My End of August Update

Hiya Global WA Family

I'm giving you all an update on what I've been up to of late.

Yes, I have been behaving myself, sorry to disappoint you all :-)

Besides trying to keep up to date in answering emails, helping people with notifications, reading and answering tutorials, and finally going to work. I'm amazed that I have any time left at all to do this blog at all.

I want to share my results based on my achievements since I've been with WA for over 12 months. I know many of you newbies often wonder how long it takes to be recognised by Google, but you need to understand that Google is working on your site or sites all the time. I know Richard writes another blog about Google Console so I will not go into explaining in detail.

So what's been happening?

First off the block is Grammarly

I received my weekly update, and it turns out I have unlocked a new achievement between August 29 to Sept 05. I have a new badge!! For last weeks "awesome streak", I'm now a "Full-Year Hero".

So what did I accomplish in my full year?

• 52 weeks of clear, effective communication and heroic error slaying. "That;s quite a feat," says Grammarly.
• Productivity, I'm more productive than 94% of Grammarly users; 17,462 words have been checked
• Mastery I am more accurate than 80% of Grammarly Users 135 alerts shown
• Vocabulary I have used more unique words than 92% of Grammarly users.
• Tone My tone is improving all the time. Mind you, and I could be better; this is an area that I need to work on, guys.
• Total words checked is 880,758 since I joined on 20 Sept 2020

I'm not perfect, as I still keep missing my commas and full stops.

Tailwind Results

Profile Activity between August 30th and Sept 6th for my Aero Gardening Website

Total pins to date are 99

Total followers are 54

Now let's take a look at performance from Google Console and Analytics

Both my websites since I started with Wealthy Affiliate are climbing. I will add initials rather than name my website so that I won't get into trouble

Improvements on my results could also have been due to Jeff's project

I hope you are reading this, Jeff, and I owe you a huge thank you.

July MBM Results

Users are up by 3.4% 89 users

Sessions down by 4.5% 125

Bounce Rate up by 3.5% 52.2%

Session Duration down by 48% 2.40 mins

User Acquisition

Direct 34.4%

Referral 28%

All other Sessions 37.6%

Since June 2021, my profile was up 60%. I believe this is due to Jeff

Now let's compare July with the August snapshot

Users 134 up by 26.9%

Session 156 up by 24.8%

Bounce Rate 69.8% up by 3.9%

The average session duration is 2.54 mins up by 8.8%

User Acquisition

Direct 22.9%

Referral 26.2%

all other sessions 39.7%

My second website, which I started in August 2020, is starting to make a move

MAG July performance

July must have been great as I got a little trophy for the performance of my site

307 Clicks

14.6K impressions

27 pages

My top-performing web posts are called "Are you struggling with AeroGarden Lights: and Green Algae is Attacking my AeroGarden they contain the most clicks.

So, what devices are my audience using?

107 users use Desktop

189 users access my site on their mobile phones

11 users use a tablet

Where do my users come from?
I'm not going to list all the countries, last time I checked, China was one of my top countries but not this time. I will list the top three only

237 USA

36 Australia

15 Canada

My August Review

366 Clicks

167K impressions

18 pages

Top-performing pages are still the same as for July

Devices

115 Desktop

230 Mobile

21 ipads

Top Countries

USSA 290

Aust 30

Canada 21

My Advice

My advice to new members or not so new is to be

• patient
• faithful to yourself
• writing lots of content
• building trust and integrity with Google
• Using your own words and add a twist of lemon to your content
• Building your site for the long term
• Reading posts and tutorials from members in WA community such as Partha, Richard, Lily etc. who provide lots of value to your learning
• Going back over Kyle's lesson plans when you need to refresh your memory
• asking questions, no question is a dumb or silly question

I wish you all the best for success.