap as hell across the board so you can run lots of tests, this is how we get enough data to guide us to the finish line. <\/p>\n

Authority sites<\/h2>\n

An authority site is a long term play that you should build something around which you are truly passionate about. Without this you’re likely to fail. Here is a nice quote from Gary Vaynerchuk<\/a> that sums up my feelings towards starting a “legit” site. <\/p>\n

Look yourself in the mirror and ask, \u201cWhat do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life?\u201d. Do that! I promise you can monetize that shit. If you love Alf, do an Alf blog. You collect smurfs? Smurf it up! Whatever you need to do, do it!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n