In this video I share my TikTok story.

In 12 months I’ve posted around 360 videos on TikTok and it’s taught me a lot about how the TikTok algorithm works and what you need to do get views.

I’d love to know your experiences and thoughts on posting videos on TikTok.

Leave me a comment below!

The money is in the list!

That’s what everyone says.

So I decided that i’d better start sending out a regular newsletter.

For my Estepona website I’ve started building an email list using a simple popup that I created with the amazing Spectra Page Builder.

The list is growing slowly, but steadily.

In this video, I take you through how I’ve been sending out a weekly inspiration newsletter using Omnisend.

It’s really easy to create some good looking, engaging emails that get read and get opened.

I hope you find the video useful. If have any questions or comments, please leave them below.

Things mentioned in this video

• Omnisend
• Spectra
• Estepona Life
• Canva

Good luck with your emails!

In this video I take show you Kittl and how you can use it to design your t-shirts that you can sell.

Things mentioned in this video:

• Kittl (affiliate link)
• My t-shirts on Estepona.Life

Share your designs in the comments!

It’s time for another Google update.

However, this one does seem to be quite positive as some bit sites, like RetroDodo and HouseFresh that were hit hard in the previous updates, are getting rankings, snippets, and traffic back.

How are your sites doing?

It might seem good to set lots of goals and targets for yourself.

But what happens if you don’t achieve them?

It can actually make things worse.

Here’s my latest update on Estepona Life.

It’s going pretty well. I just need to add more content more quickly.

Here are the key stats:

Content:

• 16 General Articles
• 39 Directory posts
• 18 Products

General Traffic:

• Around 40 a day
• Direct is the biggest source
• Then Google
• Then Facebook

Search:

• 16 clicks a day
• Impressions on over 676 keywords

Social:

• Instagram has over 1000 followers
• Engagement is ok – gets likes and comments – mostly negative about the town
• Facebook page growing with Ads – 6p per like – Total followers: 313 
• YouTube: 294 subs and over 30,000 views so far
• X: very slow 37 – followers
• Pinterest: very slow 
• TikTok: very slow

Watch the video for the full story..

Google recently destroyed thousands of people’s earnings by making changes to Google Search.

Now, they’ve turned their attention to YouTube.

The shareholders at Google want more money so the plan is to keep you on Google products, like YouTube and Search for as long as possible.

Some of the things that can and might change are:

• Descriptions being hidden or removed completely (no more links)
• Cards are being changed so you can’t add links
• New jump-forward features makes it easy not to watch sponsored parts of videos

I share more details in the video.

Let me know what you think about this in the comments..

Did you see this tweet from Niche Site Lady?

I don’t want count my chickens or anything, but has anyone else seen an uplift since the latest Google update started rolling out? pic.twitter.com/BRp8wZzvB9

— Niche Site Lady (@NicheSiteLady) June 25, 2024

It looks like some sites are seeing a bit of an increase in traffic from Google again!

If you read the comments, other people are agreeing they’ve seen a bit of a recovery, too.

Unfortunately, I’m not seeing it on my existing sites yet.

How are your sites looking?

I’ve been running some Facebook ads to sell some Estepona-inspired t-shirts.

I’ll be sharing all the info soon.

However, something weird happened yesterday.

A conversion was reported in my account…

The thing is, I knew for a fact that this didn’t come from Facebook.

The order was from my mum..

..she was ordering a Tee as a gift for my dad.

And my mum doesn’t have Facebook or Instagram..

This smelt really fishy to me.

So I reached out to facebook to find out what was going on..

Something didn’t seem right to me…

They’ve said I should remove the domain or something. I’m not sure how that’ll help.

What do you think?