Yeah here’s a weekly chart of NVDA. You can see it’s still in an upward trajectory although the last few weeks have been very volatile. I made a good chunk of taxable profit on this one because I was trend following and got stopped out after a few months. Ideally I’d like to have ridden NVDA’s trend for over a year but the market does what the market wants to do and I’m just grateful to have doubled my investment. Read more...

This is one of the most interesting 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 the idea of owning and living on a bigger sailboat. Of course my partner thinks I’m crazy and it 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 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 Interview based articles were meant to inspire people about nomad life Published on SFGate, the nomad stories got a lot hits Her articles 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 doing 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 in the beginning End Notes This is the third set of notes I’ve generated after listening to the Niche Pursuits YouTube channel and to make money online, whether passively or not, you need to do the following things: Read more...

The following set of posts will be focused on how to build and deploy niche websites fast using Hugo, a static site generator (SSG). This is the template I’m using to build niche websites to make money online. Of course, there are pros and cons to using a SSG for websites but if your goal is to make money online, then the structure and speed of a SSG make a lot of sense. Read more...

Treat making money online as a business. Focus on quality content and value to build pageviews and income

Is it possible to forecast silver prices with Python? Yes, and in this tutorial, I will show you how I do it using NeuralProphet and Python. If you want to just grab all the code right away, just navigate down to the Silver Prices Forecasting NeuralProphet Model Code section. Before we begin, we need to make sure we have all the right Python libraries loaded into our environment. Aside from the standard matplotlib, pandas, and numpy libraries, you will need to install yfinance and neuralprophet. Read more...

Your income strategy should never come at the expense of well-written content and its readability.

Sharing notes on how how to make money online using niche websites.

I’ve written about the price appreciation trap we’re in for Real Estate and how the Real Estate Crash is Delayed, but make no mistake it’s coming

As long as you’re disciplined at moving your stops, you can just “set it and forget” until the trend flips and you’re taken out.

We’re stuck in a real estate price appreciation trap that will end badly, one day.