My new PAA Journey

SharonHe · Aug 19, 2022

For the last 2 weeks I was working on [Python <-> MySQL <-> PHP <-> WordPress] Google PAA scraper.
- For scraping I am using Python with Chromium headless WebDriver.
- Storing the data in MySQL
- Processing, parsing and posting the data as separate post on the wordpress site is done with PHP script

Yesterday I finally finished the testing, and the scraper is running in full power. At this moment my website has almost 10K articles.
They are all connected with related posts plugin that was heavily modified by me and every post at the top has a Table of Content.

To be honest the website looks very premium and not spammy at all. I applied for adsense verification of the domain and I am waiting to get the result.

Today Visitors 0. - Indexed sites by google 30

I will regularly update this thread and I will show once and for all if this niche really works or not.
If this really picks up I am planning on scaling. I have VPS servers so scaling wont be a problem.

My PAA site is niche website. I am not making general PAA site with all sorts of topics.

You can ask me any questions.

LukeSB · Aug 19, 2022

Have you worked on a PAA site before?

Are you using a new domain or an aged?

SharonHe · Aug 19, 2022

LukeSB said:
Have you worked on a PAA site before?

Are you using a new domain or an aged?

No never, this is my first PAA

I am using domain that I have bought 6 months ago.

itz_styx · Aug 19, 2022

you can also do it with raw HTTP requests and keywords lists, that way its faster and you can multithread it better

SharonHe · Aug 19, 2022

itz_styx said:
you can also do it with raw HTTP requests and keywords lists, that way its faster and you can multithread it better

I know, I tried that method too, but I got many google spam protections, so that way needs proxy (mainly because google can detect that you are not running javascript)
This method allows me to go very fast without any proxies.

Shaybib · Aug 19, 2022

Can you explain why you modified related posts plugin?

SharonHe · Aug 19, 2022

Shaybib said:
Can you explain why you modified related posts plugin?

To make the related posts part of the main content with header question and answer body. The plugin first was showing other posts in a style of related posts.
After modifying it you can't distinguish if it is the article body or related posts.

crystalwiz · Aug 19, 2022

I love to read journeys like this. Autopilot rules!

olivier · Aug 19, 2022

How did you choose the domain name?
Is it brand new or expired/used one?

When buying domain, did you already know that you are gonna make PAA website?

SharonHe · Aug 19, 2022

olivier said:
How did you choose the domain name?
Is it brand new or expired/used one?

When buying domain, did you already know that you are gonna make PAA website?

1. I choose the domain based on the nich I was going to work on.
2. The domain was brand new, now it is 6 months old.
3. No, the domain was meant to be used for blogging, but I found out (like 100 times before) that I am not good at writing blog posts so I moved to PAA

itz_styx · Aug 19, 2022

SharonHe said:
To make the related posts part of the main content with header question and answer body. The plugin first was showing other posts in a style of related posts.
After modifying it you can't distinguish if it is the article body or related posts.

yea but with rotating proxies its no issue and you get much more data faster as you dont need delays like when you scrape google from 1 IP, but was just a suggestion.
if your setup works for you, then thats fine too. there are always multiple ways to do things

iMechanic · Aug 20, 2022

All the best for your journey, lets see how it works against latest google AI update.

SharonHe · Aug 20, 2022

Today 0 visitors, 14.000 posts

insynch · Aug 20, 2022

SharonHe said:
- Processing, parsing and posting the data as separate post on the wordpress site is done with PHP script

Are you bundling the PAAs in 10-15 questions (+ answers) for 1 post or just using 1 PAA as 1 post?
Good luck with your project

SharonHe · Aug 21, 2022

insynch said:
Are you bundling the PAAs in 10-15 questions (+ answers) for 1 post or just using 1 PAA as 1 post?
Good luck with your project

All the PAAs are stored as separate posts in worpdress, but when you open one post, the content gets appended with 20 more posts (PAAs) that look like they are all part of the main content.

Kinu Actaz · Aug 21, 2022

I’m planning to start one of these sites. Good luck! Following!

SharonHe · Aug 21, 2022

It's 4th day, 0 traffic

and 17K posts and 63 indexed pages for now

fearlessvn · Aug 21, 2022

Love to follow your project.

1. How many paa in your db now?
2. How do you create 1 post title and post content?
3. Do you add something more into the content of each post?

SharonHe · Aug 21, 2022

fearlessvn said:
Love to follow your project.

1. How many paa in your db now?
2. How do you create 1 post title and post content?
3. Do you add something more into the content of each post?

Right now I have 17K posts in the WordPress database.
Every post is separate question with answer.
I generate tags for every post based on the title.
Then I use related posts plugin which I have modified to include the related posts (based on tags, title and main body) in the main body of the primary post as title H3 and answer. So the whole post now looks like it has 20 subheadings with content but actually those 20 subheadings are real posts in the wordpress and you can open every single one of them and get different related posts for that post too.
Also, my PHP script, before adding new post to the database, compares the content of all posts and checks if there is already post with the same content. If there is, then I do not add that as new post, I only take the question and append it to the post as meta data.
Then in my template I use function to extract the meatdata and show it in the top of the post as "Similar questions"

Then I use Table of content plugin in the top of the primary post to show all the subheadings and link them for quick access.

PS: Google adsense is still reviewing my page.
PSS: I use Google keyword planner to generate keywords, that I later feed to my Python scraper

Waffles7 · Aug 21, 2022

Good luck with your journey, Following

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