What Can I Say?
Seven Months Today
Today marks my 7th month anniversary with WA and I am experiencing all those doubts like Kyle warned us about when we started our journey here at WA.
I was doing great the whole month of January until the last week keeping up with the daily tasks that were set for 2019 in December.
Then things started to fall apart lost my motivation and started to procrastinate about doing what needed to be accomplished on a daily basis.
During the past couple of days I have been checking traffic to my websites and yes I know that I should only be concentrating on one but with my mind this would never work by now I would have thrown in the towel and quit.
So I took a couple of screenshots to share with you all and was wondering if you had any suggestions on moving forward?
Pinterest Followers To Date After Two Months
Pins that have been followed the most and shared:
Website Traffic to Date On Both Google and Bing/Yahoo:
As everyone can see I am not breaking any records here and feel that I am doing something incorrect!
Researching
Last week on my blog I shared about a publication Search Engine Land with this I have been doing research and reading many articles which of course is taking away from my productivity.
With the research has brought about many questions about doing things the right way or wrong way with my online business.
Not that anything being taught inside WA is not 100% solid believe me it is you are never going to get this type of training anywhere on the internet.
This has more to do with my personal writing and how I am doing my websites whether I am doing them correctly or incorrectly to accomplish what I have set out to do.
Helping others has always been one of the greatest rewards in my life and here at WA I have tried to help other members as much as possible.
Doing this has always been gratifying and gives me a purpose in my life of feeling needed, as it may do for others.
But in doing all this research what I am finding is there seems to be something missing that I am leaving out along the way at certain places and I want to start over.
It is like writing essays for a class and when you half-way through and decide that what you have done is not what you wanted to do at all rip it up and start over.
Just curious if I am the only member that feels this way?
Work and Hours Wasted
Spending all the time I possibly can within the WA community learning and helping others today seems like so much work and time wasted on things that I have done wrong.
This learning curve is huge to say the least and if I could start over I think that maybe two websites would have been better than me expanding so quickly.
One subject is never enough to keep my mind going but two may have been plenty to make things easier to manage.
Listening to the people who have been here before us and walked this long road are the ones that all of us need to rely on.
Because of this I am going to be cutting back on working on all the websites that I have up now or possibly combining them to make things easier to manage.
What I am asking from the members here is for information on how I should proceed with working toward the goals that so many others are working toward?
Admitting Failure Time
Yes, I am ready to throw up the white flag and admit as much as I have tried to be successful in doing all that I can do the time has come to throw up the flag in defeat.
That seriously feels great to get out of my system! I have written a blog post of how the road to success if paved with failure and I can honestly say that mine sure is!
Not that I did not give it my all that is what I have always done with anything that I ever get involved doing just part of my makeup mind, soul, and heart.
This has been a long and hard road to failure and so much work but guess what today makes me feel so relieved that I can now say STOP this roller coaster and leave me off.
Below is a screenshot of my writing stats so you can see that I am not kidding when I say I gave it my all - the 2 unpublished articles are writing in progress for 2 of the websites.
In Closing
I would like to take this opportunity to tell Kyle I am sorry for trying to do something that was highly suggested against by him.
Also, I apologize to other members who tried to tell me to slow down and not get in over my head because now I see what they were saying!
For those of you just beginning listen to the members who were here before us and especially to the man who created this community and gave us the opportunity to learn all this!
What I neglected to do has now set me back months on things that I could be accomplishing right now if only I had listened to all of them - especially Kyle!
Saying I am sorry to them only makes me feel better because they already knew what the outcome was going to be - failure!
Moving forward I will be working just as hard but cutting back to make sure I am listening to the people who know exactly what they are talking about and not trying to get ahead faster than what I am able to do.
Research and more research has gone into this decision just so you all know and I will be more patient in dealing with the success that is yet to come my way!
Thank you all for taking the time to read my blog today praying some of you that feel you can handle it like I did listen to these words it took courage for me to write them!
Bless you all and best wishes now for all of 2019 and the future,
Susan
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Hi Susie
First don't be sorry don't apologize and never say it is your fault as you did nothing wrong.
