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Have you been struggling to get organic traffic to your website? If you have today, we’re gonna talk about a way that you can boost the traffic to your website in only 30 dates. So stick around, let’s talk about that. hello, YouTube and a very special hello to all my subscribers, my name’s Phil. And welcome to my channel.
This is where I document my journey building on online income. If that’s something that you are trying to do as well, why not subscribe? Because all these videos will be very helpful to you. So I’ve got a lot of things I wanna talk about data guys, but the first thing I want to talk about really is what’s happening.
Next month. If you are a Project 24 member already, you probably really know what the content warrior challenge is. This is where we try to build a lot of content onto our sites, which in turn builds a lot of organic traffic. Now, if you are not in Project 24, Do stick around because I’ve got a special thing for you guys, and it will allow you to do exactly the same thing as what we are doing in Project 24.
The other thing I also wanna talk about later in the video is how you can make sure that you are writing the right types of posts, and I’m gonna need your help to do that for my next video. So also. Watch out for that. But the main inspiration for today was a conversation I had with my friend, Michael who’s actually my colleague from the iOS grind, which is the other YouTube channel that I’m working on at the moment.
So we’re building up this business together. Now. He also likes to watch these videos. So hi, Mike, how are you doing? But the best thing about Michael is he gives me feedback. He doesn’t hold back when he thinks something’s a little bit IFF. He tells me, which I really appreciate. So in a previous video, I was talking about Project 24 because this is really the program that I’m following to build up my sites and it’s working and he laser focused into a comment that I made.
And this is what I said. So I’m gonna be selling you on. Project 24 and why it’s really changed my life. So now he said, oh, come on, Phil really? Is that true? Has it really changed your life? Aren’t you just saying that aren’t you just trying to make sales, but it is the truth. Before I joined Project 24, I was making a whole host of mistakes and none of them.
Of which I had many, getting much organic traffic, if any, at all. So when I joined Project 24, back in may, 2019, things started to change. I went from this to this. And this is what I want to talk about. Now, I’m going to reveal all the sites that I used to have and show you exactly how much traffic I got for them.
What I was trying to do, some of the mistakes I was making. So stick around for that, because if you recognize any of these mistakes that you are making too, there’s a.
What I wanted to do today is really just to show you my entire history of trying to make money online. I’ve had lots and lots of different websites, but for the most part, I’ve given up on them too soon. And I really didn’t know what I was doing and I made a lot of mistakes. So let’s start back when I really started making websites, which was around 2018.
There were other sites I tried to make before that, but to be honest, I didn’t really track them. I didn’t know what I was doing at that time. So if we go back and look at the first attempt I made at a website, which had some. So this website was called ninja proof reader.com. And the concept was that it was a service niche.
And what would happen was if people wanted their writing to be corrected or advertising, anything like that, then they would send this in through the system that I built in the website. And then I would correct it. And it, basically it was a service and I spent a lot of money. Building the site from scratch.
So this was something that I used as a project as always learning to, to build websites. In the timeframe, which was what was around, so this is a website from the End of 2017 to the beginning of 2018. It got 3,870 page views. But if we look at the total organic views for this, the organic views for this were 2,837.
Now this might seem quite promising, but the thing is I was building this site myself and I hadn’t excluded my IP address from Google analytics. So most of that is actually. Going and checking everything. I’d been doing all the little changes. So when you are learning how to do things like you’re just playing around with basic things like CSS you could be hitting your website, a hundred times a day.
So over a couple of months, this is pretty much just me. This website didn’t make me any money. I actually, I built it all and then there was an update that I tried to do and it just broke the site. I still do have this domain, but it’s on the back. I never went back to it. I think it’s still a good idea, but basically I wouldn’t spend so much time wasting my time building the site, I would just get something out of the box, a theme and just go for it from there.
So guys you might have noticed, perhaps the camera is looking a little bit better. I’ve actually got a new camera, which I can show you a little. So I actually bought a cannon M 50 EOS. I’m trying out for the first time here. Now I’m not that tech SST savvy, so it takes me a little bit of time to figure things out.
Just gimme any feedback on what you think of the new camera. Does it look better? Is there anything that I should be doing to change it? If you can do that? I’d really appreciate it guys. So another site that I set up was called couch earner.com. And it was meant to make money.
Niche. And I was gonna promote lots of affiliate links and, there were lots and lots of programs out there that you can do. You can do that for. And so this site, I started around the beginning of 2018 and it got 233 page views in total. And basically all it was just a front page with a couple of links.
I didn’t write any content on this. and that’s why it only got 10 organic page views. I did have a Facebook group for this sorry, a Facebook page for this, but to be honest, I didn’t know what I was doing. And I just thought you put a website up there and people find it little did I know the real way to get traffic?
So another website that I had was called happier lives matter.com. And it was really an attempt to do everything all niches in one. So there were sections that taught, I spoke about the finance sections that spoke about health and it was my first kind of attempt at writing articles. But in fact, all I did was I just spun other people’s content.
