[Journey] Scaling an Authority website to 10K a month (and beyond)

Kikerinka · Aug 21, 2020

Update, 21st August 2020, Day 102

- Published 4 new articles today, 1,662 words, 1,702 words, 1,756 words, 1,556 words.

- Another big day with Adthrive, best earnings for Thursday ever, and great RPM & RPS

- Today I spent some time messing around in Analytics, checking how many new articles (published since the start of this journey) are already ranking and getting traffic from Google.

Back in July I recorded 3 such articles. Today it is only 21st August, but I can already tell you that many more new articles started to rank on Google in August.
That's the main reason for traffic records, Adthrive records etc, in a month that is typically rather slow in my niche...

I will wait until about 27th-28th (more new articles may start getting traction), and then I will post pictures from Analytics, with publication dates, US search volume for main KW for each article, etc.

But already today, I observe some interesting trends... 95% of my articles can be classified to 3 different content types:

Type no. 1 is the main content, the most prevalent and most relevant for my website. Many articles from this type have a potential to be monetized with eBooks in the future, and each single content topic has plenty of long tails. About 50% of all new articles I write belong to this first group.
Type no. 2 is a bit different type of content, a highly creative writing. I enjoy writing these articles the most, but they can't be monetized with eBooks, at least not with great success (they can link to general product, but the conversions will be rather poor). So they are mostly for monetization with ads, and there aren't many long tails, but many of them have search volume above 1K, and can potentially attract a lot of traffic. About 30% of all new articles I write belong to this group.
Type no. 3 is the least creative content, but I would say that also with the least competition. These articles have varied sales volume, some are very high. Most of them can't be monetized with eBooks, but the few that can be, have an interesting potential (for example my most recent eBook, the one that is close to 1sale/day so far, belongs to this group). About 15% of my new articles belong to the 3rd group.
5% of new articles do not belong to any of these groups, and are rather experimental...

Now, what is see with rankings so far is this:
- For type no. 1, I already have several articles ranking, and the Google traffic to them is growing each week, slowly but steadily.

- Articles from the 2nd group are by far the most successful so far when it comes to getting Google traffic. Considering the percentage of my writing dedicated to this group and the number of articles that are already ranking, the results are surprisingly good.
What's more, some of these articles already rank no. 1 for their KW on Bing, and getting close to 100 hits a month just from Bing.

- Not a single article from group no. 3 is getting substantial traffic from Google so far. A few get some hits from Bing, but traffic from Google to all these articles is virtually non-existent.

I may dig a bit deeper into this later on, trying to understand the cause why the groups are doing differently... Anyway, I'll continue publishing all 4 types of articles as the days go on...

Answers & Reactions

HustleForLife said:
Good read

Thanks mate, the best is yet to come

Lazdu said:
I thought that your niche is small and specific, but you still manage to post 2-3 articles per day

Depends on what means big to you

... The biggest players in my niche (which is basically a sub-niche of a huge niche) have about 1 million - 1.5 million visitors a month.

The biggest player in the entire huge niche has over 15 millions visits/month....
The niche isn't small, and so isn't the competition. But I believe there's a place for a website like mine.
Who knows, maybe one day I can be another 1 million visits/month player in this sub-niche

Soayame said:
Where can I find really good writers at OP? I've tested a few on bhw but do you have any suggestions?

Sorry I cannot give you a good recommendation here, because the last time I used writers from BHW was 2011 :-D. And I eventually deleted all articles I purchased from them (few years later), because they weren't good enough.

Having said that, I am sure the selection and quality is 10 times better now. But you should not rely on my recommendation or anyone else's advice. Send out test orders, communicate with the sellers, and see what works for you...

And do not be afraid to give a shot to new guys in the marketplace. You may find there someone really good who isn't busy with dozens of clients already.

- That's it for today. Have a nice weekend everyone! I may have some outdoors program for half a day tomorrow, but will try to write at least 2 articles anyway. Let's keep going

mithun7117 · Aug 22, 2020

Which plugin will you suggest to sell ebook? And do you use woocommerce?

Kikerinka · Aug 22, 2020

Update, 22nd August 2020, Day 103

- Published 2 new articles today, 1,511 words, 1,238 words.

