Income School Project 24: Real Numbers From 5 Websites (June Week 1)

Running five websites at once sounds like the work of an agency team. Alston is doing it solo, in real time, on a working person’s schedule in Wisconsin and sharing every number so you can see exactly what the Income School Project 24 method looks like when it is not polished for a sales page.

This update covers June 1 through June 8. That is eight days of traffic data across five separate sites at wildly different stages of growth. If you have ever wondered how long the ramp-up really takes, or what happens when you start a second or third site before the first one hits its stride, the numbers below will give you a clearer picture than any income report screenshot ever could.

What You’ll Walk Out With

Eight days of real traffic numbers from five live websites at different growth stages
Why a Christmas-niche site building slowly in June is not a red flag
Why organic search percentage matters more than total pageview count
A case study in local city websites and which content types actually rank
The reinvestment loop Alston uses to hire content without spending money he has not earned yet
What traffic country data tells you about buyer intent before a single commission lands
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Site 1: The Oldest Niche Site (176 Pageviews in 8 Days)

This site launched October 24 and is the most mature of the five. At the time of this update it has 97 published blog posts and 25 YouTube videos pointing back to it. That combination of written and video content working together is exactly how Project 24 is designed to build compounding traffic over time. The blog feeds search engines, the YouTube channel feeds a second algorithm, and visitors from both find each other.

The eight-day total came in at 176 pageviews. Divided by eight days, that is roughly 22 pageviews per day. Projected across a full 30-day month, the site is on track for around 660 pageviews in June. That number is higher than the previous month, which means the trend line is pointing in the right direction even with a Google algorithm update that appeared on June 3rd and briefly dipped the numbers. Alston notes the dip but does not panic over it. Algorithm updates cause short-term noise across the industry, and a site with good foundational content typically recovers.

The niche itself is very specific, a tight sub-niche inside a broader category, focused on products that get purchased heavily as Christmas gifts. That means the real traffic spike is not expected until November and December. Alston is not treating the current modest numbers as a problem. He is treating them as the quiet base-building phase before a seasonal push. Any site in a gift-buying niche has to be evaluated against its peak months, not its off-season baseline. A site sitting at 660 monthly pageviews in June could realistically be at 3,000 or 4,000 in December if the niche timing holds.

The most encouraging signal for Site 1 is where the traffic originates. Organic search accounts for 57 percent of all sessions. The rest breaks down as 35 percent social and 20 percent direct, with a small referral slice. In the organic breakdown, Bing is the strongest individual performer, followed by Facebook at 14 visits, Yahoo at 13, DuckDuckGo at 12, and YouTube at 11. Google sits at just 3 visits across the eight days, roughly one every other day. That is lower than most people expect, but it is consistent with what new and mid-aged sites typically see. Google gives authority slowly. Bing and DuckDuckGo index and rank new content considerably faster, which is why the Bing number dwarfs Google here.

The country breakdown for Site 1 shows visitors from the United States, Canada, India, Australia, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Russia. Alston flags this data because purchasing power varies across that list. India and Mexico tend to convert at lower rates for Amazon affiliate commissions, while the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia are the markets where most Amazon affiliate programs pay out at the highest rates. Monitoring where your traffic comes from is not about judging visitors. It is about understanding whether your content is finding the audiences that will actually generate income from the monetization methods you are using.

Site 1 is monetized through Amazon Associates plus a set of digital products that Alston has placed on the site. No digital product sales have come through yet, but he notes that even one sale would offset months of Amazon commissions. The current hands-on work for Site 1 is retroactive internal linking, going back into the highest-traffic posts, finding natural spots to link to lower-traffic pages, and adding outbound Amazon affiliate links where they fit contextually. That kind of retroactive optimization is often more valuable per hour spent than writing a brand new post from scratch.