I actually think I actually copied people’s websites, word for word. Copied and pasted it into just have content. So over the period of 2018 to 2019, it only got 278 views of which only 30 of them were actually organic. And again, it didn’t make me any money. I was slowly getting to it.
Track in terms of what content is, but of course it wasn’t original, so it was never gonna work in the eyes of Google. So another website that I had from the end of say, mid 2019 end of 2019, it was called free business website.com. The idea was basically if you. Hosting from blue host through my link I would get the commission.
And for that, I would build you a free site. So the sites would be fairly basic, only a couple of pages. So the main page, and then about page and maybe a, a. I dunno, I was gonna do a first post or something like that, but it basically wasn’t gonna cost the person anything to get a website and I was gonna design it cuz I was an expert of course, cause I’d already made all these sites.
And that again, didn’t really work cuz I didn’t advertise it much. I used Facebook a little bit. I think I actually did a couple Facebook ads for this. It didn’t really get off the ground, so that’s got 200 and. So that got about 440 odd views of which only one of them was an organic view. So it didn’t work very well at all.
No one ever bought anything from that site and didn’t make any money. I thought the concept was sound, but perhaps it sounded too good to be true. So it was a bit. So another website that I had was called the three K day. So this was basically in the make money online niche again. And the idea was that if you made $3,000 a day for a whole year, that makes you a millionaire.
And if my math is right and it’s basically me pretending that I was making that amount of money, every. And I was going to push them over to a course by a guy called John Crestani. And the thing is I’d never, ever bought that course. I’d never even seen inside. I didn’t know anything about it, but I was basically going to say, oh this will make you that kind of money.
Now I don’t know anything about John Christi. His course, I think it’s still up. It may steal. It might be the best course in the world. Possibly. I haven’t seen it. Just for me compared to what I do now. I do think his tactics a little bit aggressive, I think. And I think he oversimplifies things a little bit, watching his videos, they were very compelling, which made me think that I could make money from this.
So that was something I started in late 2018. He got 621 views. Again, this was something I promoted on Facebook. And I also, I had a couple of ads, I think, for this one, but it ended up getting me banned from, so my personal Facebook account got banned from ads because of things like this, because they thought it was spammy.
Obviously the way I was doing it was a bit spammy. So it only got 621 page views overall. Only two organic views in total. So this, again, didn’t really work because I wasn’t being genuine. And also I wasn’t producing any content at all. I was just trying to do ads. So this next website was my stroke of genius stroke.
As I thought it was gonna be it was called ravish me XYZ because it was a very cheap domain. It would only cost me maybe $2. And the idea I had. I’d read that traffic junky, which is an ad network, mainly for adult websites. They were doing very cheap deals. And actually when I signed up, if I paid 25 for my ads, they actually gave me $25 extra.
And they did that twice for me. So I got $50 free ads basically. So the idea that I had for this one, To build a website that would promote things for ed. So erectile dysfunction, and also pro promote things like dating sites, these pickup artists people on YouTube, they have a couple of decent affiliates.
What I thought. We’re decent affiliate deals. And this was all through things like click bank. And the idea was to put that up on these adult sites and to get people to click through to them. But the thing I forgot is. People don’t go to those sites to look at ads. And if they do, they’re looking for ads for a particular thing.
I didn’t get any money for that at all. And it was just a shot in the dark and it didn’t work. So I probably ended up paying a couple hundred dollars on ads for nothing, nothing ever worked. It did get 500 page views. Through to it, but that was all direct and it only really got four organic page views.
I dunno how that was possible, but it was a bit of a failure. The concept was a bit flawed. Didn’t work. So around the beginning of 2019, I set up a site called magic weight loss, t.com. And I actually did a video about this, which you can check out here on this channel. And it talks a bit more about why it failed.
Basically the entire site was around this one affiliate product, which was this red detox tea that was quite popular on ClickBank. It may still be popular. I did actually make one sale from this site. So what I did was basically I used their free resources from the affiliate page and I paid a lot for ads.
And I paid a lot for email marketing, but buying leads from other people and the ads. Yeah. Again, this was one of the reasons I got banned, cuz I was doing it at the same time, I think as the three K day dot com website and yeah. Anything to do with health and doing before and after pictures is really bad for Facebook ads.
So that kind of got my personal account banned and it did get 1,141 page views, but only 13 of those were organic. And like I said, I did make one sale. I think maybe one or two sales, which was, it was good in a way because that kind of told me that this stuff does work. So it gave me a little bit of inspiration for affiliate marketing.
Cause I’d never made any money from the affiliate marketing team before. The thing is it cost me much more money than I made. So it just wasn’t sustainable. So this brings me to possibly my biggest success. Pre-Project 24. So this is a site which I’m really quite ashamed of because it made me feel like a real shady sleazy person.
