In 2018, I started my first blog, which was a great first experience for me. I learned about blogging from YouTube and other social networks, almost by practicing, I bought my .xyz domain within 1 month, and then connected it to Blogger. Now the problem was for me with premium themes, so I researched about Blogger free themes, and I found a website that gave me many free themes. It was a great scene in my life when I was very happy that I also had a website.
Now, after setting up all this, I started working on my web blog, and I started creating mixed content in English and Roman Urdu. Because it was 2018, Google updates came very late, there was not much competition, and people did not know much about this field, so traffic started coming to my website from some searches.
After a month of adding the site to Google Search Console, I started understanding all this, how websites are ranked, what is SEO, etc. I then wrote more than 20 posts and did off-page SEO to rank them. My first topic was about mobile packages and providing tips, guides, and solutions to people’s problems.
Early Internet Experience Before Blogger
It was a time when people only knew about forms, and in Pakistan, only one or two forms, one of which was called IT Dunya, were very famous. If people wanted to post something on the internet, they used these forms. I myself had made several hundred posts here, and then from there it came to my mind that why not make my own website like this.
Before Blogger, I used to work on Wapka.mobi, making my own website on mobile has become an easy way for me. When it was closed, I joined Blogger and bought my own domain. From here, my journey to success in life began.
Getting Google AdSense Approval in 2019
In 2019, I got AdSense approved on my Blogger website, which made me so happy that I used to tell people that I have a website and I will earn money from here now. Now, from 2019 to 2020, I spent so much time on Blogger that I practiced each and every function of it, and even learned html, css from here.
I was not seeing any earnings at the time because I was only getting 0.01 to 0.04 CPC from Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. And from this, I see the earnings up to $1 per day, sometimes even less. I did not take it seriously, and once something happened to me that left me shaken.
How I Get Rank on Google in First Position using Off-Page SEO
In November 2020, during my research, I found a company that did SEO work. Because I did not know much about SEO yet, I could only do a little on-page and off-page SEO. I invested 1-2 dollars in this company, and from there, it asked me for the keywords I wanted to rank for. I entered them, and they started working on it. I didn’t know what would happen, what the company would do, or whether they would build backlinks, etc.
In February 2021, I suddenly started getting traffic from Google and other search engines. I was happy to see traffic from 1000 to 6000-7000 in a flash. Now my earnings were also increasing, and I started getting more interested in this field.
I got to learn a lot. I then learned the complete SEO course for free from YouTube. Those who say that “one hint is enough for those who have to work, and those who don’t have to do it, even if you do everything in front of them, they won’t do it”.
SEO Strategy That Worked in 2021
SEO was so easy at that time that blogs and websites were ranked by comment backlinks, forum backlinks, and profile link building. This was a time when quality was not measured here, but quantity was measured.
The one who had more backlinks was ranked on it. In those days, I had a routine: I would create 20–30 backlinks at night and then go to sleep. Within 24 hours, my post would rank at number 1. I started working on one or two, then two to five websites in the same way. My focus has been on the telecom industry since the beginning, and it continues to this day.
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Scaling Websites and Facing Google Updates in 2022
During that time, I was earning so well that by 2022, I had created more than 10 blogs and websites. In 2022, a Google update hit, and it killed the traffic of many websites. After that, I started selling my websites on different platforms such as social media and Flippa.
This became a new phase of my life that helped me protect myself from Google updates and diversify my work.
This was a time when I had started connecting with people on social media and with others who were working in the same industry. Because of this, we could help each other solve problems and share experiences.
Building the PlansPapa Website
In 2022, I started working on a website called PlansPapa. On this website, I worked on telecom information for many countries around the world, but my main focus was Pakistan, and secondly, the UAE and KSA.
Later, I noticed that the CPC in the UAE was much higher, so I decided to skip Pakistan and shift my main focus to the UAE niche. I started working on all the mobile networks in the UAE. I published information about their packages, offers, common issues, tips, and even those packages that companies did not openly announce online. I shared all this information with users on my platform.
Increasing AdSense Earnings with UAE Traffic
At first, I was earning around $5–$10 per day. But after shifting my focus to the UAE, my earnings increased to about $50–$70 per day. This was one of the happiest and golden periods of my life. I became so passionate about this work that I started working on websites for several other countries as well. My main goal was always to provide users with honest and accurate information so I could truly help them and grow at the same time.
Google Algorithm Changes and Challenges
By then, Google had introduced several updates and algorithms, such as Helpful Content, Spam updates, and Panda, which significantly changed the SEO landscape.
By 2023, I had earned about $17,000 from this website in around 1.5 years. However, another Google update hit the site, and it was affected by a spam update. At that point, I decided to sell the website as well. I listed it on Flippa and sold it for $13,000.
Selling Websites and Growing New Projects
After that, I started working on several other UAE-based websites. I would grow them for about 5–6 months, earn through AdSense, and then sell them in the market.
The Arrival of AI and a New Industry Shift
From that time until the arrival of AI, I gained a lot of experience and learned many new things. But when AI came, it once again changed my life and the industry in many ways. Follow my social accounts and save Saleembaloch.com as a bookmark for the latest information.
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