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I'm planning on selling a foreign affiliate site (EU). I wanted to go with Empire Flippers or Investors.club, but they both seem to require English content.

I'm thinking about trying to sell it privately - but I have no idea where to actually find buyers. Can you guys recommend any specific channels/groups/forums/pages where I can find buyers?

Or a safe marketplace that accepts non-English sites.

The site has not gone through full valuation yet, but it will approx. be between 100-150k.

Thanks!
 
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I'm planning on selling a foreign affiliate site (EU). I wanted to go with Empire Flippers or Investors.club, but they both seem to require English content.

I'm thinking about trying to sell it privately - but I have no idea where to actually find buyers. Can you guys recommend any specific channels/groups/forums/pages where I can find buyers?

Or a safe marketplace that accepts non-English sites.

The site has not gone through full valuation yet, but it will approx. be between 100-150k.

Thanks!
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Try Flippa and Motion Invest too.

I've sold a few sites via FB too. There are a few FB groups dedicated to this. You might find a buyer there if you are lucky, considering it's a foreign affiliate site. I've seen a few foreign sites get listed there.
 
I have a question about schema. I have several articles which answer a few questions at the bottom (FAQ style). However, the main purpose of the webpage is 'article'. When I add schema via Yoast (FAQ block) the MainEntityofPage becomes 'FAQ page'.

Is this a problem? I would say the MainEntity should be 'article'.
 
I'd just create and add in the faq schema manually from another tool or template, and keep the main page schema via the internal yoast function as the main article schema.

I just keep the main FAQ section of my sites set to FAQ schema via yoast and the rest are article, blog post, contact, etc as appropriate. I feel like the FAQ specific page and the schema only set for that is a safe bet at this point and worth a bit more work.
 
Thinking of a name for a new content site. The one I have in mind is a slight variation of a very popular keyword. the domain name is available but when I search that "name", google autocorrects it to the popular keyword. Is that going to be a problem?
 
I am looking for @Ryuzaki post where he wrote about the best E-E-A-T site he found on so far.
I think it was a named site? Anyone remember that post?
 
Zoro said:
I am looking for @Ryuzaki post where he wrote about the best E-E-A-T site he found on so far.
I think it was a named site? Anyone remember that post?
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No idea the quote but honestly, any of the sites from Major publishers are good to emulate.

Start with https://www.dotdashmeredith.com/ - They own Verywell Health.

Going to any of their posts:
Code: 
https://www.verywellhealth.com/turmeric-curcumin-benefits-7110668

Stick that puppy into a schema checker:
https://validator.schema.org/#url=https://www.verywellhealth.com/turmeric-curcumin-benefits-7110668

Copy that.

Go to that post above, copy what they're doing on-site. By author, reviewed by relevant, qualified industry professional.

They have individual author pages that go over each of their writers and reviewers. Those pages discuss their experience, education, and background. They also OBL to relevant socials.

Those author pages also have their own schema:

Code: 
https://validator.schema.org/#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.verywellhealth.com%2Felizabeth-barnes-5225793

Their site has an About us page that lists their medical expert board as well as an OBL to the rest of their expert board - that page is sectioned with a TOC or # anchors for specialty.

They have an editorial process page.

Tons more.

Honestly though, any of the major publishers from here: https://detailed.com/google-control/
Are great jumping off points considering these people control most of the SERPs/Niches.
 
Zoro said:
I am looking for @Ryuzaki post where he wrote about the best E-E-A-T site he found on so far.
I think it was a named site? Anyone remember that post?
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It was here, and I simply had said: "For the past month I've been looking at DotDashMeredith, they're doing some killer EEAT work, probably the most cutting edge out there from what I've seen."

DarkCarnage said:
Thinking of a name for a new content site. The one I have in mind is a slight variation of a very popular keyword. the domain name is available but when I search that "name", google autocorrects it to the popular keyword. Is that going to be a problem?
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This seems like you could become recognized by Google as a brand and siphon off typo traffic, or it sounds like you could really screw yourself and have an endless uphill battle. I think the downside outweighs the upside here.

Bob_the_Builder said:
I have a question about schema. I have several articles which answer a few questions at the bottom (FAQ style). However, the main purpose of the webpage is 'article'. When I add schema via Yoast (FAQ block) the MainEntityofPage becomes 'FAQ page'.

Is this a problem? I would say the MainEntity should be 'article'.
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This is because FAQ schema is meant only for FAQ pages (where the entire page is made of up questions), not just for a few questions at the bottom of a page. Google made a stink about this last year and a lot of people lost their PAA placements over it. This is why everyone was talking about "schema penalties" and "snippet penalties". You can lose the ability to be featured in them by misusing schema, and Yoast is doing what it can to keep you from misusing the FAQ block.
 
