April Monthly Report- 60 Referrals, 13 Premium

Let's get straight to the stats then (just for you Derek!)... there's been a 2,733% increase in traffic from Google in 6 months!
- SEO traffic- 17,129 (up from 6979... over 140% increase)
- New posts- 17 (12 reviews- 8 written by Jomar my amazing new writer I hired using Jerry's amazing training https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/hiring-writer-like-a-pro-even-if-youve-never-hired-before)
- Total posts- 252
- Words written- not tracked... a lot changed this month and I don't have all the numbers
- Refs- 60 (39 last month)
- Upgrade- 13 (7 last month)
- Recurring- 14 (15 last month)
- * Annual upgrades- 1
Things are still progressing nicely and it's intersting to see where this website can get to. You hear it all the time... the Make Money Online niche is SUPER competitive. It's not easy to do well in this niche at all
Lessons
1. It really is clear how writing certain reviews seem to convert more than others. It just makes sense...
- If you write a review on a high paying similar affiliate marketing course and then offer WA as an alternative more people may convert.
- If you write a review on a free survey site, the person reading it probably has no money and is looking for a quick way to make a quick buck... WA is not right for them
2. Track things!!
It's so easy to track how many words you wrote in an article when you are hitting publish. It's much harder to go back through 15 articles to find the word count.
These kinds of numbers help to hold you accountable and see the progress you are making.
I just use a simple Google sheets with the things I want to track and it helps with keyword research and planning content etc.
3. Anyone can hire someone. It's really not as hard as it sounds and once you actually get your head around sites like onlinejobs.ph you realise the potential there. You can hire someone to do small tasks for you or to work full time.
How was your April? Is there anything else you'd like to know?
P.S. my other website has started getting some decent traffic from Pinterest. I have only written 20 articles on starting it in Oct '19. I have done nothing to it (literally) since January and this has happened...
If you are struggling along in the MMO niche, consider starting another one... MMO is really tough (but clearly can work) and I don't think enough people talk about that here! I especially think MMO is tough for newbies as they have no income proof or proof that things work to build trust with the readers #justmyopinion
Congrats and thanks for sharing your success and tips. You mentioned Mediavine in other comments, and you'll have to double check this because I'm not absolutely positive, but I think one of the conditions is you have to be in good standing with Google Adsense before they'll accept your site. So you might have to go that route first.
Best to you going forward,
Stella :-)
If it is important to you, Word Count plugin (free) will tell you how many words you wrote and when.
Before your eyes pop out...with Thrive it counts twice so you need to half the numbers something to do with one editor working on top of the other and the plugin counting the content twice.
Those are really tremendous figures Mike, it is so funny as you get a serious spike in traffic I do too.
But not as much as you have.
Again you are an outstanding example of the importance of getting good conversion rate and teh difference that really makes.
Traffic: 13,990 (790.52% Increase on 6 months ago).
Starter Referrals: 73
Upgrades: 4!. - need to pull my socks up here should be 2x that at least!.
That is pretty wild traffic from Pinterest, kudos!.
Did you manage to find away of tracking specific articles and their traffic using GA?
I’ve been testing to see if I need to add another niche to my site in order to get good results and I’ve tested with subniches people on pinterest would like but that won’t be completely off topic either.
I think that’s the way to go. Unfortunately posts that do well on Pinterest don’t always do well in Google. Have you noticed that? Either way, Pinterest can drive massive amounts of traffic so I think it’s still a good idea to write content for Pinterest even if it doesn’t work as well on Google.
I think if you want to do well on social media, you have to make the transition at some point from SEO content to a mix of social media content and SEO content.
What do you think?