**Official 1 Month Reports: Build a NEW Site with AI Challenge**

[Spencer Haws]

The month of October was the first FULL month of the AI site challenge! I’m excited to start seeing more and more traffic and results!

You can see the all the reports for the first month right here!

(I’m still accepting reports, so this will be updated over the next few days).

Go ahead and check out all the reports, video updates, and more.

Thank you!

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[Jenny Meechan]

Filled in the form (twice, because I sent a link to PayPal invoice by mistake the first time so please can you delete that!) and this is my video https://youtu.be/Ue7z4Yad4zs?si=6YMNBviOGQ5dU9Zy

[Diane]

Jenny you’re not alone with the low stats and absolute lack of time (school holidays scupper any chance of working on this!) so don’t be disheartened. Your accent sounds fairly local – I’m in Blackpool

[Jenny Meechan]

It’s so hard fitting it in around actually earning plus looking after the kids! I’m Grimsby, but I’m not sure it has much of its own accent, when I go down south no one can place me!

[Brad]

Bowing out of the competition, another project is taking off very nicely and I need to double down and focus on that!

All the best to all participants!

[April Duffy]

Good luck with the other project!

[Brad]

Thank you, April! Really appreciate it.

All the best to you in this challenge!

[Madison Cates]

Here’s my video! I forgot to add that I am also working on backlinks as well.

[J Paul Hendricks]

Nice progress! Adorable assistant!

[April Duffy]

Here’s my video (form submitted).

I swear, I’m still in this! 😉

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[Madison Cates]

Haha, I always love your videos! You got this!

[Nadya From LivingOffCloud]

Love your enthusiasm! You were not afraid to change your topic, this is great!

[Alen]

Here’s my video!

Not particularly satisfied with the numbers but hopefully the site will pick up steam.

[Bec]

Hi all!
Here’s my video for month #1!
Please excuse the shocking videography and baby – rushing out the door for a holiday!

Working on a POD site with ChatGPT product desc. and starting to get my pages indexed on search console now- organic traffic is 0 but I’ve seen some impressions!! Hopefully month 2 sees a little more success haha.

[Diane]

Here’s my video. Hope that everyone else is doing better than me! https://youtu.be/J6E01nP27Pg

[Diane]

Wow just watched some videos I’m impressed by how many articles people are publishing! I’m at a grand total of…..7 posts 😅 I seem to be in my own personal competition for ranking with the least amount of posts 😆

[Sjpals]

I only have 9!

[Diane]

Go us Presto Names! I’m glad I’m not alone 🙂

[Silvia]

Hello!

My progress is slow, but since I’m not putting in much effort (I don’t have enough time), it seems ok.

Here’s my video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP8taclvyHM

[Nadya From LivingOffCloud]

Great video!
I have a question: Why do you want to publish videos on TikTok? And not on YouTube?

[Silvia]

Thanks!

TikTok is easier to use, videos can be prepared and uploaded quickly. Videos on TikTok are shorter, which suits my niche because it’s not serious 🙂 And according to my tests – I have more views, comments on TikTok.

[Nadya From LivingOffCloud]

Thanks for the reply, Silvia!
I have started a YT channel and plan to post only shorts there. I do not know if you know that YT shorts are like TikTok videos and reels on Instagram.
On TikTok, do many viewers go to the profile to click on the website link? Or is there another mechanism to channel them to the website?

[J Paul Hendricks]

We’ve got things moving and picking up steam. Very few clicks but G knows we exist and is getting to know the site. I have not hit all my personal goals but the team is doing great and I’m feeling pretty good! Lots planned for November. Onward and upward!

[Sjpals]

Looking forward to seeing how everyone else is doing. Here’s mine https://youtu.be/TeiMHJ6rRnk

[Adrian D.]

Here is my video (Nov. 1st Check-in – report on traffic from October):

[Jen]

Here is my video for Update #2!!! https://youtu.be/3AaqgfqIT8g

[Nadya From LivingOffCloud]

wow congrats!!! that’s an amazing take-off 🙂

[Ryan]

Here’s my month 1 update. Pretty boring so far on the stats front. I’m happy I’ve been able to stay consistent with the project. https://youtu.be/TlHzAgWxdvk

[Nadya From LivingOffCloud]

wow, you have published a lot of content!!! How about the possibility of being penalized? You are not afraid of that?