You did what you felt was right at the time and that is a good thing.
That was meant to happen for your learning and now you are learning from there.
So there was nothing wrong in doing that.
You did nothing wrong
You have been a solid foundation to many including me. For that I thank you.
Many of us tend to burn candles from both ends and then some.
You know just the training alone takes a huge amount of time but worth every minute or hours more likely.
Think when you came here two important aspects were needed
1 learn about the training
2 withing that training you created a website and from there you enhance all that knowledge to get you where you are.
OK, you created more than one website and yes a lot of time is needed to focus on them.
You have been here helping many along the way which is wonderful but also know that the time has now come form your recent learning where you need to get back to basics and that is your website and any training that needs to be done.
There is nothing wrong in helping others here but you need YOU time and that is so very important and also why this post of yours became into being.
Pop in once in a while don't worry about ranking as you know your website brings you the money not ranking status here.
You will always be an ambassador regardless if you are no 3 or 3000003
So Believe in yourself and in all you do.
Enjoy all that you are doing
Do what you love and love what you do,
Strive to succeed and YOU will achieve
Just keep going forward SUSIE
Your friend and always here for you as well as others you know that.
Namaste
Andre
Andre,
Helping in WA is not really part of the problem it is I have
over extended myself for writing and keeping up with 5
websites - so what I have learned is never do this again!!
I am going to mess them together and end up with probably
only 2 but that is fine - just look at the mast amount of
information that those 2 websites are going to have ::))
Plus keeping up with the two of them is then going to take
less time and make it easier for me to do the training which
is where I want to be at this time - and I do not have time :(
Research has been taking a great deal of my time lately
I am finding so much useful information and I seriously
want to be putting this to use!
Thank you and I know that you of all the members here
have given me help and motivation and I appreciate this
more than you will ever know,
Love (E-Hugs) and will see you soon,
Your Friend,
Susie
We will Susie and look forward in hearing from you once more
You will always have us by your side
(E-Hugs) back
Just be yourself that is all that is needed
Andre
Hi Susan, there's no need to apologize.. don't be too hard on your self!
I echo Marion's comment below. I can only see 2 niches in all of your 6 websites.
As the famous proverb goes..
'When the going gets tough, the tough gets going'.
I know, you'll get through this Susan.
Cheers,
Marissa
Marissa,
Marion is absolutely correct and Marc and Craig both came up
with the best answers in the world - mess the sites - so I am
taking their advise - stand back regroup - reorganize -
re-evaluate - move forward!!
Is it going to take time sure is - time I could have saved IF I
would have listened to the experienced members and KYLE!
Thank you,
Susan
Hi Susan,
all your activity here has great potential - don't give up ever.
I would recommend to go through this great training from our fellow WA member Jerry: WA Bootcamp Hacks: How to Get More PREMIUM Referrals? Hope it will help you.
Wish you prosperous 2019!
All the best
Bob
Rob,
I am not giving up more like turning things around and making
them right - I made a terrible mistake not listening and now am
paying for it!!
So instead of quitting as a person who never quits I am going to
redo and do over again until I figure this all out - things are not
working so what do we do fix it!!
Thank you so much and I will just not be as community visible
until I get things fixed the way they should have been from the
beginning ::))
Thank you,
Susan
Hi Susan,
Your post will help many others who are thinking about creating multiple websites. However, I wouldn't say that you failed - it is a learning curve.
If you hadn't created these websites, you wouldn't have experienced what you now know.
Even with one website, we have many failures but in different ways which is also a learning experience.
For now, I would take the advice of Marc and Craig, forget about the past and look to the future.
Best wishes!
