Make Money Blogging With Digital Nomad Wannabe

Make Money Blogging With Digital Nomad Wannabe

The Digital Nomad Wannabe podcast teaches you how to turn your blog into a business with sustainable passive income. Each week, you’ll find actionable tips and strategies for growing traffic and income with no fluff so you can quit the day job and have more freedom to do what you love. Whether you aren’t sure if you are in the right niche, want to become an expert in SEO, can’t figure out your whole monetisation strategy or have had some success and want to work out what’s next, Make Money Blogging podcast will help. Sharon Gourlay from DigitalNomadWannabe.com shares everything she has learned from over 5 years of professional blogging in many niches including travel, parenting, lifestyle and personal finance. She lives and breathes SEO and blog monetisation and loves using her skills as an ex high school teacher to teach you how to build your dream business. Regularly, she also welcomes guests on the show that have found blogging success and want to show you how to or shows bloggers who are struggling what they need to do to turn around their blogging success. From understanding SEO strategies to outsourcing, building authority, affiliate marketing, creating a second blog, Facebook, growing email lists and more, Sharon shares everything that works so you don’t have to waste any time to hit your blogging goals. Find more information about this podcast and all show notes here: https://www.digitalnomadwannabe.com/podcast/.

Episodes

May 11, 2023 18 mins

As 2023 progresses, I’m getting closer and closer to going all in with my Malaysia site part of my business. In this update, I’m talking about the further changes I’m making to be able to do this.

I’m also talking about retiring the courses part of my business after hitting a big technical problem. It’s time to move on from this.

 I discuss my latest case study and what I’m doing next to grow my Malaysia site, make it unique and hope...

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Ever thought about selling your blog? Or buying one? Or just generally interested in the whole process?

Then you will love today’s podcast as I talk about everything site selling from how it works to what your blog is worth, when to sell, how to find someone to buy your blog and more.

I also discuss the sites I’m selling right now – maybe you want to buy one? :)

This episode is for you if have ever thought about selling or buying a si...

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Thinking about starting a new site? Working on your old site and feel like it’s going nowhere? Is your blog going well but you are always interested in what’s working for others? Looking for new ideas for how to monetise your site effectively?

Then you will love today’s podcast as I share what’s happening in my Malaysia case study site now that I’ve been concentrating on it for a few months, finally travelled back to Malaysia and hi...

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Want sweet search engine traffic but don’t know what you need to do? Already loving the Google traffic you’re getting but want to make sure you’re covering all the bases so your blog can get more?

Then you’re in the right place.

Today, I talk all about forming your SEO strategy to gain sweet sweet traffic and also to have super happy readers that are well served by your blog.

Learn what you need to do in your blog posts for the best c...

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October 7, 2022 23 mins

Want to create an eBook but don’t know where to begin?

eBooks are such a great way to monetise your blog thanks to it being a great way to serve your audience as well as being a great passive income source. However, coming up with a great eBook idea and then understanding how to sell it can be big reasons why many bloggers never take this route. 

Today, I talk all about creating your first eBook from coming up with a great idea to wo...

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September 12, 2022 20 mins

Thinking about starting a new site? Working on your old site and feel like it’s going nowhere? Is your blog going well but you are always interested in what’s working for others? Looking for new ideas for how to monetise your site effectively?

Then you will love today’s podcast as I share both what’s happening in my Malaysia case study site now and all my big plans for the future which I’m starting to implement today as well as my p...

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Thinking about starting a new site? Working on your old site and feel like it’s going nowhere? Is your blog going well but you are always interested in what’s working for others?

Then you will love today’s podcast as I share both what’s happening in my Malaysia case study site and for the content sites I’m building without doing any link building!

Learn what’s working right now in blogging for growing and monetising your site especia...

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If you wrote a blog post today, how much money would it earn you? Would it be worth it?

If you spent $100 outsourcing an article, would you get your money back? How long until you made a profit on it?

In today’s episode, we are going to be discussing exactly this – how you can calculate how much money new blog posts are likely to make you so you know if it’s worth your time and/or money.

This is super valuable to know if you are makin...

