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  • Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024

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  • @GrowWithWill
    @GrowWithWill 2 года назад +3

    Shorter articles are indeed making strides in the search engine results and that just proves that people are looking for fast answers to their problems. This could be a good angle to attack to get more traffic. Thanks for this!

  • @thewhistlingoak
    @thewhistlingoak 2 года назад +6

    Thanks Morten. Following you (silently) for more than 2 years now. Thought id jump in with an update - You are right about smaller articles. I usually (following your advice) used to hit the 1400-1800 word mark. But after the helpful content update, i wrote one for my travel website with 750 words and one for my blogging website 811 words. Both were indexed instantly and both ranked in the top 10 within a couple of days. I have done 0 link building and dont even use social media for traffic. Would point out though - I have recently started using web stories to drive traffic.
    Want to thank you for inspiring me to get onto this blogging journey. Keep up the great work!
    Aditya

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +3

      Thanks for chiming in, Aditya! Always very encouraging when you silent viewers say hi! Glad to hear about your success!

  • @Andrew-C-Witham
    @Andrew-C-Witham 2 года назад +2

    Thanks Morten for this bonus video. It is good news indeed.
    I've never paid much attention to metrics from SEO tools (or to SEO tools themselves) but it has been frustrating when doing topic research to see poor content rank well. In the end Google has to get better to survive itself. So, this is an encouraging observation for a win - win.

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад

      True, but Google really only needs to be the least bad search engine - and no one else is offering any competition, really. And apparently, it's harder than it seems to distinguish good/bad content 🙄. That said, I think we are starting to see Google "understand" text better and know when to rank something else because it's more on point.

  • @discovermetaldetecting
    @discovermetaldetecting 2 года назад +1

    Thanks Morten.....this is really encouraging for us!! 👍🏻

  • @storeycopy
    @storeycopy 2 года назад

    @6:50 😂 I can relate! Well... maybe not to the GIANT stuffed animal haha. Awesome content as always, Morten!

  • @RRRewind
    @RRRewind 2 года назад +1

    Google is starting to go the right way rewarding those that spend time thinking of their users. :)

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +1

      I’m sure they always had this objective but building a machine to understand text and comparing articles apparently is very difficult 🤔

  • @wesleyoaks
    @wesleyoaks 2 года назад +1

    Hope that small site comes back for you. Even if it's a small site that loses indexing or position it's always a little frustrating.

  • @MohamedMed-ip6tp
    @MohamedMed-ip6tp 2 года назад +3

    what I see is Big sites that covered broad topics are in top positions, and also rank for small topics even if they just write a sentence

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +2

      Yeah, then beat them with a full article on a smaller topic (if you haven't tried that already) 💪🏼

  • @mikeh.4503
    @mikeh.4503 2 года назад +2

    Regarding shorter articles: I'm sure a smaller article will never outrank a larger article just because it is shorter. As you say here: No fluff and no filler text is important, but that has always been the case. In other words: If you write a shorter article and just leave out additional information (helpful of course), just to make it shorter, then it won't outperform the larger one. We can make a bet ;) And again: Fluff was always bad and will always will be. The good thing now might be, that Google will recognize fluff more. BTW: For me as a non-native speaker, it has always been more time consuming to write (and even edit outsourced ones) my English articles. But the big advantage is, that I really don't know how to write fluff due to my limited vocabulary :)

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +4

      I didn't mean that shorter articles win due to the fact that they are shorter. I just wanted to share that smaller articles CAN win many times, if they contain the same information (or better) than a longer articles that goes slightly off-topic or has fluff.

    • @mikeh.4503
      @mikeh.4503 2 года назад +1

      @@PassiveIncomeGeek Agreed ;) :)

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад

      @@mikeh.4503 Cool

    • @gainsquaresmedia8161
      @gainsquaresmedia8161 2 года назад

      @@PassiveIncomeGeek from experience, I agree with this.

  • @chibbledorf
    @chibbledorf 2 года назад +3

    I guess it makes sense to have shorter articles since people like tic tok & YT shorts. It's probably reduced peoples attention span to less than a goldfish.

