Steven's SWAG and GGG September Report

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WOW! Time sure flies! (or was it because my last report was only a week ago?).

We got through September somehow and landed already in October. October is in full swing and we got some results to report on the past month and goals to set for the next.

For September we had the following goals set:

Cat Habits

  1. 2 blogs a week, 1500 avg w.c.
  2. Write more product reviews and comparisons
  3. Start writing an email sequence
  4. Make an overview of what ranks and what doesn't

I did have some problems here and there following suit on the amount of blogs. With 2 blogs a week I should have produced about 8 blogs in September.

Unfortunately I managed only 7. Ideally I should really produce 12 a month though, so I am not too happy with the result. I really have to try to produce 3 a week in the coming month. The thing is though that I have essentially little time to do so in the week with work and real life.

Writing more product reviews has definitely been a focus for me. Out of the 7 blogs I wrote 1 comparison and 1 review. The other 5 posts are either general interest post on keyword or things that link back to these reviews and others.

I have to try to get more pillar targeted articles out, meaning 1 review and 3-5 pointing articles.

Writing the email sequence hasn't either gotten anywhere. I have basically managed to put out the outline of the entire course. I asked my wife to add some things that she could think of to tell the audience. So this will also be a task for next month.

As for the overview, it shows that it is a lot of work to index all your posts. What I do is the following:

I made an export of my posts in an excell sheet using the plugin All Export.

I then added some fields for checking of keywords and ranks:

So I got the ID, title, date, post modified, slug categories.

Then I added the keyword, this is about what the actual keyword was that I tried ranking for. Then I check up Jaaxy what the QSR is. If the traffic is more than 0 I add proper keyword to Y (else N). Ranking is there to see if there is a ranking for it right now. Anything above 10 becomes yellow or red. Color coding is nice in Excell, it goes automatically on conditions. Then there is the traffic column that I have to fill in from jaaxy too. When the ranking is 10 or lower, the traffic will be valid and counting towards the total and a Y is displayed.

I am not done yet with this overview and each month there are more posts being added to the list of course. Let's hope I can get it all done by the end of October.

On a sidenote, my wife suggested to add Adsense to the page. I already have an adsense account from about 5 years ago that I could use, no waiting required there. Just added the site and done. I use a plugin named Ad Inserter to place it where I want it to be. They are not displayed on reviews (premium version functionality).

We have also some ads coming from ebay. I am not all that pleased to have banners on my site, but than again I am not having the biggest amount of income either yet, so a it helps a tiny bit at the moment.

I think the adsense has added a full 5 USD to the balance. It's not much, but that's because we still have very low traffic to the website. It's something I have to work on.

In august I lost a lot of ranking for some reason. I am still analysing what happened, but my guess is the following:

  1. an update of Google that impacted those who have too many affiliate links to text ratio.
  2. content quality change
  3. I am not posting enough a week and not regular enough
  4. site issues might have impacted the site ranking too

Anyway, let's not dwindle too long on the past and concentrate on the future instead.

Goals For October:

Cat Habits

  1. 3 blogs a week, 1000 avg w.c.
  2. Publishing at a set day and set time (Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 21:00 CET)
  3. Write first email in sequence
  4. Finish overview of the ranks and update with newest posts too

OOB

  1. reforming the ideas and start creating keyword lists for new posts
  2. if possible, start writing content for banking
  3. if possible, start publishing content, 1 a week

I see already problems in the first week of October, but let's see if I can fix that up in the coming weeks.

That's it for now!

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Hiya....good analysis. I like your idea of a spreadsheet...I know this was mentioned in one of the lessons but I haven't followed through with it....time to start. Have a great rest of October.
Debbie

Hey Steven,

Thanks for sharing!

Glad you mentioned goals. I have never done that and I can certainly see the importance of having them. I'm working on my goals this weekend...lol. Hard lessons to be learned. NEED GOALS written down.

And also a checklist too. I know someone here shared their checklist and it looked really good so I'll be searching for that too.

Keep up the good hard work Steven.

Monica

Great goals and some great ideas I need to implement too

Yes we can learn from each other. I will have to adjust my goals each month with either a bigger challenge or a more achievable goal.

Well done. I like the plug in you used. I do a smaller version of that to keep track of thr keywords I am attempting to target. Cheers

Oh really, how cool! Do you want to share the name of that plugin with us all?

Its a manual excel spreadsheet

Cool! I am going to copy this blog to my phone so I can use your goals, if you don’t mind. I need goals like this :)
I really appreciate your post! Thank you so much!

Very glad to have inspired you!

Wow, thanks for sharing this update! You've come a long way, but still have a ways to go to meet your goals, but you are taking action and making progress so that is certainly something to be proud of. Reading your update has also made me realize that if I truly want to make money with my site, I'm going to need to change my content up a bit. Instead of just posting content of in game experiences I need to do more product reviews as well as comparison articles and best of articles as well. I need to start taking action more consistently as well.

Thank you. You know, I used to write 7 times a week before. With my job on the side I can no longer do that.
Maybe in the future again.

You write for a gaming niche? How cool. I can definitely give you some tips!

Hey, any tips you can provide will definitely be beneficial! It seems the gaming niche is a tough one to crack, but I still keep pushing forward when I can :)

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