Enthusiastic Gamer

Another day in the traffic grinding journey. I wrote more, apply for a few popular Advertising Network, and got rejected. The Ad earning took a hit during the global pandemic. During this time, another company contact and provide me another way to monetize my traffic.
This helps me increase me earning to 400$/ Month, not much, but it did help me to move a little further on the journey.

Current Traffic Stat (Last 30 Days)

Users: 41,278
Sessions: 61,337
Pageviews: 84,344

Continue with my writing and some minor fix on previous Post SEO, I manage to hit a new record for traffic this month - 160k pageview/ month.

I was also expecting my revenue to increase with this traffic, turn out the "thing" that affects everyone globally also affect my little website, the ad revenue drop 30% as no business want to advertise during these times. Anyway, I still had a long time goal to hit 1,000,000 pageviews!

On October 1, I got to 30,700 Pageviews, and thought that I just need to write more and got new records. With some quick calculation, I was thinking that I need ~70 more posts to get 3 times the traffic.

Well, that is partly correct. While you do need to have content for more traffic. Your content must match what the user is trying to find - a basic SEO & Content problem.

With that in mind, I make a plan on Dec following the 30 days stat of November to see what is my highest pageview content (pages)

After that, I organized my keywords again and start writing posts base on that. At the time I estimated, the goal is to increase my traffic for 38% for each content I published.

The result? On 31 January, my traffic is increased by 380% (From 30k pageviews to 105k pageview!) and my revenue got doubled. This is just from 14 posts with the right keyword (less than what I have estimated from quick math)

It is an early gain, and I believe it can grow more, I will document a detailed step by step at the end of March 2020 as I already planned out my next writing streak.

Checked my revenue for the end of January, and it got passed 250$!
This is the combination of the new posts I wrote in Dec and January. As well as an uptrend in searching volume. I am planning to write more posts and see if this can grow!
Current stat (Google Analytics)

Sessions
86,245

Users
61,870

Page Views
109,946

I hit 28k sessions and 37,700 page views in September!

I finally understand not to write about whatever I like - people don't just search whatever you wrote, but they search for what they want.

A basic SEO lesson that took me almost a year to learn. Most of the content I wrote now was base on the previous highest page views posts.

This is to make sure the time I spent on writing is not in vain.

Despite not being an English native, I have happened to write more than 100 guides for my games library. This month, I decided to write even more. It's exhausting, but it's the only way to grow the website.

The website currently has 90 post - which only has ~15 posts that attract the most visitors. I need more of these posts!

Hosting on shared VPS sucks. The price is lovely when you first signed up with the provider (2.95/ month - peanuts money!) But then for a year, the price returned to normal 15$/month for 20k monthly visitors!

I moved from WordPress hosting >> Self-hosted with various shared hosting Wordpress and now to the Cloud!

I created a website way back in 2017 where I shared about my journey in my games library. Mostly about games guides and how to play.

The earning was peanut at first. 0.12$ was the very first MONTHLY earning I had. Over the year, I learned about SEO, Ad Networks, website growing and finally managed to integrated Adsense earlier this year.

Currently, I managed to get ~40$/ month (Enough to buy a discount game after minus the expense from hosting :) )

I had the feeling I had to have some smart way to scale the site, so here we go, let's see the step I take to scale up this little site.

https://ethugamer.com