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The link below is to my journey following my first niche blog if you want more details. In a nutshell, I got hit by the google core update in Nov of 2021 but saw gains from the may 2022 core update. In July I had 84k pageviews and made just over $2k...

July was month #12 for this blog. I published 4 new posts in July, bringing my total post count to 61. July had 229 (vs 132 users in June), and 305 pageviews (vs 174 pageviews in June) so while still super small, it is growing. 74.9% of my traffic was from organic search, 13 was direct, and...

July 2022 was month 22. I had 105 total blog posts. 4 were newly published in July. 62.7% of my traffic in July was from organic search (60.2% from google search specifically), 23.4% of my traffic was from pinterest, 11.7% was direct. Video content: I didn't get any new vertical videos...

When I lost my rankings the first time (Dec 2020) I waited until the core update was officially over and then updated some of my snippets to try to rewin them. I also went back through my existing posts and added some snippets that I hadn't formed right to have a chance at wining the snippet...

I just looked in my inbox. I applied when I had like 95k pageviews and they responded saying they only accept blogs with 100k+. I stalked my analytics daily and like 2.5 weeks later the 30-day window had just over 100k pageviews (like 100,029) so I emailed them to ask if I needed to re-apply...

This is my second attempt with iche blogging using Income School concepts. The first one that I did went well. I have a BHW journey thread on it if you want to check that out: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/journey-niche-blogging-using-income-school-concepts.1292818/page-14#post-15420568 I...

Awesome, best of luck to you. If you start a thread here on BHW please feel free to share the link. I have had this journey which has been successful but my second niche blog isn't going very well. I'm obviously trying to compare and contrast the differences between those two blogs of mine to...

This journey is still just limping along, but still thought I'd update! I'll call this my june 2022 update. June was month #11 for this blog. I ended the month with 57 blog posts total. I published 4 new posts for June. June had 132 users, 174 pageviews. 72% of my traffic is from organic...

June 2022 was month 21. I had 100 total blog posts. 3 were newly published in June. The increase in organic traffic that I saw starting around may 25th from the google core update stuck around - hooray! I had about a 33% increase in users and about 17% increase in pageviews in June vs May...

Haven't updated since April, so I'll do a mini update for May and then a longer one for June in just a second. May was month 20. I had 97 total posts. I posted 2 new articles in May. I was helped out by the May core update so you can see that bump in traffic starting around the 25th/26th. I...

In my mind there are two things I did differently on this journey vs what income school teaches. The main one was I did put some time into pinterest. I make pinterest graphics for almost every post I make, and multiple pinterest graphics for some of my posts. Then I exchange repins with other...

Totally agree with writing about what you actually enjoy. When you really know and care about what you're writing, it almost naturally results in better content. Especially if you're almost obsessed with the topic, I think. To be totally honest I think this is part of why my 2nd niche blog...

Only 2.5 days since the start of the google core update but so far, it seems to be helping me out. I had been seeing around 1,300 users on Sundays but 1000-1200 users most other days (thursday is often my second-best day of the week, getting closer to 1200). Core update started Wednesday the...

Sorry for the late response. Here is a link to comment early on in this thread where I share what I do with Pinterest. I think this should ake you to the exact response. https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/journey-niche-blogging-using-income-school-concepts.1292818/#post-13958641 I've contiued...

Ohh okay, good to know! I use pictures of myself in all of my blog posts and my videos feature me as well. So even if someone is brand new to my site, if they see a picture of me within the post and then the video player is clearly a video of the same person, they should recognize that the...

April 2022 update. I think this is month 19? Total # of blog posts published: 96 Total pageviews: 70,216 Total sessions: 44,251 My traffic acquisition breakdown is 45.7% organic search, 33.6% social, 19.9% direct, .05% referral, .03% other. Of my social traffic, 96.1% is pinterest, 2.5% is...

Thanks. I think I lucked out quite a bit by choosing an underserved niche that I have a lot of experience with for this blog. My second niche blog hasn't gone real well but it's got more competition, less search volume and it's just harder to stand out. With the blog this thread is about, I can...

Wow, I don't think I could sell a site after working on it for 8 years! With the blog this thread is about, it's on a topic that I am very interested in, it's basically a hobby of mine that I've been into for five or six years now. So I enjoy writing about the topic and I don't see my interest...

Thank you. I don't currently plan to flip this blog. In part, I don't think this blog would sell very well because it's very focused on me, in a way? I share photos of myself in every blog post. Though also, I guess I don't really understand why people flip blogs. Is it just to get the large sum...

Oh, glad you brought this up! I should have touched on this. My boyfriend is a programmer, so I had him look into this. He edited my theme, as I was getting those errors for mobile users and my theme wasn't super ideal for mobile. We then requested that they check if it was fixed, and my mobile...