[Ryan]

Anyone who’s having trouble getting their site indexed, I’d suggest using the rank math instant indexing plugin. For Google you have to take a few extra steps, which sounds daunting, but it’s actually pretty easy if you use this post from Rank Math to walk you through it. Hope this helps! I set it up day 1 and my site has 375 pages indexed vs 11 not indexed. https://rankmath.com/blog/google-indexing-api/?utm_source=Instant+Indexing+Plugin&utm_medium=Setup+Guide+Button&utm_campaign=WP

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[Alpi]

Nice one. Will have to give it a try.

[Sarah Auerswald]

I’m happy to say the new site had 14 visits in October – and it makes me want to work harder in November.

Video update: https://youtu.be/fRLjXBSvR1E

[Alpi]

Here is my Vlog for October.
Had about 20 clicks in GSC, nothing spectacular, but an ok result for a brand new website.

Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3gV2Zc5ac8

[Nadya From LivingOffCloud]

oh wow, what a challenging month has it been for you!
In your video, you mentioned “Web stories” – what’s that?

[Alpi]

Web stories is essentially a Google product, a plugin that you download on WP. I use it to create something similar to FB/IG reels/stories with the added bonus that it can appear in Google discover. I had websites where one of these slides brought in 5k traffic per day for a short period of time.
They can also be monetized and I’m pretty sure it counts as google search traffic. This is what helped one of my websites to apply to Mediavine after only 6 months I created it.
So it can be quite good, if your niche fits the profile. Usually image heavy, visual websites in the fashion, cooking recipes, etc have a lot of success, at least in my experience.

[Nadya From LivingOffCloud]

oh cool, thanks so much for the detailed explanation, Alpi! Appreciated!

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[Tom]

Here’s the link for our monthly update:

Great to see everyone still smiling!

Cheers Spencer.

[learningmachine]

1st-month update https://youtu.be/TZ_y8IvVnpo

[Holly]

Only 11 articles live so far because I’m completely time-poor right now. Urgh! But 20 clicks is a start!

[Tom Seest]

[Tom Seest]

GA4 has been connected but doesn’t seem to be collecting. Search console numbers are better. I reported GA4 as instructed, though.

[Tom Seest]

SiteKit reports 127 users for Organic Search from GA4 but the GA4 Front end shows me nothing. It also reports 325 users overall from GA4. Search is reporting 9 Clicks through SiteKit, and 217 Visitors.

I’ll try to study up on GA4 and try to figure out Google’s latest helpful content for getting it to display something besides a 0 when I try to get the numbers.

[Tom Seest]

[Tom Seest]

218 Posts for this site. Going well. Getting no love from GA4.

[Tom Seest]

Even though GA4 won’t report users or traffic to me directly, the Google Site Kit plugin does:

According to it, I got 30 Users from Organic Search in October using numbers provided by Analystics. And, 183 users overall. How Google can make GA4 report the numbers through the Site Kit plugin but not directly in GA4 is beyond belief. Search Console shows 30 users as well.

[Dan Crone]

October report. Whole lot of nothing to report as I haven’t launched yet. I don’t think I posted here last time. Well, by the time the contest is over, I’ll be doing it right.

[Ian]

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), the prompt should be more customized. I’m sharing the general one below because it’s more universally useful than the very specific prompt I use. Mine is extremely similar, though. Replace the words in [brackets] with the appropriate information. Use the GPT-4 model.

Prompt:

Instructions for article targeting the keyword “[your keyword]”:

Title should be simple and descriptive, and list the target keyword first.

Article body:

[Insert your outline]

Guidelines:

Please add a quick summary after the introduction section. Concisely summarize the important points from the article using bullet points. Label as “Quick summary”.

Use simple wording that is easy for anyone to understand, but always use proper terminology.

Be thorough.

