Himpy
Regular Member
- Jul 22, 2010
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Follow me as I (hopefully) build something awesome...
My Background
I've dabbled with IM for around 3/4 years, first being introduced to the world of SEO and such-like via GPT sites. I used these sites and saw people making $x.xx from thousands of referrals and I thought...I want to do that. How are they doing that? A bit of googling later and my journey began. I made my website(s) on my niche. It was competitive; very competitive, a lot of people had the same idea. But through trial & error (and investment of time & some money) I managed to successfully rank the website(s) in #1 position for several of the main keywords. I made roughly $5000 over the course of 2 years through GPT referrals, AdSense and CPA offers with this niche. There were gaps in between these 2 years as the first website ranked and burned. It should and could have been a lot more.
Unfortunately, I was still very naïve and didn't really completely understand what I was doing. They ended up being 2 rank, bank and burn websites thanks to the Google updates. I lost heart and motivation; I was also struggling with anxiety and depression at the time and was down on myself; so instead of saying to myself 'you did it, you ranked these websites and made good money, you can do it again with different, better & more long-term niches', I gave up. It's a horrible illness and it really clouds your mind and judgement; you feel like you have no belief in yourself, and so I left IM for the easy safety of my boring 9-5 job. (Yes, I'm a f*cking idiot, but an idiot with reasons haha!)
My New-Found Motivation & Aims
The niche I was in no longer exists, so there's no option to go back to that unfortunately! However, I am now free of anxiety and depression. I'm no longer down on myself. I have heart, motivation, determination, knowledge and the will to succeed. I know I can do this. I have a wonderful girl in my life driving me on and I want to build a future online so I can give us the best life possible. I'm tired of the boring, draining 9-5 routine. I don't care if it's harder work (and it will be), I'm passionate about it and I know I can do it. I've done well before online, I have a good knowledge of SEO and IM in 2017 and it's time to get back in the game.
My Strategy
I have a topic (or hobby if you like) that I'm particularly passionate about. I know it inside & out. This is going to be my niche. Obviously I won't be revealing what it is, but it's a popular subject. I want to build an 'authority' site stacked full of great content for people like me who have a passion for it. I plan to build social pages alongside my website to diversify my traffic sources and monetize the site with AdSense and Amazon. I have my work cut out for me; one particular website has a strong advantage over me in that it's established and has been for nearly a year. But I'm confident I can more than match them for content and user experience.
My Progress
The website was created at the start of this month and I've been adding content on a daily basis to start building the different categories that come with my niche. I've written all of the content myself as I'm quite a competent writer; the articles are all 900-1600 words and completely cover the topic. It's a niche where there is so much to write about, so I'll always have new content to please Google and my visitors with. The 'base' of the website, i.e. the range of topics to cover, is complete. My task now is to keep adding to the various categories and cover the entire spectrum of my niche.
My social pages are built on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. My first focus will mainly be on Facebook, as Facebook Marketing/Ads is an area I've tested and had decent success with. Not really through monetizing pages, but certainly through building them. I will be beginning an ad campaign to build Page Likes shortly.
For now, I'm building a small base of likes and followers using Link Collider. Are the likes and followers relevant? Nope. But they build a 'numbers' base and make the page look more popular than it currently is. That's my theory anyway. Would you be more likely a page that has 20 likes, or 200 likes? I'd feel more comfortably if more people already liked it, so that's the purpose of these free likes.
Google has indexed my website completely now, and seems to be liking the content as I've gone straight in around the #60-#70 positions as an average for some key terms and high volume searches. I plan to keep adding content at the moment and creating social shares using Link Collider and my own pages, and then I will be purchasing link packages from the BHW Marketplace. I've had success with one particular seller before, so I plan to try his packages out first.
That's my journey so far! Hopefully I've persuaded you to follow me and if you have any questions, feel free to ask. If I can answer them I will. As long as they're not 'what's your niche'. I'll do mostly daily or bi-daily updates; it'll help keep me motivated to write about my progress! Here we go...
