Build Helpful Hobby Websites Using AI and Real Human Experience
One of the biggest worries people have when thinking about starting a side hustle or part-time website is time. How long will it take? How much work will it need? When will it start making money? Those are fair questions, but they need realistic answers. You are probably not going to start a hobby website … Read more
There is a lot of discussion now about AI search, Google AI Mode, technical SEO, structured content, crawlability, schema, query fan-out, internal links, headings, entities and all the other signals that might help a website be understood. Those things do matter. A website still needs to be accessible. Search engines need to be able to … Read more
One of the biggest reasons new website owners get discouraged is because they think about the size of the internet. Billions of people are online. Millions of websites already exist. Huge brands, influencers, media companies, YouTube channels, forums, social platforms and AI tools are all competing for attention. When you look at it from that … Read more
The internet can feel like an impossibly large forest. Everywhere you look, there are paths, signs, voices, distractions and established routes. There are huge companies with polished websites, professional publishers with teams of writers, social media platforms, YouTube channels, forums, AI answers and long-established brands. For an evening or weekend website builder, that can feel … Read more
There is a phrase from a recent Wealthy Affiliate post by Kyle that really stopped me in my tracks: “The machine is powerful, but it is aimless without a person pointing it somewhere worth going.” That, to me, sums up one of the most important truths about AI. AI is not useless. Far from it. … Read more
I have always had what I would call an enquiring mind. My parents may have called it something else. Stubborn.Annoying.Unable to just accept what I was told. If someone said, “Don’t touch that, it’s hot,” there was always a fair chance I would touch it, say “ouch,” and then accept that yes, it was in … Read more
There is a phrase being thrown around a lot at the moment: “AI slop.” And to be fair, I understand why. There is a huge amount of lazy AI content being published. Generic articles. Bland social media posts. Fake expertise. Recycled advice. Text that sounds polished but says nothing. You can often feel it when … Read more
I recently Googled “affiliate marketing” and saw a simple line in the AI overview that caught my attention: Show exactly how a product solves a specific problem. At first glance, that sounds obvious. Of course an affiliate marketer should explain how a product solves a problem. But the more I thought about it, the more … Read more
I recently read a comment from someone who had been building websites for more than ten years. They explained that a previous product review site, built up over several years, had been badly hit by Google’s 2023 and 2024 algorithm updates. Most of the traffic disappeared. The way they described it was that the audience … Read more
For years, a lot of SEO advice trained people to think about content in a very technical way. Put the keyword in the title. Put the keyword in the first paragraph. Put the keyword in an H2 heading. Put the keyword in the image alt text. Mention it a certain number of times. Make sure … Read more