Massive income on my blog this month

Month #3: I make back more than I lost on my blog last month. It’s HUGE

This month was all about improving on what I did last month.

That is, I edited and revised a few of the blog posts that I recycled from an old site and added to my affiliate site this month.

The posts were not very good. I could already tell that my blogging skills had improved over the years.

I did a few things to them that I thought would make them more interesting for googlers. As I pulled these out of a database file (sql) I only had the text.

Unfortunately I didn’t have the original photos I had from when I first posted them on the original site so that was something I needed to address.

I also didn’t have any affiliate links in them as they were posted on my eCommerce website so I had internal links to products to purchase, not external to amazon or similar.

List of actions:

1. Add images back in to the blog posts. Ideally these would be unique and my own images, not reused images. Something people don’t appreciate is that google knows when an image has been reused a million times. If you are the first one to upload your own custom image then you (should) get all the image credit from google as it saw it on your blog first.
2. Add in affiliate links. I included some text hyperlinks and also included some of Amazons advertising blocks using their javascript code. If you use their javascript at least you know the image, code and other details will always be up to date.
3. Rewrites. I did add a lot more content to the posts if I felt I could. I also rewrote the titles to be more intelligent. The previous titles were “Product Name Review”. This round I would say something more like “Product Name Review – this is an awesome product”. Something like anyway.

Adding Amazon advertising blocks to page

I removed the Amazon code blocks a few months later as they were breaking the layout of some of the pages. Visitors were greeted with a white screen. Painful.

What did I learn from that? Always test your pages on desktop, mobile and tablet as often as you can. Especially after theme and module updates.

It doesn’t take a lot of time to do a quick check and it can be the difference between success and failure for making money. If someone came to your store and your front windows were broken you might find they keep walking.

Updating old content

It seems important to highlight how updating old content is key to continuing to rank for your keywords.

Google needs to see recency in your content so you want to go back through your posts and update them. Not major overhauls. Some people see major improvements just by going back and correcting spelling mistakes.

If you change too much you risk altering the content to the point Google loses confidence in what was there.

My situation was different as I was repurposing old blog posts but you get where I’m going with this.

They have been clear that a post written about Widgets in 2009 might not be relevant anymore – especially when compared to the Widgets post someone did only last week.

How long should your blog posts be?

Intuitively I am aiming for 2000 words minimum. I don’t know why but it feels right. I’m not sure I truly have an opinion on a list of products or a product on its own if I can’t write at least 2000 words on it.

The goal of creating quality content that draws traffic, traffic that is written about products and aims to attract people with buying intent, should really be of a good length.

My hunch is that the internet is flooded with 500-word posts on domains that have much stronger domain authority than me.

So to stand out I am going to have to write long posts. One of the posts I edited this month is now over 6000 words.

Side Million. Income report – Month #3

It was a huge jump back in to profitability this month. $12.00 USD. I’m rich!

Seriously though, this is the seed you need to know that you can do this.

It’s a numbers game, the more quality content you write, the more potential you have to earn.

Side Million. Traffic Report – Month #3

Traffic held on for a while and I did a few more little reddit posts to give it a kick.