My Monthly Income & Traffic Report – May 2013

by Tung Tran on June 12, 2013

income reportWelcome to my May monthly income & traffic report!

Each month I will be publishing a detailed report that tells you what I’ve done and lessons learned during the previous month. I will transparently show you how my online business is progressing including my income, expenses and traffic throughout my websites.

There are four main reasons that make me do this:

  1. To help me keep track of my own progress.
  2. To push myself to see improvements month after month.
  3. To lead by example by sharing both my wins and failures.
  4. To inspire other people.

Ok. Let’s get straight into this month’s report.

Important Going-Ons In May

May 2013 was an amazing month for my online business. Not only was my niche website able to make $1000+ in its 2nd month, but my keyword research service got a lot more clients as well.

I also noticed a spike in traffic to Cloud Living Journey as a result of being mentioned on other blogs, here are some of them that I like:

Thank you guys for all your support! @Spencer, @Jon, @John.

My Niche Website Project

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NWP Update 2: Making $1000+ in a Month

by Tung Tran on May 30, 2013

niche website update 2It’s time for another update on my public niche website project.

So far I’ve written 7 posts showing you exactly what I’ve done in this project including keyword research, setting up the site, creating content, etc.

I think those articles are barely enough for anyone to start an online business with niche website. It doesn’t require too much work and money to build a successful niche website, the key here is to take action on your first.

Once you know the process, scaling up the business is easy.

May was a great month for me and my niche website. This is my first time being an Amazon Associate and honestly I’ve never thought that my site was freaking profitable like that. Here is the detail:

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How To Create Affordable and High Quality Content That Makes Money

by Tung Tran on May 16, 2013

How To Create Affordable and High Quality Content That Makes MoneyContent is undoubtedly the most important part of every website. If you want to:

  • Rank well on Google,
  • Drive more traffic and
  • Make big money,

…You need content :)

Content can be anything that people can digest on your website, such as:

  • articles
  • videos
  • images
  • infographics, etc.

But for the sake of building a successful niche website that generates passive income, the most popular and favorable type of content people always put on their websites is written content. In this post, I will be sharing with you the approach that I’ve used for over 2 years to create hundreds of high quality articles at an affordable price, which are the back bone of my online businesses.

What Is High Quality Content?

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Long Tail Pro Review – Is It Really The Best Keyword Research Tool?

by Tung Tran on May 10, 2013

Long Tail Pro ReviewAs my regular readers will know, the step that contributed the most to the success of my niche website project is keyword research.

Yes, It’s crucially important!

And the piece of software that helps me ease the keyword research part is Long Tail Pro which was created by Spencer Haws at NichePursuits.

I have been using this tool for years and am a big fan ot it. It’s pretty handy and well worth the money. In today’s post, I want to give you an in-depth look at the inside of Long Tail Pro and explain why I call this as the best keyword research tool.

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My 1st Monthly Income & Traffic Report – April 2013

by Tung Tran on May 3, 2013

income reportWelcome to my very first monthly income & traffic report! I’m super excited!

Each month I will be publishing a detailed report that tells you what I’ve done and lessons learned during the previous month. I will transparently show you how my online business is progressing including my income, expenses and traffic throughout my websites.

Actually I was inspired by 2 people Pat Flynn at SmartPassiveIncome by his popular income report series and Matthew Woodward at matthewwoodward.co.uk. There are four main reasons that make me do this:

  1. To help me keep track of my own progress.
  2. To push myself to see improvements month after month.
  3. To lead by example by sharing both my wins and failures.
  4. To inspire other people.

Ok. Let’s get straight into this month’s report.

Important Going-Ons In April

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How I Built A Niche Site That Ranked #1 in Google and Made $93.32 in 38 days

by Tung Tran on April 25, 2013

How I Built A Niche Site That Ranked #1 in Google and Made $93.32 in 38 daysAs I’ve promised in the last update, I will be revealing my entire process to build my 2nd niche site from scratch in today’s post as a case study so that you guys may learn something valuable and apply the tips to your own businesses. Some of the tasks that I did are basically the same so you may want to read some of my previous posts. I will not replicate what I’ve written so be sure to check out those posts before reading ahead if you are new to this blog.

Let’s recap some important things about my niche website project:

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NWP Update 1: Learning from a First-timer’s Mistakes

by Tung Tran on April 19, 2013

images (1)Howdy ;)

It’s been over a month since I published my last article on setting up a website with WordPress. You guys have been missing me huh? Me too :) I really want to write something to keep you updated with my progress but I had some problems with time management and productivity so that I can’t find any time left to write a detailed post. Hope you guys forgive me on that! Today I have a lots to say so let’s get straight into the point: My first niche site was a failure. A BIG ONE!

Why? Let me explain :)

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How To Set Up A Website The Right Way With WordPress

by Tung Tran on March 4, 2013

howtosetupawebsiteNow that we’ve chosen a niche and completed keyword research, the next step is to focus on geting the site live and then we can start adding content and building our website’s foundation.

There are many different ways to set up a niche website, and the process has many same steps as setting up micro sites or any other normal WordPress site but with the ultimate goal of generating income in mind I will keep the site as simple as possible while focusing on improving user experience and conversion rate to maximize the income potential.

In this article, I will be sharing with you the entire process and checklist I used to quickly set up a website that not only encourages reader’s engagements (user-friendly) but also rank high on Google (SEO-friendly). Let’s get started!

Why WordPress?

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WPSharely Review: How To Increase Social Shares by 39 times In 24 Hours

by Tung Tran on March 1, 2013

There are obviously dozens of ways you can use to increase social sharing. But Do you know the easiest and most effective way to get people to willingly share, tweet and +1  your article?

The good thing is:

You don’t have to spend countless of hours engaging on Facebook, Twitter and Google + and begging people to share your post.

You even don’t have to disturb your readers by plastering social sharing button all over your site.

It all happens inside your blog. You have to do just one thing. BOOM! Your website is flooded with social loves from your readers.

Sound interesting?

Here it is: Give people something people desperately want in return for a share.

Simple but effective. But how to do that? Today in this article, I will be sharing with you  a new plugin which really helped me automate the process.Let’s get right to it!

WPSharely Overview

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Keyword Research: Why 95% of Marketers Are Doing Wrong?

by Tung Tran on February 23, 2013

Keyword ResearchDo you know the reason why over 95% of people fail at building successful niche websites no matter how hard they try?

Do you know that the success of your websites depend on just one simple first step?

If you follow some successful people like Pat Flynn, Spencer Haws, Justin and Joe, you will probably know that their niche site’s successes largely rely on just one thing : Their ability to find golden keywords.

In other words: They know exactly how to do keyword research the right way.

The reality is that one of the most important skills for any internet marketers or website builders for making an authority site or having success with SEO in general is KEYWORD RESEARCH.

In this update of Public Niche Website Project, I will be sharing with you all the information and tactics you need to master the art of keyword research, to escape the group of failure and to start making big bucks online with your niche websites. Let’s get started!

Understanding What Makes a Golden Keyword

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