Progress so far, Course 4 Lesson 7
Coming to the end of course 4 now and I have to create a blog so here it is. It won't be anything much but I'm just going to say about some of the stuff I've been up to.
My website is coming a long nicely I think. I've created 15 posts, trying to write a post a day. I only fear running out of keywords but hopefully I should be able to find some more with the help of Google instant. All the keywords I target only deliver 6-50 estimated traffic (using the WA keyword tool) so not much. This is because I always target the low-hanging-fruit keywords as these typically have the lowest competition. I haven't got ANY traffic yet, but I'm not expecting to until I reach around 40 posts. I find it difficult to stay motivated sometimes because I know my content isn't being found and read by anyone but I just write it anyways.
Damn, I can't wait to start getting traffic and comments and ultimately revenue so I can prove to my dad that this actually works, lol!
I've been asking questions and keep writing content and hopefully I'll eventually get ranked by Google. I still have to submit a sitemap so I don't even know if Google knows about my site yet. However, when I type in site:thepcprogrammer.com in Google, it returns a load of pages and posts and tags from my website so I assume that some of it must be indexed, which is great! Most likely will be on some ridiculous page number though, lol.
In 3 months time, I should theoretically be at 45 posts so I hope I will be getting some traffic then. However, because of school and exams, etc. I doubt I will have that many posts. I try to write 2 per day on weekends as a lot of the time in the week I don't get enough time.
In 6 months, I'd like to be earning money from my website and have rankings on page 1 for most of my posts. For some reason I don't feel like this will happen though, probably because my previous sites were fails so yeah...
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Hey, Tim, 15 posts is pretty good, especially if you are even coming close to one a day. Once you get your sitemap submitted and Google starts to rank you, you'll fairly quickly find several of your posts ranked fairly high. I can say this because I followed a similar path as far as writing posts aimed a low-hanging fruit keywords.
It's good that you have your goals set on 40 or so posts rather than 20. Go get that goal and you'll find different results. With very-low hanging fruit keywords, it takes a lot of posts to amount to much traffic. Keep going.
Great goals you got there :) Keep pushing the pace, it seems like you are really working hard. Trust me those who endure and keep going are the ones who really see success. You are making some really significant progress :D
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Hey Tim
Sounds like you are doing great :) The site is looking very good - clean and clear, with a decent amount of content. Congrats!
Only continue to post every day if you think you can keep this up long term, I was advised to stick to a posting schedule that is consistent, so the crawlers get into a routine of searching your site.
You should have no problem monetising now, if you apply to some affiliate programs.
Are you submitting your new posts to the give and take comment thread? Need website comments? the give and take comment thread
I notice that my posts are ranked higher and quicker once there is some interaction on them.
Also, if you are struggling for ideas/keywords, check this out: Blog Topic Generators
I got almost 12,000 potential headlines/keywords to research out of that exercise!
C
Thanks a lot for your help! Yes I do post all posts I create in the comment thread to get engagement on my articles.
Thanks a lot for the blog post on content ideas, looks really useful!
Ah, OK, so when you were talking about getting comments, you're talking about genuine ones from your organic traffic :)
No worries, it's keyword-tastic! Good luck with it!
C
Yes, that's exactly what I meant, lol!