24 Month Free Legit Way To Promote Your Website, Facebook, YouTube or Whatever Social Media or Affiliate link you have.
Need a legit free way to promote your website, Facebook, YouTube or whatever social media or affiliate link you have.
I put together this 24 month step by step action plan that you can do to grab customers online. The cost to get customers can be expensive, especially when you’re starting out and don’t really have deep pockets.
Can you find faster methods, yes up-course you can. There are many online guru’s willing to take your hard earned money to show you exactly what I am showing you here for free. No strings attached, just quality information that can be used for those that really don’t have a huge marketing budget.
Can it work? YES
Is it fast? NO
It does take time and persistence: Can it be done faster, sure, if you have deep pockets. Just be patient and it will work.
You will see the website timeline month to month, but it is an example: your success may be higher or lower depending on your commitment. Also, the earning that is listed below is when we incorporate ads so you will also need to add ads, also you will be selling your own product or affiliate product or service which will be your main source of earning.
Month 1
Action to take
Start your website.
What you’ll have done
- Website topic chosen and site set up
- 10 response posts written
- Legal content on your site
- Images added to posts
- Site design done
- 3 staple posts written
- google analytics and google search console
Outcomes
Traffic: 0 pageviews
You’ll probably see a few trickles in, but don’t get too excited, these are probably bots crawling your site.
Income: $0
Month 2
Action to take
Most people will keep up on month #1 fairly easily, but many fall behind in month two as distractions from PUBLISHING CONTENT become more enticing. This is a critical month for getting content published. Don’t let yourself fall behind. There’s a lot of writing to be done this month.
What you’ll have done by the end of the month
- A fully set up website, including recommended gear pages
- 30 blog posts (10 each of response, staple, and pillar)
- Amazon affiliate links on your site
Outcomes
Traffic: 0 pageviews
You’ll probably start to see a few more visits trickling in and some might be real people, but still, nothing to write home about.
Income: $0
Month 3
Action to take
Then, set a publishing routine. We like to keep up what we call publishing hours where we work on content for an hour every weekday. That content can be written, video, podcast, etc.
Continue to add content following your brand plan to fill in your site. 30 articles don’t make a site complete, it makes it a seed.
Feel free to modify your content mix at this point. If you’re in a competitive industry, lean more toward staple and pillar posts. If not, a higher proportion of response posts is perfectly fine! Just do your competitive analysis and write the posts that need to be written.
What you’ll have done by the end of the month
- A complete seed of a website (completed at the end of last month
- Another 10-20 pieces of content—Content is still the most important task at this point. Nothing you do will be anywhere near as important as producing helpful blog posts and videos.
Outcomes
Traffic: 20-30 pageviews
Income: $0
Month 4
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine. It’s the most important thing at this point. You should be publishing at least 10 pieces of content per month.
It’s also time to start thinking about monetization. You’ll probably start getting some traffic at this point, so it’s worth taking some time to monetize that traffic.
Place Google ads on your site following the steps in the Ads Course.
Also, it’s time to start looking for good affiliate products outside of Amazon. Scour through Clickbank, Share a Sale, CJ, and other affiliate networks looking for products you’d recommend to your audience.
What you’ll have done by the end of the month
- 60 pieces of content published
- Ads and Affiliate monetization throughout your site
Outcomes
Traffic: 50-100 pageviews
Income: $3
This income is based on an EPMP (Earnings per Thousand Pageviews) of
Month 5
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine. You should publish at least 10 pieces of content each month. In your content, give people a reason to visit your more monetized pages—your resources pages and any sales pages for affiliate products.
What you’ll have done
- Around 70 pieces of content on your site
- Ads and Affiliate monetization throughout your site
Outcomes
Traffic: 200 pageviews
Income: $5-6
Total Income So Far: $8
Month 6
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine. You should publish 10 pieces of content per month. The more content the better, as long as the content is helpful and it’s the stuff people are likely to be searching for online.
What you’ll have done
- Curry Day! At this point, you’re probably earned a total of $8-9 or more, which is when we celebrate our first milestone—Curry Day!
- A well-monetized site with around 80 pieces of content
Outcomes
Traffic: 300 pageviews
Income: $7
Total Income So Far: $15
Month 7
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine. You should be publishing at least 10 pieces of content per month. Consider hiring freelance writers or otherwise outsourcing some writing. Just make sure YOU do your own search analysis.
Use the course on hiring and training writers in Project 24 if you choose to start outsourcing.
What you’ll have done
- 90+ pieces of content on your site
- Ads and Affiliate monetization throughout your site
- A plan for ongoing content creation, whether you do it yourself or manage other writers
Outcomes
Traffic: 600 pageviews
Income: $16.50
Total Income So Far: $22.44
We’ve increased our anticipated EPMP from $15 per 1,000 pageviews to $22 EPMP as you’ve had some time to figure out better monetization.
Month 8
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine. You should produce at least 10 pieces of content per month.
At this point, it’s worthwhile to start building an email list in preparation for launching an info product.
