Niche Site Project 3: Home and Garden

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It is hard to describe this one but it is basically home and garden. My dream is to build my own home with a small farm and vegetable garden so this blog is meant as a catch-all for all things related to that.

Specifically, I love farmhouse style design and decor with a homesteading vibe. That being said, do you know how HARD it would be to break into the farmhouse style niche? Especially if you don’t own your own home for beautiful lifestyle pictures.

I have a two-bedroom, one-bath apartment with a tiny galley kitchen. I can’t have any animals at home right now except my beta fish and my dog, but, this is my dream niche and I have found a few topics that will work until I start building my dream home.

So I call this one my home and garden site but technically it is a home building, home design, garden, homesteading, self-sufficiency, small farm kind of site. It’s going to be the next Better Homes & Gardens just wait and see!

It has been hard to get into building this site, though, because I do know the barrier to entry will be hard. I started this site with a brand new domain name in June of 2019. Here are the stats:

Project	Month Start	Month #	# Articles Added	Total # Articles	Words Published	Pageviews	Total Earnings

Year in Review

2022 – June Analysis

I think the graph above says a lot. This site is still performing beyond my wildest dreams but, the above chart is a clear indication that I need to do better.

For this site, I always compare to previous period because the niche is very seasonal. This site is going to be one of the projects getting more of my attention over the rest of this year. Some of the things we’re going to focus on are:

Interlinking
Webstories
Building a Mailing List
Lots and Lots of Content – I’d love to have at least 1,000 posts on this site by the end of the year.

2019 Analytics Overview

This site is continuing an upward trend, as expected.

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2019 Total Income

This site has earned $3.76 total for 2019.

October Notes

October 2019 traffic really spiked! This was really neat to see as the site is just hitting 5 months old. Most of this traffic is to just two posts. Even so, it is an inspiring uptick!

As of the end of October, this site is still not using Pinterest or social at all.

Income Reports

December 2019

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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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