So, you’ve chosen your low competition niche, you have done a bunch of keyword research, and have some juicy KGR keywords ready and waiting to be turned into some money-earning blog posts, awesome! So far so good!
In this post, I am going to run you through getting set up. This includes:
Buying a domain name.
Buying hosting and connecting your domain name to your host.
Setting up your WordPress account.
Recommended themes and plugins.
Let’s get straight to it!
Buying A Domain Name
A domain name is a personalized web address to your blog. For example, Amazon’s domain name is Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk, eBay’s domain name is eBay.co.uk, and so on.
Your domain name typically includes the keyword or something related to what you want to rank for along with .com, .net, .org, etc., depending on what country your blog is targeting.
It is not recommended that you choose an exact-match-domain, however. Something like www.besthairdryers.com is an exact-match-domain. I just seems spammy and cheap, to me. Apparently, Google doesn’t like those either. And, in any case, it limits you to whatever that keyword is.
It would make more sense that if you want to do a niche around hair dryers, you would choose a slightly broader topic that allows you to cover hair dryers and more, once your site grows.
For example, a more suitable name would be www.heatforhair.com, as this would allow you to cover hairdryers as well as every appliance and product related to hairstyling with heat.
Search, Choose, Buy
You can use any site you like, 123Reg, GoDaddy, etc. and if you have already purchased your domain name, the procedure of linking it to your hosting account is pretty much the same across the board.
I like to use NameCheap, it does what it says on the tin; register your domain name, cheaply. I have used 1&1 and GoDaddy in the past but I now use NameCheap to buy all of my domains now and haven’t had any issues yet.
Search your desired site name – and be prepared to think of a bunch more on the spot, as your desired name is more than likely taken.
There is no need to pay for any of those over-priced domains that somebody has picked up just to sell. Just choose another name and try to avoid using hyphens or anything like that just to keep the original name you wanted…let that go.
Buying Hosting And Connecting Your Domain To Your Host
Everyone will have their preference of hosting provider. If you want a host that already has tools like Cpanel (a popular file manager) or something like Softaculous (A web tool to install WordPress), then stick to the more popular hosts like:
Bluehost, Hostgator, Inmotion etc.
I have experience with all of the above hosts and more… this site is run on Cloudways, however. And I can say, it is very fast and was very straightforward to get set up.
Many people will recommend Blue Host as it pays the most affiliate fees. They aren’t bad, they are quite cheap and I guess they make a decent starter host but there is definitely better in my honest opinion.
In any case, here is my Blue Host link, you can sign up below:
If you have clicked through this site and thought “hmm, this site is pretty fast…” then instead, sign up to Cloudways for your hosting.
They also give you 3 days free (not that 3 days is anything to write home about, though *rolls eyes*…):
Buy your hosting package, start with the cheapest one, you can always upgrade later.
Install WordPress.
Point your nameservers (from NameCheap) over to your host.
Install your free SSL (security certificate)
Make a note of your database credentials and log in info.
If the above just looks like jargon, don’t worry. The hosting provider will have a walkthrough. Cloudways has video tutorials and it was all very straightforward. I was up and running within 15 minutes.
Setting Up WordPress
Now, I am going to tell you something I wish I knew when I got started in WordPress.
Choose a basic, light theme like Astra (free).
Keep the plugins to a minimum.
I love Astra, it is simple, clean, and you can do with it as you like. (Just try not to go overboard if you want to be Google-friendly, ok?) It is a very professional and easy-to-use theme and will have your site ready to go in no time.
I have the Astra theme on 6 out of 7 of my niche sites. I have come a long way from Moonfruit websites, trust me, I know what I am talking about… If you haven’t read my Introduction Story, read it here!
I actually keep all the demo content and set up my new sites exactly as they are, swapping out images and deleting blocks as I go…it makes it easier for me to see how I may want to move things around later without having to start from scratch.
You can waste a lot of time doing unnecessary customizing in the beginning when in actual fact, all you should be doing is getting straight to writing content.
