Hi Alisa, thanks for sharing this. I wish you all the best with your SM platforms.

Cool, that is good to know. Yes, I use Poe a lot. It sure does save me time. I don't understand Pinterest, and I hardly care about it. It hasn't done anything for me since November, so I will no longer waste time with it. It's just too time-consuming, taking me away from other important things. Instagram no way, time consuming,. Anything that steals me away from something other than writing is the problem. Doing videos, getting AI voiceovers, adding captions, and editing is another time-consuming process. It's such a waste of my time. It takes me hours and hours to try to figure out how to do a two-minute and 30-second video and then hours to try to put it all together. Heck, it's just too much work. I don't have time for it. Fakebook, no way; I won't even go there either. I guess I'm stuck with just blogging and being at the mercy of Google, whatever that is. I don't see how those social media platforms give me traffic. I tried them all, but they didn't do a thing for me. Other than to "waste my precious time."

I did not write it correct, I was talking about niche, not a content.

For one of my site Facebook had been a game changer.
And I know both Pinterest and Instagram will help a lot.

We need a find a way for the sites and a complete agree with Partha and more gurus that we need to work more in all kind of platforms to support each post.
At the moment we are in the wild west!

I understood what you were talking about your niche. Pinterest apparently isnt for my niche! Been working my butt off since November and no traffic that is what I do not get. I am glad some of those platforms have helped you in your niche. In my niche nothing happening tooo many people in my niche very highly competitive. Everyone is doing the same thing im doing so its hard to stand out in Pinterest. I feel that way for all sm platforns. I dont care what Partha and others say about social platforms i see him talking a lot about writing content on his website thats where im staying writing content on my site thats it.

Yeah, parasite SEO. I’ve lost my total respect for Pinterest, not gaining any traffic no matter what I do.

I'm working on YouTube, but putting it all together is just so hard for me as I do not understand how to use the technology, make the video, no sounds, get AI voice-over, do the captioning, do all the editing, all are time-consuming, and I hate it. It takes me hours and hours to do, just like it was for Pinterest.

I understand about your Africa site. Google is screwed up! We will see some website owners on social media complaining about their traffic getting hit when they thought they had recovered. Haha, what a joke! It seems like it never recovered; what's ironic is that Google is lying in bed with a spammy Reddit site.

I watched Julian Goldie this morning on Youtube, that was weird! He said that his website was totally crashed and deindexed, even his homepage. During the live session on Youtube it got restored. What the heck lol!
It seems though that obvious AI sites are getting smashed, which is a good thing though., in my opinion.
But it is just the beginning of the update, things can go up and down still. My miniature site is stable, even slightly going up again. I guess we will have to wait and see.
About Reddit, Google says that this isn't true, don't know who to believe anymore haha, interesting though all of this. This other guy talked about class actions waiting to happen towards google from websites with millions of viewers. Funny to look at twitter for the moment haha!

Yes, I watched him, too. Yeah, his chipper birds got taken down. He knew it would happen because he publicly showed it: Kasha Dash, the dark-skinned guy with a beard, he is also the SEO guy who also owns auto blogging, interviewed Julian about losing Chipper Birds sites. He said it was a personal attack on his Goldie seo site but now it's back up he talked about not publicly show sites anymore for case studies.

I read somewhere that Google wanted Reddit’s data, they know its spammy, and they did say that they are working with Reddit to reduce that so let's see if Reddit does, one day I won't be surprised if Google buys and owns Reddit it might be a possibility some SEOs were talking about that.

True so many are saying things we just have to wait and see for ourselves after a month from now.

Yeah, Twitter will be active this month.

Hi Frank, Im still not able to get traffic on Pinterest I lost my motivation for it. Ok see you there!

Hi Brenda

Yeah, traffic is tough to get if you don't have a popular niche on Pinterest. Although the potential audience size for Music is 8.5m-14.2m, it is lower for guitars.

With 227,000 Pinterest impressions a month, I'm only getting 515 outbound clicks, which is about 17 visits a day to my website.

