Niche Site Project 3 - February 2020 Update

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I’m seeing good progress with this site and I’m starting to write for it a little more which is great too!

Project Dashboard

Content and Income

This month I was able to add 6 new posts to this site. I wrote two of those. While I would have liked to write more, considering how busy the month was for me personally, I feel like that was a win!

Income is definitely rising each month. Amazon, in particular, was way up this month. I have a few posts recommending items in the $400 plus range and this month two were purchased.

At just over $30 commission each, that made the Amazon income go up pretty quickly. Here’s hoping they don’t return the items!

Ad income was up as well. Most days I make between $3 and $4 which is pretty good considering the traffic.

Traffic

Movin on up!! At least, that’s what traffic is doing. This is another nice month for traffic increase for this blog. Last month I set a goal of 5,000 sessions for this month. I hit that no problem!

We’re seeing a 65% growth. I know that is mostly because the numbers are still small. When the numbers are low, it’s much easier to pull off big percentages.

That leaves me with how to decide on a session goal for next month. Session goals are kind of hard because the only thing I can really do to increase sessions is to write more content and publish more on social (in the case of this blog, Pinterest).

Goals

Last months goals were:

Add at least 15 new posts. ❌ FAIL
Compile a list of at least 100 topics to write on. 🏆 WIN
Hit 5,000 sessions. 🏆 WIN

This month’s goals are:

Hit 7,500 sessions
Publish 15 new posts

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MY NICHE SITE PROJECTS

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Niche Site Project List

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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