So again, install Astra and keep it moving.
If you want to throw together a quick logo or placeholder logo, you can do this in Canva or you can pay somebody $5 to do it in Fiverr. Take your pick.
I am a Canva fan and I don’t like to wait around, so you already know what my recommendation is. However, if you do not have a design-eye, comission the job on Fiverr and move on – add it to your site later.
Let’s Talk About Plugins…
As I have already said, keep your plugins to a minimum and start by installing the recommended ones for your theme.
I am going to tell you something else I wish I knew when I started… are you listening?
DO NOT INSTALL ELEMENTOR!
No offense, Elementor, you are great…you are just highly unnecessary for what we are trying to do here. We are trying to quickly put together a clean, fast, practical, and unbulky site that Google loves and that future visitors can navigate with ease.
The best way to do that is to keep the clutter to a minimum and keep focused on the content.
I cannot tell you how many hours of my life I have wasted on page-builders when I could have been keyword harvesting or writing content.
So yes, skip the page-builders altogether. Use one of your theme’s templates and then install a sweet little FREEplugin called Ultimate GutenBerg Addon.
Done.
Now it is time to get writing….go do that or read this post for some awesome blog writing tips, how I start writing, how I structure my posts etc.
Once you have found your niche, it is time to find some good quality, low competition keywords! Or maybe you are still trying to find a niche and are scoping out the keywords available before sealing the deal.
My keyword harvesting always begins the same way, I have a few different tabs open. Google Search, Keyword Shitter, and my Google Sheets KGR template open.
I recommend you download the free Google Extension “Keywords Everywhere”, this tool is invaluable and will greatly speed up your research, and allow you to grab keywords right from the search results while browsing.
You can use the free version but I recommend grabbing the paid version as it is dirt cheap at only $10 for 100,000 credits.
Each credit represents 1 keyword, so if you use the tool properly, and turn it off when you aren’t keyword harvesting, then it should last you a long, long time!
I use Keywords Everywhere mainly to find the search volume and competition of a keyword. And, with a few tweaks, I can see if a keyword is worth pursuing in a matter of seconds.
I use Keywords Everywhere with Keyword Shitter and the result is hundreds if not thousands of long-tail keywords. They aren’t all worth pursuing, however, but they are a good start and often give me more ideas to come back and search.
My searches usually look a little something like this:
“do {keyword}”
“can {keyword}”
etc.
The tool will then use this information to harvest search phrases or queries and fill them in. This is a great way to find not just a bunch of long-tail informational keywords, but buyer-intent keywords, too!
The Keywords Everywhere tool is also at work here. It takes these keywords and gathers up the metrics for me. As I am targetting low search volume keywords, I can adjust my settings to highlight keywords with a specific search volume and below.
This is where the KGR comes into play – as just because a keyword has a low search volume, doesn’t mean it is low competition!
The Keyword Golden Ratio
As mentioned in my last post, the KGR is a tool of sorts, developed by Doug Cunnington of Niche Site Project and it works as follows:
The Keyword Golden Ratio (KGR) is a data-driven approach to identify keywords that are underserved on Google.
In most cases, if you target a KGR keyword correctly, you can rank for that keyword fairly quickly which results in your website gaining authority within Google a lot faster than it would have otherwise.
You can create the calculator very easily in Google Sheets or Excel or, you could make a copy of Doug’s one.
I like the template as it saves me having to copy and paste my keywords into Google to get the allintitle result. I can just click to search and then update the search result field.
I tend to do this with a handful of keywords if and when I need them rather than all in one go as it would be quite time-consuming otherwise!
Where “allintitle” Falls Short
If I wasn’t clear before, allintitle is an advanced search string used in the Google Search bar.
Using “allintitle:” before your keyword search, shows you how many web pages have used that keyword in their page title. This could be in any word order, as long as it has all of the words in the keyword(keyphrase) in the post title.
While allintitle gives hope when you see those low result numbers, what it doesn’t show is the sites that are currently winning for that keyword that target it indirectly.