- Yesterday I had the highest RPM with Adthrive ever, and first time $100+ on Friday, which is the second lowest traffic day in my niche, after Saturday:

They say that in Q4 Adthrive RPM is even much better than in summer. Maybe some interesting numbers await in the next months... Anyway, with $20+ RPM I am happy at any day...

- Today was a crazy day. I originally planned to come home at lunch and then work, but I met an interesting girl in the mountains, she joined me, and the trip in the mountains prolonged significantly...
Then when I finally wanted to write I got a phone call from a friend who's living abroad for a long time, and suddenly he called me that he's here in the city... so we went for a couple of beers.

Plus I got another bunch of emails unrelated to IM during the night and today, some of them from people who haven't written to me in years ... but we had some projects/experiences togehter in the past, and they mean something to me, and I definitely can't ignore these messages.

Since I still didn't have time to answer all emails I got while I was on the 9 day trip, the backlog is quite huge right now, and tomorrow I may spend significant part of the day just writing emails...

At the end I somehow managed to squeeze in 2 new articles (1 half drunk, because I drink very little alcohol, so after 2 beers I am half drunk), and I do not know how I did it

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Hopefully tomorrow there will be no surprises, and most importantly no new emails, and I can somehow return to normal ways of working, or at least deal with other stuff and get ready for Monday.

mithun7117 said:
Which plugin will you suggest to sell ebook? And do you use woocommerce?

I use a plugin called "Paid Downloads Pro". When you google the name, it's the first result. Very happy with the simplicity and functionality.

Woocommerce is a pain. I installed it on few websites (unrelated to this journey), but the basic version is just too basic and ugly, and when you want to make from it a decent eshop (experience that buyers expect in 21st century), you have to spend hundreds of dollars on premium woocommerce plugins...
If you do not improve it with these plugins, nobody will purchase anything from you.

So, as long as you want to sell only digital products, go with paid downloads pro.

mithun7117 · Aug 22, 2020

Kikerinka said:
Update, 22nd August 2020, Day 103

- Published 2 new articles today, 1,511 words, 1,238 words.

- Yesterday I had the highest RPM with Adthrive ever, and first time $100+ on Friday, which is the second lowest traffic day in my niche, after Saturday:
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They say that in Q4 Adthrive RPM is even much better than in summer. Maybe some interesting numbers await in the next months... Anyway, with $20+ RPM I am happy at any day...

- Today was a crazy day. I originally planned to come home at lunch and then work, but I met an interesting girl in the mountains, she joined me, and the trip in the mountains prolonged significantly...
Then when I finally wanted to write I got a phone call from a friend who's living abroad for a long time, and suddenly he called me that he's here in the city... so we went for a couple of beers.

Plus I got another bunch of emails unrelated to IM during the night and today, some of them from people who haven't written to me in years ... but we had some projects/experiences togehter in the past, and they mean something to me, and I definitely can't ignore these messages.

Since I still didn't have time to answer all emails I got while I was on the 9 day trip, the backlog is quite huge right now, and tomorrow I may spend significant part of the day just writing emails...

At the end I somehow managed to squeeze in 2 new articles (1 half drunk, because I drink very little alcohol, so after 2 beers I am half drunk), and I do not know how I did it .

Hopefully tomorrow there will be no surprises, and most importantly no new emails, and I can somehow return to normal ways of working, or at least deal with other stuff and get ready for Monday.

I use a plugin called "Paid Downloads Pro". When you google the name, it's the first result. Very happy with the simplicity and functionality.

Woocommerce is a pain. I installed it on few websites (unrelated to this journey), but the basic version is just too basic and ugly, and when you want to make from it a decent eshop (experience that buyers expect in 21st century), you have to spend hundreds of dollars on premium woocommerce plugins...
If you do not improve it with these plugins, nobody will purchase anything from you.

So, as long as you want to sell only digital products, go with paid downloads pro.

Thank you so much for sharing the tips

jaymaybe · Sunday at 12:31 AM

Your journey is one of the best here on BHW! Could you break down how long it takes you to write an article on average? How much time is spent on research vs writing - do you find images and format all posts yourself still? I really want to do an epic content project in September or October with 2-3 daily posts, but I'm not sure how realistic it would be for me!

