This is the summary of the project #1 in my lifestyle business portfolio.
What Is This Project About?
This project's entire focus is around building automated websites that focus on selling link placements - primarily guest posts and niche edits.
In case you are not as familiar with SEO and link building, these may sound like alien concepts to you - but it is quite simple actually.
For all non-SEO folks, this is like purchasing ad space on another website or a newsletter. The goal of purchasing ad space is to funnel the traffic to your website or your offer.
And when you are selling guest posts - your goal is to funnel "authority" by letting third-parties contribute content in which they'd place backlinks to their websites.
Project in Numbers
2023 Updates
- September HCU update - HCU update that Google rolled out in September and October of 2023 had a (strangely) very positive effect on these websites. They all grew in traffic, resulting in even more sales.
2023 Tasks
- [Done] Automate 90% of work.
- [Done] Keep the profit-to-revenue at 80/20 at a minimum (consistently).
2024 Updates
- March Core & Spam update - A barrage of Google's updates in early 2024 has decimated these link farms (unfortunately). Out of 5 websites, 2 are nearly completely destroyed, 2 are solid, and 1 is still thriving. This does prove that, algorithmically, Google still doesn't know how to solve this, so I intend to continue running this project.
2024 Tasks
- [In Progress] - Launch more link farms based on the previous methods to test if Google actually "solved" the problems of websites that sell link placements.
- [In Progress] - Buy content websites that were penalized during the HCU and convert them into link farms.
Where to Read More About it?
At the moment, I publish regular updates about this project through:
- My Twitter account.
- Weekly & monthly newsletter.
Related Experiments
No experiments have been published for this project yet.
Related Guides
These are the guides I wrote in relation to this project:
- My Simple AI Content Framework - How I Produce Quality AI Content That Ranks
- How I've Made $496,464 Selling Guest Posts & Link Insertions In 4 Years?
Related Products
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
When was this project started?
I started this project back in 2019, and it's been running non-stop for nearly 5 years.
Over the course of 5 years, this project made me over $500,000 in net profit. I've built multiple websites, sold 2 of them, and I am currently running only 3 websites.
How much time do I spend on it?
These days I average around 20h a month on these projects.
In some months, I go over that number, but through the blessings of AI and automation, most of the work is now on autopilot.
Can you share links to your websites?
No, I will not share links to these specific websites. This is done to protect the privacy of these websites from negative SEO attacks from other SEO folks (and Google!)