What I've been up to all this while
It's really been quite a long while since I last posted here, and I thought it timely to now give an update of all that has been happening in my online journey.
Since joining WA in Feb 2018, I spent my first 9 months here working on my website in a health niche related to my kids' health condition, wanting to just pour my insights, experience and knowledge about healing naturally onto my blog, to help people in the same shoes. It wasn't really meant for monetizing, as I mainly promoted natural products that are cheap and can be found easily off supermarket shelves, like apple cider vinegar, dead sea salt, and stuff like that.
But what amazed me was the free organic traffic. Nothing to boast about, I know, with just 150 visitors per day. Yet it showed me that the training at WA absolutely works! I had zero experience in setting up websites, in fact I consider myself quite a dinosaur when it comes to any techy stuff. And yet with what WA teaches, I could actually own my very own website, and actually get targeted visitors landing on it, achieving the goal of helping those who need it most!
It was then, in Nov 2018, that I decided to start promoting WA, and hence my 2nd website, which is 7 months old now. In this time, I wrote 200 blog posts, each targeting a low hanging fruit when it comes to keyword, and each being complete and comprehensive in itself that will hopefully add immense value to my readers. These are the exact stuff that WA teaches.
And guess what, my organic traffic just hit 600 today, in just one day! It's super exciting. It's not to brag, but to show that just by following the training here at WA, implementing it, and sticking with it, you are going to see some unbelievable results!
If you are new here at WA, I hope this article assures you that the training here works, but it takes time to see results. Complete the training, implement whatever you learn as you go along, and keep on creating content, while staying patient to see results.
Have a nice day ahead, everyone!
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200 posts in 7 months! Your traffic is well deserved, Joo! Keep up the amazing work and thanks for sharing your insights.
Hi James, thanks for your encouragement!
I find that setting effort goals works perfect for me, because I just have to work like a crazy horse to achieve it, while the other half of the time I'm a crazy mum to my kids.
Setting results goals, on the other hand, is a bit scary for me, because that's not as much within my control. So as long as I put in my best effort, I'll just keep the faith that results will come. :-)
Joo, I love the distinction you've just made!! I'm recently re-working my list of goals for exactly this reason...
I keep reading about goal setting and how important it is (I think we all know the obvious benefits), but I find it very stressful to set results-oriented goals that are outside of my control. It might be the perfectionist inside of me that's stressing me, which is another thing I need to work on.
For example, I can write 100 blog posts in a few months, but I cannot guarantee 10k monthly traffic. As a matter of fact, I don't think anyone can guarantee results! All we can do is try our best, and that's why I find effort goals more productive.
However, I've never thought about it in terms of effort goals and results goals. I'm gonna use your definition in the future, I hope that's okay with you :D
James, just use it! It’s not mine, I didn’t register for a trademark. ;-)
I’m happy it helped!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts here too!
Thanks for sharing your insights and findings - and congratulations! Well done. Keep up the good work!
Thats brilliant Joo well done.
Inspiring for me to as I am also a dinosaur when it comes to anything remotely IT related and started my site becuase like you it was a passion about health.
It's not really meant for monetising as the products, like yours, are all off the shelf cheap products although I have sold some books and a few minor bits and pieces on Amazon.
Last month my traffic was just over 1200 visits (about 40 a day) and the site is already 6 months old.
Last month in May I started a new site to promote WA. It is just over 6 weeks old and I have managed 20 posts but so far no organic traffic and only started getting impressions in the last few days.
If I can match your organic traffic of 600 visitis by month 7 I would be ecstatic
Well done again.
Kevin
Hi Kevin, you will get there. I started from zero traffic too, everyone started out that way. Stick with it and you will see results.
You have a good heart. Continue to genuinely help people and add value to them, and the search engines will reward you for it.
