Girlfriend Depressed - Amazon and Adsense first journey

this is cool, good luck to the both of you

Good luck with the journey , i am on the same journey now as well... İ have a question...
What advantages does paid wordpress theme give ? İ have always used free one and didnt think about buying paid , can somone list me the advantages ?
Tgx

bugulma said:

Good luck with the journey , i am on the same journey now as well... İ have a question...
What advantages does paid wordpress theme give ? İ have always used free one and didnt think about buying paid , can somone list me the advantages ?
Tgx

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Well I don't use my current theme just because it's paid, I just like it and is good for page speed. That's what you should looking for!


Updates
Total Earnings: 25$
Earnings from last update: 0$

Nothing special to report to be honest.

• I've changed my wordpress theme, the page speed has been improved a little but the only reason I've decided to use a new one is just that looks stunning!
• Added a new 4000 words article
• Got others 4 articles with 3000-4000 words on pending My SERP looks like this:

So far, 4-5 UV per day from organic search and 5-10 + from other sources.

I've got my salary on 8th this month and I think I will invest 100-200 bucks on link building!

Any services from BHW that you would recommend for start? Thanks for the good words all!

Can you please stop writing in white? There are people using the white theme and can't read shit.

Good luck on your journey!

Good luck to you

Ok, I'll keep updating this even thought we've earned 0 from the last update.

Total Earnings: 25$
Earnings from the last update: 0$
Website running for 1 monthI d
Total Articles: 8 and 4 more to publish (~ 8000 words)
Current word count: ~16000
SERP: can't see any huge improvements
Website Statistics:


Between 03 - 05 I've updated the theme and forgot to put the tracking code into the header.

Stats from Social Medias:
Pinterest: 4000 impress, 40 clicks this month
Twitter: 100 followers
Instagram: 400 followers
Quora: 500 content view / 7 upvotes
Reddit: 240 Karma

To do next:
- As I've said I'm planning something with Pinterest, at the moment I'm saving a lot of photos (planning to get like 1000 before starting) - will take awhile before starting the process
- Keep creating between 3-5 links per day (web 2.0, profile links, forum links)
- Keep posting on Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, Quora, Reddit (usually I've stay like 30 minutes - 1 hour on each platform)
- I will take a break for 1 week from writing as we've already have 8000 words to publish in the future days
- Buying and start reading books about content writing (for my GF) and SEO Marketing (for myself)
- Buying a few link building services from BHW (in a few days), I will come back with the results!

Notes:
- I don't know if I'm satisfied with the results so far, for 1 month I think it is decent but the thing I love I've just read the first articles and the latest one, there is such a huge difference between them. We've been improved a lot with the content and SEO optimization, the latest articles are looking stunning, way better than the first ones. Improved internal and external linking, better usage of headings and so on. That's what I like and I love, seeing how we improve and I think if we keep like this for 4-5 months we can do it!

Thank you all and see at the next update!

Great progress! Keep expanding the website, the results are surely going to follow.

Small Update
Not so much happened in the past days/weeks to be honest! We've been more inactive due to some problems we are dealing right now! Hope it will end in a few days and we can get back to our business!

Total Earnings: 25$
Earnings from the last update: 0$
Website running for ~2 months

The website still getting some traffic from Google but not so much (10-15 per day)
We've bought 4 articles (1x2000, 3x1000) - we really don't have time to write right now
No link building (except the foundation one that it is finally done) at the moment, planning to buy some high quality guest posts (I know I'm planning this for some time...)

Pinterest looks pretty good, getting some traffic from it (around 20 per day) but it is not that targeted as at first I just want to get some attention from it! I'm uploading content from my board niche not targeting a specific one! Currently I've got 2000 followers and like 20K monthly views!
Twitter also looks decent, 300 followers, got some engagement (5-10%) on each post.

I'm a little disappointed as we don't have the free time we want/need to do it works faster!
It's moving pretty slow but we intended to invest some money on it to boost it up

are you doing keyword research? If you would like shoot me a niche and I will try and find you some good keywords. Or Pm an article title and I will see if there are any better wordings of it to get better traffic.

I am on a similar journey as you and I am rooting for you!