For example, there could be a KGR keyword with only 8 allintitle results but when searched without allintitle, the top 5 sites that show up for it could be “WikiHow”, “Huffington Post” and so on.
In other words, that keyword could be a lot more difficult than you think.
But don’t overthink it… I don’t want to lose you.
The truth is, if this is all new to you, then targetting KGR keywords will be a HUGE start and advantage to kick your site off.
It is also a lot less complicated than some of the competitive analysis techniques “SEO Gurus” would suggest. As you learn more, you will naturally start to learn more about keyword research and competitive analysis naturally.
Google Alphabet Soup
What is the Google Alphabet Soup? Sounds crazy, right?
The Google Alphabet Soup is a method SEOs use to find keywords. It uses Google’s predictive text/ auto-suggest to find search strings that people like you and I search for!
You typically start with your keyword phrase followed by each letter of the alphabet and Google will try to guess where you are going based on what other searchers have typed.
For example,
are cats a
are cats b
are cats c
etc.
See below:
If you notice, “are cats allowed strawberries”, appears to have zero search volume, but people have obviously searched this keyword before.
Try it for yourself, go to Google and start typing something, what happens?
The reason this method works, despite a lot of the searches appearing to have a monthly search volume of zero, is the theory that “Google wouldn’t suggest it if people weren’t looking for it.”
Keyword tools do not truly know how many searches a keyword or phrase actually gets. Their algorithms are all pretty much guessing but the truth is, only Google knows!
I have seen a lot of success using this method with keywords that show zero search volume in tools but have been suggested by Google himself. This can be hit and miss, but for the most part, if it is being suggested – chances are people have been searching it.
Otherwise, where is Google pulling this information from?
Another reason this method works is that many bigger companies and blogs will have overlooked these keywords as they are considered low volume and their tools would have told them to ignore them!
Download the Google Chrome Extension “Keywords Everywhere”
Open a Google Sheet or Excel Spreadsheet to document all of your niche site keywords or grab Doug Cunnington’s free tool.
Search for keywords and save all of the keywords with a search volume of 10-250 (stay within this range for now)
If you already have your WordPress site set up, start writing your blog post now or read this post to learn about registering your domain, getting hosting, and setting up your WordPress site the fast way.
The key to success with online blogging for income, is to find a niche in the market. This is one of the most important steps and something that can either propel you forward towards success or have you do months of hard work in vain.
But, where do you find a niche that has not been covered already? There are two things to consider when choosing a niche for your blog:
The competition.
The content possibilities.
The competition
Competitor analysis is where many people fall short. You could come up with what you think is the best niche and rush off to register your domain, only to find out that there are already millions of people blogging about it.
And, more worse, some major players who have been in the game for decades.
So, you need to find a niche that has either not been taken over by big players or find an angle to target that they have not already. This is essentially what a niche site is.
For example, you wouldn’t go and create an Apple niche site, there are already many people blogging and reviewing Apple products, and you would be up against some major competition.
But, think outside of the box and find a niche such as refurbished iPhones or find an angle such as how to go about selling your old iPhone before buying a new one, and you could be on the road to success!
Another way of getting your foot into a competitive niche such as tech (or any other niche for that matter) is to findlongtail keywords and questions people are asking and writing content around those instead.
Using Apple as the example again;
You could find an angle to target the “Apple” niche by finding a keyword and creating something like:
– Ways to use your iPad more efficiently.
Of course, I would just recommend you don’t target such a huge brand or pigeonhole yourself in this way. It just makes much more sense to dig deeper and find something other people in the affiliate marketing space probably haven’t even considered.
This way, your competition is either nobody or a hobby blogger who knows very little about SEO and monetizing a blog!
Competitive Analysis
This is where competitive analysis comes into things. Once you have found your niche, you want to scope out the competition.
The first step is to find out who your direct competition will be, but remember that you are not trying to compete with them, instead find an angle within the niche that they have not yet taken up!
