WA Promotional Website - Progress Report - Month 3

Intro

Why am I Doing This?

It's that time of the month again when I bring you the latest on the progress of my new website, promoting Wealthy Affiliate.

As you know, I decided to do these updates for 2 main reasons. Firstly to help anyone who may be at the same stage as me, in the early stages of building their site. Secondly, to act as accountability for me, something I need on occasion.

I am following the training provided in the "Hubs" section.

I decided to follow the training to a 'T' because I thought that would provide the best indication to those new to WA what can be achieved.

Anyway, everyone is welcome and I hope you find this information interesting. You can even laugh at my efforts if you like, I don't care. I'm doing it anyway.

Getting My Excuses in Early!

Ok, I'm not going to lie. I promised at the outset that this would be a warts and all report. So here is my excuse for the month.

You will see below I didn't manage to keep up with the number of blog posts I wanted. So, my excuse is I needed some recovery time from an operation. I was all bravado and thought I would be able to plow on regardless but didn't imagine it would be as difficult as it turned out.

Enough of that, it is an excuse but I forgive myself.

So let's get on with it.

Report:

What were My Plans?

• To continue publishing once a day.
• Learn how to write a good 'Review' post.
• Continue the internal and affiliate linking and image work including more images in each post.
• Continue the bulk writing/preparation of blog posts.
• Start to learn and implement the promotion of the website, using other platforms/social media, etc.

What Happened?

• My blog post output dropped. Still not bad, as you will see but it was significant.
• I did not make progress on the review posts.
• I now have internal links to most of my blog posts, including affiliate links to WA.
• I did use the Bulk Writing Tool, but as mentioned, not often enough.
• The promotional side was delayed due to the reason given.

Conclusion

Given the circumstances, I will give myself a C+. Could do better. It reminds me of one of my old school reports.

Results

Impressions = 738 (down from 967)

Clicks = 2 (down from 3)

Sales = 0 (Up from 0!!!)

Comment

You can clearly see a drop off, albeit slightly.

This may or may not be a result of my actions but remember, this is a very new site and there will be variations.

The good news is that despite all I have said, the results are showing a sharp rise in the last few days. So next month should be more encouraging. You will have to check to find out.

If you remember from last month, I said that all of this early work is laying the foundations or sowing seeds. Some will grow, some won't. However, the more we sow, the greater the chance of growth.

The Month Ahead

• I will continue my aim to publish once a day.
• I will include review posts at the rate of about 1 in 5 compared to informational posts, so hopefully 5 or 6 by this time next month.
• Choose a Social Media platform and begin the process of promoting the website.

My 2nd Website

Nothing to report here yet.

The only thing decided is to start with a very narrow niche so as to reduce the competition in the early days.

I have an idea of the niche but will make more decisions ready to get started. You're going to have to wait for this one!!!

Conclusion

That's it for another month.

So, it wasn't the month I had planned but the lesson is, we will all have setbacks at some point in our journey. We need to ride them out get back on the horse as quickly as possible and keep moving forward.

I hope this is helpful. By all means, leave your comments below. I would love to hear about your efforts to build your websites.

If I can help I will. If I can't you will find many who can. You can always use the live chat or post a question to the community. Someone will pick it up.

If it is motivation you need, I'm full of that. Just drop me a note.

See you on the next one.

Richard