{"id":7995,"date":"2023-06-16T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nichetwins.com\/?p=7995"},"modified":"2023-07-31T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T15:00:24","slug":"keiths-site-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nichetwins.com\/keiths-site-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"#16 | Keith’s Site Reveal!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Act I<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I often forget (or maybe I try<\/em> to forget) that my current site is not truly my first site.
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For that, we have to go back to November 2015.
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I was living in San Diego and I had just turned 25 years old. I was also in the early days of what would later become a five-year obsession with Bitcoin.
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Before I saw the light though, I had to first dabble with what are now affectionately referred to as \u201csh*tcoins\u201d. And boy did I dabble.
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It wasn\u2019t long before I saw a $7,000 investment gamble run up to $100,000.
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I was a GENIUS.
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And then I watched it nearly all evaporate\u2026poof<\/em>\u2026just like that.
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As if watching my paper gains disappear wasn\u2019t bad enough, come April I owed the equivalent of my salary at the time in capital gains tax.
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YIKES.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s true that the get-rich-quick illusion is what initially drew me in. But it was the broader question of \u201cwhat is money?\u201d that got me to stay.
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Money touches every single facet of day-to-day life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s no surprise that when your understanding and perception of money changes, your entire worldview changes with it.<\/strong>
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But I\u2019m not here to evangelize.
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Instead I\u2019m setting the stage for how I came to create \u201cTheNewKidsOnTheBlockchain.com” in December 2017.
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\u200bNo, that\u2019s not a joke.
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Is it the 6 word, 25 letter domain name that threw you? Or maybe the 80\u2019s pop culture word play?
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Or MAYBE, you\u2019re thinking if I had only dropped \u201cthe\u201d from the domain it would\u2019ve all come together?
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Well, relax. I asked around\u2026$1,500 was out of the question.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I found myself with a lot of time on my hands that December.
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Here\u2019s a snapshot of what I was up to (courtesy of the Wayback Machine).<\/p>\n\n\n

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A casual Benjamin Graham PSA blog post\u2026the balls! \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the holiday season was over, work picked up again and that was pretty much that.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, \u201cTheNewKidsOnTheBlockchain.com” turned out to be nothing more than a crash course in WordPress. But I will say, I had a lot of fun doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Act II<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

That brings me to the big reveal\u2026my current (albeit second) site: TheFlexibleWorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first site I’ve started with even a loose concept of what \u201cSEO\u201d and \u201ckeyword research\u201d mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week I declared this site dead. This week it appears very much alive.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Have a look around and take in the sights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See if you come to the same conclusion I have: this site will continue to get swept up into Google\u2019s bipolar updates unless a few major changes are made<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yes, Chelsea is my amazing wife who kindly (while reluctantly) became the face of The Flexible Worker once I joined the niche site community on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More on this later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next week I run through all the changes I made that I believe led to the recent recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime get outside and enjoy the weekend. \u270c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Keith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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