You can do this easily while you are doing your keyword research. As you will be targeting longtail, low competition keywords, to begin with, you will notice that even if you have quite a few competitors in your niche, they probably have not touched on these lower competition keywords – and this is your key to get in!
You can also use sites like MOZ, which has a free Google Chrome extension, to check the Domain Authority (DA) of a website. If you notice that there are websites with a very high DA directly targetting the keywords you find, it is probably best not to write an article on that keyword.
The Content Possibilities
Before you even begin writing content you want to make sure that the niche you choose will allow you to write a good amount of content. By that, I mean, can you find at least 100 good quality keywords to write blog posts on? Does this niche have a selection of products that you can upsell to your readers?
If you find that the niche does not offer this, then it is probably best to move on to something else because you will need to be able to produce a lot of content to fill out your niche and make your site look attractive to Google!
A good rule of thumb is if you find a niche in the market that has hundreds of good quality longtail keywords and also has a bunch of products on Amazon that you can review and promote, you are good to go!
Using Keyword Tools To Find A Niche In The Market
Some people will tell you that you do not need keyword tools and that there are other methods of finding keywords, and while I tend to agree somewhat, I wouldn’t have had the successes I have had so far without using any tools whatsoever.
I will say this, though. You do not need to spend $100 per month on a keyword tool, and using a combination of cheap and free methods will get you some good results to kickstart you.
Google Keyword Planner & Google Trends (for finding a niche in the market and finding keywords)
Google Autosuggest (by far the best free method of finding keywords)
Keywords Everywhere (cheap, cheerful, and something I cannot live without)
Keyword Shitter (free and amazing, I just hope it stays free forever)
The KGR method by Doug Cunnington
Answer The Public (2 free searches a day (more if you have a VPN…shhh))
People Also Ask by Outranking.io (Same as above)
I use a combination of these tools on a daily basis to find and check keywords and also to determine if a keyword or niche is worth writing about or pursuing. This is pretty much all I use and have not yet paid a huge subscription fee some of these other keyword tools come with.
Keyword research is something that takes getting the hang of, but once you do find a niche in the market, you will start to find some keywords that lead you to more keywords, and then, before you know it you have a Google Sheets document full of thousands of keywords! Overwhelming but truly a great problem to have!
How To Find A Profitable Niche
With all that being said, where do you start looking, and how do you find a profitable niche?
Well, get your pen and notebook or, or open up your notes app and start brainstorming! Think about your hobbies first and foremost. What sports do you like, what do you do for fun? Do you find yourself buying products related to your hobby on Amazon? If so, I would start there.
For example – if you love Yoga and find that you always buy new mats for home practice or visit the studio more than once a week, perhaps finding a niche within Yoga would be a good idea.
Keep in mind though, fitness and weight loss and those sorts of things are incredibly oversaturated, so when I say dig deep, I mean dig deep!
Browse Instagram; what are people doing? What are they using? What problems do people have that might go to Google to ask about. What have you asked Google about recently?
You really need to think about how you use the internet and find inspiration from that.
Another tip is to use Reddit. Chances are, if there is a subreddit on a particular thing, then it is a niche that has potential! And this does not need to be a site that has Amazon products. Although I do prefer to be able to create a mixture of informational content and affiliate content, if the niche has enough informational keywords, then that can work, too!
My name is Arielle Phoenix and welcome to my blog!
This is so weird, writing about myself, as I am usually writing about a specific topic or query, but here we are!
I am an author, homeschooling mother, cryptocurrency enthusiast, and entrepreneur. And, I can actually say that I am an entrepreneur and mean it because my business ventures make money! Yay…
To be fair, they always have, but never any life-changing amounts and I have an extreme case of “shiny-object-syndrome”. Something you will come to learn about if you stick about on this personal blogging journey!
I could also call myself a “CEO”, now, as I have employees (though none full-time) and have no desire to put that in my Instagram bio or anything of the sort (you probably won’t get that reference if you aren’t a long-time Gary V fan)
I do not say this for whatever low-level bragging rights it could possibly be perceived as; I say it to affirm it to myself more than anything.
