Thread by @4PillarFreedom

THREAD // Answers to the most common SEO questions I receive

A bit of background:

I earn $25k+ per month from a collection of 5 websites I own.

90% of my traffic comes from SEO.

90% of my income is from Mediavine ads.

Screenshot from my most last 30 days of ad income:

Q: What is my general business model?

In a nutshell:

1. Find low difficulty keywords.

2. Write SEO-optimized articles around these keywords.

3. Monetize with ads.

Q: How do I find low difficulty keywords?

My general approach:

1. Look up organic keywords on ahrefs that competitor sites are ranking for.

2. Filter for low difficulty keywords. (difficulty < 5)

3. Write articles targeting those keywords.

Q: What ad network do I use?

Mediavine.

Other popular ones are Ezoic, Monumetric, and AdThrive

Q: Do I write my own articles or outsource them to writers?

I write all of my own articles. However, outsourcing is extremely common.

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Q: Do I do any link-building?

I mostly write articles where there is very little competition so I don't need links to rank on the first page of Google.

However, the more articles I write, the more natural backlinks I receive over time.

I just don't do any active link-building

Q: Is there a minimum monthly traffic to target for keywords?

Not really. I'll go after anything that registers 10+ monthly searches in ahrefs because ahrefs tends to underestimate true volume by 5-20x

I have articles that show 50 volume in ahrefs, yet bring in 2k visits/month

Q: What does a typical work day look like for me?

I sit at my desk each morning (or go to a coffee shop), sip coffee, and write SEO-optimized articles for about 4 hours.

Nothing fancy.

Repeat Monday through Friday.

For those who are interested in learning more, I share my exact strategy for bringing in traffic with SEO and monetizing that traffic in The Income Community: fourpillarfreedom.com/the-income-com…