🎁 #1 Thing I Did This Year

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This year was a different one for a lot of us who used to be focused on niche sites.

My whole thing was growing and flipping sites for a little over 10 years.

And then, poof, it was over. Wild.

Of course, that brought about a lot of change for most people.

For me, one of those changes both saved me time and money in the end.

More on that in a moment.

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Born Out Of Anger

Sometimes, your motivation for doing something is one born out of anger.

The rage catalyst.

I admit that I’ve made more than one decision based on that this year.

But by far, the best decision to come out of anger was cancelling my Ahrefs subscription back in September.

It’s saved me both time and money.

Yes, time.

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When I was paying for Ahrefs, I spent a lot of my day using it.

A lot.

Spot an interesting site in the SERPs? Let’s look at it on Ahrefs.

Wonder if my sites got any new HARO links that I haven’t seen? Let’s look at it on Ahrefs.

Ooh, never seen this site before. Let’s look at it on Ahrefs.

I swear I had to have spent most of my day in that damn tool.

Honestly, I’m not sure if it was something born of habit, a weird addiction, or just a stupid way of procrastinating.

These days I use Semrush as my main SEO tool, but I’m not paying for it every month. Cause I realized how much time I wasted in Ahrefs and I didn’t want to repeat those same habits.

What change did you make this year that saved you time and money?

Coming up…

Upcoming topics: more tips and ideas on Etsy and KDP, how it’s going with my chatGPT fiction ebook and the AI music thingie, and growing an ecomm site.

If you have a topic you want covered just reply and let me know.

Stay awesome,

Shawna

P.S. If you’re looking for high level discussions or tips on things like local SEO and Rank & Rent, I highly recommend Jacky Chou’s Advise community. I’ve been in it for several months and there’s tons of value in it, including a SOP for local SEO.

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