Kikerinka · Sunday at 8:59 AM

jaymaybe said:
Your journey is one of the best here on BHW! Could you break down how long it takes you to write an article on average? How much time is spent on research vs writing - do you find images and format all posts yourself still? I really want to do an epic content project in September or October with 2-3 daily posts, but I'm not sure how realistic it would be for me!

Thanks mate

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In average, it takes me about 90-120 minutes to write & publish a 1,500 words long article.

- For some articles I do not need to do any research, I simply write from my head, benefiting from the real experience in the niche + from writing experience. Sometimes I can get such an article done in 60-70 minutes.

- For certain articles I have to do some research, it can take anything from 5 minutes to 45 minutes, just very rarely it takes longer.

- I do not spend too much time looking for some superb images. I just enter the right keyword to Pexels.com or Unsplash.com , quickly scroll down the images and choose the one or two I like the most, download them, change names, and directly upload them to the article without making any other changes.
If there isn't any good image, I definitely won't make any images, and may simply publish the article without an image.

- Formatting is done on the go, as I write.

- Once I publish the article, I do one quick review, checking for errors, and possible improvements. This review takes about 5-7 minutes for 1,500 words article, and is included in the total time of 90-120 minutes.

- Last step is submitting the new URL to search console, to ensure the article is indexed as quickly as possible. For my website this typically takes less than 10 minutes after I submit it to search console. Sometimes it is indexed within seconds.

2-3 article a day over two months is a very solid plan. It can give you around 150 pieces of new content, and that's definitely something that can push your website a lot. Wish you good luck and most importantly lot of discipline--you will need to to get this done

RadzNguyen · Sunday at 9:31 AM

wow, great journey, 10k/month is a big number.

jaymaybe · Sunday at 11:13 AM

Kikerinka said:
Thanks mate .
In average, it takes me about 90-120 minutes to write & publish a 1,500 words long article.

- For some articles I do not need to do any research, I simply write from my head, benefiting from the real experience in the niche + from writing experience. Sometimes I can get such an article done in 60-70 minutes.

- For certain articles I have to do some research, it can take anything from 5 minutes to 45 minutes, just very rarely it takes longer.

- I do not spend too much time looking for some superb images. I just enter the right keyword to Pexels.com or Unsplash.com , quickly scroll down the images and choose the one or two I like the most, download them, change names, and directly upload them to the article without making any other changes.
If there isn't any good image, I definitely won't make any images, and may simply publish the article without an image.

- Formatting is done on the go, as I write.

- Once I publish the article, I do one quick review, checking for errors, and possible improvements. This review takes about 5-7 minutes for 1,500 words article, and is included in the total time of 90-120 minutes.

- Last step is submitting the new URL to search console, to ensure the article is indexed as quickly as possible. For my website this typically takes less than 10 minutes after I submit it to search console. Sometimes it is indexed within seconds.

2-3 article a day over two months is a very solid plan. It can give you around 150 pieces of new content, and that's definitely something that can push your website a lot. Wish you good luck and most importantly lot of discipline--you will need to to get this done

Thank you for the solid answer! So impressive

Regarding discipline, yeah, that's where I probably struggle a bit - but that's why I'd set it up as a challenge as content is sooo crucial. I already have products and affiliate offers set up on auto pilot through email, so all I need is more ways for people to find me in the first place...

Keep up the great work!

RedMoonVPN · Sunday at 1:15 PM

Glad you're back. Missed your posts since I read them before bed to sleep tight

Anyway, I have a few questions for you.

I'm currently in the process of learning all about my next niche, reading articles, watching videos, buying ebooks, etc. So, I wondered how did you get started with your niche.

How did the research of your niche look initially? Did you know some information about your niche before you started writing articles on your websites? How much time did you spend on research before you felt confident to start writing about it? Were you hesitant to write about certain topics because of the lack of expertise or knowledge?

Kikerinka · Sunday at 8:30 PM

Update, 23rd August, 2020, Day 104

- Published 2 new articles today, 1,633 words, 1,427 words

- Took care of all emails I had to answer, there's no backlog now.

- Next week the plan is to continue writing new articles, plus I will add PDFs to some of the new articles. I will explain why I do this, how, and what the benefits are, while I work on it during the week.

