💰 Results: €0/month for now
⏱ Time invested: Still tracking
🔥 Worth it? Still in testing phase
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🛠 Tools used: Hostinger ( Please note this is an affiliate link, I will get bonus if you sign up with it). Claude Ai.
The funny thing about starting a blog is that it feels productive before it makes any sense financially.
You buy the domain.
You set up the hosting.
You adjust the design twenty times even though nobody is visiting yet.
And then you check the numbers.
€0.
That is where this WordPress blog is right now.
No ad money. No affiliate income. No newsletter subscribers. Almost no traffic. Just a small website sitting on the internet, waiting to become something useful.
So no, this is not one of those “I started a blog and made €10,000 in 30 days” stories.
Not even close.
This is the first proper update on the experiment, and honestly, the main point of this post is not to show impressive results. There are no impressive results yet. The point is to explain the plan.
Because right now, the site is still in the boring foundation stage.
And boring or not, that stage matters.
The Goal: Get the Site Ready for Ads
The first monetization goal for this blog is simple:
I want to get the website approved for ads.
That does not mean I expect ads to make serious money immediately. With the amount of traffic I have now, ads would probably make almost nothing. Maybe a few cents. Maybe not even that.
But for me, ad approval is still an important milestone.
It would mean the site is starting to look like a real content project. Not just an empty WordPress installation with a few random posts thrown on it.
To get there, I need more content, better structure, and enough useful pages that the website feels trustworthy.
That is the idea, anyway.
My current plan is to publish around 10–12 posts per month.
Which sounds a bit ambitious, I know. Maybe too ambitious. But I would rather aim high for now and adjust later than post once every two months and wonder why nothing is happening.
The important thing is that I do not want to publish filler.
This website is not supposed to become a pile of generic “make money online” articles that say the same thing everyone else is saying.
The whole point of kirimas.com is real testing.
I try something.
I track it.
I write about what happened.
If it works, good.
If it fails, also good. At least then there is something real to talk about.
What I Want to Publish
The content plan is not complicated.
Most of the posts should fall into a few simple categories:
- side hustle experiment reports
- monthly progress updates
- lessons from things I’ve tested
- beginner guides based on what I’m learning myself
- honest reviews of tools or platforms I actually use
That last part is important.
I do not want to become the kind of blog that recommends ten tools I have never touched just because they have affiliate programs. There is enough of that online already. Too much, probably.
If I write about a platform, tool, or service, I want it to be because I used it or I am actively testing it.
That keeps the site honest.
Or at least that is the goal.
Affiliate Links, But Not Sneaky Ones
Another possible income source is affiliate links.
For example, if I write about hosting, plugins, tools, platforms, or anything else I personally use, I may include an affiliate link.
But I want to be clear with readers when I do that.
If a link benefits me, I should say so.
Simple.
I do not want people reading the site and wondering, “Is this recommendation real, or is he only saying this because he gets paid?”
That kind of thing ruins trust fast.
My rule is this:
I should be comfortable recommending something even if there was no commission attached.
That does not mean the product has to be perfect. Nothing is. But I want to be honest about what worked, what annoyed me, what I would use again, and what I probably would not touch twice.
Short-term affiliate money is not worth making the whole site feel fake.
At least that is how I see it.
SEO Is the Part I Need to Learn Properly
This is one area where I still feel very much like a beginner.
SEO.
I understand the basics. Sort of.
Use good titles. Write useful content. Structure articles properly. Add internal links. Make sure Google can actually find the site.
Fine.
But knowing the basics and knowing what you are doing are two different things.
Right now, I need to learn how people search, how to choose better topics, and how to write posts that have some chance of being found over time.
Because publishing into the void is easy.
Getting traffic is the hard part.
In my next update, I want to share what I learn about SEO from a beginner’s point of view. Not as some guru. Definitely not that. More like:
“Here is what I learned after spending a few evenings trying to understand why nobody is reading my blog.”
Some things I want to figure out:
- how to choose better titles
- how to find keywords people actually search for
- how to structure posts for Google
- how internal linking works
- how long new posts usually take to get traffic
- what beginner bloggers usually mess up
SEO matters because without traffic, this blog has no real business model.
Ads need traffic.
Affiliate links need traffic.
The newsletter needs traffic.
Everything needs traffic.
Annoying, but true.
The Website Design Is Fine. The Newsletter Is Not.
One thing I am actually happy with right now is the website design.
It is clean enough. It fits the idea. The homepage explains what the site is about. The experiment posts have a clear format. The monthly updates give me a place to track progress.
Could it be better? Of course.
Everything can always be better. That is how people end up changing button colors for three hours instead of writing posts.
But overall, I like it.
The bigger problem is the newsletter.
At the time I am writing this, the newsletter function is not working properly.
Which is not ideal, because I want the newsletter to become a real part of the project.
The goal is simple: when someone subscribes, they should get a weekly email with the newest posts and updates.
Nothing spammy.
No daily “urgent” nonsense.
No fake scarcity.
No “last chance” emails for something that was never really going away.
Just one weekly update with the latest experiments, numbers, and lessons.
That fits the site better.
Most people are not going to remember to check kirimas.com manually. I wouldn’t either. So if someone likes the idea of following real side hustle tests, a weekly email makes sense.
Fixing the newsletter is one of my main tasks now.
April 2026 Update
I am counting this as the first proper monthly update for the WordPress blog experiment.
So here are the current numbers:
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Posts published | 5 |
| Monthly visitors | 20 |
| Newsletter subscribers | 0 |
| Monthly revenue | €0 |
| Current website profit/loss | -€42 |
Not exactly a rocket ship.
But that is okay.
This is the baseline.
The site is new. The traffic is tiny. The newsletter has nobody on it yet. And the whole thing is currently negative because I paid for hosting.
Still, this is useful to track.
If the site grows later, I can compare future updates to this one. If it does not grow, that is useful too. At least then I will have real numbers instead of guesses.
That is the whole reason I wanted to build this in public.
No fake screenshots.
No exaggerated income claims.
No pretending something is working when it clearly is not.
Just the actual numbers.
Even when they are small and slightly embarrassing.
What I Need to Do Next
The next steps are pretty clear.
First, I need to fix the newsletter system.
That is the biggest immediate issue.
After that, I need to keep publishing. My target is still around 10–12 posts per month, although I may adjust that if quality starts dropping. There is no point publishing twelve weak posts just to say I did it.
I also need to learn basic SEO and actually apply it instead of just reading about it forever. That means better titles, better internal links, and posts that answer real questions.
The current to-do list looks like this:
- fix and build the newsletter system
- publish consistently
- learn SEO and apply it to new posts
- improve internal links between related articles
- keep tracking traffic and results every month
- add affiliate links only when they honestly make sense
- prepare the site for future ad approval
Nothing fancy.
Just a lot of small things done repeatedly.
Which is usually how these projects work, I think.
Current Verdict
Right now, this WordPress blog is not profitable.
It has made €0.
It has 0 newsletter subscribers.
It has very little traffic.
And because I paid for hosting, the current result is still negative.
So if I judged it purely by money, the answer would be simple:
Not working yet.
But I do not think that is the right way to judge it this early.
The cost is low. The website is live. I like the design. I have a content plan. And now I have a clear list of what needs to improve.
So my current rating is:
Still testing
This is not a success story.
Not yet.
But it is also not a failure.
It is just the beginning, which is the least exciting part of almost every experiment — and probably the most important one.
