:) My [Journey] AI Blogging Sites (Yes, another one). Display ads [ Goal 5000$ USD a month with 500 000 Pageviews ] :)

[om432802]

What is your ezoic level?

 

[Adiancha]

AI blogging is interesting. Your goals are achievable, I'm following.

 

[Jaordas]

New highest day





I know it is just a few dollars but looking at the highest day is the easiest

mental crack for seeing how close you are to reaching your goal imo.

123.41*30

= $3702.30 a month

3702.30/5000

= 74% of the way for single days.


I need an average of $166.66 Every day to reach the goal of this journey.

So the closer you see me getting to $166.66 should be motivating to you.


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cherishing the wins just in case we fall into a whole month long being unable to pass highest day like before.

Trailing 30 days is


and last 7 days is






most recent days are doing much better than days 30 ago, so it shows im closer to the goal using this weeks data.

Im likely not gonna make it to 2500 by the end of the month but I got close.

However the most recent week is showing earnings that Already put me at that level if I maintain the current traffic.

I feel bad I cant put more time into this site, im seeing so much other ai sites running laps around me

 

[DrBitcoin]

123.41*30

now, for better mental masturbation:

$123.41 x 365 days = $45,044.65 usd!!
and if you sell it at an average monthly $3,702.30 x 40 months = $148,092 usd!!

 

[Jaordas]

now, for better mental masturbation:

$123.41 x 365 days = $45,044.65 usd!!
and if you sell it at an average monthly $3,702.30 x 40 months = $148,092 usd!!

I love this, and trust me, I do it often on my smaller projects like this.

I also love to divide the final number for a year by the USA minimum wage of 7.25 , so I can look at how much minimum cost man hours of work it gave me for just owning

the website. Which in this case, its like I could pay 3 people to follow me around for 40 hours a week for the whole year just for fun lol.

It is a weird way to look at it but visualizing your money and goals give you something to want to achieve. I want to make my "all time highs" become my "Averages".


As far as selling though, I like to look at the "minimum" I would make because it give me this sense of a "floor"

Like most people are rightfully not willing to sell for under 25 x income

and at the current 2000 ~

It is nice to know at the bare minumum It is not leaving my hands for less than 50 000

and that alone is a whole year salary for many people. All of this work was just done on afternoons and weekends.

It is even better when since you are the one most involved in the project, you know that you can build the whole thing

from scratch again even if you sold it. Although most people like to move on instead of compete with their old website.

But this is what has done the best for me, any website ive ever sold, I left the project knowing more than I did before.

So it is like over time you gain skills to keep re making the "50 k" over and over.


Or even better, if you could make it to 50k then you know the work needed to make it to 100k

For some it is as easy as "double the site size = double the income".

Obviously their is a limit, since I feel going from 100k to 200k and numbers like that is where it gets harder. You cant grow as quickly, and you NEED to rank

high traffic articles or you will see no movement in earnings. It is at large points where you end up back in the backlink building game,

but for the most part ill always hold out that I rarely build any backlinks for starting projects, the backlink sellers

can be mad at me for saying this but it is just how I rolled until now.

However I Feel like in this world of AI, backlinks gonna become way more important since google can no longer trust content volume to show expertise.



Sorry for the text wall but I geek out about the numbers stuff for no reason, it keeps me motivated ig.

I remember years back the first time I got a website to the point where my day job +website earnings

would make xxx k a year (im cutting out the number for obvious reasons but it is a common round number

most people thing "man, if I made that then I would be comfortable".



Then your goal becomes making that fully with your website so you can quit your job instead of having divided focus.

Like with crypto, most people have some number in their head, they hope they can make, so they can finally quit the rat race.


if you ever make over those ammounts it starts going to your head lol.


Like dang, forget being comfortable, I want a boat and a nice car too.