Follow the email marketing 101 courses in Project 24 to set up your first email list and make a lead magnet to attract users to your list.
What you’ll have done
- Lots of content! Depending on whether or not you started outsourcing writing, you should have 100 total pieces of content published
- A well-monetized site with around 90 pieces of content
- An email list set up with a basic drip campaign
- A lead magnet to attract users to your email list
Outcomes
Traffic: 1000 pageviews
At this point, you’ll start to see real traffic growth. Your first 30 articles are 5-7 months old.
Income: $27.50
Total Income So Far: $49.94
Month 9
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine. You should produce at least 10 pieces of content per month. Every new piece of content is another opportunity to attract visitors to your site.
Use your email drip campaign to boost your income. You could sell people on an affiliate product you recommend on your site. Direct them to a sales page for that product.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Ad and Affiliate Monetization
- A growing email list
- 110 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 2500 pageviews
Income: $66.00
You may start to see your EPMP rise as your email drip campaign directs people to well-monetized pages on your site.
Total Income So Far: $115.94
Month 10
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine. You should publish at least 10 pieces of content per month.
This month, go sign up for Ezoic ads. Follow the steps in the Ads Course. Ezoic officially requires 10,000 pageviews, but approves some sites with as few as 3,000 pageviews.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Affiliate Monetization throughout your site
- Improved ad monetization with Ezoic
- A growing email list with a great lead magnet and basic drip campaign
- 110 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 4000 pageviews
At this point, you’ll start to see real traffic growth. Your first 30 articles are 5-7 months old.
Income: $110.00
Total Income So Far: $225.94
Month 11
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine.
Fine-tune your email lead magnet and drip campaign. At this point, you may start to figure out which emails in your drip campaign work best. Use that to tweak the rest of your drip campaign.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Optimized Ad and Affiliate Monetization
- A growing email list directing users to well-monetized pages on your site
- 120 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 9000 pageviews
Income: $198.00
Your EPMP should go up again this month since you replaced Google Adsense with Ezoic.
Total Income So Far: $423.94
Month 12
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine.
More and more articles will be hitting their traffic stride. We usually find that it takes approximately 8 months after an article is published for it to reach 90% of its max height in the search engine rankings, so most of the content you wrote in the beginning should be hitting now.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Optimized Ad and Affiliate Monetization
- A growing email list directing users to well-monetized pages on your site
- 130 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 12,000 pageviews
Income: $264.00
Total Income So Far: $687.94
Month 13
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Optimized Ad and Affiliate Monetization
- A growing email list directing users to well-monetized pages on your site
- 140 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 28,000 pageviews
Income: $756.00
Total Income So Far: $1,443.94
If you feel that you’re falling behind on the outcomes, look to the center column. Did you put in the work consistently over time in order to get the outcome desired? If you haven’t, then adjust your expectations. If you have and you’re just not seeing the result, consider posting your site in the community and ask for feedback.
Month 14
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine. We can lower our publishing rate to 5 pieces of content this month as you focus on a product.
Start working on a course or info product that you could launch using your site, email list, and YouTube channel.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Optimized Ad and Affiliate Monetization
- A growing email list directing users to well-monetized pages on your site
- 145 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 35,000 pageviews
Income: $945.00
Total Income So Far: $2,388.94
If you feel that you’re falling behind on the outcomes, look to the center column. Did you put in the work consistently over time in order to get the outcome desired? If you haven’t, then adjust your expectations. If you have and you’re just not seeing the result, consider posting your site in the community and ask for feedback.
Month 15
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine. We can lower our publishing rate to 5 pieces of content this month as you focus on monetization.
Continue to work on a course or info product that you could launch using your site, email list, and YouTube channel.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Optimized Ad and Affiliate Monetization
- A growing email list directing users to well-monetized pages on your site
- 150 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 45,000 pageviews
Income: $1,215.00
Total Income So Far: $3,603.94
If you feel that you’re falling behind on the outcomes, look to the center column. Did you put in the work consistently over time in order to get the outcome desired? If you haven’t, then adjust your expectations. If you have and you’re just not seeing the result, consider posting your site in the community and ask for feedback.
Month 16
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine. We’re only anticipating 5 pieces of content being published this month as you focus on your launch.
Launch your course or info product once you hit 50,000 pageviews per month on your site.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Optimized Ad and Affiliate Monetization
- A growing email list directing users to well-monetized pages on your site
- A course or info product ready to launch to boost your EPMP
- 155 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 50,000 pageviews
Income: $1,750.00
Your EPMP will rise again once you launch your course or info product.
Total Income So Far: $5,353.94
If you feel that you’re falling behind on the outcomes, look to the center column. Did you put in the work consistently over time in order to get the outcome desired? If you haven’t, then adjust your expectations. If you have and you’re just not seeing the result, consider posting your site in the community and ask for feedback.
Month 17
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine.