    • @matiqog
      @matiqog 2 года назад +1

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад

      Yeah, I think TikTok, RUclips short, Facebook Reels are all examples of people liking quick info.

  • @Alex_1729
    @Alex_1729 2 года назад

    Useful stuff. Hope your dropped site gets back up, and keep us updated about the shorter articles experiment. Would be nice to see what's possible these days with the no-fluff, on-point short article.

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад

      Thanks! I'll keep you guys updated, and thanks, Alex!

  • @alishaikh3663
    @alishaikh3663 2 года назад

    Super helpful video Morten, thanks for sharing. I'm coming back to blogging in a couple of days and hearing stuff like that is really encouraging.

  • @paulkozar7454
    @paulkozar7454 2 года назад +1

    I've also noticed that Google will highlight the point in your article that answers the query if your article covers more topics than what is in the actual query.

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +1

      yeah, that typically happens when you click the featured snippet, in that what you mean?

    • @paulkozar7454
      @paulkozar7454 2 года назад

      @@PassiveIncomeGeek you may be right about that. Tusand tak!

  • @YouEatPlants
    @YouEatPlants 2 года назад +1

    Thanks Morten! That’s good news! Quick question, how long are you still seeing it take to rank articles in Google? Is it still the same 8 months to a year or more like it used to be, or has Google sped up the process? I’ve had articles I wrote a while back ago that were indexed but never ranked so far, so not sure if I can still expect them to. Thanks!

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад

      For new sites, I see it take longer as you often get a minor setback with update. I talk about this in this video: ruclips.net/video/pCEFq_oh5T4/видео.html&ab_channel=PassiveIncomeGeek

    • @YouEatPlants
      @YouEatPlants 2 года назад +1

      @@PassiveIncomeGeek ok, I’ve got a site that’s almost two years old, so thought it might rank articles faster by now!

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад

      @You Eat Plants Maybe there's some competition? Maybe the topics get little search *'re* volume? Maybe you borderlining YMYL topics? Maybe you wrote too few articles? Maybe you need more topical authority? (more similar topics). That said, I do see some outliers where it just takes longer.

  • @whatznext28
    @whatznext28 2 года назад +1

    Do you suggest we start writing shorter content or continue writing longer to beat the current ranking articles?

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +1

      I’m still hesitant as I haven’t tested much yet… I’ll share more later!

  • @miket7210
    @miket7210 2 года назад

    Hi Morten, I've seen a lot of your videos where you talk about the underserved topics. Please how do you go about your research on these topics? Where do you look out for ideas, since no one has written anything about them before? Thank you

  • @ErosiumTV
    @ErosiumTV 2 года назад

    Hey buddy first of all I love your content its so useful! I do have a QUESTION

  • @beardlong8235
    @beardlong8235 2 года назад +1

    Hello Morten, wassup mate? I have lost the feature snippets too sitewide from October 2021. Can you let me know, the DR of the site that got the feature snippets back or any other change you did on your website to get them back? Thank you

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад

      I didn't do anything to get them back. The site is pretty big (250-300K pageviews /mth and DA 35 on Ahrefs)

  • @totstoybox
    @totstoybox 2 года назад +1

    The Spruce annoy me lol, they just about got everything covered!

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +1

      Yeah, they write a LOT of articles!!! I constantly bump into them too 😵‍💫

  • @Brooks.Conkle
    @Brooks.Conkle 2 года назад

    Thanks for the info. That life sized stuffed animal looked fun! 🤣

  • @asifferdous7218
    @asifferdous7218 2 года назад

    Hi Morten,
    I followed your formula and got huge success. I targeted undeserved topic where mostly reddit/quora were in first position. Within a year, I was getting 90k visitor per month. But everything changed after Google helpful content update and september 22 core update. I lost my first position to Reddit/Quora and pushed back to 2/3/4 position. In some cases, big site with one/two line in an unrelated article took thr first position. Besides, as per semrush, i lost 1k keywords in last 20 days. In total, I lost 30-40% traffic.
    Do you think they will come back for user experience over time as there is normally no comprehensive article in serp except my ones?