Site 2: The Back-to-School Blog (64 Pageviews in 8 Days)

Site 2 launched one day after Site 1, on October 25. It now has 40 published blog posts and 10 YouTube videos supporting it. Over the eight-day window it pulled in 64 pageviews , about 8 per day and roughly 240 projected for a full month. That is considerably behind Site 1, but the two sites are not in the same situation. Site 2 had a longer stretch of inactivity between its initial publishing phase and now. Alston finished the first 30 posts in early January, stepped away from the site, then returned a couple of months ago to start adding content again. That stop-and-start pattern almost certainly affected how the site was trending in search results.

A portion of the content on this site focuses on returning to college as an adult. Alston acknowledges this may have been a directional error. Posts about going back to school are competing for a topic where the conversion path to affiliate commissions is not always obvious. But those posts are written, published, and indexed. As the back-to-school season approaches through June, July, and August, they may start attracting more targeted traffic from Google from people actively researching that decision.

Traffic sources for Site 2 are less clear-cut than Site 1. Direct traffic is surprisingly high for a site Alston says he has almost entirely stopped promoting. Organic sits at 12 percent of total sessions, social at 9 percent, and referral at 1 percent. Google organic is delivering roughly one visit per day, which projects to about 40 Google visits in a full month. That is an early but meaningful signal. In the Project 24 framework, the first consistent organic visits are the beginning of traction, not the finishing line. They indicate the site is being found for real searches, not just direct brand traffic from people who already know Alston.

The plan for Site 2 going forward is to maintain publishing velocity by outsourcing the writing entirely. Alston is using revenue from other online income streams to pay a content writing service for new posts. This reinvestment model: earn from one channel, put it back into blog content production , is how he is managing multiple sites without working unsustainable hours. Hired content on Site 2 means Alston can keep the publishing schedule moving while focusing his personal writing energy on his primary site, where he has the most context and voice consistency.

Site 3: LearnKenosha.com: The Local City Directory (15 Pageviews)

LearnKenosha.com is a fundamentally different kind of site from the first two. It is not a traditional niche affiliate blog. It started as a local business directory for Kenosha, Wisconsin, a city in the southeastern corner of the state sitting roughly between Milwaukee and Chicago. The original concept was to list local restaurants and businesses, allow companies to claim or pay for their listing, and eventually sell advertising space. Alston later layered in Project 24-style blog posts on top of that directory structure to generate organic traffic that would make the advertising pitch to local businesses more credible.

The site has between 15 and 20 blog posts, most of which were written by a hired content service. Alston created a video about why he stopped using an AI writing service and will never use one again. That decision shaped the direction of this site’s content production. The posts that are working are hyper-specific questions that Yelp, TripAdvisor, and Google Maps do not bother to answer in depth, including things like how many bars are in Kenosha, what Kenosha is known for, or whether Kenosha is technically a suburb of Chicago. Those questions face minimal competition from large platforms. Broader posts like “27 things to do in Kenosha on a Sunday” are competing directly with Yelp’s thousands of local reviews and TripAdvisor’s established domain authority, and those broader posts are underperforming as a result.

Traffic for the eight-day period was 15 pageviews. Organic search led with 7, direct with 6, referral with 1, and social with 1. Google is the primary organic source, which is a strong early sign. Local content that answers niche questions tends to perform well in Google once the site ages past the initial sandbox period. Alston also learned that Kenosha is a tourist town, with traffic expected to climb significantly during summer months. This update lands right at the beginning of that seasonal window, which means these 15 pageviews may be the low point for the year on this particular site.

The long-term plan for LearnKenosha.com extends beyond a single city. Alston’s goal is to replicate the model in other cities in the same geographic region, eventually building a network of local directory-and-blog hybrid sites that each sell advertising and listing space to local businesses. That is a direct-revenue model rather than an affiliate commission model, and it requires building local relationships rather than relying entirely on organic search traffic. The upside is that revenue is not capped by Amazon’s commission rates or by whether a visitor clicks a link.