Still, I'm having fun making the pins. Lol 😎

Frank 🎸

Bluntly saying what a waste of time! Hell with it. Pinterest is so time consuming it's not even worth my time. Getting nowhere with it. I stopped focusing on it. That place is a joke people look at pins. They spent all day there just like Fakebook. I see too many of Pins -it's BS. I wouldn't even bother clicking through any of those junky stuff worthless -hate that site! Done with it! Bravo that you like it, but it's wasting time. u still have better things to do with your time? I find it a time stealer no matter what. If you use AI, it is a big deal; who cares? I sure don't. Pinterest means nothing to me just look at dumb bold words and photos -its same thing with Instagram waste of time.

Lol

With the right niche, Brenda, you can drive quite a bit of free traffic to your website.

Things like fashion, kitchen, garden, outfit ideas, nails, hairstyles, etc., are very popular, but they're not for me.

I'm a guitar man! Haha

Frank 🎸

Right, not for me either; therefore a waste of time. You're wasting time there too. That's my opinion. Eventually, you will get tired of it. It always does. The fun doesn't last long. It's just that you have to constantly shell your time out just for 17 visits a day while Partha gets 7 million visitors a day on his site so that was the word I saw on live chat. Partha is doing something right that none of us can replicate.

Hi Brenda

I'm more interested in using Pinterest and Medium as signals to Google to help increase my organic search engine traffic. It's not a big time investment for me, so I'll continue for now.

We're all in a different situation. I'm not interested in making online marketing a full-time business. I could make more money helping patients, but I'm winding down and enjoying life more at almost 70 years old. 😎

Frank 🎸

I do always all pins for next 5 days, could do more but have out Pinterest do not like more than that.
Publish 3 pins day day so it is 3 keyword this 5 days.
Finding keywords and made this 15 pins takes max 20 minutes.
So I take that happý.

I done five to ten for each blog post. I'm glad it's working for you but not for me. I still don't know why. I don't get it so I think I'm not cut out for that stuff at all. I wish you all the best. 😀

All the best to you!
Like I said, media are different from each niche,
My game changer was that I realized that Pinterest is not a social media but a very powerful search engine.
I took a course from a woman who had big success in it, and she pointed that out.

But enough about Pinterest, good luck!

That's not the right mentality. It's all in your mind, brother. You can be an SEO expert, too, but you need to put in the work.

What's stopping you from being an SEO expert?

I came to WA a few years ago, I'm not an SEO expert yet but I made it work, it takes real work and patience.

Unfortunately with this mentality you will go nowhere wether its SEO or something else.

I'm saying this to encourage you, please don't give up, be positive and keep working and you will figure it out too!

So Brenda makes mention of a Reddit post criticizing WA which I have read.
It didn't bother me because, of course, nothing is perfect. Or everything to all people.
What I DO whole heartedly believe about WA is that WA is genuinely striving in an ethical, well-organized, and helpful manner to help people develop online businesses. And to do so, WA provides lots of instructive training/classes, useful tools, and as you have just perfectly exemplified ...
a helpful and supportive community.

I find all of these aspects of WA most beneficial (especially as someone nearer the beginning of the journey :)

Though your comment was not directed at me, you put a smile on my face with your encouraging words. Thank you for that.

Now ... off to jury duty ... Go democracy! ... Ugh ...

You're not even a paid member here, so your journey with WA has yet to start. SEO experts also lost their traffic when Google core updates happened. It is a fact everyone’s website will see volatile happenings in their website traffic. That's why it's best not to so depend on organic traffic for that reason. Most SEO experts are now focusing on social media to get clients.

I was a paid member in 2018 and during those time I switched to ecommerce the reason I cancelled my 2018 paid account.
I am not new to SEO and I exactly knew what you are talking about. Yes I am not a paid account yet but in 2018 I was and I have a 100% ideas about WA. Thank for your advice and I appreciate it. Yes social media and email marketing is the one to go to right now and I think Google will meet their competitors sooner or later. I am one of the Baby Boomers and I think I have seen it all (maybe) :).

Have a good day my friend:)

Jaime

I am a Baby Boomer, too! I came in 2019, so you left in 2018, so I didn't know you. I am one of those baby boomers who hates social media. I hate it; such a time-waster. I don't know why Google wants to mess with them. Social media is nothing but drama and a way to get people to stay on the platform and waste time there all day. Gaw, my 83-year-old mother loves Fakebook; she always stays there all day. Because she's lonely and many of her friends are gone, we've been watching her closely to ensure she doesn't fall for those scams that these elderly people get in trouble with.