7 months at WA - Grinding period

byStratosK

1.2K followers

7 years ago

Hello everyone,

It's been a while since my last blog post but all this time I haven't stopped working on my website. I am almost at my 7th month mark now and I wanted to give a bit of a heads up of where I am at the moment.

Content so far

My website is about home cinema and movies and up until now I have written 40 home cinema equipment reviews, 20 movie reviews, 7 articles and 4 video games reviews. In the beginning I was splitting my time evenly between these 4 categories but as time went by I saw that I was getting more traffic and interest from home cinema equipment so I started focusing more of my efforts towards this but without neglecting the rest completely.

For all 7 months I have been consistently writting 2 quality articles per week with very few exceptions. I try to keep this to the best of my ability and since now I was able to manage my time to achieve this. Having a full time job and two small kids leave me very little time to work freely.

Traffic so far

As far as traffic is concerned last month my organic traffic became my No1 traffic type with 35% of my total traffic comming from search engines. Also although i had a couple of reviews on the first page the last month one high traffic review went to first page and since then it gives me most of my organic traffic to this day.

On average I get 20-45 organic visitors every day for the last month and in total I get 25-88 visits every day with 88 users in one day being my highest traffic since the beginning.

Sales so far

I am posting affiliate links for both US and UK Amazon and I get a sale here and there mostly on the US shop. But in total comissions are very low and in total I am making a couple of dollars every month so nothing major yet.

Adsense has improved a little and from making nothing or 2-3 cents per day now I can make from 5 to 15 cents per day and this has to do with the increase in my total traffic. Since starting adsence I have made 9 euros total.

Content ranking

Up till the beginning of August I was ranking good with 3-4 articles in the first page, 6 articles in the 2nd and all others up to 5th page. After the August Google Core update many of my pages lost many positions loosing a considerable amount of traffic. Since then I recovered a bit but still a lot of my posts have not regained their initial positions so I am still struggling to get back to where I was.

All my new posts appear almost immediately in the 4th page of Google while before the Core update all my new posts were appearing on the third page of Google.

GOALS

Short term goals

My short term goals remain the same from when I first began here and that is to cover my expenses of the monthy WA subscription. This means that I aim at making at least 50 euros per month consistently.

Mid term goals

If I manage to catch my short term goal then my next goal is to double my monthly income which means to be able to make 100 euros per month.

Long term goals

My long term goal is to be able to have a sustained monthly income so I can quit my full time job. I don't know how long it will take but I am willing to spend the time needed to make it so.

Closing

I am in a position that I believe is the worst period because it's been a while since I started, I am grinding evey day but still I don't have any worthy results. There have been days where I cannot focus on my writting at all and it frustrates me because producing 2 quality articles every single week is very hard with the limited time I have.

For the moment I have managed to stay focus but I will be honest when I say that there have been a few times that I wanted to quit but I kept pushing. Trying so hard without any reward is the most difficult thing and I believe this is the reason why a lot of people quit. Hopefully I will see the results of my hard work soon.

See you all soon in my next update. Have a nice day to all WA members.

Stratos