The reason is that, for as long as I can remember, I have suffered with imposter syndrome. And, if you don’t know what that is…
Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome is a psychological pattern in which a person doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a “fraud”. Oftentimes, high-achieving individuals who suffer from imposter syndrome attribute their success to luck rather than ability.
The tricky part is that this usually happens unconsciously. The individual typically underestimates themselves while at the same time believing that other people possess more talent or intelligence, which isn’t always the case.
Another facet is that even when the individual has been successful in a particular venture they’ll discount this or not appreciate it for what it is.
In any case, it has never been that extreme, but I have always had a habit of just downplaying my abilities and achievements.
In hindsight, though, in most cases what I do and have always done is just second nature to me, so I have never really seen anything as a big deal.
Until recently…
Read this book if there is a little voice in your head telling you to “Own Your S***” but you won’t listen to it…
By the way, if you don’t want to read all of this, I’ve now put it into a podcast of sorts, enjoy!
I’m not sure where I plan to take this podcast thing but I don’t have a great deal of time to dedicate to it, so it will just sit here for now...
Sharing My Journey
The more people I talk to, the more I am encouraged to teach what I know or just share some of these things that I consider to be second nature or not such a big deal.
I often forget that a lot of these things I have been doing, I have been doing so for the past 12 years or so. So what is second nature to me, might not be so to somebody else.
I am sharing my journey going forwards for a few reasons. And, in no particular order.
To document this lovely journey for my future self to look back on, read, and appreciate. The struggle is always beautiful in hindsight!
So my children can eventually read and get into the mind of their mother and also appreciate what went into building everything they will eventually have. (Notice my careful use of the word “eventually”.)
Because in my bones, I know I will go on to do some great things and I want to have them documented. It will all make writing my future biography a lot easier!
I have learned a lot of things that I wish I could have told my younger self. The younger me with all of that fire in her belly and no direction. Hopefully, by sharing this journey, somebody like the younger me comes along and finds it or is forwarded it somehow.
Or maybe she has an awesome brother like mine, and he buys her my very inspiring biography 😏 (read this post and you will get that reference…)
I always give business advice to anybody who will listen. With this blog, I will hopefully only have an audience of people who want to hear what I have to say and will (probably) act on it.
I can then stop bothering those who have no intentions of starting their own business or side hustle and actually want to just complain to me about their day jobs they hate but do nothing about it…)
Where It All Began
For as long as I can remember, my number one goal has been “financial freedom”. What that looked like when I was younger compared to what it looks like now is completely different, however.
It used to be a certain amount of money but as I got older it became a freedom of money worries. When I was younger, I thought that having a lot of money would make me happy and that it was the ultimate goal.
At 30 years of age, I have a beautiful family, they are my everything, they are my why and they are my happiness. I have already won, and at this point, everything else is the cherry on top.
At this point in life, financial freedom means the freedom to enjoy my family.
The freedom to do things with them.
Create memories, and, ensure they have all the opportunities in the world (including that expensive science summer camp.)
I never want to forget this, while I chase financial freedom… And this often pops into my mind when I put the kids to bed as fast as possible at night time so that I can get back on the computer and “do stuff“.
I could go on, and I probably will in a future post. But this H2 is about where it all began, so let’s get back to that, shall we?
It began when I was around 13 years old. I used to sell my ‘low-income family’ meal ticket worth £1.75 of school lunch, to a girl in my class for £1 (she just wanted the sandwich; I wanted the cookie and drink!)
Coupled with the savings I made, buying a dodgy monthly travel card from another hustler, I soon had a few pounds to play with…
I took a trip down to South Side, a local shopping centre, and saw that I could buy multipack sweets and crisps (candy and potato chips for my American readership) for £1 and sell them for a small profit at school.
I did this every day, reinvesting the profits and buying more stock.