  • @certtechwebsolutions
    @certtechwebsolutions 2 года назад +1

    What’s your thoughts on affiliate marketing specific blog websites? Do you see a shift happening where blogs are more of a content driven type blog website with ads the future?

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +2

      Yeah, thats the shift I made a few years back. It’s still possible to do aff. sites but Google seem to go after reviews and product list posts pretty agressively and I don’t think it’ll stop..
      It also makes sense. Aff. marketers has made it almost impossible to find good honest reviews!

    • @certtechwebsolutions
      @certtechwebsolutions 2 года назад

      @@PassiveIncomeGeek thank you very much for the prompt response

    • @certtechwebsolutions
      @certtechwebsolutions 2 года назад

      @@PassiveIncomeGeek I am a big fan and I love your channel!

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад

      Happy to hear it, thanks a lot! 😀

  • @ClementineCreative
    @ClementineCreative 2 года назад

    This is good news! I’m really enjoying your videos. BTW, it was so funny when your kids came in through the door with that huge pink teddy bear! 😂😂 Glad you kept it in the video.

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад

      haha. I know! I first got really frustrated and wanted to reshoot the thing - but realized it just made the video better 😂

  • @GS-qh5dw
    @GS-qh5dw 2 года назад +1

    Very well explained !

  • @webdev.vidyutpal
    @webdev.vidyutpal 2 года назад

    Morten, I've a blog with 500 posts, it was doing great. But, with HCU I lost 60% traffic, I'm seeing currently shorter articles in place of mine. Should I start cutting the long ones. Thanks

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +1

      Sorry to hear that, Vidyut! Good question, I wouldn't do that at the moment - we're in the middle of a core update so I think it's best to see where you land after this. Its also a bit early to say if Google prefer shorter (more to-the-point) content...

    • @webdev.vidyutpal
      @webdev.vidyutpal 2 года назад

      @@PassiveIncomeGeek Thanks for your suggestion Morten. I'll wait and see what's happening.

  • @SchneiderMediaConsulting
    @SchneiderMediaConsulting 2 года назад +1

    Hey Morten, first of all: thanks for your tips and updates! It’s a great help. There is a question that has been bothering me for too long: why is everybody targeting the English-speaking market? Sure, it’s the biggest, but arguably it has also the greatest competition. Wouldn’t a language-specific blog just be a kind of niche, where you can expect less competition?
    Insert: Your course targets the English-speaking market, right?
    Just asking because I’m about to start a second site and just can’t decide whether it’s going to be in English or German.

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +2

      We target Americans because the display ad and affiliate earnings are much higher there. From U.S. to U.K the ad earnings (from the same display ad slots) are cut in half, and from U.K to many European countries (non-English such as Germany and Denmark) the earnings (RPM) are cut in half AGAIN!

    • @danas986
      @danas986 2 года назад +1

      @@PassiveIncomeGeek I think country specific affiliates can be also profitable but then again you have currency conversions. What might not seem like a lot in USD can have a huge impact in another currency. For example, if I got $1000 per month from my websites + my regular income (about $600 but it varies as I'm a freelancer), I'd be able to afford to rent my own place and live quite comfortably. That's basically unheard of in the US for this much.
      I'd like to see a non-english site targeting only one country and using Adsense or a local ad company, would be a cool case study I think but would have to be in English :D

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад

      @@danas986 I've tried that! It still paid 25% of what I make from my U.S. sites - in the same niche! And Denmark is a high-spending country that's very expensive - probably more expensive than U.S: BUT the big brands (BMW, Loreal, Colgate, etc.) have small budgets for most countries compared to their budgets in the U.S.