Site 4: RevoltWebServices.com: The Local Web Design Business (26 Pageviews)

Revolt Web Services is not a passive income site. Alston and a friend started it as an actual working web design and web hosting company targeting local businesses. The blog attached to the business site follows the Project 24 response-post format, with short direct posts that answer specific questions potential clients are already searching for online. One of the site’s top posts answers the question of whether a restaurant needs a website. That is a real search that small business owners make when they are thinking about hiring someone, and it pulls in prospects who already have purchasing intent.

The site has about 10 blog posts, all written within the past two months, all formatted as response posts targeting local service questions. Over the eight-day period it generated 26 pageviews , just over 3 per day. The primary traffic channel is Facebook. Alston is active in local community groups, neighborhood groups, and small business groups in the Kenosha area, sharing relevant posts and building local brand awareness. Social is doing heavy lifting for this site while Google organic builds in the background.

The monetization model is direct: a local business owner reads a post, decides Revolt Web Services can solve their problem, and contacts Alston and his partner. Revenue from client projects then goes back into producing more blog posts for the site, which attracts more clients. That self-sustaining loop: content attracts clients, clients fund more content , is what separates a growing local service business from a hobby blog that depends entirely on the owner’s unpaid time.

One notable signal from this site: Google is already sending organic traffic even though the site is only two months old. Alston treats this as validation that his keyword research has gotten sharper with experience. His first site, started eight months earlier, took considerably longer to show its first Google organic visit. The difference is not that the content is better. It is that Alston now knows how to pick questions that face less competition before he writes the post, rather than learning that lesson after the fact.

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Site 5: The Quiet Starter (21 Pageviews With Zero Promotion)

Site 5 is the smallest and most neglected of the five. It has six blog posts, no images beyond a logo, and has received no active promotion in months. Alston started it around January or February alongside the Kenosha site, found that managing it alongside three other active sites was unsustainable for a solo operator, and essentially set it aside. He has not added a new post in months. The site looks unfinished because it is.

Despite that neglect, Site 5 pulled in 21 pageviews over the eight-day window, more than LearnKenosha.com, which has significantly more published content. The traffic breakdown shows direct visits as the largest category, which Alston cannot fully explain since he does no promotion for this site at all. Organic search accounts for 4 visits, social for 1. Bing, Yahoo, and Facebook all appear in the source data, suggesting at least some of the posts are indexed and returning results in multiple search engines.

Almost all of Site 5’s traffic originates from the United States, with one visit from the United Kingdom. The takeaway here is not that six posts generates meaningful income. It does not. The takeaway is that even a bare-bones site with no promotion and no images, once indexed, will produce a trickle of organic traffic on its own. When Alston returns to this site and adds more content, the foundation is already in place. The posts are indexed, some are ranking in at least two search engines, and the domain has age on it. Starting from a quiet site is easier than starting from a blank domain with zero history.

What Alston Is Building Next Across All Five Sites

The forward plan Alston describes in this update is less about adding new sites and more about deepening what already exists. For Site 1, the work is retroactive. He is going back into the highest-performing posts based on two-month analytics data, identifying where an internal link to a lower-traffic page would make sense, and adding it. He is also inserting Amazon affiliate links where they fit contextually in posts that were not originally written with those links. This retroactive optimization work does not require writing a single new word. It just requires reading what already exists with fresh eyes and making connections that were missed the first time.

For Site 2, the plan is to maintain publishing velocity entirely through outsourced writing. Alston is funding that with revenue from other online income streams and reinvesting it back into blog content. He does not specify the dollar amount he is spending per post, but the principle is clear: the site needs to keep publishing to keep growing, and if his own time is limited, hired writers are the mechanical solution. Outsourcing only works once you know what good content looks like in your niche, which Alston does after eight months of writing Site 1 posts himself.

For Revolt Web Services, revenue from actual web design client projects goes back into new blog posts for the site. The business funds its own content marketing, which generates new clients, who generate more revenue to fund more content. That loop makes the site’s growth budget self-sustaining rather than dependent on Alston spending money he has not yet earned from that particular site.

