Ch. 18: The AI Content Cliff The 2023 hype said: spin up 500 AI articles, cash flows in. I did exactly that on a fresh personal-finance site. 480 unedited GPT posts, published in six weeks for under $…
Ch. 9: Niching Down Into a Corner 'Riches in niches — go as narrow as possible.' I took it literally: a site only about left-handed kitchen tools. Hyper-specific, low competition, easy authority. Righ…
Ch. 5: The Zero-Difficulty Mirage "Only target KD-under-10 keywords," said every course I'd watched. On my budgeting-app review site I built 60 articles around ultra-low-difficulty terms. Month 7: I r…
Ch. 7: The Order I Publish a Cluster In (It Matters) My travel-gear site published money pages first because I was greedy for revenue. They ranked nowhere. I flipped the order and it worked. — Publish…
Ch. 15: When 40 Links Beat 400 The guru playbook said 'more links, always.' I ran with it on my hiking-gear site — bought a $1,500 package, ended up with ~400 referring domains, mostly directories and…
Ch. 3: The Domain That Didn't Matter Old-school advice said an exact-match domain was rocket fuel. So I overpaid — $1,800 — for BestRobotVacuums.net, convinced the keyword in the URL would carry me. I…