Do NOT leave any section unwritten.

Use short paragraphs.

Use formatting like bold, italics, lists, and tables where possible.

Avoid fluff.

Avoid explicit section and heading labels like “V.”.

Optimize for NLP with the provided target phrase.

Format using markdown for CMS compatibility.

Maintain proper heading structure. The title should be H1. Main headings should be H2. Sub-headings should be H3.

If the article is too long to create in a single output, simply stop when necessary and await the user to prompt you to continue.

End Note:

Take a deep breath and ensure you grasp the format and guidelines. Do you require any clarifications before we proceed?

Once ChatGPT confirms that it understands the requirements and is ready to proceed, simply ask it to begin.

ChatGPT will pause at some point. When it does, simply ask it to continue.

NOTE:

If ChatGPT isn’t following one of your instructions, specify what it did wrong and ask it to try again.

For example: “Looking good, except that you forgot to ______. Please try again”.

If ChatGPT continues to forget your original instructions, the context window was likely exceeded. If that’s the issue, you will need to begin a new chat.

The context window basically means how far back ChatGPT can remember. For GPT-4, the context window is about 6,000 words (which includes both your instructions AND ChatGPT’s output). However, in my experience, ChatGPT begins to forget things even before it reaches 6,000 words.

Feel free to adjust the prompt as necessary. The real customization is within the outline. The rest of the prompt simply helps minimize the need for editing, and helps ChatGPT to follow best practices.

[Alpi]

You seem to be getting a lot of impressions but only a few clicks.
I also noticed that your title prompt for ChatGPT is only one line:
“Title should be simple and descriptive, and list the target keyword first.”

I would experiment with a tool like https://headlines.coschedule.com/headlines.
Take the title from 10 of your articles that have the most impressions on GSC and throw them into that tool.

You might get a better CTA with a better optimized title.
Good luck.

[Madison Cates]

Does changing titles hurt anything? Do I reindex after I change it? I’m getting over 20k impressions but few clicks. I think I need to update headlines

[Ian]

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.

[Ian]

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. There’s no need for the user to scroll down and click a lower result. The niche is English grammar, by the way.

[Troy De Ville]

It’s a super short video because I’m at work lol. There is little to report, a few clicks here and there. A bunch of articles are not indexing. I’m going to work on backlinks.

[Janet Brandon]

I’m not part of the challenge but I am following your progress closely and results are encouraging to me.
I started my hybrid website (ai/human content) in September, and so far, have 83 articles published (44 indexed).
Ave position 44.9, wish I had more clicks and impressions though.
99 health score in ahrefs, ranking for 68 keywords in ahrefs with top position 26 (so work to be done!), 4 backlinks.

Congrats to all participants for your work so far, and keep up the good work!!!

[Harshajyoti Das]

Google might have penalized my site. From a peak of 7.2k impressions, now it is getting 0 impressions. The next focus is to start editing the articles and see if it makes any difference.

[Nadya From LivingOffCloud]

Oh shoot, the penalty happened so quickly! Sorry to hear that! I hoped we had more time/content to spare before getting under the hammer 😬 I have been carefully editing all my articles from the beginning, which slows me down, of course, but gives more trust to Google, hopefully.

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[David]

Hi everyone, here is my one month video update, cheers!

[Amit]

Site is looking great and nice to see a fellow Zimm user here. Great job 👏👏👏

[Amit]

Happy November Y’all! Here’s my Oct update video 🕺🪩🤖

Good luck to all and enjoy your Nov 🍁🍂🦃

[Mike B]

My October Video Revew

[Jon Kurtis]

Why are you waiting to submit the sitemap? That is always the first thing I do after going live with a new site. Just curious the reasoning.

[Mike B]

Jon,

It’s just test to see if Google will pick up the pages naturally. I know submitting is the way to go but I have another site in which google hasn’t crawled my website since October 10. So I’m not sure what’s going on with Google. It could be simply because the sites are new.

Another reason is that I would like to get up to 50 articles before submitting the sitemap and see if that helps in any way.

Again…just a test.