YouTube is also part of the plan across multiple sites. Alston is committing to at least two new YouTube videos per week for Site 1 and one video per day for his main channel going forward. He treats YouTube as a compounding asset rather than an optional add-on. Each video adds to the subscriber base, drives additional traffic to the blog, and creates content that YouTube’s own algorithm surfaces to new viewers who have never heard of Alston before. The combination of blog organic search and YouTube organic search means two independent algorithms are working in parallel.

Email list building is the next layer Alston wants to add across his sites. He mentions ClickFunnels as a funnel tool for building an email list, noting that a two-week free trial is available for anyone who wants to test it. An email list represents an audience he owns independently of any search engine or social platform. If Google updates its algorithm again or Bing changes its ranking signals, an email list keeps delivering traffic to the blog regardless of what happens in search.

Honest Drawbacks: What These Numbers Really Mean

The numbers in this update are real, and they are modest. A combined total of roughly 323 pageviews across five sites over eight days is not financial independence. It is the beginning of a traffic foundation that, if the Project 24 timeline holds, compounds over 24 months into something that can generate consistent affiliate income. But that 24-month clock requires consistent publishing for the full duration, not just eight months of solid effort followed by a slowdown when life gets complicated.

Amazon Associates, which is the primary monetization for Site 1, pays some of the lowest commission rates in affiliate marketing. Most product categories pay between 1 and 4 percent. A site generating 660 monthly pageviews in a gift niche will likely produce small commissions in the off-season. The real payoff for Site 1 is expected in November and December when gift buyers enter the market in volume. Anyone building a site in a similar seasonal niche should go in knowing that the first 10 months will feel slow relative to the effort being put in.

Managing five sites solo is genuinely hard, and Alston acknowledges it in this video. Starting both the Kenosha site and a fifth site at the same time while maintaining Site 1 proved to be more than he could sustain. Site 5 was effectively abandoned as a result. The lesson is not to never start multiple sites. It is to be realistic about the bandwidth required before launching site number three or four. Starting a new site is easy. Maintaining publishing consistency on an existing site while starting a new one is what most people underestimate.

Google organic traffic is lower than Bing on most of these sites, which surprises most new publishers. This is standard behavior for sites under 12 months old. Google applies a longer evaluation period to new domains before awarding significant ranking positions. Bing and DuckDuckGo tend to index and rank new content faster. The Google traffic typically accelerates after a site earns some external links and the domain reaches 12 to 18 months of age. Early analytics will look Bing-heavy even on well-written content. That pattern reverses over time.

Website security is a real and practical concern that Alston surfaces in this update. He mentions receiving login attempt notifications, which are likely brute-force attempts against his WordPress admin login , from someone appearing to originate from India over a 12-hour period. This is not unique to Alston’s site. It happens to virtually every WordPress site on the public internet. A login protection plugin, a non-standard admin username, a strong password, and two-factor authentication close most of that exposure without requiring any technical expertise beyond installing a plugin from the WordPress repository.

Find Your X

Alston started with one site, then two, then three, and eventually five. Not every path looks like that. Some people build one blog to 50,000 monthly pageviews before touching a second. Others run a local service business like Revolt Web Services and skip affiliate marketing entirely. The question is not which of these five sites you should copy. It is which model fits the skills, interests, and schedule you already have before you start.

The free quiz at finder.platformproof.com walks you through exactly that question. Answer five minutes of questions about what you know, what you enjoy, and how much time you have available each week and it maps you to the online income model most likely to produce your first $3,000 without requiring you to start from scratch or guess your way through eight months of trial and error.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Income School Project 24?

Project 24 is a training program from Income School that teaches people how to build niche websites and YouTube channels with the goal of replacing a full-time income within 24 months. The method focuses on publishing detailed, search-optimized blog posts and response-style YouTube videos that attract organic traffic without paid advertising. Students get access to a course curriculum, an active community, and ongoing training updates as search engine practices evolve.

