Community – nichepursuits.com | Ian | Activity https://brandbuilderscommunity.com/members/keywordian/activity/ Activity feed for Ian. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:44:35 -0800 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 b32397f5307b9d449c1608d2fab25aa5 Ian replied to the topic Final Report for Build a NEW Site with AI Challenge! in the forum AI Content Sites https://brandbuilderscommunity.com/topic/final-report-for-build-a-new-site-with-ai-challenge/#post-15799 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:58:05 -0800 Final update:

Total articles: 174
Total traffic for March: 657
Organic sessions in March: 567
GSC total clicks: 251

My site was really starting to take off in early March, but got badly hit on the 7th. The site even had a forum, but that didn’t seem to help haha (granted, it only had one thread).

Thanks for the great contest Spencer, I had a…Read more

]]> 9728f2fb35bc7fce1635bdb2cfb49b75 Ian replied to the topic Official Report: 5 Month Check in for the NEW AI Site Challenge! in the forum AI Content Sites https://brandbuilderscommunity.com/topic/official-report-5-month-check-in-for-the-new-ai-site-challenge/#post-15512 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 19:29:13 -0800 My site stats for month 5:

Total number of articles: 156
Total traffic in Feb: 716
Organic sessions: 607
Total clicks in GSC: 476

Only spent an hour or two on the site in February.

I’m seeing significant traffic increases in the last couple days, so March should be interesting!

]]> 48d6b166ffa40320a7e1873b7400903d Ian replied to the topic Official Report: 4 Month Checking for the NEW AI Site Challenge! in the forum AI Content Sites https://brandbuilderscommunity.com/topic/official-report-4-month-checking-for-the-new-ai-site-challenge/#post-15176 Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:11:09 -0800 My January numbers:

Total articles: 131
Users: 454
Organic sessions: 408
GSC clicks: 286

Progress is slow and steady. I’m only spending about an hour a month on my site, so I’m happy with the results given the amount of work I’m putting in.

]]> 47ad32cca4553e3740856a9abd2d4a0c Ian replied to the topic Official Report: 3 Month Check-in for the Build a NEW site with AI Challenge! in the forum AI Content Sites https://brandbuilderscommunity.com/topic/official-report-3-month-check-in-for-the-build-a-new-site-with-ai-challenge/#post-15069 Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:55:05 -0800 Barely touched my site in December cause I was so busy with other projects.

Total articles: 123 (+32 since last month)
Users: 201
Organic Sessions: 48
Total Clicks in GSC: 50

Most of my traffic is from Yandex which is a first for me. Thankfully, Google traffic just started ramping up in the last few days. January should be more interesting!

]]> 00dd63138f3f1a99fbf82122cac3974a Ian replied to the topic **Official 2 Month Report (Nov. 2023): Build a NEW Site with AI Challenge** in the forum AI Content Sites https://brandbuilderscommunity.com/topic/official-2-month-report-nov-2023-build-a-new-site-with-ai-challenge/#post-14670 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:13:02 -0800 Nope, same Poe. poe.com

]]> b4a6e3ab4ed93dc2562b585885ed1aac Ian replied to the topic **Official 2 Month Report (Nov. 2023): Build a NEW Site with AI Challenge** in the forum AI Content Sites https://brandbuilderscommunity.com/topic/official-2-month-report-nov-2023-build-a-new-site-with-ai-challenge/#post-14635 Mon, 04 Dec 2023 22:00:40 -0800 Hey all, here’s my month 2 report:

The tool I mentioned that I’m now using to create articles is Poe. I simply made a GPT-4-powered bot, gave it my detailed instructions, and now it outputs articles exactly to my specifications. All I have to do is provide the target keyword.

]]> 69cb5ab7a4a1479407d71c75b6a57d52 Ian replied to the topic **Official 1 Month Reports: Build a NEW Site with AI Challenge** in the forum AI Content Sites https://brandbuilderscommunity.com/topic/official-1-month-reports-build-a-new-site-with-ai-challenge/#post-14502 Fri, 03 Nov 2023 23:09:31 -0800 Madison, changing titles can affect click through rate, but otherwise shouldn’t hurt anything. You don’t need to reindex. Also, it’s better to just change the title tag (that shows up on the SERPs), not the main H1 heading that shows on your page. All the SEO plugins I know allow you to just change the title tag without changing the heading.

