Eight Months Into Building My Blogging Empire

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Hello my dear WA Friends,

my eighth month at Wealthy Affiliate has come and gone, and I have nearly missed out on writing my monthly report this month, but here it is:

Month Eight Of Building My Blogging Empire

The title of this post is somewhat meant provocatively.

Unfortunately, I am having to apply A LOT of self-talk and motivation these days, as I feel I am going nowhere at the moment.

So I TRUST that I one day will have my own little blogging empire in the form of a full-time blogging income.

And for now, the PROGRESS is all that matters to me, and looking back on the previous month helps me realize that I have made some progress, indeed.

Currently, my main goals are to increase traffic to my site and gain more knowledge in content creation, SEO, and Pinterest.

I want to increase the traffic by posting regularly and consistently and building up Pinterest as a new channel to my website.

Organic traffic has tripled and accounted for 44% of the overall traffic to my site

Although overall traffic was low in January, according to GSC, the share of organic traffic has increased considerably.

So this is the best result I can report in terms of traffic, as unfortunately, I could not reach my content creation targets last month (life, job, and homeschooling got in the way of that).

But I´ll get back on the content creation track soon.

Pinterest is starting to gain some traction

I have also started to get serious about Pinterest with my new business account. I am happy to say that I am starting to see some success with Pinterest.

My followers have increased from 25 to 60 - my goal for this month is 100 followers on

Pinterest.

Follow me on Pinterest by clicking on my Pinterest name in the Pinterest Share & Follow Thread

( I will follow you back, of course)

Besides, I have also started to create my own boards and pins, resulting in 1600 impressions on my claimed account and 64 engagements. In February, I will complete an intensive Pinterest training and make sure I learn everything I can about Pinterest.

I Am Now A Certified Online Business Entrepreneur

Another significant milestone this month was to finish the OEC training after just over 7 months of training. Thank you to every single one of you that have helped me celebrate this achievement!

So, looking back, January hasn´t actually been so bad after all. I DID make some progress, and that´s all that matters.

If you are struggling or feeling stuck, I can highly recommend you take stock of your small and big achievements now and again - it really helps to stay motivated.

All the best,

Drea

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I think you are doing great! I can relate to the feeling you have of standing still, I did too, but when I started to trust the process and think that it will come if I was just patient. It happened. You do the right thing focusing on trusting the process and have some patience. It will come and you will build your empire step by step.

Thank you, Hilde - your words are so encouraging!

I believe in keeping focus on the small wins. It helps keep your mindset in the right place. Like you I sometimes struggle with consistency because until our blogging empires are established, we have a lot of other duties that require our attention as well. But that's life. These little hurdles help us to appreciate our successes even more.

So congratulations on all the progress you continue to make. Well done!

You are so right, life is life and things sometimes don’t go as planned. Main thing is to keep going. Thank you for taking the time to comment 🙏

You're welcome .. anytime.

Great achievement!
Thank you so much for sharing.
Joyce

Thanks, Joyce and it is a pleasure 😊

Well done, this is truly amazing. Now you need to try and keep up the momentum.

Thank you, I will

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