How I Went From $50 PM to $1k PM in Just Two Months

Hello everybody!

I am going to share with you the amazing story that changed my 3-year-old blog forever - I hope so ;)
I always waited for this moment but I never thought it would take this long, anyway, the past is past and now I can finally share my story.

The Dip

This is all about my blog MoneyWika that I started in July 2017 under the domain inconite com

I posted about making money online and cryptocurrency. Within 2 months, the blog started getting traffic from search engines but suddenly the traffic started dipping.
I thought that the domain name "inconite" had no meaning so, I moved to "moneywika".

The traffic rose again but was not up to the mark. I did everything I could - posting great content, linking from quality sites, etc but the traffic never went up, so, I gave up on my blog.
I left it untouched for almost 2 years(April 2018 - Feb 2020)

The Rise

Thanks to Covid-19, everything's changed! - I am not happy though. No Covid19 = no traffic but no loss of lives.

During the lockdown, I suddenly found myself having too much spare time. This is when I started taking care of my blog.

Things I did to improve my traffic:
1: Modified all the old posts
2: Changed the Theme
3: Published some new ones
4: Requested the removal of posts on other sites that copied my content.
5: Disavowed some spam links
6: Optimized the site - load speed, image optimized, etc.

Here is the Traffic Stats screenshot from Google Analytics

In just 30 days, I started seeing improvement in the traffic.
Now, it's been 70 days since I started taking care of my blog and the traffic has grown from 10 - 20 visits a day to 700+. Wow!

Not only that, the site's Alexa rank grew too!
It was my dream to have an Alexa rank of under 150k. Luckily my blog now ranks under 130K.

And, I am doing everything I can to increase the traffic further so that my blog can rank under 100k.

How I Convert Traffic into Money?

Coming to the money-making part, I don't run ads. 100% of my income is through affiliate marketing.

I have a few golden posts - Best Money Making sites post is one of them.

It has a list of 12 money-making sites. Some of them offer awesome affiliate commissions, for others, I run Maxbounty offers.

All in all, I am getting tons of Affiliate sign-ups and leads. I never thought that traffic from search could be that effective.

And, you would be surprised to know that 80% of my search traffic is from Yahoo - yes, Yahoo!
For some reason, Google still doesn't like my blog but there is a slow and steady increase in Google traffic as well.

This is it, I hope you enjoyed my story!
Thanks for reading!

Quick Update: After Moneywika’s traffic dipped following the April ’22 algorithm update, I refused to give up. I pivoted into affiliate marketing and went on to earn over a million dollars. Now, I’m channeling that momentum into RytePad —my newly launched tool for managing daily tasks, private journaling, goal tracking, and personalized notes, all in one privacy‑first webapp.