3 month website analysis and report (back to business)

bySaraPoyner

1.7K followers

Updated 5 years ago

Today I have been here 3 months! So I thought I would post an update blog, mainly for me to document my progress.

A mere 12 weeks ago I was guided to WA through Divine intervention which came after I shouted 'there has got to be a better way!'.

I spent my first weeks crying in despair at the technical training and elements of building the website. I was truly grateful to the very welcoming community and the Demi-Gods that are in tech support! For without you and them, I would never of got through that first two weeks.

To finally get to my Niche, I wrote a list of everything I wouldn't mind researching and writing about every day. I finally came up with a list of six Niches. I then did research on what affiliate programs were out there for each Niche, and settled on one that I decided to treat as my training website.

I had great aspirations and dreams and planned to build multiple websites. What I discovered was my one 'training website' was all consuming and a full time project. So now I anticipate getting this site to 100-150 posts and then starting my passion project website. Hopefully by then, my first Niche will be on a more maintain phase and I will then be able to dedicate full time to the new one.

I came to WA in financial difficulty and was struggling, so needed immediate money, which I quickly discovered was not going to happen here. But what did captivate me was the chance of fulfilling my dreams of freedom long term. So I figured I would have to continue with the two jobs and do this on the side.

MY WEBSITE

I decided to build a Niche website

Many of my posts are ranked so low that it probably made writing them pointless, (is position 125 low?, I don't know) however the lessons learned through them are invaluable. What I discovered today is a random spelling mistake can get you ranked no 1 in Google. I use Jaaxy for every post, every title and every tag. This appears to be contributing to slightly higher rankings.

I have written 30 posts for my site and 58,281 words. This was with 2.5 weeks of not writing when I was completely blocked. I am happy to report I am now back writing a post every other day.

VISITORS

I am getting in between 4 and 62 visitors a day, and I have seen that this obviously correlates to how much work I have done. If I have posted a new article, or spent time promoting on social media, then I get higher views. (Not rocket science)

COMMENTS

I have had 3 organic comments! (I love it when I get those)

THE MONEY

I have not made any affiliate sales yet. I am a member of 3 affiliate programs and have applications in for 3 more. I also am Independent consultant for a MLM company.

I have earned approximately £1.32 from Adsense. My verdict on adsense is still out, as I find it difficult to look at my minimal website turned into Las Vegas, however it is the only money I am earning at the moment. I have found it is also a great way to monetise on people clicking from other countries.

I have had one starter referral to WA earning me $1.00. This member appears to have disappeared as quick as he arrived.

MONTH 3 TOTAL EARNINGS = APPROX £2.00

GOOGLE

These figures are over the last 28 days. I have no idea if my Google performance is good, bad or ugly. I am really excited that I have now had 9 organic clicks in the last 28 days and 11 overall.

I was very excited by my impressions, the big spike was from the Best of I wrote which got over 3500 impressions! however, It ranked lower than I hoped for.

It is very exciting to actually see these lines, it means something is happening, and in 3 months, I am pleased with the progress and learning I have gained from these analytics.

BING/YAHOO

Bing has been much more welcoming with their open door policy and I tend to be ranking much higher here. I have achieved 76 clicks in the last 28 days and as you can see I had 19 in the previous period.

What is really exciting and encouraging is the increase in activity, with clicks up by 300% and appearances up by 376%. All very positive and moving in the right direction.

SOCIAL MEDIA

I'm going to be honest this is an untapped area for me. I have post every single one of my articles, but I believe doing some training, and looking into an auto posting facility would really help here.

I also am keen to do some training on CANVA so I can make my own tiles for Pinterest.

So these figures have been achieved with a really unfocused random posting.

FACEBOOK

10 Followers (all friends and family no organic)

I have found Facebook to be a waste of time, with only my family seeing my posts unless I share with my friend list, which I am not willing to do. Not because I Enter your own correction... to hide what I am doing, but I do not like saturating my personal feed with business posts.

I am not in a position to pay for adds so, this remains an area that I will look into training and look to maximise over the next months.

PINTEREST

946 Unique monthly users

1630 impressions

I believe Pinterest will be a great resource for me, and is where I am going to focus my learning and attention.

TWITTER

12 Followers

I don't post anywhere near enough to build my followers. And the whole Hashtag thing is something I really need to understand and utilize. So again much learning and attention is needed to help this resource work for me.

INSTAGRAM

Followers 57

I really love Instagram, always have as I am a visual person, so I love the concept. However, at the moment I am getting lots of likes on photos but little engagement to the website. So more research and learning is need, and again perhaps more frequent posting, so I will look into if there is a way to auto post here.

WEALTHY AFFILIATE

I have reached rank of 29

Have 1139 in my network

And I follow 1251 of you wonderful people.

I am incredibly grateful to be part of this truly wonderful diverse and supportive community and I look forward to many years learning, growing and succeeding and hopefully finding the freedom I seek.

I now move forward into my next quarter with a plan to research and learn more about keywords and SEO, about really utilising social media. Of course the key thing now is to just keep writing and get regular content going onto my site.

I am not going to set myself huge goals like 100 posts or a post a day, as this just causes my brain to freeze and shut down. The brain and the body have a very powerful way of telling you something is just not what it wants to do, you get blocked and exhausted or ill.

What I will pledge is adding something every day even if it is only research or 500 words, and to celebrate that, instead of beating myself up because I haven't reached my own ridiculously high targets. Some days I may make leaps, some days it may only be turtle steps, but those turtle steps will still eventually get me up that mountain to success.

Much Love

Sara