Bawsaq
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- Jul 11, 2017
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Last summer I began working on 2 affiliate websites. I worked on them between June and September and then left them until now, a year a later. I haven’t touched them since then apart from updating their plugins and themes. I didn’t have time to maintain them due to University, however now I’m completely free for the summer. Therefore, I intend on working on them again and hopefully boosting their income.
This will be a journey and not a guide, so I won’t be going into much detail on everything I’m doing. I may say what I’ve done but I may not say how I’ve done it. Feel free to ask questions though I may not answer them all. Also, feel free to leave me a PM if you’re also on a similar journey and would like to connect.
The Websites:
The websites consist of roughly 50% affiliate content (Buyers guides, Top products list, etc) and 50% informational content (With the odd affiliate links here and there). Currently they’re only promoting Amazon products, though in the future I plan on experimenting with other affiliate programs.
Both websites generate a small number of monthly visitors and revenue. It isn’t much but it is nice to have some money coming in whilst I’m at university and not even touching the websites.
The Plan:
My main priority is producing more content for the websites. Currently they both have about 50 articles each, 75% of which were written by myself however I did purchase a few. By September 2019, I’d like to get both websites up to between 75 and 100 articles each.
I also want to optimize both websites on-page SEO and performance. This will include going through older articles and experimenting with their on-page to find what works best. I don’t plan on working on off-page SEO for a while, but it may be something I start this summer.
This Thread:
I’ll update this thread every month with a brief summary of everything I’ve done in relation to the two websites, as well as their monthly visitors’ revenue, and number of articles it currently has. If I have time, I might drop a quick update every week or so. I have other ventures that I’m currently working on which won’t be mentioned in this thread so I may not look like I’m getting a heap of work done every month.
Current Stats:
Website 1 (April):
Revenue: $59.17
Visitors: 1,427 New Users
Article Count: 41
Website 2 (April):
Revenue: $18.03
Visitors: 670 New Users
Article Count: 53
Total Revenue (April): $77.20
This will be a journey and not a guide, so I won’t be going into much detail on everything I’m doing. I may say what I’ve done but I may not say how I’ve done it. Feel free to ask questions though I may not answer them all. Also, feel free to leave me a PM if you’re also on a similar journey and would like to connect.
The Websites:
The websites consist of roughly 50% affiliate content (Buyers guides, Top products list, etc) and 50% informational content (With the odd affiliate links here and there). Currently they’re only promoting Amazon products, though in the future I plan on experimenting with other affiliate programs.
Both websites generate a small number of monthly visitors and revenue. It isn’t much but it is nice to have some money coming in whilst I’m at university and not even touching the websites.
The Plan:
My main priority is producing more content for the websites. Currently they both have about 50 articles each, 75% of which were written by myself however I did purchase a few. By September 2019, I’d like to get both websites up to between 75 and 100 articles each.
I also want to optimize both websites on-page SEO and performance. This will include going through older articles and experimenting with their on-page to find what works best. I don’t plan on working on off-page SEO for a while, but it may be something I start this summer.
This Thread:
I’ll update this thread every month with a brief summary of everything I’ve done in relation to the two websites, as well as their monthly visitors’ revenue, and number of articles it currently has. If I have time, I might drop a quick update every week or so. I have other ventures that I’m currently working on which won’t be mentioned in this thread so I may not look like I’m getting a heap of work done every month.
Current Stats:
Website 1 (April):
Revenue: $59.17
Visitors: 1,427 New Users
Article Count: 41
Website 2 (April):
Revenue: $18.03
Visitors: 670 New Users
Article Count: 53
Total Revenue (April): $77.20
