I have a some questions:
- What hosting are you using? vps or shared?
- What about backlink? are you using web 2.0 or social media for backlink?
- Are you blocked irrelevant ads or not?
- What about site optimizations like cloudflare, cache plugin, or minify plugin?
- Are you using image on your site post?
Thank you
1. I use cheapest shared hosting, $1 per month, 500 mb storage, i don't think i really need big storage and memory for the start.
2. i build like 30 backlinks in the early age of my website, but it has been month not doing it, most of them are backlink profile and forum, all of them are free, i made it myself. no pbn no paid guest post.
3. I Do jv adsense, so the adsense is not mine, i dont know how they manage the ads, if i were them, of course i will block irrelevant ads, because it may harm the ctr, but maybe only the ads that is too far from my niche.
4. i use litespeed cache to make cache and minify jss and css, use rel preload to speed up the font, and compress the database, i am not using cloudflare, because majority of my visitor are coming from indonesia, and my server is quite near, and when i test the speed using smartphone 4G, it the First contentful paint is less than 2 Second, maybe 1,5 second.
5. Yes, i use image, all of them is screen shot image using light shot, so every page is low size, most of them are below 30 kb per image. i also use video in like 90% of my articles, it makes the page load slower, adsense too..but as long as the FCP is good, i think it is no problem