Girlfriend Depressed - Amazon and Adsense first journey

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If you are doing this for your girlfriend, you are doing it for the wrong reasons.
With that being said.

I wish you nothing but success in your life.
Best of luck.
 
EMAOneBillion said:
I will try to keep it in TL;DR format.

Alert! Girlfriend Depressed
My lovely girlfriends has been in depression for almost two full weeks, why? Working too much, no vacation this year, not speeding to much money simply because we can't afford it (very low salary for how time we spend in office)

One year objective
We've been thinking to quit our shitty jobs in more or less then a year.
That means we should achieve 2000$/month in that time

What are going to do?
Making a new brand website and earn money with Amazon and Adsense

What have we done until now?
My website is running for almost 1 month
  • Bought a .com domain + hosting
  • Installed Wordpress
  • Installed a $45 Wordpress theme
  • Making some visual customization to make it look more awesome and clean
  • Optimized the web page speed (for now is at 2s per load) - need more improvements
  • Created About, Privacy Policy, Contact pages
  • Created pages on all social media networks
  • Created 6 unique hand-written articles (between 1400 - 4000 words each)
  • No backlinks to the money site for now
  • Created a few backlinks for my wannabe PBN (still trying things and see which ones works better)
What's the plan for the future?
  • Having my girlfriend writing everyday and keep posting at least 1 article once at 3 days
  • Having my self in a continuous lesson about link building (trying to build as many links as I can on my "test" website)
  • Trying to learn more about Pinterest (might get a lot of traffic from it) and maybe to start a few campaign ads to see how it works.
  • Post on Quora, Reddit, Twitter everyday for one month
Results so far:
Amazon: nothing, just a few clicks
Adsense: didn't even applied for this yet, maybe in a few weeks
Website stats:
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I don't know when I will update my journey next, I'm super busy with the office work so maybe in a few days, weeks.

Any advice would be highly appreciated.

Wish me luck guys or my girlfriend with go down and drag me with her, haha
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I think you need to be more productive!
POst more and everything will be great
 
alexa_s said:
OP stated that his gf has been depressed for 2 weeks because of clearly stated external circumstances (which clearly defines non-endogenous depression, or absolutely not what you call 'a clinical thing') and you arrogantly suggest that she will not recover (if there's even anything to recover from) on her own and needs 'treatment'. You then state that you think antidepressant therapy consists of ingesting the same chemical you get from success in a pill form. It's obvious that you shouldn't really be giving advice on the matter.

I'm not going to say anything more about depression in this thread, because this is an IM forum and because I highly suspect OP isn't really using the word depression in a clinical sense.
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Being sad is not depression. Being stressed is not depression.

So either she's got depression or not. Depression is a well defined clinical state.

So if OP is using the word incorrectly, that's his mistake not mine.

I did not say anything because of arrogance. I've dealt with depression with someone very close to me.

I gave OP the straight talk: do NOT ever, ever, link work, success, money or anything like that to cure depression. It does not work like that and will make you crazy.

This is a IM forum and a lot of us work alone or on our own so depression advice is something I think we can give each other. Working on IM is hard, people get tired, some folks give up and so on.

Depression is a well defined thing. If she's stressed and tired, that's a different thing altogether but I was taking OP's word at face value.

Anyway, consult a doctor or shrink. I am just giving informal work-related advice. For depression a qualified professional is required.
 
Small Update on the way

Been a rough 2-3 days here, we've been fighting a lot these days and we got to the point where she break her Iphone X, imagine that.
But now we are fine, believe so.

We are trying to solve our emotional issues and pass through them together.
Starting a special diet to got some weight and planning in going to gym frequently.

Actual Update:
  • Still writing on the 7 article (we expect 5000 words from it)
  • Keep creating a few links to the money site (4-5 links per day)
  • Did a few images on Canvas for Pinterest, got some impression on my page (like 1500) and increase every day
  • Did some posts on Reddit, got my account to 300 Karma, need some trust before sharing links
  • On Facebook joined a few special groups, sharing my content, got like 30-40 UV per shares
  • No money yet, just a few more clicks on Amazon
What we're gonna do?
  • We are planning to finish the article in 2 days
  • Going to start a Tumbrl PBN (got 10 expired ones)
  • Creating a few web 2.0 with some quality content on it
  • Searching for a SEO service on BHW and start investing some money
  • Still posting on Social Media, I might keep my focus on Pinterest
Currently we're ranking for 10 keywords.
  • Page 1: 0 keywords
  • Page 2: 2 keywords
  • Page 3: 2 keywords
  • Page 4: 0 keywords
  • Page 5: 1 keyword
  • Page 6: 2 keywords
  • Not in top 100: 3 keywords
Traffic:
  • Organic Search: 4-5 UV per day maximum! Too sad, how can I improve that?
  • Social Media: depending the day, when I share something I might get 100 UV, on idle just a few
  • Other sources: 4-5 UV per day
 
EMAOneBillion said:
Small Update on the way

Been a rough 2-3 days here, we've been fighting a lot these days and we got to the point where she break her Iphone X, imagine that.
But now we are fine, believe so.

We are trying to solve our emotional issues and pass through them together.
Starting a special diet to got some weight and planning in going to gym frequently.

