Unless you’ve got years of backlinks and a domain that Google already trusts, ranking for anything competitive is basically a lottery ticket.
So this isn’t that. This is just the write-up version of whatever I talked about in the video above — same info, different format, in case reading’s more your speed than watching.
I’m not a financial advisor, I don’t have a course to sell you, and I’m not going to pretend I’ve got this all figured out. I’m just documenting what I’m actually doing, what the numbers actually say, and what I’d probably do differently if I were starting over. Take what’s useful, ignore what doesn’t apply to your situation, and if you spot something I got wrong, tell me — I’d rather know.
Below is the breakdown. If you want the raw source data, most of the numbers are linked. And if you just want the short version, skip to the bottom for the recap.