6 Months Already And I'm Loving It!

byDaliborT

720 followers

6 years ago

Recently I noticed it has already been 6 months at Wealthy Affiliate. It passed so fast I didn't even notice.

Which is also a good thing and a bad thing.

A good thing because I was enjoying every step I made here and everything I did: create two websites, write content for them, learn how to write and how to style it, how to optimize it for SEO, how to rank at SERP, how to add ads and affiliate links, how to track progress and read charts at Google analytics, and SOOOOO much more!

And a bad thing because it is already six months and I haven't done as much as I wanted (or as much as I wished for).

Where I'm Now

Initially, I start with a fitness site. But somewhere along the way came Super Affiliate Challange (or SAC in short).

For those unfamiliar with, it is a course inside WA that solely focused on promoting Wealthy Affiliate. A task-based course is covering a different topic every 40 days. It is challenging, exciting, and definitely something worth investing your time in to boost your page ranking!

So, I decided to join SAC (and I was accepted, yey!) and devote my entire time to it. That ment creating a new website and leaving my first site on a temporarlly cool down. I knew I wouldn't have energy to focus on both sites at the same time. Not yet at least.

Here are the stats for SAC site from March 14th till September 12th.

I don't know how good those numbers are or are they under the expected stats,but hey, I am satisfied to see a constant flow of clicks and impressions.

As for the SERP, almost all articles have been indexed by Google, but apparently, Yahoo and Bing like my writing better than Google.

30 from 36 articles are on the first pages of Google, Bing, and Yahoo. I can only think others are somewhere on other sides lol.

Google

21 articles ranked on the first page of Google.

• Position 1 - 11 posts
• Position 3 - 3 posts
• Position 5 - 4 posts
• Position 6 - 1 post
• Position 8 - 1 post
• Position 10 - 1 post

Bing

28 articles ranked on the first page of Bing.

• Position 1 - 18 posts
• Position 2 - 3 posts
• Position 3 - 1 post
• Position 4 - 2 posts
• Position 8 - 1 post
• Position 9 - 2 posts
• Position 10 - 1 post

Yahoo

28 articles ranked on the first page of Yahoo.

• Position 1 - 21 posts
• Position 2 - 2 posts
• Position 3 - 2 posts
• Position 4 - 2 posts
• Position 8 - 1 post

I am delighted with these results. Last week Google approved my page for ads, but I decided not to put them as they could distract readers from the mission I am on, and that is promoting Wealthy Affiliate.

My network is currently at 493 (have to reach that 500 lol) and have written 22 posts (which is almost 1 per week).

Where Will I Be

I had enough time due to my injury (Tripple ankle fracture with fibula bone popping out upfront), so I could focus on learning. Soon I am getting back to my job, working three shifts, and my time will be limited, so I will have to be more organized and have more discipline when it comes to working on my business.

And if you think about the time, this is the most critical one. Not just for me, but for anybody that will come to this point (or have been).

Statistics have shown that most people quit what they were doing in around 5 to 7 months from the start. Why? Because they start to lack motivation somewhere along the way.

That is why it is essential to set small goals, the one you can reach on a daily bases, and long term ones.

My goals for the next 6 months are:

• reach the mark of 100 posts
• write 100k words by the end of this year
• write 1 blog inside WA per week
• improve my sentence structure
• use Canva more
• try and keep up with SAC tasks (close down the gap that I have)
• go through past posts and do interlinking
• analyze and find topics I could link to inside already written articles
• spend at least 30 minutes per day on chat and provide help or information
• answer at least two questions inside WA

As you can see, I have given myself a lot of goals. I'm sure more will be added as times go by. But also I am confident those will be thicked aswell.

My goals are realistic, definetly reachable. If I devote a few hours per day for it, all can be achieved. Small steps are necessary before I want to be able to jump.

And that's it. I hope I have inspired those that are yet to reach 6 months badge to stick to the training as you can see, the results don't lie and are reachable.

Also, those that have passed 6 months mark to continue to work hard on their business.

Tell me, what do you think? Are my stats ok for the 6 months? Should I add something more for my goals? Do you have any advice for my journey along the way? I always appreciate good advice for development.