[Journey] Starting a New Life

Good luck with your journey. Stay persistent, even if the first attempts don't yield results

Nyx004 said:

I'm following your journey OP.
which link building strategy do you used? did you used brand keyword and anchord keyword guest posts at real websites or spam like links in comments and profiles?

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Thank you for following mate! I used web 2.0's, profile links, and some free guest post opportunities, mostly on low quality sites. Used to blast them with some tier 2 and tier 3 links for improved link juice. I used about 95% brand and 5% partial match anchors.

BHSEONewb said:

Best of luck to you! I hope you make it big. Construction sucks, I oversee some of that in my day life and I don't know how they deal with lifting those bags. If you're talking about back surgeries, be VERY careful there. I've known several people who've had them done and not only do they not last forever, if you overdue anything during recovery you can actually put yourself in a worse position than before the surgery.

Consider stretches and deep tissue work. I got one of those "deep tissue massage guns" on Amazon recently for all of my muscle issues from years of martial arts and bodybuilding. Been a real game changer. They have some good ones for $150 or less. Got referred to it by a former bull rider.

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Thank you man! Yeah, construction is tough work. You have to be mentally strong as well, to survive working with all the low lives that are mostly working there.

Surgeries are not back-related. I don't want to currently specify what kind of surgeries I'm talking about but might do so later in the journey. Thank you for the advice though, I'll keep that in mind if I ever have back issues.

brownrider said:

Good luck with your journey. Stay persistent, even if the first attempts don't yield results

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Thank you man! Will do!

RedMoonVPN said:

I can give you an example. Let's say that my niche is a sub-niche of SEO Niche. It's sort of an off-page SEO, link building, brand building of an SEO Niche. Hope this helps you get a better picture.

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LOL there are tons of sub-niche of SEO niche

"I'm removing all distractions. Social media, gone. Stupid friends that drag me down, gone. Video games, TV shows, Movies, all gone! "

Try not to burn out mate! I'm all up for a super hard work ethic and if it works for you, well done.
Following, looking forward to watching you succeed.

Mar. 4, 2021 | Day 4

Productivity:

Wrote around 2000 words today. Finished the article I started yesterday and prolonged it quite a bit. The final word count for the article is 3534 words. I also did the research for the new article and created a draft for it and picked the products for reviews. So, tomorrow I can start the writing right away and hopefully finish it by lunch.

I finished a bit early today as I'm satisfied with the amount of work I've done and I don't want to force myself into doing too much work, especially as I'm still starting out. This is supposed to be a long journey after all, so I got to make sure that I have the motivation and strength to go through it till the end.

AmberJones said:

LOL there are tons of sub-niche of SEO niche

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Not sure what you mean? I was just giving an example of how broad my niche was since I don't want to specify what my niche is.

deathass01 said:

"I'm removing all distractions. Social media, gone. Stupid friends that drag me down, gone. Video games, TV shows, Movies, all gone! "

Try not to burn out mate! I'm all up for a super hard work ethic and if it works for you, well done.
Following, looking forward to watching you succeed.

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Thanks man! You are right, I definitely don't want to burn out!

I was a bit emotional when I wrote that sentence, and while I'm actually removing all the things I mentioned there, I still have quite a few activities that I enjoy doing and do when I end with work.

So, yeah, I'm working hard but also having proper breaks and anti-stress activities whenever I can.

Good luck on your journey. I also work construction, going back when the ground melts. Trying to quit this year for good as back and knee injuries here and also developing allergies. I'll probably end up rendering facades this summer but can't know until you hit the site. Hate the constant cement dust and shitty scaffoldings.

All that shit is meant to bring us to an early grave with pockets empty while others make the money. Nice to see you taking control.

Mar. 5, 2021 | Day 5

Productivity:

Had a nice little personal record today! I never managed to write more than 3k words in one day but I did so today! Today I wrote 3156 words which is basically a whole article. I published it and created a draft for the article I'll write tomorrow. It's an informational article that should be around 1k words. That will be a nice change from buyer intent amazon articles that I wrote until now. After I write the article, I'll check the analytics and amazon affiliate for this week, so the update tomorrow should be a little more exciting than those until now.

