The idea is, I rank for this product, and make maybe 3 to 4 sales a month, and just make like 150 dollars a month from this product and move onto another one. After a while you've got an actual budget to use to attack maybe 500 dollar a month niches with more PR sites or whatever, and then you just keep going.
As far as I know, once you're ranked, it doesn't take much to maintain those rankings, as long as there isn't a huge Google update or something.
I'm sure I'm not going to make more than 300 dollars a month for this product and the terms I'm trying to rank for. At the same time, I don't think it'll take much to rank in, just so far I've done a terrible job of link building and bought a package I probably shouldn't have. But yep, I'm just riding the bicycle.
Maybe you're right, maybe I'll realize later it's a much better strategy to just do PPC or something else, but for now I just want to try to rank and see what happens - see what it takes, see how much traffic I get, money I make, etc.
With that being said, I'm trying to figure out what my link building strategy should be - I really don't think it's that hard. I'm concerned that if I buy domains, though, for some reason my PR 4s might have worse links and less link juice strength than someone else's PR 4s. Or whatever.
Or if I should do something besides just drip feed PR 4/5s once a week for 5 weeks in terms of link building for this tiny niche. But maybe not. I should probably just take action and I guess I will.
You said any form of automated link building is basically spammy - but idk. Yeah, call me an idiot for reading source wave, but in Becker's guide to authority SEO he talks about using SeNuke XCR.
"Also before you ask “isn’t automated link building dangerous?”. A tool is only as effective as its owner. If you give a 12 year old a ak-47, the results will be quite different than if you gave a navy seal one.
Automated tool are extremely safe IF you use them the right way."
That guide was probably made ages ago and is probably invalid but idk. I guess the idea makes sense that basically any automated links are spammy, but I'm not sure its correct that they can't work in the foundation of an authority site.