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This is because FAQ schema is meant only for FAQ pages (where the entire page is made of up questions), not just for a few questions at the bottom of a page. Google made a stink about this last year and a lot of people lost their PAA placements over it. This is why everyone was talking about "schema penalties" and "snippet penalties". You can lose the ability to be featured in them by misusing schema, and Yoast is doing what it can to keep you from misusing the FAQ block.
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This means we should remove FAQ text at the end of articles?
 
Zoro said:
This means we should remove FAQ text at the end of articles?
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No, it means that you shouldn't use FAQ schema for a handful of questions at the bottom of a page. FAQ schema is meant specifically for what is called an "FAQPage".

A few questions at the bottom of an article is not an FAQPage. That's an article. Neither is a user submitted question with users answering them and upvoting them (like Quora). That's a QAPage (question and answer).

An FAQ page is a page dedicated specifically to FAQ's. You mark up the questions and answers there, where it makes sense in the context of it being an FAQPage. That's why Yoast changes the mainEntity or whatever over to FAQPage if you try using the FAQ blocks. Because that's how it works. That's where the block level schema belongs.

And if you do it any other way, you're creating broken schema, which is a waste of Google's time and they may even see it as manipulation. But back to wasting their processing time, it is my opinion and I think we've seen it born out in reality many times now, that if you waste their time, you'll suffer for it. If you provide an optimized and efficient use of their time, they'll reward you for it.
 
Ryuzaki said:
No, it means that you shouldn't use FAQ schema for a handful of questions at the bottom of a page. FAQ schema is meant specifically for what is called an "FAQPage".

A few questions at the bottom of an article is not an FAQPage. That's an article. Neither is a user submitted question with users answering them and upvoting them (like Quora). That's a QAPage (question and answer).

An FAQ page is a page dedicated specifically to FAQ's. You mark up the questions and answers there, where it makes sense in the context of it being an FAQPage. That's why Yoast changes the mainEntity or whatever over to FAQPage if you try using the FAQ blocks. Because that's how it works. That's where the block level schema belongs.

And if you do it any other way, you're creating broken schema, which is a waste of Google's time and they may even see it as manipulation. But back to wasting their processing time, it is my opinion and I think we've seen it born out in reality many times now, that if you waste their time, you'll suffer for it. If you provide an optimized and efficient use of their time, they'll reward you for it.
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Thank you for the clear explanation. I guess I fucked up big time here. Removed all FAQ schema more than a week ago. Let see how it plays out.
 
Hi, Buso.

So, i looking at google analytics

Acquisition > All Traffic > Sources / Medium.


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What is that? i am confused because my organic trafic in increase while comparing month to month nor year to year, but's that in images is red color/

Thank you.
 
@dimasahmad111, that's because that box isn't showing just your "google / organic" traffic, even though that's the data you're looking at. That box is showing "All Users" from all sources, and the percentage is showing the change in how much your "google / organic" made up of that total. You can click the "+ Add Segment" to create the segment you want to see there as well.

So to explain it in another way, your organic traffic has increased month-to-month and year-over-year, but your total traffic is up over whatever time period you're looking at in comparison to that previous length of time in such a way that your organic traffic makes up less of the total percentage.
 
Hey all.

I have a couple of tech questions I was hoping someone might be able to assist with.

The first is - how to I get my site title to display like this (highlighted red) in Google? As far as I'm aware I have my schema set up, social tags, etx. but at the moment it just says my domain name in full, rather than my brand/site title:

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Separately but related, and absolutely infuriatingly, Google is appending a word to almost all of my results in Google results. And the word is not my site title! It looks like this - not my site but it looks like this site might be experiencing the same thing:
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The problem is, the word it's appending is not my site title or niche! For example, if my site was about sports, I've written 30 articles about NFL, 30 articles about NBA, and 2 articles about tennis - and now Google is appending the word "Tennis" to my search results for seemingly no reason.

So I have an article with H1 and Meta-Title "Top Performing NFL Players of 2023" but it's appearing in Google results as:

"Top Performing NFL Players of 2023 - Tennis."

It's maddening. I even view source and the word Tennis appears neither on the page or in the source code. For some reason Google just appends the word "Tennis" to almost all of my pages for no reason.

Any idea why this is happening and how I could avoid it? I suspect it has a negative impact on my CTR.

Edit: The second issue started around the time of Google's most recent update. So it might be a bug or related to that? Still annoying. On the bright side my traffic has tripled since the update so it's not the end of the world, it is annoying though.
 
dimasahmad111 said:
Hi, Buso.

So, i looking at google analytics

Acquisition > All Traffic > Sources / Medium.


Screenshot-2023-03-26-221338.png


What is that? i am confused because my organic trafic in increase while comparing month to month nor year to year, but's that in images is red color/

Thank you.
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@dimasahmad111

if you hover your mouse over the "All Users" box there's a popup that shows more detail.

