Honest lessons from a dad who published 100 posts and started over.
Thirty days ago, my Pinterest account had zero views. Today it has over 1,500 monthly impressions, 83 outbound clicks to my blog, and a consistent daily traffic flow that didn’t exist a month ago. I’m not a Pinterest expert. I’m a regular dad with a full-time job who figured this out while building a blog…
Last month, Pinterest told me I had 79 outbound clicks. People were clicking my pins and visiting my blog. Google Analytics told a very different story. The numbers didn’t match. Pinterest was showing real activity. Google was showing almost nothing. And for a blogger trying to grow traffic and eventually qualify for AdSense, that gap…
One of the most common questions I had before starting this blog was: how much does it actually cost? The answers I found online were all over the place. Some said you could start for free. Some listed setups that cost hundreds of dollars a month. Neither felt like the honest answer for someone in…
I want to show you something that most bloggers won’t show you. The real numbers. The early numbers. The numbers from before anything is working. A month into the new version of this blog, I opened Google Search Console and took a screenshot of everything. Not because the numbers are impressive — they’re not —…