Jackie,
Thank you - oh I will be moving forward I do not
plan to quit - mostly this was the answer I was
looking for to take and either shut down some or
redirect to make the other sites better ::))
Thank you,
Susan
Susan, I'm going to stick my neck out and tell you that your website is boring, and so is mine. Who reads anymore? Your content is there, but your page, and mine, lacks pizzaz. I can think of two people that I follow, no, three who have relatively shallow content, but they have pizzaz. Their overall design is great, their photos illustrate their content with emotion, they have interesting capture pages. These three people are Babsy Rocks, who has studied advertising for years, Gary, who has a website on diabetes, can't find him among my friends right now and MThompson3, who doesn't have his site listed yet, but it's beautiful. Ok, I blog on health and I have observed that the most successful sites use small blocks of words in newspaper style, 2 column inches by 1 column inch, for example, or slides and lots of pictures and their arrangement of text and images is very artistic. It is visually pleasing, and the kicker is they ask for the sale. Oh! and let's not forget Smartketeer, a veritable genius. observe and analyze what they do. Hope I didn't hurt your feelings, but only the truth will set you free love.
Thanks, Teri, I only follow what Jay and Kyle say to do!
It is not my sites that bother me so much but the fact
that I have over extended myself working on them and
I just want something a bit different so I am going to
revamp ::))
And no you did not hurt my feelings!
Susie
Good, I'm glad. Good luck..We both need to sit down and make a plan of action. I'm going to write from ___to___, comment from ___to___. I get you Susan. You can do it and when you do, tell us how you did it 'cause I'm going to be all ears. Now, vamanos! Get to work on that blog girl. lol
Don't be too hard on yourself. I too have started way too many affiliate marketing websites. I've made enough to know that the process works, even if I forget important things like the reviews.
While it would have been nice to make more money on what was almost an obscene number of websites; I have enjoyed the learning journey. That is what I needed for me to learn. So, I have no regrets.
I joined at the end of 2016. Yet it seems like only this year have I truly begun to find my stride in both my online and offline business activities. It is like everything that I have been working towards the last four years is finally coming together.
So, just be proud to be who you are and what you have accomplished. This phase will pass.
Sondra,
Thank you so much for that - I am just wondering where I
would be IF I had listened LOL - stubborn Irish in me -
But this is how we must learn our way at this I am sure
so I am going to cut back on the websites and work on
probably only two - Marc and Craig both gave me the
great ideas to maintenance them or redirect the posts -
at least I have options ::))
Thank you so much,
Susan
Marley, forget about ranking high here at WA it doesn't earn you any money. It just makes you feel good and important.
So that has some value, sure, but it takes too much time away from the real work. Unless you are going for WA affiliation and Vegas, forget about ranking high in WA, it doesn't matter at all. At least that's my take!
Don't apologize to Kyle. Apologize to yourself for making a mistake and move on.
Pick the one website you feel most passionate about and focus on that alone.
Put the the others on maintenance (there is a plug in that shuts them down from google seeing them as inactive/unsupported and posts a nice maintenance message). You can always come back, enhance them, and ridirect them to your main site.
Just move the posts over to the new site by copying and pasting and get them all in one place. That's what I would do, someone also mentioned the 301 redirect, perhaps not a bad idea but you aren't really going to maintain those sites for now, just get them right out of your mind :)
cheers Marc
Marc,
When I wrote my blog in December I said being an
Ambassador did not matter to me and it does not I
love helping here at WA - and have been since then
through PM with members.
I just have to admit that doing the 5 websites is too much
spreads me too thin and doing the research over the
past couple of weeks I need a regroup and re-evaluation
of which direction to go.
Thank you and yes I am either going to do the redirect or
shut them down as you said for maintenance. Another
very good idea - you are awesome for bringing that to my
attention.
Thank you,
Susan
I get the impression you arent all that passionate about your sites but are very passionate about helping people.
Maybe you should dive in deep and find out exactly you are passionate about helping people do and do a website on that. Scrap the others.
The main mistake I made was picking a topic I wasn't passionate about, due to my own misidentification.
I thought about it a lot, scrapped two websites in nov and dec and started again. I didn't apologize for screwing that up but moved on and started from scratch in jan 2019.
