RihardsLV
Member
Hello everybody, I've been active on this forum for a little while now and recently have been thinking about starting a journey thread to help keep me on track and share some experiences with others and create some accountability. 
I was learning PPC before this and had some luck with Microsoft Ads and Clickbank, but due to my monetary disability I couldn't keep running campaigns as the commissions don't get paid out every day and I have a tight budget, so I thought I'd build a website and try to rank, fully white hat.
What I've done so far:
Set up a website, got a domain.
Written an article with ~1500 words.
Submitted sitemap to google search console and gotten website indexed.
Learnt the fundamentals about SEO, read case studies and "What I wish I knew before I started" postings.
Researched and still researching keywords to write about.
Right now I'm using a bunch of different keyword tools, each of them shows a different difficulty and stats, the only somewhat consistent stat is volume.
I'm already getting a little traffic which I'm guessing is either from some kind of bots or old people typing my somewhat generic domain into their search bar.
Made a playlist with ambient music to help me focus.
Plan:
My strategy is that I try to answers questions that nobody has answered, even in forums or Reddit, Quora, etc.
These questions are about products, from people trying to find some specific product.
I have about 4 articles planned up right now and I'll try to push out at least one per day, depending on the competition, if they have a 1500 word article, I'll write a better one with 2000 words which will probably take more than one day for me due to me still being in school and having a part time remote job.
I think some of my old keywords have articles written by the biggest competitors about something relating to, but not targeting the exact keywords, so I don't know if I could beat them.
On the first page of SERPs I don't even see that exact keyword being targeted despite the large volume, so I'm guessing it's pulling it from some variation of that keyword.
Making my website as least annoying as possible, I get annoyed a lot on the internet by a lot of website, this forum is great in that sense because every time I come here I don't see 5 pop ups on every side of the screen asking me for something and I don't see an Ad covering the entire screen every time I move my mouse.
In my past I used to procrastinate too much before starting, basically allowing my brain to make excuses and justifying why I shouldn't do it, so I decided that I'll just do it.
Monetization:
Right now I'm signed up with Amazon Associates, as traffic goes up I'll try to get into Ezoic, was thinking about AdSense at first, but thought that a dollar a month wasn't worth the UX penalty.
I'm probably going to sign up for CJ too when I have some traffic.
Tools I use:
Chrome Plugins:
Keywords Everywhere
Moz Bar
SEO Minion
Keyword Surfer
Keyword Research:
Ubersuggest
Mangools KWFinder
Keyword Shitter
Answer The Public
WordTracker
Google Trends
Misc:
Hemingway Editor
Grammarly
WordCounter
Notion
Serprobot
(I know that's a lot of tools, as time goes I'll cut down on them as I see what works the best.)
Goals:
Make at least some money, hopefully at least $3000 by the EOY 2021
Would be better If I could make that until summer '21, but If I don't at least you'll see if I finish school.
I was learning PPC before this and had some luck with Microsoft Ads and Clickbank, but due to my monetary disability I couldn't keep running campaigns as the commissions don't get paid out every day and I have a tight budget, so I thought I'd build a website and try to rank, fully white hat.
What I've done so far:
Set up a website, got a domain.
Written an article with ~1500 words.
Submitted sitemap to google search console and gotten website indexed.
Learnt the fundamentals about SEO, read case studies and "What I wish I knew before I started" postings.
Researched and still researching keywords to write about.
Right now I'm using a bunch of different keyword tools, each of them shows a different difficulty and stats, the only somewhat consistent stat is volume.
I'm already getting a little traffic which I'm guessing is either from some kind of bots or old people typing my somewhat generic domain into their search bar.
Made a playlist with ambient music to help me focus.
Plan:
My strategy is that I try to answers questions that nobody has answered, even in forums or Reddit, Quora, etc.
These questions are about products, from people trying to find some specific product.
I have about 4 articles planned up right now and I'll try to push out at least one per day, depending on the competition, if they have a 1500 word article, I'll write a better one with 2000 words which will probably take more than one day for me due to me still being in school and having a part time remote job.
I think some of my old keywords have articles written by the biggest competitors about something relating to, but not targeting the exact keywords, so I don't know if I could beat them.
On the first page of SERPs I don't even see that exact keyword being targeted despite the large volume, so I'm guessing it's pulling it from some variation of that keyword.
Making my website as least annoying as possible, I get annoyed a lot on the internet by a lot of website, this forum is great in that sense because every time I come here I don't see 5 pop ups on every side of the screen asking me for something and I don't see an Ad covering the entire screen every time I move my mouse.
In my past I used to procrastinate too much before starting, basically allowing my brain to make excuses and justifying why I shouldn't do it, so I decided that I'll just do it.
Monetization:
Right now I'm signed up with Amazon Associates, as traffic goes up I'll try to get into Ezoic, was thinking about AdSense at first, but thought that a dollar a month wasn't worth the UX penalty.
I'm probably going to sign up for CJ too when I have some traffic.
Tools I use:
Chrome Plugins:
Keywords Everywhere
Moz Bar
SEO Minion
Keyword Surfer
Keyword Research:
Ubersuggest
Mangools KWFinder
Keyword Shitter
Answer The Public
WordTracker
Google Trends
Misc:
Hemingway Editor
Grammarly
WordCounter
Notion
Serprobot
(I know that's a lot of tools, as time goes I'll cut down on them as I see what works the best.)
Goals:
Make at least some money, hopefully at least $3000 by the EOY 2021
Would be better If I could make that until summer '21, but If I don't at least you'll see if I finish school.
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