Each and every day, I would sell out and go home with a pouch full of coins. It felt amazing! My mum was like my accountant; she would keep track of inventory for me, write out a price list, help me adjust pricing, make sure I had enough change each day, etc.
Every day I would go to school with two bags; one with my books and stationery, the other with my stock. This buying and selling experience set me up for a very successful run on eBay a few years later…
A Few Years Later…
Around 2008, whilst poking around on the internet one day, I discovered some Chinese wholesale sites, I still remember some of them to this day. There was one called Beltal, another called Trade Tang, and one you may have heard of which is still about today, DH Gate.
The 16-year-old me had stumbled upon hustler-heaven! I wasted no time, and with the assured safety of something called “Escrow”, I found some products and whipped out my Visa Electron.
Back then, whatever counterfeit trading standards or regulatory bodies police the internet today, were not so efficient. eBay also was not very strict, and needless to say, you could get away with selling a lot of stuff that you can’t now. And that I did!
I was 16/17, banking hundreds of pounds a day from my computer. I would get PayPal notifications on my Blackberry constantly. My local Post Office man expected me and my entourage of parcels every day.
I had a solid run, until I got a letter from DHL stating that my shipment had been seized or something to that effect. It all started going downhill from there as eBay had also begun taking down listings and before I knew it they had closed my account.
For a few years, I found ways around selling on eBay and working around their restrictions. I also began selling on Amazon which made more profit but you had to wait a lot longer to get your money and they soon began removing listings, too.
After a while, it was just more trouble than it was worth, and, in addition, China had popped up on these platforms undercutting everybody – my solid run had come to an end.
2011: Revelle Beauty – I bought bundles of weave in bulk, and packaged it with my own branding, reselling on eBay and from my own (Moonfruit) site. My plan was to start online and make enough money to open my own brick and mortar hair shop 😃2012: Urban Indie TV ( A site that I created on Moonfruit, to showcase the best of independently produced shows and short films – I designed and printed flyers and stickers, too, I had big plans, lol)2013 – Courtesy of Wayback Machine – damn this brings me back!
Fast Forward A Few Years: Passive Income At Last!
I had gotten a taste of making money online, I had seen what was possible and in comparison to the little day jobs I had had, it was a no-brainer – I had to find something solid online. It is very hard to go from hundreds a day to £7.50 per hour…
I would literally be writing out my future autobiography if I listed each and every online and offline venture over the years from selling cars and laptops to my own fat burners and workout programs… (I might blog about those other ventures down the line), but, in 2015 I had seen an online success that I had not seen before…
For the first time, I had created a site that was generating actual passive income. I made it on Moonfruit (of course)! I had no idea what WordPress was and I stuck with what I knew.
I woke up to Paypal notifications, I got Paypal notifications whilst on holiday; every time I picked up my phone there was a…. yup, you guessed it – Paypal notification.
I used Instagram to build up a following, manually following and unfollowing accounts that had a customer base similar to mine. Then I found a piece of software to automate it for me and grew the account to over 250,000 followers.
I made good money on the site and by using the Instagram account to sell ad space until one very sad day- I went to log in and saw the account had been deleted. All of that effort, gone. Instagram gave me no reason and no way of reinstating the account – it was gone.
Though it upset me, I never gave up hope with regard to making money online. If anything, I had more successes and experiences of it working, and this inspired me more. Behind me, there were countless failed ventures but also a wealth of experience that I could not have gotten otherwise.
Failure
The most common reason for those failures tallied up to two things;
Inability to scale.
Some gatekeeper or platform shutting my efforts down. At one point, a very rude and unprofessional PayPal employee, upon seeing my passport ID, responded to me asking how I was able to obtain the goods I was selling. I have some theories on why that was her response, but we move…
Nonetheless, by the time I stumbled upon the concept of creating niche sites and blogging for income. I was ready!
What drew me most, was those two components of my failures above and a third which I never mentioned; consistency.