Answers & Reactions

RadzNguyen said:
wow, great journey, 10k/month is a big number.

Thank you, but at the end of the day it's just a number.
I hope to use the money to make some positive difference in the world, in a way & community that matters to me.
It's not the number that motivates me, but the possibilities I'll have if this pans out and the passive income materialize

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There won't be any pictures of flashy cars in this journey, or dollar bills in the bathtub like gurus fo it

. My motivation is other than that.

RedMoonVPN said:
Glad you're back. Missed your posts since I read them before bed to sleep tight

Anyway, I have a few questions for you.

I'm currently in the process of learning all about my next niche, reading articles, watching videos, buying ebooks, etc. So, I wondered how did you get started with your niche.

How did the research of your niche look initially? Did you know some information about your niche before you started writing articles on your websites? How much time did you spend on research before you felt confident to start writing about it? Were you hesitant to write about certain topics because of the lack of expertise or knowledge?

I had on offline business in this niche (for a few years), before I turned my focus online, saw the possibilities, and eventually, because of some events in my life, and change of priorities, I ended up working only online in this niche... passive income is the thing that decided it for me.

But offline wasn't the same thing as online...
To be honest, when I look back at the time when I started with this niche, I had more courage than knowledge... I didn't look for perfection at the start--and wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

I just wanted to get some things done, and see what happens... But as I worked more and more with the niche, I improved all my skills, and everything got easier and better afterwards. The process still continues to be honest.

I would say you are doing the right thing now, watching videos, reading eBooks, and hopefully you enjoy the process! But you should not end up in this phase for too long... I'd suggest you to start writing, and perhaps split your time to learning & to doing the actual work, 50/50. Because practice is the best teacher at the end.

BTW, thank you for your kind words and I hope you'll continue following this journey

RedMoonVPN · Sunday at 9:07 PM

Kikerinka said:
I had on offline business in this niche (for a few years), before I turned my focus online, saw the possibilities, and eventually, because of some events in my life, and change of priorities, I ended up working only online in this niche... passive income is the thing that decided it for me.

But offline wasn't the same thing as online...
To be honest, when I look back at the time when I started with this niche, I had more courage than knowledge... I didn't look for perfection at the start--and wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

I just wanted to get some things done, and see what happens... But as I worked more and more with the niche, I improved all my skills, and everything got easier and better afterwards. The process still continues to be honest.

I would say you are doing the right thing now, watching videos, reading eBooks, and hopefully you enjoy the process! But you should not end up in this phase for too long... I'd suggest you to start writing, and perhaps split your time to learning & to doing the actual work, 50/50. Because practice is the best teacher at the end.

BTW, thank you for your kind words and I hope you'll continue following this journey

Thank you for answering this clearly and for the suggestions. You hit the nail on the head when you said that I should split writing and research 50/50. That's the exact problem I have. I tend to get into that comfort zone where "I'm still learning" and that becomes an excuse for the lack of action (in this case writing).

Since you're very disciplined with your work and you seem to stick to your schedule very well, what would be your suggestion on how can I be more disciplined? It seems that if there aren't some severe repercussions for not getting the work done, I'll always find excuses for doing less work than I should.

Kikerinka · Monday at 7:50 AM

RedMoonVPN said:
Thank you for answering this clearly and for the suggestions. You hit the nail on the head when you said that I should split writing and research 50/50. That's the exact problem I have. I tend to get into that comfort zone where "I'm still learning" and that becomes an excuse for the lack of action (in this case writing).

Since you're very disciplined with your work and you seem to stick to your schedule very well, what would be your suggestion on how can I be more disciplined? It seems that if there aren't some severe repercussions for not getting the work done, I'll always find excuses for doing less work than I should.

That's the tough thing about entrepreneurship... you have no boss, and unless there's a sword hanging above your head (like a bill you have to pay before a certain date, in order to not end up on the street), laziness slowly creeps in.
And believe me this is even tougher when you already make money, let's say 1-2K/month, which may be enough for you to live a decent life (of course depending on your country).