I'll also check how is the crawling and indexing issue doing since I didn't check that one for quite a bit. Hoping that the articles published this week are indexed.

Tomorrow is Saturday, so I'll work a little shorter than usual. That's just a little habit I got from the construction work. We always worked full 5 workdays and then a short Saturday. Sundays, I don't work, so no updates to the journey on those days.

Overall, I'm happy with the productivity today, and hopefully next week we can have a 4k word day as well. BTW, this is the first time I wrote and published a buyer intent article in one day.

Halch said:

Good luck on your journey. I also work construction, going back when the ground melts. Trying to quit this year for good as back and knee injuries here and also developing allergies. I'll probably end up rendering facades this summer but can't know until you hit the site. Hate the constant cement dust and shitty scaffoldings.

All that shit is meant to bring us to an early grave with pockets empty while others make the money. Nice to see you taking control.

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Thank you man! Get out of there asap man, before it's too late. My boss has serious knee problems. One day he came to work with this deformed, super large swollen knee. He had water on the knee, that shit's horrible! He barely walked for weeks and felt the pain for several months! I'm not sure if it fully healed to this day.

I feel you man, and understand how you feel completely. And you're right, it is meant to bring us to an early grave. I remember that at 90% of the locations we worked at, I couldn't even take a shit! I'm serious, man! There was no bathroom available and we had to piss in bottles. Horrible shit that I'm glad is behind me now. It's almost as if we're living in the previous century while all the others are enjoying the benefits of the time we live in, at least that's how I felt.

Hope you quit that shit and start your own thing. I know it might be risky, but it's worth it!

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Thank you man! Get out of there asap man, before it's too late. My boss has serious knee problems. One day he came to work with this deformed, super large swollen knee. He had water on the knee, that shit's horrible! He barely walked for weeks and felt the pain for several months! I'm not sure if it fully healed to this day.

I feel you man, and understand how you feel completely. And you're right, it is meant to bring us to an early grave. I remember that at 90% of the locations we worked at, I couldn't even take a shit! I'm serious, man! There was no bathroom available and we had to piss in bottles. Horrible shit that I'm glad is behind me now. It's almost as if we're living in the previous century while all the others are enjoying the benefits of the time we live in, at least that's how I felt.

Hope you quit that shit and start your own thing. I know it might be risky, but it's worth it!

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Yeah, I got knees like the bottom of my feet. Thick leather, every health check I get mentions. But what can you do when you can't stop working.

It's rare to see anyone over 50 who's in good condition and still working. Can spot a few alcoholics now and then, but most of the good workers are out unable to work.

The bathroom situation is real as well, worked on many places like that. At least it serves to motivate me to work on the IM. Just have the spent the extra money on that so this would be the last year.

Mar. 6, 2021 | Day 6

Productivity:

Published an info article of 1062 words. I enjoyed writing it very much as it was a nice change to the usual amazon buyer intent articles that all basically follow a very similar pattern.

My goal now is to write one buyer intent and one info article every day. That way, I can write 11 articles a week (only 1 article on Saturdays) and close to 50 a month. That will be a nice number and I should be able to finish the first batch of articles in 6 months at most.

Stats For The Site:

As I promised yesterday, here are the stats for the site for this week. Before we go into them, I have some very good news to share! All the articles are now indexed in Google (showing as such in GSC)! Only 1 of those (the oldest, published over a month ago) is on the site:mywebsite.com search. I'm ok with that, as I'm confident the others will show in there soon. It's almost as if Google decided that I didn't publish frequently enough and punished me with no crawling or indexing, lol. Now when I started to publish frequently again, it all got back to normal. I'm very happy about that and it's a huge weight off my shoulders.

Screenshot from the Analytics:



Traffic numbers stagnated this week. This is basically what I expected, a bit less traffic than usual, but this is normal for the beginning of the month, at least that's what I noticed until now.

This site almost always has a huge day on or around the weekend. Saturday, Sunday, or Monday are usually the super high traffic days. This doesn't always happen but is pretty regular as it's like this in about 75% of the weeks. Still, this is a very small amount of traffic so deeper analysis is not possible.

