Blogging

10 years ago today, on October 10, 2013, my blog went online at reinisfischer.com 10 years have passed like a flicker, especially the last 6 or 7 years. Over the years the blog has turned into a massive archive covering my travels in Georgia and around the World, documented progress on stock investments, options trading and even running a crypto hedge fund. Over the years I have documented the progress of home remodeling, apartment remodeling and even building a frame house from scratch. We…

I love challenges and just now I have launched another one - Can You Instagram 365 days in a row?  Turns out I've been an active user of Instagram for some 7-8 years,  but I have never gotten what's the use of it, except posting nicely looking photos?  A few days ago I started to watch the Netflix series - Emily in Paris and I thought cool - I can do this or at least I could try to get this by launching another cool 365 days challenge. I travel quite frequently, so could post tons of travel…

In this article, I'm going to talk about how I launched a paid newsletter on Substack and what steps I took to grow my audience from 0 subscribers to 100 in just7 months (April - December 2021) Here is my newsletter Covered Calls with Reinis Fischer I decided to brand this newsletter in my name, and not to chose something in general, adding Covered Calls clearly identifies the target audience (options trading). Now as a person with more than 10 years of experience in search engine…

Today, on October 10th, 2020, the ReinisFischer.com website is celebrating its 7th birthday. Each blog anniversary is a huge milestone for me and the 7th birthday is no exception. What has started as a simple experiment has turned out to be a successful online business venture! In the past seven years blog has attracted more than 4.9 million users and generated more than 6.9 million page views. Blog traffic October 2013 - October 2019 (Data source: Google Analytics) Topics covered in the…

Google AdSense auto ads have been available for some time already, in the past I have used them with mixed success.  Fast forward to 2020 and I decided to give them another shot. But there was one thing worrying me - I don't want to show Google Ads on every single page, and I want to take control of it. As my blog is built with Drupal, in the past I have used a few tricks to get what I want.  Auto ads offer a simple and innovative way for you to monetize your content. With Auto ads, you place…

January is almost at the end and it's time to look back on the previous year of blogging (2019), and no doubts -  take a quick glimpse of 2020 In today's article, I will reveal data behind the blog scenes - both traffic and income for the whole year of 2019. But before we dig into the numbers, here is the brief background - blog now is more than six years old, and for the last six years it has gone a very long way, Make sure to check out my previous yearly blogging reviews: 2018 - 2018 Blog…

Today, on October 10th, 2019, ReinisFischer.com website is celebrating its 6th birthday. Each blog anniversary is a huge milestone for me and the 6th birthday is no exception. What has started as a simple experiment has turned out to be a successful online business venture! It was just yet another Autumn evening when back on October 10, 2013, I registered domain name www.ReinisFischer.com, and the journey could started. I started this blog as an experiment - To blog 365 consecutive days and…

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2018  has just passed, and now it is the right time to take a look back on the previous year of blogging, and of course doubts -  take a quick glimpse of 2019. In today's article, I will reveal data behind the blog scenes - both traffic and income for the whole year of 2018. But before we dig into the numbers, here is the brief background - blog now is more than five years old, and for the last five years it has gone a very long way, Make sure to check out my previous yearly blogging reviews…

Five years ago I started this blog with an experiment - Can you blog 365 days in a row? Now, five years later I know for sure, yes you can, you even can blog 5 X 365 days in a row. At least that what I just did. Now, five years ago, when started this experiment I was looking to get a blog traffic of 6,000 users/mo at the end.  Here was my motivation five years ago: The reason I'm asking this question is - when starting something new - it all seems so exciting, so adventurous. But then comes…