Gold [Journey] Growing An Informational Intent Site To $10,000 A Month From Scratch!

[shaunm]

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• Article 1 - 1515 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 2 - 1565 Words - Outcourded.
• Article 3 - 1534 Words - Outsourced.
• Spent some time making new Pinterest templates for my niche site case study as I plan to use my Tailwind subscription for that blog rather than my YouTube channel from next month. I'm not much of a fan of the ones on Canva that you can just search for so I have had a little play around and have some that need a little work but they are getting there.
  
• I have seen that Google has confirmed that they now take backlinks into account instantly without a wait period. I'm guessing the standard sandbox will still be in effect but I definitely want to play around with some backlinks on my test domain in a few months once it is >6 months old to see the results.
• I spent some time looking for real Fiverr guest posts for a YouTube video and although the vast majority of them are PBN scams, I did find a few that need further investigation but do seem real for a video on YouTube next month.

 

[shaunm]

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• Article 1 - 1495 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 2 - 1565 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1542 Words - Outsourced.
• Started putting the freelance writer spreadsheet together for next months content order, I think I will stick with informational intent content for now to try diversify income into display ads.
  
• Put a little more work in on the Pinterest templates for my niche site case study blog and they are at a stage now where I would be happy to post them.

I also uploaded my new YouTube video on bounce rate that might be helpful to some people.

 

[shaunm]

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• Been really tired today so just been sleeping a whole bunch so haven't been able to get much done.
• Ordered a bunch of web 2.0s for a YouTube video for next month.
• I have seen YouTube are changing their monetization rules but I'm pretty sure it won't affect me as I already use my own adsense account but I will keep an eye on it.

 

[shaunm]

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• Spent most of the day planning to move house and prepping stuff to pack so never got much done.
• Ordered a KGR Keyword Pack for a YouTube video for next month.
• Sent out the emails for the blogger roundup video for next month.
• I noticed a whole bunch of SERP movement on one of my domains, Algaroo is showing clear and my other domains are fine so I am hoping that it's just a one-off. A bunch of pages dropped 1-5 spots all at the same time for some reason so I will keep an eye on it.

 

[shaunm]

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• Article 1 - 1591 Words.
  
• Spent most of the day prepping to move house again so not much done.
• Ordered over $3000 of content for October today that should be delivered all throughout next month.
• The strange SERP movement from last night seems to have normalized with my SERP tracker update today and went back to normal. No idea what caused it but it might have just been one of them things.
• I got the email from Amazon about Prime day on the 13/14th of October, its too late for me to do anything directly for it for additional organic traffic but I'm not sure how popular it is in the USA so I might see a spike in income from it.

 

[shaunm]

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• Article 1 - 1603 Words.
  
• Spent some time setting up my Ezoic ad account, I have my onboarding call tomorrow but I think it's all set up anyway so just waiting for everything to update and start showing ads.
• The SERP jumps for my niche site case study seem to have held pretty well after the manual force indexing. I thought that they would drop off for a few weeks/months and then slowly climb back up the SERPs but this new site is just going from strength to strength.

 

[T J Tutor]

Congrats on the GOLD Status
With SEO every day is a new battle ...

This is well deserved. A clear and reputable effort!

 

[shaunm]

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• Prepping to move house is taking up most of my time right now so not able to get on much. The dip in income for the 30th Sep is down to shipping for that day with around half, if that of the items ordered on that day actually being shipped out.
• Article 1 - 1477 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 2 - 1552 Words.
• Article 3 - 1513 Words. - Outsourced.
• Ended my Google ads test for YouTube as its been running a few weeks now, I probably wont have time to go over the data until next week at the earliest though.
• My site is now integrated into the Ezoic system, had a few issues with my name server propagation taking longer than normal as well as my hosting thinking Ezoic is a bot so it took longer than usual but its all good now, just need to keep churning out the content and let it age in to pull traffic and make money.
• I have seen people mentioning the change to Google shopping in the SERP but I'm not sure how much it will affect me as its been in the USA for months now and I haven't seen much of a drop in income but time will tell.
• The new products released for the niche of my new niche site case study have had their specifications officially confirmed by the brand and I think they are going to blow everything out of the water and set the new bar for other brands to meet. Still no confirmed release date yet but I definitely want to get a bunch of content out based around them even if I am just using other keywords from the niche that get search traffic but change the product name to these as I think there will be an absolute ton of interest in them.
• Skillshare sent an email out about how their referral program offer is changing but they are so much more relaxed than Amazon, they actually said something along the lines of they would prefer people to update the wording of the links pointing to them if possible rather than saying you will be banned if you don't.

