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$1K MRRin 9 months
2 milestones
SEO Specialist Reaches $1K/Month with Just 89 Blog Posts
Founder
VK
Victoria Kurichenko
Solo Founder•Technical•Ukraine
Commitment
Side ProjectExperience
First-timeProduct
S
SEO Blog
WordPress blog focused on SEO and affiliate marketing experiments.
Type
OtherIndustry
MarketingModel
HybridMarketing Strategy
How Victoria acquired customers
Primary Channel
SEO / Content
Tech Stack
Tools used to build SEO Blog
WordPressAhrefsGoogle Search Console
The Full Story
TL;DR
Victoria built a WordPress blog with only 89 posts and 15,000 monthly visits to reach $1K/month from affiliate marketing.
As an SEO specialist, Victoria started her WordPress blog to test different marketing strategies, experimenting with content formats, blog post lengths, and optimization techniques.
The Experiment
With just 89 blog posts and 15,000 total monthly visits, she reached $1K/month from affiliate marketing. Her site took off after multiple Google algorithm updates.
The Winning Formula
Her AI SEO tools blog post alone pulled in 6,000+ visitors a month. The key was focusing on "low-hanging fruit" and long-tail keywords - phrases that people were searching for with low competition and decent search volume.
Key Insights
Victoria discovered that quality trumps quantity. Rather than publishing hundreds of mediocre posts, she focused on creating comprehensive, well-researched content for specific search queries.
- Total blog posts: 89
- Monthly visitors: 15,000
- Revenue: $1K/month
- Primary income: Affiliate marketing
Key Takeaways
1
Quality over quantity - 89 posts is all it took to reach $1K MRR
2
Target low-competition, long-tail keywords for faster results
3
One viral post can drive significant traffic - focus on evergreen topics
4
SEO is a long game but totally worth it for passive affiliate income
Originally published onMedium
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Milestone Journey
Victoria achieved 2 milestones on the path to $1K MRR
First Customer
6 months
January 2022
Avg: 3 months
+3 months to next milestone
$1K MRR
$1,000
9 months
April 2022
19% faster
vs avg 11 months9 months
Total journey time
2
Milestones achieved
Victoria's Path to $1K MRRPremium
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