I sometimes struggle with depression. Time outside is very healing. In nature if possible. Try to get your girlfriend to agree to go out and walk with you if that is possible. Tell her anytime she asks, you will drop whatever and go. It is proven to be more effective than any of the drugs on the market.

You have some impressively long articles that should bring you in some good traffic down the road when you start ranking.

Following your journey

Following

Small Update
Finally started to rank for a few decent keywords. Still no earnings yet!

Total Earnings: 25$
Earnings from the last update: 0$
Amazon Earnings : 25$
Adsense Earnings: 0$




No link building was done, only the foundation ones that I did at the beginning!
Content Status: 15 articles ~ 38000 words
I've been accepted by Adsense. It was faster than expected, in took like a few hours to approve me.

What To Do:
- Really need to improve my website security and do some backups
- I've bought 3 articles ( 1x2000 / 2x1000 ) waiting for them to publish
- Optimize the Pinterest / Facebook / Twitter official pages

See you at the next update!

Been lazy not to update the journey.

We are still working on the website. We bearly work 4-5 hours per week. The daily job is killing us.

I have been approved by Amazon after I did some sales in the past week.




Regarding Adsense, I think we have done a decent job with picking the niche and keywords.
As I get around 0.60$ per click. Not so many clicks per day though but is a thing.

We are having around 20 UV per day from Google + 15, 20 from Quora and other sources. With this, we earn around 1$ per day from Adsense.

We don't know what is next. Keep writing and go for social media activity

EMAOneBillion said:

Been lazy not to update the journey.

We are still working on the website. We bearly work 4-5 hours per week. The daily job is killing us.

I have been approved by Amazon after I did some sales in the past week.

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Regarding Adsense, I think we have done a decent job with picking the niche and keywords.
As I get around 0.60$ per click. Not so many clicks per day though but is a thing.

We are having around 20 UV per day from Google + 15, 20 from Quora and other sources. With this, we earn around 1$ per day from Adsense.

We don't know what is next. Keep writing and go for social media activity

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1 dollar /day from adsense already is great. Keep it up and that will start shooting up like a rocketship

You mentioned needing to update security? if its wordpress just install wordfence and make sure all of your plugins are up to date and you should be ok. ... Well we should all have 2 factor authentication on as well.. but I still haven't dont that.

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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Welcome to my world buddy.
Anyway I am currently using 4 twitter accounts and generating 400 clicks per day. I only have 2 months that I created k accounts. I have tried pinterest tooget and it has a lot of pontential you just have to post regularly.
My advice is to focus on one social media at first then slowly add others vy promoting with current social media.
Youtube is also a great source . One of the best.
What is your niche?
I hope we both suceed in our journeys.
Keep us updated. Btw I am In a similar situation. Im attending university, I have no social life, I am away from my family and alone, I have no firends, I am only 18 and I have to cook and do chores , study and work, no time to go out and have fun, financial problems and don't let me start about my deppression.
Cheers!

ziko12345 said:

Welcome to my world buddy.
Anyway I am currently using 4 twitter accounts and generating 400 clicks per day. I only have 2 months that I created k accounts. I have tried pinterest tooget and it has a lot of pontential you just have to post regularly.
My advice is to focus on one social media at first then slowly add others vy promoting with current social media.
Youtube is also a great source . One of the best.
What is your niche?
I hope we both suceed in our journeys.
Keep us updated. Btw I am In a similar situation. Im attending university, I have no social life, I am away from my family and alone, I have no firends, I am only 18 and I have to cook and do chores , study and work, no time to go out and have fun, financial problems and don't let me start about my deppression.
Cheers!

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I am doing a brand site, I can't really say I'm focusing on a particular niche.
Having multiple categories focusing on different areas of the industry I am targeting.

UPDATE

Earnings Yesterday: 89.32$
Earnings This Month:


I have found a particular micro-niche with extremely low competition, decent volume search and a price range between 700-1200$.
For the next weeks, we are planning on filling this niche with at least 10-15 articles.

Finally, I have got some money to build a hand of decent links (total earnings so far $131.69).
From Adsense, 1 click gives me around 0.50 bucks. We want by the end of the year to achieve a minimum of 5 clicks per day from Adsense, which would be a minimum of 2.5$ per day. For that, I am going to optimize the position of my ads.

