Pro SEO Tip #1: π΅οΈββοΈ Build your own Private Blog Network. (Pt. 2)
So you've chosen a niche, purchased a domain, hosted it, installed WordPress (free Astra theme) + elementor and built your homepage, what's next?
4. Create 10 Pillar Page Blog Posts π¨βπ»
E-E-A-T is garbage or the SERPS wouldn't be full of Reddit shitposters so don't worry about an "About Us" or any other inner pages for now.
Let's move on to the blog posts themselves.
Ask Chat GPT to give you a list of 10 blog post titles + meta descriptions based on popular searches in your niche, these will be your main pillar pages.
Articles you create down the road will link back to your homepage and/or one of these pillar page blog posts.
I like to create an Elementor template that'll be used across all blog posts (so they actually look good).
Most template kits will have a prebuilt blog post template that you can modify for your needs.
Customize it on your first blog post (titled after the first of the suggestions Chat GPT makes for you), save/export the template as a .json file and you'll be able to quickly import and edit it for every blog post.
For this example I'll be using ChatGPT to create these articles but if you want to, you can write the article yourself or hire someone else to write it for you.
For each individual pillar blog post, ask Chat GPT to create a 2,500 word article based on the first title it's suggested.
Ask it to include:
- Humor, turns of phrase, metaphors & comparisons.
- 2-3 Images
- H2 & H3 subheadings,
- Bullet points & numbered lists where appropriate
All of this ^ should be in full markdown.
GPT will typically write an outline first, if everything looks good, ask it to "please continue" until the full article is written. Then copy/pasta the article into your blog post.
Use the Title & meta description provided by GPT to fill out your Yoast panel in regular WordPress edit mode (everything else is done in Elementor editor)
Images should include alt text, and for each blog post you'll be linking out to the homepage + an external page like Wikipedia (and eventually your other websites once you've created them) where its topically appropriate.
Never link out to an internal or external page for the exact keyword your targeting on the current page or you'll start to cannabalize your content.
In part 3 I'll include some tools you can use to help automate internal linking structures, but for now I'll assume you're doing this manually.
Proceed through each article in the same fashion outlined above. You're now sitting on a website with over 25,000 words of content.
You can setup and ping GSC to crawl your pages yourself, or submit your pages to an indexer like Omega to help index your content.
You can set a schedule to create X amount of new articles per week for that website, creating internal link silos from the new articles up to your pillar posts. These newer articles can be shorter posts of 500-1000 words about more niched down subject matter.
5. Start building up your PBN authority with backlinks. π
You can start with 1 website using the methods outlined so far, or create multiple sites at your discretion.
I'm going to assume you only have 1 site built out right now.
You can start with the sneaky backlink series to create authority on your website for dirt cheap.
After that you can move onto paid and free guest posts, niche edits, parasite SEO, HARO links and more...
The more contextual the better, but not always necessary for every single link.
The more and higher quality links you build, the bigger your authority becomes, the easier and more profitable your monetization becomes on that website and others you build afterwards and in parallel.
This entire process has a compounding effect. Time + content + links yields more and more possibilities as you continue.
In part 3 I'll give a quick summary, talk about the monetization methods, and include tools and resources I could fit into part 1 & 2.
Cheers fam β¨π₯