My First Blogging Journey!
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Aquinas
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- Mar 25, 2020
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Full Update
This week has been going well, although my adverts on Adsense are stil limited. This shouldn't be a long term problem as I move onto other platforms. Furthermore, adsense has slowly been getting better as you will see.
Stats
Content Update
Writing content as much as possible. Moving onto making a few product reviews for Amazon affiliate now. Around 117 articles written now.
Social Media Update
Building an instagram in this niche is fairly easy, as I am finding out:
Facebook Likes - 15
Instagram Followers - 50
I am making promotions with Canva, and will begin posting them to my Instagram.
Backlink Update
Same as before. I am consulting with backlink people and I am likely to buy some once I have some product review articles up and running.
Overall
Doing well. Semrush says 10k again, just need to get above that in real-world visits and I can begin expanding more. The addition of affiliate income could make this site more profitable, although we are already easily breaking even. Also looking at upgrading my hosting once it needs renewal.
This week has been going well, although my adverts on Adsense are stil limited. This shouldn't be a long term problem as I move onto other platforms. Furthermore, adsense has slowly been getting better as you will see.
Stats
Content Update
Writing content as much as possible. Moving onto making a few product reviews for Amazon affiliate now. Around 117 articles written now.
Social Media Update
Building an instagram in this niche is fairly easy, as I am finding out:
Facebook Likes - 15
Instagram Followers - 50
I am making promotions with Canva, and will begin posting them to my Instagram.
Backlink Update
Same as before. I am consulting with backlink people and I am likely to buy some once I have some product review articles up and running.
Overall
Doing well. Semrush says 10k again, just need to get above that in real-world visits and I can begin expanding more. The addition of affiliate income could make this site more profitable, although we are already easily breaking even. Also looking at upgrading my hosting once it needs renewal.
Aquinas
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Thanks! I look forward to learning it more.
Dirtymind12
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- Oct 22, 2020
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Good Luck man.. You can have soo many SEO guides to work on...
Cynthia Stevens
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- Jun 8, 2019
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Good luck with the journey. This makes me remind of my very first journey
leit
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- Apr 23, 2013
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How long have you had your @dsense account limited?
my account got limited a couple of days ago (6 days to be exact) and I'm already stressing out.
Aquinas
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It's effectively unlimited now, back to normal. Took about 2 weeks.
leit
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Did you change anything or leave everything the same (in terms of ads)?
Aquinas
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Left it the same. I wonder if it's just a natural thing that happens when you add adsense to a site that is already getting a lot of clicks.
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Good luck. You started from the basics and you will crossing each and every step with curious and pre planned. surely, you can put something in your CV. All the best dude. it's all about your efforts. Focus on your dreams and thoughts, you will attain success more and more.
Aquinas
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Update
Have been neglecting the updates. But not the blog itself. I have begun working on Amazon Affiliate articles, these are beginning to index.
Traffic Update
Don't worry about the dip. Only just started on that particular data point, lasts for a few days.
Big Increases!!!! We had a big of a drop in Late Jan but we rebounded rapidly and we are steamrolling towards 15k a month on Semrush, and 10k a month on actual stats. I see no reason why we won't hit my 10k a month target by Early April.
Revenue Update
Clear increases. I only have 3 blog posts with Amazon links rn, which haven't ranked well. So this is fine for now.
Content Update
Have been focusing on long 2000 word articles on particular products. These are ranking around the 2nd page, which means that they should begin increasing from now. I have purchased backlinks from @Parker2010 for two of these articles, I am very excited to see what happens as a result.
Backlink Update
As stated, I have spent some funds on a backlink package. The package is targetting four keywords. Two related to my Amazon affiliate pages, and two just to boost page ranks for ad revenue. I am looking forward to the results!
Social Media Update
I have paused this mostly, whilst I work on more content for the page and as I work out the correct way to funnel people from my Instagram to the website itself.
Facebook Likes - 15
Instagram Followers - 69 (lol)
Overall
Doing very well. I think when I get 15k I will begin trying to find better ad networks. I'm considering retiring from this journey on the 1 year anniversary and starting a new one with the goal of building it as far as possible. Thoughts appreciated.
Have been neglecting the updates. But not the blog itself. I have begun working on Amazon Affiliate articles, these are beginning to index.
Traffic Update
Don't worry about the dip. Only just started on that particular data point, lasts for a few days.
Big Increases!!!! We had a big of a drop in Late Jan but we rebounded rapidly and we are steamrolling towards 15k a month on Semrush, and 10k a month on actual stats. I see no reason why we won't hit my 10k a month target by Early April.
Revenue Update
Clear increases. I only have 3 blog posts with Amazon links rn, which haven't ranked well. So this is fine for now.
