5 Months Here at Wealthy Affiliate!

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My Progress Thus Far!

Hello my friends here in WA! I am so excited to share with you my 5 month progress. I have learned so much and thanks to all of you, I am really enjoying this community of colleagues who have been vital to my success!

I have finished the 50 lesson Certification Course and I have 15% of the entrepreneur course finished!

I have made much progress in building a viable niche website. I have written 27 blog posts for my website, Outdoor Patio Misters.

I have written a total of around 38,000 words, which site content says I have written more than 97% of WA members this month! I am proud of that.

My website, Outdoor Patio Misters, seems to be somewhat of a seasonal niche. With the advice from the WA Community, I have been branching out to include outdoor living spaces as part of my niche.

I bought another domain that describes things better, but I haven't changed it yet and I am not sure I will. I am getting indexed and so far have 2 rankings on Google with my newer content that is more inclusive of outdoor living spaces.

What I Have Learned (Some Of It, Anyways!)

I have learned a lot so far and I guess, making mistakes are an opportunity for growth! I have made plenty of them, that's for sure.

I had a mess for a while with permalinks and post titles that I changed for better SEO but didn't change the permalink. It has taken me a while to sort it all out as I have had many, many 404-not found errors.

I have learned how to use the plug-in, "Redirection". We are now the best of friends!

Another important thing I have learned is that this community always comes through when help is needed! I have asked many questions along the way and I am repeatedly so grateful and impressed by WA members who always pay it forward by helping others out.

What a fantastic community!

Question For Your Consideration

I have not made any money yet which is fine but I am wanting to know if any member here who has it down (making money online) would allow me to read some blogs from your site, for insight.

If you are willing to share, please pm me your website information. I would be forever grateful to you as I feel like I need some examples of success related to sales.

Another piece of the pie that I want to know more about is how to get backlinks. I have read many many articles about it and I am still in the dark about how to garner them.

I would like to hear of some examples of successful ways to do so without buying them or begging for them.

I Am Proud Of

I am proud of a lot, but the top thing is that I have been able to keep moving forward after some setbacks. I am determined to keep going! It's become a joy and a challenge to write content and to keep answering what readers want to know in my particular niche.

I have benefited from all of the training surrounding writing relevant content and I feel like I am just getting going. I have so many ideas!

My plans And Goals In The Upcoming 3 Months

I want to fine-tune my content to really connect with my readers. I would like to be able to garner more organic searches and increase my traffic.

I can feel something changing, and I am on a mission to continue to write relevant content and improve my writing skills.

    I also have a goal of increasing my content by doing 7 post/pages of Review and 8 pages/posts of regular keyword blog posts.

    I will finish enterepreneur training at the end of 3 months.

    6 Month Down The Road (around April 2022)

    I have a goal of writing 60 articles in total. That's 30 more articles.

    15 post/pages will be Review and 15 will be regular keyword posts/pages.

    I know that I can do this! I have found that I enjoy writing reviews of products and the feedback that I am receiving is to add more.

    I shall do more reviews and continue to search out what people want to know in my niche area.

    I thank you all for reading my progress report and any feedback private or otherwise that you want to give me is desired.

    Your colleague and friend,

    Erlene



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      Well done Erlene! You have made such a great progress and it's really good to see how motivated you are and that writing new content brings you some joy :)
      For me it's just about 4 months since joining WA, but so far I have written only 11 posts. I think I am getting distracted by trying to too too many things, i.e. going through training, classes, reading blogs, improving the way my website looks... Anyway, I wish you all the best and keep going forward!

      Dorota

      We are all on our own journeys here! I always tell my kids, “comparison is the thief of joy”, which I believe we all have things to feel joy about as long as we aren’t comparing ourselves to others! Thanks for your kind words.


      Hi Erlene, doing WA business is not all about money, I believed we need here passion in order to reach our goal of success, which we can consider as a monetary achievement. most of the mentors here acquired their income, not before 12months. so we need to consider those pieces of information

      Isabelo :-).

      Thanks Isabelo! My best to you also!

      Erlene

      Hi Erlene. Keep up the good work, and keep enjoying yourself!

      Guest posting is a good way to get backlinks. I haven't done it yet but am planning to. Good backlinks are so valuable. But you obviously know that. I hadn't been focused on them for quite awhile, so thanks for the reminder...

      Craig

      Thank you! I appreciate you mentioning guest posting!

      Best regards,
      Erlene

      Jay just did a video series on the seasonal niche. If you look on your dashboard, you may still see one of the seasonal videos. Click on it and start from the first one. This may help to give you ideas.

      You've succeeded where many have failed, congratulations!

      J
      Keep doing what your doing!

      Rudy

      Rudy,
      I appreciate your encouragement and your kind words. Thanks for being an important contributor to Wealthy Affiliate.

      Erlene

      You're welcome, and thank you for saying so.

      Rudy

      Erlene, you have so much to be proud of. Wow--more than 97% of the WA members in this month? That's fantastic!!

      Keep it up, girl--you've got this!

      Margaret

      Thanks Margaret! I am so grateful for all of you here with me at WA!

      Yes, ma'am. And now Onward and Upward!

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