How I’m Building My Blog For SUCCESS

Hey there👋,

Hope you are having a great time over there…

It’s a beautiful morning here, and I’m going through my weekly analytics on all my content streams, of which my #buildinpublic project is a very important priority for me.

This week, as promised, I’ll be sharing the:

1. Google Search Console (GSC) Analytics of one of my main project websites - Biliate

2. My Upcoming Plans with Biliate to Make it a SUCCESS (Authority)

So let’s start with the first one without wasting any time…

The GSC Analytics Makes Me Feel Better

I started with this project more than a month ago, as I saw this domain as the best way for me to gain more PRACTICE with my SEO and blogging skills.

Apart from that, the vision is to make it so much better that people prefer this website for learning about Content Creation, in the coming time.

And I started with a basic web design and started experimenting with sub-niches, to find the one I’m gonna niche down in the upcoming months, because that’s the best solopreneur strategy when it comes to building authority on the web, through TOPICAL AUTHORITY!

If you don’t know, topical authority is a strategy of creating content in one or more niches, with a good number of articles (say more than 100 posts in a niche), and thereby becoming an expert or go-to authority in those topics.

Writing 100 articles in just 1 niche is a much better investment than writing 10 articles in 10 different niches.

And here I got my niche to work on - Content Monetization!

It indeed took some time to find it, but I started posting on it in May on a regular basis.

And here I am, with 27 articles on Biliate’s Blog (as of today).

It’s not even one month, but I’m seeing a good increase in impressions and page views on my site’s GSC.

Have a look:

The site crossed its 100 impressions per day milestone this week, which is not a bad start.

It takes more time to index and rank articles on Google, as it’s a complex process with algorithms and ranking.

Still, 2-3 (latest) articles of mine are not indexed (Probably this upcoming week).

Good thing, we are heading in the right direction.

Stats:

1. No. of total posts: 27

2. No. of posts added last week: 4

3. Impressions per month increased by 159%

4. Pageviews increased by 167%

Now let’s talk about what exactly I plan to do in the coming months for Biliate’s growth plan for success in 2023.

Biliate’s Growth Plan for Success

So let’s see what I plan about blog posts first, as it’s the main channel of website traffic.

Blog Posts

I started posting consistently after I had 16-18 articles on my blog already (my old domain, haha)

So, the basic plan for posting is:

1. 10 Response Posts (Articles between 1000-2000 words)

2. 10 Staple posts (Articles between 2000-3000 words)

3. 10 Pillar Posts (Articles with more than 3000+ words)

So… It will be 50 posts on the blog when we are done with these.

This is quite good to elevate the blog and get some good content in front of Google to start ranking, sending traffic to the website, and also considering Biliate as an authority.

After this I’ll be posting it, but less frequently (like 15 posts per month) which will keep going forward.

YT videos

Now we got some good content, it’s time to build some organic good quality backlinks from YT.

This will be just creating 1 or 2 videos per week on the same content we have on the website, from June.

Thereby, repurposing the content in video format and adding the blog post link in the description of each video.

Cool?

Will keep doing that in a consistent manner as it will build some backlinks for the site, and also contribute as proof of authority in front of Google.

Good thing???

I’ll get to learn more about video creation, lighting, and editing stuff. Best practice for content creators.

Agree?

Put Ads on the Website

This is the first step to start monetization on the website from the blog posts.

I don’t have an exact day planned to start, but when I cross 1k+ pageviews, I’ll deploy it.

Will be a great practice for understanding how to implement ads on a website in a good way, as I have learned a lot about it and have also been blogging about it on Biliate.

The ads will work best when we cross 50k+ pageviews on the site, but also good to earn a few bucks monthly.

Create Digital Products

This is a thing that works best for a website when it has become an authority in its space.

As if we don’t have a good number of visitors, we will hardly get any conversions.

These info products and courses will be some high-value ones but need good proof of authority for persuading anyone to buy.

I must tell. it’s easier in the personal branding space but takes more time in the website or blog brand.

Gonna start working on it in the 5th month, when I believe the blog will cross 50k+ pageviews, for sure.

Conclusion

Even though plans are good and keep us focused and disciplined, it’s important to understand that the time factor can be a little different than our expectations.

What matters is we move forward according to our analytics plan than worrying about the time.

Even if it gets late, we will reach it in 6-8 months…

It’s all about consistency, quality content, and good SEO moves that will make Biliate a good authority in the industry.

I know sharing the plans is not the best move before achieving it, but since you are my personal brand audience…

…I felt the feeling of sharing it with you and getting your valuable feedback on it.

Thanks for reading this newsletter. Have a great week ahead.

Lmk your feedback or any questions you have on this. Will appreciate any feedback on it, especially constructive ones.

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