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Hey, friend. Sadie here.

Dropping by to remind you how important it is to grow topical authority - especially in 2024 - as well as to give you an update on my India niche blog!

If you are confused about how to structure your blog post clusters or are running out of blog post ideas, I wrote a blog post showing you the step by step!

You can read my full post here,

or snag Topical Map AI with my affiliate link here.

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Let me show you what one of my PIPs members had to say once they started using Topical Map AI. :)

WOAH! This is freaking beautiful! I wish I would've had this when I first started blogging. I will never run out of ideas again. Plus it's going to keep me on track with my content clusters. SWEET!

So, try it out for yourself and let me know what you think!

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INDIA NICHE BLOG UPDATE

So many of you responded letting me know you want to hear more about my new India blog!

Here are some details:

💸 I purchased the blog for $800USD.

📈 I immediately dove into Google Analytics to see which posts were getting traffic, which were ranking, etc. I removed about 1/3 of the blog posts and started a blog audit to remove more dead weight (and interlink all of the posts I could).

⏱️ Over the past 90 days, I've spent a total of 5 hours on it. One hour was spent redoing the front page, and the other few hours were digging into analytics, updating posts, etc.

🇮🇳 I recently hired two freelancers from India who will be fact-checking my AI-written articles, and adding a human element. It's very important to me that the articles are reviewed by people who are actually in India.

📷 My photos will be from India - either ones I took myself or ones I pay for, or stock photos from free sites.

graph showing traffic

The traffic has increased by 8.8% over the previous 90 days.

The big dip you see in the image above is from me breaking the site (oops) by switching the nameservers and then forgetting to follow up to make sure it got done properly.

There was a glitch with the SSL and it made the site go down. All good now!

graphic displaying traffic sources

And, contrary to what the bro dudes are screaming about (updates schmupdates), organic traffic on this site is GREAT.

I do want to diversify this traffic, as I don't want to rely on Google too much (they've lost their mind lately). Pinterest will be my next channel to focus on.

MOVING FORWARD / NEXT STEPS

Because I only have about 2 hours a week set aside to work on this blog, I don't expect fast growth. This is a good thing because you'll get to see a super realistic view of how sites grow even when you don't have a ton of time.

This is a passion project and it's got good bones, so I'm going to stick with it.

My next steps are going to be to:

Remove/replace affiliate links: There are affiliate links in every single post and I don't want the blog to have that many. I'm a bit pickier with affiliate links than most folks are, but I make sure they're hard hitting affiliate links.

Build out clusters: I deleted about 1/3 of the blog posts that were on the blog, but kept a few blog posts that are a solid beginning to a cluster. For example, I want to add in more food roundups. There was only one, but I loved it (and it gets traffic).

You may be thinking, "food posts on a travel blog?!" but this isn't just a travel blog: it's about India travel, culture, experiences, etc. So it all ties together for me.

I used Topical Map AI to save me tons of time and energy. It built the clusters out for me, so I can spend time using RightBlogger to write the articles - then I can pass them off to my two new fact checkers to finish them up for me.

front page of my India Blog

There's still a lot of work that needs to be done on this blog, but like I said, it's got good bones - and that's the biggest key.

Starting a blog from scratch is fun but for me, it's even more fun to buy a blog that is at the beginning stages of growth so I can clean it up and take it to new heights!

Talk soon,

Sadie

P.S. If you're looking for a blog with good bones that needs some love, hit REPLY and let me know... I have a few starter sites for sale for $1000. Each site includes 12 months access to Blog to Membership Formula for FREE ($324 value), so you can easily follow the PIPs Path!

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