Progress Report April 2019
Published on May 1, 2019
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Slowly Ticking Along.
April has been a slow month for me.
I'm here for the long game, and this month has been all about keeping things ticking along when I just really didn't want to do ANYTHING.
What were my goals and expectations going into this month?
My goal was to keep it simple, and focus on content.
Even though I was feeling emotionally depleted, I kept my usual monthly goal of:
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- Eight helpful information only articles of around 1000 words each
- Three review posts with affiliate links of around 2500-3000 words each
- Two "best of" style posts with affilate links around 5000-6000 words each
- Four WA webinars
I constantly need to remind myself that although I feel like I am working very hard on this site, I have only been adding content to it and working on it for four months. I really have to check myself to make sure my expectations are realistic, I find writing them here helps. My expectations for April were:
- Zero traffic to continue
- Zero profitto continue
What has the month actually been like?
Turns out I just have not had the energy to put as much into my site as I had in previous months.
Is it burnout?
Is it emotional strain from the other stuff that's happened?
Is it wanting quick results (that I know aren't realistic)?
It's probably a combination of all those things, a dangerous cocktail which can lead to people giving up. I was so acutely aware of this I had to totally revise what I did on my site with the absolute minimum goal of being consistent with content creation, whatever that looked like.
I decided I would reduce posts to twice a week, and watch a webinar when the mood struck me.
I achieved:
- Five info only articles of 1000 words (one per week)
- Three reviews with affiliate links of 2500-3000 words
- One "best of" style post
- Two WA webinars
- My website hit 50 posts, which was a cool number to see.
As expected, I have not seen any profit from the site yet.
I HAVE started to see a very slow trickle of organic traffic starting to arrive at my site. It's about one organic visitor per day at the moment, but hey, that's better than none. Things can only keep improving!
What are my plans for May?
I'm keeping things low key again for May. I don't want to put pressure on myself so I am aiming to maintain posting twice per week.- Four helpful information only articles of around 1000 words each
- Three review posts with affiliate links of around 2500-3000 words each
- One "best of" style posts with affilate links around 5000-6000 words each
- Four WA webinars (I'm looking forward to the Spring Hotseat!)
What are your plans for this month?
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