The only thing that works, in my opinion, is seeing a meaningful purpose in your online project. If money is the only reason why you do it, you'll lose your motivation very soon. Either because money won't start rolling in right after the start, or because once you make enough to live with a certain standard you'll stop working...
So try to find this meaningful purpose, set goals, and remind them to yourself often--it helps a lot with motivation

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free · Monday at 9:36 AM

Kikerinka said:
If money is the only reason why you do it, you'll lose your motivation very soon. Either because money won't start rolling in right after the start, or because once you make enough to live with a certain standard you'll stop working...
So try to find this meaningful purpose, set goals, and remind them to yourself often--it helps a lot with motivation .

Absolutely agree, that happened to me before.

RedMoonVPN · Monday at 10:18 AM

Kikerinka said:
That's the tough thing about entrepreneurship... you have no boss, and unless there's a sword hanging above your head (like a bill you have to pay before a certain date, in order to not end up on the street), laziness slowly creeps in.
And believe me this is even tougher when you already make money, let's say 1-2K/month, which may be enough for you to live a decent life (of course depending on your country).

The only thing that works, in my opinion, is seeing a meaningful purpose in your online project. If money is the only reason why you do it, you'll lose your motivation very soon. Either because money won't start rolling in right after the start, or because once you make enough to live with a certain standard you'll stop working...
So try to find this meaningful purpose, set goals, and remind them to yourself often--it helps a lot with motivation .

Excellent advice mate, really makes sense.

Now that you say that, I think I should change my way of thinking. When for example, my goal is to educate people and make them more knowledgeable for their own good, or make them more safe by informing them, my goal is much bigger than money and motivates me to cover all possible topics in order to provide the best information possible. It also makes me write better articles because I want to help first.

Thank you for this solid advice, I'll for sure implement it now that I'm planning my next project.

sika1 · Monday at 6:44 PM

Kikerinka said:
I decided to create this journey primarily to monitor my progress, but hopefully it can also serve as a motivation for some of you guys, plus maybe you can also motivate me a bit .
It's a journey and a case study at a same time. Let's see where can it take me/us.

Basic background & overview:
- The website is 9 years old, evergreen niche
- Informative content, currently monetized with digital products & AdThrive
- Current stats - 339 informative articles + 80 other articles (sales pages, about stuff, etc)
- The best monthly income from this website so far: February 2020, $5,778
- The niche is quite heavily impacted by covid 19, but this should be a temporary thing.
- Goals: To at least double the number of informative articles by the end of 2020, and to reach 10K/month from this site in one year from now.
- No links will be built in the process. I will try to achieve the goal purely with quality content creation, on page SEO, and optimization for conversions (increasing the RPM of existing content). That's what maybe makes this an interesting case study...

GWMT, last six months:
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- notice the heavy drop in the middle of March when covid restrictions really started in US and other major English speaking countries. The situation is the same for all sites in this niche...

A bit longer background & overview:
This is actually the first website ever I started in IM as my own website (did SEO for clients before), back in April 2011.

I worked on it quite a lot at times, and did nothing at other times. For example: Entire year 2014 - 0 articles published, from May 2015 to August 2017 (over two years) - 0 articles published...

Why didn't I do anything on this website for such long periods of time?
- At certain periods I worked on other, smaller sites (MNS) in the same niche (had more than 30 at peak times), since back in the day it was easier to rank them, and they brought in vast majority of my online income. That's not the case anymore, of course, since MNS is almost a dead strategy...
- At other times I devoted a lot of time to traveling and non-profit ventures, not working in IM at all.

Why do I start this journey now?
Actually my original plans for 2020 were completely different. I didn't plan to work on IM much.
Had some offline business/non-profit plans in a certain country in the south of Europe which I love a lot.

However, due to covid situation I can't realize the plan this year... What's more, covid has a lot of impact on my other non-profit and personal ventures, so basically almost everything is stopped, and there's suddenly a lot of time to work on my authority website .

One of the lessons I learned in life is that there's nothing like an entirely good, or entirely bad situation (speaking about business, relationships, whatever).
Certainly it's a pity that I can't realize my original plans this year, but instead of crying and complaining I try to find something positive in the situation, and make the best out of it...
Perhaps it can be this journey .