So the niche was all about astrology. This is something that I learned about from a previous job. So when I lived in France for three years, I worked for a startup company that ran about three websites related to astrology. And they were just selling these generated astrology charts, like reports.
And I saw a gap. There was a gap in the market and something that they weren’t doing that much, which I thought. Could make a lot of money. And so I started doing that. It’s basically just answering people’s questions. And I started doing this and this website was entirely based on email marketing.
Now I’m ashamed of this because I don’t believe in astrology. It’s not something I believe in. I was pretending to be someone who didn’t exist and I was basical. Praying on people, vulnerable people. And yeah, I can see that now, although it is something that I do debate because I was trying to help people.
I never gave bad advice. It was practical advice, but it was wrong. I can see that now. But the thing is, it made me money and it really. That position I was in my life not to turn down money. So this actually did get a bit of direct traffic, about 18,000 page views, but only about 610 of them were organic now.
This site really brings home to me a change in my mentality. I went from thinking with these kinds of sites that making money online is something sleazy, something that people do to trick people. afterwards realizing that you can make money online and be a legitimate person to help people and to actually, not feel bad about yourself.
So I am ashamed of this site, but it’s an important lesson that I had to learn. So let’s talk about how things got a little bit better. So I’ve built three sites following the Project 24 method and site two, which is all about weddings. That was, I started that back in October, 2019, it’s got 7,147 page views to date of which 91% were organic.
Site three, which is my best performing site so far, was also started at exactly the same time around the end of October, 2019. It’s got 47,000 page views of which about 90% organic page views. And. My first ever site, which I started back in May, 2019. It’s got 55,000 page views and it’s getting about 86%, which are organic.
So you can see that is a massive difference from having no traffic at all to getting over 55,000 page FTS. Now what’s the difference? It’s quite simple. I learned how to build traffic by writing content. On things that people are actually looking for. And the main focus is trying to help them rather than just trying to get into their pocket.
so there’s quite a famous kind of competition that we have within Project 24, which is called the content warrior challenge. So it happens twice a year. And within one month, what we try to do is write a minimum of 60,000 words. So that’s really the target we’re trying to hit. And many people actually go above and beyond it.
If you are already in Project 24, a lot about this, but what I wanted to try and do. Help out the people that aren’t in Project 24. So all we’re gonna do is together. We’re just going to document how many words we’re writing a day, and that will just give you so much motivation. So what I’ve done is I’ve actually created a simple Google form.
So you can find that in the description below. So all you’ve got to do there is if you just put in a username, a nickname, something. You want to use your warrior name, if you want to call it that. And an email address, all we’re gonna do is I’m gonna put that onto a Google sheet. And then each day we’re just going to put in how many words we’re writing and you can see yourself how well you are doing now.
This will purely just be for motivational reasons. So please don’t put a name that will reveal your niche or who you are. And also just remember that. Email address is just to give you access to this Google sheet. I’m not gonna keep it. I’m not gonna try and contact you at all. I’m not gonna share that with anyone else.
So this is purely just so you can follow along because I’ve done this twice already. And I just find that, seeing that everyone else is doing the same thing. It keeps you on track. So if you remember 60,000 words, All you’ve really got to do is for 30 days, if you write 2000 words, which is one decent response post, you can get to 60,000 words.
Also, if you don’t want to write any articles right now, if you’re building a YouTube channel, what we say is each video counts for about 2000 words. So if you film a video, and you put it out. That will be the same as writing a 2000 word article. The other thing is it doesn’t have to be for one site. It can be across many different sites and also you don’t even need to write it.
If you are outsourcing the content that still counts. The idea is just to get that amount of content onto your website. So it can give you a. As it grows over time. So that’s something you’re interested in checking out the description. And as I said, this is purely just a kind of a community thing. I just want to get people involved.
I wanna get people motivated. So of course the most important thing for this. What are you gonna write? What titles are you gonna write? A couple weeks ago, we spoke about the Google alphabet suit method to get auto suggest queries from Google. And what I’m gonna do in the next video is actually show you how to do that.
So I’m gonna give you a few insider tips to make sure that you’re doing this properly. So all I want you guys to do is help me choose the topic. So what I’ve done is Project 24. Actually offer a list of over 300 different niches and basically we’re gonna choose one of those. So all I want you to do is comment below with a number between one and 300, and then randomly, I’m gonna choose one of those people who comment, and I’m going to do a Google alphabet soup method video.
In that niche. So let’s see what we come up with. So make sure you comment below between zero and 300, any number you want, whichever number you like. And I will pick one at random, might even get my wife to pick it and we’ll do that in our next video. Okay guys. Thanks so much for watching. Don’t forget. If you want to see the same kind of success as I’ve seen, why not consider joining Project 24?
There is another link in the description that will take you over to a webinar, which explains exactly how the method works. And I can tell you, I can show you that it does actually work. If you put the effort in, you will start seeing results. Okay, guys, thanks very much for watching. I’ll see you in the next video for the Google alphabet soup method.