But Building Authority Sites Is
A Huge Challenge For Beginners
Building a successful site requires you to get good at many skills, such as…

Market Research
If you choose the wrong market, your site will be guaranteed to fail. This first stage is the single most important part of any authority site and the one that most people get wrong.

Keyword Research
While picking the right tool is the first challenge for beginners, Knowing how to use it effectively to uncover the right keywords is where more people fail at in their new site journey.

Tech Site Setup
There are millions of tools, plugins, and themes nowadays. With so many choices, it’s difficult to pick the right one. Slow, clunky, and out-of-date technology will kill your rankings.

Design & Branding
Getting hung up on your fonts or color scheme? What should be a quick decision can slow you down. And the worst part? Designing a great-looking site is easier than you think.

Content Creation
It’s not as easy as just writing about a topic. Your content needs to appeal to both readers AND Google. Most people waste a huge amount of time writing content destined to fail.

Link Building
Your site won’t rank without links. It’s no secret link building is hard. And scaling true white hat link building is even more difficult. There are severe penalties for doing it wrong.

Hiring & Outsourcing
You don’t want to be doing all the work yourself forever. Hiring the right people online is tricky. Outsourcing, if done incorrectly, can be the most costly mistake for any authority site.

Monetization
This is why you’re doing this in the first place, right? To make money. We’re always amazed by how many authority sites neglect proven monetization strategies that are easy to implement.

Analytics & Tracking
You need to set up the right tracking tools to keep tabs on the growth of your business and understand which areas need your focus & attention. Can you say “technical nightmare?”