Come back with a knife

In June, the online shop blog I run generated €6,606 in directly attributed revenue. Six months earlier: €1,400. The answer was hiding in work we’d already done. (The 5-step system behind the 4.7× jump ↓)

Most e-commerce blogs have one treatment for bad content: feed it more content.

I started digging through the graveyard instead. That took monthly blog revenue from €1,400 to €6,606 in six months.

This will take you 2–3 hours per old blog post:

1) PULL THE RECEIPTS

Search Console. Revenue. Actual queries.

10,000 impressions + €0 = I’m not clapping.

2) FIND THE WALLET

I separate people learning from people trying to choose.

Then I hunt for what’s stopping the second group from buying.

3) FIX THE HESITATION

“Types of gaming laptops” = filler.

“Which GPU do I need for the games I play?” = someone with their wallet nearby.

4) DELETE YESTERDAY’S SEO

What worked for SEO before AI started answering searches may be dead weight now.

I cut sections when the data says nobody needs them anymore:

– questions people stopped Googling
– broad sections stealing focus from higher-intent queries
– repeated explanations that bury the actual buying criteria

SEO still decides what stays. Just current SEO, not folklore from 2022.

5) COME BACK WITH A KNIFE

This is the part nobody owns after publish. Unfortunately for them, it’s where the money compounds.

I check what happened after the rewrite. New queries. CTR. Rankings. Revenue.

Then I cut, add and rewrite again.

During those six months, blog impressions also grew from 626,000 to 1.17 million.

Cool, show me what it sold. A page can look successful in Google and still make no money.

If you already have 100+ articles, stop assuming the answer is article 101. Your next $$$ may already be sitting in an article you published three years ago.

PS: Which five blog posts made you the most money last quarter?

First published on Eva Domijan Linkedin

By Eva Domijan

Content Strategist for E-commerce Discovery and Revenue