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Quick question in regards to web design and UX.

Did anyone read or take a course on design principles or UX in order to create the design they have today?
  • Was it worthwhile?
Or the other side, through user data (analytics, heatmaps etc) you were able to modify each site individually to customer behaviour.

I can see value in learning theory behind the principles but my concern is that I take it 1:1 and choose to do things that don't follow "code" so-to-speak.

Cheers
 
ironlemon183 said:
Quick question in regards to web design and UX.

Did anyone read or take a course on design principles or UX in order to create the design they have today?
  • Was it worthwhile?
Or the other side, through user data (analytics, heatmaps etc) you were able to modify each site individually to customer behaviour.

I can see value in learning theory behind the principles but my concern is that I take it 1:1 and choose to do things that don't follow "code" so-to-speak.

Cheers
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Hey,

I didn't take a course on UX design, just used an ordinary premium theme for my affiliate site. I always figured general principles are fine, but what if the particular audience coming to your site is different. So I always had my eye on conversion rate optimization / tailoring the site to my audience's needs and wants.

Right now, an agency is doing CRO on my site and after after only half of their work Amazon fees have 1.5X.

Hope that helps!
 
New question - One site or two when a topic has different flavors of female vs male interest?

A while back I wrote a bunch of content for what was going to be a sorta "Anti Aging/Life Extension" niche site, traffic mostly via SEO and whatever leaks I can build up, and mostly to be monetized by ads. I put it on the back burner for something else, but I'm thinking about it again.

I found that a lot of the topics under that general umbrella tend to skew female or male (or a little of both) For instance, I found that women gravitate toward keywords like "anti-aging" and "youthful skin" whereas men go for kw's like "longetivity" and "athletic performance". Women see it mostly as a "beauty" thing while men see it mostly as a "health" thing.

Example: on the subject of Vitamin C alone, women might go for an article about how it rejuvinates skin, whereas men would care more about how it helps preserve muscle.

What should I do?

A. Build one site and co-mingle female and male articles.

B. Build 2 sites, one for each gender.

I guess the advantage of choice A is that the site will be bigger and have more content, whereas with choice B I can tailor the domain names, and look-and-feel of each site according to each gender. But what say you folks?
 
If it's going to mostly be organic search traffic then I'd build out one site and co-mingle. The reason is that search traffic is generally going to view one page and bounce. So it won't matter about the audience or dancing around that so much. Just change voices depending on the article. Option A leaves you with a much more powerful domain which will speed up your ability to get more organic traffic.

Option B only makes sense when you have a specific product to sell and have high ROI. You're talking about monetizing with ads. I wouldn't over think it. I'd do option A and go to town on it until I dominated everything.
 
Question about the Accuracy of page position & impressions in search console. If I am appearing in the 70th position lets say, does that mean a person went to page 7 and saw me in the position.

Or does google search console count bots/crawlers etc as "impressions"

Short form: How reliant should I be on the reporting offered?

Cheers
 
ironlemon183 said:
Question about the Accuracy of page position & impressions in search console. If I am appearing in the 70th position lets say, does that mean a person went to page 7 and saw me in the position.

Or does google search console count bots/crawlers etc as "impressions"

Short form: How reliant should I be on the reporting offered?

Cheers
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I think Google Search Console is an average of positions.

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Envato (themeforest, codecanyon etc) have a yearly "all included" package of $350. Would you say that is a good deal?
 
ragnar said:
Envato (themeforest, codecanyon etc) have a yearly "all included" package of $350. Would you say that is a good deal?
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My feeling on those non-sanctioned marketplaces are their offers are usually bloated and are soon to be unsupported. If it included Graphic River id get a lot of use out it though.
 
What do you think about Thrive Theme for Wordpress? I get recommendations for it everywhere and it looks like it has some nice features that are useful.
 
Thrive is good. They're especially good for those that don't want to get into code much. Some of their plugins, like Thrive Leads, are pretty nice too.
 
ragnar said:
What do you think about Thrive Theme for Wordpress? I get recommendations for it everywhere and it looks like it has some nice features that are useful.
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I wouldn't recommend thrive theme..Thrive architect is good but their themes are horrible on mobile..too much white space..
 
What would you do if you needed to make little money but quickly? Let's say, get 100 dollars in a week. Selling a service in Fiverr?
 
Apex said:
What would you do if you needed to make little money but quickly? Let's say, get 100 dollars in a week. Selling a service in Fiverr?
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If I needed $100 in a week, I would look around my room and see what I could sell quickly (Especially stuff that you can buy back for the same price).

Next, I would think of jobs I could do locally. Door to door after a snowstorm to shovel - you could make $100 in an afternoon, or mowing lawns, or making trips to the dump for people if you have a truck, or even renting a truck and helping people move.

Do you want $100 this week, or do you need it? Adjust your plan/comfort accordingly.

You could put up an ad on Craigslist offering to setup a website for $100, I'm sure you'd get bites because it's really cheap. It might not be a sustainable business, but I'm assuming you're in a bit of a pinch here, so that's another line you could cast out.

When I say "I would..." for some of these, it means "I have done this in a similar situation."

I don't know what your experience is with online work, but based on the question I'm guessing you are newer to it, so starting offline might be a more viable route.

There's this romantic idea among entrepreneurs about sitting in a little shack, eating ramen, going all in for 20 hours a day, and giving yourself absolutely no room to fail. It's always awesome hearing about the people who start there and end up killing the game. You don't hear much about all the ones who fail, though. Don't be afraid to do some good old fashioned offline work to create a cushion for your online work.