I also uploaded my monthly income report for September.

Congrats on the GOLD Status
With SEO every day is a new battle ...

This is well deserved. A clear and reputable effort!

Cheers guys .

 

[shaunm]

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• Moved in to the new house now, a few things to do still but hoping to crank productivity back up this week.
• Article 1 - 1543 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 2 - 1511 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1481 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 4 - 1501 Words - Outsourced.
  
• I want to do a test with two informational 4000 word articles, I will probably outsource on and do one myself to try and pack it full of long tails, just need to find the time for keyword research.
• I have seen a few people reporting that Moz bar has stopped working and it seems to be the same for me too, not sure if its a bug or intended but I have plenty of keywords banked anyway.

I also uploaded my video for my niche site case study for September too.

 

[Honeybadger]

I managed to grow the network of three domains to bring in >$3000 last month as shown in the image below but with the changes in the Amazon affiliate program terms I have decided to make a brand new hybrid site.

Thank you for sharing
Very detailed information & good tips

 

[shaunm]

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• Article 1 - 1640 Words.
• Article 2 - 1498 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1494 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 4 - 1515 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 5 - 1612 Words - Outsourced.
  
• There definitely does seem to be issues with Amazon shipping for the UK as the stuff I have been ordering this week has some crazy delivery dates so I'm guessing it is the same for the USA so that might be why income is higher today as a bunch of things ordered over the last week were all shipped today or something.

Thank you for sharing
Very detailed information & good tips

Cheers dude.

 

[azgold]

that might be why income is higher today as a bunch of things ordered over the last week were all shipped today or something.

I was going to say that I thought this was a new daily high for that site. Hopefully, that'll continue.

Re delivery times, they are so unpredictable and crazy right now. Even registered mail and priority post here in Canada is not guaranteed to arrive in the same timely manner as pre-pandemic times.

 

[shaunm]

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• Article 1 - 1512 Words.
• Article 2 - 1477 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1498 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 4 - 1471 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 5 - 1480 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 6 - 1502 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 7 - 1536 Words - Outsourced.
• Noticed a few people mention a Google update on the 5th, I don't think I have been negatively hit but two of my blogs might actually have had a few SERP jumps from it.
• Played around with the Ezoic Page Speed Accelerator tool and I am pretty impressed with it so far.

I was going to say that I thought this was a new daily high for that site. Hopefully, that'll continue.

Re delivery times, they are so unpredictable and crazy right now. Even registered mail and priority post here in Canada is not guaranteed to arrive in the same timely manner as pre-pandemic times.

Yea there defo seems to be issues with deliveries all over now.

 

[Graybeard]

Congrats on the GOLD Status
With SEO every day is a new battle ...

 

[shaunm]

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• Article 1 - 1550 Words.
• Article 2 - 1492 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1456 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 4 - 1510 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 5 - 1483 Words - Outsourced.
• Played around with Ezoic more and managed to get my page load between 0.8-1.1 second with their site speed accelerator while its injecting ads.

 

[shaunm]

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The One Link dashboard didnt update for Friday so the above is just the Amazon.com Dashboard.

Income is from my full money site network.​

• Article 1 - 1470 Words.
• Article 2 - 1475 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1486 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 4 - 1514 Words - Outsourced.
• Set up Google Calendar to try and move my to do list over to that rather than my todo app.

