Niche Site Project 5 - December 2019 Update

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This site, about animals (not pets), has taken somewhat of a backburner recently. While the subject matter is very interesting to me, I worry about how well the site will be able to generate traffic.

This month I also changed the domain given the advertising laws about targeting children for ads. While the articles themselves are written by adults, for adults, the logo and domain were a little too childlike.

Rather than take the risk fo that negatively impacting the site, I moved the few articles over to a new domain that is much more clearly adult-centered.

Project Dashboard

No dashboard for this project yet. Coming soon!

Content

9 total posts on this site so far. There were 4 published back in October when the site started, and 5 published so far this month.

Clicking on the image opens it larger in a new tab.

Traffic

Most of the traffic this month is due to the fact that a couple of my articles center around answering a specific question about a specific type of animal popular in December.

While these graphs show a nice increase in traffic, I expect them to flatline in January.

Keep in mind that anytime the blue line is higher than the orange site is probably just Google registering my visit to the site. The site should not be getting any non-organic traffic at this point in time.

Income

This site is not monetized yet.

Goals

My goal with this site is to continue to build it up over time. I also intend to put more travel-related articles on it. So the reality is it will become more of a nature/adventure type site instead of focusing on just animals.

Tools and Resources

I keep an up to date list of all of the tools and resources I use to manage my blogs, including how I create the awesome dashboards in my income reports, on my Tools and Resources page.

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MY NICHE SITE PROJECTS

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RESOURCES I USE

I keep an up to date list of all of the tools and resources I use to manage my blogs, including how I create the awesome dashboards in my income reports, on my Tools and Resources page.

These are my top tools:

ClickUp – It has easily helped me 10x my productivity.
Big Scoots Hosting – (or, alternately, SiteGround)
Tailwind for Pinterest
ConvertKit for Email List
Airtable for data tracking/spreadsheets when I first started (though I use ClickUp Exclusively now)
Project24 the main course I took to learn how to blog, and my primary blog course recommendation.
BloggerPlot for Analytics and Search Console Analysis in one place.
Amalinks Pro for Amazon links and awesome tables.
OnlineJobs.ph for my Virtual Assistants
Pinteresting Strategies Course for Pinterest

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