Youtube video transcript
So you’re going through your search analysis and the same website keeps popping up for every single post that you have written and every single post that you want to write, what do you do? Hello, YouTube and very special to all my subscribers, my name’s Phil. And welcome to my channel. This is where I document my journey, trying to build an online income.
So as many of you actually know I’ve been doing this by following the Project 24 method. This is a program that’s set up by Income School. So Jim Harmer and Ricky Kesler, and I’m almost about a year into this in fact, next week will be the one year Ann. Of being a member of Project 24. Because in recent weeks I’ve suddenly got an increase in my traffic.
I’ve been trying to double down on what I’ve been doing. So I set myself the challenge to reach a hundred articles by. The end of the year as it were. So I’m actually up to about 91 today. So this morning I wanted to write another post to try and reach my goal of a hundred by the end of next week.
And I put the query into Google just to check that my search analysis had been spot on when I did it a few weeks ago. And I checked through all the competitions and there was a particular website. I looked at the webpage and something seemed very familiar. I looked through. And I spotted that the theme was exactly the same theme as I was using.
This was another Project 24 member. And as I looked through the website, I realized that they were writing about exactly the same niche and they had written about several similar topics. And also they’d written about some topics that I was planning to write later this week. So what do you do? I have to admit that I was a little.
Taken aback. The wind was taken out of my sail a little bit because I thought I’d picked a niche that no one had heard. Of course, that’s not the case, every single niche that you’re gonna write about. There’s some level of competition, but what do you do in this situation? You’ve got two options, really option a is to try and beat them and always be writing your articles a little bit longer, go back and try and improve on the articles and beat them out every time or.
The other option is to try and cooperate with them. In fact, I think option B is always gonna be the best option. The internet is a big place, even though you may choose a very small niche, there’s still enough room for everyone. Some people have their strengths, and I’m sure that the two guys that will be running this website, they’re gonna want to write about different types of queries than I will.
Just because of comfort. but the real issue is there’s a difference between the competition that you get from other web creators, other content creators, and the members of Project 24. The issue I have is that in Project 24, we taught the same methods. So if you are in the same niche, you’re always gonna at some point step over each.
So rather than going down option a, which is to try and beat them out. And every single time that they write a post, I’m gonna go back and add a thousand words to my post, which is a treadmill approach. What I’m going to do is I’m actually going to reach out to them. I’m gonna say, Hey guys, it looks like we’re in the same niche.
Looks like we’ve had a few post titles and post queries that are the same. How about we? Avoid each other. So in fact, the query that I wanted to write this morning, they’d already written an article that was pretty much spot on what I was going to write. So all I did was I took it off my list and I went and wrote something else, something that they hadn’t covered yet, and something that was still low hanging fruit.
So if you ever find yourself in that situation where you are doing your search analysis, and you can only find other Project 24 members, my advice to you is just don’t write that post. There’s plenty more queries in the sea as it were. And if you can find them for the Project 24 community, it’s normally quite easy, just send them a message and say, we’re in the same niche.
Maybe we can work together so as not to get in each other’s way. And also there might be some opportunities for linking to each other’s websites to help improve each other and even some sort of collaboration on YouTube or in posts in some way. Okay. So I just wanted to share that story because I know that some people, they would feel quite defeated.
And I do admit that when I first saw that I did feel like, ah, the balloons burst a little bit, but I quickly got over it because I know that I’ve got a list of more than 200 queries on my hit list and they can’t possibly write them. Okay. So I am coming up to my one year anniversary as a member of Project 24.
So each month I’ve been releasing different videos of my updates and my traffic. If you happen to see my last one, you can see that suddenly over the last month, my traffic has gone up and what I’m gonna do for next week, which is the one year Ann. I’m gonna go right through all of my posts and just give you information detailed information on what posts are ranking what kind of numbers I’m getting for posts, whether their response staple or pillar posts and all the details that I can find in order to give you a bit of an analysis and maybe help you out with your site as well as giving me an opportunity to figure out what’s happening with my.
Another thing that I did this week in addition to writing another three or four posts in the last couple of days, I’ve actually put ads on my main Project 24 websites. So I’m with Ezoic. I signed up through the Project 24 Link that they have, which allows us as Project 24 members to join Ezoic with much lower page views than other non-project 24 members.
And so I’m about three or four days into that process. The ads are up, they’re just optimizing them over the next couple weeks. So hopefully in the next couple of weeks, I can release a video, just talking about my experience at the very early stage of putting ads on my. Okay guys. So that was just a short video today, just to tell you what’s been happening and hopefully give you a little bit of motivation if you’ve experienced the same thing as me.
If you are not a Project 24 member, and you’d like to find out more about it, there is a link in the description. After nearly a year of being a member of Project 24, I can really recommend it. This is my first time ever in about five years of trying wherever I’ve ever got organic traffic to a website.
And it’s really working. It takes a long time. It takes a lot of effort, but I can tell you it’s really worth it.