The above is all for Friday, I'm taking today off but back to it tomorrow.

 

[shaunm]

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• Article 1 - 1604 Words.
• Article 2 - 1497 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1513 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 4 - 1529 Words - Outsourced.
• Added the finishing touches to my Pinterest templates for my Niche Site Case Study project.
• Started to schedule out pins with Tailwind for my niche site case study but its going to take a few days to catch up on two and a half months worth of content publishing. There seems to be an issue with Tailwind syncing to this Pinterest account too for some reason so I want to wait to see if it can actually schedule posts out before I put any more time into making pins too.

I also published a new video going over the main reasons that new bloggers fail.

 

[shaunm]

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• Going to start adding my daily Ezoic display add income to my daily income screenshots from now on as shown above.
• Article 1 - 1543 Words.
• Article 2 - 1511 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1491 Words - Outsourced.
• Tailwind scheduling is working and posting pins to Pinterest but tailwind still shows syncing issues with Pinterest. Not sure why the syncing issue is showing up but I will keep an eye on it.
• Scheduled more pins for Tailwind
• Google have confirmed that they have two current indexing issues with their system from the start of the month so I think thats why a bunch of people have been having problems with manual force indexing. I have noticed that my pages from the last week or so seem to be having this same problem too so hoping Google are able to fix it too.

 

[shaunm]

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• Article 1 - 1486 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 2 - 1517 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1487 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 4 - 1592 Words.
• Synced up my Ezoic Analytics to my Google Search Console to try and have as much data available as possible in the future once the sites traffic increases.
• Made more Pinterest Pins to schedule out with Tailwind, it just feels like I'm not even putting a dent in it. Tailwind is still getting the sync issue warning but pins are being posted without issue so just ignoring it for now.
• Google tweeted out that they had fixed one of their indexing issues and managed to restore half the pages for the other indexing issue. Judging by the replies to their tweet it seems that this is similar to the indexing issues earlier in the year where they think they have fixed it but the community keep reporting the exact same faults persisting.
  
• Slightly off topic but I ordered a bookshelf today to kind of start my own library. I love my Kindle and spend a ton of time reading it last month but I kind of miss an actual book so looking forward to reading a bunch of business or stoic books.
• New organic daily traffic record for my niche site case study coming in at 24 organic hits in a day, not much to write home about but hoping that it will just keep on growing.

 

[Strickland]

Slightly off topic but I ordered a bookshelf today to kind of start my own library. I love my Kindle and spend a ton of time reading it last month but I kind of miss an actual book so looking forward to reading a bunch of business or stoic books.

If you haven't already got a book called "The Daily Stoic" I would def reccommend it. It had quite an impact on my outlook on life, well worth a read.
p.s Still following the thread, and still amazed at how much content you manage to publish each month

 

[shaunm]

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• Article 1 - 1565 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 2 - 1498 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1503 Words - Outsourced.
• Finished the research for the first 4000 word test article for my niche site case study domain and put the order in with the freelance writers I use.
• New personal best day for organic traffic for my niche site case study domain again but not sure if it is just a slight increase from Amazon Prime day.
• Across my network of blogs it seems that CTR from my blog to Amazon is up around 30% and I also managed to sell around double the items too but the majority of these will probably be low ticket special offers rather than the high ticket stuff I actually promote. Time will tell over the coming week or so as the stuff actually starts to ship out to the customers though.

I also uploaded my new video going over a Fiverr keyword research gig too.

If you haven't already got a book called "The Daily Stoic" I would def reccommend it. It had quite an impact on my outlook on life, well worth a read.
p.s Still following the thread, and still amazed at how much content you manage to publish each month

Cheers pal, yea I love that book, I have it on my Kindle and my Audible but will probably buy the physical book too as its a great book. I really like the stoic philosophy and definitely think that it comes in handy for this line of work so its well worth checking out for anyone else following along with the journey.