(not everyone but im sure many can relate to it)

 

[myonletter]

Keep going. Working on my own system to register and set up sites in bulk at the moment. Reading about your and other members' progress always provides effective motivation for another round of the programming grind necessary to force things into existence.

 

[Bhankas]

Tell them you want it to send back to Google that each page is a translation of the same page and not duplicate content.

Can you please explain how that is done? Thanks

 

[Jaordas]

Keep going. Working on my own system to register and set up sites in bulk at the moment. Reading about your and other members' progress always provides effective motivation for another round of the programming grind necessary to force things into existence.

Im happy to have provided motivation, and thanks, ill keep going and wish you luck. Programming grind has changes soo much too, I feel sort of sad to admit how much cleaning up of my code I have gpt do. For many basic needs ai can provide the code quicker than many can even think to write it. All the less excuse we have to make progress.

Can you please explain how that is done? Thanks

hreflang tags, google that.

 

[KingCoppyWritter]

@Jaordas congrats on your big wins. You are doing great. Question, does all your post have meta description and images in them? And are post without images ranking?

 

[Jaordas]

@Jaordas congrats on your big wins. You are doing great. Question, does all your post have meta description and images in them? And are post without images ranking?

Thanks.

Most have imagines but not all do, Many of the earlier articles have no good media. Yes. they still ranked, but image and video ones ranked better.


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Historically this week or next week is the week where the site takes a massive traffic hit because of seasonality. We made it through this week with no such traffic drop.

If we make it through next week then it makes me hopeful that the current composition of articles are better at reducing the summer drop.

in fact, this week was the best week for the site in all time. So our uptrend in earnings hasnt been stopped yet. However next week is where we will see

the true effects of seasonality if it does come.

Usually 20% traffic drop on first week. (the first week flutates between these 2 weeks at random because of school holiday.)

 

[carsonrathi]

hey.

I would appreciate if you can help with following questions:
1) Best way to implement Hreflang (via plugins?)
2) By mistake i disabled AMP plugin for 24 hours and all mobile searches went to 404 page. Traffic dies overnight, now i have rectified it,
will google reconsider the changes automatically?
3) Any recommended plugin for AMP content?
4) Do you add youtube videos manually or via plugins?
5) Do you use auto index request plugin for GCD or manually submit the links?
6) Suppose we have a keyword showing our website on 2nd page, is it recommended to increate it's content with more relevant data to push it up?
I am working hard to bring a search term on page 1 however it's shuffling on page 2.
7) Ahref is expensive software and you are already using Rank math SEO which tracks rank too, do we still need Ahref?

 

[AgencyCheap]

Do you use VPS or hosting? If it's VPS, which control panel do you use? CyberPanel? @Jaordas

 

[Jaordas]

hey.

I would appreciate if you can help with following questions:
1) Best way to implement Hreflang (via plugins?)
2) By mistake i disabled AMP plugin for 24 hours and all mobile searches went to 404 page. Traffic dies overnight, now i have rectified it,
will google reconsider the changes automatically?
3) Any recommended plugin for AMP content?
4) Do you add youtube videos manually or via plugins?
5) Do you use auto index request plugin for GCD or manually submit the links?
6) Suppose we have a keyword showing our website on 2nd page, is it recommended to increate it's content with more relevant data to push it up?
I am working hard to bring a search term on page 1 however it's shuffling on page 2.
7) Ahref is expensive software and you are already using Rank math SEO which tracks rank too, do we still need Ahref?

1) Sorry bro please do your own research on this or make a new thread because idk how to help you on that. Google is 1000 times more helpful on these types of questions than me.
2)I dont use AMP, it is trash
3) I dont use AMP, It is trash
4) Ive never seen a good plugin for it, you code this yourself or use a macro. Whatever is better if you decide to use youtube api or pull urls directly
5) I dont request anything, google indexs it by itself. I only manual a few if it has been weeks and google keeps missing it.
6) it depends. If the search is harder and needs backlinks, you can edit it all year and you wont go over. If it is easy then edit and on page seo might be enough.
7) I dont use ahrefs just for tracking........ I use it for keyword research........ so it doesnt matter to me what rank math offers for tracking. I will never say you "need"
ahrefs, this is up to you. If you dont know what you are gonna do with it then it is a waste of money. It also limits your usage with credits even though
you pay so it is not ideal for people who are looking to explore and not already have a set in stone idea for what they need to research.

