Google rankings went up... and down. What I did 😅

Hello, my friend!

How have you been doing lately? 😊

Toronto got hit with a crazy snowstorm last week, so I mostly stayed home, helping my husband shovel our driveway.

One morning, we woke up to over 50 cm of snow—it took us three hours to clean everything!

It was kinda fun... but at the same time, I couldn’t stop thinking about all the tasks I could’ve done for my business in those three hours. 😅

As a solopreneur, knowing how to prioritize and delegate is a must.

There are always a million things to do, and if you try to handle everything yourself, you’ll eventually burn out.

I’ve lost count of how many times I wanted to quit my side hustles because a full-time job seemed like an easier (and more stable) option.

But then I remind myself that relying on just one income source these days is risky. That’s why I keep an open mind for new opportunities and grab the ones that align with my values.

The good news?

My online business gives me more flexibility now.

I spent this week working entirely on my own online business while discussing the project details with my clients.

Here’s what I worked on and achieved:

✅ Updated my "Substack alternatives" blog post—it jumped to #5 on Google! 🎉
✅ Made $200 from a sponsored post
✅ Earned a $388 affiliate bonus (will share details in next month’s Affiliate report)
✅ My biggest affiliate commission this week — $200
✅ Published a new premium post and welcomed 4 new premium members (forever grateful! 🙌)
✅ Updated my "Content writing tools for SEO" blog post—it climbed to #3 on Google!
✅ Updated my “SEO tools for small businesses” blog post — it’s the last one for this week, so I’ll be tracking its performance
✅ Updated my "SEO books" blog post… but Google decided to drop it from #7 to #14 instead. 🤷‍♀️

Yep, sometimes content updates don’t go as planned.

SEO is unpredictable.

Content updates usually boost rankings, but Google may prefer the older version in some cases. I’ll monitor the blog post performance for a month and decide on the next steps.

You can learn more about my content update experiment from this Medium article. 👇(Medium subscription isn’t required for my Premium members)

But overall?

My site has been slowly but steadily growing in impressions and clicks over the past three months, ever since I started treating it as a real business.

And that makes all the effort 100% worth it. ❤️

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Have a great weekend!

Victoria