Optimize your sales funnel for your info product or course. Pay attention to what is working best and use that to improve sales conversion.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Optimized Ad and Affiliate Monetization
- A growing email list directing users to well-monetized pages on your site, including your course or info product
- 160 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 60,000 pageviews
Income: $2,100.00
Total Income So Far: $7,453.94
If you feel that you’re falling behind on the outcomes, look to the center column. Did you put in the work consistently over time in order to get the outcome desired? If you haven’t, then adjust your expectations. If you have and you’re just not seeing the result, consider posting your site in the community and ask for feedback.
Month 18
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine.
Work on your course or info product as needed.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Optimized Ad and Affiliate Monetization
- A growing email list directing users to well-monetized pages on your site, especially your course or info product
- A course or info product launched and boosting your EPMP
- 165 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 70,000 pageviews
Income: $2,450.00
Total Income So Far: $9,903.94
If you feel that you’re falling behind on the outcomes, look to the center column. Did you put in the work consistently over time in order to get the outcome desired? If you haven’t, then adjust your expectations. If you have and you’re just not seeing the result, consider posting your site in the community and ask for feedback.
Month 19
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine.
Work on your course or info product as needed.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Optimized Ad and Affiliate Monetization
- A growing email list directing users to well-monetized pages on your site, especially your course or info product
- A course or info product launched and boosting your EPMP
- 170 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 85,000 pageviews
Income: $3,400.00
Total Income So Far: $13,303.94
If you feel that you’re falling behind on the outcomes, look to the center column. Did you put in the work consistently over time in order to get the outcome desired? If you haven’t, then adjust your expectations. If you have and you’re just not seeing the result, consider posting your site in the community and ask for feedback.
Month 20
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine.
Work on your course or info product as needed.
Once you hit 100,000 pageviews per month, stage your site again and register for AdThrive following the steps in the ads course.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Optimized Ad and Affiliate Monetization
- Registered for ads on AdThrive
- A growing email list directing users to well-monetized pages on your site, especially your course or info product
- A course or info product launched and boosting your EPMP
- 175 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 100,000 pageviews
Income: $4,000.00
We may see a slight boost in EPMP again with the change to AdThrive. At very least, you’ll get a much better ad experience on your site.
Total Income So Far: $17,303.94
If you feel that you’re falling behind on the outcomes, look to the center column. Did you put in the work consistently over time in order to get the outcome desired? If you haven’t, then adjust your expectations. If you have and you’re just not seeing the result, consider posting your site in the community and ask for feedback.
Month 21
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine.
Work on your course or info product as needed.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Optimized Ad and Affiliate Monetization
- A growing email list directing users to well-monetized pages on your site, especially your course or info product
- A course or info product launched and boosting your EPMP
- 180 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 115,000 pageviews
Income: $4,600.00
Total Income So Far: $21,903.94
If you feel that you’re falling behind on the outcomes, look to the center column. Did you put in the work consistently over time in order to get the outcome desired? If you haven’t, then adjust your expectations. If you have and you’re just not seeing the result, consider posting your site in the community and ask for feedback.
Month 22
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine.
Work on your course or info product as needed.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Optimized Ad and Affiliate Monetization
- A growing email list directing users to well-monetized pages on your site, especially your course or info product
- A course or info product launched and boosting your EPMP
- 185 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 135,000 pageviews
Income: $6,075.00
Total Income So Far: $27,978.94
If you feel that you’re falling behind on the outcomes, look to the center column. Did you put in the work consistently over time in order to get the outcome desired? If you haven’t, then adjust your expectations. If you have and you’re just not seeing the result, consider posting your site in the community and ask for feedback.
Month 23
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine.
Work on your course or info product as needed.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Optimized Ad and Affiliate Monetization
- A growing email list directing users to well-monetized pages on your site, especially your course or info product
- A course or info product launched and boosting your EPMP
- 190 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 155,000 pageviews
Income: $6,975.00
As your site grows in authority, you’ll likely continue to see EPMP improvements.
Total Income So Far: $34,953.94
If you feel that you’re falling behind on the outcomes, look to the center column. Did you put in the work consistently over time in order to get the outcome desired? If you haven’t, then adjust your expectations. If you have and you’re just not seeing the result, consider posting your site in the community and ask for feedback.
Month 24
Action to take
Continue your publishing routine.
Work on your course or info product as needed.
What you’ll have done
- An ongoing publishing routine on your website
- Optimized Ad and Affiliate Monetization
- A growing email list directing users to well-monetized pages on your site, especially your course or info product
- A course or info product launched and boosting your EPMP
- 195 pieces of content published
Outcomes
Traffic: 175,000 pageviews
Your traffic will likely continue to rise as more of the content you’ve been creating gets traffic.
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Author: Roy Vera MBA
Roy Vera is the founder of My Income Trek, a guide to building passive income while keeping your current job. Roy is also an author, consultant and coach for multimillion dollar corporations through his website WSNAcademy.com Roy’s mission is to inspire you and give you the tolls to create and earn multiple income streams while keeping your current job. You can learn more about him on myincometrek.com.