You should be patting yourself on the back for identifying your errors. :)
Marc,
I like the websites I created but should have done only 2 one on my niche and one on promoting WA - this would have enabled
me the time that I would like to have remaining to do the other
things I seriously want to do helping here inside WA - so today
I took the day off!
Logged in at 8:30 pm and am cleaning up my email and messages then going to read a few blog posts and head to
bed for an early start tomorrow to see how I am going to
mesh the sites and make this the way it should be ::))
So for a time I am going to be absent from the community
eyes until I get finished what I should have been doing in
the first place!
Thank you so much for the time and all the help you have
seriously given me with answering what I should be doing
because now I really do have the answer I needed.
Very kind and thoughtful of you,
Susan
Absolutely my pleasure Susan, you are a terrific person and I wish you the best of success. I think your consolidation plan sounds really good! Marc
Sorry to hear that you have gotten to this point. You have always been so helpful and it is appreciated.
I am just starting and was thinking along your lines of starting a bunch of sites. I know you will find a way to make it workable and I appreciate everything in this post
Cheers!
Nate,
Take the advise of Kyle and the members who have been here
way before us - working more than one website is not only
hard but tiresome - keeping up with them has worn me out to
say the least and prior to having them all I was always here
12 to 18 hours a day!
Now I still spend that amount of time here but it all goes toward
working on the sites and trying to keep up with lessons and
research I have to admit I failed terribly - regroup time!
Thank you for reading,
Susan
We've all been there at one time or another.
Focus on what's working and let the rest go. If you have posts that are relevant to the sites you are keeping, you can do a 301 redirect and move them to your active site.
Don't give up, just change your focus.
Craig,
Thank you knew there was a way to move those posts
but did not remember how!
See by asking here we always receive the answers we
need you are so awesome thank you,
Susan
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Well , Susan what an amazing accomplishment thats like a post per day not including all the other stuff ,
I feel embarassed at how little i have done compared to what you have done .
I started this wa adventure with a 2 year goal of hopefully making some decent money .
I knew I could not write a post a day maybe one a week but I have a job that sometimes takes up a lot of my time so its hard for me to put down something that is not good and yet after over 6 months I have a crappy site when I look at others but I have a young man who I will be seeing this week to help me make my site look more professional, hopefully .
I have no traffic however I have written reviews on restaurants ,hotels etc over the last 2 years and google last month informed me that I have had over 8,000 views on my reviews and now its at 9,000 views and climbing.
So maybe I should start a site called John's reviews but one wa member i private nessaged said i would be competing with google but i dont know why cause its the restaurant etc. that people click on not google .
I will have to contact kyle about this for a final say or maybe other people at wa can give a helpful comment.
So, you are doing great at least you have some views maybe not that many for all the work you have put out.
Maybe just concentrate on 2 sites and see how that works and mabe it will take another year ?
I have read where some people have had success after 2 years, like really good money.
Maybe after all the work you have done that sounds like a long way off but there are a lot of sites out there !
I know years ago when I got into real estate sales they told us you may not see any money for 3 to 6 months and i saw a lot of people quit in the first year.
Luckily for me i made pretty good money in the furst 3 1/2 months i made $16,500.00 when you could buy an old house in vancouver east for about $24,000.
So, i bought a house and a 6 year old jaguar ! I was living the dream .
Unfortunately years later i lost and made a lot of money but still managed to come on top and living a 1/2 decent life.
So aim high hope for the best but expect the worst and keep a positive attitude at all times , as Charlie Chaplins song ssys smile !!!
Sorry Susan for the long message hope it helps a bit .
All the best !!!
John,
Thank you - but had I listened I would not be working this hard
and would have more time to do the amount of posts that are
required to keep going - so I am going to mess the websites
together as soon as I figure out how and end up with only 2
websites which are going to more manageable and worth
more information!
I am going to reorganize and re-evaluate all I am doing and
in the end hope that this will fix the error of my way!
By writing this if I keep just one member from doing what I did
then I did the right thing in writing it ::))
Thank you for all the support you have shown me since you
joined WA - I think you and your wife are some really great
people,
Susan
Any support i can relay your way just ask ok :-)