Checking In : One Year at WA!
Published on May 2, 2022
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I don't post anywhere near enough on this great platform but wanted to make a quick offering reflecting on my first year here at WA.
The first thing I want to say is I wish I'd found WA ten years earlier! I feel my life would be very different today if I had.
Why?
Because I can see this is working and I know if I keep plugging away there's only one way it can go. My Google search console confirms this.
Barring any major corrections from the big G, if I keep publishing then my traffic will keep growing.
I also want to be realistic...
This is definitely not a get rich quick scheme. It takes time to do this properly.
I still work full time for the other man and have a family to consider so in reality I only get to spend 1-2 hours a day on my WA business.
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But I've been consistently posting at least one article a week. I've managed to publish 60 articles in my first year; nearly 85 thousand words so far. I know that's small time but I'm pretty proud of that.
Results?
Well traffic is still low volume but the graph is moving ever in the right direction. I haven't really monetised apart from the odd Amazon link so no income as yet but I'm waiting until the traffic is significant before I think about the money!
Just focussing on building that foundation at the moment.
A year in and I feel my domain is now gaining some authority in my niche. It's quite a crowded niche with some well established competition (I see the same sites all the time in my research).
6 months ago Google didn't want to know. Hardly any articles in the top 100, let alone the top 10. Today, I'm hitting page one on Google maybe 40% of the time.
As for Bing ... endless #1 positions. Nearly every article I write is at or near the top on Bing!
These results encourage me to continue. I'm excited to see where I am a year from now!
Thank you WA for providing me with the road map!
Just wanted to give a little back to the community. Especially the new members who may be doubting this actually works.
It does :-)
Keep doing what you do Kyle, Carson and the rest of the team.
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