]]> 08efe62a1d794d7c435c11abb92123fd Ian replied to the topic **Official 1 Month Reports: Build a NEW Site with AI Challenge** in the forum AI Content Sites https://brandbuilderscommunity.com/topic/official-1-month-reports-build-a-new-site-with-ai-challenge/#post-14501 Fri, 03 Nov 2023 23:05:46 -0800 Thanks, Alpi! Cool tool! I entered a few of my headlines and they scored higher than the tool’s alternative suggestions so I’m not sure the headlines are the CTR issue. I think the bigger issue is that a few of my articles rank at the bottom of the first page, and the keywords that I’m targeting can be answered satisfactorily by any result.…Read more

]]> 942e7c81173c8e50c8432c9b0632ffe4 Ian replied to the topic **Official 1 Month Reports: Build a NEW Site with AI Challenge** in the forum AI Content Sites https://brandbuilderscommunity.com/topic/official-1-month-reports-build-a-new-site-with-ai-challenge/#post-14452 Fri, 03 Nov 2023 04:10:31 -0800 Hey all, here’s my month 1 progress report:

This is essentially the prompt I use in ChatGPT. I say essentially, because mine is customized to fit my site’s needs. The one below is a very general prompt that would work for almost any type of article. Of course, for certain use cases (like recipes or product reviews),…Read more

]]> d5961b9f08a1c511d23d5242d1703997 Ian replied to the topic First Check-in! What data should I collect? in the forum AI Content Sites https://brandbuilderscommunity.com/topic/first-check-in-what-data-should-i-collect/#post-14174 Sat, 07 Oct 2023 00:03:01 -0800 Spencer, I’m using Plausible for Analytics. Plausible doesn’t delineate between traffic types, so there’s no “organic” traffic metric. However, it does show traffic sources. You can see a live example of the data it collects here: https://plausible.io/plausible.io
Any traffic from Google would be organic. May I use Plausible and count Google…Read more

]]> 6232d1c6e29a62b7657fb0d1c48e0b7c Ian replied to the topic Official Challenge! *Build an SEO Site with AI Generated Content* in the forum AI Content Sites https://brandbuilderscommunity.com/topic/official-challenge-build-an-seo-site-with-ai-generated-content/#post-14054 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 20:31:53 -0800 Spencer, can you clarify whether this is alright? I also found a domain that shows up on the Wayback Machine in 2015 as a “coming soon” page. But doing a site:domain search in Google returns nothing, so it’s not indexed.

]]> 1b0d85115f48d6338d9fdb020dcfd852 Ian replied to the topic Official Challenge! *Build an SEO Site with AI Generated Content* in the forum AI Content Sites https://brandbuilderscommunity.com/topic/official-challenge-build-an-seo-site-with-ai-generated-content/#post-14015 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:19:31 -0800 Sorry! Lol
I don’t expect to win just cause of time constraints, but I am pretty competitive so we’ll see… I have a lot of unique ideas I want to experiment with on my challenge site, and will share those along with my learnings. Whatever the outcome, I’m sure we’ll all learn a ton by the end. It’s gonna be a fun six months!

Great to hear you…Read more

]]> d8298fa4f7b45bc919312de8b05a9865 Ian replied to the topic Official Challenge 2: *Grow an EXISTING Site with AI Generated Content* in the forum AI Content Sites https://brandbuilderscommunity.com/topic/official-challenge-2-grow-an-existing-site-with-ai-generated-content/#post-13992 Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:58:37 -0800 Hey guys, my name is Ian, and I’m from Illinois.

I’ve been a long-time reader of Niche Pursuits and have been building niche sites since 2016.

I started a site in 2021 to experiment with AI content, and so far it’s been going pretty well. That’s the site I’ll be growing for this challenge.

Here’s my entry…Read more

]]> f79d1a196db87e658774984ffd102456 Ian replied to the topic Official Challenge! *Build an SEO Site with AI Generated Content* in the forum AI Content Sites https://brandbuilderscommunity.com/topic/official-challenge-build-an-seo-site-with-ai-generated-content/#post-13990 Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:49:53 -0800 Hey guys, my name is Ian, and I’m from Illinois.

I’ve been a long-time reader of Niche Pursuits and have been building niche sites since 2016.

Here’s my entry video:

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