Hello Everyone,
About a year and half ago I started a side website after my passion...music/guitars.
The intent was for it to start as an affiliate blog site and then morph into an authority site with my own courses and such.
February of this year it peaked at 8-10k impressions per day with about 100 blog posts.
Then the google algorithm update occurred. I knew google wouldn't be kind to me but it basically decimated my traffics slowly with it hitting an all time low last week.
I knew something was fundamentally wrong. The pages are indexed for sure just not coming up on keyword searches as they have been.
The sites ratio was 80/20 affiliate posts vs informational posts. I'm assuming the lack of DA along with most posts just sending people to Amazon was the reasoning (only guesses here).
My new focus moving forward is going to be informational posts along with my own products as I never wanted to rely on Amazon anyway.
The challenge is I need help and I'm seeking out assistance from companies/individuals and I'm getting all different types of opinions as to what the site needs.
Some will say the plan of action should be strictly informational posts for 6-9 months and then adding banner ads.
Others say to get rid of all the affiliate links in the old posts (80 plus affiliate link posts) and rewrite the content.
Another said the problem is the site speed and the toxic backlinks that need disavowing.
I don't mind spending money as since I'm a one man show, I need help as I'm also working full-time.
So my question is to those experts out there what do I believe? I want at least some yield for the services I would try to obtain.
My site is Home - guitarexclusive.com if anyone would like to scope it out and provide some feedback.
I appreciate anyone's time and feedback.
About a year and half ago I started a side website after my passion...music/guitars.
The intent was for it to start as an affiliate blog site and then morph into an authority site with my own courses and such.
February of this year it peaked at 8-10k impressions per day with about 100 blog posts.
Then the google algorithm update occurred. I knew google wouldn't be kind to me but it basically decimated my traffics slowly with it hitting an all time low last week.
I knew something was fundamentally wrong. The pages are indexed for sure just not coming up on keyword searches as they have been.
The sites ratio was 80/20 affiliate posts vs informational posts. I'm assuming the lack of DA along with most posts just sending people to Amazon was the reasoning (only guesses here).
My new focus moving forward is going to be informational posts along with my own products as I never wanted to rely on Amazon anyway.
The challenge is I need help and I'm seeking out assistance from companies/individuals and I'm getting all different types of opinions as to what the site needs.
Some will say the plan of action should be strictly informational posts for 6-9 months and then adding banner ads.
Others say to get rid of all the affiliate links in the old posts (80 plus affiliate link posts) and rewrite the content.
Another said the problem is the site speed and the toxic backlinks that need disavowing.
I don't mind spending money as since I'm a one man show, I need help as I'm also working full-time.
So my question is to those experts out there what do I believe? I want at least some yield for the services I would try to obtain.
My site is Home - guitarexclusive.com if anyone would like to scope it out and provide some feedback.
I appreciate anyone's time and feedback.
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