Other things and methodology of work:
- I will write 80% of new content myself. 10% will be written by an expert in certain sub-niche of my niche, a guy I've been cooperating with for a long time. 10% I hope to actually sell as free/paid guest posts on my site (not starting any service or whatever, simply replying positively to a few serious outreach emails I get each month)...

- My main goal of this project is not making money, but building something of true value for people. When there is value, money will come. I've been following this philosophy a lot in my life, and so far it's been working. That's also one of the reasons why I will write 80% of content myself, becasue any writers I tried before (for this website and others, instead of the one guy I mentioned in previous paragraph) just didn't meet my quality standards. Either in writing style, or in expertise (mostly in both )

- The plan is to focus 80% of time on content writing for the rest of 2020 (20% on improving monetization and on page SEO). From January to April 2021, almost all focus will be on improving monetization (increasing RPM), since all new articles should be published by that time, and I will drop the frequency of publishing to 1 article/week.

- The journey should end by May 12, 2021

- Will try to update this journey daily, to keep track of my progress. However, there are days, sometimes more in a row, when I am simply offline, not touching my laptop at all. On such days I won't make any updates... I will make for it once back.
Will also try to post some interesting ideas at times, so you guys can also benefit from my journey, while working on your own projects.

That's it guys. If you have any question, do not hesitate to ask. I will try to answer everything relevant, but won't monitor this thread more than twice a day, simply to focus on the main work .

P.S. If this journey ends up a success, I'll buy 3 people who post here (anytime during the duration of the journey) Jr. VIP, or any service of their choice from BHW of the same value. The members will be chosen at random once the journey ends (if it ends successfully).

Just started to read this thread. I have no words to say further... super excited to continue reading. Thanks a lot for you.

Kikerinka · Monday at 8:15 PM

Update, 24th August 2020, Day 105

- Published 2 new articles today, 1,539 words, 1,378 words.

- Added simple PDF for download to 24 articles published during this journey.

Adding PDFs to articles is an important part of my on-page strategy, and during this week I will explain what I do, how I do it, and the benefits I see.

First of all, a screenshot from Google Search Console:

- As you can see on the picture, I rank for many keywords in my niche, with "PDF" added to the end of the search term.

- Many bloggers/SEO guys do not realize this, but when we talk about informative articles, and especially about certain types of it, such as how to guides, or lists (of whatever), quite a lot of people add PDF to the end of their query. It's also a common Google suggestion (as you type in your keyword) which induces even more people to do so.

How much extra traffic you can get this way? Well, for me it's about 5K extra visits a month. Definitely not bad, considering that all I have to do to get this traffic is adding a simple PDF to the article. But it's by far not the only benefit of this strategy...

Let me explain briefly what I do. As an example, I will again use a dog training niche.

Imagine that I have an article called "10 steps guide to train your akita puppy." The article has 2.5K words, 10 subheadings, each about 250 words. After it's been online for some time, I will do the following:

Run Open Office, and open a default template I have for this purpose. The template has a website logo and name in the header, and link in the footer.
I will make the same title, and below it I will simply copy-past a brief summary of each sub-heading. I will try to make it not longer than 1 page. This can be easily adjusted with font size, line spacing, etc.
At the end I will add: Source & more information: [link to the website]
Then I will export it as PDF, open it in a free PDF viewer, make a screenshot, and save it as PNG.
I will upload both PDF and PNG to my website, and insert the PNG into the original article, and link it to PDF., in a fitting place. This can be the middle of the article, the end, or after a specific paragraph. I will add a caption to the picture, saying something like "exclusive one page PDF summary, free download". (I actually write something else, but I cannot specify it here to not reveal my niche)
So, when someone comes to the article now, and they like what they are reading and perhaps want to refer to it later on, they download the PDF. How often this happens? See for yourself on another screenshot:

More than 5K downloads in a single month, of different PDFs from the website. Apparently visitros are happy about the option .

- Besides the primary benefit, which is the extra 5K traffic from Google, as you could see on the first screenshot in this update, there are other, secondary benefits:

- Extra direct traffic. Since my PDFs are always only summaries, people often click the link at the end of the PDF, to come back to the website, to refer to the original full article again. How much traffic this is? See for yourself on the next screen:

Obviously not all of this is direct traffic from PDFs, it's also some unrecognized traffic from YT and from websites with blank referrals, etc, but based on some tests I did (with the help of tagging the links), at least 3K-4K hits a month is a result of the clicks from the PDFs....