What the -8.84% is saying is that the percentage of "all users" that are google/organic is now less compared to the last period.

It may be up in absolute terms (google/organic), but if other traffic sources have increased more then it could now be a lower percentage.

(At least that's how I interpret it! - not very intuitive I agree)
 
I am trying to add my linkedin to my About Page but when I check broken links I get "999 Non-standard". How do you guys link linkedin to your about page?

My site is a named site with my name and I have a real linkedin so this will probably boost my E-E-A-T alot.

*Edit* To clarify I want to make it easier for google crawlers to recognize authory and to connect my experience with my linkedin to make them understand that I am a real person with experience = build trust (E-E-A-T)
 
@Zoro, LinkedIn not only has an authorization wall, meaning you need to login to view content, but they also actively block crawlers (other than the main search engine bots). For instance, when I try to crawl it using IntegrityPro:

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In all likelihood your link is being crawled just fine by Google. You can either crawl it as googlebot or you can search your URL and if it's indexed look at the cache and you'll see that Google views it all perfectly fine.
 
Hey so, for one of my sites I search specific keywords for articles and it links or shows up my home page.

But on my homepage, I only have like 10 links and they are all pointing to the pages so how come this is happening? These are good quality articles btw idk why this is happening.
 
freshpeppermint said:
Hey so, for one of my sites I search specific keywords for articles and it links or shows up my home page.

But on my homepage, I only have like 10 links and they are all pointing to the pages so how come this is happening? These are good quality articles btw idk why this is happening.
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Need more information.

When were the posts published?
 
How to mark 'privacy policy' and 'advertising policy' pages with schema? I do not see specific schema.org for such pages. I want to make sure that Google knows about those pages.
 
I am in dying need of help.
In my early days I have some feutured image not named correctly.
Is there a way to see what post each image is connected to as a feutured image and is there way to change that images name taking the name of the article?

I know there is ways to rename regular images from post titles but cant find a way to do this.
 
bernard said:
Need more information.

When were the posts published?
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February. But what I think is happening is that this keyword is so low comp that my homepage ranking for this. But the page itself doesn't rank either cus it's overoptimized, has too much fluff bs, keyword cannibalization, maybe my writer giving ai content or just low-quality content. So I changed up the article, a day ago so let's see what happens.

I noticed when I erased a lot of the articles like FAQs and parts where I talked about a little bit of what other articles talk about as a whole I think it starts ranking.
 
Figured this is the right thread for this...

And this is coming from an old 'training' on rss related stuff for seo/links so there's that already...

Gist of it is/was...to add a contextual link on a page, to the page itself...so that the rss feed would have it in the content when distributed across different aggs etc. I suppose that would be for scrapers too but that seems to be moot as it would be spammy junk there regardless.

But, other than the rss related stuff...would there be any sort of potential benefit just from an internal link/anchor/link juice sort of scenario doing this, be neutral in effect, or potentially a negative to crawlers (tagged as pr manipulation or infinite crawl issues etc)?
 
@freshpeppermint, this just happens. I think it's because Google recrawls and reprocesses important pages more frequently and may not have gotten around to your new page yet. This is why you see and hear people complaining about their homepage and category pages outranking their specific articles.

Google knows how to deal with it and that's why you pretty much never see it happening in the SERPs as you search as a user. If you're being ancy and looking for it you can find it, and even then it's rare. It will sort itself out. It's very likely not indicative of a problem with your page. Chasing down ghosts like this will keep you busy on the wrong things.
 
Ryuzaki said:
@freshpeppermint, this just happens. I think it's because Google recrawls and reprocesses important pages more frequently and may not have gotten around to your new page yet. This is why you see and hear people complaining about their homepage and category pages outranking their specific articles.

Google knows how to deal with it and that's why you pretty much never see it happening in the SERPs as you search as a user. If you're being ancy and looking for it you can find it, and even then it's rare. It will sort itself out. It's very likely not indicative of a problem with your page. Chasing down ghosts like this will keep you busy on the wrong things.
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Well, a lot of my articles are not ranking and stuff. I have bought so much and uploading. So many of them are not ranking. Some of them start ranking when I lower the keyword density and sometimes remove redundant things. Also, keyword cannibalization is pretty big for me because I have been trying to target this one affiliate program from as many angles as possible.

Even the affiliate programs screwed me a few months back where I was doing okay low 5 figs for 1 or 2 months (Most of this was from a few articles I am talking like 2-3). Then instantly program screwed and now I make like 1k or a little more like that. And if I look at the traffic graph of my main site, looks barely changed from 16 months ago. And overall that particular keyword has less traffic as well.

At this point, I just know the whole informational articles style getting paid via display ads isn't for me as I am struggling to barely get traffic.
 
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