How To Make $30k Per Month Online
This is the third set of notes I've generated after listening to the Niche Pursuits YouTube channel to make money online, whether passively or not, you need to do the following things...
This is one of the most exciting interviews from Niche Pursuits that I've watched and analyzed so far. After learning how to sail a sunfish, I've fallen in love with owning and living on a bigger sailboat. Of course, my partner thinks I'm crazy and will never happen, but it's nice to dream.
Here are my notes from the interview.
Introduction
Kristin Hanes - Founder of The Wayward Home
Rags to riches, living on a sailboat right after being laid off
Had to go to the gym to shower and get the Internet to write her blog
Shares her steps in the beginning
Got onto Media Vine after 6 months
Was a radio news reporter, journalist major
In 2016 the entire newsroom was laid off
A year and a half later turned into blogging
Never thought about niche sites or online affiliate stuff
Her partner Tom purchased a sailboat, she wanted to find a job that would let her travel full-time
AH HA moment was when she read about a digital nomad making $100k per month
Was doing travel writing, didn't make a lot of money, a lot of work- It was her first website, and built it in June 2017
Made a lot of mistakes- Wrote articles about interviewing nomads, interview-based articles, didn't know about SEO
Growing the Site
Published on SFGate, the nomad stories got a lot of hits
Interview-based articles were meant to inspire people about nomad life
Her articles were republished on SFGate through canonicals and got a lot of traffic
Got a lot of viewership through that
Did social sharing, in the beginning, might not be the way to go today
In 2017/2018 there wasn't anybody about van life and ended up on the first page of Google SERP
Then got on Media Vine by accidentally Google and Pinterest
Wanted to make money through ads, wasn't interested in writing affiliate marketing
Wanted to do a news-like site
Was making $20/$30 a day, then got a private ad for $500 a month
Was living on a sailboat: no running water, no shower, the boat was in a state of disrepair
Living on the boat allowed her to live with no rent and wait for the $500 a month ad revenue
Current income: $25k to $30k per month, very seasonal, summer the most income, winter the least
400,000 page views on average per month
Started farming out Pinterest work (50k to 70k page views per month)
Strategies
Only social strategy is Pinterest, doesn't do FB anymore
100% uses Google (optimization) for growth
Took the course Stupid Simple SEO in 2019
Took the course and started implemented the changes right away
Traffic went way up, started with 20k page views in January and by May was at 120k pageviews
By the summer page views went up to 300k
That turned her into an SEO convert
Doing keyword research and how to put them in naturally helped
Now has hired writers
Guess had about 100 articles at the beginning
End Notes
This is the third set of notes I've generated after listening to the Niche Pursuits YouTube channel to make money online, whether passively or not, you need to do the following things:
You need over 100 high-quality articles
Monetize each one of those high-quality articles
Do Keyword Research
Optimize your articles for SEO or tweak old ones
That seems to be the gist of it all to building niche websites.