07 July 2026
Ch. 5: I Published 90 Articles in 60 Days. It Was a Mistake. I'd read that you build "topical authority" by flooding the zone. So I outsourced 90 articles at $35 each — $3,150 — and dumped them on a 2…
06 July 2026
Ch. 4: I Picked the Most Boring Niche I Could Find Everyone in my Discord was chasing AI tools and crypto. I picked commercial floor mats. Anti-fatigue mats, entrance mats, kitchen mats for restaurant…
05 July 2026
Ch. 3: The Update Took 60%, and Waiting Got It Back March core update. My outdoor-gear site went from 41k sessions/mo to 16k in nine days. RPM was $18, so that was roughly $430/mo gone. My first insti…
04 July 2026
Ch. 2: My First Dollar Was a Dish Rack Eleven weeks into a kitchen-organization site, I woke up to an Amazon dashboard showing $0.62. Someone bought a $14 dish rack through my "best under-sink organiz…
03 July 2026
Ch. 1: The $340 Domain That Cost Me Six Months I bought an expired domain for my coffee-gear site — DR 31, clean anchor profile, $340 on an auction. The pitch I sold myself: skip the sandbox, rank in …
02 July 2026
Ch. 20: What Three Years and Four Sites Taught Me May 2026. The full ledger: drone site (passive, $138/mo), reef site ($560/mo), espresso site ($390/mo and climbing), ferret site (dead, mothballed). C…