Here is the screenshot from the GSC:



Basically, the same thing as in analytics, although GSC tends to be a bit late in the updates and frequently adds more clicks and impressions a few days after.

Amazon Earnings For This Week:



Again, the usual stuff. As expected.

A bit better start in March compared to February though. Hopefully, we can get closer to the $20 mark this month.


Summary of productivity for the week

Total words written: 11,868

Total articles published: 4 (3 buyer intent and 1 informational)

Made a template for the buyer intent articles

Tomorrow, I don't work, and as I mentioned earlier no updates on Sunday.

See you guys on Monday, stay safe!

Halch said:

Yeah, I got knees like the bottom of my feet. Thick leather, every health check I get mentions. But what can you do when you can't stop working.

It's rare to see anyone over 50 who's in good condition and still working. Can spot a few alcoholics now and then, but most of the good workers are out unable to work.

The bathroom situation is real as well, worked on many places like that. At least it serves to motivate me to work on the IM. Just have the spent the extra money on that so this would be the last year.

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Yeah, you can't stop immediately. You got to eat after all.

I made the decision 6 months in advance so that I'll have some sort of a backup if things don't go as planned (and they usually don't). You need to have not only a working method in IM but also some sort of a financial reserve as well since the IM world is pretty unstable. At least that's what I'd recommend.

Construction was dirty, exhausting, and underpaid but it thought me some great lessons. I got to work hard for the first time in my life. I learned so much about the organization as well since you can't stop working in construction or you'll fail. You got to make the best out of your time and have the right pace to avoid fatigue and injuries but also earn enough for the day to be profitable.

So overall, I'm grateful for the experience. It has helped me become a much more serious and realistic individual.

Just don't lose hope. Stay strong and go through the last year while developing your IM thing as much as you can. Hope that you get out this year, mate!

That inspired me keep update.
What's your turning point to take that decision?

If you have dependents, (family, kids) that might be hudge risk.
Resign from job for a startup, which is still not established was a big risk. How did you manage it?

I am in same situation, but too afraid to leave from comfort zone, if I failed that will affect to my whole family

Btw wish you luck

Good luck it looks like you have a plan.

Solid first week!
Keep it up with at least the same pace of work for the rest of the 6th month period, and interesting things will certainly happen

Mar. 8, 2021 | Day 8

Productivity:

Wrote & published an article of 3113 words. It's an amazon buyer intent article.

I realized today how many mistakes I made when creating this site... I was like, Jesus, the categories I created for the site are so damn topically different that I started to doubt that this will ever work...

I'll give you an example. Let's say that the main niche is tech and the first category is PC's and the other one is home security systems. The only similarity here is that both are electronics. There is minimal general site-wide topical authority growing while I'm writing those articles. If I created the site today I would most certainly pick a narrower niche such as home security and then create topically relevant categories like cameras, doorbells, smart locks, alarms, etc.

The thing is, this site is my oldest site that's ranking on google and it seems that Google likes it. It makes sense to go with it since it's already semi-established. Time is an important factor for me so I got to make it work a year from now. I won't be able to do that with a brand new site in that timeframe. I guess I'll narrow it down a bit to the most promising categories and work on those only. I'll still have around 120-130 articles to write for those categories that I selected. After that, I'll do additional keyword research and continue to write from there. That's a slight change of plans but I think it's the right choice to make.

Yasith said:

That inspired me keep update.
What's your turning point to take that decision?

If you have dependents, (family, kids) that might be hudge risk.
Resign from job for a startup, which is still not established was a big risk. How did you manage it?

I am in same situation, but too afraid to leave from comfort zone, if I failed that will affect to my whole family

Btw wish you luck

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Thank you, man! The decision was made when I realized that I will never succeed in IM doing two jobs at the same time. I came home from exhausting construction work to write articles while feeling like I was gonna pass out. I realized I can't physically write articles while working construction at the same time. I couldn't get another job either, so this was the only choice really.

I don't have a family, so that makes the whole plan easier. My monthly expenses are pretty low so I can afford to have a few bad months in terms of income.