    • @danas986
      @danas986 2 года назад

      @@PassiveIncomeGeek Nice! Of course I wouldn't recommend having a local website as a primary income, but I think if you enjoy writing in your language and there's a gap in the market, it would be a nice 'side income'.
      Edit: but there are also local brands who would advertise only locally and spend their budget there. I guess it depends on the country and the ad provider.

  • @utopianclass
    @utopianclass 2 года назад +2

    Hello, I'm looking at starting my Fourth blog after having 3 failures already. This time around, I want to add a custom feature like a simple calculator or something of that sort that is kinda related to my niche. Do you think this is a good idea?? Have you done any case study on such a thing before??

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +2

      These can work well in order to attract links. They are typically hit or miss - so you should probably launch several tools if you think you need lots of links in your niche. My strategy is a little different - I go after underserved topics with very low competition in order to break in.

    • @miket7210
      @miket7210 2 года назад

      @@PassiveIncomeGeek please Morten, when you spot this underserved topics, how and where do you conduct research on them? Please I'd really appreciate if you can point me to any video where you addressed that. Thanks

  • @thekillermode1
    @thekillermode1 2 года назад

    Hey Morten. As a manager, how do you make sure your writer isn't using AI tools to write content. I had actually hired one but faced issues with monetization and eventually had to delete 11 posts and write them myself to get Ezoic and Adsense? Even though Copyscape and other plagiarism detecting tools never showed any plagiarism and I also couldn't differentiate the writing stylr from that of a human. Any advice?

    • @tenningale
      @tenningale 2 года назад

      AI tools generally don't produce more than about 500 words of content at a time, so if they're longer there's some human work in it. A big thing with AI tools is they're often bad at factual specifics and have a tendency to repeat the same phrases over and over again, especially in content like listicles. I don't care if my writers use AI tools, I just want the content to be accurate and fit the search intent.

  • @heyjohnmichael2066
    @heyjohnmichael2066 2 года назад +1

    Another Awesome video. When going for the keywords that are not on point with the current sites in the SERP that we try to write an on point article for, are you still not worrying about search volume? I usually use my intuition and not worry about search volume tools. Just wondering if you’re still a fan of 0 volume keywords. Thanks Morton!!!

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +2

      you're welcome! Zero search volume KWs is a myth - there's always some search volume. I just go with my guts because anything else doesn't work, in my opinion ;) And it does get a lot easier over time! In my course, I also teach how to write titles that often grabs more traffic than the question itself. Thanks for the kind words!

  • @mtwhatley3253
    @mtwhatley3253 2 года назад +1

    So this is an old story (about 3-4 years) about Kyle Roof. He ranked a local site to number one using Lorem ipsem by placing keywords in exact positions within a page. After some research I’m getting that google can’t read overall text for ranking but only looking at keywords and where there place in order to rank. So is a shorter article with strategically placed keywords the way to go….?

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +1

      Forget about keywords and just write the best content for the TOPIC 😉.
      When Kyle did thisbit was for a non-existing search term (nonsense words) that has no meaning - I don’t think it would work for real topics.

    • @mtwhatley3253
      @mtwhatley3253 2 года назад

      @@PassiveIncomeGeek interesting…have you looked into brendan gailles rankiq. He’s doing 6 milllion monthly views on 3 websites. Just trying to find a way to get an edge over comp.

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад

      ​@@mtwhatley3253 I know his podcasts. Remember, he's been at it for a LOOONG time. I haven't tried his tool, but I generally don't really like tools that tell me how to write and words to include and such. I tried similar tools (Cora, PageOptimizerPro, Surfer, etc.) and never saw an uplift.

  • @INFPinSA
    @INFPinSA 2 года назад +1

    Yes, that's definitely a nice roundup of some good news. We should all be pushing hard for Q4. By the way, are you a Kevin Magnussen fan? When you mentioned Denmark, I forgot that's where you are from, lol. I'm a big KMag fan and pull for Haas. Too bad their cars are not great this year though.

