Small Website So Far - If this can make money, yours can too

This post is all about facts and figures, no fluff, here we go - 22 posts, none of them are more than 1500 words, the first four articles suck and get no traffic, in fact I didn't even bother putting affiliate links in them. I say they suck because of the type of keywords I picked, they have brand names in them, so the first page is hugely dominated by big sites. Started the site in 2017, and have been horrible at writing articles as you might guess...22 articles since 2017. Why? Because I didn't believe. Why didn't I believe? Because they were several authority sites in the niche (this is a reason to do it by the way - just find the low competition keywords).

So I decided to just do it for fun. Now the site makes money every single month and get this - I have not written an article since October last year however November made money $31, December made money $38 and January so far is about $31. What would have happened if I just had faith and stopped fearing the authority sites, and kept my foot on the gas...would probably have 200 articles by now.

Anyway, back to info - why is this little site so "succesful" thus far..the type of keywords...product reviews, best "keyword" for "y". Those articles get most of the traffic and sales on the site. Alot of the sales are actually other stuff the people buy within the 24 hr cookie, well about 50% actually. Why am I telling you all of this...well to help anybody who is on maybe their 1st article, or second article or tenth or fifteenth article and haven't made a dime yet..pick some "best product for y" keywords e.g. "best watch for diving" , keep doing reviews, and keep the brand names out of your keywords..e.g. "best rolex for diving" may be harder to rank than "best luxury watch for diving". As soon as you use a brand name, without review or that kind of word in the keywords, you are nose diving into heavy competition. I think that is it.

So what's the plan? To get to 100 articles without outsourcing. I did everything on this site following the steps in the Online Entrepenuer Course, (except the social media part - it's all SEO), all the articles etc. - everything. Many of you are probably doing much better than me at writing, being an engineer I like numbers but, we all must adapt and stop being defined by one thing or another, we can do what is needed.

Good luck to all the people in the early stages of your site. You will make money, as long as you don't stop. See my earnings below for 2019 not alot of money but I hope you get the main message - be patient (but write articles at a faster rate than I did for sure)