It's very different when you have a family that you have to provide for. I'm not sure what to say, man, try working IM after your day job if you can. I wouldn't risk it this much if I had a family that counts on me.

Tatters21 said:

Good luck it looks like you have a plan.

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Thanks!

Kikerinka said:

Solid first week!
Keep it up with at least the same pace of work for the rest of the 6th month period, and interesting things will certainly happen

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Thanks! Definitely gonna write at least the same amount of words if not more. Aiming to get to 2 articles a day sometime during the journey.

"I'm removing all distractions. Social media, gone. Stupid friends that drag me down, gone. Video games, TV shows, Movies, all gone!"

treating yourself like a machine won't help, you're a human and you need some activities to stay fresh and keep the hard work,
everyone has his own way to take a break, some some good one and keep it, it can be really beneficial even for the potential and productivity at work

i did start IM about approx 2 years now, i did last a whole year spending and barely getting any penny in return,
after that, things went better as I've learnt a lot of stuff and tricks myself and now earned enough to make the project bigger and better

my advice for you is to keep the good work, don't get down because of the low earnings,
you will to be patient and learn things by time, simply consider it as a learning period that will not really pay back

after some good amount of experience and time, you'll be earning up to x100 of that number

about the project, if you're not actually ranking for these search terms, consider building your own PBN (if you have the budget),
or simply buy some good PBN links (not the cheap ones, not worth the money)

best of luck within your journey dude, keep the good work!

Best of luck in your journey. Hopefully, you will find unique angles to make your articles stand out.

Good luck, I hope the best for you!

Mar. 9, 2021 | Day 9

Productivity:

Wrote & published an article of 2557 words. It's an amazon buyer intent article. Got a sore throat and didn't feel good the whole day. I barely managed to write this article, but I'm glad I did it!

Yesterday's problem I hastily described has made me choose 1 category that I will focus on almost 100%. I want to write at least 300 articles for that category by the end of the year. That's sort of a new goal I've set. There is another category for which I'll be writing around 20-30 articles just to test it out, but all the other articles until the end of the year should be in that one category I mentioned.

hideath said:

"I'm removing all distractions. Social media, gone. Stupid friends that drag me down, gone. Video games, TV shows, Movies, all gone!"

treating yourself like a machine won't help, you're a human and you need some activities to stay fresh and keep the hard work,
everyone has his own way to take a break, some some good one and keep it, it can be really beneficial even for the potential and productivity at work

i did start IM about approx 2 years now, i did last a whole year spending and barely getting any penny in return,
after that, things went better as I've learnt a lot of stuff and tricks myself and now earned enough to make the project bigger and better

my advice for you is to keep the good work, don't get down because of the low earnings,
you will to be patient and learn things by time, simply consider it as a learning period that will not really pay back

after some good amount of experience and time, you'll be earning up to x100 of that number

about the project, if you're not actually ranking for these search terms, consider building your own PBN (if you have the budget),
or simply buy some good PBN links (not the cheap ones, not worth the money)

best of luck within your journey dude, keep the good work!

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As I wrote in my opening post to the tread I am removing DISTRACTIONS that I identified as things that make me less productive and don't help at all. I still have plenty of activities I enjoy doing after work.

I'm targeting low competition keywords that I would hopefully rank for without links, although I have identified a few articles that would actually benefit from a link juice boost. Those articles are dancing on the 10-12 spot and would be ideal candidates for links. Unfortunately, I currently don't have enough money for links but if this project starts to take off, I'll invest in them if I see fit.

JZMedia said:

Best of luck in your journey. Hopefully, you will find unique angles to make your articles stand out.

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Thank you, man! I am trying my best and hopefully, I'll improve my writing during this journey so that I can make my articles stand out as you mentioned.

lazouille said:

Good luck, I hope the best for you!

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Thank you, man, appreciate the support!

Following you mate

Man, I really hope that you'll achieve your goals. It's always nice to see someone that wants to change his life.

Like the Monkey Dude from Bojack Horseman said:

"It gets easier…Every day it gets a little easier…But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part. But it does get easier"

Cheers!

Wow, following. Best of luck