Just out of curiosity, Michael, how many quality posts do you have?

Jeff

The purpose of your niche website is to get traffic first. We see you are in a financial bind so it is impossible not to think of need sales.

But, Whatever your niche is help people with it. What are the problems associated with your niche? Present solutions to these problems and then you can link to products that solve the problem.

Learn Questions People Ask About Your Niche.
https://www.usetopic.com/people-also-ask
Use tools like the following to see questions you can address for your niche.
https://soolve.com https://answersocrates.com https://usetopic.com/people-also-ask and Google search scroll down and find "People also ask section" or use Quora.com
you can also use ahrefs.com/keyword-generator (do not sign up for trial. use the center section to search on your keyword phrase then see a questions tab)

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My suggestion would be to focus on quality posts.

The more time you put into your business, the more you’ll get out of it.

I’m starting over for the third time and I’m making sure I do something of quality everyday.

Hang in there! You can do this !!

Dave

The initial focus is traffic. So before you start thinking too much about the revenue component, you need to be focused on traffic...getting rankings in Google initially, you can leverage social mediums for traffic, etc.

It is usually around month 3-6 that you will start to see some breakthroughs in search.