🚀 More revenue, less work: My Q2 growth plan

Hello, my friend!

I’ve spent a few days thinking about how to optimize and grow my main income streams in Q2:

• My website — currently bringing in $2,000+ per month (check my monthly recaps for details!)

• My SEO business

So far, I’ve grown mostly by increasing my rates—which, honestly, every entrepreneur should do at some point! It’s the fastest way to filter out low-paying, high-maintenance clients.

However, there’s always a reasonable level of price you can ask for.

If you want to grow beyond that, you either:

1️⃣ Sell more services → Which often means hiring help
2️⃣ Boost passive income → So you’re not trading time for money

Ideally, you do both!

Hiring has been a challenge for me (lots of trial and error), but I’ve kept experimenting with different professionals on Upwork, Fiverr, and LinkedIn.

On the passive income side, a well-performing website has so much potential:
💰 Affiliate earnings
📥 Lead generation
👩‍💻 Personal brand growth
📌 A solid project for CV
…and more!

People who say blogging and SEO are dead in 2025? They probably just don’t know how to do it right.

Just yesterday, while I was setting up a page for my keyword research services, my website pulled in over $500 from one affiliate program. 👇

If you’re curious about the affiliate programs I use, my affiliate strategy, and how much revenue each program generates, I break it all down in my monthly affiliate reports.

This didn’t just happen by chance!

It’s the result of a clear strategy: focusing on money-making keywords and the right affiliate partners.

That’s why I kicked off Q2 with a fresh round of keyword research for my website. Now, I know what to work on for the next three months.

If you’re unsure which keywords to target, I highly recommend doing keyword research!

I have a quick guide on my website that walks you through the process.

If you want a deep, step-by-step overview of my keyword research process, I share it in my SEO writing ebook.

The ultimate output of my several hours of work is an SEO keyword research plan that I’ve already started implementing. As you can see, some fields are already highlighted in green.

There’s no room for random keywords in your SEO strategy!

If you don’t know how a keyword can help you achieve a certain goal — ditch it!

Sure, finding the right opportunities takes effort. But it’s still way cheaper than spending time (and money) on content that gets zero results.

Speaking of results…

Ahrefs has already picked up on my work from early April! My SEO content writing services page is now ranking for "SEO writing company." 🎉

And yep, that’s the big goal behind my new service pages—to be the SEO writing expert companies turn to. 🚀

I’m still playing around with the layout and content to see what works best.

Funny enough, Google seems to prefer a blog-style format over my well-designed keyword research services page. Go figure! 😅

My keyword research services page isn’t ranking yet, but I’m keeping an eye on it and will share updates along the way!

Honestly, SEO is more exciting than ever, especially if you’re a niche expert. There are so many opportunities nowadays!

If you need some guidance, grab my SEO ebook and check out my DIY SEO guide below.

Let’s get your rankings up! 🎯

What’s new on Medium?

SEO ebook updates

The design of the 4th ebook edition of my SEO ebook, “How to Hit the Google Front Page” is officially DONE!

If you’re curious how I consistently write content that ranks, brings in brand deals, and earns me around $4,000/month (I’ll spill more details in next week’s email 👀), check out my SEO book.

I walk you through my full process — from finding the right keywords to creating and optimizing content that gets results. 🚀

Get access to all my Premium content

I’ve made a big change to make my Premium content easier to access. 🙌

From now on, you can unlock everything, my full content library, all Premium posts (past and future!) for just a one-time payment of $7.💸 

No more monthly fees!

Yep, that’s lifetime access for just $7. Forever. 📚

If you were a Premium member before, you already have access again. 👏

And if you’re a current subscriber, no worries, you won’t be charged monthly anymore. I’ve got you covered.

I’m keeping things simple so you can focus on what matters: learning real strategies from real people doing the work. 💪💡

Here’s the Premium content that recently went live for you:

• $12,000+ from my website in 5 months: I’m sharing my top-performing affiliate programs and landing pages that generate the most revenue.

• Optimize like a Pro: Here's what I do: I use these 9 content optimization strategies to rank on page one.

• Affiliate Reports, where I break down exactly how my website made $4,465.53 in April

• My Approach to Affiliate Marketing: Mistakes, learnings & new strategy

• How I ranked #8 on Google in just 6 days: The SEO strategy that got me on Google in a few days.

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You can become a Premium member for just $7 one-time payment. You’ll get behind-the-scenes tips, real strategies I use to grow my site, and answers to your questions. 🧠💡

Have a great weekend!

Victoria

P.S. If you missed my March monthly recap with everything I did and achieved last month, you can check it out here.