Do you use VPS or hosting? If it's VPS, which control panel do you use? CyberPanel? @Jaordas

Hosting

 

[AgencyCheap]

Can you tell me which hosting service you use and how much it costs per month? I'm also installing some AI plugins, but my current hosting isn't suitable.
I'm currently trying out VPS and CyberPanel, but I want something simpler.

 

[wishme]

@Jaordas yo, how it's going on? Seen that you sold your site 2 congrats! I have stumbled upon an interesting find, and wanted to hear your opinion about it, just don't really want to share this here, would you be kind and pm me for further discussion? We might both get/learn something out of this find

 

[matvik]

6) it depends. If the search is harder and needs backlinks, you can edit it all year and you wont go over. If it is easy then edit and on page seo might be enough.

Hello. Easy is less AR (DR) 30 or less then 20?

 

[robburn30]

@Jaordas Massive thanks for a truly inspirational post, very honest and transparent in your answers. You've inspired me to try this as I'm already using chatgpt and have been looking for a profitable way to use it.

My idea is to cast my net a bit wider and start 10 fresh sites in different niches so I can either narrow them down to the most successful or maybe they'll all do as well as your site 2 then i'm laughing lol and I'll just have 10x the work to do.

Quick question, say for site 2 that you made, do you have any considerations when picking domain names? I mean it used to be a thing to use keyword domain names, also do you just go the cheapest or do you go for .com etc?

Also on the most successful sites do you think it would be worth using a service like https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/free-trial-powerful-links-dr80-50k-organic-traffic-boost-your-rankings-now-with-beast-links.1502062/? Bearing in mind the most successful sites I'm going to be seeing as a longer term investment

Cheers for the great info mate and I'd wish you luck but you don't need luck when you've got brains

 

[Jaordas]

Guys sorry no answering questions this time. Ive been thinking to stop the journey but my mood, keeps flip flopping on it.

I just gonna give the May progress update since the month is over And I want to give the ones who gave me enjoyment to this point an update.



May revenue grew, the site still doesnt show slowing down in growth or earnings even though offseason has started. I successfully grew traffic, revenue, and epmv another month in a row.


Ill likely hit 5000$ faster than anticipated vs traffic gain because the epmv has been rising at a decent rate even though industry wide rates are still mostly depressed.

This makes me excited for if we get a good year and I still have similar traffic, id be making a lot more from this tiny little site.

We failed to hit 2500$ by 40$

That being said, we can more or less consider this the halfway mark of the journey goal even if I discontinue updating it.

Just a reminder to people that say all journeys that end out of nowhere, end because the site died, this is currently the all time high of the site.

Good luck on your own projects everyone. Remember, do not give up when you are getting traction. But cut loses if you are working on something that is dead end.



Ive just counted the top 100 articles on the website year to date by traffic.

46 of those articles are from the old website before AI was added.

So AI articles year to date (even counting the head start the other articles got since I didnt even start ai till mid feb)

now makes up more than 50% of my top articles by traffic. But much more than even that since most the traffic generated on the site comes in

to ai articles now.

Along with the increased favor my site has gotten from the influx of natural links to the thousands of articles, even my human articles are getting boosted.

(old human articles were updated but I still consider them human as they largerly retain their historic form, but it is possible their increase in traffic is just from

being updated and nothing to do with the site power rising).

 

[GenesisOne]

Really glad to see your progress op

 

[omaradams05]

keep us inspired bro, I just started my affiliate AI blog, planning to add display ads also