Even if you did manage to land 25 gigs on Fiverr in a week, there would still be a delay before the money actually landed in your bank account.

I'd lean towards casting out a few different lines, where you just need one of them to hit in the next week and you'd make your goal, rather than trying to scoop up 25 shitty fish on Fiverr, just catch one nice fish.
 
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What are the best ways to optimize a general Crypto currency blog?
 
bopeep said:
What are the best ways to optimize a general Crypto currency blog?
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I'd say the best way is to become an affiliate for an exchange where you can get a cut of every single trade people make, where you'll eventually get some whales in there, too. I'd play it out just like a casino site. That'd be some serious passive income since everyone seems to go batty over crypto. When they get into it, they get INTO IT.

I haven't given it much thought beyond that but I imagine there's no lack of CPM ads you could find, or even get on BuySellAds or offer them direct to buyers for crypto only. You could sprinkle in sales for miners and GPUs or whatever too.
 
I've managed to get my hand on frequent lists of deleted/expiring domains outside the marketplaces, but they don't come with info about domain strength.

This could be 200 a day domains to check.

I know both Majestic and Ahrefs have APIs that would be perfect for this, but they're also really expensive for my budget (unless they changed their terms).

Is there any cheaper alternative?

It doesn't need to be very precise, only to get an overall idea of which domains to look more closely at. Years ago, pagerank and Scrapebox was an obvious choice of course, even after it stopped updating, but now it can't be right?
 
ragnar said:
I've managed to get my hand on frequent lists of deleted/expiring domains outside the marketplaces, but they don't come with info about domain strength.

This could be 200 a day domains to check.

I know both Majestic and Ahrefs have APIs that would be perfect for this, but they're also really expensive for my budget (unless they changed their terms).

Is there any cheaper alternative?

It doesn't need to be very precise, only to get an overall idea of which domains to look more closely at. Years ago, pagerank and Scrapebox was an obvious choice of course, even after it stopped updating, but now it can't be right?
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You could try http://domdetailer.com/

They do not have ahrefs stats though.
 
Is it possible to use a tool like GSA for quality content syndication, or am I thinking too optimistically?
 
Hello builders!

I'm working on an affiliate website, and I'm wondering how many pieces of content I should have before I start promoting it.

So far I have created two outlines that are going to interlink to each other. One is a Desire type article, and the other one is an Intent type article. Both will be 2000~ words, and I'll start using Facebook Ads to push traffic to both. I'm also planning on getting an infographic for both to really increase the quality of the content.

Would this be a waste or should I aim for more pieces of content first?
 
Jared said:
Is it possible to use a tool like GSA for quality content syndication, or am I thinking too optimistically?
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There's all kinds of software that allows you to syndicate content. I don't know about GSA SER in particular, but people use all kinds of tools. The most recent foray into that was the concept of Authority Stacking, which was pretty cool honestly.

They would syndicate to dozens of branded social media profiles and web 2.0's using the RSS feeds of their sites, only showing excerpts and getting a link back to their site. They'd interlink the profiles too, and have them all linking back to their homepage, building up and passing "authority" back to the homepage and all the inner pages thanks to the syndication, which also kept the profiles fresh and kept Google crawling them.

I'd say it's more about how you do it, quality wise, than which tool you use to do it.

onlinemagic said:
Would this be a waste or should I aim for more pieces of content first?
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What is your goal for the users you get to the site? There needs to be some kind of act they take that is measured as a conversion, whether that's clicking an ad, buying an item, sharing the post, linking to it from another site or forum, etc.

If you think you can achieve the conversion goals, it's never too early to promote. But you need something actionable and measurable so you'll know whether to keep going with the Facebook Ads or not.
 
Ryuzaki said:
What is your goal for the users you get to the site? There needs to be some kind of act they take that is measured as a conversion, whether that's clicking an ad, buying an item, sharing the post, linking to it from another site or forum, etc.

If you think you can achieve the conversion goals, it's never too early to promote. But you need something actionable and measurable so you'll know whether to keep going with the Facebook Ads or not.
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Thank you @Ryuzaki for answering so quickly.

The primary goal of the article is to get them to make the purchase on Amazon and sharing the post second. I think I can achieve the goal but won't know until I try. I'll just dive into it. Thanks again. :smile:
 
Does anyone know of any legal implications for doing affiliate marketing under a fake name and/or using a fake photograph?

Has anyone here ever faced any issues over it?

I'm asking for a friend. Seriously.
 
Jared said:
Does anyone know of any legal implications for doing affiliate marketing under a fake name and/or using a fake photograph?
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As long as you're following the law and the FTC guidelines, I don't see why it would matter. It's only when you break the law that there's a problem, like misleading and inaccurate statements, generating tons of fake reviews by fake accounts (mainly on other company's platforms), etc. Even then you probably need to be knocking down a ton of money and impacting a lot of people, like diet rebills.
 
What's a good opt-in percentage to aim for a popup?
 
inventory: 100 twitter accounts created in 2009
I think each has a profile pic, and is following 20 people or so.... any intrinsic value due to age?
 
Okay so I'm pretty green but here goes - I get that many people use the Amazon affiliate program given how popular Amazon is but how on earth do people run businesses on such thin commissions?

Crunching some rough numbers, at roughly 5% commission, I'd need to do a pretty high level of sales value to be able to do this full time.

I'm not put off - just trying to understand if it's possible?
 
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