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +1

      haha thats cool! I don’t really watch any sport, sorry. I rarely watch Tv at all actually 🤔

    • @INFPinSA
      @INFPinSA 2 года назад

      @@PassiveIncomeGeek Not a big TV guy either but F1 is definitely my guilty pleasure lol

  • @farwashoaib4196
    @farwashoaib4196 2 года назад +1

    This is a great news!! And yes, i have outranked many bigger site using this method.
    I actually learned it when one of my posts ranked on the 2nd position for a search query where the first 2 3 pages were filled with very high authority sites.
    The query was How to teach X to an only child but all the articles ranking were about teaching X to children.
    Just with a minor difference i made it to the 2nd position.

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +1

      Awesome! great example of where we can find cracks to get in!

  • @lamborghinicentenario2497
    @lamborghinicentenario2497 2 года назад +2

    Forbes writing about video games LOL

  • @infact5667
    @infact5667 2 года назад +1

    I’m very interesting in your course. Do you ever have a discount code?

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +1

      No, I don't. I have decided to always have the same price for everyone. I don't do Black Friday and email lists followed by a free course and then a huge discount when people don't buy 😆 - I like the price to be what it is - so everyone pays the same ;)

    • @SusheelChandradhas
      @SusheelChandradhas 2 года назад +1

      @@PassiveIncomeGeek whaaaaat? No preference? Are you a communist? 😂😂😂 Kidding. I think you're amazingly level headed and fair. I wish you all the success that you deserve.

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад +1

      @@SusheelChandradhas Tbh I don't want to spend time on it! Also, my course a very small part of my income - I'm mainly doing this to make friends and network as it's pretty lonely to blog for an American audience here in Denmark - 😂 so I'm not really trying to squeeze every single dollar out that I can. And I must way that creating a paid community + course has introduced me to some crazy cool people!!!

    • @SusheelChandradhas
      @SusheelChandradhas 2 года назад

      @@PassiveIncomeGeek you're the second person in as many fields of work that I've seen with this attitude. I think that it's completely amazing! More power and success to you for this.

  • @dips6479
    @dips6479 2 года назад +1

    I am getting policy violation error in ezoic domain approval

  • @PratikAmbukar
    @PratikAmbukar 2 года назад

    Yes, you are right, Increasing rate of dollars gives me more money in Rupees currency in India.

  • @myariana786
    @myariana786 2 года назад

    Hey Morten, as usual a great, helpful video. I have one more question regarding my website. I made it live 1.5 months back and few pages have started showing up within pg #3 - pg #10 of Google. My question is, can I expect those pages to be ranked in pg #1 of Google in another 1.5 months? Thanks for all your answers.

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад

      Yes you can - but it's more likely that it'll take 6-12 months 😬!

    • @myariana786
      @myariana786 2 года назад

      @@PassiveIncomeGeek Oops!! Thanks :D

    • @myariana786
      @myariana786 2 года назад

      Hi Morten, I'm bit confused, my web pages those were ranking in 5th or 6th pages of Google, suddenly started falling down and now appearing in 9th, 10th pages, any specific reason? Thanks.

  • @realhercules
    @realhercules 2 года назад +1

    I ranked better with 1500 words than 1000 words

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад

      That is often the case, especially if the content is good! If you CAN write 1500 words, it will normally rank better - if it's free of fluff. But if we can rank 50% of our topics with 1000 words rather than blindly go for 1500 words all the time, than we can have a lot more content on our sites for the same time/money!

  • @tennispassionate386
    @tennispassionate386 2 года назад

    My best article is 300+ words long driving 2k+ each month.
    Yeah shorter is better

    • @PassiveIncomeGeek
      @PassiveIncomeGeek  2 года назад

      wow, that's cool! Thanks for sharing, "Tennis" person :D

  • @Doctorbale_
    @Doctorbale_ 2 года назад +1

    This is great news

  • @boneheadphone1361
    @boneheadphone1361 2 года назад

    how if we include the relevant topic in the same articles and make it a little bit big but remember main keyword relevant topic so i think this will help us more as its index very quickly and also rank for many keywords. i have tested this and its working good. instead of short article, i think including the main keyword-relevant topic is good