About my traffic, I am getting around 20-30 organic UV per day + 15/20 UV from social media. I succeeded in keeping this number for 2 weeks with minimal effort and activity. By the end of the year, we want to increase the number to 100 organic UV and 50/100 from social media.

At the moment we have 24 published articles (2000-4000 word count). Only one is doing great, #1 in SERP for a total of 400 searches per month. I've got some more that goes decent #5-10.

Short-term plan: by the end of the month we expect no less than 200$. And want to publish at least 10 articles (2000 words+).

EMAOneBillion said:

I am doing a brand site, I can't really say I'm focusing on a particular niche.
Having multiple categories focusing on different areas of the industry I am targeting.

UPDATE

Earnings Yesterday: 89.32$
Earnings This Month:
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I have found a particular micro-niche with extremely low competition, decent volume search and a price range between 700-1200$.
For the next weeks, we are planning on filling this niche with at least 10-15 articles.

Finally, I have got some money to build a hand of decent links (total earnings so far $131.69).
From Adsense, 1 click gives me around 0.50 bucks. We want by the end of the year to achieve a minimum of 5 clicks per day from Adsense, which would be a minimum of 2.5$ per day. For that, I am going to optimize the position of my ads.

About my traffic, I am getting around 20-30 organic UV per day + 15/20 UV from social media. I succeeded in keeping this number for 2 weeks with minimal effort and activity. By the end of the year, we want to increase the number to 100 organic UV and 50/100 from social media.

At the moment we have 24 published articles (2000-4000 word count). Only one is doing great, #1 in SERP for a total of 400 searches per month. I've got some more that goes decent #5-10.

Short-term plan: by the end of the month we expect no less than 200$. And want to publish at least 10 articles (2000 words+).

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really impressing progress

Great job, such impressive progress and I love following it!
How many months have you been doing it so far? I think that info would be nice to include, for anyone looking for "quick money". I think hard work and steady gradual growth always wins.

I wish you all the best and will keep on following your journey.

After 7 years of doing online marketing & doing the media buying for my business, all I can tell you is that if your girlfriend is in love with the niche, that’s a problem already. Being in love with the niche will lead her to fall in love with the (product) she THINKS are good because “she’s in love with the niche”

I remember my very first brand I was “In love” with my
Own products, obsessed with making them work but instead I went broke several times because I was too attached to the niche (I didn’t even have any data, didn’t even know if there was a market for it) “Follow your passion” can easily be misleading & make u go broke specially in the online marketing world.

Here are some tips i hope can help you:

- Forget about Pinterest ( the platform is not yet ready for marketer, I get 1M+ impressions monthly there however not even 1% of that converts, terrible platform)

-Quora & Reddit are not joke lol it takes a lot
of time to get any recognition there, obviously not impossible however for a month straight even two make quora & Reddit a full time job, answering & posting relevant content within your niche.

-If you’re selling a product I recommend you to dive into Etsy market, they promote your products on google shopping for you, all you need is a basic understanding on how to properly write a product title, description & tags. Maddd easy tho.

- EBay (if you’re selling a product) replicate same steps you did on Etsy.

-Your Gf Can make few bucks here & there on fivver even UpWork. (Obviously at first she’s gonna have to charge really cheap since she’s competing with Filipinos but hey some money is better than not money in this case.

- sign up for a bunch of affiliate products , have your gf write articles about the products & within the article send people to the actual product / service you’re affiliated to.

Good luck mate

(Men are logical - Women are emotional)

UPDATE

Things are starting to move a little bit faster.



Amazon Earning in the past 7 days:




Now I am a bit worried about the safety of my site when it comes to Amazon and Adsense policies.
I have been asking on the forum but I have no answer on this.

What things I need to check in order to not be affected by any of Amazon and Adsense policies?
I have original content, 0 bought links, I am not displaying ads on low volume pages, I have Terms and conditions, Amazon disclaimer in the footer, Private Policy, loading speed is decent (2 to 3s.)

I have been reading lately something about the Amazon links/buttons. But I forget all the information I have read. Can someone make me up to date with these changes?