- Many people do not realize the importance of direct traffic. In the eyes of Google, direct traffic means brand recognition, and brand recognition means website authority. There are studies online that prove that the no.1 factor the most successful websites have in common (when we talk about SEO) are not links. It is a substantial portion of direct traffic.
Because when people go to the website directly, it clearly indicates to Google that they recopgnize it as an authority in a given niche, and Google gives it credits...

That's it for today to the PDFs, let's call this the basics.

I will talk about some specialties when it comes to this strategy, and also some other benefits, in one of my other updates this week... As always guys, any questions, do not hesitate to ask.

sika1 said:
Just started to read this thread. I have no words to say further... super excited to continue reading. Thanks a lot for you.

Thank you sika1! Hope it will help you on your own successful journey

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Songhort · Monday at 9:41 PM

Wow, great share about the PDFs! Do you let visitors download them without asking for their email address? I mean, this could be a good opportunity to build a list, right? Or are you not into lists?

Kikerinka · Tuesday at 7:23 AM

Songhort said:
Wow, great share about the PDFs! Do you let visitors download them without asking for their email address? I mean, this could be a good opportunity to build a list, right? Or are you not into lists?

Yes, exactly, this is one of the strategies I wanted to talk about later on.

You can ask for their email address, which has both pluses and minuses. Minus is that most of them will just close the page (and you lose all other benefits, such as direct traffic, brand recognition, event happening on your page (again a positive sign for Google, because when there's an event there's no bounce)), while plus is that you will get some extra subscribers

How many depends obviously on the attractiveness of the given PDF, how badly they want it.

I am not into building lists, but if I was into it, I would definitely experiment with asking for an emails, and see how many of them will actually give us their email.
After one month, for example, I will compare the benefits of both asking & not asking, and decide accordingly.

Songhort · Tuesday at 7:30 AM

Kikerinka said:
Yes, exactly, this is one of the strategies I wanted to talk about later on.

You can ask for their email address, which has both pluses and minuses. Minus is that most of them will just close the page (and you lose all other benefits, such as direct traffic, brand recognition, event happening on your page (again a positive sign for Google, because when there's an event there's no bounce)), while plus is that you will get some extra subscribers How many depends obviously on the attractiveness of the given PDF, how badly they want it.

I am not into building lists, but if I was into it, I would definitely experiment with asking for an emails, and see how many of them will actually give us their email.
After one month, for example, I will compare the benefits of both asking & not asking, and decide accordingly.

Thanks, that makes sense! I'm gonna have to run some tests, then.

Kikerinka · Tuesday at 9:31 PM

Update, 25th August 2020, Day 106

- Published 2 new articles today, 1,555 words, 1,331 words.

- Added PDF to 28 articles, all new articles from this journey

- Yesterday another record with Adthrive. Just slight improvement of the numbers from the last record, but slowly, step by step, we are approaching $150/ day:

- I also had 8 sales on the website yesterday, mostly less expensive items ($18, $20, etc), but overall it made for $176 in sales, so yesterday was the best day so far in the month, with $319 daily earnings from the website.

Always love the days when you open PayPal, and the earnings for yesterday spread across the entire screen . Didn't have many of such screens this month on PayPal, but once we will approach the end of this journey, I hope to have such a screen every day. Lot of work to do until then though...

- Today I met a graphic designer who did some excellent work for me in the past, for a project outside of IM. He called me and said he needed some advice about taxes and stuff regarding earnings on PayPal.

It turned out that he recently published a font, on the following website: https://creativemarket.com/ , and on two other platforms. I found it almost hard to believe when I saw his accounts there. In July he made over $1K passive income, just from selling one font

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Wanted to share it here for you guys, if someone of you is into graphic design. This guy is pretty good designer (I wouldn't cooperate with him if he wasn't), but still, he's new on the platforms, and published just 1 font. Yet me made $1K from sales of it in July.
Definitely an interesting model, and maybe some of you may find some inspiration in it...

That's it for today. Tomorrow the plan is to again publish 2 new articles, and continue with adding PDFs to existing articles.... Have a nice evening everyone!

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