Thanks for the question!

[Johnson]

Hey,
Here is my update for October. I’ve only had 38 clicks but I’m expecting to get more clicks in the next month. I’d say that I’m still motivated and satisfied with the results.

My video update

[Nadya From LivingOffCloud]

100 articles, wow 🤯 No signs of a possible penalty? I am really scary of getting penalized 😅
What tool do u use for Pinterest?

[Rajneesh Singh]

I am stuck. So far 11 articles. Will make progress this month…

[Nadya From LivingOffCloud]

Here’s my video! In October, I got a whole one organic traffic visitor 😅 I also started a YouTube channel for this website and posted 1 short. This brought me a few referral traffic visitors 😁 I also plan to start a second AI website….🙈

[Nadya From LivingOffCloud]

Just thought that I should write some facts about I am doing things:
– for generating text, I use Surfer SEO, which is a bit expensive compared to ChatGPT but is very convenient to use when it comes to editing the text and uploading it to the website
– in October, I got 1 organic visitor after publishing 11 articles.
– editing the articles manually slows me down a lot but hopefully, it will prevent from getting penalized down the road
– I also use my own images and my own face on these images to show Google that it is not a faceless website!
– To understand my topic better, I bought a subscription to an online community that provides me with a lot of knowledge!
– my niche is in Gardening and I really enjoy writing about it; it is important for me to keep me pushing!

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[Chelsea]

[Ashley]

I haven’t had as much time as I would have liked to spend on this project over the last month, but I’m encouraged by the progress I’ve made with the time I’ve had. https://youtu.be/76UzEaresVY

[Seb]

hey y’all! here’s my October report. 🙂

[seogiraffe]

Here’s my update!

So far things are still slow. But I can see ranks popping up in the top 100 and with the little off-site SEO I’ve done, I’d say that’s pretty damn good.

Excited for the next few months where the focus shifts to more off-page SEO.

[Brad]

Ok, I decided NOT to bow out after all.

Here’s the update! Congrats to everyone who is still in the running and I hope November is the month that you see 10x progress.

[James Montgomery]

October Update

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[Jon Kurtis]

I feel very behind on the challenge as I have nothing published yet. But I do have 2,589 “Definitions” generated which will be part of my Lawfred.com site. I have not started on NameGrail.com or WordGrail.com, which are the other 2 sites I am intending to build.

So far I have wrote a script to scrape quite a bit of data that I am using as context in my prompts to the OpenAI API to get better output. I find this helps to prevent “Hallucinations” and give better output. I also ran into issues with rate limiting when attempting to bulk generate using the OpenAI API. I solved this by adding a delay of .5s, 1s, and finally 1.5s. Though in the process I did end up wasting about $5 worth of API usage because I was waiting to “save” the previously generated posts in batches. I have also occasionally ran into issues where the API will hang and then I lose all of the previously generated posts. So it is good I was batching them.

I’m hoping that next month I will have a lot of articles generated and published.

Here is my video.

[Natasha]

October’s update is here! Slow going so far, but we’ll see how things go! https://youtu.be/2YFBkoMAL24

[Harshajyoti Das]

Update on 2nd Website:

[Nadya From LivingOffCloud]

Good luck with the 2nd website!
And that’s a great tip on how to quickly add custom knowledge to ai-generated text! 👍 I have been writing my thoughts and feeding them to the ai text generator but it was slow and my text had a lot of typos. I’ll try audio transcript!

[Edvard]

Here is my October update: https://youtu.be/LdCrtOMMsJg

[Pet Content Solutions]

hello everyone. My first month update. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHCFD8LTsbI

[Brian Kessler]

Hey Everyone! Here is my 1 month update!

[Mike B]

Brian,

I don’t think you are alone with getting very little traffic!

-Mike

[Temilade]

OCTOBER AI SITE UPDATE

[Chris LeBlanc]

Hey everyone, here’s my one month update.

