5 year long affiliate journey

Hi everybody !
I'm starting this journey to keep some track on my progress. It's a long term project which purpose it to
a) Give me required ammount of funds to start non-internet business
b) Provide traffic for my future business
Therefore all sites I will create (most likely 4) will be related to health/fitness niche.

It's gonna take hell lot of time, as I am going to do most of the stuff myself(Copywriters don't have enought expertise in this field. For websites 2-4 I will problably use only articles written by copywritters), so don't expect weekly updates.
Current budget:~1000$


GOALS till end of 2023:
300.000$ total net earnings
500.000uv/month from niche related websites
In 2024 i am going to start my own company manufacturing product and e-commerce website.

Right now I have setup website no.1 and added some pre-written content - total of 5 articles.


Oh, by the way. I am going to use some tactics I have never tried before and don't really see many people doing it so this site may really be hit or miss. We will see in a year or so

Why the wait?

Lofty ambitions, and hopefully lofty rewards too! Good luck with the unique tactics too. I'll follow this.

Good luck with the journey. Goals are quite big but if you put in the work, who knows what's possible.

Good luck for the journey. I will keep a watch for 5 years.

I like the 5 year 'deadline'. Don't see that often. Tag me in this thread in 5 years when you've reached your goals

good luck man, following your journey

That is some serious content up already, nicely done. I am working with a brand new domain with a lot less content and also getting no google traffic lol.

I will be following, goodluck

Goodluck

Long term goals are most likely to be done than the short ones, Good luck

Time for some update. The project is still live although much less happened since last update than i would like to - two weeks after last update, i had to help my parents with their farm (harvesting season), so i was out for like 3 weeks working 12-14h/day. Then i took a short holiday when I did almost nothing productive to be honest
After that new semester started and uni staff took me much more time than in previous years (I left myself for this semester classes that were boring / required a lot of work, but brought nothing useful to my life). The biggest problem however, was the fact that I can't make myself wake up in the morning (4-5am) and just do stuff like in previous years (I am most productive early in the morning and at night - problem is that at the end of the day my eyes are usually tired, so working on computer is kinda exhausting).

From positives I mastered Excel and looks like my dancing skills improved in last months ^^

But back to business. What happened since last update:

SITE 1 (Edu niche)
Not much happened, as this project is mostly finished as it is. There was a problem with few pages key content that was in image form - I copped it as link from different site that is now down (honestly don't know why I did that to this moment ), so I had to fix it and do sth similar on my own.
Earning for this page are quite stable ~100$/month

SITE 2 (Health niche) - MAIN PROJECT
Rebuild this site almost completely recently. Before i was trying to built it in a way, that would allow me to easily adjust it for my future offline business needs, but it was less SEO friendly and competition in my niche in recent months became fierce (kind of funny, as this niche was around for looong time and looks like in last few months a lot of people suddenly thought about the same thing).
Almost no link building was done so far, as my budget got ever tighter. I will start building links after I write next 14 articles - content on this website is strongly connected and without this articles user-experience will be significantly worse.

Number of articles: 40 (~2000-3000 word each)
Traffic: ~100/month
Site started gaining some traffic like 1-1.5 month ago when i rebuilt it. So far it earned ~23$.

SITE 3 (agriculture niche)
New project, which took a lot of my time. It is an international website of my parents farm + shop with product my brother sells.
I got into it as my parents financial situation worsen in recent years, after my father got cancer (his fine now). I will try to sell plants and product to UE countries via this website.
At least for next few months this website will be profit-free, as i won't profit from selling my brothers product.
Right now there are 58 articles on this website with various length (300-1500 words).
No link building was done yet. Site is live for like 2 weeks, so traffic is ~0.

Aprart from that i did experiment with some PBN's on easy keywords to learn some new strategies. Seems like at least few of them were hit by last update.

You have set really big goals.

Will try to do monthly updates from now on to better track my progress. Not much happened since last update, as it's exam period and had to spend more time studying.

SITE 1 (Edu)
No changes in content here. Earnings are about 2x higher than normally, but it's obviously due to exam period.
Organic traffic: 6805
Earnings: 160$

SITE 2 (Health)
Wrote few new articles, all 2000+ words. Changed fonts size and edited theme a bit. Will do some more editing in the future, as I'm still not satisfied with the result.
Number of articles: 44 (+4)
Organic traffic: 136
Earnings: 0$

SITE 3 (Agriculture)
Did some interlinking. Got one pretty powerful backlink from niche relevant site for writing 1500 word article for them. Wrote a script that does not allow the consumer to buy products if cost of products in cart is < what i set (values are different for each country).
Number of pages: 61 (+3)
Organic traffic: 5
Earnings: 0$

Not a great month, but not a bad one either. Didn't do much in the first half of the month - it was still exam period and as soon as it ended I went snowboarding for a week. Unfortunately, on the last day I had pretty bad fall and my wrists were hurting for like a week, so wasn't able to do much on PC.
But fortunately last few days were very productive, so hopefully I am back on track.

SITE 1 (Edu)
Pictures on one of the most important pages of this website were deleted (for some reason I didn't host them on my VPS - really no idea why I made such a stupid mistake. Fortunately it is only one page). The problem is that i don't have a backup copy and making them on my own would take xx hours, so at least for now, the page will remain as it is.
Apart from that I changed interlinking system a bit and managed to secure a backlink from pretty powerful site (unfortunately not niche related at all).
Will probably buy one guest post for ~50$ next month (found authority site in niche, that I know sells guest post for this price, but so far I haven't heard from its owner).
Organic traffic: 6061
Earnings: 95$

SITE 2 (Health)
First of all I changed methodology of counting articles. To this moment I counted number of articles, and by article I meant long posts with 1000+ words. From now on i will count everything - articles, very short post, category pages etc. This is the main reason behind such a rapid increase in number of pages.

I published ~15 pre written short articles and did some interlinking. Plan for next month is write few more articles and publish rest of pre-written ones. After that I will finally focus on building some backlinks, as the website seems to be finally going out of sandbox.
Number of pages: 81 (+37)
Organic traffic: 327 (+191)
Earnings: 5.40$

SITE 3 (Agriculture)
Written and published some content. Site is still in sandbox.
Number of pages: 83 (+22)
Organic traffic: 13 (+8)
Earnings: 0$

Very productive month. Mostly due to corona-virus outbreak and closer of schools, entertainment facilities etc.
SITE 1 (Edu Niche)
Earnings are down, because of covid-19.
Organic traffic:3846
Earnings: 32.5$

SITE 2 (Health Niche)
Wrote and edited lots of content. Hopefully will see results in next 2-3 months. Also planning to focus more on link-building next month, as growth of organic traffic isn't as good as I expected.
Number of pages: 186 (+105)
Organic traffic: 639 (+312)
Earnings: 32$

SITE 3 (Agriculture Niche)
Didn't do much with this website. Fixed some script bugs that kept crashing website. Received rest of translations yesterday which I will try to edit and publish in next 2-3 weeks.
Number of pages: 83
Organic traffic: 34 (+21)