Content Update
Have been focusing on long 2000 word articles on particular products. These are ranking around the 2nd page, which means that they should begin increasing from now. I have purchased backlinks from @Parker2010 for two of these articles, I am very excited to see what happens as a result.
Backlink Update
As stated, I have spent some funds on a backlink package. The package is targetting four keywords. Two related to my Amazon affiliate pages, and two just to boost page ranks for ad revenue. I am looking forward to the results!
Social Media Update
I have paused this mostly, whilst I work on more content for the page and as I work out the correct way to funnel people from my Instagram to the website itself.
Facebook Likes - 15
Instagram Followers - 69 (lol)
Overall
Doing very well. I think when I get 15k I will begin trying to find better ad networks. I'm considering retiring from this journey on the 1 year anniversary and starting a new one with the goal of building it as far as possible. Thoughts appreciated.
leit
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- Apr 23, 2013
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Finally an update, I was waiting to see your progress, (very good by the way).Update
Have been neglecting the updates. But not the blog itself. I have begun working on Amazon Affiliate articles, these are beginning to index.
Traffic Update
View attachment 164232View attachment 164236Don't worry about the dip. Only just started on that particular data point, lasts for a few days.
Big Increases!!!! We had a big of a drop in Late Jan but we rebounded rapidly and we are steamrolling towards 15k a month on Semrush, and 10k a month on actual stats. I see no reason why we won't hit my 10k a month target by Early April.
Revenue Update
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Clear increases. I only have 3 blog posts with Amazon links rn, which haven't ranked well. So this is fine for now.
Content Update
Have been focusing on long 2000 word articles on particular products. These are ranking around the 2nd page, which means that they should begin increasing from now. I have purchased backlinks from @Parker2010 for two of these articles, I am very excited to see what happens as a result.
Backlink Update
As stated, I have spent some funds on a backlink package. The package is targetting four keywords. Two related to my Amazon affiliate pages, and two just to boost page ranks for ad revenue. I am looking forward to the results!
Social Media Update
I have paused this mostly, whilst I work on more content for the page and as I work out the correct way to funnel people from my Instagram to the website itself.
Facebook Likes - 15
Instagram Followers - 69 (lol)
Overall
Doing very well. I think when I get 15k I will begin trying to find better ad networks. I'm considering retiring from this journey on the 1 year anniversary and starting a new one with the goal of building it as far as possible. Thoughts appreciated.
Will you open another thread for the new site?
Edit: Have you seen any fluctuations in the ranking this week?
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Aquinas
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- Mar 25, 2020
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It will be the same site, just with more concrete goals that are set at the start. Not sure if that is allowed, but I will check! Thank you for following my updates!
No real fluctuations. Just a slow increase as normal. The search traffic is growing at a speed that reminds me of when I went from 2k to 10k in a month which is hopeful.
sobolanu
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- Nov 28, 2018
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Another example that hard work always pays off, even when one knows very little about SEO. Keep going !
As for starting another thread on the 1 year anniversary, I think you should keep this one so when your site really begins getting big, people will be able to see exactly where you're coming from
Just my two cents ! GL for the future, will follow.
As for starting another thread on the 1 year anniversary, I think you should keep this one so when your site really begins getting big, people will be able to see exactly where you're coming from
Just my two cents ! GL for the future, will follow.
pepekobasa
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- Nov 7, 2020
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do u plan on applying on Ezoic? and how many articles do you have right now? Do you hire writers and do you build links at start? Nice journey brother, I hope I can get so much traffic at yours soon to be eligible to apply on Ezoic
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Aquinas
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- Mar 25, 2020
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Update
Revenue Update
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Really not much to say. I am continuing to write articles, and my ad revenue continues to increase with my viewership. Semrush organic search traffic has increased 33% since my last update.
Will be applying for Ezoic once I am making a consistent 10k a month viewers on Analytics, so not yet. I have 125 articles, around 1300 words each, which I created myself. I built a few links at the start, but the vast majority has all been on-page SEO and just building content. Good luck!
Revenue Update
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Really not much to say. I am continuing to write articles, and my ad revenue continues to increase with my viewership. Semrush organic search traffic has increased 33% since my last update.
do u plan on applying on Ezoic? and how many articles do you have right now? Do you hire writers and do you build links at start? Nice journey brother, I hope I can get so much traffic at yours soon to be eligible to apply on Ezoic
Will be applying for Ezoic once I am making a consistent 10k a month viewers on Analytics, so not yet. I have 125 articles, around 1300 words each, which I created myself. I built a few links at the start, but the vast majority has all been on-page SEO and just building content. Good luck!