The concept of creating niche sites was so attractive to me because;
Niche sites allow you to scale limitlessly. Technically, if you have the means to, there is nothing stopping you from creating 100 niche sites with 500 articles a piece… Not just that, but the process is extremely replicable:
Do what works.
Do more of what works.
Do that again, and then copy and paste.
There are no “Gatekeepers” per se. I guess you could count Google as a gatekeeper. But, Google doesn’t know who you are, what you look like, care where you are from, have any agenda etc.
Google will not “shaddow ban” you. Google might de-rank your site if you do some foolishness but he doesn’t care if you move to a new house and register a brand new website and start fresh (kinda like eBay does…)
The third thing that pulled me was the clear cut results that people were getting. People who wern’t trying to sell anything to me, just sharing their journeys and what they have done.
The proof was in the pudding, all that was needed was patience and consistency.
2020-To-Now
And here we are! In 2020 I registered my first “Niche Site” off the back of a few Income School youtube videos. My sister shared them with me and I was hooked, I binged and created my site.
As I learned more, I created another site, and then another site, and so on. I ABSOLUTELY suffer from shiny-object syndrome and would not recommend somebody who is completely new to the concept of blogging or SEO to do what I did… however, I am not new to this entirely.
My reasoning behind creating multiple sites in a relatively short timeframe was because as I learned more, I learned about the limitations of some of the niche sites I had created and what would be possible with some other ideas I had.
I didn’t create a new site before putting at least 30 or so posts on the current site, also.
In addition, I knew I wanted to have a portfolio of sites to help me get to my income goal of $10,000 per month and that it couldn’t hurt having a few built-up sites, sitting there, maturing.
I liken websites to “digital real estate”, my unofficial mentor, Gary V, once said something very striking. To paraphrase, he said something along the lines of real estate property being the vehicle of our parents’ generation and the internet being our thing now!
It is so true, many people are sleeping on the internet whilst each day some teenager somewhere is building up some multi-million dollar brand on Tik Tok or something.
That isn’t to say real estate is not still an amazing tool, it absolutely is and is still the goal! However, once upon a time, you could work two pretty basic jobs and buy a house. Where I live, you might get a tiny 2 bedroom flat on the 12th floor for £250,000… that ain’t it…it really ain’t.
My Site Portfolio
At the time of writing, I have 9 sites. 2 were made prior to discovering blogging for income and have been making me money outside of Amazon and display ads so I will focus mostly on these 7.
Site
Date Started
Total Posts
Site 1
September 2020
37
Site 2
November 2020
66
Site 3
January 2021
55
Site 4
April 2021
13
Site 5
June 2021
105
Site 6
August 2021
45
Site 7
August 2021
44
As you can see, I have managed to put up a fair amount of content on these sites in a very short space of time. BUT, as you can also see, I am the epitome of “spread-thin”. With these same efforts, I could have had two or three sites with a few hundred posts on each, instead.
I want to also add, that I am a mother of three, full-time. They are very young with my eldest being 5 years old and my youngest being 7 months old… yes…while I was building these sites I was also building a new person! Arielle, you are amazing.
The past 12 months have been non-stop.
I have yet to experience any sort of blogger burnout because this genuinely does not feel like work to me. However, I could not have done it without hiring additional writers and using tools like Jarvis to help me write.
This post has gone on long enough so I will conclude it with what you can expect from the future of this blog…
What I Will Document
Any and everything to do with my personal takes on making money online, investing, saving etc. However, in future, this blog will be split into two sections;
The first section will cover my personal ventures, what I am doing, monthly roundups and income reports etc. This may include my self-publishing (undecided)- whether I released any new books for the month, and my blogging journey of my affiliate niche sites.
In future, the second section will cover how to make money in virtually any industry, how to get started, and my unique, personal opinions on how I would go about making it work in that business.
I will be using SEO to cover the second section, while the first will just be me, opening up Google Docs and typing away.
I also plan on utilizing and growing my Youtube Channel (finally) alongside blogging, so be sure to subscribe and follow along with the journey there. I will try to post consistent but useful topics!
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