My Plan to Build a 5 figure a month Online Business

hi alex I have a question regarding using affiliate links in a post. Should I directly put the URL to the hyperlink (e.g., amazon ), or shall I mask it? eg : redirecting to recommends=> Then navigate to affiliate site behind the scene. which is best for SEO?

Don’t mean to offend but I feel the layout just isn’t that nice. Looks overcrowded and a vomit of videos. I think you could benefit from a better layout, maybe even structure but I’m sure you’ve got that down due to your SEO experience.

Good idea though, you could expand to work with hotels, restaurants and get commission for driving traffic and sales. Maybe even email their offers and sell a slot in your email to local businesses as you get X amount of visits

Exciting stuff! Good luck 👍! Will stay tuned!

It's good❤

Well....I think it's a cracking idea and a great pivot. The site looks fab too. The one thing I'd love for you to show us (well me!) Alex is how you created the "shop" category and did the store front in a separate drop down. I really want to experiment with it but it's baffling me! Gaz. 👍

I think its a great plan. Have thought about doing that in my area, might after watching you.

That's a quality site if I've ever seen one. The only way this doesn't succeed is if google is indeed broken.

This all sounds great; I can't wait to see the follow-up videos.

Sounds like a solid plan Alex.

Sounds good, good luck sir. I like your videos, you seem genuine :)

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 YES brilliant! Can’t wait to see how it grows for you. It’s a great plan! And exciting, well done. 🎉

I love your plan

I don’t want to sound harsh but I’m really glad Google messed up all those poor standard niche AI-written websites that blogging gurus are blubbing about. Now you’re writing authentic content and engaging with real people on social media, you are doing what many have been doing for years, so you’re not ahead of the game and it might be tough. But I reckon you’ll get real pleasure out of this. If you’re genuinely passionate about what you’re doing and writing about, the quality will be so much better - and that’s what we all need. Good luck.

Great video and good pivot..That is the same thing I did locally where I live and the site hasn't officially launched yet and I am getting between 100 to 500 pageviews per day.

This site is going to pop off. 🚀 It doesn't matter that you're building in public because the fact that you're on the ground means people can't copy you, not effectively anyway. 👌 One tip for what's working now: write through the lens of the user and what they might be looking for and what they might potentially experience, not just your experience. For example "if you like sunbathing there's a lovely beach with soft sand where you can top up your tan. If you have small kids with you avoid the beach after 2pm because it gets too hot. If you prefer to sit with cold beer, my favourite beach bar is....because ..." rather than "there is a beach I went to that's good for sunbathing and and nice beach bar which sells my favourite beer" (Mordy Oberstein at Wix calls this situational content)

Looks amazing Alex. Rooting for you.

I love the transparency on this video and I’m excited to see how well this project does! I’m doing the same thing for my credit site so I’ll be following this closely 🙏

Great video mate, and the site is a solid concept. I tried to get my friend to do something very similar thing years ago. She's obsessed with travel and could have built a blogging empire by now.

Good luck with the project. Consider adding premium listings to the directory for monetisation.

Best of luck. If you're doing Facebook pages you can earn very good money with things like their performance bonus and other monetization options they have. I do very well with it. :)

Good plan! Good luck!

Amazin' Mejo, 'mazin' ... you are at a magic 69K followers on your channel. 'mazin' !!! That streets looks exactly like a street here in Manhattan Beach. That is a great plan Alex!! I will email you. I like your plan to directorify the site. I wish you'd do step by step tuts on it just like you did with bestroofbox ... that was your best tutorial video ever.

It’s a solid plan Alex. I am doing a similar type of site for Pattaya since Feb and frankly speaking I am not disappointed with the growth it has. In fact, I am pleasantly surprised. But given the nature of Pattaya, it has a bit of shackles when it comes to monetization, socials, and link building including local citations.. However, I have found some good onlyfans affiliate deals that are paying off quite well. My next step would be to launch an info product catering to mongers. Good luck Alex, I am pretty sure it’s going to work. However I would personally keep away from display ads networks.

