12 Month Progress Report For My Site - How To Create Online Wealth

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It's been almost a year since I set up my website on How To Create Online Wealth. com (Now Deleted!) and has been a long journey because the site has had it's ups and downs during that time.

I'm going to share with you, both the successes and minor setbacks I've experienced along the way that will help to inspire and educate you as you focus on building your own website throughout 2015 and onwards.

Success is all about the journey that takes you to where you need to be, and from the obstacles I've overcome on my own journey, I believe this to be true!

Firstly, I will start with the Failures (minor setbacks)


  • Although every piece of our content we create is naturally full of keywords, I didn't fully grasp the idea of keyword research and was therefore creating my content around keywords that kinda didn't make sense for months.
  • I had stuffed many of my posts with affiliate links and focused less on internally linking my posts. I guess I was being a little too greedy, haha.
  • I didn't create a real business plan of action or follow Kyle's advice on creating more product reviews either. I guess I was just coasting along and publishing plenty of quality content (which is a good thing) and hoping for the best.
  • And then to make matters even worse, somehow I accidentally sent over 1,000+ (Approved) blog post comments to the trash folder (without noticing for at least 2 weeks). I reckon it had a minor impact on my rankings too. By the way, you can restore any comments in your trash folder.

So I went back through Kyle's training from the beginning and corrected all the mistakes I had made above, which helped to improve the site's rankings. However, 8 months had passed by this point (LOL).

TIPS:

  1. Follow all of Kyle's training and don't miss one single step.
  2. Always do your keyword research properly.
  3. Write plenty of good quality product reviews.
  4. Don't stuff your posts with affiliate links as Google will penalize your site.
  5. Create a daily business plan.

The Successes

Now that I'm focusing more on publishing product reviews and using proper keywords in my content, my sites rankings are steadily improving, traffic is slowly on the up and I'm finally starting to make some money online (Hurray!)

You would think that after 12 months, and 124 blog posts later, I would be earning a full-time income online. This would be true if I hadn't of made so many mistakes, but that's life and we can't all be perfect!

The important lesson to learn here is that I corrected the mistakes and haven't given up on my website. In fact, it's made me even more determined to succeed online and 2015 will be my year for real success and financial freedom! Can't wait!!

Below are some screenshots of my blog's progress so far and also the small successes with the Wealthy Affiliate and Jaaxy Affiliate programs as a result :-)


Website's Dashboard:

Google Webmaster Tool Stats:

Wealthy Affiliate Program Clicks Stats:

Jaaxy Affiliate Program Stats:

Also as a face-to-face Network Marketer, I have always been told that "Success or Failure, it's all my fault!" Never a truer word spoken, and the same words apply to you and your online business too.

It's easy to shift the blame on to others when you're frustrated, not seeing the results you want or generating a single penny online, when really it's down to YOU if your online business is failing! Once you accept responsibility, then you can start moving forward and fixing things. I have been there and learned the hard way.

"It's not about what happens to you. It's what are you going to do about it?"

I hope this post has given you a little inspiration.

I wish you massive success for 2015 and if you're taking part in the Wealthy Affiliate bootcamp, I will definitely be seeing you in Las Vegas in 2016 ;)

Neil

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Thanks for sharing how you got your site going again. That's insightful. :)

It's my pleasure, Judy. I hope it's been a great help to you as you build your own business. Neil

Thanks and best wishes for the rest of this year. Glyn

You're welcome, Glyn. Same to you.

Congrats!

Thanks very much :-)

Hi neilc thanks for the hints to share with us hard work pays. that's great of you. Wish you the best

It's my pleasure :) Hard work is the only way to succeed. Thanks. Same to you as well.

Great job!

Thank You, Peggy

Hey - thanks for sharing. Always good to hear how others are progressing and definitely agree with your comments about the responsibility of your success or failure lying squarely with one person - yourself.

Great words of wisdom. And thanks for sharing some of your stats.

You're more than welcome. Nathan. I also think when we face our problems, it makes us stronger and more determined to start succeeding. Thanks for your kind words too :)

Vegas 2016! :D Congrats on your 1 year.

Thank You, Julian! Let's do this!! See you in 2016 :)

This is very eye opening to so many I believe. Thanks for posting this. I think we all like to run with our site building and find ourselves looking back to see how to get back on track when we run too far off the training.

Thank You, Seth. I sure hope people don't make the same mistakes, but then it's all part of the learning and growing process. Sometimes it's good to start the training again from the beginning because we may also learn something new or that we accidentally missed.

Woot! Woot! M

HAHA! Cheers :-)

Happy to hear you "woke up"!! Congrats on your success.

Thanks :P I think sometimes we need a kick up the butt or slap round the face (not literally though) lol.

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