Is this a stupid strategy?

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paulseowork

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Is it stupid to outsource all the real work?

Research a niche.
Pay the best writer at BST for quality content and LSI.
Pay the best designer at BST for an SEO/monetized template.
Pay the best SEO service at BST for keyword rankings.
Add money links/strategy.
Wait a a few months for links to get indexed, organic traffic to increase, etc.
Every now and then, collect stats, and re-optimize money links.

I know theoretical internet math is pretty shitty, but...

I figure $200-300 should be enough to start a site... and if the site makes just $20/month, you've broken even after a year. Isn't $20/month pretty modest, and doable? If you actually did "well", you could turn a profit even sooner.

This seems too easy to be true. So what is wrong with this strategy? Other than starting capital, what is keeping people from going out and making lots of profitable websites, since you don't even have to do the work yourself, or learn too much SEO/writing, etc.?
 


Jake232 said:
^ Where everyone fails.
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So is picking which project to pursue more important than the execution of the project itself, since there are many good service providers to help with the execution?

Technically, you can pay someone to do niche research, but if everyone is buying the same niche/EMD/etc. lists, you are screwed. But if everyone is using the same content writer, it doesn't matter too much, right?

That would mean I should devote myself to learning how to pick good niches, since everything else is easy to outsource?
 
Go through the entire process yourself a few times so you know the ins and outs of each step. Obviously, if you can't write well or design well, you'll have to outsource that anyway. But you get my meaning, right?

Part of the process too, if you decide to outsource, is finding the right people to go to.......there will be churn at this stage, even if you hire what you perceive to be the "best".
 
There's no such thing as buy an SEO service and forget about it.

Your first problem would be, what SEO services work?

How long should you continue your linkbuilding effort? and do you need to keep doing it to maintain your ranking?

What's the ROI from ranking for that term vs how much money you spend on SEO?
 
I have an affiliate doing this same thing right now. He bought a URL with the name of the product in the name. Paid for back linking, and is now on page 1 of Google. He paid for the back linking service, did a bit of seo himself and made sure the vertical was a getting a lot of traffic. A couple hundred leads/day is attainable.

I completely agree that finding the right companies to work with are crucial as well.
 
paulseowork said:
That would mean I should devote myself to learning how to pick good niches, since everything else is easy to outsource?
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I'd suggest learning everything, as that will help you with the outsourcing. You have to be able to pick out the right workers and/or clearly explain what you want them to do. You have to be able to keep the project on track and make sure everything is cohesive.

Also, don't underestimate the amount of time it can take to get the right team in place to do everything for you.
 
Thanks everybody for all the good replies.

One of the reasons I wrote this is that I was wondering.. what is the point of all those service providers? Lots of senior members give rave reviews, and if they are outsourcing everything, what is the point of doing the grunt work yourself (i.e. writing articles, scripting bookmark submissions, etc.) - other than as a learning process?

I've done a little of everything, made a few bucks, just trying to figure out my long term strategy to get serious.

Anyways, thanks, again everyone.
 
paulseowork said:
One of the reasons I wrote this is that I was wondering.. what is the point of all those service providers? Lots of senior members give rave reviews, and if they are outsourcing everything, what is the point of doing the grunt work yourself (i.e. writing articles, scripting bookmark submissions, etc.) - other than as a learning process?
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Math makes no sense if you've only used a calculator. Us seniors actually prefer the abacus.
 
erect said:
Math makes no sense if you've only used a calculator. Us seniors actually prefer the abacus.
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True, but if your goal is to be low level manager at Walmart, all you need to do is use a calculator? I guess my aspirations are too low, lol. I have no illusions about dominating the field. Just aiming to pick up some profitable scraps that the big boys don't want to bother with, probably because they have some barriers to entry (language, specialized content knowledge, etc.)
 
Elvis said:
I'd suggest learning everything, as that will help you with the outsourcing. You have to be able to pick out the right workers and/or clearly explain what you want them to do. You have to be able to keep the project on track and make sure everything is cohesive.

Also, don't underestimate the amount of time it can take to get the right team in place to do everything for you.
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You should know what you are outsourcing, but only depending on yourself you can only do one job at a time. You can't handle all the SEO-units alone.
 
If you've not done the work once yourself you don't know what service providers are doing good work vs shit work.

You pay all the same. So your choice.
 
Hav3n said:
If you've not done the work once yourself you don't know what service providers are doing good work vs shit work.
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This.

Plus, you have to know what exactly to order once you find someone. Even if you pick out a good service provider, you should know whether you want 100 bookmarks or 1000, and when in your site's lifecycle you should order them. Etc.
 
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