When Traffic Falls Apart: How to Celebrate All Events Equally
Updating You on My Progress
Hey, friends. I have chosen to be updating you always about my business at Wealthy Affiliate, both when things are good and when things are not so good. From the 16th of February to the 19th of the same month in 2025, my traffic suddenly skyrocketed. I later found out it was because one article was generating up to 5K impressions and hundreds of clicks per day.
When Traffic Falls Apart
Today 20th February 2025, things went back to the old normal. That means low traffic, low ads revenue. However, I am here to celebrate both events equally, simply because the fact that things went well for at least four days in a row means they can go well again any time sooner or later, and even better.
That's hope.
This is a lesson for me that one piece of content could bring in so much traffic, resulting in earnings from all my four channels. But things can also go wrong, or the traffic could just go down to hundreds of impressions or dozens of clicks a day, and that's just fine.
My Four Proven Systems
Just to remind you if you are new to my blog, I have four proven income-generating systems for 2025 and beyond. I am working on these systems every day. Today when the sites were down, I was busy searching for free organic traffic sources for my website(s). Why did I do this? I do this because I have seen that traffic means money.
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My 4 Proven Income-Generating Systems in 2025
#1: Wealthy Affiliate (WA). This is my core, my roots, my anchor and source of my online business. I use Wealthy Affiliate to host and build niche websites for my three main niches, one of them being Affiliate Marketing where I directly promote WA. The second niche is Books Reviews where I write book reviews under ten different topics/series I care and write about. The final niche is Self-Help and Personal Development where I write about skills.
#2: Google AdSense (GA). Oops, I almost call it Google Analytics. No, it's called AdSense. I don't know why it's not just called Google Ads. Maybe because there is another product/service of the same name? GA comes in handy when you have a steady traffic to your website(s) where you can run ads and earn an income from that traffic. That's what I was seeing soaring in the last four days where I started to earn from €1/day to €4/day for the first time. Before this, I was seeing about €0.02-0.05/day.
#3: Amazon Books (AB). This is my primary way of earning money online, but I made it the third income-generating system for a reason. The reason is that WA is the #1, while GA is #2 in the list. When I build a niche website (WA), and drive traffic to it (GA), that traffic might decide to buy my Amazon Books from my website (AB). You see the logic? That's how it works.
#4: YouTube Ads (YA). This is my fourth income-generating system because when people visit my website(s), they might also decide to visit my YouTube channel and vice versa. YA is another way for me to generate traffic as well as earn additional income. For now, I have over 900 more subscribers to make before running ads on this platform, but with planning and determination, I will one day be posting here about my progress, showing earnings.
Finally
I would like to encourage both of us, you and me, that we need to develop that gratitude mindset and character for both good and bad days. The fact that things were bad and then suddenly became better and then bad again means no situation is permanent. Even my separation from a toxic relationship might not be permanent. I don't currently want anything to do with the old relationship or a new one. However, things might change sooner or later.
Choose a niche. Select a program, product or service to promote. Create content about it. Drive traffic to that content. Track and optimize the content and your strategies accordingly. By doing these tasks consistently, you will surely reap the rewards, one day.
Stay tuned as I will soon update you about my progress for my online business, just to keep you inspired. Know that when things go wrong, when things fall apart for you, they might be falling apart for everyone else, even if they are not talking about it. Be patient. Keep going, upward and forward only!
To our success,
John
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Thanks for sharing John! Sudden spikes in impressions and traffic can happen if a piece of content goes viral overnight... then they can disappear just like that!!
It's all part of the game my friend... sounds like you are on the right track though!! :-)
Thank you so much, my friend Jessie for this encouragement. Yes, I am prepared for this. I was not expecting the €4/day earning. It went back to €0.17/day, and now it's even €0.00.
It's a sure sign that this business is real and working. One day, I'll wake up with 100,000 hits/€100,000.
John
You're most welcome John! Ups and downs are normal in this business.... keep on doing what you have been doing and I'm sure that the ups will outnumber the downs my friend! :-)
John, I appreciate you sharing both the highs and lows. That traffic spike must have been exciting, and I get why the drop is frustrating. But it shows it’s possible and can happen again—maybe even bigger next time. Focusing on the long game and steady improvements is the way to go. Looking forward to your next update!
Best,
Boris
Hi John,
I have said it before and I will say it again: You are such an inspiration and I learn a lot from you. You are one, among others from WA family which motivate and make me push forward because with hard work and dedication the results will come.
I am following your journey and please continue sharing your success and failures as well.
Best,
Maria
Thanks a lot, Maria for these kind words. Let's push on together, holding hands, virtually.
John
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The drop must have been a disappointment, but as others have said, if it has happened once, it is likely to happen again.
It makes me wonder if you happened to hit on a topic that is especially relevant at this time. If so, you could see if you can write an article on the same topic to see what the reaction is.
Wishing you lots of success. Your updates are very motivational.
Isabella
Good idea, Isabella, I've already written several articles on the same topic, but the traffic is still down. Down to 500 impressions instead of 4K/day now for the last two days in a row. Not sure what's going on here.
John