Ninth Month of WA - Mixed Feelings

This month has been full of mixed feelings. A little bit of regret and anxiety from some of my sites, but eye-opening experiences and confidence boostings for my other site.

Here's last month post if you want to read it: Eight Month of WA - Progress?

Let's get into the bad news first.

KAZSMoney

After getting comments asking me how much money I've made off a certain program and watching videos that list out all the reasons why I shouldn't have the fake it to make it mindset, I realized that I am not suitable currently to write in the make money online niche. The main reason being, that even the products that seem like they're good and do have people that have gotten success from them such as Wealthy Affiliate, I just can't offer my personal experiences to help readers out.

Thus some of my posts may be deemed incaccurate and not suitable as a review and from the feeling of not being able to help others with this site, I have only written two posts on this site for this month.

So I'm in a slight dilemma right now. I'm thinking of maybe restarting on another site after I've made money in other niches but then all the hard work I put into buying the domain name and writing all those posts would go to a waste.

But after some time, I decided I'm going to leave the site for now until I make money on other sites and then come back to write about those experiences. I will also revise some of the reviews and posts despite it taking a lot of work.

Clear Learner

This is my site where I'm experimenting with a broader niche. At the core, it's based on education, more specifically, methods of getting really good at school and such but it does have plans of being involved in many subjects such as history, math, computer science, etc.

It's like a school basically.

Like KAZSMoney, I have written very little on the site this month. However, it's not like KAZSMoney where I can't really write anything, in this site I do know what I can write and I do have plans for how I want to grow this site.

I want to make a huge database of articles teaching certain topics and then build apps or courses that people can use to get better at, for example math, and then link to these articles if they need extra help.

This way I can help people pass their next exam or learn something new and make money. I can make the app or course cost money or make money through affiliate links that lead to supplementary textbooks or courses.

Of course, it's a huge task and something I probably won't be able to do myself. Luckily, I have a few people helping me to make this happen.

First, I need to write the posts.

Some Other Websites

I spent a lot of time this month reading and learning about different businesses and marketing techniques. Some things really blew my mind on what I could do and made me realize that I can revive some of my dead sites from the past.

So when I get the time, I will try different methods in the name of experimenting and see if I could get my old sites up again and making money to diversify my income.

Get Good At Badminton

My main focus this month was my badminton site. The first site I created with Wealthy Affiliate.

It started out strong when I first got into Wealthy Affiliate but I slowly lost the motivation to write due to school and work. And thus I was putting out one post per month versus one post every day from the summer months.

I'm glad to say that I am fully back on track now with even more motivation and ideas on how to grow my site. I'm still occasionally missing a day of posting but it has never been streaks of no posts. I have definitely improved my consistency of getting posts out.

And it's paying off.

I'm proud to say that every single one of my posts on Get Good At Badminton is indexed on Google and I have many posts high in the rankings.

Traffic growth has been crazy. I am now averaging 40 users from organic search results only (although social media doesn't make much of a difference) which is double the amount from last month! Like a bad day for this site now is about 20 users compared to a few months ago where 0 to 1 users plagued the site.

There is a problem though. This traffic isn't necessarily translating into money for the site. Although I do consistently get about 3 cents per day from Adsense, it isn't anything to change my life. I have still yet to make my first affiliate commission as well.

I'd say the biggest problem with this site is Amazon. I often found that the products I review are overpriced on Amazon (almost double or quadruple in some cases) or Amazon is plain missing the product or customizability options. It really turns readers off as I am getting clicks to the links but no sales.

I have thought of another to monetize my site and that is through email marketing with bigger commission products or building my own course. Building the course is definitely another big task but I am slowly accomplishing it.

I also need to get on YouTube ASAP. It would benefit my blog so much and help increase my ability to help readers. So that's another in progress thing.

Speaking of social media, things have improved since last month, specifically for Pinterest and Instagram. I honestly love these two for their organic reach. My Pinterest is now sitting at 8.5K monthly viewers as opposed to 4k from last month. This hasn't done much in terms of traffic to my website though which is unfortunate.

If anyone is reading this, I have looked a little into Tailwind and Pinterest automation. Has anyone had noticeable increases in traffic in their website after using this?

Instagram is also much like Pinterest. It lacks in website clicks (although I get a bit more clicks than Pinterest) but the amount of people on my account has grown. I am now at 83 followers to 54 posts and following 6 as opposed to 8 followers to 22 posts from last month.

I also noticed that the amount of likes on my posts have increased quite significantly from averaging 4 to a few hundred. I think it's mainly due to a change in what hashtags I am using.

And just to note, I have not spent any money on growing these social sites at all.

Facebook and Twitter has been problematic. My posts on both sites always sit at around 0-1 likes and followers haven't grown at all. Unfortunate but it is what it is.

Conclusion

Thanks WA members for reading this! As for the next month, I will spend more time continuing to increase the amount of content I can put out and try to make those affiliate commissions. Cross my fingers...

Have a great day everyone!

EDIT: A lot of this is documentation of what's been happening and random ideas being listed down. I am following Kyle and Carson's training and I do understand the time and dedication needed. Most of the ideas or experimentation projects I mention in here are meant for the future after I do well with one site first.