[Hassan]

Youtube Video for the October Update for the AI-niche site

[Tian]

October Update https://youtu.be/5w0b6Q5unR0

[Becki]

October update https://youtu.be/R5MWZ0rpgxU?si=s9nGTpcGqaGaJwxO

[Gayathri]

October month update – https://youtu.be/xQYGTGkL4eg

[Tonja Gasperlin]

Video

[Tonja Gasperlin]

Dear people.
I am getting more than 500 organic searches by now.

My video is 10 minutes long, because I wanted to share everything with you. I can also send a transcript of a this video, if you feel overwhelmed by my beautiful accent 🙂

[Tonja Gasperlin]

What I forgot is say is, that I always tell to chatGPT to write me unusual information and facts, besides the common knowledge.

[Tonja Gasperlin]

Things that help me

https://ghost.org CMS

[Tonja Gasperlin]

Things that help me

https://ahrefs.com/keyword-generator FREE AHREFS KEYWORDS

(sorry for writing many replies, but it just doesn’t want to post all together)

[Tonja Gasperlin]

Things that help me

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page FREE REAL IMAGES

[Tonja Gasperlin]

Things that help me

WHATS TRENDING ON GOOGLE https://trends.google.com/trends/

Down on the page on the right are Search Queries and make time frame from 2004 for more or better results.

[Charles]

Here is my video update: https://youtu.be/n3EubXTzf9c

So, in brief, I am running 21 sites for this experiment. I have had some setbacks and operational issues that has delayed my progress. Thus, I still haven’t posted a single article on any of the sites. However, my plan is to post at least 5 articles on each site by mid next week, and at least 10 articles by the end of next week. I have started at a slow pace, but am sure I will catch up.

[Vijay Bhand]

thats lot of work to do

[Charles]

Yes it is. Good thing is that I love such challenges.

[Raul Alessio Carozo]

Finaly got my website up and running. It was a bit of a struggle trying to make the time to get it going. Even managed to post 3 articles. Got 20 more ready to go. My aim is just to improve on my previous months efforts. https://youtu.be/Qv398120dMs

[Vijay Bhand]

Well, I am an unofficial entry to this challenge, and after seeing the results of other participants I think I’m doing well with my site, as i started late its a 9 days old site and here is the performance so far:

Articles: 14
Web Stories: 10
GSC: 469 Impressions, 3 Clicks
Discover: 171 Impressions, 6 Clicks.

There are no links obviously and I’m posting 2-3 articles a day right now so hopefully my site will do well in next few months.

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[Adeel Zafar]

October Update, not satisfactory results. But lets hope for best: https://youtu.be/bTGwHnhdzwg

[Adeel Zafar]

Not so good performance yet: https://youtu.be/bTGwHnhdzwg

[Murtaza Lodhi]

Sorry, just got on board. Wanted to ask if everyone is using brand new domain? Or people are using expired domains as well?

[Tim McReynolds]

It appears that I had a sudden case of S.O. syndrome (Shiny Object Syndrome) when I filled out the form for the new site report at the end of October. I filled in the form but never hit the submit button. This time I not only filled in the form but I submitted it. (Sorry for the extra work Spencer.)
Regardless, my report should strike fear in the hearts of anyone trying for last place because I think I have that placement nailed down.
Time for new strategies and time to double down on my learning and my actions. It may just be time to release my inner Web Master.
Good Luck to all.
I have my video uploaded here https://youtu.be/dbZUnBtRnZw

[Mike B]

Tim,

I’m in a battle with you for last place!! Zero traffic so far. I did want to test Google to see if it would find my site without a Sitemap. Unfortunately, the Big G hasn’t found my site.

I’ve am interested to see what happens next month. I have 50 articles on the site and will be submitting my Sitemap tomorrow night or early on Dec. 1 to see if that makes a different on how fast G indexes a site.

Fingers crossed.

[J Paul Hendricks]

Deadline is almost upon us! 😅

[J Paul Hendricks]

Hi Spencer, will the NEW site challenge update form be shared soon? Making sure I didn’t miss an email. Thanks!

[Unagi S]

I was wondering If I should start a Twitch blog and later on start selling the Twitch viewers services on it?

[Vijay Bhand]

thats not gonna work mate

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