I have the luxury of working full time hours on this since I started the 2nd website promoting WA. 8hrs a day: 5 in the morning while my kids are in school and 3 more at night after they go to bed. So depending on the hours you are able to put in, it may take different time periods to get to the same results. But you will get there, that’s for sure.
Thats brilliant Joo
My hours vary. I only work 16 hours a week as a teaching asssitant (but somehow always seem busy!).
I want to maintain my first site as well so my aim is 20 posts per month. That will probably be 5 or 6 on my old site and 14 or 15 on the new site which I just managed last month.
Is your traffic all seo organic or are you using social media as well and if so what platforms?
Hi Kevin,
I was teaching too, before I became a stay at home mum. :-)
I used to do a bit of Pinterest, it did drive traffic, but nothing beats organic ones from search engines. So right now, it’s zero social media for me as I tend to get distracted once I get on social media. Just burying my head and fervently churning out content, day in, day out. With the 200 posts done this year, mainly review posts, that’s where all the organic traffic comes from.
Just to give you an idea, yesterday’s traffic was 600+ from just organic. Another 40+ from direct as I have an autoresponder sequence for people signing up to my email list. 20 from social media, not from my own sharing but readers’ I guess.
If you have a preferred social media platform through which you can see results, then go ahead to promote your site on there. But stick with one platform at the start, focus is important, otherwise your efforts may become too scattered to see results.
For me, I truly believe in seo, it is the most powerful thing. So I just work on seo-ed content and nothing else.
Hi Joo
Thanks for your response. I was the same on my niche site trying to do FB, Twitter and Pinterest and was spending more time on there than writing.
I still tweet occasionally and add new posts to FB and Pinterest but thats it now. Thats why I was trying to decide what to do with my new site but I think at the moment it will be 100% focus on content
Can I ask what you use for your email list? I have mailchimp on my niche site although all I have is sign up widget and I really wanted to add a pop up and offer a free give away but am struggling to figure it out
I think on an MMO site mailchimp isn't so good so in the comeing months I will have to decided which route to go.
Have a great day
Kevin
Hi Kevin,
I did hear that sites in the MMO niche tend to get the dislikes of Mailchimp. I'm using ConvertKit, it's more expensive than the other very popular one which is Aweber. I chose Convertkit because I read about its higher deliverability, and it is super simple to use, when setting up the rules for email sequences, and tagging people. I started using it when I had barely 20 organic visitors a day. I find that it helps to retain more readers, without which they may just land on the site one time, and leave, and I'll never hear from them again.
But of course take your financial readiness into consideration, bearing in mind that an investment in an autoresponder may not pay off right from the start.
Hope this helps. You have a great day too!
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I know that dinosaur feeling. I'm still that feeling!
But look at what you did, and how you persisted every day, no matter what,
Guess that's why I'm here tonight to let that consistency and focus meld into my brain, and the putting together of a website.
Thank you Joo so much, you also didn't write alot of stuff over here, rather you put it into your websites where it will eventually set you free!
You have greatly inspired me to " get er done!" Which is to start over.
Hope to talk to you soon!
Suzay
Suzay, I'm so touched that you are looking through my older posts. And I'm very happy that it has inspired you.
Yes it's all about taking action. It doesn't have to be perfect, it never will be. Just write a piece and publish it, one step at a time. As you keep doing it, you will get better. You will learn to read your audience, and write in a way that will really speak to their hearts. But without actually doing and then making mistakes along the way, it will be impossible to reach that point.
But don't stress yourself. Health is much more important than this.
I'm still learning, every single day. Looking at the bounce rate on my site, the conversion rates, thinking about email sequences, etc. and trying to optimize everything. It's really a marathon, and I've gained so much from two years back when I found WA.
Yup I'm guilty of not blogging as much as I want to here. With the few hours I have each day when the kids are in school, I write fervently on my site, haha. When they return home, I'm too busy stopping them from murdering one another. I try to get some more done after they go to bed, if I'm not brain-dead by then.
You can do this, Suzay. Take action and watch the miracles unfold.