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Thinking about starting a new site? Working on your old site and feel like it’s going nowhere? Is your blog going well but you are always interested in what’s working for others?

Then you will love this case study!

Learn what’s working right now in blogging for growing and monetising your site especially in travel as the coronavirus pandemic continues to go on and on and on and on. I share exactly what I’m doing to grow one of my blo...

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Have you been frustrated by how long content is taking to index in Google? Do you have a new site and wonder when you’ll start getting Google traffic? Are you thinking about moving content or changing domains and wonder what impact it’ll have?

This episode is all about indexing your content in Google to help answer all of these questions.

Google can be crazy slow to index new content at the moment on new sites. It’s quite dishearteni...

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What a two years it’s been. When I look back to Feb 2020, while I was following what was happening with covid-19 around the world, I had no idea what was in store for me.

Two years later, this pandemic has had huge impacts on my business, my case study and DNW.

In this episode, I give you an insider’s look over my shoulder to what’s happening in my business. 

I discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted it, what I’m doing right...

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Should you update blog content? What difference does it have? When should you do it? How should you do it?

Updating blog content is a great way to not just make your blog the best it can be but to also get lots more search traffic. I find it such an important part of my blogging business that I update all performing blog content annually. Yes, annually.

In fact, I dedicate two months of the year to this feat across my team.

In this ep...

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October 1, 2021 26 mins

Do you need to worry about site speed? How do you know if your site speed is bad? What impact does speed have in Google search rankings?

There is no denying that good site speed is going to lead to a better experience for your blog readers. Who wants to stick around on a site that takes forever to load or doesn’t look right when it does.

With the Page Experience Google update this year, it has had a new focus as sites scrambled to im...

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It’s hard to make big changes in your blogging business. I know. I’m going through the process right now!

It’s been a long time since I last updated everyone on what I’m doing in my business and I decided now is the time as I’m making some huge changes especially to how I work on this blog and its related parts like the DNW Facebook group and my podcast.

If you are someone who loves to learn about decisions you can make in your busin...

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April 26, 2021 25 mins

Should you link build? Is it risky? How should you go about it? Can you just outsource it so you never have to think about it again?!

There is no denying that link building is an important part of SEO and building a successful blog. Links are like votes that let Google know your site has quality content and is an authority.

However, it tends to be an area where many of us want to procrastinate, stick our head in the sand or only want...

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Have you ever thought about selling your blog? Or perhaps you want to cut out all the tedious work of setting up a new site, creating content, growing traffic and income and want to buy an existing blog?

I hear you! I love selling my blogs and I can see so many benefits to buying one – but I haven’t felt confident enough yet to do so.

To help fix this, in today’s episode I’m joined by Chelsea Clarke from HerPaperRoute.com. She not on...

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Have you ever thought about starting another blog? 

I haven’t just thought about it – I have created many. I have found it a great way to grow my business, up my income and create sellable assets. I also find it fun!

In the last year, I’ve also learned firsthand what an important tool it is to diversify your income. As the pandemic continues to stretch on, there are many challenging niches out there as well as many opportunities. Som...

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Do you want blogging success but are struggling to work out what that means to you?

Perhaps you read or hear stories like Keith's in the last episode of the podcast and don't really resonate with goals of making a full-time income from your blog.

I want to feature different stories of success and this came with Leanna Brown's story of her travel blog on Nebraska.

Leanna joined my in my third case study (you can find it ...

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Have you been blogging for awhile but are failing to make the switch from hobby to business blogger and want this to change NOW?

In episode 3, I had Keith, a travel blogger, on this podcast, and gave him a two month road map to turn around his blogging fortunes so he could work towards $1000 in passive affiliate income per month.

It’s now 11 months later and Keith is back to share how he went with this road map, what he has done sinc...

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Want to make the switch from being a hobby blogger to a professional but don’t know how? Or have started this journey but keep getting stuck or disheartened?

Today, I talk about the steps required to become a professional blogger. This is what you should do now to make the switch from having a blog that’s something you do in your spare time to something that gives you freedom and flexibility to live a better life.

Making this transit...

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