How long does it realistically take to get organic traffic from Google?

Most new domains start seeing their first meaningful Google organic traffic somewhere between months 6 and 12, depending on how competitive the niche is and how consistently content is being published. Bing and DuckDuckGo often index and rank new content faster than Google, which is why early analytics for new sites tend to show Bing as the top organic source. Google traffic typically accelerates after the domain earns its first external backlinks and crosses the 12-month mark. This is a feature of how Google evaluates trustworthiness, not a sign that content is bad.

Should a beginner start more than one site at a time?

Most experienced Project 24 publishers recommend mastering one site before launching a second. Alston’s experience in this video illustrates the downside of moving too fast. Site 5 was essentially abandoned because managing it alongside four others was not sustainable for a solo operator. Starting with one site, getting it to 30 or more posts, and learning what actually drives traffic in that niche is a better use of the first six months than splitting attention across multiple domains that all receive partial effort.

Is Amazon Associates still worth using for a niche blog?

Amazon Associates remains one of the most accessible affiliate programs for new publishers because of its enormous product catalog and the trust buyers already have in the Amazon checkout process. The trade-off is commission rates. Most categories pay between 1 and 4 percent between 1 and 4 percent. A site generating 660 monthly pageviews in a gift niche will produce modest commissions until traffic scales significantly. Many publishers start with Amazon to learn the basics of affiliate linking, then layer in higher-commission programs once they understand what their specific audience actually buys.

Do local city websites work as a niche blogging model?

Yes, with an important qualification: they work best when the content answers questions that Yelp, TripAdvisor, and Google Maps do not already answer in depth. Generic listicles like “27 things to do in [city]” compete directly against platforms with thousands of reviews and years of domain authority. Hyper-specific posts , “how many bars are in [city],” “is [city] a suburb of [major city],” “what is [city] known for” , face far less competition and rank more easily for the narrow audience searching for them. The same local-first content principle applies: go narrower than the big directories, not broader.

How do you protect a WordPress site from brute-force login attempts?

The most effective first steps are installing a login protection plugin such as Limit Login Attempts Reloaded or Wordfence, using a non-standard admin username (not “admin”), and setting a strong, unique password. Two-factor authentication adds another layer of protection on top of that. Many hosting providers also allow IP blocking at the server level, which stops repeated attempts before they ever reach the WordPress login page. If a plugin’s dashboard shows repeated attempts from a specific IP address, most plugins allow you to block that IP or IP range directly from the settings panel without touching server configuration.

How do you hire content writers without spending money you have not earned yet?

Alston’s approach is to fund outsourced content with revenue from other online income streams rather than spending from personal savings before the site is generating anything. Once a site begins producing commissions or client fees, a portion of that revenue goes back into paying a writing service for new posts. This keeps the site growing without requiring the owner to fund everything personally. The key is starting to outsource after the site has shown early traction. That way you are funding growth from results rather than betting money on a site that has not yet proven it can rank and convert.

Why does it matter which countries your blog traffic comes from?

Affiliate commissions and display ad revenue vary significantly by the country of the visitor. Amazon Associates commissions, for example, only apply when someone in an eligible market, primarily the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia , clicks your link and makes a purchase. Visitors from countries where affiliate programs do not operate or where purchasing power is lower may generate pageviews without generating income. Monitoring your country breakdown in analytics tells you whether your content is finding buyers or browsers, and whether your monetization setup is actually reachable by the traffic you are attracting.

Sources

Alston Godbolt, “Project 24 Income School June 1-8 Update on 5 Sites,” YouTube, June 8 (video transcript)
Income School Project 24 training program (incomeschool.com)
Amazon Associates affiliate program overview (affiliate-program.amazon.com)
LearnKenosha.com , local directory site referenced in the video
RevoltWebServices.com , local web design business referenced in the video