Some of my sites were hit by a bug in a Wordpress plugin, reducing my income at a time when I have some serious bills coming up. Goddamit, Yoast!
Looking back on April, I did almost nothing in terms of building websites. I can't think of any articles I wrote, ordered, or edited. But the websites kept chugging along and made me a healthy income.
Did I recover from my first manual Google penalty? Did my other websites chip in enough to live on? Did I spend an idiotic amount on new content? Find out here, dear reader.
My first major setback! While moving house and having a ghastly case of Manflu. A real mixed bag of a month, where the bag is mostly filled with robotic enemies from Black Mirror.
While people are making and losing fortunes in Tulips/Bitcoin, I'm quietly earning a full-time income from a bunch of websites.
In the last week 3 people have written to me asking for advice about their Amazon affiliate sites. Their stories were all the same - they've been working hard, building their sites, getting links, but hit a ceiling they couldn't seem to smash.
A slightly different way of doing things from now on, as my income gets to uncomfortably high levels...
Welcome to my niche site income report for November. Black Friday and Cyber Monday were gooooood neeeeews.
Needless stress, feelings of powerlessness, but still things heading in the right direction. Welcome to my niche site income report for October.
How do you make 5,000 dollars and still feel like a failure? Read this to find out!
Here's what went on with my little website portfolio in August, including why I spent 550 dollars on just 5 articles.
July was a great month with some significant black spots. This is where I break down my income and analyse what's going right and wrong.
A huge spike in income and good profits despite reinvesting huge chunks of money in my website empire. June was ace!
My niche websites had a great time in May - this is where I summarise their ups and downs and set goals.
14. Quick guide to adding YouTube videos to your Wordpress site without ending up with some horrid tiny square that doesn't obey your commands.
Follow me down the rabbit hole of: people booing politicians. Guaranteed cringe and cosmic justice.
13. Don't clog up the internet with your giant images. Cut them to the right size, then compress them. It's easy, free, and doesn't take very long. Your pages will load faster and you'll make more money.
12. All the things you need to consider before pressing 'publish' on that niche site page or post.
11. A table of contents tells your readers what they can expect from an article, and provides instant jump-links so they can quickly find what they want.
10. Some tips and tricks for when using Wordpress's editor to format your posts and pages.