🚀 turning my website into a $20k affiliate machine

Hi there! 👋

In my last email, I mentioned that my website brought in $8.8K in affiliate commissions in 2024.

This was quite a surprising result to me since I didn’t focus on my website growth in 2024 at all! My attention was all on client work, so this income was a pleasant surprise.

And it got me thinking... What if I actually put effort into growing my site? 🤔

That’s how I set a bold goal for this year: $20K in affiliate commissions in 2025.

Sounds big, right?

But when you break it down, it's just roughly $1,670 a month—totally doable!

And guess what? I'm already off to a great start! 🚀

In the first two weeks of January, I made $721.93 in affiliate commissions by simply optimizing my existing content.

Here’s what I did:

✅ Updated my top-ranking article about AI SEO tools. I improved the content structure and added clearer tool descriptions and more strategic links.
✅ Updated my top 10 performing blog posts. I tweaked the content slightly and added relevant affiliate links.

That’s it!

No new content, just smarter optimizations.

And yet, I keep hearing people say, “SEO is dead.”

Nope, it’s not—if you know how to create content that aligns with Google’s quality guidelines. 💡

Want to learn my exact SEO content writing process? I break it all down in my ebook:

What’s next?

Keyword research → content plan → content writing

That’s the game plan!

I just wrapped up keyword research for Q1, and let me tell you—I've found a few golden topics. Low effort, high impact. My favorite kind. 😏

Every keyword I target has a purpose: to bring in $$$, not just traffic.

Because let’s be real—what’s the point of traffic if it doesn’t convert?

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On the fun side…

I've got my beehiiv merch! 🐝💛

I was wrapping up my article for the beehiiv blog, sharing all the details about restarting my newsletter on beehiiv and how the journey evolved over the past year.

And guess what? The mailman showed up with a surprise I’ve been waiting for forever (shoutout to Canada Post 😅).

Huge thanks to beehiiv for this gift! 🎁

Let’s see if this swag works its magic and boosts my open rates, as promised. Fingers crossed! 🤞

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Have a great weekend!

Victoria

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