My first blog using income school (no backlink building) methods has been going pretty well. It's about 9 months old now, I have about 65 blog posts published, and am getting 120k pageviews/month and is averaging about $89-$90 a day or 2600 or so in ad money a month. I'm going to continue updating on that journey on its own thread:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/journey-niche-blogging-using-income-school-concepts.1292818/
I just thought I'd make a new thread for this new blog. I think with that first blog I got lucky to strike an underserved niche. Averaging almost 2k pageviews per article per month is quite lucky. Income School says to aim for 500-1000 pageviews per article per month typically. So, I fully expect this pet blog to grow more slowly and to require more articles to get to a good traffic level. However, my other blog requires a lot of personal testing/experimenting. Where this pet blog is for a dog breed that I owned for many years. I have thousands of pictures already, etc. I'll definitely be researching some of it, but I know a lot already, too. So I think the amount of prep going into each article will be less, and I hope that means I will be able to produce content faster for this blog.
I plan to cater every blog post to a specific query. I am doing keyword researching using Income schools "alphabet soup" method as well as just searching the keywords and trying to estimate the difficulty of raking myself, based on the content that is currently ranking well for each term.
I plan to make 'pinterest graphics' for blog posts and to try to get some Pinterest traffic, but will be putting very minimal effort into the remaining social media platforms. I'll make a twitter, facebook and Instagram for this blog, but will do very quick & easy updates for each blog post. I won't be trying to gain a following or focus on getting engagement on social media other than Pinterest. My intent is to heavily rely on organic search for traffic.
I have to move before September but am not sure exactly when that will happen, just whenever we find a new rental and get approved. That will disrupt my schedule when it does happen though. My goal is to try to get 10 articles up within 30 days, and to hit 30 articles by the 3 month mark. Then after that I may slow down more, but I want to get a good bit of content out fairly quickly.
I published my first article yesterday. I'll consider July 2021 my first month seems how there's less than a week left of this month.
My long-term goal is to earn $1000 a month from this blog. I expect most of it to come from ads. Now that my other blog is on adthrive, I can bring a second blog into adthrive at 30k pageviews, so that 30k pageview stat will be an important milestone for this blog. I expect to make some income with affiliates but probably not a whole lot. I don't currently have any plans for revenue outside of ads or affiliates.
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/journey-niche-blogging-using-income-school-concepts.1292818/
I just thought I'd make a new thread for this new blog. I think with that first blog I got lucky to strike an underserved niche. Averaging almost 2k pageviews per article per month is quite lucky. Income School says to aim for 500-1000 pageviews per article per month typically. So, I fully expect this pet blog to grow more slowly and to require more articles to get to a good traffic level. However, my other blog requires a lot of personal testing/experimenting. Where this pet blog is for a dog breed that I owned for many years. I have thousands of pictures already, etc. I'll definitely be researching some of it, but I know a lot already, too. So I think the amount of prep going into each article will be less, and I hope that means I will be able to produce content faster for this blog.
I plan to cater every blog post to a specific query. I am doing keyword researching using Income schools "alphabet soup" method as well as just searching the keywords and trying to estimate the difficulty of raking myself, based on the content that is currently ranking well for each term.
I plan to make 'pinterest graphics' for blog posts and to try to get some Pinterest traffic, but will be putting very minimal effort into the remaining social media platforms. I'll make a twitter, facebook and Instagram for this blog, but will do very quick & easy updates for each blog post. I won't be trying to gain a following or focus on getting engagement on social media other than Pinterest. My intent is to heavily rely on organic search for traffic.
I have to move before September but am not sure exactly when that will happen, just whenever we find a new rental and get approved. That will disrupt my schedule when it does happen though. My goal is to try to get 10 articles up within 30 days, and to hit 30 articles by the 3 month mark. Then after that I may slow down more, but I want to get a good bit of content out fairly quickly.
I published my first article yesterday. I'll consider July 2021 my first month seems how there's less than a week left of this month.
My long-term goal is to earn $1000 a month from this blog. I expect most of it to come from ads. Now that my other blog is on adthrive, I can bring a second blog into adthrive at 30k pageviews, so that 30k pageview stat will be an important milestone for this blog. I expect to make some income with affiliates but probably not a whole lot. I don't currently have any plans for revenue outside of ads or affiliates.