Mate did you ever look into Rank and Rent? I can imagine that doing well on your site, then you can sell leads to local Estepona business owners too.

This is such an interesting project I do wonder whether a site of this nature will work. My thinking is this. I want to know about coffee shops in the town. So I find your site. But how long does it take me to read everything on one coffee shop? Multiple that by maybe 5-7 coffee shops. Is that going to be more or less convenient that telling ai my coffee shop preferences and it suggesting one or two. With just the info it knows I like to read.

This is where I think AI is going and in everyone’s phones too. Apple are about to announce their AI. OpenAI are launching a search engine. Google have Gemini.

I value your thoughts on this.

Hey Alex, great plan and I‘m looking forward to the launch 🚀 May I ask which wp theme you used, or is it a directory plugin?

Estepona looks a beautiful place, and your plan looks great. You are fully immersed in it and so EEAT should come quickly. Looking forward to seeing the site, sounds like it could inspire many of us to do what's needed. Good luck with the monetisation too

I suspect that estapona was a quiet place until that bloke with the camera moved in. 😊

Excited for the launch! Website looking good!

Good luck! Hopefully Google will like the website this time, but the lesson I learnt is that the original content doesn't have priority in terms of ranking. I think regular updates, regular activity such as team work on site, daily marketing, backlinks, return visitors etc. are the most important signals

Thnx for the Tip about Kittl! would love to see your "journey" with the t-shirt part. How did you make them and promoting them via Facebook(ads).

I am building something very similar location website but with less conent at first. I will focus on usefull links, numbers, restaurant menus etc. And will start personalised articles later. It will be interesting how it will compare to what you are doing.

Do the local thing Alex 😀I had a lot of luck with that one. make lists in different "niches" and in the header write: The list should be seen as: here are some of the very best in town, since it can be almost impossible to say "what is best". and then put your paid local deal at spot 1. which will get a lot more clicks ect.

You made the site using popcorn? It looks fantastic

Love the dedication to real, authentic content! Your new project sounds incredible. Keep up the amazing work!

Solid plan Alex, a lot of work to keep on top of though!! Is this built within Popcorn? Any tutorial on the build out?

Funny enough, i had an idea to do something similar tour blog for my location. So will think about this monetisations also. Only as far as Domain purchased! Would like to update you when its moving, youll likely have a ton of feedback im sure.

What plugin are you using for the directory portion of the site?

Alex if I may, add a moving here section. I have a place based tourism site. My highest ranking posts are about moving or retiring to the area. I followed this writing style and original photos etc. never really been affected by the Google updates But I didn't push money side until last year. So I'm probably not as successful as some but it's my brand and it's how I like to create. Do need to turn up the social media you've inspired me.

yes, sounds like a fantastic plan, best of luck.. buena suerte, we will follow along

Enjoying these videos of you documenting the journey Alex! 👏

I’m interested to hear that you’re doing Print-On-Demand T-Shirts. I’ve decided to try that as a project and see how that goes.

Hi! What camera and microphone did you use for this video?

Good luck mate, sounds like a masterplan!

God to see you, Alex.

The work required for a site like this is 10 times more than for a regular content site, and that's without having to negotiate partnerships with real businesses in the city (which would increase the workload by 100 times). The chances of it taking off are 1 in 10 because right now there are thousands of local travel sites with super trustworthy content and comments left without traffic in Google. But I still wish you luck in beating Google

Hi Alex, what camera are you using for vlogging?

The moving here section would be great Alex. I'm a fellow Brit and would love to live in Spain but I thought we could only live there for 3 months at a time due to Brexit?

Good video Alex. I always like to use street view to see how far it is to the shops, beach restaurant etc before I visit somewhere new. Its not always successful as the good cars don't wali down narrow roads. Maybe if you put videos on the site... when you are talking about a hotel you could do the walk to the beach to show this in real time. Its always useless when a brochure says 500 meters to the beach. Just an idea?