Actual Update:
  • Still writing on the 7 article (we expect 5000 words from it)
  • Keep creating a few links to the money site (4-5 links per day)
  • Did a few images on Canvas for Pinterest, got some impression on my page (like 1500) and increase every day
  • Did some posts on Reddit, got my account to 300 Karma, need some trust before sharing links
  • On Facebook joined a few special groups, sharing my content, got like 30-40 UV per shares
  • No money yet, just a few more clicks on Amazon
What we're gonna do?
  • We are planning to finish the article in 2 days
  • Going to start a Tumbrl PBN (got 10 expired ones)
  • Creating a few web 2.0 with some quality content on it
  • Searching for a SEO service on BHW and start investing some money
  • Still posting on Social Media, I might keep my focus on Pinterest
Currently we're ranking for 10 keywords.
  • Page 1: 0 keywords
  • Page 2: 2 keywords
  • Page 3: 2 keywords
  • Page 4: 0 keywords
  • Page 5: 1 keyword
  • Page 6: 2 keywords
  • Not in top 100: 3 keywords
Traffic:
  • Organic Search: 4-5 UV per day maximum! Too sad, how can I improve that?
  • Social Media: depending the day, when I share something I might get 100 UV, on idle just a few
  • Other sources: 4-5 UV per day
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5 UV is a start, keep grinding.
As I told you earlier do not do this for your girlfriend.

DO IT FOR YOURSELF!
 
Well, I've been thinking on how to improve my link building strategy.
Having my GF writing is very useful as I can send all my focus on ranking these articles.

At first my plan was in the first month just to build a few links to looks natural, not spammish and forced. Nothing fancy!
But now I think its time to get more serious links pointing to my money website.
As I mention I've got 10 expired Tumblr I will scrape that but I need some others ideas that don't involve money investment. Need to learn stuff before ordering services from here.

Should I start a few free web 2.0?
Blog comments?
Profiles?
What's the best to get some free results?
 
Following your journey.

You both will do great, as others have told you, keep working on it.
Make yourselves little weekly objectives, believe me in this. (i.e; to-do list for this week: write 2 articles, post everyday, scrape pictures and info, etc.)

Sooner than you think you'll make progress! Good luck mate.
 
Yeah 5 UV daily from search (especially if it's google and not duckduckgo) is actually an excellent start. According to the Income School / Project 24 philosophy that's where you should be at about the 6 month mark, so you're way ahead. Now google is already gauging the quality of your articles and whether or not people find what they are looking for when they land on them. If so, you should be rising in the rankings, but you will definitely have dips where it seems like your traffic has stopped. Don't be discouraged by that and keep working.

The progress will be highly non-linear, and if your content is valuable your traffic will explode at some point, maybe a few months to a year from now.

Don't check your rankings and traffic too often or you'll go crazy, the fluctuations are specifically designed to frustrate you (at least that's a theory I have).
 
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The only think I'm worrying about right now is the link building.
I'm not even close to being "decent" on this.
But yea, I will keep writing and writing over and over again until we will start to earn links naturally.
 
If you do the keyword research right and target low competition keywords, you don't need lot of backlinks.
Once your articles start hitting page-1 then you can build more links.

The last thing you want to do now is to build questionable links and get your site tanked by Google. Especially because your girlfriend doing all the content creation.
 
Read more success case studies and improve your website traffic/earning.

Just kick ass your depression and concentrate on your passive income.

All the best for both of you.
 
I dont know why, but I had to laugh very hard from the title and the opening sentence. Sorry for this.


But mate, you are on BHW. I were in the same situation like you. I worked in a hospital. They kicked me out for me being a whistleblower (told a guy he shouldnt do a chemotherapy, because he would die anyway, truth is doctors only told him half of the truth, making it look like its curable)

Since then I made half a million by IM. Never look back
 
nakamura said:
I dont know why, but I had to laugh very hard from the title and the opening sentence. Sorry for this.


But mate, you are on BHW. I were in the same situation like you. I worked in a hospital. They kicked me out for me being a whistleblower (told a guy he shouldnt do a chemotherapy, because he would die anyway, truth is doctors only told him half of the truth, making it look like its curable)

Since then I made half a million by IM. Never look back
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You should share your journey, would you?
 
alexa_s said:
Yeah 5 UV daily from search (especially if it's google and not duckduckgo) is actually an excellent start. According to the Income School / Project 24 philosophy that's where you should be at about the 6 month mark, so you're way ahead. Now google is already gauging the quality of your articles and whether or not people find what they are looking for when they land on them. If so, you should be rising in the rankings, but you will definitely have dips where it seems like your traffic has stopped. Don't be discouraged by that and keep working.

The progress will be highly non-linear, and if your content is valuable your traffic will explode at some point, maybe a few months to a year from now.

Don't check your rankings and traffic too often or you'll go crazy, the fluctuations are specifically designed to frustrate you (at least that's a theory I have).
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Good luck guys
 
What the other guys said: don't worry too much about daily traffic now (I do that too by the way :)). Determining a content plan (x articles a week), sticking to it and supplementing with a backlinks from time to time should keep pushing your webiste forward. There is no success overnight with this. Most important is to never give up and keep improving the website with more content targeting lower difficulty keywords.
 
Updates
- Getting 25$ on Amazon from a lucky lead I guess
- Currently having 7 articles (2000-5000 words each)
- Not so much traffic from google, maximum 2-3 UV per day

What I'm gonna do?
- Trying to do some big things with Pinterest, will follow back and update this when I will get some results
- Still posting on social medias
- Keep creating 3-5 links per day
 
Great Journey
hope you will succeed
After reading this topic booked a three night apartments for my family on local resort by the sea :)
 
Even if you fail, having the hope of succeeding will make you feel much better, just don't give up and eventually you'll make it
 
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