I've been having some success with these articles, I posted a lot in August/September and the keywords have been slowly rising. The majority of them are in the top 10, and 4 of them are in the top 3. All without backlinks. I am getting a good chunk of traffic from these posts now.
It takes a...
Started on a new content plan for my site going forward. The last time I planned any content was July 2016 so I thought it was about time it got updated.
Also built a snowman as the kids have been off school the last few days, and are off now until Monday. Roll on Summer!
I have always included 5 products in all my comparison tables, and I recently tried out a post where the table only had 3 products. The main difference I noticed is that I was selling more of a mixture of the 3 products, compared to the 5 product table where the 1st product sold the most.
I’m starting to realise that this is one of the few downsides to being your own boss and working from home.
If I’m working in an office I go to work, come home at the end of the day and then switch off from work until the next morning.
When I’m working from home there is no end of day. The...
I've decided to take a different approach this month and not list specific goals such as 'post xxx amount of posts'. Instead, everything I work on will be aimed at achieving one of these three goals -
Get traffic from Google under 85% of total traffic (89% in December) - 84.92%, I'll take that...
That's a good point, I was looking at it from the angle of 'standing all day' versus 'sitting all day'. I suppose if you mix up your positions throughout the day there would more benefit than just staying in the same position.
I get a lot of pains when I sit for long periods of time, mostly in...
I had a look at standing desks a while ago, mainly for health reasons as you would think standing would be better for your body than sitting. After doing a bit of research it turns out there’s no benefit so I didn’t bother.
This is a great strategy and it's one that I have started using recently. Do the task that is your least favorite first, and then you can go about the rest of your tasks without the thought of doing something you don't want to do niggling in the back of your mind.
My least favorite task is...
If any of your sites are making a decent amount it might be better selling privately, saw this yesterday- https://www.nichepursuits.com/can-buy-website/
There’s plenty of other reputable buyers if you search about, saves you 10 - 15% in fees.
The only way to do this is to either do it yourself, or train a VA to do exactly the way you want.
Every single seller I’ve tried uses either generic, spammy comments or comment on blogs with a ridiculously high OBL profile. And none of them were blogs that actually had any traffic.
I’ve...
I've decided to take a different approach this month and not list specific goals such as 'post xxx amount of posts'. Instead, everything I work on will be aimed at achieving one of these three goals -
Get traffic from Google under 85% of total traffic (89% in December)
Increase affiliate...
Reduce personal debt by 50%
Current site to be making $5,000 per month
Start another site with the sole intention of flipping in 2019
Come up with a long-term business idea that does not rely on Google or Amazon
Take my family on an amazing holiday (we haven't been on one in 6 years)
Flip my first site for at least $20k - Success
Clear all my debts - Success
Use what's left (10k) to invest in my new website - Fail, I grossly underestimated how long the money from my site flip would last and how much I needed for day to day living. I won't be making that mistake again!
Get my...
Even now, the owner is still claiming he only used scholarship links and no PBNs, when clearly he was. The Empire Flippers listing stated that the site did not use PBNs, but it was easy to spot.
It was most likely the PBN that got him, but because the site had become so famous for its use of...
My affiliate/review site has not been hit, but there is a lot of talk among SEOs that scholarship links are one of the reasons why sites got hit.
We are all familiar with 10beasts, but it seems it got penalized with this update. If you search for 10beasts in google it’s not even in the the top...
If I remember correctly, I had around 7 in-depth buying guides and 20-30 supporting pages. So my total word count must have been around the 60k mark before I started any proper marketing.
Once I had enough content on my site I started building links, mainly guest posts and link placements. Looking at my analytics, it took around 6 months of link building to get from 10-20 visits a day to a steady 200 a day.
Looking back, if I was to start another site I would definitely be...